August 13, 1612 OS: Judah's Seal Date

The Poles had invaded Russia and run the country. The Russians at this point repelled the Poles and held a Zemski Sobar, a general assembly, and elected a new Tzar. He was the young and ailing Mikhail Romanov. That house, or seat of government would survive until the communist revolution.

Background

Judah's seal date is the first in the list as recorded in Revelation chapter 7. The following is the report on this particular seal date.

Each date like this indicates the signing of some sort of document important in her national history. This one is no different. The problem, though, is the early date of this document and the difficulty in finding it clearly reported in history.

In Russia at the time this was particularly difficult because the nation had no history of a free press and had never conceived of the functions that westerners generally ascribe to the roll of the press in civil society.

Carefully note the date given in the previous report. The Russians would not convert their calendar system from the Old Style Julian system used since the time of Jesus to the New Style Gregorian system until the time of the Communist Revolution in the early 1900s.

The fall of 1612 is when the Russians did two important things. The repelled a Polish invasion where the Poles had taken Moscow and they proceeded to establish a new Royal House, known as the House of Romanov, that would also survive until the communist revolution in the early 1900s.

Phil Stone
Revised: 2008-09-16