It is time to take a new look at history. No matter how disobedient we may are, we may be glad not to be Martin Luther! The evil he did was so great that one can actually make a case that he was the “devil released from the abyss” that is described in Rev. 20.
Most of us know many, many Lutherans who are sound, devout Christians. They are vastly better Christians than the founder of their faith. That’s true of many Protestant groups. Presbyterians and Congregationalists are, frankly, embarrassed to know how many people their founder, John Calvin, burned at the stake for disagreeing with him.
Mormons don’t like to think about the dozens of wives Brigham Young had. Lutherans, similarly, are embarrassed by their founder’s vicious, endless attacks on all who disagreed with him. They wish he hadn’t stirred up the peasants and encouraged them to revolt. Even more, they wish he hadn’t then appealed to the political powers, and encouraged them to “slaughter the hogs”. A hundred and fifty thousand died when the nobles, following Luther’s instructions, “slaughtered the hogs”.
The Only Church Jesus Founded was the spiritual ruler of Christendom during The Thousand Year Reign that followed the fall of Rome and Luther’s rise of rebellion against it.
A new look at history lets us see that The Only Church Jesus Founded reigned spiritually for the thousand years between the fall of Rome and Martin Luther’s sudden appearance. Was Luther so bad that he could be considered to be “. . .the dragon, that primeval serpent which is the devil and Satan and chained him up for a thousand years.”after which he would “be released”.from Rev 20?
Not only did Luther engineer the “slaughter of the hogs”, the 150,000 German peasants who lost their lives to his excess, but also, Luther did something far, far more murderous. A new look at history shows that Luther set into motion the process of thinking each of the subsequent Somewhat Christian Schisms were automatically respectable if they contained any part of any Christian belief. In his own lifetime, Luther believed Christian belief was whatever he said it was.
He hated any who were not obedient. “These pigs will not do as I say!” he would rant when anyone disagreed. He didn’t say that once or twice, but filled volumes of his recorded “Table Talk” with endless diatribes. Their profane nature continues to embarrass. “He did not have to be so extreme!” knowledgeable scholars have said, unable to comprehend the foulness beneath such hate and profanity.
A new look at history shows that, because of Luther, The Thousand Year Reign of The Only Church Jesus Founded was replaced with 43,000 Somewhat Christian Schisms. They are so divided and competitive that Pro-Life people cannot stop evil from destroying over a billion unborn babies by abortion. Has anyone else caused as many deaths?
Had Luther been faithful to his priestly vows, The Thousand Year Reign would have continued. The world would have continued to be a happier, safer place. Power would have been balanced between The Church and excesses of The State would have continued to be curtailed.
Catholic Fundamentalism suggests a new look at history. We should seriously consider that death took human form when Martin Luther was released from the abyss. A hint comes from an earlier scholar, a Professor Seeberg of Berlin, a man who was “no friend of The Catholic Church”: “Luther strode through his century like a demon crushing under his feet what a thousand years had venerated.”
