{"id":665,"date":"2016-06-28T14:30:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T18:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/?p=665"},"modified":"2016-09-05T20:26:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T00:26:24","slug":"the-fifth-seal-conversion-to-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/the-fifth-seal-conversion-to-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Interval: Conversion to Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth angel carries the seal of the living God.\u00a0The\u00a0symbolism is not explained, because the seal of the living God has already been described in Scripture: the Holy Spirit is the seal with which every believer is sealed as God\u2019s upon conversion (Eph 4:30,\u00a02 Cor 1:22). This chapter describes conversion.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThus the six seals \u2026 simply tell the story of the historical periods [of the Roman Empire as outlined in a basic college textbook]. The next period of the interlude of the seventh chapter [of Revelation] indicates that what follows hard on this should be a multitude of people becoming Christians. They dip their garments in the blood of the Lamb! The next chapter \u2026 that covers the period after Constantine from 325 to 460 is called: \u2018The Rise of the Christian Church.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Fred Miller, <em>Revelation: A Panorama of the Gospel Age<\/em>, Ch. 3, \u201cThe Opening of the Seven Seals.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth angel carries the seal of the living God.\u00a0The\u00a0symbolism is not explained, because the seal of the living God has already been described in Scripture: the Holy Spirit is the seal with which every believer is sealed as God\u2019s upon conversion (Eph 4:30,\u00a02 Cor 1:22). This chapter describes conversion. \u201cThus the six seals \u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-revelation-7","7":"category-the-seals-opened","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}