[B-Greek] Rev 7:4

Revdpickrel at wmconnect.com Revdpickrel at wmconnect.com
Tue Apr 3 14:17:27 EDT 2007


In a message dated 4/2/2007 10:05:26 PM Central Daylight Time, 
hholmyard3 at earthlink.net writes:


> HH: I've never gotten the impression that the 144,000 were the sum of 
> all Israelites. They are selected groups from all the tribes of Israel. 
> There are more Israelites than the 144,000. You raise an interesting 
> question, because it says that these are the number of the ones sealed 
> out of every tribe of the sons of Israel, yet at least one tribe is not 
> mentioned, Dan. So unless Dan is viewed as swallowed up by another 
> tribe, the text would seem to mean that out of every tribe, this is the 
> number of those sealed, even if one tribe is not represented. This is 
> the total number of those selected from every tribe.
> 
> Yours,
> Harold Holmyard
> 

Two tribes are not sealed in this passage, Dan and Ephraim, because both 
introduced idols into the family of Israel.

Doug.
Rev. Doug Pickrel, Litt.D.
Tejas Valley
San Antonio, Texas   </HTML>



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