[ReverendJames]

It’s not literal but allegorical.

[CynicalBear]

It’s a literal 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes. You cannot allegorize scripture just to make it fit your preconceived notions.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

What part of the Scriptural text in Revelation gives you any indication that the specific description of 12,000 from each of the twelve tribes of Israel is not to be taken literally but allegorized?

I'd like to see the passage that tells the reader that the literal description is not to be taken literally.

Where else in the Bible are we to take it upon ourselves to take a literal passage and allegorize it into meaninglessness?