The 12 tribes of Israel

The 12 Tribes of Israel

themysteriousbible.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-12-tribes-of-israel-and-zodiac.html by Fritz Zimmerman.

modified by John Ashcraft.

What does it mean in Revelation 12:1 on the twelve stars upon the crown of Virgo’s head?

Rev 12:1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: The twelve stars represent the 12 tribes of Israel as most prophecy teachers teach. But it says up in Heaven and refers to the Day of Trumpet every year when the moon is under the feet of Virgo. Virgo began with Jesus and Leo ends it. The 12 constellations along with their 2-3 deacons tells the story of Jesus coming for His bride and fighting against Satan and his army. 

We pick up the story in Genesis where the commandment is given to Abram in Genesis 15.

    In Genesis 1 Abram had a vision from God.

Gen 15:1  After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

Gen_15:5  And he (Lord God=Jesus) brought him (Abram) forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars (Kokab), if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

H3556; kôkâb; ko-kawb'; Probably from the same as H3522 (in the sense of rolling) or H3554 (in the sense of blazing); a star (as round or as shining); figuratively a prince: - star ([-gazer]).

So Abram “Looked up.” Are we also supposed to “Look Up” on the Day of Trumpet? Hmmm! The angel of death came at midnight and the groom comes for the bride at midnight. Depending on what time zone we are in, should we be looking up in our time zones on the Day of Trumpet when Israel reaches the midnight hour. Remember that the Sun goes down at Noon. Remember that on the day Jesus died, the sun went dark for 3 hours by Nibiru’s passing beginning at Noon. Hmmm! Just some thoughts to think about.

Time frames,  time frames, it’s all about time frames. Could the year of Genesis 15 have something to do with now? Hmmm!

    1899 Sabbath Year (Shemitah)

2028 (2030) 1922 1898 BCE Covenant with Abraham 80  

                          

2031 1897 BCE  Arphaxad dies (438) (Bereshit,Gen 11:13) *

2033 1895 BCE  Abraham 85 years old Ishmael conceived (Bereshit,Gen. 16:1-4) *

2034 1894 BCE  Ishmael born ("El has hearkened"; "El will hear"); Abraham 86 years old (Bereshit,Gen. 17:25) *

    1885  Sabbath Year (Shemitah)

The placement of Genesis 15 event would be in the year of 1896 BCE. What happened in 1897 CE?

1895 CE Sabbath year (Shmita  שמיטה‎)

         1896 CE Perry Stone Jubilee 68th 

          1897 CE  First Zionist Congress; August 29-31  First Zionist Congress convened by Theodor Herzl in Basel, Switzerland; Zionist Organization founded. 120 years to 2017.

          1903 CE Sabbath year (Shmita  שמיטה‎) 

Our next stopover is Genesis 37:9 but we need to look at it in context.

Gen 37:5  And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.

Gen 37:6  And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:

Gen 37:7  For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

Gen 37:8  And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.

Gen 37:9  And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.

  1711 Sabbath Year (Shemitah)

2216/26   1710 BCE  Joseph (17 years old) sold into slavery (Bereshit,Gen. 37:2) *

  1704 Sabbath Year (Shemitah)

2225 1701 BCE  Kohath born Levi (35) Testament of Levi 4:51

  1699  Israelites Multiply in Egypt Exodus 1:6

2228 1886, 1698 BCE  Isaac dies at 180 (Bereshit,Gen 35:28) (Jasher 47:1) *

2229 (2239)1899, 1793, 1697 (Sabbath Year, Shemitah), 1687 BCE  Joseph (30) appears before Pharoah (Bereshit,Gen. 41:46); 12th Dynasty; Sesostris I; Sesostris 3 (1880-1840 BCE).

  Sabbath year by some accounts. Gen 37:9  (Pole Shift 26-28 degrees) and Sky Disk of Nebra (1600 BC, 1810 BC) for same time frame. See 2237 (1887/6). Some accouts say that Joseph entered Egypt around 1875 BCE.

      1697 Sabbath Year (Shemitah)

Notice 1899 BCE and remember what happened in 1897 CE.

What! What! What is up with God? Abram had a vision and Joseph had a God dream from God.

Do you not know in the last days, we will have dreams and visions from God as well (Acts 2; Joel 2)? But that is another story in my life and it has been a wonderful journey but a scary one at times in dreams. In that scary, dark cave in your dreams may be a pot of gold waiting for you. So don’t have fear because Jesus overcame death and He is with you even in your dreams. So learn to Stand Up for Jesus.

Song: Stand Up for Jesus.

Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus

Bart Millard

Stand up, stand up for Jesus,
Ye soldiers of the cross;
Lift high his royal banner,
It must not suffer loss.
From victory unto victory
His army shall he lead,
Till every foe is vanquished,
And Christ is Lord indeed.

Stand up, stand up for Jesus,
Stand in his strength alone;
The arm of flesh will fail you,
Ye dare not trust your own.
Put on the gospel armor,

Each piece put on with prayer;
Where duty calls or danger,
Be never wanting there.

Another Song on Stan Up, Stand Up for Jesus.

1. Stand up, stand up for Jesus! ye soldiers of the cross;
Lift high His royal banner, it must not suffer loss:
From vict’ry unto vict’ry, His army shall He lead,
Till every foe is vanquished, and Christ is Lord indeed.

2. Stand up, stand up for Jesus! The trumpet call obey:
Forth to the mighty conflict, in this His glorious day;
Ye that are men now serve Him against unnumbered foes;
Let courage rise with danger, and strength to strength oppose.

Please People. Obey the Trumpet Call on the Day of Trumpet with a raised up head, standing tall, standing strong for the Lord God. Troy Brewer is an international Speaker, Singer, Songwriter, Author, national radio broadcaster and founding Senior Pastor of OpenDoor Church-Burleson TX

http://www.troybrewer.com/  Please enjoy this message the Lord gave me on the eclipse called THE SIGN OF JONAH. It is a 30 minute video.

3. Stand up, stand up for Jesus! Stand in His strength alone,
The arm of flesh will fail you, ye dare not trust your own;
Put on the gospel armor, and watching unto prayer,
Where calls the voice of duty, be never wanting there.

4. Stand up, stand up for Jesus! the strife will not be long;
This day the noise of battle, the next the victor’s song;
To him that overcometh a crown of life shall be;
He with the King of glory shall reign eternally.

Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus;  George Duffield, Jr., 1858; copyright status is Public Domain; Subjects: Warfare, Exhortation; Scripture: Ephesians 6:11-18

library.timelesstruths.org/music/Stand_Up_Stand_Up_for_Jesus/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r11Gmdq__-8

On the Day of Trumpet, Jesus will raise us up from our graves. He will gather us up so we will not go through the Wrath of God. He will take us up to a secret place (Deut 24:5; Psalms 118:5ff; Jn 6:39, 40, 44, 54)

you raise me up - josh groban with lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oni0tO_HN30

The earliest reference in Scripture to the constellations of the zodiac occurs in the course of the history of Joseph. In relating his second dream to his brethren he said:

"Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon, and the eleven stars made obeisance to me."

The word "Kochab" in the Hebrew means both "star" and "constellation." The significance, therefore, of the reference to the "eleven stars" is clear.

H3556; kôkâb; ko-kawb'; Probably from the same as H3522 (in the sense of rolling) or H3554 (in the sense of blazing); a star (as round or as shining); figuratively a prince: - star ([-gazer]).

1) star

1a) of Messiah, brothers, youth, numerous progeny, personification, God’s omniscience (figuratively)

Just as Joseph's eleven brethren were eleven out of the twelve sons of Jacob, so Joseph saw eleven constellations out of the twelve come and bow down to him. And the twelve constellations can only mean the twelve of the zodiac.

There is no need to suppose that each of the brethren had a zodiacal figure already assigned to him as a kind of armorial bearing or device. The dream was appropriate, and perfectly intelligible to Jacob, to Joseph, and his brethren, without supposing that any such arrangement had then been made. It is quite true that there are Jewish traditions assigning a constellation to each of the tribes of Israel, but it does not appear that any such traditions can be distinctly traced to a great antiquity, and they are mostly somewhat indefinite.

High Priest Breast Plate in Exodus 28

The priestly breastplate (Hebrew: חֹשֶׁן‎ ẖošen) was a sacred breastplate worn by the High Priest of the Israelite's, according to the Book of the Exodus. In the biblical account, the breastplate is sometimes termed the breastplate of judgment, because the Urim and Thummim were placed within it. These stones were, at times, used to determine God’s will in a particular situation (see Exodus 28:30). It should be noted that using these stones did not always determine God's will (see 1 Samuel 28:6)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priestly_breastplate

Exo 28:15  And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.

Exo 28:16  Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.

Exo 28:17  And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.

Exo 28:18  And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.

Exo 28:19  And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.

Exo 28:20  And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.

Exo 28:21  And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.

Josephus, for instance, makes a vague assertion about the twelve precious stones of the High Priest's breast-plate, each of which bore the name of one of the tribes, connecting them with the signs of the zodiac:

"Now the names of all those sons of Jacob were engraven in these stones, whom we esteem the heads of our tribes, each stone having the honour of a name, in the order according to which they were born. . . . And for the twelve stones whether we understand by them the months, or whether we understand the like number of the signs of that circle which the Greeks call the Zodiac, we shall not be mistaken in their meaning."

The Twelve Sons of Israel

    Here we have the list of the tribes. In this list is the stones on the Priestly Breastplate. The Constellation in the Zodiac. And finally, where the 12 tribes located to.

New Jerusalem

Rev 21:19  And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;

Rev 21:20  The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.

Rev 21:21  And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel, fathered 12 sons by four women: his wives, Leah and Rachel; and his concubines - maidservants of Leah and Rachel - and surrogate mothers, Zilpah and Bilhah (Genesis 29:31-35; 30:1-24; 35:16-18). The following table lists the names of the sons, in order of birth, with their respective mothers.

1. REUBEN – Leah Stones: Odem (אֹדֶם = in the masoretic text) / Sardios (in the Septuagint) (red), Sard, Carnelian or Jasper. Constellation: Aquarius. Location: “Unstable as Water” Northern France. Standard: A man and a River.

Gen 49:4  Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

Num_2:10  On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.

2. SIMEON – Leah  Stones: Pit'dah (פִּטְדָה = in the masoretic text) / Topazios (in the Septuagint); (Greenish-Yellow) Topaz; peridot or Chrysolite. Constellation: Capricorn.  Location: “Scattered within Israel” Welsh and Jews.
Gen 49:5  Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

Gen 49:6  O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

Gen 49:7  Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

But in our Revised Version Jacob says of Simeon and Levi—

"In their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will they houghed an ox."

3. LEVI – Leah  Stones: Bareḳet (בָּרֶקֶת = in the masoretic text) / Smaragdos (in the Septuagint); (shiny green, lightning fast green) Emerald; heliodor or beryl. Constellation: Pisces. Location: “scattered within Israel” (priesthood)

Levi "scattered within Israel" (priesthood) (Israeli, Scots and scattered within Israel)

Judah     "The Sceptre shall not depart from Judah"  Royal sons of Perez and Zerah: includes the royal lineages of Ireland, Scotland, and England. Ethnic Israelis; Occidental (white) Jews , Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews; also sons of Shelah:

4. JUDAH – Leah Stones: Nofekh (נֹפֶךְ = in the masoretic text) / Anthrax (in the Septuagint)— (white coal, red, greenish blue) Coal, Turquoise, or Malachite. Constellation: Leo.  Location: “The Sceptre shall not depart from Judah” Royal sons of Perez and Zerah: includes the royal lineages of Ireland, Scotland, and England. Ethnic Israelis; Occidental (white) Jews , Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews; also sons of Shelah:. Lion was the standard.

Gen 49:8  Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.

Gen 49:9  Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

Gen 49:10  The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

Gen 49:11  Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:

Gen 49:12  His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

Num_2:3  And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.

Hos_5:14  For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of  Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

Rev_5:5  And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

Rev_10:3  And cried with a loud voice, as when a roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

"The Lion of the tribe of Judah" is the title given to our Lord Himself in the Apocalypse of St. John.

5. DAN - Rachel/Bilhah Stones: Sapir (סַפִּיר = in the masoretic text) / Sapphiros (in the Septuagint); (Ocean- blue color and speckled with gold),  Hyacinth; Jacinth; Sapphires; Lapis lazuli. Constellation: Scorpio. “Serpent by the Way” (mariners, adventurer-colonists) Ireland & Denmark. Standard: An Eagle and a Serpent.
Gen 49:16  Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

Gen 49:17  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.

Num_2:25  The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

Out of Dan comes the Antichrist.

6. NAPHTALI - Rachel/Bilhah Stones: Yahalom (יָהֳלֹם = in the masoretic text) / Onychion (in the Septuagint); (strike hard, hard, white, pinkish-white) Flint, Oynx, Diamond, Turquoise, Citrene, Hessonite garnet; Zircon. Constellation: Virgo. Location:  “hind let loose: he giveth goodly words” Norway & Sweden
Gen 49:21  Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

7. GAD - Leah/Zilpah Stones: Lešem (לֶשֶׁם = in the masoretic text) / Ligurios (in the Septuagint), (amber, white urine, gold), Amber, lyngurium, Jacinth, Constellation: Sagittarius. Location:  “Gad enlarged couches like a lion” Switzerland.

Gen 49:19  Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.

8. ASHER - Leah/Zilpah Stones: Ševo (שְׁבוֹ = in the masoretic text) / Achates (in the Septuagint); (grey,, black), agate; Obsidian. Constellation: Libra.  Location: “Royal Dainties” Belgium and Luxembourg, South Africa.
Gen 49:20  Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

9. ISSACHAR – Leah Stones: Aḥlamah (אַחְלָמָה = in the masoretic text) / Amethystos (in the Septuagint), (purple, strong, calf’s eye; clear wine) Amethysts. Constellation: Cancer. “Strong Donkey Couching down between two burdens. “ Finland.
Gen 49:14  Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:

10. ZEBULUN – Leah Stones: Taršīš (תַּרְשִׁישִׁ = in the masoretic text) / Chrysolithos (in the Septuagint), (gold-stone, color of the sea, yellow, amber), lapis lazuli, Topaz, Jasper, Serpentine, flint, jacinth, Hyacinth. Constellation: Aries. Location: “Haven of the Sea & Ships: “merchant traders/ calligraphers/ invented the printing press) (Holland) Netherlands.
Gen 49:13  Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon. Gen 49:15  And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.

11. JOSEPH – Rachel Stones: Šoham (שֹׁהַם = in the masoretic text) / Beryllios (in the Septuagint), (blue-green, leek-green, dark, cloudy, white like a cloud), Onyx, Beryl, Malachite. Constellation: Tarus. Gen 48:16 and 19.
    Manessah: A great People (Nation) United States of America.

Joseph-Aseneth: Ephraim “Multitude of Nations” British Commonwealth. Standard: A Bull.

 Gen 49:22  Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

Gen 49:23  The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:

Gen 49:24  But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)

Gen 49:25  Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:

Gen 49:26  The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

Num_2:18  On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.

Deu_33:17  His glory is like the firstling of his bullock (bull), and his horns are like the horns of unicorns (ox): with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

The first line appears to refer to the massacre of the Shechemites; the second is interpreted by the Jerusalem Targum, "In their wilfulness they sold Joseph their brother, who is likened to an ox." And in the blessing of Joseph it is said that his "branches (margin, daughters), run over the wall." Some translators have rendered this, "The daughters walk upon the bull," "wall" and "bull" being only distinguishable in the original by a slight difference in the pointing.

12. BENJAMIN – Rachel Stones: Yašfeh (יָשְׁפֵה = in the masoretic text) / Iaspis (in the Septuagint), (red, richly green) Ruby. Jasper, Beryl. Constellation: Gemini. “Ravin as a wolf.” (mariners/ merchant traders/Vikings) Normans Iceland, Quebecois

Gen 49:27  Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

http://www.whatabeginning.com/MS_App1.htm

Line up of the Twelve Tribes during the Exodus.

     When the camps settled in for the night or for a week, they formed a cross which God could see from the Heavens.

But whilst there is no sufficient evidence that each of the sons of Jacob had a zodiacal figure for his coat-of-arms, nor even that the tribes deriving their names from them were so furnished, there is strong and harmonious tradition as to the character of the devices borne on the standards carried by the four divisions of the host in the march through the wilderness. The four divisions, or camps, each contained three tribes, and were known by the name of the principal tribe in each. The camp of Judah was on the east, and the division of Judah led on the march. The camp of Reuben was on the south. The camp of Ephraim was on the west. The camp of Dan was on the north, and the division of Dan brought up the rear. And the traditional devices shown on the four standards were these:—For Judah, a lion; for Reuben, a man and a river; for Ephraim, a bull; for Dan, an eagle and a serpent.

     In these four standards we cannot fail to see again the four cherubic forms of lion, man, ox and eagle; but in two cases an addition was made to the cherubic form, an addition recalling the constellation figure. For just as the crest of Reuben was not a man only, but a man and a river, so Aquarius is not a man only, but a man pouring out a stream of water. And as the crest of Dan was not an eagle only, but an eagle and a serpent, so the great group of constellations, clustering round the autumnal equinox, included not only the Eagle, but also the Scorpion and the Serpent.

Num_2:2  Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.

Num_2:3  And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.   Issachar, Zebulun.  146,400 people.

Num_2:10  On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.  Simeon, Gad. 151,450

Tent of Meeting in the Center.  

Num_2:18  On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud. Manessah, Benjamin. 108,100.

Num_2:25  The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.  Asher, Naphtali. 157,600

Rev_4:7  And the first beast was like a lion (Judah), and the second beast like a calf (Tarus-Joseph), and the third beast had a face as a man (Aquarius-Reuben), and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle (Scorpio-Dan).

Eze 1:10  As for the likeness of their faces (Cheribum), they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.

Date for Numbers 2 Events

1445 BC Sabbath Year (Shemitah) The Tabernacle is Erected and Filled Exodus 40; Laws for Sacrifices and Offerings  Leviticus 1 - 7; Aaron and His Sons Consecrated Leviticus 8, 9; The Sin of Nadab and Abihu     Leviticus 10; Laws of Purity Leviticus 11 - 19; Punishments and Regulations Leviticus 20 - 22; Feasts and Jubilee    Leviticus 23; Census, Tribes, Duties Numbers 1 - 6; Tabernacle Dedication  Numbers 7 - 10; The People Complain Numbers 11, 12; The Twelve Spies Numbers 13; People Murmur at the Spies' Report Numbers 14, 15

No such correspondence can be traced between the eight remaining tribes and the eight remaining constellations. Different writers combine them in different ways, and the allusions to constellation figures in the blessings of those tribes are in most cases very doubtful and obscure, even if it can be supposed that any such allusions are present at all. The connection cannot be pushed safely beyond the four chief tribes, and the four cherubic forms as represented in the constellations of the four quarters of the sky.

These four standards, or rather, three of them, meet us again in a very interesting connection. When Israel reached the borders of Moab, Balak, the king of Moab, sent for a seer of great reputation, Balaam, the son of Beor, to "Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel." Balaam came, but instead of cursing Jacob, blessed the people in four prophecies, wherein he made, what would appear to be, distinct references to the standards of Judah, Joseph and Reuben.

Num 23:9  For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

Num 23:10  Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

Num 23:24  Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

Num 24:9  He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.

And in two passages—

Num 24:8  God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn (ox): he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.

Dates for Numbers 24                       

1410 Sabbath Year (Shemitah)

                        

1407 BC  Water from the Rock at Meribah Numbers 20; Aaron's Death  Numbers 20:22; The Bronze Snake Numbers 21; Balaam and the Angel Numbers 22 - 25; The Second Census   Numbers 26; The Daughters of Zelophehad Numbers 27; Joshua Chosen to Succeed Moses  Numbers 27:18; Special sacrifices and holy days Numbers 28, 29; Vows of women Numbers 30; Conquest of Midian  Numbers 31; Division of Transjordan  Numbers 32; Summary of Israel's Journey  Numbers 33; Apportionment of Canaan Numbers 34; Borders and Cities of Refuge Numbers 35; Zelophehad's Daughters Marry Numbers 36; Psalm of Moses Psalm 90; Moses' Summary of Israel's History Deut 1 – 4.

The wild ox and lion are obvious similes to use concerning a powerful and warlike people. These two similes are, therefore, not sufficient by themselves to prove that the tribal standards are being referred to. But the otherwise enigmatical verse—

"Water shall flow from his buckets,"  Num 24:7  He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

     The above verse appears more expressly as an allusion to the standard of Reuben, the "man with the river," Aquarius pouring water from his pitcher; and if one be a reference to a standard, the others may also well be.

Shalom. May the Peace of God that passes all understanding cover your body, soul, spirit and mind for all of eternity,