Hebrews 7:1-3 ESV
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace. He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.
Melchizedek resembled the Son of God, but in type only. He had no genealogy recorded, before or after his life, which is what is meant by having "neither beginning of days nor end of life.
On the other hand, Jesus proclaims He is the beginning and end. Oddly, Melchizedek who had a beginning and end, for he was a man, is described otherwise. Jesus, who is eternal and has no beginning or end, tells us He is the beginning and end.
Jesus came from God the Father. There is no earthly genealogy in the usual sense. He is the first fruits of the children of light and it is in His light that the children are perfected with eternal life. This is the end God saw and willed from the beginning of man. This began when God said, "Let there be light" at the beginning of creation. This will end when we transform from our mortal existence into the union of an eternal body and spirit, similar to Christ.
This is the beginning and end of the light coming into the world. This is what Scripture is about, of God and man.
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