Catholics appreciate Melchizedek, God’s first Catholic priest:
(New Reason to Be Catholic #2) A Catholic priest, Fr. Georges LeMaitre, was a brilliant astronomer and mathematician a hundred years ago. He used his Catholic/Universal understanding to let Catholics know that History began over 13 trillion light-years ago.
That is when God, Whom we may now describe as “The Loving Programmer”, Downloaded what may be seen as The Creation Program that He had Written. It had to be so huge, at least 30 trillion light-years from one side to another, that human beings, His Beloved Replicating Free-Will Programs, could not see an end to His Programming Power and be forced to believe in Him. God’s First Downloading Words were:
“Let there be light, and there was light.”
(New Reason to Be Catholic #3) Catholics are blessed with the perspective to understand what archeologists have discovered! At least 3,000,000 years ago, Eve proved the success of God’s Creation Program when she, representing the first of God’s Beloved Replicating Female Free-Will Programs, let the devil lead her to choose to “eat the forbidden fruit”. Then, she led her male counterpart, Adam, to join her in disobeying God.
Adam and Eve were living proof that God had brilliantly done what might be the most Complicated Thing in The Creation Program: He had successfully Programmed and Downloaded His beloved “Replicating Free-Will Programs” who were “made in the image of God”. Each of them would have 80 billion cells in their brains connected by what some estimate as a hundred trillion connections between them.
(New Reason to Be Catholic #4) Their first human choice after disappointing God by eating “the forbidden fruit” was ridiculous! They tried to “dress” themselves by “sewing leaves” (Genesis 3:7) together! God felt so sorry for them that He showed them how to make real clothes of leather (Genesis 3:21). Catholics realize that God, Himself, taught them the skills to make and use the necessary tools to kill animals, remove and prepare their hides, make needles and threads, and sew pieces of leather together. Human History began when those tools, some more than 3,000,000 years old, began to be made.
Catholics are blessed to see that God may have Programmed and Downloaded Melchizedek to be at His side at that time. He may have taught Melchizedek what his Work was to be as he watched God teach Adam and Eve to make and work with leather, make bone needles, and the first thread while explaining:
“Melchizedek, for the next three million years, your work is to help people develop the skills to make what they need to survive and multiply on earth’s various climates while getting ready for Jesus to arrive in what St. Augustine will describe as ‘the sixth and final age’.”
(New Reason to Be Catholic #5) is understanding that God may have given Melchizedek, who was “without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling The Son of God, continues a priest, forever.” (Hebrews 7:3), the work of leading families, tribes, and nations so some would be blessed to spend their lives moving closer to God.
Catholics can condense three million years of Human History into One Sentence: “Some of Adam’s children, like Cain, let the devil lead them to hate, enslave, or kill their brothers; the others, like Abel, followed Melchizedek and focused on pleasing God.”
(New Reason to Be Catholic #6) Only Catholics can put the Bible in this perspective: Human History began long before The Book of Genesis was written. Oral lessons from God and Melchizedek from the preceding 3 million years were compiled and written most clearly for the first time in The Book of Genesis.
(New Reason to Be Catholic #6) includes what is a New Idea to many of us! Catholics are able to think clearly enough about Melchizedek to consider what is a new idea to many: God may have used Melchizedek to show Noah how to build the ark! And, that story may be there to show people of every age how to escape tyranny and corruption in their societies: “Sail away!”
That is what Catholic priests, still Ordained in The Order of Melchizedek, continue to do! Every Catholic parish is a “Noah’s Ark” where people can “Sail away!” on The Seven Catholic Sacraments, instead of drowning in the flood of sins around us.
What we now see as Timeless Catholic Teaching leads us Catholics to this blessed conclusion: “We now realize that every Catholic priest is our ‘Fr. Noah’!”
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Every person’s “gene-ration” in every generation of Human History makes their choice in the continual battle between God’s Love and the devil’s hate for the immortal souls of every Replicating Free-Will Program who would ever live.
This statue from Göbekli Tepe may symbolize the size and power of Melchizedek’s brain as he led a chosen people to build Göbekli Tepe and the nearby cities in southwestern Turkey over 12,000 years ago:
Melchizedek may have spent at least three million years teaching families and tribes of people to chip stones into tools, implements, and weapons. After people on earth had learned to do that, Melchizedek gave them the skills to grow into ever larger Tribes and Nations. He taught them to work for the highest values of whatever image of God Melchizedek and his early priests, often with names like “Medicine Men”, could lead them to understand.
(New Reason to Be Catholic #7) Earth’s most ancient city of Göbekli Tepe was only discovered about fifty years ago. Catholics are blessed to consider that Melchizedek’s Works took Public Form in places like Göbekli Tepe and nearby cities, 12,500 years ago. That’s when he began teaching one Tribe of people how to build dozens of huge stone cities in western Turkey and Eastern Syria. They were growing, peaceful places for 4,000 years. Their ancient walls are unmarked by signs of fire and weapons being used against them by looting rebels or besiegers. A small part of one such miraculously peaceful city was recently uncovered:
Then, something odd happened! Around 8,000 BC, God had Melchizedek tell his people to bury their peaceful cities under mounds of earth. Families and Tribes blessed to be among Melchizedek’s followers spread around the world.
Göbekli Tepe, discovered only 50 years ago, makes most early History obsolete. Catholics connect God and Melchizedek and his cities and states around the world to Abraham. His area, Harran, was nearby! That “Melchizedek Connection” is not something that those making a living by teaching Conventional Reality want to consider!
(New Reasons to Be Catholic #8) There were two types of human rulers in the nations that Melchizedek provided inventions that led to Public Works. Some leaders followed Cain. Like Godless nations today, they used their power to control or kill those around them. Others kept happier societies organized by using families to build earthen mounds and stone monuments to whatever vision of God they chose to follow.
Melchizedekian skills spread around the world so leaders could organize people by keeping them busy on Public Projects. They included Pyramids in Egypt and Hanging Gardens in Babylon. Similar Public Projects began to appear around the world, often claiming to be a source of salvation. All of them show Melchizedek at Work!
(New Reasons to Be Catholic #9) Before Abraham, the smartest of Melchizedek’s students built the best temples. Some of their gods were in far-off galaxies among the stars. The worst of people turned Melchizedek’s Teachings into ways to show their hatred of neighbors. Aztec priests, for instance, once used their pyramids to sacrifice twenty thousand people in one day!
Melchizedek blessed many peoples with an understanding of how their worship centers could be used to provide them with calendars to give credibility to the beliefs they were thereby helped to accept. That gave them an understanding of time throughout months, years, centuries, and thousands of years to help farmers plant and harvest at the right time. Melchizedek taught their priests how to track sunrises and weather patterns to schedule planting and harvesting. In Ireland, the Melchizedekian People built Newgrange 5,200 years ago.
The entrance to Newgrange leads into a perfectly aligned tunnel to the deep, underground room below the center of the Temple Mound. There, priests could see the light of the rising sun on the shortest day. Their followers would celebrate knowing that Spring was on the way!
The Newgrange Mystery: The fields around the temple have boundaries that are not parallel with the beam of sunlight connecting the opening of the gateway to dawn on December 21 to the priests at the altar in the underground center of the mound. So, we see their teaching did not prevail after their country became Catholic.
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A hundred years later, England’s Melchizedekians were guided to begin building Stonehenge. It was a complicated observatory that showed alignment to more sun, moon, and star movements than could be measured by those at the end of the simple tunnel at Newgrange! Unlike Göbekli Tepe and Newgrange, Stonehenge was left unburied to let everyone see the sun, moon, and star risings and settings of important days.
(New Reasons to Be Catholic #10) Uncounted tens of thousands of mostly circular temples, mounds, standing stones, wooden totems, and hilltop forts for homes and workshops were built between Japan and Ireland, Alaska and Argentina. All their generally circular monuments in and beyond areas using Indo-European languages show Melchizedek at Work.
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Their organizational ability, as at Göbekli Tepe many thousand years earlier, let many organize growing families into successful Tribes around the world. Melchizedek worked great miracles in Egypt:
Their angular pyramids were also oriented by stars and planets beyond, but were far more complicated. Some of them had “star shafts” (shown by #10s below) through the solid stones that let those in an Egyptian pyramid’s burial chamber see the North Star or Orion’s Belt in the distant universe to let them be blessed by Osiris and Isis.
(New Reasons to Be Catholic #11) Those structures show that Melchizedek helped provide people with something else! He followed God’s Orders to give people both spoken and written languages and numbers. They advanced more quickly when allowed to work, write, remember, and pass on what they knew with letters and numbers.
Thanks to Melchizedek, Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic became the AI, (Artificial Intelligence) of the time!
That Great Teaching from Melchizedek allowed later generations to see how some gene-rations were able to see and describe what they could see, think, and calculate. The most complicated human thoughts and calculations ever devised took form.
It took several thousand years for Melchezedian Thinking to spread to the Americas, but their pyramids were spectacular! Some of them had greater mass than the pyramids of Egypt:
Below, we see something amazing! One of their Temple Mounds was so huge that many people forgot it was the foundation of the Catholic Cathedral built by the blessed Catholics from Spain on top of Mexico’s monumental Melchizedekian Monument!
Their huge temple mound at Chohula was rediscovered in Mexico when a railroad excavation moved some earth and uncovered massive stone walls around what looked like a huge hill. If we look closely, we begin to realize how much bigger their empty earthen pyramid is than the far more complicated Catholic Cathedral built upon it! A mile of stone-lined tunnels ran beneath the hill.
More primitive Melchezedians kept people busy building some of the biggest mounds in the world in what would become the central United States, as at the Indian center of Cahokia, in Illinois:
We see pictures of Great Walls, Assyrian cities, Buddhist temples, and many other monuments built by people organized around Melchizedek’s guidance. As those impressive structures were being put together around the world, Melchizedek did his most important Work when he met with one person on earth!
(New Reasons to Be Catholic #12) Melchizedek’s greatest work was for The First Catholic priest to tell the world that Abraham was God’s most blessed servant! Abraham, alone, received Melchizedek’s blessing with “bread and wine”, clearly prefiguring Catholic Communion for all blessed to Think Clearly (Gen 14:18–20). From the blessed marriage of Abraham and Sarah came the family line that would become the Twelve Tribes of Israel through their grandson, Jacob.
About 4,000 years ago, Moses led these Twelve Tribes—each with its own history, culture, and family identity—into the land God promised. From this chosen people, God began sending prophets to communicate His will to those He had set apart for His covenant. Their greatness came not from any physical change, but from God’s promise, His covenant, and the grace He continually offered to guide them.
Two thousand years ago, new times and dates came to earth.
(New Reasons to Be Catholic #13) He Who Fulfilled more than 300 carefully written Messianic Prophecies appeared among the one group of Melchizedekians to whose priests he taught the words with which they learned how to speak, read, and write. God used His Pre-Catholic priests, the Hebrew Prophets, to predict that His Son would take Human Form on earth and show how much God loves those blessed to believe most meaningfully believe in Him.
An overlooked Miracle! Melchizedek helped those Twelve Tribes become more faithful to God, despite being surrounded for the four hundred years they lived in Egypt by the most complicated Pyramids and Temples that had ever been built.
Then, Melchizedek’s job changed! He began to focus on helping God’s obedient people live by Words that God revealed to The Prophets who came after Moses.
(New Reasons to Be Catholic #14) Two thousand years ago, about the time the world’s calendars now recognize as the year 1 AD, He Who Fulfilled over 300 Written Prophecies was born. As the Prophets had predicted in Isaiah 7:14, 9:6-7, 11:1-10, Jesus was born to a Virgin of The House of David in the tiny village of Bethlehem (Micah 5:2).
Catholics are blessed to simplify History! (New Reason to Be Catholic #15) is understanding more of what The Father meant when He said: “Let there be light / And there was light”!
Then! 13 trillion light-years later, “His Light” began to shine before everyone on earth.
(Simplest Reason to Be Catholic #15) The Son Who Fulfilled the Prophecies proved He had The Father’s Power to Speak Things into Being by Speaking His Only Church-Creating Word to His First Catholic Pope, 2,000 years ago: “And I say unto you, thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.”
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As Melchizedek’s Work gave Abraham God’s Blessing of “bread and wine”, he also helped many be blessed to connect it with the Call to Catholic Communion that He Who Fulfilled The Prophecies repeated 12 times in the last half of John 6 and twice more at The Last Supper: “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood, you do not have life in you.”
Since the day when Jesus spoke those words, those who have been blessed to receive That Holy Food have been strengthened by His grace, becoming among the most blessed people on earth.
The Clearest Reason to Be Catholic is #16) He Who will Judge the eternal placement of every immortal human soul at His Judgment told us clearly to Be Catholic when He Decreed: “You are My friends if you obey My commands.” (John 20:23)
For 2,000 years, the most faithful followers of God have been blessed to use Mechizedek’s Work to follow Jesus and become Ordained as “priests forever, In The Order of Melchizedek”! (Psalm 110:4). Catholics are encouraged by our priests and religious to be Pro-Life in every way. Those who justify the destruction of any human life between conception and natural death condemn their own souls. Galatians 6:7 tells us of their immortal souls’ eternal fate: “As you sow, so shall you reap.”
A Simple, Catholic Truth: “Melchizedek got the world prepared so that Jesus could save us.” Catholics love to think about details! We are Catholic because we think clearly about This Detail: “And I say unto you thou art Peter and upon this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.”
We Catholics are blessed to be simple-minded enough to know that He Who Fulfilled over 300 Messianic Prophecies left “the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven” to The First Catholic Pope, and we want those “keys” for our immortal souls.
(New Reason to Be Catholic #17) We know that Pope Damasus, a Successor to Peter, asked St. Jerome to compile The Bible. He finished that Great Work nearly 400 years after Christ’s First Pope began to work in Rome. Some of The Most Important Words in The Bible tell us about how important Melchizedek is to Human History.
Every time we review the Bible Passages that refer to Melchizedek, we more clearly see the importance of his work to every person and people in Human History.
Catholics are blessed to listen to what Moses told his followers in Deuteronomy 10:12-22: “Moses said to the people: ‘And now, Israel, what does The LORD, your God, ask of you but to fear The LORD, your God, and follow His ways exactly, to love and serve The LORD, your God, with all your heart and all your soul, to keep the commandments and statutes of The LORD which I enjoin on you today for your own good?” Moses followed that announcement with One Command: “Think!”
Catholics are blessed to “think” well enough to realize: “The heavens, even the highest heavens, belong to the LORD, your God, as well as the earth and everything on it.”Then, Catholics return to consider an odd fact! Cities like Göbekli Tepe, discovered in Turkey, began to be built 12,500 years ago.
How do happy Catholics connect dozens of ancient cities, pyramids, and temples, including those around Göbekli Tepe that were buried by their own builders, with God, Abraham, Moses, the Prophets, Jesus, Peter, and us?
Melchizedek, “King of Salem and priest of God Most High”, is the connection! From Genesis 14:18-20, Psalm 110:4, and Hebrews 5:6-11 and 7:28, Catholics understand that Jesus is “The High Priest Forever in The Order of Melchizedek.” We know that Melchizedek has been guiding God’s people since he showed them how to chip rocks into weapons, tools, idols, and mediums of exchange, around 3,000,000 years ago, when the earliest chipped stones are found to have been made.
Did Melchizedek lead the earliest priests to show their faith in God by making paint, brushes, and torches for light and making paintings in caves, 50,000 years ago:
Simple Catholic terms help people understand the truth. We can say something like:
“God often gave special roles to people, like Abraham, who realized the greatness of God and what they owed Him, and who chose to accept the grace He offered so they would be able to do difficult things.”
The past helps Catholics understand that God raised people like Abraham by giving them grace, not by changing their physical nature. When Jesus came, He allowed every person on earth to receive this same grace—especially through receiving His Body and Blood in Catholic Communion.
Anti-Catholics often misunderstand this and imagine that Catholic priests and religious claim some kind of built-in natural advantage. Catholics understand that what sets them apart is the grace of their vocation. That strengthens their will and enlightens their hearts so that they can live in celibacy, poverty, and obedience with clarity, charity, and joy. This transformation happens in the soul, and moves the blessed mind and body to grateful obedience.
For 2,000 years, the devil has tried to keep people from the grace that allows Catholics to receive the Holy Food Jesus commanded us to receive 12 times in John 6 and 2 more times at the Last Supper: “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood, you do not have life in you.” Catholics recognize: “We are children of God in every way because we asked God to fill us with His grace.”
A simple rhyme capturing this truth: “Catholics are happy to hopefully pray / ‘May all receive God’s Grace today.’”
(Odd reason to Be Catholic #18!) We saw interesting examples of how Melchizedek taught people to work with Large Stones, as in the Pyramids and Stonehenge. Catholics realize he also taught people to work with small stones!
The picture below is an Indian peace pipe, made around 100 BC, by the Hopewell Indians of southern Ohio. They led people between Illinois and western Pennsylvania for a few hundred years. Their stone-drilling technology disappeared along with them. They learned techniques such as: “Take a piece of meteorite or high-grade iron ore, shape it into a drill bit, drill these tiny holes. Keep the drilling process cooled with water so the stone does not crack. You will be able to make peace pipes that other people will value enough to buy from you.”
Catholics learn enough from that to understand that every successful business in History has been built on this teaching of Melchizedek. “Do something new. Do it right.”
Eight thousand years before that, Melchizedek showed people in Göbekli Tepe how they could drill similar holes in this tiny stone that showed metal-working skills in what non-Catholics mistakenly describe as The Stone Age!
Catholic realize those small, circular holes could have only been drilled with an iron or steel drill bit made from iron ore or a meteorite! Efficient drilling had to have been accompanied by a flow of water to keep expansion from cracking the delicate structures. Catholics see Melchizedek at Work over 10,000 years of History on both sides of the world!
Catholics often return to study Melchizedek in The Bible!
Oceans are covered with rolling waves. Melchizedek helps us see how the Earth has been covered with waves of peoples rolling over every land on earth for millions of years.
The first references to Melchizedek are in Genesis 14:17-20:17 After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).
18 Then Melchizedek, King of Salem, brought out bread and wine. (May all be blessed to see that is God’s Prophecy through Melchizedek about Catholic Communion!) He was priest of God Most High; (The First Catholic priest in Time and Space!) 19 and he blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.
20 And praise be to God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
St. Paul helps Catholics understand “The Melchizedek Theory of History” in Hebrews 7:1-21. In less than Two Dozen Verses, Catholic learn more History from St. Paul in a few minutes than most people learn in years of wasting money going to college!
1.This Melchizedek was King of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham (around 1626 BC) returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him,
2 and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything. First, the name Melchizedek means “king of righteousness”; then also, “king of Salem” means “king of peace.”
3 Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.
4 Just think how great he was: Even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder!
5 Now the law requires the descendants of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people—that is, from their fellow Israelites—even though they also are descended from Abraham.
6 This man, however, did not trace his descent from Levi, yet he collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.Catholics understand! The Bible tells us that Melchizedek was more important than Abraham:
7 And without doubt the lesser is blessed by the greater.
8 In the one case, the tenth is collected by people who die; but in the other case, by him who is declared to be living. (Catholics see the blessings God gives to His Catholic priests, religious, and people who are “declared to be living”!)
9 One might even say that Levi, who collects the tenth, paid the tenth through Abraham,
10 because when Melchizedek met Abraham, Levi was still in the body of his ancestor. (Then, God used St. Paul to ask the question about why God had to replace the Levitical “priesthood”):
11 If perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood—and indeed the law given to the people established that priesthood—why was there still need for another priest to come, one in The Order of Melchizedek, not in the order of Aaron? (Melchizedek laid The Foundation for God to take Human Form on earth, and fulfill over 300 Prophecies, because there was “need for another priest to come, one in the Order of Melchizedek”.)
12 For when the priesthood is changed, the law must be changed also.
13 He of whom these things are said belonged to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever served at the altar.
14 For it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah, and in regard to that Tribe, Moses said nothing about priests. (The old priests are replaced by those Ordained in The Order of Melchizedek, in which Jesus is predicted):
15 And what we have said is even clearer if another priest like Melchizedek appears,
The Book of Hebrews teaches that Christ became a priest “not according to a regulation about physical descent, but by the power of an indestructible life.” This “indestructible life” refers not to anything biological, but to the divine life of Christ Himself—the eternal life He possesses and gives through grace. Because Jesus is the eternal High Priest, replacing the priesthood of Melchizedek, the Church has honored all Catholic priests and religious for 2,000 years for answering the call to serve in Christ’s priesthood through sacramental grace, not through ancestry, heredity, or any physical trait.
17 For it is declared: “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.” The clergy of many faiths avoid God’s replacement of many of those who had been in the Levitical priesthood:
18 The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless
19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.
20 And it was not without an oath! Others became priests without any oath,
21 but he became a priest with an oath when God said to him: “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: ‘You are a priest forever in the Order of Melchizekek.” (Jesus, Who Fulfilled The Messianic Prophecies, replaced the Levitical priesthood by giving The Power of Melchizedek to Catholic priests who would provide Christ’s Body and Blood to all who are blessed to obey His Church-Creating Word to His First Catholic Pope: “And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.”
The History of Melchizedek continues until “Heaven and earth shall pass away”. May all be blessed to be as Catholic as we can before Judgment.
A Simple Rhyme helps Catholics realize:
“Melchizedek helps us understand, / And be as Catholic as we can.”
Catholics can see Melchizedek at Work on behalf of God’s People in a Catholic Reading, from Ezra 9:5-9.“At the time of the evening sacrifice, I, Ezra, rose in my wretchedness, and with cloak and mantle torn, I fell on my knees, stretching out my hands to The LORD, my God.” (That prayer was Melchizedek at Work in Ezra’s mind and spirit!) “I said: ‘My God, I am too ashamed and confounded to raise my face to you, O my God, for our wicked deeds are heaped up above our heads and our guilt reaches up to heaven.” (That understanding was Melchizedek at Work!) “From the time of our fathers even to this day great has been our guilt, and for our wicked deeds we have been delivered up, we and our kings and our priests, to the will of the kings of foreign lands, to the sword, to captivity, to pillage, and to disgrace, as is the case today.” (All that was Melchizedek at Work!) “And now, but a short time ago, mercy came to us from the LORD, our God, Who left us a remnant and gave us a stake in His holy place; thus our God has brightened our eyes and given us relief in our servitude. For slaves we are, but in our servitude, our God has not abandoned us; rather, He has turned the good will of the kings of Persia toward us. Thus He has given us new life to raise again the house of our God and restore its ruins, and has granted us a fence in Judah and Jerusalem.” (All that was Melchizedek and God’s Angels at Work!)
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Catholics are grateful to learn that Tobit was guided by The Archangel Raphael (Tobit 5:4-5). Sadly, the profiteers of many Protestant Marketing Plans took that Book out of their Bible to keep donors giving money to them, instead of seeking the guidance of God and help from His Angels:
“Blessed be God, who lives for ever. He scourges and then has mercy; He casts down to the depths of the nether world, and He brings up from the great abyss. No one can escape His hand. Praise him, you children of Israel, before the Gentiles, for though He has scattered you among them, He has shown you his greatness even there.” (“Scattering the children of Israel among the Gentiles” was Melchizedek at Work!)
A mystery solved by Melchizedek:
(New Reason to Be Catholic #19) Catholics realize how the Great, Great Grandchildren of Abraham, descended from Jacob, began to be “scattered among the Gentiles”. A few generations after Moses and Joshua, their descendants had filled the farms and villages of Israel. So, for more than a thousand years, hundreds of thousands in every generation left those families to join or found settlements of The Twelve Tribes between Nepal and Ireland. Some even made it to the Philippines!
They became Celts, Goths, Visigoths, Lombards, Danes, Saxons, Franks, Scots, and the dozens of peoples who would remember Gods “greatness” well enough to Be Catholic when the first Catholic priests “Ordained in the order of Melchizedek” arrived to bring them into The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church whose blessings they spread around the world.
That was a Fulfillment of the Prophet Jeremiah (23:7-8) that predicted The Catholic Church! ” Therefore, the days are coming—oracle of the LORD—when they shall no longer say, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt’; but rather, “As the LORD lives, who brought the descendants of the house of Israel up from the land of the north”— and from all the lands to which I banished them; they shall again live on their own soil.’”
That “soil of their own” is The Catholic Church!
Then, the Bible Passage that Catholics sometimes use as an “Alleluia” in Catholic Masses tells us in Mark 1:15 that “The Kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the Gospel.” Melchizedek’s Work had made the way for The Prophesied Messiah to come to earth and save the souls of over a hundred billion people!
When He Who Fulfilled over 300 Messianic Prophecies arrived, Luke 9:1-6 tells us about The Gifts He gave to His First Catholic Bishops and those who were blessed to be Ordained as Catholic priests and religious!
“Jesus summoned the Twelve and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, and He sent them to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick.
He said to them, “Take nothing for the journey, neither walking stick, nor sack, nor food, nor money, and let no one take a second tunic. Whatever house you enter, stay there and leave from there.
And as for those who do not welcome you, when you leave that town, shake the dust from your feet in testimony against them.” The saddest beings on earth are the souls of those who did not “welcome” The Living Word of He Who Fulfilled over 300 Prophecies.
Then they set out and went from village to village proclaiming the good news and curing diseases everywhere.”
Catholics see: Melchizedek had worked successfully to Make The World Ready for Jesus! Melchizedek, through our blessed Catholic priests and religious, still works to lead many to respect The Prophecies enough to obey He Who Fulfilled them.
A Simple Rhyme: “Past, present, and future are all but One / When seen through the eyes of God and His Son!”
Details:
More connections between the people of Göbekli Tepe and those who settled in Israel are clear in these pictures. The Stone Jars remind us of those stone jars, half the size of oil drums, that Jesus had filled with water before turning it into “fine wine at the wedding feast of Cana” (John 2:1-11)! Catholics know how hard such huge “stone jars” would have been to make.
The phallic symbols in a special room in a Göbekli Tepe City show another connection between Göbekli Tepe and Hebrew Teaching that followed: they are circumcised! (Clearer pictures of an actual statue are not shown here, but may be found on the internet.)
Now, we see a Mystery of History:
One of these pictures portrays a deity worshiped 4,000 years ago in the Middle East. The other shows an object of worship created 2,000 years ago in Ecuador. Catholics see them, and intelligently ask ourselves: “Did Melchizedek ‘Copy and Paste’ similar organizational figures on both sides of the world to civilizations ready for this level of Public Works at the same period of each one’s social and stone-working complexity?”
Do these pictures show “Copying and Pasting” instructions to builders of Temples in Mesopotamia and Ecuador? Hard to think of them as a “coincidence”!
Could Melchizedek have been the “Pope” of some pre-Catholic faiths and nations?
There are many Historical Accounts of Faiths among the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, Hittites, and other ancient civilizations.
Sumerian and Akkadian History gives us a typical example of how God may have used Melchizedek to help lead early nations to invent their ways to success between 4,500-1,900 BC.
The Sumerian people used improved skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic as a foundation. That helped them invent calendars, star maps, war chariots, bronze weapons, boots, and beer. Beer made it easier for many to handle the need to repay loans that were invented in their early banking and accounting systems! He may have helped them make the first cylinder seal so we could see his inventive power in what may be seen as a typical visit of Melchizedek to every people on earth!
We see that in Sumerian times, their deity, Nudimmus, “He who fashions things” was honored. So was Ea, or Enki, among the Akkadians. He may have helped them invent the “cylinder seals” by which he is remembered:
Enki, like Melchizedek, “knows the intentions of the gods” and was honored by craftsmen and artisans. He “changed the speech in their mouths” as new words became necessary to describe new inventions that he led into being as he taught people how to build cowsheds, canals, and temples. He is also honored for having “brought writing to earth”!
Among his accomplishments, a legal system provided for enforceable contracts, showing that judges and jailors were at work. Ways to record inventories and payment responsibilities were made more effective by mail delivery in the Sumerian Postal System!
Writing and reading made it possible to teach younger generations about the Glory of Sumeria!
Beer also helped dull the frustrations felt by those unable to do as some of their neighbors learned to do and find the areas of triangles, the volume of cubes, and the basics of algebra.
Public Works expanded to keep people busy building ziggurats as at their city of Ur:
Sumerians also invented the arch. When arches were built at angles to intersect each other, domes” could be produced to cover spaces economically in a wide variety of Public Works.
Wheels were important in Sumeria. There were improved wheels with spokes for wagons to move goods and for war chariots to move soldiers. For water transport, Sumerians moved from inefficient paddles and skin boats to oars and rowboats that were far more efficient. From there, they developed sails, to further reduce the labor for moving products. That accelerated their trading empire and freed more men to be soldiers.
Variations of wheels were turned sideways to develop wheels to make pottery as workshops replaced household production centers. Millwheels were used to increase the speed of grinding. They could produce more food with smaller numbers of people. That freed more from food-supplying labor to use wheels for war chariots as the Sumerian Empire began to expand.
As always, people were over-taxed, over-regulated, and began to “hate the state”. When those people increased in number, their Empire, as those that preceded and followed, was replaced by Akkadians, Hittites, Assyrians, Persians, Parthians, Macedonians, and, finally, Rome.
All the empires that rose and fell after Göbekli Tepe prepared the way for Rome. That tiny town on the Tiber prepared the way for Jesus to come to earth and have His Word and Church begin to spread around the world.
Melchizedek showed Rome how to be true to both family and state, providing a foundation that let it grow and prosper from 753 BC to September 4, 476 AD.
Catholics know that since “Melchizedek was a priest forever“, he never stops working. He continues to provide the inventions that people, families, and their nations needed for the next 2,000 years, even though many people fought against him every step of the way.
Catholics still see Melchizedek at work as animals were replaced by motors, nuclear reactors replaced useless, inefficient windmills, trains replaced walking, and airplanes replaced railroads!
We are grateful to Melchizedek for giving us God’s example of fortitude in our lives and pray that he will guide us and our families with states that serve us, rather than the usual, self-serving bureaucratic tyrants. Their souls spend eternity in the lowest six circles of hell, because, as Dante tells us, that is where the souls of all who unrepentantly participate in “complex frauds” receive God’s Unending Justice.
Afterword
Catholics are blessed to Thank God for giving us Melchizedek to help us get “the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven” that Jesus sacrificed His Human Life to give to His First Pope in Matthew 16:18-20; “And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.” With Melchizedek’s help, many are blessed to be as Catholic as we can.
May all souls be blessed by having our Original Sins washed away by The Power of The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in Baptism. Then, with the Sacrament of Confession, we have our sins taken from us by The Power of our Catholic priests to provide Absolution. Then, those blessed to Be Catholic may receive The Actual Body and Blood of God’s Beloved Son by The Miracle of Transubstantiation at every Catholic Communion, providing “the bread and wine” that Melchizedek first gave to Abraham. May all be blessed to recognize God’s Power to appear at Every Catholic Mass since The Last Supper!
After that, our Faith is confirmed by The Sacrament of Confirmation as we move into adulthood. Then, many are blessed by living lives pleasing to God in The Sacrament of Marriage. Some hear a Higher Calling to be Ordained among Catholic priests and religious with The Sacrament of Holy Orders. At the end of our time on earth, our souls leave our bodies and are sent on the way to Heaven by The Last Rites.
May all be blessed to see the reality of God’s Power on earth as clearly as Catholics! Seeing the ongoing help of Melchizedek and the Catholics who have made the world a better place for the past 2,000 years is a great help in realizing that God is Real, Alive, and Overflowing with Love for His “obedient friends who obey My commands.” (John 20:23)
The need to take advantage of the “Nineteen New Reasons to be Catholic” is obvious! We clearly see the formerly Catholic Nations of Europe being enslaved by those who want to replace their once-Catholic peoples with God’s punishment for willful Protestants. Their teachings, once largely Catholic, sink further into self-serving nonsense every day.
We see similar attacks on families, faith, and freedom in states and cities of many countries where Catholic Foundations have been weakened and much of Protestantism has decayed into godless humanism.
May all be blessed to see how God’s Punishment always falls on those who avoid The Seven Catholic Sacraments and The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church Spoken Into Being by The Church-Creating Word of He Who Fulfilled the Prophecies to His First Catholic Pope:
“And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.”
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Author’s notes: Books and writings on catholicfundamentalism.com are free and anonymous to avoid the distractions of seeking fame and fortune that keep many from focusing on The Command of Jesus: “Love God and love your neighbors as yourselves.”
Author’s credibility: He built a successful, worldwide 24/7 manufacturing company based on over 200 Patents for a wide variety of new products in markets taken over by those inventions. That process began after He became Catholic and was no longer confused by thousands of conflicting Protestant Marketing Plans & Denominations that kept him too confused to focus on anything.
Author’s hope: May all be blessed to “Love God and our neighbors” enough to “Be Catholic” and get “the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven” from Successors to The First Person to receive them: St. Peter, Jesus Christ’s First Catholic Pope.
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