The Serpent Tribe of Dan Part 1 Genesis 49:16-18

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The tribe of Dan (Dan means to Judge or Discern), will be the easiest to identify of all the tribal prophecies of Jacob-Israel. This is based upon the proclivity of the tribe of Dan to use the name “Dan” where they have traveled and conquered. In V. 17 Jacob-Israel's vision for the last days of Dan is described as a serpent in the sand leaving a trail of where he goes. Therefore the symbol for the tribe of Dan is the serpent. 

Early History of Dan

The renaming of the conquered lands being renamed with the word “Dan” is first recognized in the book of Joshua 19:47 when the tribe of Dan conquered the city of Leshem and renamed it Dan after their ancestor. This set a precedent of Danites both attacking foreign lands and renaming the lands by some form of a derivative in the name of their tribal name.

The tribe of Dan originally had a tiny piece of land on the coast of the Mediterranean that encompassed the city of Joppa. Some may recognize that this is where Jonah sailed from when he was running to Tarshish. The tribe of Dan eventually single-handedly conquered a portion of land North East of the Sea of Galilee from the Canaanites. This shows that the tribe of Dan was quite capable of acting unilaterally and without permission from the other tribes of Israel.

The tribe of Dan “remained in ships” as stated in the song of Debrah and Barak when they conquered the Midianites around 1200 B.C. Judges 5:17  Other examples of their journeys and conquests include the area of Turkey associated with Troy which was once called Dardania, and the area between the Agean and Black Seas which are called the Dardanelles. The tribe of Dan were expert navigators and master craftsmen that are responsible for the building of the Ark of the Covenant. The most famous Danites were Sampson and the first century General and Scribe Flavious Josephus.

The Tribe of Dan is in Ireland and Denmark

According to Irish history, around 721 B.C., a group of fair skinned people called the Tuatha De Danaan arrived in Ireland. These Danaans are the earliest settlers of Ireland. The date of their arrival is significant because this is the same time frame of the fall of Israel to the Assyrians.

Many other areas in Europe contain the name Dan in their names to show the extent of their travels. One famous country is called Dan's Mark, in English we call this land "Denmark."

Danites in America
There's evidence that the tribe of Dan came to America before Columbus and after the settling of Ireland. One piece of evidence comes from the Serpent Mound in Peebles, Ohio that was built by people who marked a hill with a giant 1,348 ft. serpent. Another major item is with the fair skinned ManDan Indian tribes that were discovered by Lewis and Clark along the Missouri River that not only spoke Irish Gaelic (Gaelic is identical to Ancient or Paleo-Hebrew) but had customs that were identical to the Irish, such as the way the Indians built their river boats that was identical to Irish river boats of Europe.

It was once commonly known that European Americans were descended from the ancient Israelites  of old during the early years of this country. The early revolutionary flags of America bear witness to this fact by containing the symbol of the snake of Dan and the words “Don't Tread On Me”.

Continued in The Serpent Tribe of Dan Part 2