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Who Is The Tribe Of Dan In The World Today And Where Are They Today. Dan The One Who Would Bring Judgment On Israel Through Slavery

Wednesday, August 5, 2015 16:14
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Dan mixed with many of the idolatrous nations throughout the world and many of the races bore the curse of leprosy or albinism.

This mixing continued and the DNA trait of darker skin started to become thinner or more washed out, or became a recessive DNA trait.

Thus, if this mixing continues unto the 10th generation you become white washed in the flesh but still bear the spirit/DNA of the forefather, which is Dan.

Dan was orginally black but became literally white washed by gentic mixing with races that bore the albinism/leprosy curse. If this mixing is done 10 times the original DNA trait of melinated skin fades to almost no melanin, thus becoming like the other white races in apprearance but still will the DNA forefather spirit of Dan.

Many white people have the spirit or DNA of Dan in them and they don’t know it. The Danish who are descendants of DAN are some of the ones who carried us on slave ships to many places around the world.

This is why DAN was called the Judge, because he would be one of the ones who would bring judgement on us/slavery and the world/conquests.

The places where the Tribe of Dan has been or lands they have conquered bare his name in different formats, but always you are able to derive the root name DAN. Selah

 

The Danish slave trade refers to the transatlantic slave trade carried on by Denmark-Norway around 1671, when the Danish West India Company was chartered, to 1802, when the Danish regent Prince Frederick carried out a ban on the country’s participation in the trade.[1] As of 1778, it was estimated that the Danish were shipping about 3,000 Africans to the Danish West Indies for enslavement yearly.[2] The country’s ships transported approximately 100,000 enslaved Africans, about 2% of the total number the early 19th century.[1]

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV8tXifpzxs

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC65s-OWdEI

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAjwCdzF55U

 

WHERE IS THE TRIBE OF DAN? – YouTube

 

Why Is Dan Missing from the 144000? – Triumph Prophetic …

 

THE LOST TRIBE OF DAN

In the book of Revelations chapter 7 we are given the breakdown of the 144,000 first fruits of our Creator’s family.

Dan is excluded from this list of the original 12 sons of Israel and Joseph’s first born son Manasseh has replaced them.

When Israel blessed his twelve sons, he told them what would befall them in the latter days.

Today I am going to focus on the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Dan.

Of Dan he said;

Gen 49:16-17

16 The people of Dan will contend (strive) with “ONE” of the branches of Israel.

The King James translates this verse to say that Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

Obviously this is an erroneous translation because this tribe is not even mentioned as one of the 12 tribes that will be part of the first fruits.

The word for tribe when properly translated is the Hebrew word metteh.

The word used in this verse is not metteh; it is shebet (Shaybet) which means a branch or a scion.

Both of these words are translated as tribe or tribes in several places, but shebet carries a different meaning in how it is used.

In many of its uses, it is referring to a descendant or a group of descendants but in this case, it is referring to a particular descendant.

It is the same word that the king James translated as scepter 6 verses earlier when describing the scepter that would not depart from Judah.

And the word that they translated “shall judge” in this verse is better translated “to contend with”.

It is the Hebrew word diyn (deen or doon)

The Hebrew word shaphat (shawfat) means to judge.

The next verse adds more understanding to this;

17 Dan will be a serpent “against the way” and an adder in the path that strikes at the horse heels so that his rider falls backward.

This does not sound like a good forecast for the tribe of Dan.

Verse 16 is saying that they will contend with one of the branches of Israel.

In verse 10, the branch that will not depart from Judah is singular, not plural.

Israel is prophesying of a particular branch that would come from Judah, this is why he says that they will content with one of the branches.

And when I get to verses 11 and 12, you will see that he defines and leaves no doubt who this branch is referring to.

It is Judah who was prophesied would have this one branch of Israel at the end.

Of Judah, a few verses earlier we are told what would describe them at the end;

Gen 49:8-12

8 Judah will confess your brethren. Your hand will gape the neck of your enemies; they will bow down before your father’s children.

9 The children of Judah will be a lion’s whelp feeding on the prey that rises up and you will crouch your knees like a roaring lion. Who will rise you up?

10 “THE BRANCH” will not depart from Judah, NOR THE GRAVEN DECREES from between your feet until SHILOH COMES TO GATHER HIS PEOPLE.

This is a prophesy that the Messiah would come through the tribe of Judah.

The branch is referring to Him coming from Judah and that He would not depart from them.

And those who come under His covering are confessed by Him as to who Judah’s brethren are.

And all will be their prey when they return with Him.

I have been saying in these videos that those calling themselves Jewish today are not the descendants of Judah.

These verses validate this because those in Israel today who call themselves Jewish reject the Messiah.

Granted, there are those who call themselves messianic Jews but this is just another hypocrisy because they are still of Judaism.

Ps 45:6

Your throne, Elohiym, continues forever: THE BRANCH of your kingdom is a just (straight) BRANCH.

Yehshua is His branch.

He is our Creator’s descendant that came through Judah and this branch was prophesied to not depart from Judah.

And this branch will confess who the 144,000 and the other brethren of Judah are.

So obviously those calling themselves of Judah today are not.

Many people think the descendants of Dan are the Irish people today.

Do the Irish people today have contention with the Messiah?

No, it is those calling themselves Jewish who have contention with Him.

It is the descendants of Dan who were prophesied to have contention with the Messiah.

This prophesy is showing that those calling themselves Jewish today are actually of the tribe of Dan.

And they are not even listed as part of the 144,000.

Dan was erased from being a descendant of Israel for being the first to worship pagan images and set up their own priests.

Our Creator is sending a statement to the scattered nations of Israel by revealing to them at this time that in His disgust for Israel, He returned the descendants of a people that are no longer His people to Israel.

He returned a people who were cut off from being the seed of His first fruits.

Dan is no longer a people to Him because they cut themselves off from being His people.

More is playing out in why He returned them as I will show you.

Israel’s’ prophesy for the last days proves that it is the descendants of Dan that are in the physical nation of Israel at this time.

But there is more proof.

After the song of Moses in Deuteronomy 32, Moses blessed Israel before he departed from them to die.

The blessings that he gave to 11 of the tribes were beautiful but in the midst of his blessings was this statement to Dan;

Deut 33:22

22 And of Dan he said, DAN IS A LION’S WHELP: he will spring out from Bashan.

I read back there in Genesis 49 where Israel prophesied that Judah would be a lion’s whelp.

Dan’s inheritance was north of Judah’s inheritance.

Both of their inheritances were west of the Jordon.

Bashan is east of the Jordon.

Moses’s statement to Dan is a prophesy that they would be driven out of their land but that they would one day spring out from whence they were driven.

It is not a coincidence that the term lion’s whelp was used to describe Judah in the last days in Israel’s prophesy and Moses also used the exact same Hebrew words here in relation to Dan.

But where are the true descendants of Judah today?

They are scattered as are the rest of the descendants of Israel.

The salvation of Israel never departed from Judah.

The true messiah and those who received true salvation through Him did not depart from the graven decrees that were given to them or they returned to them.

Those who became the first fruits washed in His blood.

He is the branch that was raised up from Judah’s number and He has not departed from His small flock.

These are those who are confessed by this branch of Judah.

The prophesy that Israel gave for the last days tells us that the decrees that where given to us would not depart from this branch of Judah.

This is another reason why those calling themselves Jewish today cannot be of this branch.

The decrees have departed from them.

They have blasphemed them by perverting them.

They even have perverted the Sabbath day by fixing it to a day on the pagan Roman calendar.

Back to Israel’s prophesy about Judah in Genesis 49, he goes onto to make it clear that the branch that He was referring to is the Messiah.

Genesis 49

11 You will bind the foal to the vine, the colt of the ass to the vine of choice red grapes and wash your garments in the wine and your clothing in the blood of grapes:

12 His eyes will be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

These verses tie into Zechariah 9:9 about Yehshua coming into Jerusalem on the colt of an ass and with the fact that He did come into Jerusalem riding on a colt of an ass.

And they tie into the book of revelation speaking about the Son of Elohiym having eyes like flames of fire.

And they tie in with the whole process of washing our robes in Yehshua’s blood.

And they tie in with other verses as well.

Scripture is clear that Yehshua came through the descendants of Judah and we know that they were still in Jerusalem at the time of His first coming.

But most of them rejected Him and were later scattered just as the other tribes were scattered to the four corners of the world.

The verses in Genesis 49 about Dan and Judah show clearly that Dan would have contention with one of the branches or descendants of Judah in the last days.

And these verses about Judah clearly show that Israel was prophesying that the branch that he was referring to is the Messiah.

This all fits like together a custom made glove, especially when you put it together with the third verse that speaks of what would befall the tribe of Dan at the end;

Gen 49:18

18 You will wait for YEHWEH’s salvation (deliverance)

Isn’t this what those calling themselves Jewish today are doing?

They are waiting for the first coming of the Messiah.

The three characteristics that Israel gave to describe the tribe of Dan in the last days are;

1) They will have contention with a branch of Judah which scripture testifies to is the Messiah.

2) They will be like a serpent against “the way” and an adder that strikes at the heels of the path that causes those on the path to stumble.

3) They will wait on YEHWEH’s salvation

In reference to them being a serpent in the way, those calling themselves Jewish today have perverted the true path like a serpent indeed.

Their false doctrines like Saturday worship have led many astray.

The fact that they call themselves Jewish gives them credibility to others so that they are inclined to believe in their false doctrines.

Their venom has struck many who were being called to return to their Elohiym and their venom has made many fall backwards.

Their blasphemes are greatly responsible for making Yehshua’s statement “many are called but few are chosen” come to pass for many.

There have been many who started coming to their Elohiym’s call only to get derailed by the Saturday Sabbath or their other false doctrines.

And now, He is encompassing a people around Dan in these last days to recompense them.

He started bringing them back in 1948 to be a witness of His disgust against Israel because even Dan and her whoredom was not as great of a folly against Him as their trespasses have been to Him.

Yet Dan is still cut off and they will be recompensed for their idolatry just as the other descendants of Israel will be.

They will not be delivered unless they too return.

After the land of Israel is purged, the remnant that will return to their Elohiym will be returned to the land.

This is fascinating how this is all unfolding.

For those of you who doubt this, ask yourself why the Muslim Dome of the Rock is still in Jerusalem.

Do you think that if the Elohiym of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob returned His chosen people to His promised land that this filthy dome would still be standing where the His temple is supposed to be standing?

It is amazing how the three major blasphemous religions are gathered to Jerusalem in these last days.

There are the descendants of Ismael with Islam represented there side by side with the descendants of Dan with their blasphemous religion that they call Judaism.

There are the representations of the mother whore and her daughters whom the scattered nations of Israel are in captivity to represented there.

And we have nations picking sides and alliances growing for a final showdown.

China and Russia are siding with Islam and when push comes to shove the scattered nations of Israel will side with their long lost brother Dan.

And then we have a 150 day period of torment for the scattered nations of Israel thrown in the midst of all of this that could start in just two days.

And who is standing with the truth in the midst of all of this?

Only a very small flock is.

This very small flock and those who will become a part of it in the coming days will be the only group that is left standing when the dust settles.

If you are not standing with the truth that will deliver you, your Creator suggests that you jump from your sinking ship and let Him throw you a life line.

And this lifeline is entering into a contract with Him to become as He is through His Son’s shed blood.

He is not only calling the remnant of Israel to return to Him at this time, He is also calling people from all nations, races and languages to turn to Him.

When Yehshua returns, it is going to be an exciting era of time to be a part of when all evil is purged out and our Creator’s truth becomes a way of life for all.

He is sending you an invitation to be a part of this time so that you can learn to one day become a part of His family forever and ever.

His offer is a good offer, lay siege to it.

 

Why is the tribe of Dan missing in Revelation 7:4-8?

q.gif (1639 bytes)    What happened to Dan in Revelation chapter seven?  Dan has been replaced by Manasses (Rev. 7:6).  Also Manasses is the younger of the two brothers of Joseph and was for some reason was given the birthright instead of his older brother.  In Judges chapter eighteen it speaks of Dan not coming into their inheritance, but I can’t see what Dan did to lose their place in the 144,000 in Revelation.

 

a.gif (1659 bytes)   Revelation 7:4-8 says, “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. Of the tribe of JUDA were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of RUBEN were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of GAD were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of ASER were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of NEPHTHALIM were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of MANASSES were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of SIMEON were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of LEVI were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of ISSACHAR were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of ZABULON were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of JOSEPH were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of BENJAMIN were sealed twelve thousand.”

In Genesis 49:1-28, the Bible gives us some prophecies about the tribes of Israel. “And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days. Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. REUBEN, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch. SIMEON and LEVI are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee. JUDAH is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. ZEBULUN shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon. ISSACHAR is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute. 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. I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD. GAD, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last. Out of ASHER his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. NAPHTALI is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. JOSEPH is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren. BENJAMIN shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.”

Notice what was said about the tribe of Dan: “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.” We know it was the serpent that deceived Eve, and threw all of mankind backward into sin. Notice the similar language in Genesis 3:1-15, “Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 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.”

If you notice from Revelation 7:4-8 above, not only is the tribe of Dan missing, but so is the tribe of Ephraim. Instead of Manasses and Ephraim being listed (the two sons of Joseph) Manasses and Joseph are listed. The key is found in Judges 17:1-18:31 “And there was a man of mount EPHRAIM, whose name was Micah. And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son. And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, TO MAKE A GRAVEN IMAGE AND A MOLTEN IMAGE: now therefore I will restore it unto thee. Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah. And THE MAN MICAH HAD AN HOUSE OF gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there. And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed. And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place. And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in. And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons. And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah. Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest. In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days THE TRIBE OF THE DANITES sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel. 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. When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this place? and what hast thou here? And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest. And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous. And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD is your way wherein ye go. 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. And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye? And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land. When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth. 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. And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day: behold, it is behind Kirjathjearim. And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah. 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. And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him. 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. 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. 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? 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? 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. So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them. 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. 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? And he said, YE HAVE TAKEN AWAY MY gods 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? 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. 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. 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. 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 Bethrehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein. 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. 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. AND THEY SET THEM UP MICAH’S GRAVEN IMAGE, WHICH HE HAD MADE, ALL THE TIME THAT THE HOUSE OF GOD WAS IN SHILOH.”

What we see here is that the tribes of Ephraim and Dan went off into idolatry, and thus they are not listed in the Book of Revelation as tribes that are sealed. Revelation 7:2,3 stated, just before listing those that were sealed, “And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, TILL WE HAVE SEALED THE SERVANTS OF OUR GOD in their foreheads.” The tribes of Ephraim and Dan had not been faithful servants of God, but servants of idols and false gods. Hosea 4:17 says, “EPHRAIM IS JOINED TO IDOLS: let him alone.”

Hosea 7:1-16 says, “When I would have healed Israel, then THE INIQUITY OF EPHRAIM WAS DISCOVERED, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without. And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me. Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and THEY DO NOT RETURN TO THE LORD THEIR GOD, nor seek him for all this. Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard. WOE UNTO THEM! FOR THEY HAVE FLED FROM ME: DESTRUCTION UNTO THEM! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me. Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.”

Amos 8:11-14 gives the last mention of the tribe of Dan in the Old Testament, and it also references their idolatry, “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. 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.” They swear by the false gods and idols of the tribe of Dan, by which they had become known, and they meet with destruction.

 

Hope of Israel Ministries (Ecclesia of YEHOVAH):

“The Serpent’s Trail” –

The Mysterious Tribe of Dan

What happened to the tribe of Dan? Why are they left out of the 144,000 of Revelation? History reveals some fascinating facts about the powerful tribe of Dan and their perambulations and migrations in ancient times, as well as where they are on the earth, today!

One of the sons of Jacob was a youngster by the name of Dan, which means “judge.” He was the son of Rachel’s handmaid Bilhah (Gen. 35:25). Dan became the ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of “Israel,” the name YEHOVAH God gave to Jacob after wrestling with him (Gen. 32:28). Jacob, when he was growing old, prophesied of Dan, “Dan will provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan will be a serpent by the roadside, a viper along the path, that bites the horse’s heels, so that it’s rider tumbles backward. I look for your deliverance, O Lord” (Gen. 49:16-18). The King James Version has this last verse, “I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.”

A serpent, when it slithers and crawls, leaves a trail or track in the sand. Even so the tribe of Dan would leave signs or “waymarks” showing where it had journeyed. They tended to leave their “name” behind as an identifying sign! We read in Joshua: “But the Danites had difficulty taking possession of their territory, so they went up and attacked Leshem, took it, put it to the sword and occupied it. They settled in Leshem and NAMED IT DAN after their forefather” (Josh. 19:47).

For some reason, as this prophecy states, Dan must “wait” for YEHOVAH’s salvation — even longer than the other tribes. In the book of Revelation, when the Messiah tells the apostle John that he will choose 144,000 special servants from the twelve tribes of Israel (Rev. 7:1-8), and chooses 12,000 out of each tribe, it is interesting to note that he gives Joseph a double portion — that is, a portion for Ephraim (Joseph) and a portion for his brother Manasseh (Rev. 7:6, 8) — but Dan is not mentioned at all! Why is this?

Part of the answer may be contained in the book of Judges. The tribe of Dan still had not settled down and occupied their “inheritance” in Canaan (Judges 18-2), so they sent five warriors forth to explore the land. They found a Levitical priest of the Lord in the house of a man named Milcah, and enquired whether YEHOVAH God would bless their endeavor. He said yes. They journied forth and found a city Laish dwelling securely and prosperously, went back and urged their tribe to attack it, and 600 Danites sallied forth. But on their way, they set up camp in a place they named Mahaneh Dan (there they go again! — Jud. 18:12), and then came to Milcah’s house again.

Notice what happened: “The six hundred Danites, armed for battle, stood at the entrance to the gate. The five men who had spied out the land went inside and took the carved image, the ephod, the other HOUSEHOLD GODS and the cast IDOL while the priest and the six hundred armed men stood at the entrance to the gate. When the men went into Milcah’s house and took the carved image, the ephod, the other household gods, and the cast idol, the priest said to them, ‘What are you doing?’ They answered him, ‘Be quiet! Don’t say a word! Come with us and be OUR FATHER AND PRIEST. Isn’t it better that you serve a tribe and clan in Israel as priest rather than just one man’s household?’ Then the priest was glad” (Jud. 1:16-20).

The tribe of Dan was the first tribe of Israel to plunge into pagan IDOLATRY! Over the centuries, they have become steeped in idolatry and image worship — so much so that they will be slow to repent of their sins and to come out of the prevalent end-time idolatry of Roman Catholicism, which numbers over 900 million adherents around the world, today.

Characteristics of Dan

Dan was born to Bilhah about 1737 B.C. (Gen. 30:1-9). He was a rambunctious youth, and multiplied greatly during the sojourn of the Israelites in Egypt (Exodus 1:7-9, 12). When Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt, about 1483 B.C., the tribe of Dan which accompanied him numbered some 62,700 men old enough to make war, 20 years old and upward (Numbers 1:38-39). Dan outnumbered Manasseh, the son of Joseph by almost 2 to 1, and outnumbered the children of Ephraim about 3 to 2. His descendants were very prolific.

When Moses gave his final blessings to the children of Israel, he said of Dan, “And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s whelp: he shall leap from Bashan” (Deut. 33:22). Notice! Dan would be a vigorous, warlike, tribe of warriors. He would not sit solitary, and be content but would “leap” forth, and journey forth, by leaps.

In the book of Judges, we learn another trait of this tribe. In the song of Deborah and Barak, during the time of the Judges, the song asks, “Why did Dan remain in ships?” (Judges 5:17). Or, “Dan abode in ships.” The tribe of Dan was a mighty SEA-FARING tribe, which loved to sail the seas.

History tells us more about these ancient Danites. At the same time Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt, with the kingdom of Egypt left in shambles, some chose not to follow Moses into the land of Canaan. About 1500 B.C., a last flowering of megalithic culture occurred. On the island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea, a tower-building people sometimes called the Shardana emerged, and soon dominated Sardinia and then invaded Corsica and the Balearics, and ruled them for about a thousand years. These were ancient Danites! Their very name identifies them! They gave their name to their island, Sar DINia, and their very name SharDANa, proves who they really were. In Hebrew, the term “sharon” means a level “plain.” It comes from the root word yashar, meaning “to make straight or even, right, pleasant, prosperous.” The “Shardana” were nothing more than the “prosperous DANites,” the tribe of Dan! The term “sar” or “shar” in Hebrew means “chief,” “prince,” “ruler,” from which such words as “Tsar,” “Caesar,” “Kaiser,” etc., derive. The “Shar-Dana,” then, were the chiefs or princes of DAN!

The Mysterious Shar-Dana

The Shardana were a tribe of warrior-farmers — just like the tribe of Dan! Remember, Dan was prophesied to be a “lion’s whelp” — a warlike tribe.

Say Alastair Service and Jean Bradbery in Megaliths and their Mysteries of the Shardana:

“They were farmers and warriors, and in each of their dominions they developed quite new sorts of monument particular to each island. The designs and structural techniques appear to be rooted in the earlier European megalithic tradition. But their Giants’ Tomb, Taula, Navetas, Nuraghi and other forms are an impressive original finale to the long story of megalithic architecture. That story finally ends with the roman conquest of Menorca in 23 B.C.” (p. 19).

The “Tower people,” or Shardana, or tribe of Dan, conquered Corsica around 1400 B.C., the same time Israel entered the Promised Land under Joshua. Their occupation lasted until 800 B.C., or possibly as late as 500 B.C. (about the same time Assyria took Israel into captivity, 718-721 B.C., or near the time of the Babylonian captivity of Judah in 587 B.C.).

Dan — A Serpent’s Trail

In the division of Palestine among the twelve tribes of Israel, after the Exodus from Egypt, Dan received his portion in the very north. As Dan was unable to secure and conquer much of its inheritance, due to spiritual weaknesses, they felt hemmed in and constrained to migrate and conquer elsewhere, which is one reason they captured Laish and renamed it “Dan.” Their inheritance was near the cities of Tyre and Sidon, famous home ports of the Phoenicians. Dan, who “abode in ships,” made common concourse with the Phoenicians, intermarried with them, and established colonies throughout the Mediterranean region.

In the downfall of the northern kingdom of Israel in 718-721 B.C., the inland portion of the tribe of Dan was carried into captivity with the other tribes composing the northern Kingdom, led by Ephraim. This portion of Dan was taken into captivity beyond the Euphrates River, into Assyria, and when the Assyrian Empire fell in the seventh century B.C., they migrated through the Caucasian Pass, just north of the Caucasus. This was known as the land of the “Sarmatians,” and the pass was called the “Sarmatian Gate.” The name Sarmatia was obviously derived from the name Samaria, which was the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel. These people called themselves the Scoloti, but the Greeks called them Sythians. These people continued migrating to the northwest of Europe and eventually many of them settled in the British Isles, and are the “Scots” of today.

The chief tribe of the northern kingdom of Israel was Ephraim, the youngest son of Joseph. Even after Ephraim was carried away into captivity, and never returned, YEHOVAH’s heart still yearned for him. YEHOVAH God said through the prophet Jeremiah:

“Is not Ephraim my dear son, the child in whom I delight? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him, declares the LORD. SET UP ROAD SIGNS, PUT UP GUIDEPOSTS. Take note of the highway, the road that you take. RETURN, O Virgin Israel, return to your towns. How long will you WANDER, O unfaithful daughter?” (Jer. 31:20-22, NIV).

As the Israelites migrated through Europe, they fulfilled this prophecy, and left “ROAD SIGNS” and “GUIDEPOSTS” along the way, so that we can trace their route! The chief tribe to do this was Dan, because of their proclivity to leave the name of their ancestor “DAN” everywhere they went.

In Hebrew there are no vowels, so the name Dan is written DN, or its Hebrew equivalent. Thus words like Dan, Din, Don, Dun, Den, or Dn, correspond to the name of Dan.

Just west of the Black Sea, ancient geographers designated a region by the name of Moesia, which means the land of the “Moses-ites.” These people revered a person whom they called Zal-moxis. “Zal” significes “chief,” so this person, “chief Moxis” or “leader Moxis” was actually “chief MOSES,” the man of YEHOVAH God who led Israel to the promised land, and whom these people remembered as their original leader. The tribe of Dan also passed through this region, and the surrounding territory, leaving its name in Mace-DON-ia, and the Dar-DAN-elles, and to the north by the river DAN-ube. In the territory of Sarmatia (or Samaria, meaning the Israelites), were located the rivers DN-iper, DN-ister, and the DON.

Professor Totten declares:

“There is no grander theme upon the scrolls of history than the story of this struggle of the Anglo-Saxons westward. The very streams of Europe mark their resting places, and in the root of nearly all their ancient names (Dan, or Don) recall the sacred stream Jor-dan river of rest– from whose whose hands, so far away, as exiles, they set out. It was either the little colony of Dan, obeying its tribal proclivity for naming everything it cap- turied (Jud. 18:1-29) after their father, or else the mere survival of a word and custom; but, none the less, it serves to TRACE these wanderers LIKE A TRAIL. Hence the Dan-ube, the Dan-ieper, the Dan-iester, the Dan-au, the Daci and Davi, the Dan, the Don, the U-Don, the Eri-don, and the THOUSAND OTHER dans and dons of ancient and early geography, down to the Danes in Dan-emerke, or ‘Dan’s last resting place’” (quoted in Allen, Judah’s Sceptre and Joseph’s Birthright, p. 263-64).

Denmark, the name of the modern country in Europe north of Germany, means, literally, “Dan’s mark.” It’s people are called “Danes.” In fact, because at one time Denmark ruled all the surrounding region, the whole region took its name from them — the ScanDINavian peninsula! Clearly, here are remnants of the people of DAN, who migrated westward overland from the Caucasus to their present location in northern Europe!

However, other Danites, who dwelt or abode in ships, and who associated themselves with the sea peoples of Tyre and Sidon, fled westward through the Mediterranean when northern Israel fell. Early Danites fled Egypt at the time of the Exodus, and migrated through SarDINia, and left their trail along the sea-coasts of the Mediterranean. Thus Dan, who was a “lion’s whelp” who would “leap from Bashan,” leaped all the way to Ireland, where historians explain that the early settlers were known as the “Tuatha de Danaan” — literally, the “tribe of Dan.” The Greeks called them the Danoi, the Romans called them Danaus.

In Ireland, today, we find their customary evidence — their place names — in abundance. Such names as Dans-Lough, Dan-Sower, Dan-Monism, Dun-dalke, Dun-drum, Don-egal Bay, Don-egal City, Dun-glow and Lon-don-derry, as well as Din-gle, Dun-garven and Duns-more, which means “MORE DANS.” Of course, the most famous Irish ballad of all time is the song, “Danny Boy.” It should be plain that the country of Ireland is replete, filled with names which derive from the ancient patriarch of the Hebrews — DAN, the son of Jacob! It should be plain that the ancient Danites settled in Ireland, and most of them dwell in that land, today.

There is also a river Don in Scotland, and another in England. These countries, also, show the evidence of the presence or passing of the tribe of Dan, who migrated with the other tribes of the northern kingdom of Israel, especially the tribe of Joseph (Ephraim and Manasseh). Here we find such names markers, or “guide posts” as YEHOVAH God called them in Jeremiah — as Dun-dee, Dun-kirk, Dunbar, Dunraven, E-din-burgh, and Lon-don.

Danites from Egypt!

The Greek historian Herodotus reveals that some of the ancient Greeks actually came from Egypt, and that the ancestor of the Dorian princes in southern Greece was a certain “Danae, the daughter of Acrisus” (Herodotus, VI, 1, iii). The term “Dorian” apparently comes from the name of a city of Manasseh, in northern Israel, called “Dor,” near the Mediterranean coast. The Dorians were apparently Danites, of the tribe of Dan, perhaps mixed with some of the descendants of Manasseh.

The Irish word “tuath” means literally “a tribe” or “people.” These people were the tribe of DAN of Biblical fame! They came from the Greek “Danaans,” and were the same people as the tribe of Dan. Hecateus of Abdera says that the Egyptians, troubled by calamities, in order that the divine wrath might be averted, expelled the foreigners — all aliens gathered together in Egypt. Of these, some, under their leaders DANUS and CADMUS, migrated to Greece, others to other regions, but the greatest number to “Syria,” that is, Palestine, their leader said to have been Moses.

Says Diodorus of Sicily:

“They say also that those who set forth with Danaus, likewise from Egypt, settled what is practically the oldest city of Greece, Argos, and that the nations of the Colchi in Pontus and that of the Jews, which lies between Arabia and Syria, were founded as colonies by certain emigrants from their country . . .” (Diodorus, Bk. I, xxviii, 1-5).

The Lacedemonian Greeks

The tribal emblem of the Danites was a snake with a serpent in its claws. Interestingly, Josehus records a letter written by the Lacedemonian Greeks to the Jews in which they express their kinship to the Jews. Their seal, that of the tribe of Dan, was affixed to the epistle — an eagle with a dragon (serpent) in its claws!

The reply of the Jewish high priest to the letter from the southern Greeks, the Spartan Greeks, declared:

“Jonathan the high priest of the Jewish nation . . . to the ephori and senate and the people of the Lacedemonians, send greeting:

“When in former times an epistle was brought to Onias, who was then our high priest . . . concerning the KINDRED THAT WAS BETWEEN US AND YOU, a copy of which is here subjoined, we both joyfully received the epistle . . . because we were well satisfied about it from the SACRED WRITINGS, yet did not we think fit, first to begin the claim of this RELATION TO YOU, the glory which is now given us by you. It is a long time since this relation of ours to you hath been renewed, and when we, upon holy and festival days offer sacrifices to God, we pray to Him for your preservation and victory . . . . You will, therefore, do well yourselves to write to us, and send us an account of what you stand in need of from us, since we are in all things disposed to act according to your desires” (Antiquities of the Jews, XIII, 5, 8).

The Lacedemonians received the Jewish ambassadors carrying the letter kindly and made a decree of friendship and mutual assistance with the Jews, and then sent the letter to their Lacedemonian kinsmen.

In Ancient Mythology, Bryant relates that Stephanus Byzantium shows that Alexander Polyhistor and Claudius Jolaus also speak of a direct relationship or kindship between the Spartan Greeks and the people of Judaea (vol. 5, p. 51-52, 60).

During the time of the Messiah, the Jews knew that some of the Israelites who had long since been carried into captivity, and then migrated from thence, had settled among the Greeks in the Ionian peninsula. The Jews were mystified by a statement of the Messiah that they would look for him, but be unable to find him (John 7:34). “The Jews said to one another, ‘Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live SCATTERED AMONG THE GREEKS and teach the Greeks?’” (verse 35).

Clearly, some of the scattered, dispersed Israelites who had left Palestine centuries before had been “scattered among the Greeks.”

From Greece, then, the tribe of Dan — the Tuatha de Danaan — travelled by ship through the Mediterranean Sea, and thence up the coast of Europe to Ireland and Scandinavia.

Ancient Irish History

Early Irish history reveals that the first permanent settlers in Ireland were called “Nemedians,” after their leader, and were “of the patriarch, Jacob” and were “said to have come from the shores of the Euxine [Black] Sea” (Moore, The History of Ireland, Vo.1, p. 63). It is very possible that some of these descendants of Jacob, or grandchildren, migrated to Ireland during the time of grievous famine that struck the Middle East in Joseph’s time, around 1707 B.C. That famine lasted seven years and struck the whole Middle East, and was “very grievous” (Gen. 41:31, 54-57).

This was about the time the Nemedians entered Ireland, according to Irish history! The Nemedians dwelt in Ireland from 1709-1492 B.C., during the time most of the descendants of Israel were in Egypt. Before the time of the Exodus, the Nemedians were conquered by African sea-rovers called Fomorians, and a colony of them fled to Greece, where other Israelites and Danites had settled, after leaving Egypt. They later returned to Ireland, now known as the Firbolgs. They were the first people to establish royal authority over Ireland, dividing the land into five provinces.

At this time, after ruling about 30-40 years, a new tribe conquered the Firbolgs — called the “Tuatha de Danaan.” This tribe also dwelt in Greece, and then migrated to Denmark and Norway, and then to Ireland (Moore, p. 60). The Tuatha de Danaan became the sole masters of the country. In time, they were dispossessed of the country by another group of Israelites — the Milesian Scots!

Says Moore in The History of Ireland:

“In process of time, theTuatha-de-Danaan were themselves dispossessed of their sway; a successive invasion from the coast of SPAIN having put and end to the Danaanian dynasty, and transferred the sceptre into the hands of that Milesian or SCOTIC race, which through so long a series of succeeding ages, supplied Ireland with her kings. This celebrated colony, though coming directly from Spain, was originally, we are told, of Scythic race” (p. 60).

The Milesian Scots, under Heremon the son of Gathelus, arrived in Ireland shortly after the Exodus — bringing with them the celebrated Lia Fail or Pillar-Stone of Jacob.They ruled Ireland for many hundreds of years and eventually settled the northern part of England, calling it Scotland.

These Milesian Scots came from Scythia and said they were originally from Egypt, and connected themselves with the children of Israel. Says Moore:

“Tracing this chosen race in their migrations to different countries, and connecting them, by marriage or friendship, during their long sojourn in Egypt, with most of the heroes of Scripture history, our Bards conduct them at length, by a route not very intelligible, to Spain” (ibid.).

The Tuatha de Danaan were beyond doubt of the tribe of Dan, of Israelitish fame. The new tribe, the Milesian Scots, were no doubt of the royal tribe of Judah — through his son Zarah. These Scots spoke of a “long sojourn” in Egypt, no doubt the same as that of Israel, from the time of Jacob till Moses, over two hundred years. Says Moore:

“A scheme of descent which traces the ancestors of the Irish through a direct series of generations not merely to the first founders of Phoenician arts and enterprise, but even to chieftains connected by friendship with the prophet Moses himself” (p. 71).

This authority concludes that the Milesian Scots were of the same race as the three colonies in Ireland before them — that is, the Nemedians, the Firbolgs, and the Tuatha de Danaan. Notice!

“The Bardic historians themselves, who represent the Scoti to have been of Scythic descent and to have from thence derived their distinctive appellation . . . and to confirm still further the origin of the Scots from that quarter. It is added by the Bards that they were OF THE SAME RACE WITH THE THREE COLONIES that had preceded them; namely, the Nemedians, the Tuatha-de-Danaans, and the firbolgs or Belgae” (p. 74).

The tribe of Dan was the first tribe to plunge into idolatry, as the book of Judges reveals (Judges 18). They became ensnared in this sin, and their descendants, today, the Irish, are among the most superstitious and idolatrous people on the earth. They today practice the Roman Catholic religion, and are among the most devout and fervid Catholics on earth. This, however, is partly due to the fact that a strong Canaanite element is mixed in with the people of Southern Ireland. The Canaanites and their descendants have always gravitated towards the various forms of sun worship. It will require the Second Coming of the Messiah to bring them back out of the idolatry they are steeped in, and that is why the tribe of Dan is left out of the 144,000 servants of YEHOVAH God mentioned in the book of Revelation.

In the ancient Annals of Clonmacnoise we read of the Tuatha de Danaan:

“Upon them [the Firbolgs] came in the people called Twathy De Danaan out of Greece too. Being a Branch of the same stock that Firbolgs were of and were kinsmen. During the time of Firbolg, which was 37 years, there reigned in Assyria 3 monarchs. . . . Twathy De Danaan after they had spent much time abroad in learning necromancy, magic, and other diabolical arts wherein they were exceedingly well skilled, and in those days accounted the chiefest in the world in that profession. Landed in the west part of Connaught. Forbolgs hearing of their coming made towards them, and meeting them in a great plain called Moytoyrey in Connaught, fought with them, where Firbolg was overthrown and one hundred thousand of them slaine with their said King Eochy McEirche, which was the greatest slaughter that was hard of in Ireland in one meeting” (Annals of Clonmacnoise From the Creation to A.D. 1408, 1627 edition, quoted by Raymond McNair, in an unpublished manuscript on “The Lost Ten Tribes of Israel,” p. 149).

Meanwhile, the tribe of Joseph also migrated to England and the British Isles, and became dominant there. They became known as the “British.”

“A Covenant People”

In Isaiah 49, a prophecy for the End time, YEHOVAH God says, “Listen to me, you ISLANDS; hear this, you distant NATIONS” (Isa. 49:1). This is a message to the scattered nations of the northern kingdom of Israel. YEHOVAH says to them, “In the time of MY FAVOR I will answeryou, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you TO BE A COVENANT FOR THE PEOPLE, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances . . .” (v. 8).

The Hebrew word for “covenant” is Beriyth. In Judges 8:33 and 9:4 it is used as a proper name — “Baal-Berith.” This means “Baal of the covenant.” The Hebrew for “man” is Iysh. If we take the Hebrew word which means “covenant,” and anglicize it, we come up with “Brit” — the British people, of course, are often called “Brits.” The term “BRIT-ISH” is literally, in Hebrew, “Covenant Man,” or “Man of a Covenant.” The people of YEHOVAH’s covenant, then, that are IN THE ISLANDS, who compose distant nations, as compared to Israel in the Middle East, are the British peoples! Their very name once again IDENTIFIES them!

The people of Wales call themselves, in ancient Welsh, “Bryth y Brithan,” which means “Briths of Briton.” This means “The Covenanters” of “the land of the Covenant.” The earliest settlers in Wales and Southern England were the Simonii — the descendants of the tribe of Simeon!

What the Future Holds

The tribe of Dan, more than any other of the “lost ten tribes of Israel,” left its “signature” wherever it migrated or journeyed. It did so by the unique method of naming rivers, moutains, lakes, villages, towns, bays, and cities after the name of their ancestor — Dan.

Therefore, tracing the name and routes and migrations of the Danites gives us the evidence we need to trace the other “missing” tribes of Israel to their locations in northwestern Europe, and the world.

The Danites, unfortunately, are still steeped in pagan idolatry and superstition. It has been a warlike tribe. Jacob prophesied of Dan,

“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).

The Irish, today, are infamous for their rejection of the British rule. All Ireland is in ferment against the British rulership in Northern Ireland, and Irish terrorists strike without warning, just like a “serpent by the way, an adder in the path.” The outlawed Irish Republican Army in its clandestine war with England has set off bombs in London, near the Prime Minister’s office, and has shown no reluctance to main, kill or destroy.

Because of this attitude, the modern descendants of Dan are the most wayward and idolatrous and far from YEHOVAH God of all the tribes.

Therefore, Jacob declared, Dan prophetically has to say, unlike the other tribes of Israel:

“I have WAITED for thy salvation, O LORD” (Gen. 49:18).

But in the Millennium, during the Reign of YEHOVAH God and the Messiah, even the tribe of Dan will fulfill their true purpose and destiny. They will truly abide in ships, and settle new colonies, and rebuild the waste places. They will once again “leap from Bashan,” and colonize the world!

YEHOVAH God says of His people Israel, including the tribe of Dan:

“Though you were ruined and made desolate and your land laid waste, now you will be TOO SMALL for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away. The children born during your bereavement will yet say in your hearing, ‘This place is TOO SMALL for us; give us more space to live in.’ Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who bore me these? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. Who brought these up? I was left all alone, but these — where have they come from?’ . . . . Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in me will not be disappointed” (Isaiah 49:19-23).

The true saga of the tribe of Dan, “a serpent by the way,” who left a tantalizing, fascinating “trail” of waymarks along his path of journey, is one of the proofs of the modern location and identity of the so-called “Lost Ten Tribes of Israel.” Dan, a remarkable people, a powerful people of farmer-warriors, and sailors, left their indelible imprint on ancient history, wherever they went. They will also become a powerful force for good, during the reign of the Messiah and YEHOVAH God the Father, when they establish the Kingdom of YEHOVAH God on this earth!

 

– Edited By John D. Keyser.

 

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Question: “What should we learn from the tribe of Dan?”

Answer: The tribe of Dan was the group of people who descended from the fifth son of Jacob, Dan. Jacob went on to have twelve sons who became the patriarchs of the twelve tribes of Israel. The history of the tribe of Dan is especially instructive to us in that it contains multiple examples of the tendency of people to follow man-made religion over biblical faith in God. This is totally contrary to the Scriptures that teach us “no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law” (Romans 3:20) and “without faith it is impossible to please God” (Hebrews 11:6).

As the Israelites came into the land of Canaan, by lot certain areas of territory were assigned to each tribe. The tribe of Dan was given a tract of land that was smaller than the other land grants but was fertile and also had a boundary along the Mediterranean Sea where there was fishing and commerce available to them.

However, the tribe of Dan never fully conquered this area as a result of a lack of faith in God. This was true of the other tribes as well, as the early chapters of the book of Judges clearly teach, and led to a time during the period of Judges where it was said, “In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” Judges 18:1–31 tells the story of the people of Dan falling into idolatry. They also did not like the territory that was theirs, so they sent out spies to find a better area. In the north, some representatives of Dan learned of an area where a peaceful group of people lived. The tribe of Dan took things into their own hands and wiped out the people of that land so they could then move the entire tribe up to a region close to the sources of the Jordan River, just south of present-day Lebanon. There they established their main city and called it Dan.

Later in the history of the Hebrews, the kingdom was divided after the reign of Solomon. The kingdom split into Israel’s ten tribes in the north and Judah’s two in the south. The people of Dan were in the northern kingdom of Israel. We learn in 1 Kings 12:25–33 that King Jeroboam was afraid that those who lived in his kingdom in the north would still go down to the southern kingdom to worship at Jerusalem, since that was where the temple that God had authorized was located. So Jeroboam built two additional altars for the people of his nation to worship. He established worship in the south at Bethel and in the north at Dan. He built a golden calf at each location and instituted special days and feasts when people would meet. Sadly, this man-made worship at Dan has been one of its lasting legacies.

Today, many people follow various man-made religions and are convinced that all ways lead to God. Unfortunately, these groups follow the ways of the tribe of Dan. Proverbs 16:25 tells us that “there is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” Jesus taught that the way to God was specific when He said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except by Me” (John 14:6). John 3:36 teaches that “he who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” To learn from the mistakes of Dan would be to worship the God of the Bible alone and live for Him by faith.

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  • There is a book still in print from 1903 called JUDAH’S SCEPTER AND JOSEPH’S BIRTHRIGHT’ you may find interesting.

    I personally believe Dan is Ireland and will be replaced because they are and will spiritual fornicate with the great false church which in Rome. They will not be taken into captivity as will all their brothers.

  • Tribe of Dan are believed by some to be Denmark.
    Tribe of Reuben French people.
    Tribe of Judah the Jewish people,

    And so on…..

    • The tribe of Judah is not the Jewish people of today. They are are of a Kazarian linage with many blood lines inter mixed. God wants pure hearts, pure minds and pure blood lines. So many people of today with the miscegenation of the race meaning so much to them, are committing a sin of which they will never recover. And I have no pity on their souls. They are of the devil.

      • Pix

        Correct. Judaism was invented after 70 CE by the political party called the Pharisees.

  • No Israelites were black people.
    The enemy plants little bits of misinformation.

  • Danish go back to the tribe of Dan.

    All the ‘Ish people are covenant peoples, such as Swedish, Irish, Scottish and British.

  • :evil: my last name is dan

  • Pix

    The particular strain of leprosy in Europe, came from the West Indies via sailors, not from the African slave trade. Leprosy has nothing to do with white skin. Leprosy is a virus, not a DNA variation.

  • HOTEP

  • Dānu, a Hindu primordial goddess, is mentioned in the Rigveda, mother of the Danavas. The word Danu described the primeval waters which this deity perhaps embodied. In the Rigveda (I.32.9), she is identified as the mother of Vrtra, the demonic serpent slain by Indra.[1] In later Hinduism, she becomes the daughter of Daksha and the consort of Kasyapa.

    As a word for “rain” or “liquid”, dānu is compared to Avestan dānu “river”, and further to river names like Don, Danube, Dneiper, Dniestr, etc. There is also a Danu river in Nepal. The “liquid” word is mostly neuter, but appears as feminine in RV 1.54.

    As a Hindu goddess, Dānu has 2 temples in Bali, Indonesia: Pura Ulun Danu Temple on Lake Bratan, Bali and Ulun Danu Batur, near Penelokan.

    In Balinese cosmology, the Goddess Dewi Danu resides at and rules the lake on the second-highest peak in Bali, Mount Batur. She rules over several hundred subaks (irrigation system), or associations of farmers who share water from a single source, who make pilgrimages to her temple called Pura Ulun Danu, or the Temple of the Lake. There are four lakes in Bali and every lake has their own Pura Ulun Danu.
    See also

    Danu (Irish goddess), an Irish water goddess with many similar characteristics
    Rigvedic rivers
    Old European hydronymy
    Kamadhenu
    /articles/Pura_Ulun_Danu_Batur

  • The Tribe of Dan is in the American continent known as the Native Americans. The Hebrews when they migrated here to this new land Arzereth left a trail of pyramids. “Is not Ephraim my dear son, the child in whom I delight? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him, declares the LORD. SET UP ROAD SIGNS, PUT UP GUIDEPOSTS. Take note of the highway, the road that you take. RETURN, O Virgin Israel, return to your towns. How long will you WANDER, O unfaithful daughter?”
    I see you Japhethites(Anglos) are taken the Holy Word out of context trying to claim Israelite lineage, why don’t you believe the Holy Word, its states clearly that the lost tribes are to be found in the extreme North and the extreme west, which would place the Israelites in North America. It does not say northwest like britam claims. Dude is calling Japhethites albinos lol, or worst edomites and you don’t call him out! smh. Any Hamiite(Afro-ethnic) are not Israelites, either. They can qualify as a Jebusite, because in the Holy Word they lived among the Israelites and were known to be Hamitic.

  • The tribe of Dan is the Scandinavian people. The Irish and Scots are the tribe of Judah thru Zerah. The Germans are Judah thru the son Pharez. If the basis for being excluded was affiliation with the Catholic Church then not many tribes would make it so that argument is invalid. We are looking for the Romans 8 manifestation of the Sons of God which will be composed of 12k from each of the 12 tribes. They will establish the Kingdom of God and should show up next month.

  • Also no one from any of the 12 tribes were or are black.

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