Savonarola: Attempt to Force the Chess Board in this Great Controversy?

Q: Was Girolamo Savonarola the "John the Baptist" of the 15th century OR a False Prophet?
A: Well we know he was a False Prophet because, if we test his claims against Scripture, we know he was either a liar or being misled by

the opponent of God.
For example, he claimed he had visions from God and visits from angels with messages. But we know when he claimed that in one vision from God he was shown the wicked lost burning in hell with their tongues torn out.
But Scripture tells us the dead are dead [For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing... Ecclesiastes 9:5] and the wicked dead will remain DEAD until the 2nd resurrection after the millennium [But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. The sea gave up its dead, and death and the grave gave up their dead. Revelation 20:5,13 NLT].
Another example of being a False Prophet would be his claim that he would no longer read the Bible for his theology but rather get his "light" through "Divine light" that would come to him. Sometimes from the virgin Mary [though Mary is DEAD in the grave and therefore can't communicate].

Q: Was Lucifer, who knew something like the Reformation was around the corner in the flow of history [And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days. Daniel 11:33] trying to get a leg up by creating a False Reformation based on truth and error?
Q: In other words, was he trying to force the chess board of this Great Controversy between him and God?
Q: Or was Savonarola just a mentally unstable man who sought personal political power?

"Girolamo Savonarola was born at Ferrara, the son of Niccolò Savonarola and Elena Bonaccorsi. He was educated by his paternal grandfather, Michele, a celebrated doctor and a man of rigid religious principles.
Savonarola arrived in Florence in 1490 already renowned for his

learning, yet it was his preaching that catapulted him into the center of Florentine reform and politics. Often from the cathedral in Florence, Savonarola would preach to thousands in the vernacular with powerful imagery and simple language.
His influential preaching, along with some remarkable events outside Savonarola’s control — the French king’s surprise invasion into Italy along with a devastating disease — suddenly elevated his influence in Florence. Equally important in his ascent as the city’s prophetic voice was the pervasive belief among ordinary people of an imminent, momentous upheaval related to the end times, especially as the year 1500 approached.
He began to claim that God was sending him visions of a kingly warrior who would cross the Alps and conquer Italy. In late summer of 1494, Charles VIII of France invaded Italy, seeking to conquer the kingdom of Naples. His arrival appeared to confirm the friar's prophecies.
It also placed Florence in peril. Piero de' Medici, the city's new leader, had refused to let Charles pass through Florence's territory. The king responded by threatening to sack the city. To preserve peace, Piero had to surrender important fortresses and towns within Florence and agree to pay Charles a large sum of money. The news of this bargain led to an uprising in Florence and forced the Medici family to flee the city. Charles entered Florence on November 17 and demanded that the Florentines restore the Medici to power. However, after an anti-French riot and a series of talks with Savonarola, Charles agreed to leave the city in exchange for a smaller payment than that promised him by Piero.
He predicted that Florence would join forces with the king of France

to lead the world into an age of universal Christianity and peace. Florence would be the center of a Christian empire, a New Jerusalem for the new age. In addition to his rousing sermons, Savonarola and his supporters staged processions and "bonfires of the vanities," in which citizens publicly burned books, paintings, clothing, playing cards, and other items the friar viewed as immoral.
In 1492 Girolamo Savonarola warned of "the Sword of the Lord over the earth quickly and soon" and envisioned terrible tribulations to Rome.
From 1494 to 1498, Savonarola fomented dramatic political and social change. His preaching became far more prophetic. Emphasizing Christ’s return, he called Florence to live as a new Jerusalem.
He closed the taverns and outlawed gambling, singing, and dancing.
He turned crimes like sodomy, previously merely punishable by fine, into capital offenses for which the sentence was death.
Public burnings on the Piazza della Signoria became common.
Savonarola was sending shock troops of children known as the "White Shirts" marauding across the city, the gangs forcing their way into people's homes at will and hauling off anything considered

unholy or corrupting—fancy clothes, jewels, and makeup, fine furnishings and other extravagances, musical instruments, works of ancient (i.e. pagan) writers and poets, any art that was not of a strictly religious nature, and any other display of distinctly un-pious ostentation and wealth—in short, "vanities."
They carted the lot of it to the center of town, heaped it all into a huge pile on Piazza della Signoria, and set a torch to the pile. They called this the "bonfire of the vanities."
Even the artist Botticelli—who, up until then, was most famous for his allegorical scenes out of pagan myth—got caught up in the religious fervor and is said to have tossed several of his paintings onto the fire to fuel the flames.
Girolamo Savonarola began to write poetry of an apocalyptic bent, notably "On the Ruin of the World" and "On the Ruin of the Church", in which he singled out the papal court at Rome.
He organized the youth of Florence to model and incite for reform, precipitating several “Bonfires of Vanities” in protest against the annual Mardi Gras Carnival. These youths led citizens in destroying instruments of temptation like carnival masks, playing cards, fine dresses, makeup, mirrors, and even musical instruments. The last of these occurred in the Piazza della Signoria at the center of Florence on February 7, 1497, just months before Pope Alexander VI excommunicated Savonarola.
In early 1498 one of Savonarola's chief followers accepted a challenge to test the truth of the friar's claims to divine favor. The test would be a trial by fire. If the flames did not kill Savonarola, it would prove that he was truly favored by God. On the day scheduled for the event, however, both sides argued so long about the details of the trial that rain eventually put out the flames. People took this as a sign of God's disapproval, and the city guard dispersed the angry crowd. The next day a mob attacked San Marco. The guard stepped in once again, arresting Savonarola and his two closest deputies.

They dragged Savonarola to the very same spot on the Piazza della Signoria where he had put the torch to the city's vanities, and sent him to his eternal reward atop a bonfire of their own.

On May 23, 1498, the three were hanged and their bodies burned.
The ashes were tossed into the Arno." 

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