The question of whether the End Time Ruler of the Revived Roman Empire will be a Dannite or perhaps another, made me look into my files of articles I had written while during research on the subject. I believe this will answer some of those doubts about Dan. gerlinda

FOR FAIR USE DISCUSSION AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES

THE DANNITES



Revelation 7:4-8 gives us a list of the 144,000 righteous Jews who will spread the gospel during the reign of Antichrist. Noticeably missing is the Tribe of Dan. In fact, one of the main reasons for the diminished success of the gospel during the Tribulation period is because of his diabolical actions.



However, this is not the first time a list of the tribes appears without Dan. About 1056 B.C., the official historians began writing the Chronicles, a record of the national roots and missing is the tribe of Dan. By then, Dan had become a lost tribe and was no longer listed. What happened?



The Dannites lost their territory to the Philistines (where Palestinian Gaza is located today). After the death of Samson, who was a Dannite, the Tribe migrated north into southern Lebanon. They captured the city of Laish (meaning "lion") and changed its name to Dan. Their territory lay north of Galilee at the foot of Mount Herman in the region around the headwaters of the Jordan River. Jordan means "the going down of the Dan".



Moses referred to Laish, the city of the "lion" and its location in the territory of Bashan as he prophesied about Dan's disappearance. "Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan". Deut. 33:22 (He actually leaped from Bashan onto the continent of Europe)



Within 400 years after Moses, the tribe vanished. However Jacob, patriarch of the nation, predicted Dan's destiny. In Genesis 49, we are told that he gathered his sons around his bed and prophesied of what would befall each tribe in the last days. Gen. 49:1. Of Dan, he said, "Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel. 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." Gen. 49:16-17.



By calling Dan a serpent Jacob is drawing our attention back to the story in the Garden of Eden where God placed a curse upon the serpent and his seed. He said, "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.." Gen. 3:15. Way back here, there was a prophecy of enmity between Satan and all his offspring and the offspring of the woman, who is believed to represent the Messiah and the chosen race, Israel

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There is an ancient apocryphal writing called Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, in which Dan was said to have made certain deathbed predictions to his family, just as Jacob had done before him. The writing is thought to be apocryphal and has been dated by scholars to be written sometime before 150 B.C. Fragments of the writing were found in the Qumran caves and are part of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls.



The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs claim to be the final utterances of the twelve sons of Jacob. Just prior to death, each son is depicted as gathering his off-spring around him and prophesying those things that would befall each tribe in the future. According to the testament of Dan, he died when he was 125 years old. Among the many things he had to say were these startling words "I read in the book of Enoch, the Righteous, that your prince is Satan...."



Because of this statement, Jewish scholars (around 150 B.C.) speculated that Dan would produce the Antichrist. Further -more, Dan was made to say, I know that in the last days you will defect from the Lord, you will be offended at Levi, and revolt against Judah; but you will not prevail over them". (Isn't this interesting that Judah is the tribe from which our Lord came and Levi is the priestly tribe, of which He also qualifies and whom were an offense.

Finally, upon Dan's death, the writer concluded, Dan prophesied to them...that they would go astray from God's law, that they would be estranged from their inheritance, from the race of Israel and from their patrimony: and that is what occurred."

When John gave a list of the righteous Israeli (the 144,000) he left out the tribe of Dan. However, it is possible, even likely, that the man on the white horse will be from that diabolical tribe.



In J.R. Church's book, "Guardians of the Grail", he gives lengthy research about these Knights Templar, who ruled in Jerusalem from 1099 to 1312 and when run out of the Holy Land, took with them the treasures of Solomon with which they built the castles of Europe and built the banking cartel that rules the world today. The tribe of Dan, through inter-marriage, is part of the mix whose goal is to once again rule in Jerusalem.



What we see today within the European Union and the United Nations is the result of generations of "Movers and Shakers" that molded history through the use of the immense wealth stolen from Solomon's treasury and who are setting themselves up as the End Days rulers of the world. Didn't Jesus predict that the Prince of the people who will destroy the Temple would be the ones that would rule when He returned? It was the Romans then and it is the Revived Roman Empire today who is coming to the forefront.



It won't be long that Dan will seek his revenge upon his own people, the Israelites, when he sets himself up and demands worship.



As a foot note to the above article: Whomever will be chosen to head up this End Time Babylon, he will probably be given this position by a world power such as the United Nations, thus he would be inheriet the title of "Mayor of Jerusalem".



The Knights Templars believe that they will one day reclaim the title of "King of Jerusalem".

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