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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 7 – The Sealing
and since Christ has appeared in the flesh,

the preservation of the genealogy of the tribes

is not necessary. But in heaven, where the

names of the church of the first-born are being

enrolled, we may be sure there is order, and

that each name is enrolled in its own tribe.

Hebrews 12:23.

It will be observed that the enumeration of the

tribes here differs from that given in other

places. The twelve sons of Jacob, who became

the heads of great families, called tribes, were

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar,

Zebulun, Benjamin, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher,

and Joseph. But Jacob, on his dying bed,

adopted the sons of Joseph, Ephraim and

Manasseh, to constitute two of the tribes of

Israel. Genesis 48:5. This divided the tribe of

Joseph, making thirteen tribes in all. Yet in the