Today we continue with our advent theme: “the significance of incarnation events magnified from scriptural cross references.” To illustrate the prophetic weight of Old Testament texts anticipating the unique nature of the Messiah to come – today's message borrows an outline from fragments of inter-testamental commentary found with the other :Dead Sea Scrolls” in the Quamran excavations of the last century. Presumably written some years before the birth of Jesus, these ancient scholars drew conclusions about the coming “Melchizedekian” Savior form passages like our text today, Scroll 11Q13 is identified with the title: “The Coming of Melchizedek” and provides a window into the insights of those who awaited the covenant promises of old and what they were looking for based on their exegesis of the scriptures. Melchizedek appears in ancient Messianic scholarship as a prophetic icon and rightly so. Ps 110 (our worship text) and Hebrews chapter 7 refer to this Old Testament priest/king as a forerunner of the anointed Christ. Today we behold the fulfillment in the Gospels of ancient believer's hopes based upon the covenant assurance of the inspired prophets of old. May we rejoice and worship Him all the more from our vantage pint here in the other side of incarnation history.