The Global Protestant Reformation – John Wycliffe in England, Martin Luther in Germany, John Calvin in France, John Knox in Scotland, Ulrich Zwingli in Switzerland, and countless others …

The Protestant Reformation 

As we have already seen, the major Protestant Reformers had one primary passion: To inspire sinners to “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 16:31) and obey God’s Word above the traditions of men (see Mark 7:13). But as they tried to lead their English and European countrymen to the Bible alone, to Christ alone, to His grace alone, and to faith alone, they encountered fierce opposition from the Roman Church hierarchy. As persecution increased, it drove them deeper into their Bibles.

Eventually, they turned to the prophecies. By candlelight they pondered Paul’s prediction about “the falling away,” and a mysterious antichrist who would take his seat in “the temple of God” (2 Thessalonians 2:2-4). With trembling they read about “the beast” (Revelation 13:1 and that “little horn” with “eyes like the eyes of a man,” a mouth speaking great things,” who would make bloody “war against the saints” (Daniel 7:8,21). Finally, through the Holy Spirit illumination, they put the pieces of the puzzle together and came to this solemn conclusion: They had discovered both Jesus Christ and the antichrist.

“There are two great truths that stand out in the preaching that brought about the Protestant Reformation,” American Bible Commentator, Ralph Woodrow, reminds us, “The just shall live by faith, not by the works of Romanism and the Papacy is the Antichrist of Scripture.” It was a message for Christ and against the Antichrist. The entire Reformation rests upon this twofold testimony.

John Wycliffe in England, Martin Luther in Germany, John Calvin in France, John Knox in Scotland, Ulrich Zwingli in Switzerland, and countless other, all preached that the humble Nazarene was the Christ and that the proud Roman papacy was the antichrist of Scripture. As a result of this high-impact, double-edged message – for Christ and against antichrist – the river of history literally changed its course. Hundreds of thousands of people in Europe and England forsook the Roman Church.

H. Grattan Guinness provides this stirring testimony, not only of the effects of the Reformation, but also of one of the mightiest instruments in its accomplishment – the preaching of God’s holy prophecies about the antichrist:

The sixteenth century presents the spectacle of a stormy sunrise after a dismal night. Europe awoke from long sleep of superstition. The dead arose. The witnesses to truth who had been silenced and slain stood up once more and renewed their testimony. The martyred confessors reappeared in the Reformers. There was a cleansing of the spiritual sanctuary. Civil and religious liberty were inaugurated. The discovery of printing and revival of learning accelerated the movement. There was progress everywhere. Columbus struck across the ocean and opened a new hemisphere to view. Rome was shaken on her seven hills, and lost one-half of her dominions. Protestant nations were created. The modern world was called into existence ….

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