I wanted to respond to one thing that you
mentioned about a third of the way down:
I have heard and read that a number of people
agree with your assessment.
I've copied, below, from an addendum that I put
together in reference to Revelation 7.
Please let me know if I have left out any other
scriptures or related salient points regarding this subject.
Also, please let me know what things that you
think I may have stated incorrectly.
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(I had to make an addendum
regarding notes on Revelation 7, to address the obvious
question:
Why is the tribe of Dan
missing?
{In
Revelation 7, there are 12,000 from each of 12 tribes of
Israel that are sealed, but the tribe of Dan is not listed
there}
Revelation
7 does not mention why, but this has led many to consider
that the antichrist may come out of the tribe of Dan.
I’m not ascribing to that
here, but I wanted to address it, since there are many who
believe that it is definitely true.
They say, first, that Jacob
prophesied of Dan as a serpent, who would judge, but only
“as” one of the tribes:)
Genesis 49:16
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of
Israel.
17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an
adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his
rider shall fall backward.
(That in so doing, he is to
fulfill what was said to the serpent in the garden:)
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and
between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head,
and thou shalt bruise his heel.
(That Dan will fulfill this,
as the son of the serpent, the son of perdition, the
anti-messiah.)
(Then they
point out that Dan left his inheritance, to ascend to the furthest north point of the land,
like Lucifer:)
Judges 18:2 And
the children of Dan sent of their family five men from
their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from
Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they
said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came
to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged
there.
7 Then
the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the
people that were therein, how they
dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet
and secure; and there was no magistrate
in the land, that might put them to
shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no
business with any man.
11 And
there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out
of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed
with weapons of war.
14 Then
answered the five men that went to spy out the country
of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that
there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a
graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider
what ye have to do.
17 And
the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and
took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim,
and the molten image: and the priest stood in the
entering of the gate with the six hundred men
that were appointed with weapons of war.
18 And
these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the carved
image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten
image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?
19 And
they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon
thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a
priest: is it better for thee to be a
priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a
priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?
20 And
the priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and
the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the
midst of the people.
27 And
they took the things which Micah had
made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish,
unto a people that were at quiet and
secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword,
and burnt the city with fire.
29 And
they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of
Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the
name of the city was Laish at the first.
30 And
the children of Dan set up the graven image: and
Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he
and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the
day of the captivity of the land.
Isaiah 14:12
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the
morning! how art thou cut down to the
ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For
thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I
will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit
also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I
will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be
like the most High.
I Kings 12:28
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto
them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel,
which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
29 And he
set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
30 And
this thing became a
sin:
for the people went to worship before
the one, even unto Dan.
Amos 8:14 They
that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and,
The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up
again.
(There may be further
explanations by some, but I only remember the above.
However, when Jacob
prophesied:)
Genesis 49:16
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of
Israel.
(This was fulfilled for
twenty years, when Samson was a judge in Israel.
Also, Dan will receive
inheritance in the land, during the kingdom:)
Ezekiel 48:1 Now these are
the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast
of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan,
the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath;
for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.
2 And by the border of
Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Asher.
31 And the gates
of the city shall be after the names of the
tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate
of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.
32 And at the east side four
thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate
of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of
Dan.
(I do not think that it can
be really be proved that the beast, antichrist, i.e.
anti-messiah, definitely comes from the tribe of Dan.
Although there is enough
there to have convinced many that this is the case.)