REFORMATION: The Fire that could not die!

In this year marking the 500^th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, articles about Martin Luther (1482-1546), have been popping up like mushrooms, including rather critical ones, blaming him even for things like transgenderism.

Today in History... 

October 31st is such a remarkable date in the history of the Church.

It was peculiar for the fulfillment of prophetic words for students of prophecy seeing the convergence that happened with the emergence of Martin Luther according to the 100 years prophecy of John Hus. Its also significantly useful for the student of church history as well as believers, in that, it engineered believers to an eye opening experience of the authority of the word and the accessibility to study the word for yourself. 

Some 500years ago, on the 31st day of October Martin Luther dared the papacy to nail his 95 thesis to the doors of the Church, that singular act shook the then Church authority, affected the entire world and the way things were done. A lot is to be learnt from it as history almost always repeat itself, making life a cycle of events. 

His doggedness, his desire for the clarity of the word, yet the process and the need to break off that old temptations of an independent spirit. 

(Well we shall hopefully return to see more later) 

As the early reformer John Huss was about to be burned at the stake, he prophesied of Martin Luther. Both the date of that prophecy and of Luther's birth appear to be significant.

Martin Luther

There were many great reformers during the Renaissance in Europe. They compared the scriptures to their church's teachings and discovered significant problems. When the movement began, most of them were in the clergy of the Catholic Church, which was the only Christian Church there at that time. Nearly every one of them wanted only to "reform" the church, to get it back to the original principles, but when that effort met incredible resistance, the many Protestant churches began to form.
The most famous reformer was Martin Luther (1483-1546) of Germany, for whom the Lutheran church is named. His success was due in part to avoiding being slain for his cause. Many preceding him had been executed for heresy (disagreeing with the pope). Luther began his work after being inspired by the work of John Huss, a Czech (Bohemian) reformer who had been burned at the stake a century before him. One article summarizes Huss's influence on Luther thus:

Early in his monastic career, Martin Luther, rummaging through the stacks of a library, happened upon a volume of sermons by John Huss, the Bohemian who had been condemned as a heretic. "I was overwhelmed with astonishment," Luther later wrote. "I could not understand for what cause they had burnt so great a man, who explained the Scriptures with so much gravity and skill."
Huss would become a hero to Luther and many other reformers, for Huss preached key Reformation themes (like hostility to indulgences) a century before Luther drew up his 95 Theses. But the reformers also looked to Huss's life, in particular, his steadfast commitment in the face of the church's cunning brutality.^[1]

Now, let us first look at Huss's life, including a prophecy he made of Luther as he was being burned at the stake. Then we will consider more about Martin Luther, including an amazing dream that referenced Huss's work. Next we will look at the significance of the dates of the prophecy and of Luther's birth, and finally we will consider the relationship of Martin Luther to the great antediluvian prophet Enoch.

(to be continued...) 

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