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Baurak Ale wrote: ↑March 30th, 2018, 1:27 pm
Imho & BringerOfJoy:

Neither of you watched the video, obviously, which is the point of the post ...

Baurak Ale wrote: ↑March 30th, 2018, 12:23 pm Came across this well done Youtube research video and thought it worth sharing. Its conjecture about Melchizedek is lacking and inacurate, but the video is done as cleanly as possible considering the author's sources (i.e. no modern revelation). It caused me to reexamine what Joseph Smith has ever said about it (whether in scripture or not) and I was satisfied in finding that not only did he not teach that personally but that the scriptures that came through him seem to imply the opposite, that Shem and Melchizedek are two different people. Maybe many of you already knew this, but I thought it was quite worth my time to watch (it has some interesting implications with other accepted scriptural narratives in terms of timelines). Below are the relevant scriptures I found in my resultant study (also one quote from a classic Ensign article), followed by the video itself:

Melchizedek did establish peace in the land in his days; therefore he was called the prince of peace, for he was the king of Salem; and he did reign under his father" (Alma 13:18).

Abraham received the priesthood from Melchizedek, who received it through the lineage of his fathers, even till Noah" (D&C 84:14, emphasis added).

[...] Many Saints and gospel scholars have wondered if these men were the same person. The truth is, we do not know the answer.... There is a case for their being two distinct personalities" (Gygi, Alma E., "Is it possible that Shem and Melchizedek are the same person?", Ensign, November 1973, web).

You are reading the lineage in an ascending order. It could be read in an ascending order.