Why is the number specified as 144,000, and the mentioned twelve tribes don't seem to match up correctly? [Revelation 7:1-8, Revelation 14:5, James 1:1, James 1:18, John 1:47].
Do you know anything about the handmaids of Rachel and Leah, Bilhah and Zilpah, and who their tribes of origin? [Genesis 35]. (Caller's audio is very hard to hear.)
restoration of the 10 tribes from babylonian captivity, and the tribe of judah & benjamin will be fulfilled, according to caller's friend. Can Steve explain why it's not so? [Ezekiel 37]
Why are the tribes of Dan & Ephraim missing in Revelation? Numbers were used in uniform, a whole, for symbolic reasons in Revelation, so they had to maintain 12, even though there were 13 tribes?
Where did the Tribes of Israel come from & are there still tribes that are completely of the pure Jewish race? Are the Native Indians descendants of Jews?
Were there still 12 distinct tribes at the time of Christ because I thought there were 2 by His time, but the Bible refers to all 12 times well after that? [Luke 2:36, James 1:1]
Would Judas have been one of the 12 that was to be sitting on thrones in heaven judging the tribes? [I Corinthians 15:5, Acts, Matthew 19:28, Galatians 2].
After the regeneration, the 12 apostles will be judging the 12 tribes of Israel…..making a distinction between the Jews & Gentiles? [Matthew 19:28]
African Americans the true Hebrews/Israelites, the lost tribe of Israel. I'm leaning on believing that. What do you think? [Deuteronomy 28, Galatians 3:26-29]
Have you ever heard of America & Great Britian descending from the tribes of Israel? Why are some people so concerned about saying it's the case? Anglo-Saxon.
When you read about the 144,000 in Revelation 7, & all the tribes are mentioned except for the Tribe of Dan, but when the 10 tribes of Israel were taken by Assyria & Judah & Benjamin by Babylon, & the 2 tribes from Babylon returned, but what about the other 10?
Do you know of any proof that the Hebrews (Jews/Israelites) fled to Africa during the 70 AD siege? Does the name "Jew" refer to only the tribe of Judah or all of Israel?
Were there Jews from all 12 tribes in Jerusalem in the 1st century, so that we can identify the 144,000 (from all 12 tribes) as the believing Jews at that time, rather than at the end times?
How come when you read this passage, which is being quoted from Hosea, you don't see it the same way I do, which is the 10 tribes of Israel? [Romans 9:22-26]