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 What is the sealing, and who are these slaves of God?  The sealing began at Pentecost 33 C.E. when the first Jewish Christians were anointed  with holy spirit. Later, God proceeded to call out  and anoint "people of  the nations."(Romans 3:29; Acts 21:4, 14, 32, 33; 115:14) The apostle Paul wrote about anointed Christians'  having a guarantee  that "they belong to Christ" and added that God "has also put a seal upon us and has given us the token of what is to come, that is the spirit, in our hearts." (2 Corinthians 1:21, 22; compare Revelation 14:1.)  Thus, when these slaves are adopted as God's spirituals sons, they receive a token in advance of their heavenly inheritance -a seal, or pledge(2 Corinthians 5:1, 5; Ephesians 1:10, 11) They can then say: "The spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are God's children. If, then, we are children, we are also heirs  heirs indeed of God, but joint heirs with Christ, provided we suffer together that we may also be glorified together. - ROMANS 8:15-17.

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