title: Breaking The Seals: Book Four (From The Candlestick to The Throne) (Volume 4)
author:  J. Preston Eby 
description: J. Preston Eby was born into a Mennonite family in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. While still a toddler his parents received the baptism in the Holy Spirit through the witness of some Pentecostal brethren in the area. They were led of the Lord to sell their business and move to Alabama to do missionary work. In his twelfth year Preston was filled with the Spirit  and in that same year the Holy Spirit sovereignly unfolded to his understanding the wonderful truth of the reconciliation of all things and all men unto God. No one else around him  in family or church associations  embraced this revelation. Through those early years he kept this truth to himself and pondered it in his heart. Later he came into contact with, and was touched by, a mighty move of the Spirit known as the "Latter Rain", with emphasis on the body of Christ, gifts of the Spirit, laying on of hands, impartation, five-fold ministry, prophetic ministry, spiritual worship, the kingdom of God, and going on to perfection, unto fullness of sonship to God. The Lord pressed him into a deeper walk with Him, intensifying within his heart the truths of sonship and the kingdom of God, already planted within as seed through the visitation of the Lord as Latter Rain. Along the way he became associated with brother Gerald Derstine and The Gospel Crusade in Sarasota, Florida, serving as an associate minister with him for eight years, first co-pastoring and later pastoring the Revival Tabernacle in that city. His wife Lorain and he, with their family, were on the mission field in Latin America for a total of five years, with ministry in several other areas as well. For seven years, following this, he was an elder in a fellowship of believers in El Paso, Texas where they witnessed a precious move of the Spirit and a body of saints flowing together in the liberty and life of the Spirit. Eventually the Lord led him into a full-time writing ministry directed to those who are called and chosen as elect of God to grow up into the full stature of Jesus Christ as sons of God
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  # Privy Seal
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### Ford Madox Ford
  
  
    
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  * [PART ONE. THE RISING SUN](pris_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [PART TWO. THE DISTANT CLOUD](pris_split_3.html#1_0_3)
  
  
  * [PART THREE. THE SUNBURST](pris_split_4.html#1_0_4)
  
  
  
  
  
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  This is the Second book of the trilogy, The Fifth Queen, by
  
  
    
  Ford Madox Ford. The other books are The Fifth Queen and The
  
  
    
  Fifth Queen Crowned.
  
  
    
  
  
    
  PRIVY SEAL
  
  
    
  _His Last Venture_
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  _“Ille potens ... et lætus cui licet in diem
  
  
    
  Dixisse: Vixi!...”_
  
  
    
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  PART ONE The Rising Sun, 1
  
  
    
  PART TWO The Distant Cloud, 75
  
  
    
  PART THREE The Sunburst, 153
  
  
    
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