Dan ... not the pure Judgement

[Shmanu YAH]

                               shalom mishpacha, All praises, glory and honor to the Most High YHWH !!!

                                                          I pray all is well with you and yours.

In this brief message we will deal with the topic of one of the tribes of Yisrael not mentioned in the book of Revelation chapter 7.
I am referring to the tribe of Dan, for some unknown reason this seems to trouble some people.
I have backtracked to the first book for a start. We read in b'reshyth \ Gen.30:5-6, And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son,.6 And Rachel said, Elohim hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan. "Dan" in Hebrew means judgement so thats why we understand the name Daniel means "EL is my judge".

Also in Genesis we read the prophecy of Jacob dealing with his sons / nations in the last days Gen. 49:16-17,

"Dan shall judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel. 17 Dan shall be a serpent in the way, An adder in the path, That biteth the horse's heels, So that his rider falleth backward". (obviously dealing with the future wickedness and bad judgement of this tribe).

One example you can read in Judges chpt. 18 vs.1 when they were looking for a land to dwell in but brought idols and also evilly smote the peaceful people of Laish, then we see in verses 16-31 16-31 >>>

18:16 And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.
18:17 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.
18:18 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?
18:19 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?
18:20 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.
18:21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.
18:22 And when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.
18:23 And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?
18:24 And he said, Ye have taken away my elohim which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee?
18:25 And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.
18:26 And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.
18:27 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.
18:28 And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Beth-rehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein.
18:29 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.
18:30 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.
18:31 And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of Elohim was in Shiloh.

This doesn't definitively mean no one from that lineage can enter in because we know ALL the tribes at one time or another did evil in the eyes of YHWH.

We should just understand the book of Revelation is filled with symbolic meanings and now knowing that Dan means judgement we can understand there will only be ONE real judge of those going into the kingdom and it could not possibly come from mortal man, a tribe or a nation!

In Revelation chpt. 7:4-9 the judgement and sealing of the 144,000 as well as the un-numerable multitude stood with robes has already passed and There is no longer a need for judgement ... especially from those so desperately wanting that position.

This misunderstood zeal comes from a epistle written by apostle Paul we read in in 1st Cor. 6:2-4, Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life? 4 If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life,..... now lets correctly understand, this is dealing with litigation amongst believers ... aka amongst brethren!

We must be saints that judge amongst each other justly and not go before the unjust for judgement , because the just shall judge the un-believers not visa-versa. He also states the saints shall judge the "malakym" aka "fallen messengers".
He then states he "speaks to their shame" vs.5 (Oh Oh, how can the shameful be saints?)

He in no time stated saints decide who gets into the Kingdom - instead we read back in Daniel 7:21-22, "I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; 22 until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom."

now forward that to what h'mashiac said to Peter in Matt.19:27-28, Then answered Peter and said unto him, " Lo, we have left all, and followed thee; what then shall we have? 28 And Yahshua said unto them, Verily I say unto you, that ye who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel".

Here he is cleary speaking to his talmydym of 12 Thrones, not a infinite amount of Thrones, now forward even more to see what Yahushua said in Luke 22:28-30, "But ye are they that have continued with me in my temptations; 29 and I appoint unto you a kingdom, even as my Father appointed unto me, 30 that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom; and ye shall sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel".

Mashiac makes sure we know it's HIS chosen talmydym that will sit and judge what he gives them, not those who have their own desires!

If we read with Hebraic not Greek understanding in Revelation 7 (in the order Yochanan listed them) the tribes that were sealed and the meanings of their tribal names it makes good sense:

Y'huda ... "celebrate", R'uben ... "look our son", Gad ... "troop" coming , Asher ..."happy", Nephtali ..."I wrestled", Manasseh ..."cause to forget", Shimeon ... "heard us", Lewi ..." attach", Yissachar... my hire or wages, Zebulon ... "dwell with us ", Yoseph ... "to add", Benyamin ... "son of right", ... Does this clear it up? Like stated earlier " no longer need for any extra "Dan"  aka extra "judgement"

selah and shalom

[Sharath]

HalleluYah nice article.