The Prophetic Dream that Saved Martin Luther

[Hemidakota]

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.

EXCERPT: 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]

LINK: http://www.ldsmag.com/sci_rel/100714dream.html Edited July 14, 2010 by Hemidakota

[Hemidakota]

How true...each one contributed to the cause. I do blame the media for focusing too much on single individual rather than the group who sought for religious freedom.