Reformation Day | The Fellowship of God's Covenant People

By Karl Tester

This was sent to me as an email from Jay Nauss, on October 31st who lives in Australia. It is from britishisrael.org.au and it is entitled “Reformation Day.” Jay wrote “here is a special message put together for today from our friend and brother, Karl Tester.”

The 31st October each year is well known for Halloween which is a celebration of death, the occult and paganism.
What is not so well known is that the 31st October was once widely remembered as Reformation Day. A day which celebrated the remembrance of the onset of the Protestant Reformation which began when Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses on the Castle Church doors in Wittenberg, Germany, on October 31, 1517. After almost 1,000 years of gross spiritual darkness and bondage this event triggered a massive and widespread exodus from the Roman Catholic Church to the light of the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ.
Protestant Churches once delivered talks and sermons at this time to remind the people of the dark past which existed under the iron rule of the Papal Roman Catholic Church and from which they had been delivered.
What is most interesting about this, is that the Protestant Reformation has a prominent place in Bible prophecy. This is found in Revelation chapters 10 & 11 and the reformers at the time recognized this reality.
Revelation 10 introduces to us ‘the little book open’. This is the Bible which had hitherto been a large book which was closed. The invention of the printing press in Europe, shortly before the outbreak of the Reformation, meant that the Bible could now be produced in large numbers, in a small size, at a price which was affordable to many people. As well the Bible could now be produced in the language of the common people instead of Latin which was the language of the rich, the learned and the clergy.
Revelation 11 tells as of the ‘reed like unto a rod’ this ‘reed’ or measuring stick is the ‘little book open’ which now had been given to the reformers and with it they were commanded to ‘rise, and measure the temple of God (that is the professing church) , and the altar (that is the place of worship which had been corrupted by transubstantiation), and them that worship therein (that is the priesthood)’. Each of these aspects of Christianity had been totally corrupted and polluted by the Church of Rome. With the ‘little book open’ the reformers now had the standard by which all could all be tested. There were now able to measure all these things according to the word of God and the result was the beginning of rediscovery of the truth of the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ.
In Revelation 10 it was commanded ‘Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.’ The Reformers found that the word of God was indeed ‘sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb’ yet it was bitter. The Church of Rome, however, did not take this situation lying down and they launched the Counter-Reformation which involved tremendous persecution against the reformers and great numbers paid the ultimate price for possessing and believing the words of ‘the little book open’, they were put to death because of it.
Of interest to note is that the roots of the Reformation actually go back to England in 1300s with John Wycliff who has been called ‘The Morning Star of the Reformation’. This is found in a prophecy given to the House of Israel concerning the beginning of their release from bondage on “’the third day’. This is found in Hosea 6 vs 1-3’Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for He hath torn, and He will heal us; He hath smitten, and He will bind us up. After two days will He revive us: in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight.’
The Protestant Reformation is a wonderful thing that we should all remember, it delivered to us an open Bible and for that we must be truly thankful. It also demonstrates what one man can do standing up for the things of God against the most despotic and tyrannical power of the day when any change for the better seemed utterly being reach. If God be for us, who can be against us?
Amen.”

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