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Speaker 4: George Hobbs, Hello, and welcome back truth seekers from around

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the world. It's time for another edition of the fact

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Hunter podcast as we record on this Tuesday afternoon, October

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the twenty first, twenty twenty five. I hope this message

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finds you well. It's hard to believe it's Tuesday already.

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It seems like just a few seconds ago it was Sunday.

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I don't know if it's just the older you get,

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the faster time goes by, or it's the timeline or

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what it is. But my goodness, you blink in two

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days have gone by. So again, I hope you're well.

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Whether here's been beautiful. It was actually pretty chilly this morning,

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forty one degrees. I think it peaked at about seventy

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two today. Great day to be outside, and I hope

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everybody's enjoying this weather. So today we're talking about Martin Luther.

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You know that timeline that they're early late fourteen hundreds

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into the fifteen thirties or so, very transformational timeline in

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the world, and Martin Luther, I think there's this thing

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ingrained in people's mind that Martin Luther only had made

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a difference on the non secular kind of side of things,

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But nothing could be further from the truth. He made

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a lot of changes and opposed a lot of things

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that are still being taught today in are not just

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our worship books, but in science books as well, which

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we'll get to. And again, I think the last time

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we talked about Martin Luther as an actual podcast, it's

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been two years. So if you're new to the podcast,

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you're in for some information that you may have never

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heard before. I also have a few audio clips to

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kind of break up the podcast, and I think you'll

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enjoy them, and let's kick things off. Let's kind of

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do an intro, and then maybe we'll break into our

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first audio clip. But these mainstream textbooks, and we know

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who controls them. We've had many episodes on that. Right.

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They'll tell you that Luther was just a monk, a

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troubled person, right with his conscience, and he nailed some

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papers on a church door, and then almost by accident,

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he unleashed what is known today as the Protestant Reformation.

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And there's a lot of Protestants today that don't even

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understand the term means to protest and in this case, Catholicism, right,

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and you know that's the story. But here's what we know.

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Let's start fifteen seventeen. Luther challenged the most powerful institution

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on earth, the Roman Catholic Church. And again many people say,

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you know that the Roman Catholic Church has never released

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their grip on the world. They just kind of evolved. Now,

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it was known as the ninety five theses. He took

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direct to aim at indulgences. So in this case, it

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was a system that the Roman Catholic Church had in

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place where you could pay for salvation. It was literally

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being sold like merchandise. And we know as Christians, no, no,

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you can't pay for your sins. You have to pray

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and accept the Lord and repent. Right, But that's what

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we're told, that's what sparked the Reformation, and then they

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took him to bed. Part of that is true, of course,

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but the bigger question is why did it spark the

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way it did, Why did it catch fire the way

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it did? Why him? Why? Then? And here we are

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five hundred years later, and he still matters because he

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represents the collision of conscience power technology. He didn't write

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simply Latin notes for Dmia right. Thanks to the printing press,

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his words spread faster than Rome could stamp them out.

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Suddenly ordinary people were questioning not only indulgences, but the

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whole machinery of the Church and the Empire. But if

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you think this was simply about religion, you are missing

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a lot. Luther was also about politics, money and control.

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The Church was the single greatest landowner in Europe. And

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if you here in twenty twenty five, if you just

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do a little bit of research, you may be shocked

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to see how much property the Catholic Church owns today.

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Right the banks, They had kings in every pocket. The

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Rome was powerful and it obviously still is today. Every

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coin collected for indulgences funded not only you know, the

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basics of Rome, but the callers of all powerful families.

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bad theology right unsound doctrine. He was threatening the revenue

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system of the elites. That's when the backlash came. Right.

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took notice that Hey, this monk in Saxony has caused

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us some problems. Right, And here's something that the mainstream

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won't highlight, that you're not going to find in your textbooks.

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Is his defiance set in motion not just a theological revolt,

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but a reordering of power across Europe. Protestantism weakened Rome's grip.

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It opened the way for new political alignments. Oh and conveniently,

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it gave rulers an excuse, pardon me, to seize church

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lands and wealth. So ask yourself, this was Luther purely

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the lone monk following his conscience? Or was he also

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the useful hammer for forces already looking to break the

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Catholic monopoly on power? Obviously a lot happens in five

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thousand years or five hundred years, pardon me. I'm a

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huge fan of his writings. I encourage you to get

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his Genesis Commentary, chapters one through four. He reinforces the

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fact that Earth is only about sixty three hundred years old.

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A lot of great writings, and I will leave links

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to archive dot org to his books so you can

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read them for free. Some of them are available on Amazon,

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some of them are not. And we'll get to that later.

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But again, whether you see Luther as a hero of

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conscience or upon in a larger game, his Reformation Reformation,

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I should say, tour part the old world and really

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built the foundation for the one we live on now.

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The sparks he struck are still burning, whether individuals push

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back against institutions when other whenever truth collides with empire.

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But we need to ask the question who benefits? Right.

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that didn't really kick off. You know our American history

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books ago pre seventeen hundreds, late sixteen hundreds. You know

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the early founders, the colonies, you know, the people saying, hey,

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we should have a federal government. We'll just have hardly

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any power you can trust us wink, right. But this

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Reformation period really really had an influence on our country

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as well. So tonight we're going to look at Luther's life,

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his writings is contradictions and a lot of interesting notes

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she may not be aware of. We'll do our best

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to separate myth from facts and what really happened when

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a troubled monk sent Europe ablaze. Before we do that,

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we got about a two and a half minute clip

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from Bill Cooper. Did you know? At one point, Bill

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Clinton described Bill Cooper as the most dangerous man in America.

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We'll be right back.

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Speaker 1: Their whole purpose throughout history has been to teach a

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small number of people how to become adept at controlling

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everyone else. Their goal is to destroy all existing religions,

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save theirs, all existing governments, save theirs, and shackle the

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mob and a system of eternal oppressive debt chained to

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a computer for the rest of their life in a

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propagandized world, to make them believe that they are happy

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in this system. Now do you think they're succeeding? Haven't

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I described to you just now exactly what is going

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on in the world today. Just they're succeeding. They're succeeding

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because the American people don't understand their enemy. They don't

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even know what's happening. There's a method to their madness.

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There's really not much method to yours, because you're operating

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from a place of ignorance, and until you change that,

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you're gonna be bumbling around, bumping into each other, saying

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and doing the wrong things, not understanding the nature of

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your enemy. And if you don't understand the nature of

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your enemy and the weapons they use. You cannot fight

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that enemy. You can't fight the battle. You shouldn't even

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be on the battlefield. That's why you're losing the war.

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And don't tell me you're not, because I'm in a

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place of great knowledge about who's winning and who's losing

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this war, and I can assure you you're losing the

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war right This country was founded by dangerous men.

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Speaker 2: Amen, and.

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Speaker 1: The moment the people in this country cease to be

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dangerous men's they're going to be the day we cease

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to have a country. I'm going to tell you right now.

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Unless we can be successful in creating a real free

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press where the American people get different viewpoints other than

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those expressed in the establishment controlled media, there's going to

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be a civil war in this country, and it's going

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to come soon. The only thing that can stop it

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is by waking up vast amounts of sleeping people. Sheeple

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is what they are. They are following the judas goat

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right into the sharing pins, and from there they will

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go to the slaughter and they will not know that

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anything is wrong until they smell the blood of the

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sheeple in front of them.

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Speaker 4: Isn't that interesting That lecture was given about thirty two

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years ago and here we are. You look and see

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what's going on in Saint Louis, Los Ange Angelis and Portland,

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and with the unleashing of the military against the people

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of those cities. Right, it's interesting times we're living in,

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for sure. Let's get to the beginning of Martin Luther.

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He was born November tenth, fourteen eighty three. Speaking of

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November and Bill Cooper, I just realized if you didn't know,

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Bill was killed by I believe it was a federal

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marshall in Arizona on November fifth, two thousand and one,

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on Guy Falk's day. Interestingly enough, just seven weeks after

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nine to eleven, which he predicted. And we're just a

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couple of weeks away, right, two weeks away from the

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twenty fourth anniversary of Bill Cooper's death. Martin Luther was

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born November tenth, fourteen eighty three, in Aiseelbund, Saxony, the

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son of Hans and Margaret Luder, a mining family clawing

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its way up the social ladder. Hans was ambitious. He

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wanted a lawyer for not a monk. So Martin went

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the respectable routes Latin schools, a master's at the University

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of Erfurt, quick, disciplined, destined for law. The story goes

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that on in July of fifteen oh five, there was

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a thunderstorm outside of Stottenheim. Lightning struck close. Martin fell

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to the ground and cried, help me, say Anne, I

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will become a monk. Now, this wasn't theater for him.

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Death meant judgment, and judgment meant terror. He kept the vow,

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and within weeks he entered the Observant Augustinian monastery at Irfert.

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say well, I made a promise to God. He went

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in with his heart and his mind. And he wasn't

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doing this to dodge responsibility. He chased holiness in the

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way that men chase golden money. He fasted to the

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edge of collapse, something that we don't and I'm the

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first to admit I don't do that nearly enough. Right,

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pray through the night, confessed sins for hours. Right. He

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used to get up. There's stories he used to get

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up at three or four in the morning and pray

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for two hours before the day even started. Right, every

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stray thought, every prideful twitch, every doubt, he confessed his

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sins for his superior Johann von Staupitz had to push

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him to stop weaponizing confession against himself. Look to Christ.

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He urged because Luther was spiraling under the weight of

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a question he couldn't shake, and that question was how

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can a sinner stand before a holy God? The official

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answer was clear to him, and grace mediated through the

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Church's sacramental system, right baptism, initiating penance, repairing Eucharus, staining

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those type of things. Right on paper, the system promised mercy,

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but in practice for an anxious conscience like Luther's, to him,

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it felt like a treadmill with a speed always increasing.

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He couldn't run fast enough, So let's step back and

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open the lens a little wider. The early fifteen hundreds,

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the Church wasn't just a spiritual community. It was Europe's

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largest landholder. It was a trans national power rome had

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massive building projects, none larger than the new Saint Peter's Basilica.

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And that's why so many people are on this tangent

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about like my lunch break and other YouTube channels. If

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you look at all the architecture in many of the

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major cities in our country, especially in DC, it's all

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Roman architecture with Latin on it. So was really built

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by early settlers in the seventeen hundreds or was it

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built by the Roman Empire and founded later? That in

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itself is an entire nother podcast. But money had to move,

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and it had to move reliably. Right, That's where indulgences

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came in documents reminting the temporal punishment of sin. You

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could apply them to yourself or to the dead in purgatory.

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It was a very complex and undoctrinal logic. Right. The

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sales pitch was simple, pray, pay, reduce the pain. Now,

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this is the side of the story that you don't hear.

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These indulgence campaigns weren't just spiritual initiatives. They were financial

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instruments tied to elite credit networks. The most famous example

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in Luther's orbit involved Albrecht of Brodenberg, a young prince

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who held multiple bishops, an arrangement that already bent Church law.

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He needed cash to secure papal approval and pay fees

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and enter the papacy, which authorized a major indulgence to

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raise funds, half to roam for Saint Peter's and the

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other half to cover Albrook's debts. So who managed the

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cash flow and the collections? The Fugger banking house, Yes,

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the same Fuggers or Fugers, depends how you pronounce it,

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were Europe's premier financiers. In other words, indulgences in Luther's

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backyard were not just a matter of parish and you

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know that money staying in the community. They were plugged

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into a money machine with ledgers and audits and quotas

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and interest and usury. Now you'll add in Johann Tetzel,

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a skilled in indulgence preacher with a flair for marketing.

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Whether or not he literally said, as soon as the

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coin and the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs.

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The gist of the pitch was clear enough to enrage

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a monk who believed repentance was contrition before God, not

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a fee schedule. Right, that is doctrinally sound. Luther watched

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common people who didn't have a lot of extra money

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scraped together coins for paper promises while their lives and

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their fear didn't change. So he smelled a spiritual bait

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and switch back in the cloister. Luther continued to study.

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Staupitz sent him deeper into scripture and then on to

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Wittenberg to teach in his lectures on the Psalms and

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in Romans. Something internally began to shift with Martin Luther.

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He saw the righteousness of God in Romans one seventeen,

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not only the standard that condemned sinners, but the gift

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by which God makes sinners righteous by faith. So when

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that connection clicked. Now different scholars argue exactly when that

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connection clicked, but that's for another time. The storm in

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Luther's conscience began to break, and it's not because he

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stopped taking sin seriously, but because he finally saw a

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savior bigger than his sin, and he started listening to

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what the Word said versus what people were telling him.

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The Word said. Okay, now, let's be honest. A lot

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of biography sanitize this period as if Luther simply had

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a spiritual breakthrough and then calmly proceeded to reform the church.

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Not exactly. He lived with what he called afec tonguen

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ults of dread, doubt, and despair. He believed in a

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real devil which trusts me. He is real and real

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spiritual warfare and understands something. If you were in Christ,

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that is who the devil is attacking. He's not wasting

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a whole lot of his time on people he already has.

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That's why you have to put on the armor of

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God and be prepared twenty four to seven. He also

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lived in an institution where so many pluralism, absentee bishops

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and clerical concubinage were common enough to be punchlines.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 4: None of that means every priest was corrupt, where every

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bishop was a cynic. It simply meant the system had vulnerabilitaries, vulnerabilities,

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and the moneymen and the power brokers use those vulnerabilities

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to exploit them. Now, this is the part where mainstream

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history is often left dangling. Okay, because of church finance,

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high offices, papal projects were braided altogether, a theological challenge

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could look like an economic attack. You see, where one

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person thinks he's just trying to lay out this doctrinal theology.

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The people receiving it thought that this could change their

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entire system and break their banks. And they weren't standing

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for that right. If indulgence revenue was earmarked to pay

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bankers who had fronted cash to princes and popes and

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people who had real power than any monk who questioned indulgences,

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wasn't just arguing doctrine. He was threatening their cash flow.

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And now when we get to the backside of this podcast,

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you'll understand why they came after him. Right. That's why

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even modesh modest pushback, which I think when he posted

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the ninety five theses, I think he was just trying

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to send a message saying, hey, we're doing this wrong.

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But because it threatened such huge cash flow, it triggered

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that disproportionate response. You pull one string on indulgences and

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possibly the entire financial web could collapse. Luther's own patron,

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Frederick the Wise, the Elector of Saxony, held one of

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the largest relic collections in all of Europe, thousands of

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holy objects, each with promised remissions attached. Frederick didn't allow

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tetsel to sell inside Saxony. However, people could across a border,

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buy an indulgence and come home waving their certificate. Right

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ooh who I helped Grandpam purgatory, or I can go

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out and drink wine all weekend. I paid for my penance, right.

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But the contradictory set up that was these pious relics

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at home was the perfect pressure cooker. Frederick wasn't you know,

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some slavish disciple of Luther. He was really a shrewd

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prince who saw value in protecting this first rate professor

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while also keeping Rome at arm's length. So was Luther's

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purely alone voice or was he also a timely instrument

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for regional power who liked a bit more autonomy from

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the papal tax man. You decide, okay, now file away

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two more inconvenient details later. The famous image of Luther

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marching up the castle church and nailing the ninety five

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thesis on the door. Maybe it happened, maybe it didn't happen.

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Here's the thing. Posting thesis for debate on a church

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door was actually normal academic procedure at the time. Okay,

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to say how often it did or to have an

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effect like it did in this case obviously was far

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and few between. But what is certain is that Luther

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wrote the thesis in Latin, sent them directly to artibitious

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Albrecht with a letter protesting indulgence abuses. Now, the print

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explosion came when others translated and published them rapidly, and

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that really matters because it hints that the acceleration wasn't

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merely Luther's doing. It was a network effect in a

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new world that was wired by the pressed right that

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really changed how information flowed. And it's also fair to

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say that the theses weren't a full blown Protestant manifesto, if

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you will right. They were fifty plus critiques aimed at

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abuses and theological assumptions behind indulgences. Luther still sounded like

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a loyal son of the church calling reform, but he

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really underestimated, in my opinion, how little room there was

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to question the money flow without starting a fire. Right,

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it's a big deal. And let's get to the next views.

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And that was this, you know, the ninety five theses,

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what they actually said, and how they the press turned

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the faculty debate into this huge crisis, which it began.

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So here we go fall of fifteen seventeen. The tension

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had been simmering in Luther's conscience and classroom, and it

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file it finally boiled over into action. The indulgence trade

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was in full swing, and again he had preachers like

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Tetzel stirring crowds with fear, promising deliverance from purgatory for

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the right price. Archbishop Albrecht, knee deep in debt to

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the fulgers, needed to keep those coins rolling in. Luther

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couldn't keep quiet, so he wrote the ninety five points

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of dispute. These weren't rants scribbled in anger. They were

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carefully numbered propositions meant for academic debate among scholars. And

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again they were written in Latin, the language of the university.

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At least that was the intention. So stop there for

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a second. Remember the mainstream version of the story says

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that Luther innocently posted the thesis on the castle church

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door in Wittenberg on what date. If you listen to

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the radio show last year on Halloween, I said Happy

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Reformation Day, October thirty first, fifteen seventeen, like a student

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posting a flyer. Obviously it became an icon, right hammer,

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nail parchment, Reformation born? Did it happen or did history

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embellish the story? We weren't there. We don't know. We

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know the earliest references of the nailing comes decades later, right,

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part embellishment who knows? What we do know for sure

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is that Luther mailed his thesis towards Bisious Albrecht with

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a cover letter protesting indulgence abuses. Now that part absolutely documented.

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So how did a set of Latin points sent to

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a bishop explode so quickly across all of Europe? Of course,

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the answer is the printing press. Someone possibly friends sympathetic

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to Luther's critics, translated the theses into German, printed them

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and circulated them, and within weeks they were everywhere. This

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wasn't Luther acting alone. This was a network, intentional or not. Right,

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we know in this world rarely everything is organic, so

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we don't know. But someone knew how to weaponize the

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press and use it against Rome. Now here's another part

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that your school books won't tell you. Indulgences weren't just

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a theological debate. They were a financial contract. You see,

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every indulgence purchased sent half the money to Rome, remember

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for Saint Peter's Basilica, and the other have to pay

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Albreks loans. When Luther's theses questioned the legitimy of the indulgences, again,

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he's not just questioning church practice, he's threatening repayment streams

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to Europe's most powerful bankers. Right now, let's sample a

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few of these theses. Right, They weren't a broadside against

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Catholicism itself. In fact, many still assumed papal authority. For example,

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Luther wrote, the Pope does not intend to remit any

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penalties except those imposed by his own authority. That's thesis

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thigh Thesis five. Pardon me, look at thesis twenty. Therefore,

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the Pope, when he uses the words plenary remission of

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all penalties, does not actually mean all penalties, but only

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those imposed by himself. So these aren't protests against the

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prophecy itself, but it's against its misuse of indulgences. But

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there are others that cut much deeper. Look at Thesis

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twenty seven. It challenged Tetzel's infamous jingle. Right they teach

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human folly who say that as soon as money clinks

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into the money chest, the soul's fly out of purgatory.

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That was Martin Luther calling out the sales pitch for

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what it was folly. Thesis eighty two asked a devastatingly

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simple question, why does not the pope empty purgatory for

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the sake of holy love and the dire need of

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souls that there are if he redeems an infinite number

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of souls for the sake of the miserable money with

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which to build a church. In other words, if the

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pope really had the power to free souls, why not

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do it for free? Why are you tearing? Uh? Why

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are you tying? I should say mercy to coins. That

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was dynamite. And if you again you put it in context.

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If you're a guy with a life and a few children,

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and you barely have enough money to get by to

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feed your family, and you're giving up part of your

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income for these indulgences, and then you read this letter

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from Martin Luther, it's probably going to fire you up.

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And that's why it sparked so fast, right, That's why

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the thesis didn't remain very long in the confines of

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academic debate. At that point. The people of that time,

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they were calling out the whole spiritual economy in a question.

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Now here's a bit of a conspiratorial angle worth chewing on.

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If I had my original mixer here that is in

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the shop right now, I'd hit my little coin button.

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Right was the timing of coincidence. Right, Frederick the Wise,

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the elector of Saxony, Luther's territorial prints, had recently banned

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Tetsel from selling indulgences inside his territory. Right, it wasn't

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purely purely out of pety. Frederick had his own relic collection,

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and we've talked about that. Right, it was a power game.

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There's another overlooked layer. These thesis spread so quickly because

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the people were already primed. Right, So here's the thing.

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They were already tired of Rome's taxes. Sound familiar, Right,

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This past year, I've heard more people finally waking up

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and complaining about the tax burden that this government has

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put on us. Property taxes. Right, you get your paycheck

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that's already been taxed. Then you go to the store

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to buy something you got to pay a tax on that.

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You pay a tax on your car, your title registration,

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to go fishing, to go hunting, income tax, tax, tax,

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tax tax, property tax. People were going through the same thing.

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Rome was very parasitic at the time. I'm not saying

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it isn't now. I'm just keeping an eye on this.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 4: They were tired of the clerical scandals. They were tired

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of being told that their salvation depended on money. And

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Luther put into words what countless peasants and merchants and

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even nobles were already whispering. He wasn't a lone prophet

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that was crying in the wilderness. He was the lightning

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rod for frustrations that have been building for a long time.

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And of course, when you threaten powerful people like that, right,

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you know, the president has a bunch of people that

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writes the retorts to you know, I'm sure Bill Clinton

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probably had about fifty writers, right I did not right,

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people ready with pen and paper to build a response.

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And in fifteen eighteen Luther was summoned to defend himself

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at Augsburg before Cardinal Kajetan Rome ordered him to recant.

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I mean, imagine at that time the head of Rome saying,

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recant your statement, and he said no. Then the debate

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escalated at Leipzig. Anybody, I should say, most people who

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went to Iraq, they know exactly where Leipzig is. We

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flew out out of there many times in Germany. But

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the debate escalated in Leipzig in fifteen nineteen, where Luther

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went further, denying the infallibility of counsels and papal authority.

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And that's when it became clear this was not just

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a quarrel over indulgences anymore. The Reformation was on and

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it was at that point people knew the split was coming.

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And here's the thing. You look at our modern world today.

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If you abuse or are so parasitic on people for

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so long, they people won't. They have a boiling point,

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They have a line in the sand, and they say

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enough is enough. And when you're paying five dollars for

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a loaf of bread, I paid eight dollars Anne nine

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cents for some heavy cream the other day. Today I

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had lunch with my brother in law. I picked up

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two salads. It was thirty dollars. People have had enough.

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And this is what happened. And especially when you tell

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people that they're you know, salvation depends on it. It's

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a big deal. So again, mainstream historians package it is

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a clean story of conscience versus corruption. But if you

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follow the money, you really understand why the machine moved

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against them the way that they really did. And before

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we get into the next section talking about the theological core,

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and his writings. I want to pause. And I know

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this is probably a little old news now. As I mentioned,

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I wanted to play some audio for you this weekend,

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but I didn't have time.

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Speaker 3: This is.

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Speaker 4: Benny Johnson who was interviewing Eric Trump, and I always

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felt like Benny Johnson was a decent guy. Again, a

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lot of these people I know who they are, but

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I don't know them right, But I felt bad Benny

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missed a big opportunity here to correct Eric Trump, and

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he missed it. And I'm going to play this audio

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for you. We'll be back in about ninety seconds.

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Speaker 5: Destroy us. And yet here we are, and we have

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this amazing piece deal on Charlie Kirk's birthday. I can't

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tell you how many things are lining up. I mean,

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think about the fact that this book came out on

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Charlie Kirk's birthday, on the same day as we have

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peace in the Middle East, you know, I mean, so

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many different factors are all coming together at once in

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the most unthinkable, unbelievable journey. You could have scripted this.

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You could not. The wildest author could not have scripted

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this book. And the trials and tribulations and twists and

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turns to get to where we are today. And look

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how much better humanity and our world is. You know,

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we're saving Christianity, We're saving God, or saving the family unit,

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We're saving this nation. I mean, you know, DEI is

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out the window, Benny, you know, I mean you no

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longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national you know,

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for the national anthem. You no longer have you know,

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a Budweiser going woke as hell, or all of all

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of this is is dead. And yet what do we have?

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Speaker 4: You know, we have a return to people going to church.

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Speaker 5: We have a return to people, you know, valuing their

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children and valuing society and believing in the white picket

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fence and what the American dream represents and what the

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American dream stands for, and American exceptionalism and peace around

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the world, and that people can coexist with one another

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without having a you know, pick up arms and destroy

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each other for no reason whatsoever other than you know,

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incompetent and you know, and and egotistical governments. It's a

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beautiful time. And he will go to heaven for all

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of that. God absolutely guided this journey in ways that

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you know you'll you'll learn an under stage and it's

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a big part of the story. But he was, he

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was there the entire time.

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Speaker 4: Man, I'll tell you what. Beny's sitting there smiling and

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shaking his head. And whether or not he just doesn't

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have the confidence and I don't know this, gentleman, I

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never met him. Whether or not he doesn't have the

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confidence to challenge a Trump, or he is part of

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the platform. There were two huge and miss you know,

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two huge misses there. Number one trying to say that

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you can get to heaven on works is a joke.

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And then saying that Trump is saving God. Man, it's hard.

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It's like watching the Hinden Mirk. It really is. Let's

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jump into the next section here. So after the thesis

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went viral, Luther had a choice, all right, he could

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retreat build on what he started, and he chose to build.

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And he built wasn't just protest. It was a new

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framework of salvation and scripture and how the church itself

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understood and to this day two very powerful slogans, solified

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and the scriptura right solifide means faith alone, grace through faith.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 4: Luther had delivered in terror of God's judgment exhausting himself

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in confession and penance. But in studying the Book of

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Romans written by Paul, he came to see that the

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righteousness righteousness of God was not simply a standard condemning sinners,

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but a gift God gives through Christ. We don't climb

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up to God with works or payments or penance. Right

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God comes or indulgences. God comes down to us with grace.

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Faith is not an achievement. Its trust is the promise

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that Christ has already accomplished in things that we never could. Okay,

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solas scriptura means scripture alone. For centuries, authority in the

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Church flowed from scripture and tradition, with the pope and

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counsels claiming final say in disputes. Luther said, no, the

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word of God is the final authority. Counsels canare pope's

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canair why because they're human. Scripture stands unchanged. Now this

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was revolutionary at the time because it shifted power away

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from Rome's hierarchy and into the hands of any believer

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with the Bible. Now you understand why Rome felt so threatened.

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First they were threatening his money. You know, First Luther

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was threatening their money. Now he's directly threatening Rome's authority.

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But here's the kicker. Until Martin Luther, most laypeople didn't

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even have have a Bible they could read. Remember, scripture

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was written in Latin, locked behind the clerical class. Right,

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and his new translation of the New Testament into German

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in fifteen twenty two, later the Full Bible in fifteen

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thirty four. Then you get into the Geneva Bible and

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the King James version in just at what was sixteen

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oh four, right, and now all of a sudden, in

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fifteen twenty two forward, the common farmer, the blacksmith, the

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mother at home. They could all read the word in

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their own tongue. And with the press, the Bibles circulated widely.

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That's why historians call it one of the most influential

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translations ever made. It didn't just give people access to text,

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it gave them access to authority. Right now. Again, Luther's

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translation wasn't just about piety, was standardizing the German language,

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creating a new cultural unity that served the rising power

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of German princes. With one language, one Bible, one common confession,

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regional rulers could strengthen their independence from Rome. So Luther,

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only a reformer of conscience or was he also knowingly

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or not serving the political project of Germany? Right, And

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that's kind of a there's also a world where he's

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just serving his people, not necessarily reflecting to a government

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in itself.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 4: Some of his key writings on the freedom of a

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Christian that was written in fifteen twenty, and this is

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where he lays out his paradox.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 4: He says, a Christian is a perfectly free lord of all,

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subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant

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of all, subject to all. So in context, faith frees

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you from the bondage of work's righteousness, but that freedom

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expresses itself in love and service. Radical words, though often

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stripped of their edge today. The same year he wrote

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to the Christian nobility of the German nation. So here

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he's appealing directly to the secular rulers to reform the

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church if Rome won't. He tears down the three walls

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that Rome had built, the division between clergy and laity,

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the pope's monopoly on interpretation, and the pope's sole authority

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to call councils. This is where reformation stops being just

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theology and becomes politics. By calling nobles to step in.

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Luther gave them a theological excuse to seize church lands

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and cut papal influence. So, yes, elites continue to benefit,

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just different elites. Not even know what word do you use?

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Ruling class? I hate that elites the hidden hand, right,

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but the people at the top of the food chain,

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the parasitic class if you like. Right then fifteen twenty

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five the bondage of the will. That was Luther's debate

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with Erasmus. Luther hammered home that human will is bound

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by sin and that salvation is entirely God's work. Why

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does this matter? Because it shows that Luther wasn't just

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against indulgences. He was against any theology that made salvation

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depend on human effort, and that became really the dividing

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line in Reformation. Now let's get to his table. Talk

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very interesting here. So by the mid fifteen twenties, Luther

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was no law longer just some monk. He had married

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a former nun, Katherine of von Bora, built a household

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in Wittenberg, and his home became more than just a

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family residence. It turned into a hub for students and

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colleagues and visitors, and at the dinner table over mugs

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of beer and hearty meals. Martin Luther spoke freely. His

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students scribbled it all down, and those notes were later

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compiled in what we call the table talk. Now, this

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is the Luth that you're not going to find in

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the textbooks. He was brilliant, he was funny, he was pastoral,

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he was contradictory, all within the same sense. So with

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the table talks you get the human side of him.

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He joked, he told stories, spent time with his family,

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comforted his children, praise his as Lord Katie for how

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she ran the household. He could be tender, reminding his

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students that faith is as simple as a child clinging

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to Christ. Right, this is the luth who wrote Ham's

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like a mighty Fortress is our God, who believed the

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word could be sung into the hearts of the people.

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And then there was the other Luther who, depending on

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who you talk to, right, some people say he would

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hurdle insults with creativity, calling the pope Antichrist, which, let's

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be fair, there are many people today that think and

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this is the fine line. When Luther was calling people Antichrist,

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he wasn't saying that they were the Antichrist who comes

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at end times. You are either for Christ or I

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should say this way, you are either in Christ or

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you are Antichrist. And I believe what he was saying

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here was the Pope was a wolf in sheep's clothes, clothing,

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and he was Antichrist. Maybe in some context he did

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call him the Antichrist. Right. Now, here's the part that

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every single history book sanitizes. And you can find most

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of Martin Luther's books on Amazon, but there is one

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book that you cannot find on Amazon, and you're very

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hard pressed to find. But I will have the link

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in the show notes to take you to archive dot

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org and you can read or even download the book

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for free. In the table talk, Luther talked about the

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Jews and yes, Muslims. Very very interesting table talks. Unfortunately

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then weren't published until years after his death. But the

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table talks are a gold mine because it reveals so

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much truly, you know, calling the Pope the old serpent,

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the Rome, calling Roma brothel, but when you actually sit

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down and read the book, Martin Luther the Jews and

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their lives. He's attacking them for their lack of faith

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and how they have turned their back on God and

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Jesus Christ for thousands of years. Now modern world, especially

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if those people are running the newspaper, well, what is

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this nineteen seventy four. If they're running you know, the

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websites and CNN and MSNBC and YouTube, they're going to

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hide these things. Right. The churches in mainstream media is

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going to give you the warm luthor, the family man,

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the preacher of grace, the bold man who you know

665
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attacked the ninety five thesis on the church. Remember, and

666
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this is something that we talk about all the time,

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even at church, every time that there's a revival, right,

668
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:18,639
there's a genuine revival now against or with gen Z

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as they say, and many others since September tenth, and

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a lot of people get caught up in the who

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did it and all of this, when really, if you

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follow Christ, you should be grabbing hold of this moment

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and running with it and leaning into it.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 4: And that's here's what I'm afraid of. If you go

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back to the original, the very first great Awakening of

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the seventeen forties and fifties that got wiped out from

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war World War One, the Christmas Truce of was it

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nineteen fourteen, you had British and German troops singing songs,

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exchanging gifts, allowing each other to bury their dead, even

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playing soccer together, and then they're told to get back

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to war. If that sentence alone doesn't tell you how

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controlled we are, what puppets we are. Where in one moment,

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we're shaking hands, you know what part of Germany. I'm

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from Bavaria, We're from England, are you? I'm from Liverpool,

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and talking about this and that, shaking hands and exchanging

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gifts and you know, exchanging rations and playing a game

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of soccer against each other, and then you're told by somebody, okay,

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now go back to killing each other. That is exactly

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what happened. And unfortunately, anytime that there's a great awakening,

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anytime there is a revival of this nature, the parasitic

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class step in and start another war. Look, there's a

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lot of things going on in the world right now,

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South America, Europe. You know, we don't want to lose

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sleep over things we can't control. But there should be

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a sense of urgency of taking this moment and running

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with it, because that's what happened. Right the Reformation was

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in full swing, and you know, the wars of religion

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were breaking out, right. So there's two table talks I

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want to kind of highlight and we'll wrap it up

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for fifty minutes in already. But let's talk about Luther

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versus Copernicus. Now you want to add another podcast. For

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several years we ran about two hundred and fifty episodes.

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We entered people, We interviewed people from all over the world,

705
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all across this world, right, and they shared their journey

706
00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:01,960
to the truth. And you know, we understand that Satan

707
00:51:02,039 --> 00:51:05,880
can't create anything. All he can do is deceive and pervert.

708
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:11,159
So let's focus back back on this, pardon me. By

709
00:51:11,199 --> 00:51:14,000
the time Luther was settling into his role as a reformer,

710
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:18,920
this new idea creeping onto the stage of Europe was

711
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:22,000
an idea that the Earth maybe wasn't the center of

712
00:51:22,079 --> 00:51:26,480
God's creation but just another planet spinning through space and

713
00:51:26,599 --> 00:51:30,360
around the Sun. And again, before you get worked up

714
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:35,480
over the subject, this is a true story from the

715
00:51:35,599 --> 00:51:39,760
fifteen late fifteen thirties, early fifteen forties that Martin Luther

716
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:45,480
had with Copernicus. So this movement of that maybe we're

717
00:51:45,519 --> 00:51:47,880
not on a spinning ball is not just oh, bro

718
00:51:48,039 --> 00:51:50,280
It just started on YouTube ten years ago. Now, there's

719
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:52,800
been plenty of books written on it for hundreds of years.

720
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:00,320
The man most often credited with pushing this theory of

721
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:05,679
heliocentrism was Nicholas Copernicus, and he was this Polish mathematician.

722
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:10,599
Mainstream historians paint Copernicus is a bold genius ahead of

723
00:52:10,639 --> 00:52:16,199
his time, a hero of science standing against backward religion.

724
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:20,519
Right those Hillbilli Appalachians is basically what he was calling them. Right,

725
00:52:22,039 --> 00:52:25,480
they loved the contrast. On one hand. You know Luther

726
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:30,559
the narrow minded theologian with Copernicus the enlightened thinker. Right,

727
00:52:31,199 --> 00:52:33,519
that's if you ask someone who's involved in science, that's

728
00:52:33,559 --> 00:52:38,480
what you get. So again, Copernicus sat on his so

729
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:42,400
called heliocentric model for fifteen twenty years, depending on who

730
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:46,440
you ask. He didn't publish De revulun how do you

731
00:52:46,519 --> 00:52:50,440
say this, De revolution abyss until fifteen forty three, and

732
00:52:50,519 --> 00:52:53,639
that's a very year he died. So why did he

733
00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:58,039
wait just prior to his death to reveal something if

734
00:52:58,119 --> 00:53:00,760
he believed in it so much, if it was such

735
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:08,119
a breakthrough, Because even he knew the math didn't match observation,

736
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:16,199
he knew he was just reshuffling these ptolemiic cycles and

737
00:53:17,199 --> 00:53:19,280
epicycles on epicycles.

738
00:53:20,159 --> 00:53:20,280
Speaker 1: Right.

739
00:53:24,119 --> 00:53:28,519
Speaker 4: The numbers didn't prove his models. They simply are rearranged assumptions.

740
00:53:28,599 --> 00:53:31,840
And by the way, they have rearranged the numbers numerous

741
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:38,280
times the more technology advances. Okay, most importantly, this is

742
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:44,079
what Luther stood behind. The scriptures do not support what

743
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:46,920
you were taught in school. And this is something I

744
00:53:47,039 --> 00:53:51,880
talk about to pastors. I had a great, great conversation

745
00:53:52,079 --> 00:53:56,880
about a week ago, this past Wednesday, with a pastor

746
00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:02,400
two hours having a deep conversation. And you know, I

747
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:05,760
talk about how we confuse our children. Right, they sit

748
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,599
down in Sunday school, we teach them about the flood,

749
00:54:09,079 --> 00:54:11,880
how the earth was created, right, how God created it,

750
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:17,280
how he created man. And then they go to their

751
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:20,079
public school and they're taught no, the earth was created

752
00:54:20,159 --> 00:54:24,159
by a huge explosion, something from nothing, and we evolved

753
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:27,800
from fish to frogs to monkeys to man and then

754
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:31,559
we just stopped evolving, and that dinosaurs are eight billion

755
00:54:31,639 --> 00:54:35,519
years old. Why do we confuse our children like that?

756
00:54:36,159 --> 00:54:38,480
Why don't we teach them on the one hand this,

757
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:43,000
On the other hand, that because that's the point of

758
00:54:43,079 --> 00:54:48,880
the matrix to confuse, to keep you so busy that

759
00:54:49,039 --> 00:54:54,960
you don't actually take the time to see straight. Luther

760
00:54:55,159 --> 00:54:57,760
was not shy about that, and one of his table

761
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:02,480
talks in fifteen thirty nine he dismissed Copernicus' outright this

762
00:55:02,679 --> 00:55:07,360
is the father of heliocentrism. Martin Luther said, and I

763
00:55:07,559 --> 00:55:11,199
quote this fool wants to turn the whole art of

764
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:17,000
astronomy upside down. But scripture tells us that Joshua commanded

765
00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:22,480
the sun to stand still, not the Earth. This isn't

766
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:25,599
about Martin Luther being stubborn. He is pointing to the

767
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:31,119
text from the Bible, God's divine word, from Genesis to

768
00:55:31,199 --> 00:55:35,199
Psalms to Joshua. The earth is fixed, it's immovable, while

769
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:37,679
the Sun, the moon, and the stars move in their courses.

770
00:55:38,679 --> 00:55:47,920
So Copernicus is directly contradicting God's word. So you have

771
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:53,000
to ask yourself was there anybody behind Copernicus because his

772
00:55:53,159 --> 00:55:57,079
book was kind of shepherded into print by a guy

773
00:55:57,199 --> 00:56:02,840
named Andreas Osander. He was a Lutheran turned reformer who

774
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:05,719
inserted a preface claiming that the system was just a

775
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:11,199
mathematical convenience, not reality. That preface downplayed what Copernicus was

776
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:15,599
really saying, softening for church sensors. In other words, from

777
00:56:15,679 --> 00:56:20,199
day one, the heliocentric theory was smuggled in under false pretenses,

778
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:29,559
fraudulent from the start. And that's why it was so

779
00:56:29,639 --> 00:56:35,199
important for Rome to push this heliocentrism. Right, Martin Luther

780
00:56:36,199 --> 00:56:42,719
is dismantling Rome's spiritual monopoly. He's translating the Bible into

781
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:46,719
the language of the people, and he's anchoring truth back

782
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:53,760
to scripture. What better way to undermine Martin Luther than

783
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:57,280
to introduce a shiny new cosmic model that made Scripture

784
00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:01,440
looked outdated. And if you don't understand how deep that

785
00:57:01,639 --> 00:57:09,400
cuts that subconsciously, the heliocentric system keeps people away from God.

786
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:13,760
If you can't see that, you should sit back and

787
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:17,920
truly understand that the Big Bang theory and evolution and

788
00:57:18,079 --> 00:57:24,039
heliocentrism are all intentionally created and meant to trivialize our Creator.

789
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:35,480
And you know, from Copernicus, then it goes to Galileo,

790
00:57:35,599 --> 00:57:40,559
to Newton, to Darwin, the Big Bang right, scientific progress.

791
00:57:42,719 --> 00:57:45,599
We live on a ball that's spinning one thousand miles

792
00:57:45,639 --> 00:57:48,880
an hour, flying around the Sun. At sixty seven thousand

793
00:57:49,159 --> 00:57:56,239
miles per hour. It's random, it's meaningless, it's godless. It's

794
00:57:56,320 --> 00:58:00,920
not science, it's its own religion. And Luther smelled it

795
00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:05,039
early and called he called Copernicus a fool, and he

796
00:58:05,239 --> 00:58:09,199
was right. Copernicus wasn't delivering truth. He was laying down

797
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:12,920
the first bricks of a counterfeit system. And the parasitic

798
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:15,920
class then now loved that system because it strips away

799
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:20,039
the centrality of man, the centrality of God's creation, and

800
00:58:20,199 --> 00:58:23,360
it replaces it with endless space, where you're just dust

801
00:58:23,719 --> 00:58:26,639
in a time that's been going on for billions of years.

802
00:58:26,719 --> 00:58:31,000
You're meaningless, and you're easier to control. So when Luther

803
00:58:31,199 --> 00:58:35,000
rejected Copernicus, it wasn't out of ignorance. It was out

804
00:58:35,039 --> 00:58:39,840
of discernment. He understood that any model that contradicts scripture

805
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:43,840
is false, no matter how cleverly it's dressed up in mathematics.

806
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:48,360
And five centuries later, as we peel back NASA fakery

807
00:58:48,519 --> 00:58:51,480
from the Challenger to the moon Landing, we see that

808
00:58:51,639 --> 00:58:54,280
Luther wasn't behind the times, he was ahead of the game.

809
00:58:55,559 --> 00:58:58,920
Now this is the part that made a lot more

810
00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:01,920
people upset. That was his later writings against the Jews.

811
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:06,880
Mainstream historians either weaponize these to smear everything he stood for,

812
00:59:08,159 --> 00:59:11,599
or they bury them to protect his image. And I

813
00:59:11,719 --> 00:59:18,440
don't do either, you know that, right. So again it's

814
00:59:18,519 --> 00:59:21,760
the fifteen forties. Martin Luther's no longer this young monk

815
00:59:22,719 --> 00:59:26,800
battling indulgences. He's an older man dealing with poor health.

816
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:33,280
He had kidney stones. Tonightis bounts of depression, which dealing

817
00:59:33,519 --> 00:59:36,079
you know, I don't want to say fighting. But what

818
00:59:36,239 --> 00:59:38,320
he did for all those years, it was a struggle

819
00:59:39,199 --> 00:59:41,119
and the weight of a movement that had grown beyond

820
00:59:41,159 --> 00:59:46,159
his control. His reformation had splintered into Lutherans and a Baptist,

821
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:50,320
radicals and more. He saw confusion. Division in his eyes,

822
00:59:51,159 --> 00:59:54,000
threats to both the Gospel and the German people. And

823
00:59:54,119 --> 00:59:56,880
it was this later period that he wrote one of

824
00:59:56,960 --> 01:00:03,880
his more open works, and that was again, he doesn't

825
01:00:04,039 --> 01:00:06,199
mince words. And that's one thing you have to understand

826
01:00:06,239 --> 01:00:11,679
about Martin Luther. And I think that's okay. If I

827
01:00:11,719 --> 01:00:15,280
ask somebody a question, I want an answer. When I

828
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:17,679
practice a sermon and I give that audio to somebody,

829
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:19,320
I don't want them to tell me it's good and

830
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:21,719
pat me on the back if it's not. Because if

831
01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:23,159
I stand up in front of one hundred people and

832
01:00:23,199 --> 01:00:25,840
they give me the wonky eye, I really wish that

833
01:00:25,880 --> 01:00:29,159
guy would have told me. Right, I want truth, no

834
01:00:29,239 --> 01:00:30,639
matter how bitter it taste.

835
01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:31,559
Speaker 1: Right.

836
01:00:35,719 --> 01:00:42,400
Speaker 4: Understand this, and this is what people don't get when

837
01:00:42,480 --> 01:00:47,000
we talk about Jews. We're not coming out of a

838
01:00:47,079 --> 01:00:49,800
position of hate. At least you better not be Okay,

839
01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:53,199
what he's doing here is he's trying to address real

840
01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:58,639
doctrinal disputes rooted in his conviction that salvation only comes

841
01:00:58,639 --> 01:01:01,159
through Christ alone. That's why when you get in these

842
01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:03,880
churches and you see on whether it's the church bulletin

843
01:01:04,039 --> 01:01:09,960
or you know, after offering or tithing, I should say,

844
01:01:10,079 --> 01:01:13,480
right when the pastor says any prayer request, there's always

845
01:01:13,519 --> 01:01:16,079
that one person pray for Israel, pray for the United States.

846
01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:19,199
Be more specific, what are you praying about the United

847
01:01:19,239 --> 01:01:24,360
States for our protection, for prosperity, or that every nies

848
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:27,639
shall bow? And every time confess, why are you praying

849
01:01:27,679 --> 01:01:31,719
for Israel? What are we praying for Israel for their protection? Well,

850
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:35,039
let's pray for the protection of the Palestinians too, Right,

851
01:01:35,519 --> 01:01:41,039
because those twenty those twenty Israelis got all the press coverage,

852
01:01:41,039 --> 01:01:45,039
they got all the family pictures. But the two thousand

853
01:01:45,199 --> 01:01:49,920
Palestinians they were militants, they were detainees. And the same

854
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:53,320
people who were complaining about the January sixth event are

855
01:01:53,519 --> 01:01:59,280
championing what happened there because the twenty Israelis were hostages.

856
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:15,480
The two thousand Palestinians were terrorists. Right, And that's what

857
01:02:15,559 --> 01:02:19,719
we try to tell people. You better be praying for everyone,

858
01:02:21,119 --> 01:02:27,280
don't pick teams. The Bible itself is filled with warnings

859
01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:34,000
against unbelief, against idolatry, against rejecting the Messiah. In Luther's mind,

860
01:02:34,079 --> 01:02:37,599
the Jews of his day, they weren't some neutral bystanders.

861
01:02:38,559 --> 01:02:40,880
They were active opponents of the Gospel. And they still

862
01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:46,320
are today, misleading Christians, blaspheming christ and in some cases

863
01:02:47,039 --> 01:02:49,360
trying to convert Christians back to the old law, the

864
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:55,159
old Covenant. So here we go fifteen forty three, and

865
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:58,119
this will be in the show notes on the Jews

866
01:02:58,199 --> 01:03:02,039
and their lives. Historians will just show the harshest lines,

867
01:03:02,280 --> 01:03:06,119
right and listen, he was calling for synagogues to be destroyed,

868
01:03:06,639 --> 01:03:09,559
for Jewish writings to be burned, rabbis to be silenced.

869
01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:13,159
And again, if you show some people lines out of

870
01:03:13,199 --> 01:03:16,840
the Talmud, it's back at us, right. If a gentile

871
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:19,440
should read the Torah, we should be put to death.

872
01:03:22,239 --> 01:03:27,360
What he was doing was he was citing scripture. When

873
01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:29,639
you read through this, he is citing scripture. He's reciting

874
01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:35,280
Isaiah fifty three, Galatians three twenty eight. He saw himself

875
01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:38,800
echoing the prophets who rebuked Israel for the same things

876
01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:42,719
Idolatry right, and the apostles who clashed with the synagogue

877
01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:47,880
leaders who rejected Christ. He was doing nothing different. It

878
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:55,719
wasn't about race. It's about doctrine right now. Right whether

879
01:03:55,760 --> 01:04:02,920
it's Henry Ford or Martin Luther, they are labeled as

880
01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:12,440
anti Semites because you know, it's doctrine. And when they say, oh,

881
01:04:12,559 --> 01:04:17,360
these writings are proto Nazi racism, that's dishonest and it's slander.

882
01:04:18,920 --> 01:04:22,519
Luther never imagined racial categories as we think of them today.

883
01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:25,760
He judged by faith and doctrine, not by bloodlines. And

884
01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:29,239
that's what a lot of these evangelicals still have in

885
01:04:29,280 --> 01:04:36,599
their head. And bloodlines ended with Christ's resurrection and then

886
01:04:36,639 --> 01:04:40,440
the subsequent destruction of Jerusalem in seven a d. That

887
01:04:40,639 --> 01:04:43,800
was half the battle that Paul had. Right, what's the

888
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:47,519
oldest book in the New Testament? First Thessalonians. Right, he's

889
01:04:47,559 --> 01:04:51,960
explaining to people he gets the letter, you know, first,

890
01:04:52,239 --> 01:04:55,239
you know it's encouraging, but then they start to say,

891
01:04:55,280 --> 01:05:00,639
well what about you know, my grandfather who died before Christ? Right,

892
01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:04,519
and asking all these things, And that's what Luther's trying

893
01:05:04,559 --> 01:05:08,760
to do here. He's trying to say, hey, listen and listen.

894
01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:10,159
I'm not trying to compare one to the other. What

895
01:05:10,199 --> 01:05:13,760
I'm saying is it's simple doctrine. And he's trying to

896
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:17,079
get people to understand that there is only one covenant

897
01:05:17,159 --> 01:05:19,480
now and it's been that way for two thousand years

898
01:05:19,559 --> 01:05:22,239
back then, it was fifteen hundred years during Martin Luther's time.

899
01:05:23,159 --> 01:05:29,679
It's one covenant nowhere bloodlines John fourteen six, Galatian three twenty,

900
01:05:29,719 --> 01:05:32,039
and there are so many. The only way to him

901
01:05:32,119 --> 01:05:35,440
is through Christ, and the Jews do not recognize Christ.

902
01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:39,039
And that's the point he's trying to make. And yes,

903
01:05:39,159 --> 01:05:42,559
the Jews have caused trouble in many countries. They've been

904
01:05:42,599 --> 01:05:46,159
kicked out of one hundred and nine and multiple times right,

905
01:05:46,559 --> 01:05:48,840
But you can't come from a position of hate, because

906
01:05:48,840 --> 01:05:51,880
you automatically lose when you come from hate. We have

907
01:05:52,039 --> 01:05:53,760
to pray and hope that they fall to their knees

908
01:05:53,800 --> 01:05:56,320
and find Christ. That would solve a lot of our problems.

909
01:05:57,280 --> 01:05:57,440
Speaker 1: Right.

910
01:05:59,079 --> 01:06:02,920
Speaker 4: But Martin Luther befriend and baptized a Jew who confessed

911
01:06:02,960 --> 01:06:05,039
to Christ just as soon as he would a Christian

912
01:06:05,400 --> 01:06:09,639
German peasant, I should say. But if someone rejected Christ

913
01:06:10,320 --> 01:06:13,400
and taught others to do the same, Luther came down

914
01:06:13,480 --> 01:06:15,199
on them as well. It didn't matter if they were Jews,

915
01:06:15,280 --> 01:06:21,559
Muslim or just you know, straight up atheist. He applied

916
01:06:21,639 --> 01:06:26,519
passages like John eight, where Jesus is telling the unbelieving Jews,

917
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:31,840
ye are of the Father, the Devil, and to him,

918
01:06:32,119 --> 01:06:34,960
rejecting Christ was satanic, and he wrote just like it

919
01:06:35,679 --> 01:06:40,000
right on page let me have my page fourteen of

920
01:06:40,639 --> 01:06:45,480
his book. There's an entire section entitled children of the Devils.

921
01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:49,320
Our Lord also calls them vipers and John eight thirty nine,

922
01:06:49,719 --> 01:06:52,480
if you were Abraham's children, you would do the works

923
01:06:52,519 --> 01:06:56,360
of Abraham. You are the work of your father. I'm sorry,

924
01:06:56,440 --> 01:06:59,440
you are of your father, the Devil. And he goes

925
01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:02,199
on to say was unbearable for them that they should

926
01:07:02,239 --> 01:07:04,920
be the children of the devil, that they cannot hear it.

927
01:07:06,039 --> 01:07:08,920
For if they would have to give us this foundation

928
01:07:09,159 --> 01:07:13,320
Abraham's children, everything they have built upon would have to

929
01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:16,920
fall and be different. In the following, this self praise

930
01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:23,599
is refuted from Scripture as unfounded assumptions. These dissertations close

931
01:07:23,679 --> 01:07:27,079
with these words. But this will I say for the

932
01:07:27,159 --> 01:07:30,199
strengthening of our faith, For the Jews will not let

933
01:07:30,360 --> 01:07:33,960
this pride and this glory for their nobility and blood

934
01:07:34,039 --> 01:07:37,360
be taken away from them. As said above, they are hardened.

935
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Our people, however, should be on their guard against these hardened,

936
01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:47,360
condemned people who accuse God of lying and proudly despise

937
01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:51,119
the whole world that they have not been misled. For

938
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the Jews would gladly entice us to accept their faith

939
01:07:55,679 --> 01:07:59,559
and to do wherever they can. For if God should

940
01:07:59,599 --> 01:08:03,119
be great toward the Jews, they first would have to

941
01:08:03,199 --> 01:08:06,000
do away with their schools, out of their hearts and

942
01:08:06,119 --> 01:08:09,800
out of their mouths, all such blasphemous prayers and songs,

943
01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:14,320
and the boasting of pride about their blood. For such

944
01:08:14,480 --> 01:08:18,359
prayer constantly increases God's wrath upon them. But they will

945
01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:22,319
not do this nor humble themselves, except a few individuals

946
01:08:22,359 --> 01:08:26,079
whom God draws especially and redeems from their terrible destruction.

947
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This was five hundred years ago. But if you say this,

948
01:08:32,119 --> 01:08:35,760
if you read this, that's what people don't get is

949
01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:41,640
that the claim anti Semitism cuts much deeper. And there's

950
01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:44,640
so many Christians who follow Christ who support these people,

951
01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:49,840
and it's hard to watch. And again I'm not saying

952
01:08:49,920 --> 01:08:53,520
to come from Hey, that's the wrong way. But if

953
01:08:53,520 --> 01:08:57,399
you don't identify it and tell other Christians that, hey,

954
01:08:59,039 --> 01:09:01,319
there is only one way to Him and that is

955
01:09:01,359 --> 01:09:04,720
through Christ, these people do not. They're very prideful people.

956
01:09:05,119 --> 01:09:08,600
You'll hear whether it's net, Yahoo or whoever it is,

957
01:09:08,840 --> 01:09:18,119
it's us, we aye us. It's not about him. So again,

958
01:09:18,119 --> 01:09:19,720
if you want to read the whole, it's not a

959
01:09:19,800 --> 01:09:21,880
super long book. I think it's sixty eight pages or so.

960
01:09:23,359 --> 01:09:25,239
But you know, if you do like it, you might

961
01:09:25,279 --> 01:09:27,119
want to print it out because who knows how long

962
01:09:27,159 --> 01:09:36,319
it's going to be on the internet. So again, interesting times.

963
01:09:40,279 --> 01:09:42,399
Let's wrap up here in a minute. Let's talk about

964
01:09:42,439 --> 01:09:46,319
his legacy. He died in fifteen forty six. Back in

965
01:09:46,399 --> 01:09:49,920
his hometown of isl Ben. But you know, here we

966
01:09:49,960 --> 01:09:52,239
are five hundred years later almost and his voice is

967
01:09:52,279 --> 01:09:59,520
still being echoed. He began as an anxious monk who

968
01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:05,640
ended as a figure who really rewired the faith and

969
01:10:06,479 --> 01:10:09,880
stood up against the Roman Empire in politics and culture.

970
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He ended up shattering Rome's monopoly. Right before Luther, the

971
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Church of Rome was the unquestioned spiritual empire of Europe.

972
01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:25,279
After Luther, no one could pretend that a single pope,

973
01:10:25,920 --> 01:10:30,279
a single council, where a single institution held uncontested authority.

974
01:10:31,439 --> 01:10:34,279
That crack in the dam opened the floodgates for reforation

975
01:10:34,439 --> 01:10:39,720
movements across the continent. Some went in directions Luther never endorsed.

976
01:10:40,239 --> 01:10:45,880
There was Wingillian Switzerland, Calvin and Geneva, and a Baptists

977
01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:50,800
across Rhineland, but the common denomination was simply Rome no

978
01:10:50,920 --> 01:10:54,840
longer had this monopoly on salvation, and people could read

979
01:10:54,920 --> 01:10:58,279
the Bible for themselves. He gave the Bible back to

980
01:10:58,520 --> 01:11:03,720
the people, right, it was very important. He exposed the

981
01:11:03,800 --> 01:11:07,039
money machine with the ninety five theses. He stood against

982
01:11:07,279 --> 01:11:11,880
counterfeit science of his day. Right when Copernicus pushes unbiblical

983
01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:16,640
heliocentric model, Luther rejected it. And once again, you point

984
01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:18,239
any of these things out that we've talked about for

985
01:11:18,319 --> 01:11:21,119
the last hour, you're either anti science or anti semite,

986
01:11:21,199 --> 01:11:25,479
or anti this or anti that. No, I'm simply following

987
01:11:25,560 --> 01:11:27,840
the word and what it says, because I know man

988
01:11:27,920 --> 01:11:28,800
lies about everything.

989
01:11:29,119 --> 01:11:29,600
Speaker 1: We know that.

990
01:11:30,359 --> 01:11:33,760
Speaker 4: That's what I try to tell people. If you think

991
01:11:33,800 --> 01:11:37,319
there's just lying about some things, you're fooling yourself. You're

992
01:11:37,439 --> 01:11:42,039
absolutely fooling yourself. Right and listen, back in twenty twenty,

993
01:11:42,760 --> 01:11:47,039
we were called morons, fools, my goodness, we're going to

994
01:11:47,119 --> 01:11:50,000
kill grandma if we hugger because we didn't want the vaccine.

995
01:11:51,239 --> 01:11:53,840
Sometimes it takes a few weeks, sometimes it takes a

996
01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:58,000
few years, but we're usually proven right, not right about everything,

997
01:11:58,159 --> 01:12:03,079
but you have the ability to see, you understand how

998
01:12:03,079 --> 01:12:09,560
the world works. Right before I give my final words,

999
01:12:09,760 --> 01:12:13,800
I have one more audio clip to play and it

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kind of goes about what we talked about at the end.

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01:12:17,359 --> 01:12:20,119
This is a little commentary on the Sacklers, the family

1002
01:12:20,439 --> 01:12:22,199
behind oxycotin.

1003
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Speaker 6: The entire opioid epidemic in America was all due to

1004
01:12:27,439 --> 01:12:33,159
one Zionist Jewish family, the Sackler family. They're responsible for

1005
01:12:33,239 --> 01:12:37,520
the deaths of half a million Americans and the severe

1006
01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:42,560
addiction between three to six million Americans which had their

1007
01:12:42,680 --> 01:12:46,239
lives ruined, pushed away from the families living on the streets,

1008
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and many even ending up in jail, unlike the Sacla family,

1009
01:12:49,920 --> 01:12:52,359
which in the end would not serve any jail time

1010
01:12:52,439 --> 01:12:52,800
at all.

1011
01:12:53,119 --> 01:12:55,840
Speaker 7: In the mid nineties, the Sacla family produced a pill

1012
01:12:56,000 --> 01:13:01,880
called oxycotton, which could not get FDA approved because there

1013
01:13:01,960 --> 01:13:05,039
was so strong and addictive that it was actually considered

1014
01:13:05,159 --> 01:13:09,159
stronger than street level h The Saclo family had to

1015
01:13:09,359 --> 01:13:13,800
bribe the FDA into pushing it through, which there's blame

1016
01:13:13,880 --> 01:13:15,880
on the FDA for that, because they're supposed to protect

1017
01:13:15,960 --> 01:13:17,039
us from this sort of stuff.

1018
01:13:17,439 --> 01:13:20,319
Speaker 2: And for the next twenty four years.

1019
01:13:20,199 --> 01:13:24,039
Speaker 6: While receiving data that this pill was addictive in killing people,

1020
01:13:24,239 --> 01:13:27,560
the Saclo family was still pushing pharmacists to prescribe it

1021
01:13:27,640 --> 01:13:30,399
to their patients and pushing it out there to all

1022
01:13:30,560 --> 01:13:33,640
everyday Americans to get addicted so that they can make

1023
01:13:33,720 --> 01:13:37,640
insane amounts of money billions of dollars, and the money

1024
01:13:37,720 --> 01:13:41,039
that they gained destroying society and causing all this addiction,

1025
01:13:41,439 --> 01:13:46,640
they used that money to put their names all inside museums, colleges,

1026
01:13:47,119 --> 01:13:48,199
even hospitals.

1027
01:13:48,560 --> 01:13:49,279
Speaker 2: They even use that.

1028
01:13:49,359 --> 01:13:53,680
Speaker 6: Money to fund anti Muslim groups, and even funded big

1029
01:13:53,800 --> 01:13:58,720
politicians Republican and Democrat like Bush and Obama, and helped

1030
01:13:58,760 --> 01:14:04,479
to fund low Zionist Jewish politicians like Chuck Schumer and

1031
01:14:04,680 --> 01:14:07,720
keep them into office. They used money off our destruction

1032
01:14:07,840 --> 01:14:10,720
to promote themselves and keep their people in power.

1033
01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:12,359
Speaker 2: And how does the story end.

1034
01:14:12,600 --> 01:14:15,199
Speaker 6: We don't know how much money they profited off of this,

1035
01:14:15,520 --> 01:14:17,840
but we know it is at least over ten billion

1036
01:14:17,960 --> 01:14:21,640
dollars from how much they siphoned off their own pharma business.

1037
01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:26,479
They received no jail time whatsoever. Their addict victims ended

1038
01:14:26,560 --> 01:14:28,800
up doing more time than them, and they had to

1039
01:14:28,880 --> 01:14:31,720
pay a seven billion dollar fine, which they still made

1040
01:14:31,760 --> 01:14:34,560
a huge profit. They got away with us because they're

1041
01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:37,239
a bunch of zios. Our court systems run by a

1042
01:14:37,279 --> 01:14:40,479
bunch of zios, and our media protects them. And they're

1043
01:14:40,479 --> 01:14:43,439
a bunch of zios too. They're all together, and they're

1044
01:14:43,479 --> 01:14:46,199
all part of the same system that uses us and

1045
01:14:46,319 --> 01:14:49,680
destroys us and profits in the process. And they don't

1046
01:14:49,760 --> 01:14:52,119
care about us. They only care about themselves.

1047
01:14:55,000 --> 01:14:57,279
Speaker 4: That's one of the more infuriating things and I've done

1048
01:14:57,479 --> 01:15:02,199
a podcast on the Sackler before. I've ruined so many lives.

1049
01:15:03,039 --> 01:15:06,560
And again, if this was you or I in place

1050
01:15:06,640 --> 01:15:09,079
of the Sacklers and we'd only done one percent of

1051
01:15:09,159 --> 01:15:12,680
the damage that they did, we'd be in Guantanamo Bay awaiting.

1052
01:15:13,840 --> 01:15:18,319
You know, the trees and crimes against humanity because of

1053
01:15:18,399 --> 01:15:21,680
who they are, the parasite class, and the pockets they

1054
01:15:21,760 --> 01:15:26,119
fill in the people they control that not one of

1055
01:15:26,319 --> 01:15:30,680
the individuals from their family spent a second in prison. Meanwhile,

1056
01:15:30,960 --> 01:15:35,279
it strung people out. And again I've heard stories and again,

1057
01:15:35,520 --> 01:15:37,720
if this affected you, I don't want to set anyone

1058
01:15:37,800 --> 01:15:40,920
into Some people get triggered when we talk about this stuff,

1059
01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:45,199
so if so, part ways now. But I've heard stories

1060
01:15:45,680 --> 01:15:49,239
of people who just went in, whether it was minor

1061
01:15:49,319 --> 01:15:54,119
operation or oral surgery, they came out, they got one

1062
01:15:54,159 --> 01:15:58,840
of the pills from the Sacklers, and next thing you note,

1063
01:15:58,840 --> 01:16:01,880
they're strung out on drugs, losing their job, getting arrested.

1064
01:16:03,039 --> 01:16:06,000
And you know, this is the same government, the FDA,

1065
01:16:06,119 --> 01:16:08,680
that is meant to protect these people. And now you

1066
01:16:08,800 --> 01:16:11,600
have Monsanto. By the way, if you haven't checked the

1067
01:16:11,680 --> 01:16:16,319
news lately, just put Monsanto court case or whatever in Google.

1068
01:16:16,920 --> 01:16:19,680
They're trying to get unlimited protection like much of the

1069
01:16:20,319 --> 01:16:27,079
big pharma has today. It's listen, I'm telling you get

1070
01:16:27,159 --> 01:16:30,119
off the left right paradigm. They don't care about you.

1071
01:16:31,399 --> 01:16:35,279
We need to come together and rid this parasitic class.

1072
01:16:36,720 --> 01:16:39,600
You know, have Christ in your heart and move forward.

1073
01:16:39,760 --> 01:16:45,039
Don't waste your time and your energy talking about Trump

1074
01:16:45,279 --> 01:16:48,079
or Biden, you know, or a shilling for them. I

1075
01:16:48,119 --> 01:16:51,640
should say, right, it's cool to expose their lives, but man,

1076
01:16:51,840 --> 01:16:55,840
it's just divide and conquer nothing, you know. Now, they're

1077
01:16:55,880 --> 01:17:01,119
trying to spend all this money on visit Venezuela farmers,

1078
01:17:01,279 --> 01:17:03,920
and we've got farmers who are going broke by the minute.

1079
01:17:04,119 --> 01:17:07,239
And you see how offended Trump was when a reporter

1080
01:17:07,319 --> 01:17:10,439
asked her what about the American farmers? Venezuela is struggling?

1081
01:17:10,960 --> 01:17:11,760
What about us?

1082
01:17:11,920 --> 01:17:12,119
Speaker 1: Guy?

1083
01:17:13,239 --> 01:17:19,640
Speaker 4: Thirty dollars for two to go salads today, the commissary

1084
01:17:19,720 --> 01:17:24,800
the other day three hundred dollars. It's insane. It is insane.

1085
01:17:25,399 --> 01:17:27,800
There you go. God bless each and every one of you.

1086
01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:30,720
I hope you take something away from this episode. We'll

1087
01:17:30,760 --> 01:17:33,439
see what comes to be next week. Thank you all

1088
01:17:33,520 --> 01:17:34,399
for your emails.

1089
01:17:35,479 --> 01:17:35,920
Speaker 1: A lot of.

1090
01:17:37,640 --> 01:17:41,720
Speaker 4: Great thinkers out there pondering a lot of things. And

1091
01:17:42,279 --> 01:17:44,199
as we continue to go down the rabbit hole, God

1092
01:17:44,239 --> 01:17:46,520
bless each and every one of you. Have a wonderful week.

1093
01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:48,800
Keep your head on a swivel, and until we meet again,

1094
01:17:48,880 --> 01:17:50,760
my friends, we will see you.

1095
01:17:54,159 --> 01:17:58,640
Speaker 2: I know it's been a struggle. I don't know if

1096
01:17:58,680 --> 01:18:07,159
you've had me. I'm gonna feel tired, hell done by

1097
01:18:07,279 --> 01:18:11,520
all the way? Yeah, I know you feel.

1098
01:18:14,199 --> 01:18:14,680
Speaker 8: Just smile.

1099
01:18:14,920 --> 01:18:22,359
Speaker 2: Ain't the same? That's saw way go from You feel

1100
01:18:22,479 --> 01:18:29,760
like you've lost your way. Don't give it, No, don't

1101
01:18:29,920 --> 01:18:35,079
give it. But never this home. Don't they call the primise.

1102
01:18:35,720 --> 01:18:37,079
Speaker 3: It ain't done yet.

1103
01:18:37,199 --> 01:18:41,840
Speaker 2: He's gone up plaid. Why it's a way time got up,

1104
01:18:42,359 --> 01:18:43,319
mamby come.

1105
01:18:47,119 --> 01:18:48,079
Speaker 3: Why afraid?

1106
01:18:49,119 --> 01:19:00,239
Speaker 2: God m calling? I can see the straight inside you.

1107
01:19:01,720 --> 01:19:07,119
Child's are putting up the five. Oh, you're stronger than

1108
01:19:07,199 --> 01:19:07,640
a thing.

1109
01:19:08,159 --> 01:19:09,119
Speaker 8: You are.

1110
01:19:09,760 --> 01:19:15,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gone, be all right. You're accepting a dead

1111
01:19:15,600 --> 01:19:18,479
found beautiful.

1112
01:19:18,640 --> 01:19:26,279
Speaker 9: You're shoving ride, Yeah, you're living, breathing, move, you can

1113
01:19:26,479 --> 01:19:27,840
hold your head a pie.

1114
01:19:31,680 --> 01:19:34,319
Speaker 2: Don't give up. No, don't give in.

1115
01:19:35,399 --> 01:19:39,079
Speaker 3: You never lose home. Don't let gone on the primies.

1116
01:19:39,720 --> 01:19:43,720
It ain't done yet, This God I let wat's a

1117
01:19:43,880 --> 01:19:49,039
way down the God of me became me. Don't give up, no,

1118
01:19:49,479 --> 01:19:53,560
don't give in you never love home, don't let go

1119
01:19:53,760 --> 01:19:55,800
on the primis it?

1120
01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:58,119
Speaker 2: Ain't ni likeness worth live?

1121
01:19:58,239 --> 01:19:58,359
Speaker 1: Man?

1122
01:19:59,159 --> 01:20:01,479
Speaker 2: Why some ain't down the God?

1123
01:20:01,720 --> 01:20:01,840
Speaker 1: Up?

1124
01:20:02,920 --> 01:20:03,159
Speaker 2: Call?

1125
01:20:07,199 --> 01:20:10,720
Speaker 3: Why s pray down the God? Stay?

1126
01:20:13,199 --> 01:20:19,119
Speaker 2: Oh yeah? What's the praise down the God? Baby call?

1127
01:20:21,720 --> 01:20:27,239
Oh yeah, got called?

1128
01:20:35,680 --> 01:20:40,960
Speaker 8: Don't give up, no, don't give in? Never sol Do

1129
01:20:41,199 --> 01:20:45,800
they go off the primis in and do yas God?

1130
01:20:45,960 --> 01:20:54,319
Speaker 2: I'm saying, what kind of colts don't give no dog giving,

1131
01:20:55,720 --> 01:20:59,760
never home? Don't they go on the crimes? We get

1132
01:20:59,880 --> 01:21:00,680
it done?

1133
01:21:00,880 --> 01:21:12,960
Speaker 9: Lovers both living? What's done? God of eric Us all

1134
01:21:13,159 --> 01:21:20,720
the God of needs? Why's he done?

1135
01:21:21,159 --> 01:21:21,760
Speaker 2: God of.

1136
01:21:28,840 --> 01:21:35,439
Speaker 4: You're listening to the Fact Hunter Radio Network. Just the facts, ma'am.

1137
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Speaker 1: M