Why Is the Tribe of Dan Not Mentioned in Revelation 7:4-8?
It is interesting to note that Dan is also left out of the genealogies of I Chronicles 1-9. This historical point of interest helps explain why Dan was not mentioned in Revelation 7:4-8. The tribe of Dan as a whole was guilty of gross idolatry even to the point of stealing the idols they used to practice their religion (Judges 18:14-31). Theirs was the first organized idolatry in ancient Israel, and the longest in duration. It continued “until the day of the captivity of the land,” nearly 500 years later (Judges 18:30). Jewish tradition says that Dan was the first tribe to follow Jeroboam into his sin of idolatry, and in their literature, the term “Dan” is often used to represent idolatry. From this summarized history of the tribe of Dan, it becomes obvious why Dan would not be among the 144,000 “servants of our God,” as they are called in Revelation 7:3. Dan thoroughly rejected God’s true religion for thousands of years, substituting a continuous tradition of idolatry. The end-time de
