rosends
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You are missing some of the verse:What I said was the high priest was representing/symbolic of the Branch. Verse 12 - Behold the man whose name is the Branch;
Please comment on what I said about Psalms 110:1-4 (Verse 2 indicates he is King and verse 4 indicates he will be high priest forever.)
11 - Take silver and gold and make crowns. Place [one] on the head of High Priest Joshua son of Jehozadak,
12 - and say to him, “Thus said the LORD of Hosts: Behold, a man called the Branchg shall branch out from the place where he is, and he shall build the Temple of the LORD.
note that the speaker is instructed by God to tell the priest about the Branch -- as someone aside from the priest. Why you draw them together confounds me as the text specifically separates them.
As for Psalms, you are limited in your understanding. Here is how the 4th verse's reference to "priest" (not exactly what the Hebrew means, but it will have to do) was explained over 1000 years ago, and this is predicated on understanding that God, in verse 1 is speaking to Abraham.
"From you will emerge the priesthood and the kingship that your children will inherit from Shem your progenitor, the priesthood and the kingship, which were given to him."
The Malbim (from 800 or so years later) says the person being spoken to by God is King David, and he sees verse 4 as referring to Malki-Tzedek's role as a king of Jerusalem and the "priest" role being a unique one specifically created by and attested to and allowed by God (which explains the strange phrase "al dibrati" in the verse).