Yes and I am sure you know that the protestants were the first ones in 1400 years to actually win the war. Or at least fight it to a stand still. There were dozens of reformations throughout those centuries. Same miracles, revivals, same doctrines but all were overcome militarily in the end. Conquered and wiped out. Not just by the the Holy Roman empire and the Papacy but in every nation or area Christians existed. The only difference was that printed materials went from the tens of thousands a year of hand or wood plate printed books and pamphlets to the tens of millions a year and the authorities could not stop the Bible from getting into the hands of the general public. Northern Europeans were the first people in the history of mankind to be armed with something no one else ever had like they did. Bibles. That is why they overcame. God knew this thousands of years in advance and told us when the saints would begin to overcome. when the fourth of those four empires ended.
He just didn't tell us how and many a believer thought is was going to be by God riding into town on a white horse and wiping out the wicked. Nope. Turns out it was through the influnce of the Word of God transforming nations and those nations with Gods' help winning their freedoms and therefore the promises.
The Reformers identified their struggle as being overwhelmingly with the antichrist of the apostate papacy. What other adversaries of similar magnitude did they identify?
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