J.C. Melchi LLC was birthed out of the desire to serve God through the use of technology. This website has been compiled and added to for several years. It is our prayer that you are blessed and encouraged by the content. This website is one way in which I may serve Jesus Christ My King.

Why the name "J.C. Melchi"?

  "J.C." are the initials for Jesus Christ. and "Melchi" means My King. You would rightly translate the name of my LLC company as "Jesus Christ My King".  There are several scriptural references to Melchi-zedek in both the Old and the New Testaments. Some people believe that the mysterious person of Melchizedek in Gen. 14 is actually Christ. An appearance of Jesus in the Old Testament is referred to as a theophany. A christophany is an appearance of Christ after His crucifixion and generally used in NT references. 

theophany

n : a visible (but not necessarily material) manifestation of a deity to a human person.       http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=theophany

theophany, the manifestation of God. The ot contains a number of narratives of or poetic allusions to God revealing himself to men and women. Theophanies frequently are associated with particular holy places, representing the foundation legend of a sanctuary (Gen. 12:6-7; 13:18; 18:1; 28:1-17; Exod. 40:34-38) or the call of a prophet within it (Isa. 6:1-8). They tend to follow a literary pattern with Canaanite roots: God appears, frequently as divine warrior or king, surrounded by fire or in splendor (Deut. 33:2; Pss. 18:8; 104:2; Ezek. 1:27-28; Hab. 3:4), and sometimes riding like Baal upon the wind and clouds (Pss. 18:10; 68:33; 104:3); nature trembles (Exod. 19:18; Judg. 5:4-5; Pss. 18:7; 68:8; Hab. 3:6, 10) or the recipient responds with dread (Gen. 15:12; 28:17; Exod. 3:6; Job 42:5-6; Isa. 6:5; Hab. 3:16); and, as a result, nature becomes fertile (Pss. 68:8-10; 104:10-23; Isa. 35:2, 6-7), or God saves and rules (Deut. 33:5; Judges 5; Pss. 18:16-19; 29:10; 68:19-20; Isa. 35:4-6; Hab. 3:13), or the recipient is given a revelation or call (Gen. 15:12-16; Exod. 3; Isa. 6:8-13; Jer. 1:4-19; Ezek. 1:1-3:15). Elijah’s encounter with God in a ‘still small voice’ rather than in earthquake, wind, and fire (1 Kings 19:9-18) may represent a rejection of Canaanite imagery associating God with the forces of nature. Common to many of these passages is the combined experience of dread and fascination that is characteristic of awe before the holy. In the extreme, to see God’s face brings death (Gen. 32:30; Exod. 33:20; Isa. 6:5).

Intertestamental usage stems from Ezekiel 1, a central text for the Jewish apocalyptic and mystical tradition, but now the manifestation of God takes place in heaven rather than upon earth, as the culmination of the seer’s ascent to heaven (see 1 Enoch 14:8-25). This is also the case in Rev. 4:1-11. Elsewhere in the nt, more traditional echoes of the language of theophany are heard in the narratives of Jesus’ baptism (Matt. 3:17) and transfiguration (Matt. 17:1-8; cf. Exod. 34:35) and Paul’s conversion (Acts 9:1-9). See also Apocalyptic Literature; Call; Holiness; Prophet; Sanctuary; Transfiguration, The.     D.W.S.

Abram and Melchizedek (Genesis 14:18-20)

¹⁸Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of ¹⁹And he blessed him and said:

     “Blessed be Abram of God Most High,

     Possessor of heaven and earth;

²⁰     And blessed be God Most High,

     Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.”

The King of Righteousness (Hebrews 7:1-10)

7     For this ²to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated “king of righteousness,” and then also king of Salem, meaning “king of peace,” ³ without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.

⁴ Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils. ⁵ And indeed ⁶but he whose genealogy is not derived from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises. ⁷ Now beyond all contradiction the lesser is blessed by the better. ⁸ Here mortal men receive tithes, but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives. ⁹ Even Levi, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham, so to speak, ¹⁰ for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.

Psalm 110:4

⁴     The Lord has sworn

     And will not relent,

     “You are a priest forever

     According to the order of Melchizedek.”

Melchiz´edek (king of righteousness), king of Salem and priest of the most high God, who met Abram in the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s valley, brought out bread and wine, blessed him, and received tithes from him. Gen. 14:18-20. The other places in which Melchizedek is mentioned are Ps. 110:4, where Messiah is described as a priest forever, “after the order of Melchizedek,” and Heb. 5, 6, 7, where these two passages of the Old Testament are quoted, and the typical relation of Melchizedek to our Lord is stated at great length. There is something surprising and mysterious in the first appearance of Melchizedek, and in the subsequent reference to him. Bearing a title which Jews in after ages would recognize as designating their own sovereign, bearing gifts which recall to Christians the Lord’s Supper, this Canaanite crosses for a moment the path of Abram, and is unhesitatingly recognized as a person of higher spiritual rank than the friend of God. Disappearing as suddenly as he came, he is lost to the sacred writings for a thousand years. Jewish tradition pronounces Melchizedek to be a survivor of the deluge, the patriarch Shem. The way in which he is mentioned in Genesis would rather lead to the inference that Melchizedek was of one blood with the children of Ham, among whom he lived, chief (like the king of Sodom) of a settled Canaanitish tribe. The “order of Melchizedek,” in Ps. 110:4, is explained to mean “manner” = likeness in official dignity = a king and priest. The relation between Melchizedek and Christ as type and antitype is made in the Epistle to the Hebrews to consist in the following particulars: Each was a priest, (1) not of the Levitical tribe; (2) superior to Abraham; (3) whose beginning and end are unknown; (4) who is not only a priest, but also a king of righteousness and peace. 

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