Posted by Drake, Jr [GLamotta] on March 27, 1999 at 16:26:35 {boLUiPtahc4S1Jz5TnxIMW2MRXA6xmpsc}:
"Tribes of the earth" = The eagle-like woman only..
"And every eye will see him" is thought by many to
reference everyone in the entire world who will see
Jesus when he comes in kingdom power or when he
arrives during
his second coming.
But the only scripture that mentions "every eye
will see him" is that at Revelation 1:7 and the
context limits this to those who could be
considered as part of the specific term, the
"tribes of the
earth."
Rev. 1:7 says: "Look! He is coming in the
clouds, and every eye will see him, and those who
pierced him; and all the TRIBES OF THE EARTH will
beat themselves in grief because of him..."
The only other place in
the Bible where "tribes of
the EARTH" is mentioned is in direct reference to
this same event found at Matthew 24:30 which says:
"And then the sign of the son of man will appear
in heaven, and then all the TRIBES OF THE
EARTH
will beat themselves in lamentation, and they will
see the son of man coming on the clouds of heaven
with power and great glory."
The critical question is whether or not the "tribes
of the earth" include the whole
world or whether or
not this is a specific reference to a more focussed
body.
The symbolic "earth"
Apparently, the "tribes of the earth" in these
specific references are synonymous with the "woman"
only who is part
of Jehovah's organization. Earth,
for instance, certainly has a special meaning
associated with the Bible or Jehovah's
organization, clearly distinct from the "sea" which
represents mankind in general. For instance when
a
reference was made to Satan being ousted from
heaven it says, "woe to the earth and to the sea."
In addition, a distinction between the earth and
the sea is again made with respect to the two
beasts of revelation: one the
666-Beast who comes
"out of the sea" and the other the Lamb-Dragon
beast that comes "out of the earth" representing
Christendom in general (666-Beast) and specifically
the false leadership of Jehovah's
recognized
organization (the earth), represented by the Lamb-
Beast.
Also, of note, the woman who is given wings of the
eagle to fly into the wilderness, a secret place,
is said to have the "earth" come to her aid when
the
dragon disgorges a river in order to drown her.
The earth swallows up the river, suggesting well-
founded Biblical knowledge which swallows up
Satan's propaganda theories.
The Symbolic "eagle".
Also to be considered is
that it is the "eagles"
that are gathered around the "corpse" or the "body"
of Jesus when he appears. The secret womanly
organization is associated with these far-sighted
ones who know where the Messiah is and who
are
gathered there to see him.
It would thus be every eye among these far-sighted
ones that would see the Messiah and respond by
beating themselves in lamentation since they would
understand and recognize the death-like
state at
one point which the Messiah would be in.
This would be in reference to when the Messiah
would be slain or in a death-like state out of
God's favor during the time of his sinful "prodigal
son" phase. (Rev.
11:8).
Furthermore, we find besides references to the
"sea", references to the "nations" which is a
different Greek word than for "tribes" with
"nations" more fittingly applicable to a larger
body of observers.
All
considered, the special use of "tribes of the
earth" who would be the ones to see and understand
when the Messiah would arrive can be considered
synonymous with those prophesied "eagles" or far-
sighted ones who would be
expecting the Messiah
when he arrived. This would be the secretive
womanly organization who has her feet firmly upon
the earth within Jehovah's arrangement and who is
made up of various individual "tribes" or families
of
the earth.
This, additionally, has specific reference to the
fact that there would not just be one homogeneous
group making up the womanly organization, but many
different separate private groups, which again
underscores the
various "tribes" or separate
families gathered together.
Of note, the divisiveness of this overall
organization who are mourning the corpse of the
Messiah, is the prophesy upon which the mourning is
based at Zechariah 12:10-
12:
"...and they will certainly look to the One
whom they pierced through, and they will wail over
Him as in the wailing over an only son...And the
land ["earth"] will certainly wail, each family by
itself; the family
of the house of David by itself,
and their women by themselves; the family of the
house of Nathan by itself, and their women by
themselves; the family of the house of Levi by
itself, and their women by themselves; the
family
of the Shemeites by itself, and their women by
themselves; all the families [tribes] that are left
remaining, each family by itself, and their women
by themselves."
If we consider these divisions or families
as
separate "tribes" we can see the subtle scriptural
indication that the womanly organization is called
together in different groups. This addresses the
various "slaves" that Jesus sent out to produce
fruitage within this
womanly organization. He did
send out more than one slave and all the slaves did
well except for one of them who only returned a
minimal amount of spiritual fruitage. These
individual "slave" organizations who make up
the
secretive womanly organization, thus are presented
as being somewhat separate and independent of one
another and thus not necessarily under a massive,
homogeneous organization, but individual and
independent groups, like
separate tribes, some
large and some small.
Thus the nature of the woman being called
specifically "tribes of the earth" address the
independence of these various organizations within
the secret womanly organization who are
called to
become part of Jehovah's approved spiritual
organization. Thus the specific term "tribes of
the earth" is very descriptive specifically and
generally as well as exclusively in reference to
the secretive womanly
organization, the eagle-like
organization which is gathered to meet the Messiah
when he arrives in the flesh in secret, during all
of the phases of his "presence" including the time
when he leaves god's house and favor, going
into a
death-like state as the prodigal son. It is
observing the Messiah in this death-like state
which causes the members of the eagle-like woman to
"beat themselves in lamentation" over this death
like state, as well as
inspiring the representation
of the Messiah's body as a dead "corpse" at one
point.
In conclusion, therefore, when Revelation alone
speaks of "every eye will see him" it qualifies
those eyes as being those of the
far-sighted,
eagle-like womanly organization who are part of
Jehovah's spiritual arrangement. Though various
groups, representing various "tribes" make up this
secret womanly organization, they are still part of
his
approved arrangement, well-founded on scripture
and Jehovah's solid approval which is symbolized by
the "earth" as opposed to the "sea."
Drake, Jr.