Who was Melchizedek in the Bible?
Genesis introduces him without ancestry, blessing Abraham with bread and wine. The Urantia Book identifies him as Machiventa Melchizedek, an emergency Son who materialized on Urantia 1,973 years before the birth of Jesus to keep the truth of one God alive, teaching from his settlement at Salem.
In the book's own words
It was 1,973 years before the birth of Jesus that Machiventa was bestowed upon the human races of Urantia. His coming was unspectacular; his materialization was not witnessed by human eyes. He was first observed by mortal man on that eventful day when he entered the tent of Amdon, a Chaldean herder of Sumerian extraction. And the proclamation of his mission was embodied in the simple statement which he made to this shepherd, “I am Melchizedek, priest of El Elyon, the Most High, the one and only God.”
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