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| Genesis 49:16-17 |
The Antichrist will be Jewish and will have Jewish ancestry because he will come from the tribe of Dan.
He will come from a European country: western, central or east European. Why Dan? To understand why Dan we must look at Dan’s origin. Rachel, the wife of Jacob was both beautiful and like most Biblical patriarchs had her area of sin. Rachel could not have any children and became jealous of her sister Leah who bore Jacob four sons while she sat childless. She became angry at Jacob and blamed him for her childless state. In Rachel’s jealousy she grabbed her maid Bilhah, and gave her to Jacob as a surrogate to have children for her, and Bilhah bore Dan. Jealous rivalry continued between Rachel and Leah. Rachel’s maid bore a second son to her: Naphtali.
When
Jacob left the home of his father in law, Rachel stole his idols and lied to
her father as he searched for them so that he would not find them. She also
kept this secret from her husband Jacob who did not know that she had stolen
the idols from her father. Rachel’s attachment to the idols was so great that
she stole them and lied to protect them. No doubt she was thrilled over the
birth of Dan and doted over him and he followed in her the area of her
idolatry.
Judges
Chapters 17 and 18 tells the story of Micah an idolater who lived in the
mountains of Ephraim and who employed a renegade, idolatrous priest. Dan and
600 of his men went searching the land for an area to settle in and came upon
Micah’s house. They forcibly took his idols and his priest to serve them. They
then went into Laish took the land by murdering its inhabitants, renamed it Dan
and set up Micah’s idol and employed idolatrous priests to serve them until
their captivity.
King
Jeroboam, Israel’s northern kingdom’s first king who the Bible mentions over
and over as “the man who caused Israel to sin,” placed two golden calves, which
he set up for idolatrous worship. He placed one in Bethel and the other in Dan,
which both lay on the extreme southern and northern part of the kingdom. (I
Kings 29-30) Bethel afterwards became a center for idolatry. Dan already
existed as one, which is why Jeroboam placed a calf there. In Amos, which
foretells Israel’s captivity, in Amos 8:14 God’s declares judgment on Dan for
its allegiance to its false gods.
The Bible
well establishes the idolatry of the tribe of Dan. This is one reason it is not
mentioned among the 12 tribes in Revelation chapter 7 and is the lineage of the
Antichrist. The Antichrist sets himself up as a god in the Jewish Temple and
his beast as an idol, which he causes the false prophet to worship and commits
the ultimate idolatry and abomination.
There is
another reason Dan is not among the twelve tribes of Israel. Genesis 49:16
tells us that Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel. The
word used for judge means to act as a judge, minister judgment, requite,
vindicate, govern, contend, strive, to be at strife, quarrel. Dan will judge
his people meaning that the Antichrist will come from the tribe of Dan and will
cause them the greatest hardship by acting as a judge for his people causing
their judgment.
Genesis
49: 17 continues, “Dan shall be a serpent by the way and adder in the path that
bites the horses heels so that its rider shall fall backward. When we think of
the serpent we think of the Devil who tempted Eve. Dan is a type of Devil
whose idolatrous ways will influence the rest of the tribes of Israel in having
them fall backwards into idolatry and its lies vs. their allegiance to the God
of Israel. This is Satan’s work in Israel and through the ages among the
Gentiles.
Jeremiah
8:16, which prophesizes about the last days states, “The snorting of his horses
were heard from Dan. The whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his
strong ones: For they have come and devoured the land and all that is in it, the
city and those who dwell in it.” In the same context Chapter 17 continues, “For
behold I will send serpents among you, Vipers which cannot be charmed. And they
shall bite you, says the Lord.” This is the fulfillment back to the prediction
that Dan will judge his people and his being a serpent by the way and is
talking about the Antichrist’s siege of Israel during the Tribulation.
In an
earlier blog I spoke about the many Biblical contrasts of Jesus and the
Antichrist. Jesus rises from the tribe of Judah and the Antichrist from the tribe
of Dan. Both Jesus and the Antichrist are symbolized by lions, with Jesus being
the pride lion and the Antichrist the scavenger lion. Both Jesus and Dan are referred
to as a “lion’s whelp” in Scripture and is also found in Genesis 49:9 (Judah)
and Deuteronomy 33:22. (Dan) Both are Jews and while the Messiah comes from the
tribe of excuse me and while the Messiah comes from the tribe of Judah.
The
false Messiah comes from the tribe of Dan. Jesus stated that He came in his father’s name
and was not received, but one coming in his own name will be received. John 5:
43. Thus the Antichrist will be Jewish and if you read my book the Seat of the
Antichrist: Bible Prophecy and the European Union you will learn more details
about this coming dictator and the final world empire that will launch him.
You will also want to read my book, The Antichrist: 666, The Antichrist of Revelation to learn more about the Antichrist who is a central figure in end time Bible Prophecy.
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