Numbers 31:1-5
THE LORD said to Moses,
2Avenge the Israelites on the Midianites; afterward you shall be gathered to your [departed] people.
3And Moses said to the people, Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian and execute the Lord’s vengeance on Midian [for seducing Israel].
4From each of the tribes of Israel you shall send 1,000 to the war.
5So there were provided out of the thousands of Israel 1,000 from each tribe, 12,000 armed for war.
In the Book of the Revelation of Yehoshua HaMashiach we find that these 1,000 from each tribe are multiplied into 12,ooo each, and this 12,000 "armed for war" is therefore mulitiplied to 144,ooo. We should not think that these who are mulitiplied are any less soldiers than the former – or that they are any less soldiers sent out against those who have in the past seduced Israel.
Here in the vision of the great revelation, the warriors of the tribes of Israel will overcome the last Pharaoh, the old nature of the fallen Adam, through their confession of the Good News of Israel's everlasting redemption in the new and refreshed covenant, the same covenant that God made with the fathers, which is now reiterated through the blood of the lamb that was slain for her who is his chosen one, Israel his beloved.
Now all the nations will, just for a moment, be without the nurishment of the the overflow, the overspill, of Israel's blessing, that is to say, the blessing that has all along come to her from YodHehVavHeh through Yehoshua HaMashiach. The nations will find that without the blessing of Abraham to taste, the world that they live in is truly a cursed world, full of judgments. Thus, the twelve tribes of Israel will have their victory as one, and through their victory kindness will come in full measure upon the cursed nations, the kindness of God's restorative justice to all the world.
In order to fully understand this, understand that Moshe (representative of Mashiach) sent the 1,000 out from each tribe against the Midianites. This was against the spirit of Amalek, who inspired the Midianite and Moabite daughters through the counsel of Bilaam.
The Midianites at this time represented the "aftershock" of Pharaoh. That is to say, the Israelites were vulnerable to this seduction that was intended to keep them from entering the Land of Testimony. This is the war waged against Israel by Amalek to keep them from entering into Full Redemption from Egypt; they were vulnerable because of the "Pharaoh inside of them". This is the fallen nature of the first Adam. It would prevent Israel from entering into Full Redemption from Egypt until Mashiach would finally overcome it. Finally, Israel would also finally overcome it through their confession of the peace of love given to them by the grace of Yehoshua HaMashiach.
The concealed information here is that the "soldiers" are the "few" who defend or avenge the "many". That is to say, the 1,000 = 12,000 are only corporate Israel in that they are a faithful corporate representation of all Israel, even while the majority of Israel is typified by unbelief and its weakness, its susceptibility to seduction to the allurements of the secular wisdoms and gratifications.
This old nature blindness will not begin to be overcome in Israel completely until it is overcome in Jerusalem in the hour of the great earthquake in Jerusalem spoken of in Revelation 11:13. Thus we see that the 2 witnesses and the 12,ooo of each tribe are of the same army of "the few" and their testimony begins first to be victorious for the sake of the many in Israel in Jerusalem.
