THE REFORMATION REKINDLED.[part 1] Taken from A.D T.V.'s # 931 Twin Pillars..

    This topic will be  a totally different "kettle of fish!"

    Professor Veith and myself both fully accept and believe that God has His own, in all of earth's religions, because in the end it is Jesus that shall judge, and not no man!  However, truth is truth, throughout the whole of the Cosmos, agree

      But what is truth?
      Man's truth, is not to be counted on, or else earth would not today have over 40,000 denominations, all of whom call themselves "CHRISTIANS"!  Would Y O U agree?  More latter.

     Now, may I ask Y O U, dear Reader, a question?  ARE Y O U a Protestant? If yes. . . .what are you Protesting?

     This, next lessons will take many of you into Bible truths, that may hurt and even anger you, but a ask to tighten your seat belt, for the sake of your soul, the YOU!
    
      John 17:17  "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth."
     John 14:6  "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
      Psalms 119:151  "Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth."

    There are NO other truths, regarding the Bible's Author, thus it the only reliable source for all things about God and the Godhead as well as Heaven, agree?

    Just as the Books of Daniel and Revelation, are written in layers upon bigger layers of information, just as a multi-story building's floor upon floor, so also Does the Bible expand a precept.

    As this whole precept, is directed to humans and their lives on this earth, it also get bigger and more terrible, especially those who reject Christ, or have a deceived view of Him.

    Before we go further, please allow me to give you my most humble apologies, for the hard truths that will follow, because of the all the lies, deceptions, and honest truth that has come forth from more than 90% of all Protestant churches. I Came out of them myself, and it was hurtful, to me, personally, that I was lied to by those who teach the Bible to us!

    Psalms 119:174  "I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight."

   Yes, there shall be those, who as I, will be hurt by the truth. Not only hurt, but very angry by this truth, but as I studied the Bible, with prayers, and help from the Holy Spirit, the anger left me, and joy replaced the hurt, I pray that it shall do for Y O U, what it, the truth of God, has done for me.
    PLEASE, be angry at me, but not at the Truth, because who enjoys being lied to?

     If it is truth, then its worth buying, and you've already read the three locations in the Bible that tells of the truth and its source, is none other than God Himself.

    Test all that I write, as I will not attempt to indoctrinate Y O U, the truth of God will do this, IF Y O U but allow it! NEVER, EVER, TAKE THE WORDS OF MAN/MEN, FOR THE WORD OF GOD, CHECK THAT OUR FOR SELF.

    ALL YOU'LL FIND AR FACTS, so I ask you to test these facts within the Bible, and if they are truth, then Y O U must make a choice right?

   If it fits . . .  buy it!  If it does not. . . reject it!

    I do not wish to trod on anyone, but remember "The Truth will set you free." John 8:32  "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

     Hebrews 4:12  "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."

    Truth is not free, it cost time and effort to search it out. Yes Salvation is free, but it cost us something, our total self-reliance, upon self. As we can't make self righteous, by our own power, nor save self to salvation, for that we all, ALL need Heaven's help! Yet it cost's EVERYTHING WE HAVE.
   Matthew 13:46  "Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it."
   Is not your eternal life worth a great price? Yet money can't buy it, only obedient and loving service, sharing Jesus with others! 
    
                   THE TWIN PILLARS OF REFORMATION.

   L et's begin with man's history, are you ready for a history lesson, few schools, if any still teach?  What you will read, please take it as a history lesson, and not an attack on anyone or power system. Again,  firmly believe, that God has His people, in every denomination, on this planet! He has His children, in every walk of life and religion on this planet!

    If one lives in ignorance, God winks at your errors, BUT If you know a truth, and you do other wise, then....it's up to Him! Acts 14:16  "Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways."

     So, What was the Reformation, some 400 years ago? Why did it come about? Is it still "Enforce" today?  More importantly, do we still remember the what and the why today?  May I ask you, "Are You a Pro- tes-tori?  Are not most Christian Churches still Protestant, today?
But if your are a Protestant, then WHAT IS IT your are Protesting about? It has been virtually eliminated from the face of this earth! Does this mean all those early Reformers died by horrific means, died in vain? Or did they have a very strong and valid reason, to fight knowing they places life in peril;?

                            WHAT IS PROTESTANTISM?

   It has both a Positive +, and a Negative - meaning. within itself. IF there was not a positive to its message, it would have died before it began!
PRO-- (for, in favor of) and testari  ( to bear witness) A true Protestant therefore, is a witness for the truth: That which is simply negation of error is not true Protestantism. A true Protestant will bear primarily a positive message. His attitude will be that of his Master, who said: "I came not to judge the world, but to save the world." John 12:47. {Aurther S. Maxwell, Protestantism in Periled, Signs Publishing Warburton, Victoria Australia.)

   Now does this mean that no errors, ever should not be exposed?  By that, I mean, how many enjoy, being lied to?
    So, what went wrong, in the Christian world, that made it necessary to begin a protest movement?  It was long  way back in history and it can be said that it ,began with...

    Augustine's book, "The City of God",: The theology of Augustine places the emphasis on the church as the kingdom of God, declaring that Christ was already reigning with His saints, and that the resurrection was of dead souls to spiritual life. The church was encouraged to assume the ruler-ship of the nations, and instead of carrying the gospel to the world, the church leaders began to seek prestige and power by political intrigue. The Dark Ages were the result.

   Thus the Kingdom of God found its reality with the church, from this kind of theological thinking. Look at the phrase "Dead souls to spiritual life," this is directly out mythology, and not the Holy Bible For today most believe, as taught, die and go to your reward but look.... 
   
Ecclesiastes 9:5  "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten."  Genesis 3: 19's "from dust thou art, to dust thou shalt return."

Thus the Bible's narrative, of the Coming Kingdom at Christ's return was 'Spiritualised' away by men.
NOTE (J.B.) is the reason Cardinal Giorgio Salvadori said this: "The Vatican since 1981 was the last year they regarded waiting for the Lord to return to earth.We just feel Jesus is not coming back by the looks of it, he said, "It's bee ages like, He's probably  flat out doing other really good things for people somewhere else." The Vatican defended Jesus' broken promise {John 14:1-3}  claiming "He was probably drinking wine", at the time. "Having the ability to turn water into wine had its ups and downs" added Cardinal Salvadore, "We all make promises we can't keep when were' drunk. Jesus is no different." 
  I, John b. will that speak for itself!

  This theology began to bring many whispers of discontent, and among the first were the Waldenses beginning in the 1100's by none Joachim, who began giving clear Bible witness against this doctrine, and as he began to unfold the Prophecies of both Daniel and Revelation, he actually measured the Prophetic times period of "A time and times and the dividing of time" of Daniel 7 as 1260 years. Two hundred years latter can Wycliffe, "the Morning Star of the Reformation".He, like Huss and Jerome of Bohemia, was greatly influenced by such men as Joachim.
   The 16th Century 9 1500's) dawned ablaze of glory, radiant with the prophetic vision. Martin Luther, Calvin, Baxter, Cranmenr, and hundreds of others led the church out of the darkness of men's doctrines, and into the light of God's truth.
  
    There are many whop hold up proof, that the Waldenses' protest go back to the 4th and even the 3rd century, by the protesting against the doctrines of men! Even they began to call this church system the anti-christ! [JB) Please know this term in the Greek of the New testament this word is instead of and or in place of and not anti of against}

Note: Wycliffe was arrested and my Armed men taken to London England, but God spared him by taking his life! Yet some 40 years latter, they dig up his bones cursed him, and burned his bones to ashes, tossed then into the river. {Can it be said his ashes took God's over all the earth?}

THE REFORMATION RESTS UPON A TWOFOLD DISCOVERY:

1. The Rediscovery of Christ and His salvation. [Christ is THE central Figure in the Bible]
   From that time we have the phrases "Sola Christos", Sola Gratia" , Sola Scriptura" meaning Christ alone, Grace and  Saved by Grace alone, Scriptures and scriptures alone.
2. The discovery of the identity of the antichrist.

   The latter proved to be the "binding together", the message of protesting the man-made doctrines. The rediscovery of the sufficiency of christ rested on the "Word of God". "The Bible and the Bible alone," which provided the weapons of warfare and the discovery of the identity of the Antichrist united the Reformation in opposition to the Perceived, common enemy.

     Now, granted, they were many differences of doctrines, regarding Salvation, yes, But on the I.D. of the Antichrist, they were as one!

   There are three distinct sets of prophecies of this rise, character, deeds, and doom of Romanism. The first is found in the Book of Daniel, The Second  in the Epistles of John; and the Third, in the letters and the Apocalypse of John [Revelation] ; and none is complete in itself. It is only by the combing of these three that one receives a completed picture. Daniel's overview presents the POLITICAL CHARACTER,  and relations of Romanism.  The apostle Paul's foreview, on the other hand, gives the ECCLESIASTICAL CHARACTER AND RELATIONS OF THIS POWER. and John's Prophecies, both in Revelations 13 and 17, present the COMBINATION OF BOTH, fthe mutual relations of the Latin Church and Roman state.  "Romanism and the Reformation" P.11

     Daniel 7:8  "I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things."
    
            THE LITTLE HORN-- DANIEL'S DESCRIPTION:

     The Rule of Rome. We repeat, has never ceased. It was a secular pagan power for 5-6 centuries, and it has been an ecclesiastical power and apostate Christian power ever since. The rule of Rome revived in a new form, and was as real under the popes of the 13th century as it had been under the Caesars of the first! It was as oppressive, cruel, and bloody under Pope Innocent III, as it had been under Nero and Domitian. The reality was the same, though the forms had changed. The Caesars did not persecute the witnesses of Jesus more severely and bitterly that did the popes; Diocletian did not destroy the saints or oppose the gospel more that did the Inquisition of Papal days. Rome is one and of the same all through, both locally and morally." Note:
The Popes even have the very same titles as did the Caesars Pontifix Maximus {P.M. on both their statues] 

     THE LITTLE HORN: 
      
      The power symbolized by the proud, intelligent, and blasphemous, head-like "little horn" of the Roman beast, To this he devotes, on the contrary, the greater part of the prophecy:; and I must ask you now {as I ask you, today] carefully to note the various points that prove this horn to be a marvelous prophetic symbol or hieroglyph of the roman papacy, fitting it as one of Chub's keys fits the lock for which it was made, perfectly and in every part, while it refuses absolutely to adapt itself to any other power.  Ibid Romanism and the Reformation. 

Note: Please know that some 96% of the Christian world, today,  says he was wrong, yet ALL of the Reformers agreed, with with each other on this fact,  so who is wrong? Many of them, then, died for their convictions, how many are willing today? ?????. 

H. Grattan Guinness' book "Romanism and the Reformation" Harley House Roe F.  June 1 1887.

     "The Reformation of the sixteenth century, which gave birth to Protestantism, was based on scripture. It gave back to the world the Bible.
Note: [(JB) books were very expensive being written by hand, thus very rare, and the Bibles were kept away from all but the very rich and the churches kept them locked up] It, the Protestants translated the Holy Bible in peoples languages from the Latin, and taught the word, and exposed the errors and corruptions of Rome by the use of the Sword of the Spirit, the word of God. It Applied THE PROPHECIES, and accepted their particle guidance. Such Reformation work requires to be done afresh, today! WE, today, have suffered prophetic and anti-papal truth to be too much forgotten. This generation is dangerously latitudinarian-- grossly indifferent to truth and error on points which scripture is tremendously decided and absolutely clear."


    Now Professor Veith, will take us down into History, on topics no longer found in books, or even in new Encyclopedias. He found them in old must, moldy books, long out of print and forgotten by nearly all.Many of the books, that speak of these things, have been "cleansed" , cleaned-up to remove the sting, so to speak,  but History can't really be changed now can it? Writing a different story today does not change yesterday!
Now Mr. Guinness, was the last of the great Protesters, that generation's gone, non-existent, and sadly so is are their words and works! Did all of them suffer and die for nothing or was it all in error? Did Huss die by being burned alive, and millions of others, at the stake for nothing, or die for an human error?
   
    Ibid:  "Our reformed faith is thus endangered both from without and from within, and it can be defended only by a resolute return to the true witness borne by saints and martyrs of other days.. We must learn afresh from divine prophecy God's estimate of the character of the church of Rome if we would be moved afresh to be witnesses for Christ as against this great apostasy. 
    We feel constrained to renew the grand old Protest to which the world owes its modern acquisitions of Liberty, Knowledge, Peace and Prosperity.

Note: (JB) Look at all the nations yet today that are largely Catholic, and what is their economic levels? Mostly  the very rich and the very poor right? Just as it was during the Dark Ages and Feudalism!  WHY?  Then again The Vatican has more wealth than many of the world's largest corporations, WHY?  Jesus had only the clothes on His back, and not a place He called His own to lay His head!

Ibid cont: " We recognize it as a patent and undeniable fact, that the future of our race lies not with the Papists, but with the Protestants. Its leading Nations this day are not Papal Italy, Spain and Portugal, but Protestant Germany, England and America,." 

   The Veith crew interviewed many people in front of the "Radhouse" Townhouse of one German city,  Nuernberg, where Martin Luther preached. Over the two entry door, during his time they place very elaborate carvings, that depicted the prophecies of Daniel's  kingdom successions from Babylon to Rome , and they asked many people if they knew what their meanings were, none knew, not even a city's tour guide for THAT building! As two young men said we are Protestants, yes, and, Yes,  one owns a Bible but one just does not read it!

            ROME BEFORE AND AFTER CHRIST:

    ITS PLACE:   morphed into being from the body of the fourth empire [Pagan Rome]
THE PERIOD of its ORIGIN: soon after the division of the Roman territory into the Ten Kingdoms.

ITS NATURE:  different from the other kingdoms, though in some respects like them. It was a horn {denotes power], but with eyes and mount. I would be a kingdom like the rest, a monarchy; but its kings would be OVERSEERS  or Bishops and prophets.

  ITS MORAL CHARACTER: boastful, blasphemous; great words spoken against the Most High --
                                         GOD and Heaven!  Daniel 7:25.
Note: Today many teach that this Little horn came up out from the third beast, or Greece but the Bible itself tells us from the 4th beast and that's Rome!

ITS  LAWLESSNESS: It would claim {for itself] authority over times and laws {Dan. 7:25]

Its OPPOSITION to the Saints: it would be a persecuting power, and that for so long a period that it would wear out the saints of the Most High, who would be given into its  hand for a time.

ITS DURATION: "TIME, TIMES AND A HALF TIME" OR 1260 YEARS. [ Prophetic time 1 day=1 year.                             Numbers: 14:34-- Ezekiel 4:4-6.]

Its Doom:  it would suffer the loss of its dominion before it was itself destroyed: "They shall take away its dominion, to consume and destroy it to the end." [Daniel 7:26  "But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end."]
   From 539 AD to 1798 A.D when Napoleon captured the Vatican and took away all but 114 Acres of land, 538 + 1260 = 1798. This Pope died 3 Months latter. Deadly wound.

End of Part !

Go to www.amazingdiscoveries.org  go to library and find dick # 931 The Twin Pillars of the Reformation.

And Or go to Part 2. next post.  

Thanking you for your time.
John at www. servant@frontier.com.