before abraham i am is present tense. not future. nor past tense. in other words it was during that timeline.Whom do you say was Jesus in Abraham's day?
It is true that Melchizedek is compared favourably with Jesus in the NT and is even called King of Salem in the OT. Salem means "peace" and Jesus is the Prince of Peace (Isa 9:6) and Salem is said to have been Jerusalem. Do you say he was Jesus?
Personally I think one of the 3 angels that Abraham saw when they were on their way to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah was YHWH and so would have been the pre human Jesus.
so the high priest at that time was melchizedic.
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