C05-2-29 The Camp of the Saints: https://www.bitchute.com/video/wpDjH8bF3s7t

Notes:Camp of Saints: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EpNF4nUPaAh4VzmOmXacY6Fi4nOv0-iN/view

Leeland Jones video posted on July 31, 2025, transcribed with photos: 

The Camps of God. So, let me ask you a question. You’re saved, right? You’re born again. Your name is written on the Lamb’s book of life. I’m asking you a question, is it true? And of course, everyone will say yes. Okay. If it’s true and your name’s on the Lamb’s book of life you are going to New Jerusalem, which gate of the 12 tribes of the children of Israel do you enter New Jerusalem with?

Did you know that there are 12 gates in New Jerusalem? New Jerusalem is the heaven, it’s the Bride coming down.  And when it does, it’s the Camp of the Saints.

The Camp of the Saints is the title of the video, as you can see. We’re going to go through it, how do we understand this and its significance? The Camp of the Saints is the ordering of people in worship around YHWH, around the Most High. The final redemption, of course, is New Jerusalem. However, we have the Camp of the Saints happening many times and in doing so it shows the pattern of the Throne. It shows the order of the people. 

We’re going to use some words, we’re going to show you some things. We have a trumpet. We have the breastplate. We have the shekel of the sanctuary. We’re going to show you all these things, but as we get started, we’re going to plant a seed. 

Everybody that believes in the Pre-tribulation rapture quotes from 1 Corinthians 15.

It is a chapter dealing with the Resurrection. That’s the word that Apostle Paul uses when he is detailing the resurrection here in 1 Corinthians 15. In verse 23 it says, “But every man in his own order.”  The usage of this word ‘order’ in the Greek that Apostle Paul is using is very important. It is the Camp of the Saints. The word in Greek is tagma.

The word that Apostle Paul is using is the word that is used when the children of Israel encamped around the Ark and the Tabernacle, in Numbers chapters 1 and 2. When they were ordered they were ordered by tribes. Each tribe was a camp and each camp was called a tagma or an order, tagma of the tribe of etc.

1 Corinthians 15:23 “Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming {perusia.}.”  At His coming, the elements of the Exodus or the Camp of the Saints is what happens. 

What happens is there’s an order that takes place, this is what Apostle Paul is talking about.  So when we have the sound of the trumpet, of the last trumpet, in 1 Corinthians 15:51 “Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump.” Trump is salpinx in the Greek.  “for the trumpet shall sound {salpizo}.”

As well when the children of Israel were assembled in the wilderness and they traveled, they traveled by instructions of trumpets. Trumpets were blown and they were given the instructions of when they were to move. What tribe moves? What tagma and the order?

1 Corinthians 15:52 “For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible.” This is the Resurrection. Apostle Paul is using the language of the tribes of the children of Israel in describing the Resurrection. 

Now, in our topic of the Camp of the Saints, we’re going to show the many times this happens. We want to start in the beginning when we first see the Camp of the Saints being ordered and being structured. We’re going to go to Genesis chapters 32 and 33. This is Jacob. He has left Laban after the service of the wife, seven years Leah, seven years Rachel and six years for the livestock. He’s going throughout the land and he begins to form the Camp of the Saints. 

Let’s look at it. Genesis 32:1 “Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.” The angels of God met Jacob after he left Laban. Verse 2 “And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is the LORD’s {or God’s} camp.” It says host in King James, but it’s camp {H4266 Machanayim}. “and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.” Which is plural for the Hebrew word camp.

When we see the Camp of the Saints in Revelation 20:9, in the Millennium when Christ is reigning, there’s a beloved City and there is something called the Camp of the Saints. That’s why we’re getting the title of this from Revelation 20. The word camp there in the Greek is the same word that is used in the Septuagint here, parembole, but in Hebrew it’s called Machanayim. 

Let’s pay close attention to what happened. Jacob is leaving. He left Laban. He has 11 of the sons born at this time. He’s going and meets the angels of God. The Most High is giving the order of the camp of the saints and instructions to Jacob. He’s getting the angels visit him. Basically what happens is he is going to run into his brother Esau. He’s in that place, in that territory, and he is nervous. Jacob is nervous so he sends messengers, in the Hebrew messengers is melch, angels to go before him. Now this is literal people. These are Jacob’s people to go before him to go to Esau, to find Esau, and find out where his brother is in the country. 

{8:15 min mark} What happens is Esau is going to visit Jacob and he comes to visit him with 400 men. Jacob is terrified. He believes that Esau is amassing a large army and he’s going to kill Jacob and wipe out his family. Jacob, even though he just saw the angels of God that are with him, he’s nervous about this whole situation. Jacob is just absolutely the best, because he’s like us. 

Genesis 32:7 “Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two camps {machaneh}.”  Again, camps. He is concerned that if he stays with all of the camps, all his livestock, everything, he’s going to be destroyed by Esau. This is what Jacob is thinking, so he kind of splits them up into two groups. Then we hear about his prayer, and he cries out to the Most High in his distress. 

We’re going to jump over to verse 22, “And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two women servants, and his eleven sons.” He goes to a place and he begins to divide them up. Now what happened at this point both Leah and Rachel themselves have their sons, not Benjamin yet, and their maid servants. It’s talking about the two women servants, this is Zilpah and Bilhah, who also raised up sons of the 12 sons of Israel.

• What Jacob is doing is a principle, he is dividing up the camp into two groups based on the 2 Wives {Leah and Rachel}. This is very, very important. This is an important thing I want to establish here. 

He kind of splits them up, and then Jacob goes alone to a place and this is where we have the famous story where Jacob wrestles with God. Genesis 32:24 “And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.”

Many people are curious about this, who is this man? This man is coming from the Camp of the host in verse 1. Jacob is operating with the heavenly host, and then one of those he wrestles. Then he asks for a blessing, and the blessing is, verse 28, And he said, “Your name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel.”  So now we have Israel.

• Israel is the new name of Jacob, and we get this right here.

In Jacob’s distress of dealings with Esau and in the Camp of the Saints. In the midst of the Camp of the Saints revelation that Jacob is exhibiting, he may not totally understand it, but he is acting it out. Genesis 32:30, “And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

{12:00 min mark} Now I encourage you to look up Expedition Bible on YouTube, Joel Kramer.  He actually identifies and shows where this place is believed to be. I believe he makes a strong case for Peniel and this exact location on the Jabbok river. {The links are at the bottom of this blog post}.

Jacob wrestles with God. He wrestles with the angel of the host and becomes blessed. He gets his new name. Then we get to chapter 33.

Genesis 33:1 “And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.”

He’s dividing them up by Leah and Rachel.

Genesis 33:2  “And he put the handmaids and their children foremost.” It’s two handmaids and they have four sons. We’ll discuss that as we go. They go first.  “and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost {they go last}. 3 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. 4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.”

Esau wasn’t mad and wasn’t going to kill them. 

Then, they continue in this order. Genesis 33:6 “Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves {to Esau}. 7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.”

There’s an Order of what is happening, where he had split them in 2 groups.  And now what’s happening is an Order where the handmaidens are going first, then we get Leah and then we get Rachel. 

• There we have the aspect of the Camp of the Saints happening with the revelation and importance of the Mothers. All the tribes are basically split into 2 groups based on the Mothers, based on either Leah or Rachel. 

{14:25 min mark} Then what happens is we’re going to jump over to verse 17. We’re in the same chapter. Now what we’re going to do is talk about what we call the Shekel of the Sanctuary.

In the Camp of the Saints we have all this ordering that takes place and all these are elements of different things that happen when the Most High does this: the trumpet, the coin, which we call the shekel of the sanctuary, the breastplate and the four cardinal points. 

What we have is the latter part of Genesis 33. Jacob has got his new name, he’s now Israel. What’s happening is he is prophetically acting out the Temple in Jerusalem. The Temple in Jerusalem is nowhere near coming into fruition until David. However, Jacob ends up doing something where he builds a house.

Genesis 33:17 “Jacob journeyed to Succoth.” Succoth means tents or booths. “and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.”  That’s the same name as the Feast of Sukkot {Tabernacle}. Then it says, verse 18  “And Jacob came to Shalem.”  In the King James, Shalem, that’s Salem the root word of Jerusalem, so it’s Jerusalem.

Now, it’s not literally Jerusalem. It’s not in that place at all. It’s in the city of Shechem which is a total different location. Shechem is basically mount Gerizim and mount Ebal which we will see later. But he came to Salem. What’s happening is he’s building a house prophetically in Salem, in Jerusalem. That’s the thing about the Camp of the Saints.

• The Camp of the Saints will always be around the LORD’s Throne.

Genesis 33:18 “when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city. 19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money.”

100 pieces of money here in the Hebrew is qewiytah and what it means is it’s the coin, and the coin is part of the counting of the people. This is prophetically a Redeeming of Zion.

Genesis 33:20 “And he erected there an altar, and called it Elelohe-Israel.” 

Whenever you get the Camp of the Saints what’s in the middle whether it be the Tabernacle or whether it be the Temple is the Ark of the Covenant, His Throne, and it’s also the Altar.  Here we see in Genesis the precedent of the understanding that we can gain of what is the Camp of the Saints and what principles are established first and where do we find them later. 

What we’re going to do is we’re going to show you examples of where this happened and how the Mothers factor in the cardinal points and the breastplate that’s happening on the high priest.

We see the high priest breastplate is also this Camp of the Saints, and the coin. Now, in the book of Exodus, the high priest’s breastplate is Exodus 28, where the revelation of what we’re calling the Camps of the Saints with the stones on the high priest breastplate is in Exodus chapter 28. In Exodus chapter 30, the coin comes into operation;  and you will take a sum. You will give a half a shekel.

Exodus 30:15 “The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less.”  We get this half shekel and then the people are counted and they’re numbered in the Camp of the Saints. 

Let’s take a look. I have further notes to go over the many times that this has happened.

The next time we have the Camp of the Saints with the most information and order is the Exodus. What happened is the children of Israel camped and built a Tabernacle. After the Tabernacle was built, the order of where the tribes were to encamp in the desert around the Tabernacle was given in Numbers chapters 1 and 2. We are trying to represent that here. 

You can read about this, but basically what it says is they encamp in order, to the east was Judah. When they encamped there were certain things that were done in orders that the Most High placed including the tagma order. Tagma is the Greek word and if you read the Greek in Numbers chapter 2, for example, it says the tagma order of Judah.

They assembled with their leader. There were 12 leaders, just like there are 12 Apostles in New Jerusalem. There are 12 leaders and there was a banner. What we are doing here is we’re showing you the names of the tribes, how they were ordered, and we are showing what is possibly their banner. We don’t know for sure, but basically we are getting the banner, or the insignia, for the tribe over in Genesis 49 and Deuteronomy 33.

Judah is the lion. We know that Christ said, Lion of the tribe of Judah. 

What happens is we end up getting this order and structure that’s taking place around the Tabernacle. This is the Tabernacle in the middle in yellow. It is pointing towards the east. You can see east, Judah east. Then the tribe of Levi encamped in the area in the middle. Moses encamped with Gershon, Marari, and Kohath, that’s the priesthood. He was able to speak to all the tribes in this area. The leaders would assemble over here in the east. 

What we have here is gates. These are gates. It didn’t look exactly like this, but we have represented it this way where you have a gate and that was facing towards the Tabernacle. Then you had another one when they went outside. There are 12 gates just like New Jerusalem.

• New Jerusalem has 12 gates of the 12 tribes. 

Then we have an insignia. Judah, lion; Issachar, donkey; Zebulun, ship; Reuben, man; Gad, troop; Ephraim, ox; Benjamin, wolf; Dan, eagle holding a serpent; Asher, bread; Naftali, deer.

• We don’t know these exactly, but the reason we highlight in yellow is we have the faces of the Living Creatures: Lion, Ox, Man, Eagle. 

The children of Israel are encamping around the Tabernacle in the order of the Throne. In the Tabernacle was the Ark of the Covenant, which was the Throne. Levi had the Urim and Thummim.

That’s why we believe that the order of the breastplate with the Urim and Thummim is in the same way that the camps were ordered around the Tabernacle. That’s why in our view the breastplate is in a way representing the tribes as they assemble in the wilderness around the Tabernacle. 

We have this structure and we’re going to show you all the times that this happens again. But as we mentioned the importance before about the Mothers over here, you see Leah and Leah had a handmaid Zilpah. Zilpah gave birth to Gad and Asher. Then Rachel was at the time she was barren and she had her handmaid Bilhah, and Bilhah had two sons Dan and Naphtali.

Now in a general sense what happens, just like Jacob did two camps, you will see that over here Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Reuben, Simeon and Zilpah, all of these are in the order of Leah. Leah is the mother of those sons and then over here Gad is Zilpah, who is Leah’s handmaid. Then we can see over here Rachel: Ephraim, Manasseh, sons of Joseph, Benjamin, then Bilhah: Dan, and Naphtali, are Rachel’s handmaid’s. 

So, just like Jacob went into camps, we have a similar thing happening here. It’s not going to always happen perfectly because in this case, we have Zilpah over here. This is Asher and Asher is Leah through Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid. But in a general sense, we have that pattern. That’s why we want to establish that over there. 

Now, the next thing that happens in the Camp of the Saints is the children of Israel then packed up their camp and began to move. When they pack up and they move, they cannot go in the same order. They cannot just all go. They have to go in a formation. This is where the trumpet blows. The trumpet is blown and that indicates when they are to begin marching. 

When they begin to march, they cannot go in the whole camp all at once, they have to go in an order. Then we get that order here. Basically if I hold it up you can see we get east and we get Judah first. This is in Numbers 10. We have the encampment, this is when they all encamped and then when they begin marching it gives the instructions to blow the trumpet when they begin marching. This is the language Apostle Paul is using. He’s using this trumpet. He’s using the tagma order. 

One trumpet blows for Judah and the East goes. Then two trumpet blasts for Reuben and the South goes and then you have the Ark, after Reuben, Simeon, Gad, in the middle. You have six and six and Kohath with the Ark. You have other priests Gershon and Marari and they’re packing up the Tabernacle. Then after that follows Ephraim, Manasseh, Benjamin, West, and then Dan, Asher, Naphtali {North}. 

What’s happening is that a perfect order goes where one trumpet is sounded and Judah goes with Issachar, Zebulun. Two trumpets blow and south, Reuben, Simeon, Gad. Then the rest just follow. What happens is we actually have another structure here where we have an encampment around the Tabernacle, but then you have another one, which is the marching. 

Now you can see what we did is we have the order. Now this is not literal. Please don’t take this as literal. I’m just showing you that the tribes marched per tribe. It’s not square like this. I know it has become popular, Chuck Mistler, and if anybody comments and says, ‘Oh, you know, Leeland, they form a cross.’ No, they don’t. That’s not true. Moses was able to address all the tribes here (by Tabernacle). You can’t extend tribes in the far distance. They all could see the smoke. They all could see. They all were facing the Tabernacle. I don’t think Chuck Mistler meant that to be literal and for hundreds of people to repeat that. I don’t think so.

But anyway, now you can see as the children of Israel are marching, they are marching right in order of the tribes. And what is in the middle? In the middle is the Ark of the Covenant. 

In the Millennium, you can see that the tribes also form where you have those north and those south of Jerusalem. We’re illustrating that the Camp of the Saints means that you’re marching. One order of the camp is you’re marching. You’re going one tribe after another. You’re marching to a destination. You’re not there. That is what’s happening in the Millennium.

In the Millennium, we have the order of the tribes and they’re actually somewhat with the mothers again. Even in the Millennium when Christ reigns in the thousand years, this is called the Camp of the Saints. It’s also in Jerusalem, which we’ll show you.

What we’re doing is it’s a situation where they’re actually occupying the land promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but it’s not the final Promised Land. The final Promised Land is, {Hebrews 11:10} “Look for a city, whose builder and maker was God.” That is New Jerusalem.  Even though this is a thousand years in the order of the tribes, you can see it’s a similar way happening in the march. What are you marching towards?

• The Millennium is NOT the final end. It’s marching towards New Jerusalem. New Jerusalem is the final, but, it is a Camp of the Saints. It talks about the Millennium in Revelation 20, the Camp of the Saints is what it looks like. 

There we’ve established what this looks like. Just like we’ve seen with the high priest breastplate, we’ve seen the order of the trumpet blowing, the order of the coin, the shekel of the sanctuary.

We can now go through the other times this has happened. We see the marching order in the Exodus, how it relates to the Millennium. That’s the Exodus.

What we’re doing here is now we’re representing this in a way where you’re seeing this happen multiple times. 

We talked about Genesis 32:33 where Jacob did this. We talked about the Exodus. These are times in the past. Now, we’re talking about the present. Now, in the present it’s Revelation 7 and 14.

It’s the 144,000. You see, they form the same thing. They form the same structure of the 12 tribes. You see the same order of the Mothers, with the order of the cardinal points relating to a mother: Leah, Bilhah; Zilpah, Rachel. They end up forming a structure of the 12 tribes that is just like the Exodus. 

Now I saw someone else point this out, but you actually start counting and you divide up just like Jacob did into 2 camps in order to do this.  Judah is first at this position east. Then you have Reuben, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh. That’s half. Then you start over here back in east with Simeon and you go Simeon, Levi, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin. When you do that with the two groups, like Jacob did the two groups, that’s how you come up with this order. When this order comes up, now you can see Leah is positioned and Rachel is positioned. Perfect order. 

Then what this does is this happens again. So in the Millennium, we showed you that the tribes are ordered in a way of marching just like marching in the wilderness.

Then at the center is Jerusalem and the tribe of Levi is in the center, and what’s in the center is the Temple, and then the Temple has something else called the City:

The City has 12 gates of the 12 tribes of the children of Israel.

What happens is we actually have an order of Leah over here in the east and south in both the Exodus and the 144,000. Then in the Millennium, it slightly changes. 

Over here in the east we have Rachel. Rachel is over here with Bilhah on the east. Leah stays the same in the south and then Leah moves towards the north: Reuben, Judah, Levi and then west is Zilpah and Bilhah. We get a slight different order in what’s called the City. You can read about this in Ezekiel 48. 

Again, this is for the Millennial reign of Christ. There’s the Temple and outside of the Temple precinct area is another thing called the City. This is for the future. We have two things in the future. We have the Millennial City and we have the tribal allotments. 

The other thing I want to point out is when the children of Israel entered the promised land with Joshua, I believe the Most High actually had this perfect order that they should divide up, but if you look at what they did, they did not follow this at all. Moses gave them the instructions of where the north was and everything and they just didn’t follow it. They just did something totally different. 

{34:53 min mark} Left side you see the territory the children of Israel took with Joshua and they took land on the east side, on the right side of the Jordan River, they weren’t supposed to. You see the perfect order that we see in the Millennium. I wanted to show you that in two photos. 

There’s a perfect order. That’s what I’m hoping you see. There’s an actual perfect order of the Most High. He does things in perfect order. 

In the Millennium we get this. Now in the Millennium this is not permanent. After a 1,000 year reign of Christ then we come to New Jerusalem. New Jerusalem has no end.

What we believe is that through the breastplate and through the stones that are on the high priest’s breastplate, we are able to come up with the same stones that will represent New Jerusalem. 

Because we have the high priest breastplate, we have the stones related to tribes, then we believe we could come to terms with what those tribes are in New Jerusalem. It doesn’t say it. It doesn’t say it in Revelation. Revelation 21 talks about three tribes of the east, three tribes of the north, three tribes of the south, three tribes of the west. If we apply the 144,000, that actually works in a perfect order. 

We were able to line up what we believe is the 12 tribes of New Jerusalem based on the City and it comes almost exact as the City with one exception. 

You can see over here in the City Joseph, Benjamin, Dan towards the east and we have that in New Jerusalem, Joseph, Benjamin, Dan. Zebulun, Issachar, Simeon in the south, Zebulun, Issachar, Zebulun, exact. Over here in the north, Levi, Judah, Reuben. The same thing here in the City, Levi, Judah, Reuben. We’ve been able to come up with this with the gemstones. Then over here towards the west we have a slight difference where in the City we have Gad, Asher, Naphtali and here we have Naphtali, Gad, Asher {in New Jerusalem}.

Again Zilpah being the mother of Gad and Asher stays the same, but they seemingly move down and Naphtali moves up. Besides that we actually have an exact order of what we see in New Jerusalem.

 

New Jerusalem would have similar things to the Exodus. Then you have gates on the outside of the 12 tribes. You have the 12 leaders, which are the 12 Apostles. They’re camped in a cardinal point. We have the tribal names.

How the city works is whatever tribe you are when you enter New Jerusalem there’s a gate on the outside and you enter the city and then the area inside the city pertains to your tribe. If you come out and leave New Jerusalem, you live in that tribal area and you come and go through there. You leave and come and go through the same one.

Hopefully you can see that is a perfect order of what we’re calling the Camp of the Saints and that you can see this Camp of the Saints and this order that we’re showing you, we’re showing it happening 4 times.

When the Lamb stands on Mount Zion in Revelation 14, it’s in the perfect order. It’s called the Camp of the Saints.

You have a City and Christ reigning in the Millennium, a 1,000 years. You have the same order, 12 tribes.

Then in New Jerusalem, you have the same order, 12 gemstones of the 12 tribes of the children of Israel. 

Thanks for watching. This is the Camp of the Saints. This is on a playlist called Show the Pattern, Measure the Design. Thanks for watching. God bless.

Expedition Bible, Joel Kramer, YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@ExpeditionBible

• PENIEL: Where Jacob saw the Face of God and lived!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qlfi6doRJI

Show Design, Measure Pattern playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-YARtH1hPA&list=PLXqaGD7sX9gYZoDzRkvteaRNMs32bWh6c

C05-2-27 The High Priest’s Breastplate: https://overcominglymedisease.com/the-high-priests-breastplate/

C05-2-28 What is the Urim and Thummim?: https://overcominglymedisease.com/what-is-the-urim-and-thummim/

C05-2-29 The Camp of the Saints: https://overcominglymedisease.com/the-camp-of-the-saints/

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