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The Tribe of Dan (Hebrew: דָּן, "Judge") was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, according to the Torah. According to the Hebrew Bible, the tribe initially settled in the hill lands bordering Judah and the Philistines but migrated north due to pressure of their enemies, settling at Laish (later known as Dan), near Mount Hermon. [1]
According to him, the Antichrist would be a Jew from the tribe of Dan and born in Babylon. He would be brought up in all forms of wickedness by magicians and wizards. He would be accepted as...
Both Christ and Antichrist are born of the Jews, but Antichrist will be born of the tribe of Dan—“the viper in the road” (Genesis 49:17)—rather than the tribe of Judah, and in Babylon, not Bethlehem.
Hippolytus of Rome (c. 170 – c. 236) held that the Antichrist would come from the tribe of Dan and would rebuild the Jewish temple on the Temple Mount in order to reign from it. He identified the Antichrist with the Beast out of the Earth from the book of Revelation.
Yet it is remarkable that in Revelation 7 the name of Dan does not appear, a fact which is prob. responsible for the ancient tradition that the antichrist was to come from the tribe of Dan. 11. The phrase “from Dan to Beersheba,” which occurs a number of times, refers to Israel in its utmost bounds and therefore presupposes the trek to the ...
Jacob's blessing of Dan, in which he is compared to a serpent (Gen. xlix. 16-18), is referred to Samson (Gen. R. xcviii.), and the serpent is said to have been made the emblem of the tribe on its standard (Num. R. ii.). Dan, Type of Antichrist. But Dan became the very type of evil-doing.
The tribe of Dan does not appear in Revelation 7:4-8 but it appears in Ezekiel 48. Why is the tribe of Dan not mentioned during the tribulation but is mentioned during the millennium? The purpose of this brief study is to explain the reason why this happened.
