REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Six - The Great Apostasy -Conclusion

 While claiming to be shepherds of the flock of God, Christendom's leaders, religious and secular, showed special hatred for anyone who tried to encourage Bible reading  or anyone who exposed their unscriptural practices. John Hus and Bible translator and William Tyndale were persecuted and martyred.  During  the bedarkened Middle Ages, apostate rule reached a peak in the diabolic Catholic Inquisition. Any who disputed the teachings or authority of the church were unmercifully suppressed, and countless thousands of so-called heretics were tortured to death or burned at the stake. Thus Satan  endeavored to ensure that any true seed of God's womanlike organization would be quickly crushed.  When the Protestant rebellion, or Reformation, occurred (from 1517 onward), many Protestant churches manifested a similar intolerant spirit.  They too became bloodguilty by martyring  those who endeavored to be loyal to God and Christ.  Truly, "the blood of  holy ones" was freely poured out! - REVELATION 16:6; compare MATTHEW 23:33-36.

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