Revelation is symbolic unless it is clearly literal. The fact that each of the twelve tribes consists of exactly 12,000 suggests a symbolic interpretation.
It's symbolic because if it is literal, and you're not a member of the following tribes, you're out.
7:1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. 2 Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: 3 "Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God." 4 Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel. Rev 7:5-8
From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed,
But since there's a great multitude, greater than 144,000 it becomes symbolic.
Without inserting your own logic and reasoning for allegorizing the text, which doesn't count, give the Scripture where God indicates that the literal number of 144,000 given and the tribes literally listed are to be allegorized.
Where do you get the authority to change something God wrote and clearly intended to be read literally into allegory?
>>It’s symbolic because if it is literal, and you’re not a member of the following tribes, you’re out.<<
The great multitude that no man could number are before the throne in heaven. The 144,000 are on earth during the tribulation and are to be protected from the next disaster.
NONSENSE.
Folks expecting Scriptures to be literally fulfilled have not been disappointed.
Others have.