Hi
I don't represent TTOI in any way as I am not a member currently. However, I do relate much to their teachings.
As I understand things, the months and tribes are ways for scattered Israelites whom have lost their detailed ancestry, to identify themselves with a specific tribe. Gentiles may also be grafted into the olive tree, which I believe to be the redeemed Israel, through Yahshua the Messiah a.k.a Jesus the Christ (see for example Rom.11 & Eph.2). Therefore can also former gentiles identify themselves with Israel, and through the months with specific tribes spiritually.
I myself believe this but since I believe in the Bible also, I ask you to carefully weigh these teachings since they are not mentioned clearly in this way in the Bible.
If I remember correctly, Reuben is the firstborn and the year of the calender of old started around the month we today often call April. Judah is the fourth son. April (Reuben) -> May (Simeon) -> June (Levi) -> July (Judah). Since, according to my belief, both Yahshua and Selassie knew their actual bloodline, the tribe of Judah, to identify with another tribe spiritually may not be necessary in their cases, eventhough Selassie was born in July.
A while ago I read something which I found interesting:
"The elected Matthias made up the full number of 12 apostles. This would be a short-lived symbol, but it was an important one.
It seems Jesus deliberately chose 12 disciples as a symbol of all Israel with its 12 tribes.
What he was starting was a movement that lived by the vision of the kingdom promised to all Israel and the world.
The 12 marked the community out as the group that lived from this vision.
Had they not asked: “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?’?"
http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~loader/BeingtheChurch.htm
Blessings.
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