Isaac Garvin | December 29, 2021 | Shvil HaBaruch, The Blessed Path
A couple of days ago I was asked, “How does knowing we are priests in the Melchizedek order change what I do in my walk with Elohim?”
It’s a great question and I’m sure that some of you have had the same question. Just for fun, I relayed the question to Rebekah and then recorded her answer in a voice memo. She had an 8 point answer. Most of what follows is her answer verbatim. I’ve just broken it down into separate parts and added the numbers. In the next few emails (over the course of the next few weeks) I’ll be sharing one point at a time for you to consider. Take some time and contemplate each one and ask the Ruach ha’Kodesh to help you apply it to your walk.
I hope you enjoy hearing what Rebekah came up with ‘off the cuff.’ Of course there is more to each of these answers that deserves to be expanded on. But I think there is plenty here to think about as it is. These ideas can be found in just about everything we at TM produce, as you will notice if you are looking for it (and have been given eyes to see.) The Melchizedek distinction permeates pretty much every aspect of our ministry.
NUMBER ONE: You have a job description now.
First, your job is to help others understand what Ye’shua’s work actually accomplished. After you yourself have learned it from good teachers, then your job is to help people move beyond the milk of tithing, eating clean, calendar and day reckoning, making distinctions between idols, the mikvehs and all these other things that people want to go around and around on. Your job as a Melchizedek priest or priestess is to help people get to the meat. The meat that Sh’aul was trying to unpack––the Melchizedek understanding which is basically understanding Yah’s Plan of Salvation and accounting for what Ye’shua’s work accomplished.
Yes, obeying all these other things (the milk) is important, but to get to the meat is to understand the change; which means we understand what the work of Ye’shua did; which means we understand what we’re supposed to be doing with our lives. It honors Ye’shua to acknowledge him as the High Priest and the Prophet Moses spoke of that we must shema. And what He told us to do was to “Go to them (the Scattered) and help them do all that I have commanded them to do.” How you communicate that is unique to you.
Second, another very important job as a Melchizedek priest or priestess is to help clear the junk out of the path that people keep tripping over or getting derailed by.
This can include all the Levitical heavy burdens, Christian mandates and understandings that have been carried over, secret knowledge, idolatry, the idea that you must hear both sides of every issue [a progressive-left tolerance mandate]. One of the biggest problems seems to be people’s own openness [and susceptibility] to every teacher and idea that comes along. This reminds us of the “she-camel-in-heat” “don’t go whoring around” idea. The path is lined with wolves who do not have the ‘new-in-quality’ love. Many of these people are slick and they can seem to have all knowledge on a subject, but they are wolves who are arrogant, power-thirsty, filled with haughty attitudes, good at positioning themselves, have Moses-envy issues, are know-it-alls, etc. And as people are genuinely trying to walk the Narrow Path of this Melchizedek Priesthood, there are speakers and leaders yelling at them from the side of the path saying, “Come over here and let me show you this better way––it’s a more ancient path! Trust me.” This is them throwing boulders onto the path. They are digging holes to trip people up. They are deceiving the people. Our question is, “Why the hell are the people listening to these wolves?!”
As is priests we have to learn when to shut someone or an idea down and not go there ever again. We need to have this skill and then we must go up and down the Narrow Path clearing it from this garbage to get it out of the walk. “A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for YHVH in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our Elohim in the desert.” Is. 40:3.
Hauling away the boulders, filling in the holes to make the path easy to walk again is a big part of the Melchizedek Priesthood’s job. Here at TM we hope people will learn and understand that “You don’t have to listen to everyone. You don’t have to listen to both sides of the story. You can know the truth without hearing everybody’s take on it.” As His priests we have to teach people to not listen to every teacher that yells to them from the side of the road, from the ditches.
A big thank you to Rebekah for letting me use that audio :)
Blessed be the Journey,
Isaac