Page 36 - 07 The Sealing

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 7 – The Sealing
a New Testament or Christian, not a Jewish,

city — the names of the twelve tribes of the

children of Israel. On the foundations of this

city are inscribed the names of the twelve

apostles of the Lamb, and on the gates the

names of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Revelation 21:12-14. If the twelve tribes

belong exclusively to the former dispensation,

the more natural order would have been to

have their names on the foundations, and

those of the twelve apostles on the gates; but

no, the names of the twelve tribes are on the

gates. And as through these gates, so

inscribed, all the redeemed hosts will go in

and out, so, as belonging to these twelve

tribes, will all the redeemed be reckoned,

whether on earth they were Jews or Gentiles.

Of course we look in vain for any marks of

distinction between the tribes here on earth;