Genesis
49:1 7- The tribe of Dan is called a serpent.
Deuteronomy
33:22- Dan is called a lion's whelp. The tribe of Dan is
like unto a lion and a serpent. If you know your Bible,
you know who this typifies. Satan is called a serpent in
(Gen. 3 and a lion in I Pet. 5).
Judges 18-
The tribe of Dan gets a young man to be a priest for its
tribe.
Judges
18:18-19- This priest is called "father." Judges I 8:20-
This "father" takes care of idols and uses them as an aid
to worship.
Judges
18:28- The tribe of Dan settles up near Zidon and Tyre on
the Phoenician coast.
Judges
18:30,31- They (Dan) are in total apostasy for nearly one
thousand years. Up by Zidon, where the Phoenicians live,
we find the tribe of Dan mixing with the heathen, and
with - priests called "father," who use idols as an aid
to worship. Nobody had any doubt about Zidon. In (Gen.
10: 19) you are told that Hamites (Canaanites) settled in
this part of the country, and set up Baal
worship.
I Kings
16:29-33- Ahab takes over, marries the daughter of the
king of the Zidonians, and serves Baal, the Phoenician
god. Here is Jezebel, herself, in the same
passage.
I Kings
18:26- If that weren't enough, in this Baal worship
carried on in Phoenicia, connected with the tribe of Dan,
we find that these people worshipped from 10 (or 11) in
the morning to 12 noon.
I Kings
18:24,25- They worshipped the fire of the sun; they
worshipped the sun god, on his day -"Sunday."
I Kings
18:28- These black-robed priests called "father,"
mutilate themselves and do penance to pay for their sins.
They mutilated their bodies to try to get what they want
from God.
2 Kings
10:22- These black-robed, Baalite priests, called
"fathers," who are in the tribe of Dan, who conduct the
Phoenician Baal worship for Ahab and Jezebel, wear long
robes called vestments. Consequently, they have vestries
and vestry men for the vestments.
Jeremiah
10:1-5- These people, who worship Baal, the sun-god (on
December 25 as his birthday), worship him with a tree cut
out of the forest by the hands of the axeman, and "deck
the halls with boughs of holly, tra Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia
Ia."
Jeremiah
44:1 7,18,19,25- They bake cakes to a female deity whom
they call, quaintly (exactly what Paul calls her!), "the
queen of heaven," clearly identifying the Phoenician Baal
worship for what it is.
Phoenician
Baal worship from North Africa, through the sons of Ham,
with its black-robed priest called "fathers," connected
with the tribe of Dan, worships Sun-day from 10 or I I
A.M. to 12 noon and observes Christmas. These are the
origin worshipers of the Antichrist. They are the Devil's
crowd. This is not a Dark Age superstition, or Protestant
bigotism. This is scripture with scripture, without
anybody interpreting anything. All you have to do is read
the passage. This is the woman, Jezebel.
To
doctrinally apply the passage to the church age saints is
a theological disaster. Everyone of the seven churches
are reminded of the necessity of overcoming (See
2:7,11,17,26; 3:5,12,21). If someone is insistent upon
doing so they should be reminded that the Christian is
already an overcomer in Christ. (I Jn. 4:4, 5:4) Even
though these scriptures can give the "works" crowd a fit,
it doesn't totally deal with the problem.
According to
the text "overcoming" is necessary if someone will have
the right "to eat of the tree of life" (2:7), "not be
hurt of the second death" (2:11), have the opportunity to
"eat of the hidden manna" (2:17), have "power over the
nations" (2:26), "not be blotted out of the book of life"
(3:5), "be made a pillar in the temple of God" (3:12),
and to sit with Christ in his throne (3:21). It would be
extremely difficult to match these verses with any in the
Pauline Epistles. On the other hand they match well with
verses that are obviously in other dispensational
settings. For example:
Tree of
life
(2:7) - Rev. 22:14 (eternity)
Second
death
(2:1 I)- Rev. 20:14 (Great white Throne of judgment, at
which no church age Christian will appear.)
Hidden
manna
(2:17) - Mic. 7:14,15; Jer. 50:9-21; Eze. 20:35; 1 Sam.
25:2 (Tribulation-God will miraculously provide Israel
with bread as He did before.)
Power
over nation;
(2:26) --Matt. 25:34 (Millennium)
Book of
life
(3:5)-Rev. 16:15; Matt. 24:42-51 (Tribulation)
Pillar in
temple
(3:12) - The next temple of God is in the Millennial
kingdom (Eze. 40-48)
Sit with
Christ in his throne
(3:21)-Matt. 19:28 (Millennium)
Doctrinally,
these are Tribulation churches who in fact have to
overcome to be provided with the above mentioned
promises. The commandment is the same when Tribulation
saints are told to endure unto the end (Matt.
24:13).
The New
Testament Christian does not ever have to eat of the tree
of life, for he is part of the tree (Jn. 15:5). Praise
God!
