Melchizedek

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In a message dated 97-10-27 14:23:52 EST, you write:

<< Melchizedek was not JESUS Christ but a manifestation of ***CHRIST*** (the
 Spirit of God/God) in human form. >>
Hmmm. Here is a new twist on a couple of old scriptures:
  To wit, that God was in Christ and Melchizedek...or (I like this one)
  For in them (Melchizedek and Christ) dwelleth all the fullness of the
Godhead bodily.....or (probably my favorite)
  And the word was made flesh a couple of times, and dwelt among us.....and
then there is....
  And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; God was again
manifest in the flesh....
  Don't you see, it is a square peg in a round hole. You couldn't make this
one fit with a sledge hammer. 
  I can't figure out for the life of me why God would manifest himself in the
flesh as Melchizedek. Do you claim it was to establish a precedent for
tithing? If so why do we pay tithes to the ministry and not directly to Jesus
Christ. If God came in the flesh twice, once as Melchizedek and once as
Christ, does that mean that Christ is a reincarnation of Melchizedek? Jesus
came to fulfill the law, how could he offer himself up without being of the
tribe of Levi? Would your answer be "because he made sacrifices before as
Melchizedek"? The point here is that there is a greater priesthood, one that
goes way beyond the priesthood of Aaron. You could be a high priest by just
being born in the right family, there is no merit there. But the Melchizedek
priesthood is a priesthood of merit. And that priesthood still lives, as you
read this e-mail, the lamb is continually before the throne of God making
intercession for us.  Mike