And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. Daniel 7:25
In July 1415, he was stripped,
adorned with a dunce hat painted with devils and labeled “Arch-Heretic”.....They then led him past a burning pile of his books and chained him to
the stake.
In response to being chained up like a dog, he said, “My
Lord Jesus Christ was bound with a harder chain than this one for my
sake, so why should I be ashamed of this rusty chain?”
They told him
once more to recant, but he refused, proclaiming, “What I taught with my
lips I will now seal with my blood.” And that he did.
As the flames climbed higher, he sang. The secretary of the council
pronounced, “O curse’d Judas, because thou hast abandoned the pathways
of peace, and hast counselled with the Jews, we take away from thee the
cup of redemption.”
Thankfully, the Catholic Church did not have the
authority to take the cup of redemption that day."
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