The passage says 144,000 of all the tribes of the children of Israel...Therefore, it is 'tribes of the children of Israel'...
You don't have to interpret it; all you have to do is read...
You don't have to understand it; all you have to do is believe...
OF A CLEAR AND PRESENT PERCEPTIVENESS THOU HAS TICKLED GOSPEL TRUTH OUT OF THINE KEYBOARD!
HOWEVER
There is this bit of a matter of
WHICH, given their wholesale mangling of Scripture and shredding it all over the trash dump . . . I fail to find significant evidence that they can read, at all!
However, you may have hit upon a key clue to their terminal malady. They REFUSE TO BELIEVE THE BIBLE. THEY REFUSE TO BELIEVE WHAT GOD SAID. THEY REFUSE TO BELIEVE GOD. So, yet again, we are forced to conclude, their hideousness about Israel is WILLFUL BLINDNESS.
True...Everything that has to do with future prophecy is 'symbolic'...If I was one of them reformers from Christianity, seems I'd want to know what that stuff was symbolic of...
12,000 from 12 tribes is what I’ve learned. M