144,000 sealed

[Pamelasv]

When 12 tribes of Isreal are sealed in Revelation, I noticed the tribe of Dan Is missing. Can anybody explain that?

Revelation 7:4

[missmuffet]

No reason is given in the Bible.

[wingnut-]

When 12 tribes of Isreal are sealed in Revelation, I noticed the tribe of Dan Is missing. Can anybody explain that?

Revelation 7:4

 

I asked this question not long ago in the section regarding Hebrew roots.  Here is the link if you are interested, I think the lack of responses indicate it is not something anyone can offer but speculation about.   The response there seems to be the most widely held opinion.

 

 

[Guest shiloh357]

Dan will be restored during the millennium.   In the OT, the tribe of Dan was the tribe through idolatry came into Israel.

[George]

The reality is there's 14 different names recorded in the Bible as tribes -- so inadvertently 2 tribes will always not be listed in any listing of 12 tribes -- and it's different in each case that the 12 tribes are mentioned!

[Larry 2]

Genesis 49:17, "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."

God’s judgment has been shown as we see the tribes by birth on Aaron’s shoulders in Ex 28:8-10, and then the order on the Breastplate of Judgment according to Ex:28:29.

 

Judgment doesn't always have to do with annihilation or chastisement; it can be as simple as obtaining God's best. God judges the churches in much the same manner in Revelation Chapters 2 and 3. Jesus finds fault with some and commends others. On the Breastplate of Judgment we see the ones judged to obtain that more prominent place.
 

In Num 2:33  . . the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Then in Rev 7:5-8  we see Levi numbered at that time, but Dan and Ephrain missing. Are they no longer tribes of Israel?

 

Rev 7:4  And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

 

They were Juda, Reuben, Gad, Aser, Nepthalim, Manasses, Simeon, Levi, Issachar,

Zabulon, Joseph, and Benjamin. Are these 144,000 sealed the five wise virgins of Mat 25:1-4?

[Kan]

Yes.