Question: So all the 12 tribes of Israel will be on earth during the Great Tribulation period? I am asking this because have on numerous occasions heard some theologians and ministers saying that the tribe of Gad for instance will feel the persecution (i.e. not at a place of safety earmarked for Israel) of the Antichrist citing various reasons.
Secondly, about the 144 000 - will these Jews get saved prior or during Tribulation? Is not the Church rapture would have occurred already? Therefore, are they not part of the Saints of the Church as well?
Answer: Greetings in Jesus wonderful name!
Yes all the 12 tribes will be on earth during the entire time of Great Tribulation, working hand in hand with the two prophets to turn the Israelites to believe in Jesus Christ as their Messiah. Yes the 144000 Jewish God's servants of God will get sealed by God before the Great Tribulation (Rev 7:1-8), and will have been saved spiritually even much before the sealing happens on their forehead by the angels just before the middle of the Daniel 70th week. These are the Messianic Jews, who look forward with Messianic expectation and will be taking part in the practice of the Torah of Moses with real faith to serve God through it all, that God had found them worthy to use them as His servant and a witness before the whole world (Mal 4:4-5, 6).
The tribe of Dan is listed among the descendants of Jacob in the Old Testament on repeated occasions, but it is not listed in Revelation 7:4-8. Dan is listed as a son of Jacob in Genesis 35:22-26; Exodus 1:1-5 and 1 Chronicles 2:1-2. But in Revelation 7:4-8 the tribe of Dan is missing. The question is why did this occur? But we know that this issue is something important, because they will be present during the Great Tribulation and also in the Millennial Kingdom of Jesus.
The tribe of Dan rejected their God by choosing to go after idolatry and their rejection continues to this day (Jos 19:40-51; Jud 18:1-29, 30, 31; 1 Kings 12:28-30; 2 Kings 10:29). We know that all the other tribes were guilty of the same sin and God punished them too, but as Dan was the leader in idolatrous practices and turned apostate before all other tribes ever did, this might be the reason for God's exclusion of their name out of the Great Tribulation witness list. They will continue to reject God in the tribulation but they will turn to God during the millennial kingdom because our God will draw them to Christ (Romans 11:25-26; Zechariah 12:10-13; 13:7-9; Ezekiel 48:1-2, 32). At the end of the tribulation, Zechariah 12:10-14 tells us that the Holy Spirit will be poured out on Israel, and all Israel will be saved in a single day realizing the Messianic revival of Jesus Christ in their lives (Romans 11:25-26). Thus in the sheep and goat separation of the judgment of the nations (Matt 25:31-46), Dan will be reinstated as one of the tribe of Israel and Levi will be pulled out as before to be spread among all tribes to teach and facilitate the worship of the God of Israel, and receive tithes from all other tribes to make a living, this way they will always remember that they are there to serve the public on behalf of God and serve God on behalf of people and their need (Ezekiel 48:1-2, 32; Deut 18:1, 9; Numbers 35:2–5).
The Danites will come to the Lord in saving faith and will be reestablished as one of the tribes through allotment of land for them to minister once again in the Millennial Kingdom Temple to the Lord. The tribe of Dan was promised a portion of that land. They will finally inherit it in the Millennial kingdom!
For God to seal the 144000 of the 12 tribes of Israel, that is, 12000 from each as servants of God, they must have been saved too as God calls them "the servants of our God" (Rev 7:3). These are the remnant Jews who will enter in to the Millennial rule of Jesus Christ and the Church, for the Glory of God in this old earth in their literal physical bodies (Isa 1:0; Rom 9:29).
There are two 144000 in the Book of Revelation, and the very number of 144000 is a corporate number of identity of the spiritual extended body on earth and the other in heaven which is the Church. First the nation of Israel on earth is spoken in Rev 7:1-8, and then only, those who have come out of the great Tribulation as martyrs to be in heaven waiting for the blessed First Resurrection at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ are spoken about by God (Rev 7:9-17; Matt 24:31; Rev 20:4-6), which clearly shows that Church is not in this scene at all on earth through the Great Tribulation as it has already been raptured after mid-point of Daniel 70th week (Rev 3:10). And also we see the Church of 144000 in heaven who were singing the song of the redeemed as is it were a new song (Rev 5:8-10), after they have been already raptured immediately after Mid-point of Daniel 70th week, and stay in New Jerusalem at that point of time during Great Tribulation (Rev 14:1-5). It was separated and shown clearly by God, for us to never mix the Church with the nation of Israel or replace the one with the other to create confusion, and also cause hate against the Jews in the hearts of the end time people who live at that time. Hallelujah!
See in the Church, God has redeemed people from all origins and tribes from all the world, and that includes the Jews who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ to get saved (Gal 3:28-29). But there are those Jews who keep the law of Moses at the end time sincerely with faith towards God, they become Messianic Jew and not a Christian, they become saved not by their works but by faith only, but they continue to work for God through the Law of Moses (Gal 3:3, 10-12). Thus from this crowd of people, God will separate these precious servants of God and will make them a witness to the remnant people who will enter the Millennial rule of Jesus Christ and the Church by the grace of God, walking through the Great Tribulation, but yet kept safe and protected by God for His Glory! Hallelujah!
Thank you.
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