7:5. Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand.—Juda signifies _Celebrated_, lauded, praised. Nothing is more praiseworthy than justice, noble‐mindedness, the doing to everybody as one would wish to be done by. Our Lord was the Just One of the tribe of Juda. All who knew Pastor Russell intimately, recognized that justice was the foundation principle of his character. The mention of the Lord’s tribe first shows that there is a Divine order in the arrangement of the names, inasmuch as that order is different from the order of the birth of Jacob’s sons. Doubtless the brightest crowns will be worn by those that are wholly without self‐love, either in heart or in life.—Gen. 38:12‐26; 43:3‐10; 44:14, 34; 46:28. Of the tribe of Reuben [were sealed] twelve thousand.—Reuben’s name signifying “_See ye, a son, provided in my affliction_” or _The Pity of God_, seems to refer to the five‐talented brethren who make their calling and election sure. To be possessed of ability and means to get the fullest enjoyment out of life, and to sacrifice it all gladly, requires a standard of character so high that the Lord expressly states that not many attain it. (1 Cor. 1:26; Gen. 37:21, 22, 29, 30; 42:22, 37.) A taint of love of the world (spiritual uncleanness) is all that prevents from attaining the very highest place.—Gen. 35:22; 49:3, 4; 2 Cor. 7:1. Of the tribe of Gad [were sealed] twelve thousand.—Gad’s name, signifying _A troop of children cometh_, seems to give the third highest honor to those faithful men and women who have been blessed of God in bringing many of their own descendants into the Divine family. Instances are on record where as many as twelve children in one family have all come into the light of Present Truth and consecrated, as a result of the life and teachings of a noble father and mother. There is a family interest on the part of the Heavenly Father in every family that rightly seeks His face. Not a crown is available for others, so long as even one child of one of the consecrated is ready to run for that crown. “The promise is unto you [first], and to your children [next], and [after that] to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord your God shall call.” (Acts 2:39; 1 Cor. 7:14.) “Of the childhood and life of the patriarch Gad nothing is preserved. At the time of the descent into Egypt, seven sons are ascribed to him, remarkable from the fact that a majority of their names have plural terminations, as if those of families rather than persons.” (McC.)—Gen. 46:16; Num. 26:15‐18.