Bible Matrix ⑦_205_REV 3:1~6 – The Church in Sardis: Christian Historical Perspectives(AD 1517~1798)
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Bible Matrix ⑦: Historical & Scientific Views on Daniel and Revelation
Part 2. Revelation
Revelation 3:1~6 - To the Church in Sardis, alive but you are dead, but a few people
Revelation 3:1~6 – Background and Meaning of Christian Historical Perspectives (AD 1517~1798)
○ The historical background of Christianity is from the beginning of the Reformation Movement of Martin Luther (1483~1546) in Germany at the early of 16th century (1517) to the end of the Holy See at the end of the 18th century (1798). During this time (1517~1798), the Reformation took place and the Vatican, which persecuted Christianity for 1260 years (538~1798), declined, but Jesus delivers the message of revelation that the church would be divided into various sects.
○ Beginning with the Reformation of Martin Luther (1483~1546) in Germany in 1517, Huldrych Zwingli (1484~1531) in Switzerland, Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples (1455~1536) and Jean Calvin (1509~1564) in France, and other priests rose up here and there in Europe and began to lead the Reformation Movement. The Reformation was a reform movement that demanded a renewal of the Roman Catholic Church and became the basis for establishing Protestantism.
○ Protestant or Protestantism refers to a religious group or denomination as sect that split from the Roman Catholic as a result of the Reformation in the early 16th century. They ultimately tried to divide or break the Roman Catholic. The word 'Protestant' was coined from Protestatio (as Latin word) in April 1529 at the Diet of Speyer in German where Martin Luther confidently expressed his faith against the Roman Catholic and resisted the Roman Catholic.
○ The power of the Roman papacy was further weakened by the Pietism movement in Germany, the Puritans movement in England, and the independence and Protestant movement in the United States. In fact, through the dark age of religion of 1260 years (AD 538~1798=1260) and the time of the persecution by the Roman Catholic, Christian churches lost almost all of its true faith of Jesus Christ. However, when the period set by God the Father, that is, the beginning of the 16th century, a small remnant of people who fled to the wilderness, namely, the true people and the reformers opened the morning of the Protestant Churches.
○ However, the reformers and their descendants thought they had won the struggle over the Roman Catholic. As a result, as the spirit of the Reformation disappeared, reformers and their descendants were involved in doctrinal fights, got caught up in deism, and fought between the mainstream and the non-mainstream, thus resulting in Protestant denominations.
☞ For example, Lutherans in Germany, Huguenots and Calvinists in France, Zwingli in Switzerland, etc. were created and settled into each denomination, thus the Protestant movement began to split and weaken.
☞ Furthermore, the Roman Catholic made a massive counterattack such as the eradication of Protestantism, so Protestantism gradually reached a catastrophe and fell into a stagnation that felt like it was dead. As a result, at the end of the 18th century, Protestantism split into Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, Holiness Church, Full Gospel Church, etc.
○ The end of the Holy See - On the other hand, the end of the Pope of the Roman Catholic who persecuted Christianity for 1260 years (538~1798) are as follows. The French Revolution, which began in 1789, led to a decisive decline of the Holy See. On February 10, 1798, General Louis Alexander Berthier of France, under the leadership of Napoleon Ⅰ(1769~1821, emperor 1804~1815), invaded Italy and captured Pope Pius VI(Reign, 1775~1798) and imprisoned him to death, thus, the Roman Papacy for 1260 years came to an end. Eventually, with the fall of the Holy Roman Empire (Sacro Romano Impero, AD 962~1806) in 1806, the Roman papacy disappeared from the history of the Middle Ages.