MembersTel Dan – God’s Order & Israel’s Doom

This 6th installment of “Guiding God’s Land” finds us on the Israel-Lebanon border, where we hike along a rushing, effervescent stream. And up ahead is an ancient city tied to a terrible tale of “the Ten Lost Tribes.”

By Stan Goodenough | | Topics: Guiding God's Land
The Israelite walls of Dan, a city that represents Israel's tragic move away from God and the destruction that followed.
The Israelite walls of Dan, a city that represents Israel's tragic move away from God and the destruction that followed. Photo: Stan Goodenough

Significant Scriptures

Now when Abram heard that [Lot] was taken captive, he armed his 318 trained servants who were born in his own house, and went in pursuit as far as Dan. (Genesis 14:14)

So [the children of Dan] took the things Micah had made, and the priest who had belonged to him, and went to Laish, to a people quiet and secure; and they struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire. (Judges 18:27)

“And He [the LORD] will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned and who made Israel sin.” (1 Kings 14:16)

Highway 90 is the longest road in Israel. It runs for 482 kms (300 miles), from the town of Metulla on the fence with Lebanon, to the Red Sea town of Eilat. While these are the north-south extremities of the modern Jewish state, the range of the land in the days of Israel’s kings was often described as being ‘from Dan to Beersheba.’

Our destination, from the 90, along Road...

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One response to “Tel Dan – God’s Order & Israel’s Doom”

  1. Disciple 1978 says:
    February 7, 2023 at 9:53 pm

    I’m pleased you mention that some of those from the ten tribes rejoined Judah, and that the Levites were rejected. The British-Israel / Christian identity movement, who believe they have replaced Israel with a white supremacy, including the Ku Klux Klan, argue they are the ten lost tribes. Although Northern Israel was integrated into Assyria in 722BC it became part of Babylon by 586 BC. Some of the Jewish community became Samaritans but some would rejoin Judah and return with Ezra after the 70 year exile (Ezra 1:5). Jesus reached out to the Samaritan community and some of them followed Him (John 4:39).
    From an evangelistic point of view Samaritans and Greeks are both delivered from faulty spiritual dysfunction by Messiah Yeshua. In due course Judah will be too.

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