Week 51 Revelation 7
Yesterday I was looking at the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The four horsemen appear one-after-the-other when the Lord opens the first four seals that were locking the Unopenable Book.
There were seven seals in total and six of them get opened in chapter six. The last one doesn’t get opened until chapter eight. The reason for that is because there’s a short time-out in chapter seven while people who are servants of the Lord are given a protective seal on their foreheads.
I think the main point of chapter seven is that the Lord cares about his people. That he is looking out for them. Protecting them.
But even though that’s what I think I get tied up a bit over the twelve tribes of 12,000 people who get the protective seal. There’s only 144,000 of them. Which is a very small number of servants-of-the-Lord.
A bigger concern is the twelve names John lists: Judah Reuben Gad Asher Naphtali Manasseh Simeon Levi Issachar Zebulun Joseph Benjamin.
Something’s wrong with the list. I flip back to Genesis 49: Reuben Simeon Levi Judah Zebulun Issachar Dan Gad Asher Naphtali Joseph Benjamin.
So Dan is completely omitted in Revelation.
The other inconsistency I don’t need to look up. After Genesis Joseph is replaced by his sons Ephraim & Manasseh. There is no tribe of Joseph. But in Revelation there is Joseph & Manasseh…but no Ephraim.
It’s not a big deal but I wonder what’s going on.
Note: lists from Revelation 7:5-8 & Genesis 49