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They are the dirty bookeeper, the bookie, the cardshark. By my estimation 1/7th of Western Society is by birth or by "want of affiliation" a member of the Tribe of Dan. Not all of them even know it. It's just how they are built. I think a lot of them are reformable under different circumstances, maybe not. However, at the far end of their spectrum, they are, in human terms, pure evil. God put evil people here for some reason, didn't he?
That's how my old scoutmaster taught it to us Eagles 30 odd years ago. I just realized the impact of that lesson from a dead man.
Whether on water, in the air, or on the ground, they sleep in their ships. They prefer to live in their ships. They keep their secrets in their ships. Arrr! Symbols and codes keep their secrets. Blood oaths, and retribution keep their oaths. They become lawyers (liars) and Judges (Shouldn't have let me pick your pocket, dumbass!)
They feed off of man's penchant for excess (hint, it's in our DNA)...not God. 'Cause by the book, we all get our salvation in the end, they just gotta wait a bit. And, God keeps his pacts, whether you do or not, Right?. God keeps his end of the deal either way. God told us about them in Genesis. They will be judged as will we all. I only wonder how God will Judge me?
One of the sons of Jacob was a youngster by the name of Dan, which means "judge." He was the son of Rachel's handmaid Bilhah (Genesis 35:25). Dan became the ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of "Israel," the name YEHOVAH God gave to Jacob after wrestling with him (Genesis 32:28). Jacob, when he was growing old, prophesied of Dan, "Dan will provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan will be a serpent by the roadside, a viper along the path, that bites the horse's heels, so that it's rider tumbles backward. I look for your deliverance, O LORD" (Genesis 49:16-18). The King James Version has this last verse, "I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD."
A serpent, when it slithers and crawls, leaves a trail or track in the sand. Even so the tribe of Dan would leave signs or "waymarks" showing where it had journeyed. They tended to leave their "name" behind as an identifying sign! We read in Joshua: "But the Danites had difficulty taking possession of their territory, so they went up and attacked Leshem, took it, put it to the sword and occupied it. They settled in Leshem and NAMED IT DAN after their forefather" (Joshua 19:47).
For some reason, as this prophecy states, Dan must "wait" for YEHOVAH's salvation -- even longer than the other tribes. In the book of Revelation, when the Messiah tells the apostle John that he will choose 144,000 special servants from the twelve tribes of Israel (Revelation 7:1-8), and chooses 12,000 out of each tribe, it is interesting to note that he gives Joseph a double portion -- that is, a portion for Ephraim (Joseph) and a portion for his brother Manasseh (Revelation 7:6, 8) -- but Dan is not mentioned at all! Why is this?
The Serpent's Tail
https://www.hope-of-israel.org/i000035a.htm