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5 Mose 34

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1 Und Mose stieg von den Ebenen Moabs auf den Berg Nebo, den Gipfel des Pisga, der Jericho gegenüber ist. Und Jehova ließ ihn das ganze Land sehen:

2 Das Gilead bis Dan, und das ganze Naphtali und das Land Ephraim und Manasse, und das ganze Land Juda bis zum hinteren Meere;

3 und den Süden und den Jordankreis, die Niederung von Jericho, der Palmenstadt, bis Zoar.

4 Und Jehova sprach zu ihm: Das ist das Land, welches ich Abraham, Isaak und Jakob zugeschworen habe, indem ich sprach: Deinem Samen will ich es geben. Ich habe es dich mit deinen Augen sehen lassen, aber du sollst nicht hinübergehen.

5 Und Mose, der Knecht Jehovas, starb daselbst im Lande Moab, nach dem Worte Jehovas.

6 Und er begrub ihn im Tale, im Lande Moab, Beth-Peor gegenüber; und niemand weiß sein Grab bis auf diesen Tag.

7 Und Mose war hundertzwanzig Jahre alt, als er starb; sein Auge war nicht schwach geworden, und seine Kraft nicht geschwunden.

8 Und die Kinder Israel beweinten Mose in den Ebenen Moabs dreißig Tage lang; und es wurden die Tage des Weinens der Trauer um Mose vollendet.

9 Und Josua, der Sohn Nuns, war erfüllt mit dem Geiste der Weisheit; denn Mose hatte seine Hände auf ihn gelegt; und die Kinder Israel gehorchten ihm und taten, so wie Jehova dem Mose geboten hatte.

10 Und es stand in Israel kein Prophet mehr auf wie Mose, welchen Jehova gekannt hätte von Angesicht zu Angesicht,

11 nach all den Zeichen und Wundern, die Jehova ihn gesandt hatte zu tun im Lande Ägypten, an dem Pharao und an allen seinen Knechten und an seinem ganzen Lande;

12 und nach all der starken Hand und nach all dem Großen und Furchtbaren, das Mose vor den Augen des ganzen Israel getan hat.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #349

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349. Sealed out of every tribe of Israel. This symbolizes the heaven and Lord's church formed from those people.

A tribe symbolizes religion as regards goodness of life, and every tribe symbolizes the church in respect to every good of love and every truth springing from that good, which produces goodness of life. For there are two elements which form the church: the goodness of love and doctrinal truth. The marriage of these two constitutes the church. The twelve tribes of Israel represented and so symbolized the church with respect to that marriage, and each tribe represented and so symbolized some universal truth accompanying goodness or some goodness accompanying truth present in that marriage.

But what each tribe symbolized has not been revealed previously to anyone, nor could it have been revealed, lest an ill-connected exposition profane the holiness that lies within these things when joined together, since their symbolism depends on their conjunction.

[2] They have one symbolism in the order in which they are listed according to their births (Genesis 29, 30, 35:18). The order there is: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin.

They have another symbolism in the order in which they are listed when they went into Egypt, namely, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Gad, Asher, Joseph, Benjamin, Dan, Naphtali (Genesis 46:8-25).

Still another symbolism in the order in which they were blessed by their father Israel, namely, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Joseph, Benjamin (Genesis 49).

Still another symbolism in the order in which they were blessed by Moses, namely, Reuben, Judah, Levi, Benjamin, Joseph, Ephraim, Manasseh, Zebulun, Gad, Dan, Naphtali, Asher (Deuteronomy 33) - Ephraim and Manasseh being listed there, and not Simeon or Issachar.

[3] Still another symbolism in the order in which they encamped and set out, namely, the tribes of Judah, Issachar and Zebulun on the east side, the tribes of Reuben, Simeon and Gad on the south side, the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh and Benjamin on the west side, and the tribes of Dan, Asher and Naphtali on the north side, with the tribe of Levi in the middle (Numbers 2:1-34).

And still another symbolism in the order in which they are listed elsewhere, as in Genesis 35:23-26, Numbers 1:5-16; 7:1-89; 13:4-15; 26:5-57; 34:17-28, Deuteronomy 27:12-13, Joshua 15; 16; 17; 18; 19, Ezekiel 48:1-35.

Consequently, when Balaam saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes, he said, "How good are your tents, O Jacob, and your tabernacles, O Israel" (Numbers 24:1-4ff.).

[4] On the breastpiece of judgment, namely, the Urim and Thummim, containing twelve precious stones according to the names of the children of Israel (Exodus 28:15-21), the symbolism of the tribes in their arrangement depended on the inquiry to which they provided a response.

But what they symbolized in the order in which they are mentioned here in the book of Revelation, which is still another order, will be told in what follows.

Tribes symbolize religion, and the twelve tribes the church and everything pertaining to it, because "tribe" and "scepter" are, in Hebrew, the same word, 1 and a scepter means a kingdom, and the Lord's kingdom is heaven and the church.

Notes de bas de page:

1. Hebrew מַטֶּה or שֵׁבֶט, and also מַשְׁעֵנָה.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.