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It's time for The Line of Fire with your host, activist, author, international speaker, and theologian, Dr. Michael Brown, your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution.

Michael Brown is the director of the Coalition of Conscience and President of Fire School of

Ministry. Get into the line of fire now by calling 86634 Truth. That's 86634 Truth. Here again is Dr. Michael

Brown. Thanks, friends, for joining us on the line of fire. It's Friday, which means you've got questions.

We've got answers. Any question on any subject that in any way relates to anything we ever

discuss on the line of fire, which is a whole lot of topics. Phone lines are open. Your calls are

welcomed 866-348-78-884. And with that, how's that for quick? We go straight to the phones.

We'll start with Stephanie in Ballground, Georgia. Welcome to the line of fire.

Hi, Dr. Brown. What a privilege to speak to you. Oh, my gosh. Well, here we are.

Okay, so my question is, there are 12 tribes of Israel, the sons of Jacob, listed in Genesis.

Mm-hmm.

And in Revelation 7, they list the 12 tribes again, but two of those tribes are missing.

I'd like for you to explain to me what happened to, okay, so I know that Joseph had two sons

that were brought in, and then sometimes the Leibis are left out because they are the priesthood,

but in Revelation 7, Dan and Ephraim are missing.

Right, so the Dan one is the mystery.

That's the one that's scholars debate, and it is very difficult to find a good reason for.

We do know exactly what you said. Joseph has two sons, Ephraim, Manasseh, and then they displace him.

And then even though the Levites, so the tribe of Levi, that was one of the 12 tribes, they did not get their own inheritance as a separate tribe,

rather they shared inheritances with the rest of the tribes, and then Joseph is displaced

by Ephraim and Assas. Let's say you get the 12. But it is a mystery as to why specifically

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