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Elder Jeffrey R Holland: Latter-day Saints know more than most about Melchizedek because of references to him in the thirteenth chapter of Alma in the Book of Mormon. Indeed, in that other ‘testament of Jesus Christ,’ Melchizedek is clearly a very specific Old testament type of Jesus Christ that was to come in New Testament times. It is noted that Melchizedek was ‘king over the land of [Jeru]Salem,’ ‘did reign under his father,’ ‘received the office of the high priesthood’ in ‘the holy order of God,’ ‘did preach repentance unto his people,’ ‘did establish peace,’ and ‘was called the prince of peace’—all recognized by even the most casual of readers as characteristics of Jesus when He came in mortality