Israel's Wanderings (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. I. Dan Omitted From The Sealing Of The 144,000 Of All The Tribes Of Israel. IN the seventh chapter of Revelation is recorded the following command of Jehovah, given by the mouth of an angel having the Seal of the living God: "Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads." The "servants " of Jehovah here in the closing book of the New Testament, as in the prophecies of the Old, are Israel. And of the tribes of Israel sections are here commanded to be preserved by sealing from impending temporal woes, from the power of "the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea." Judah (dispersed since the Roman siege), Reuben, Gad, Asher, Naphthali, Manasseh, Simeon, Levi, Issachar, Zebulon, Joseph (that is, Ephraim), Benjamin--all are included in the Sealing. But Dan is omitted. Why? Ideas the most far-fetched have been put forward by commentators in answer to this question. The light of Israel in Britain, and it alone, supplies the true answer. The impending woes were the successive onslaughts of the barbarians on the Roman Empire, during the last century-and-a-half of its existence. During that period Central Europe was in a state of worse than anarchy. Nation was fighting against nation. Nations were combining to fight against the Roman power in the West and in the East. But it was through Central Europe that Israel's path to Britain lay. And the purpose of the Sealing was to preserve a section of each tribe during a period of terrible disturbance and danger. But Dan had no need of this safeguard. The thousands of Dan had long been L--2 safe in the happy Isles of the West, safe entirely from the woes which threatened the countries where his...