Kingdom Come

“Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.” (Genesis 49:16-17)

The clear description of Dan as a sneaky death-dealing saboteur of his brethren is confirmed by the use of as + noun means ‘in the role of’, distinguished from like + noun meaning ‘in the same way as’.

Dan has been a pretender all along.

Dan’s name, not given by Jacob, but by his mother Rachel, means “Elohim hath judged / din me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.” (Genesis 30:1-6) The King James Bible has translated “elohim” as “Almighty God”, but Rachel proved her paganism when, as she fled with Jacob back to the land of Canaan, she stole her father’s gods / elohim, clearly believing THEY empowered her, as she did not relinquish them until forced to by her husband. 

This interpretation is confirmed by the fact that the name Rachel chose – Dan – was known as the place-name / name of its founder of one of Canaan’s giant hybrid tribes.

“And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants…and pursued them unto Dan…the left hand of Damascus.

These geographical details are put there for a reason.

On the left of Damascus is Mount Hermon, where the pre-flood fallen angels set up base camp for invading earth to breed demigod monsters with human women (Genesis 6:1-4)

The ancient city-state of Dan was therefore a Canaanite giant stronghold along with the other giant city-states referenced in Genesis 14 at this early stage of post-flood history.

Upon entering the land of Canaan to finally take possession of the promised inheritance Moses prophesied that

“Dan is a lion’s whelp: he shall [future tense] leap from Bashan.” (Deuteronomy 33:22)

Like Jacob’s prophecy, this too reflected Dan’s inherently evil nature: “Bashan,  which was called the land of giants.” (Deuteronomy 3:12)

Dan is not a son of God. In the last days his tribe is not found in Revelation 7 when “there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.”

Dan’s choice to reject The Hebrew God is detailed in the book of Judges, a quick synopsis here:

“the Amorites [giants] forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley [so impoverished quality of life akin to that of the Appalachian mountain people]… [cocking an eyebrow here] yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed [i.e. in comparison to the Danites failure to win their battles due to their failure to trust in God.]

the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in…came to Laish…and saw…how they dwelt careless, quiet and secure.”

This was outside the boundary inherited by the twelve tribes for the very reason of their peaceableness. The Israelites were instructed to wipe out the evil giant tribes.

“And there went from thence of the family of the Danites…unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah…and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image [golden calves]. And they said unto [the priest]…go with us, and be to us a father and a priest…And they…came unto Laish…and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire…set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh [son of Joseph, not a Levite], he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.” (Judges 18)

This exactly replicates the rejection of the Hebrew God during the Exodus.

The captivity of the northern tribes of Israel for this same apostacy occurred when “Tiglathpileser, king of Assyria, took the northern ten tribes captive to Assyria.” (II Kings 15:29), but Dan would likely have been exempt because it wasn’t part of Israel. Since Israel’s prophecies are fulfilled in the “last” days, we can identify the tribe of Dan in our day as the Druze.

Druze is a small Middle Eastern religious sect characterized by an eclectic system of doctrines and by a cohesion and loyalty among its members that have enabled them to maintain for centuries their close-knit identity. The Druze numbered more than 1,000,000 in the early 21st century and live mostly in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel. They call themselves muwaḥḥidūn (“unitarians”).

The Druze religion is believed to have started in Egypt. Its mystery teachings are known only to a privileged few leaders. Despite the small size of their community, the Druze have figured prominently in Middle Eastern history. Druze soldiers have since fought for Israel in every Arab-Israeli war. They are the only Arab group conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces, and they participate in Israel’s border security and diplomatic corps. 

The Druze keep to themselves and even today do not allow conversion to Druze or marriage to non-Druze. An immigrant work colleague of mine, struggling between his desire to marry an American girl and his father’s threat to permanently disown him, asked for my advice, since I was steeped in the culture from my 15 year marriage to a Lebanese immigrant. I could only tell him that being disowned was a better option than the alternative – constant attacks against the wife, but one way or another it was up to him to choose birth family or an American wife, he’d never have both.

The same goes for everyone’s spiritual family. Simply being born into a certain religion doesn’t confer membership in God’s family. “Ye must be born again” by choice, giving up one’s previous identity.