I’ve been in awe recently.
The more I study Yah’s Word, the more I realize how deep and unsearchable His Word truly is. Yet, He tells us: “Call to Me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know” (Jeremiah 33:3).
I say this all the time, but the more I learn, the more I realize I still have SO much to learn. I haven’t been posting a whole lot lately, and honestly, I just don’t have many words at the moment. I’m in a season of searching, reflecting, asking questions, and striving for answers.
In full transparency, my walk with the Father is a constant pattern and repetition of “consume” and “release.” In other words, I feel like the Father brings me into seasons of being totally “consumed” in Him through study, prayer and seeking, which leads to more understanding, along with heart examination and reflection....and then He brings me into seasons of “release,” in which all of that burning in my heart builds and builds and builds, and then, in His timing, I finally get the nudge and words to share.
I’m no one special (Galatians 6:3), just being honest with what my walk looks like. I just wanted to share a little testimony to help explain something I’ve been learning in my season of being consumed in Him.
I have been on a deep, deep dive, searching for understanding about the Melchizedek Priesthood. And lately, I’ve just been sitting in awe.
I can’t say I have it all figured out, but in full transparency, I can admit that I didn’t know the gospel (good news/besorah) as well as I thought I did. I am realizing that the revelation of Yahusha’s Melchizedek Priesthood is deeper than I could have ever fathomed.
My pursuit for understanding on this topic started with the questions of:
“What does it mean to be a priest?”
“How is it that the word ‘Melchizedek’ is only mentioned twice in the Tanakh, but we are supposed to know what it means to be priests of it now??”
I mean, at first glance, you would think that the Scriptures are virtually silent on this topic before the New Testament Writings were penned. Even with that, at first glance, we would think that it’s only the Book of Hebrews that gives us insight to what the Melchizedek Priesthood is really about, right?
Surely Yahuah does nothing without first revealing it through His prophets…right?
The Melchizedek Priesthood is the revelation of the gospel of Messiah. And it is heavily sewn in the pages of the Tanakh in ways that I’m learning are unsearchably deep beneath the ink of the pages.
What I’m learning and have been observing is that so many of us are learning to read the New Testament now with a foundation in the Old Testament. Not through a Christian lens, or a Jewish lens, but through the guidance and wisdom of the Ruach. HalleluYAH! This is something many of us have spent a lot of time trying to decipher through and carefully discern between what is truth and what is tradition. I’m sure I speak for others when I say that this requires so much endurance and prayer.
I’ve heard that “the Old Testament is the New Testament concealed, and the New Testament is the Old Testament revealed.”
Now that a growing remnant of people are seeing how we need a foundation from the Old Testament in order to understand the New Testament, I believe that NOW, we need to learn how to read the Old Testament WITH the mindset and revelation of Yahusha’s Melchizedek Priesthood. This is something I am currently in the process of learning how to do. Reading the Tanakh through a Melchizedek lens is the only way to fully understand prophecy and understand the full picture of the Father’s plan of redemption.
We say “the Gospel starts in Genesis,” but I don’t think we REALLY understand what this means, because there is a priesthood that we must apply to our lives now, and it’s so much deeper than “keeping the commandments” and having the testimony of Yahusha. I say this with humility because I am just beginning to learn what this means myself.
“Study to show yourself approved unto Elohim...rightly dividing the word of truth.”
2 Timothy 2:15
This is what I feel is missing in the body. This is why I say that I am JUST now learning that I’ve still been missing a big part of the good news (gospel) of Yahusha. If we think that the “Good News” is that He came and died for our sins, we are missing the mark. That IS good news, but it’s not the fullness of it.
I’m JUST now learning that Paul has been speaking Melchizedek language this whole time but I haven’t had the ears to hear. Until now. I’m hearing it now, I just haven’t fully digested it. Peter wasn’t lying when he said Paul was hard to understand.
This is why I’m just being transparent by saying, the fact that I have been sharing so much over the last few years, and I’m JUST now learning about the depths of the Melchizedek Priesthood…I’m truly humbled. I’m learning. I’m being honest in the things I thought I knew, but still needed more growth and understanding. And I thank Yahuah for that.
I’ve quoted Hebrews 5:11-14 so many times. It’s a passage that talks about the importance of spiritual maturity, and going from “milk to meat.” But did you know that this “milk” that the author is talking about, is all about understanding this Melchizedek revelation!?
The Aramaic Peshitta translation reads best:
“But about this Melchizedek we have much to say, but it is hard to explain because you have bad hearing.”
Hebrews 5:11
The author is saying that this Melchizedek understanding is hard to explain because at this time you should be teaching it by now! The author is relating the development of milk to meat in the context of understanding the Melchizedek order and priesthood of Messiah! I didn’t realize until recently that this passage was still talking about ME!
The New Testament isn’t where we are supposed to be learning about the Melchizedek Order, either. They didn’t have a “New Testament” at the time they were writing letters to the assemblies.
To think that this revelation is something that is meant to be found in the Scriptures (Old Testament), yet the word “Melchizedek” is only mentioned twice, tells me that there is much work that still needs to be done by Yah’s laborers.
The gospel is a mystery (Ephesians 6:19).
The revelation of Yahusha as our Messiah is a mystery (Ephesians 3:3-11) and this mystery has been a secret since the world began (Romans 16:25).
A mystery is not going to be something that is easy to understand. That’s why I said that if you think the gospel is “He came and died for my sins and is risen,” you’ve barely scratched the surface.
It’s like I can grow and learn so much, and I praise Yahuah for bringing me into more depth and understanding, but at the same time, get totally humbled in the fact that when a layer of scales gets removed, I have to start all over again, all the way back to Genesis. It’s like He shows me I need more foundation.
And that’s where I’m at.
I’m not sharing this post because I’m trying to “teach” you anything. I’m just wanting to stir up some conviction, to get you thinking about the words in Scripture that have driven me into such deep thoughts, that have fully consumed me.
“Who has directed the Spirit of Yahuah, or as His counsellor has taught Him?”
Isaiah 40:13
Ya’ll, we really are nothing but dirt and dry bones without Him. It is only by His Ruach that He breathes life into these bones and allows us to understand the depths of His Word.
I pray that He gives us all strength, discernment and wisdom in all of the areas we lack, that He continues to bring the fullness of His Word into our hearts, all for the sole purpose of being a light in this world so that He can get all the glory.
Love ya’ll.
Stephanie Green