The Church Is Failing Women - Part 4

Let’s look at Genesis:   Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” 19 Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. (Genesis 2:18 - 20, ESV) Why are the animals not fit helpers? In part, because although created first, they are governmentally inferior to him just as Adam is to God.   As to the immanent Trinity, the only fit helpers for God are God’s own hypostases.    Strictly speaking, we are not helpers — we are honored participants in the story of eternity, not authors co-equal to God.    God has no co-equals outside Himself.   Thus, th...
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144,000


And I heard the number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel:


5  12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed,


12,000 from the tribe of Reuben, 


12,000 from the tribe of Gad,


6  12,000 from the tribe of Asher,


12,000 from the tribe of Naphtali,


12,000 from the tribe of Manasseh,


7  12,000 from the tribe of Simeon,


12,000 from the tribe of Levi,


12,000 from the tribe of Issachar,


8  12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun,


12,000 from the tribe of Joseph,


12,000 from the tribe of Benjamin


Who are they, what or who do they represent?


1. God 
2. God’s names
3. The whole of the created order
4. The 12 tribes of Israel 
5. The nations of the Earth
6. The Heavenly Nations
7. The nations below the Earth
8. The 12 Elders 
9. The Angelic nations & orders

Note: Dan is not among them & is conspicuous by his absence because of his idolatry (very like the 1/3 of the angels who fell from heaven, yet he is represented by the other tribes & is likely with them, very like the way angels are present with us on Earth. 

  1. The Prophets 
  2. The Apostles
  3. The Kings 


Dan is conspicuous by his absence, most likely due to his idolatry.   In that regard he is like the fallen angeks who were cast out of heaven.   Yet he is believed to be among the 144,000 which corresponds to the presence of angels on the Earth. 


He also represents the Reprobate in any given age.   Only one tribe is openly refused admission to the roster, corresponding to the one man cast into Outer Darkness in Matthew 22. 

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