In His Heavenly Ministry Christ is the Both the King and the High Priest

In the book of Hebrews we see that Christ is the High Priest – not only the High Priest according to the order of Aaron (to accomplish judicial redemption for us) but all the more a High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek (to carry out His organic salvation).

The entire book of Hebrews is focused on the heavenly Christ – Christ in His heavenly ministry, and the main point concerning the heavenly Christ is that He is the High Priest.

Christ is both the King (the King of righteousness and the King of peace) and the High Priest (see Heb. 5:10; 7:1-3, 28; 8:1-2). Our Christ is both the High Priest and the King – He is a Kingly High Priest, able to save us to the uttermost as we come forward to Him! He is the God-man, fully qualified to be our High Priest.

His main job as a High Priest is not merely to offer sacrifices for sin – He did that once and for all, it is accomplished and done!

Christ’s main job as the High Priest is to minister God to us – He comes to us to minister the very God who was processed through incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection to be our life supply so that we as His believers may be saved to the uttermost (see Gen. 14:18; Heb. 7:25).

Christ is both the King and the High Priest

In Hebrews, we see that Christ is not only the King but that He is also the High Priest (see Heb. 2:17; 4:14; 5:6, 10; 6:20; 8:1; 9:11).

After passing through the processes of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection, Christ is now in His ascension, and His heavenly ministry includes both His kingship and His priesthood! Christ is both the King and the High Priest for the building up of the church as the temple of Jehovah, the house of God (see Heb. 7:1-2; Zech. 6:13, 15; 1 Cor. 3:16-17).

As seen in Psa. 110:1-4, Christ is the King (vv. 1-2) and the High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek (v. 4) – and the way we can experience Him as the King and as the High Priest is by offering ourselves willingly to Him in the day of His warfare (v. 3).

Today we need to consecrate ourselves to the Lord to become fresh dew to Him, and our consecration is a splendor in His eyes!

Remember: a day without consecration is a wasted day! We all need to be God’s young men, those who are NOT old, stale, or dead but they are new, living, fresh, real, active, and young with Him!

The more we open to the Lord every morning, the more we consecrate ourselves to Him, and the more we go on with the Lord, the younger we get! We need to daily get into the womb of the dawn so that we may have something conceived in our being as dew to water Christ.

In our morning revival time with the Lord we can become the dew to water Christ for His refreshment and satisfaction, so that He as the King would victoriously fight and as the Priest minister to His people for the building up of the temple of God, His corporate expression!

Christ Rules over the Earth & He Intercedes for Us

As the King, Christ has the scepter to rule over the entire earth and manage our affairs, arranging our environment and everything around us so that we may gain Christ every day.

As the High Priest, Christ is interceding for us and He is taking care of our case before God, always living to intercede for us before God (see Heb. 7:1-2; 8:1-2; Gen. 14:18-20).

Christ not only rules over the entire earth in general, but He personally rules over us and everything related to us, managing our affairs to bring us to Him, to bring us into the church life, and to shepherd us all the way to maturity to be His overcomers.

Also, Christ lives to intercede for us as the High Priest. Christ is the only One that can intercede for us all personally at the same time, and corporately together for us to be built up to be His royal and holy priesthood!

Right now, Christ is at the right hand of God interceding for us, and He is in our spirit ministering God into us! Christ is walking among the churches today – trimming anything negative and adding Himself as the golden oil (Rev. 1:12-13).

Christ as our High Priest is girded with a golden girdle about at the breasts – Christ’s divinity is His golden energy exercised and motivated by His love to nourish the churches. He nourishes us by first cherishing us, making us happy, pleasant, and comfortable.

We need to be filled with Christ’s cheering presence, which make us happy. Christ’s presence broods over us to make us feel comfortable and make us happy so that we may be nourished by Him. As we seek to experience Christ, enjoy Christ, gain Christ, and participate in Christ, we will be able to feed others with Christ!

When we are in oneness with Christ and are filled with Him, we will have a cheerful countenance and we will be filled with His cheerful presence. As we see in Psa. 45:5 and 11, the salvation of His countenance becomes the salvation of our countenance – so that we may be one with Christ as the great High Priest to cherish and nourish others!

Christ Ministers God to us as Our Life Supply

Most Christians appreciate merely the judicial redemption aspect of Christ’s ministry as a High Priest. Yes, Christ was a High Priest according to the order of Aaron in His earthly ministry for the putting away of sin (see Heb. 9:14, 26), but today He is much more in His heavenly ministry a High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek!

This Melchizedek is a Priest of the Most High God (see Gen. 14:18-20), and he came with bread and wine to meet and feed the victorious Abraham who just defeated the kings and rescued Lot his brother. Today Christ in His heavenly ministry is designated as the High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek to minister God to us as our life supply.

Christ ministers to us the very processed Triune God (as typified by the bread and the wine, see Matt. 26:26-28) as our life supply to nourish us, refresh us, sustain us, comfort us, and strengthen us so that we may be saved to the uttermost (Heb. 7:25).

We need to have an uplifted view and appreciation of Christ’s heavenly ministry as a High Priest. Our High Priest, Christ, is not according to the order of Aaron offering sacrifices to God – He is according to the order of Melchizedek ministering God to us!

As we fight for the brothers, as we live the Christian life, we are not “poor sinners” but “victorious fighters”, and Christ meets us to feed us, supply us, and nourish us as our great High Priest. We need to be those like Abraham who, once he heard that his brother Lot was taken captive, didn’t criticize or blame him for this but rather went and fought for him with his “special forces”, his army.

There are some who used to be among us but are now no longer meeting, and there are others who have backslidden; we need to fight for the brothers and pray for those who don’t meet with the saints.

As we fight one with the Lord for the brothers, Christ as the High Priest comes to supply us with bread and wine, the processed Triune God, so that we may be inwardly supplied, nourished, fed, comforted, sustained, refreshed, and strengthened that we may be saved to the uttermost.

Lord Jesus, uplift our view and our appreciation of Your ministry in Your heavenly ministry today. You are the High Priest ministering God to us for our inward supply, strengthening, nourishment, comfort, refreshment, sustaining, and strengthening. We love You Lord as our High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek! Thank You for Your daily cherishing in Your humanity and nourishing in Your divinity. Lord, You are able to save us to the uttermost! We love You as our King and as our High Priest!

References and Further Reading

• This sharing is inspired from brother Ed Marks’ sharing in this message and portions in, Life-study of Hebrews (msgs. 32, 35), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on Crystallization-Study of Daniel and Zechariah, week 12 (entitled, The Priesthood and the Kingship for the Building Up of the Church as the Temple of God).
• Further Reading: Psa. 110:4, footnote 1, Gen. 14:18, footnote 3, Heb. 2:17, footnote 2 (Recovery Version).
• Hymns on this topic:
  # In heaven He sits at the right hand of God, / Where as the High Priest He presented His blood; / Our Advocate, bearing our burdens above, / Our Surety, He careth for us in His love.
  # Superior Thou to Aaron too– / Thyself, the offering given, / Thou enteredst, as our Great High Priest, / The holiest place in heaven. / Thou art our true Melchisedec, / With endless life in power, / To minister the “bread and wine,” / In every needful hour.
  # He ever lives above / For me to intercede, / His all-redeeming love, / His precious blood to plead. / His blood was shed for all our race, / And sprinkles now the throne of grace.
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