The beast of Revelation is nourished by Romans chapter 13, 'obey your government -- both church & state'...Paul even calls them "THE POWERS THAT BE" and resistance is futile, even damnation!

Pharisees.org is absolutely correct that murderous Martin Luther protected the beast, even as he chastised the whore sitting on her.  Protestants who laud this ‘hero’ of the Reformation are perplexed when they honestly view his fruits, e.g. support for the brutal slaughter of peasants:

“Thus, the first blow to be struck against the arbitrary rule of the clerics and aristocrats who were in the ruling class SHOULD HAVE BEEN the Protestant Reformation with the ideals that Luther appealed to FOR HIMSELF. Among those are: that a man must live by the dictates of his conscience; and the doctrine of justification by faith; and the doctrine of the freedom of the will.”

 

“Many groups formed to take advantage of the new liberty and rebelled against the overlords. INCREDIBLY, Martin Luther opposed them and set the cause of freedom back by his opposition to changing the feudal order. He supported the Imperial system on the basis of the scriptures that say that kings, or powers that be, are ordained of God, and whoever resists the power resists God.”

 

“On the other hand Luther took the most INCREDIBLE position that the lords would be saved by their very act of killing the rebels because they were doing their God given-duty!”

 

“IRONICALLY the same emperor whom Luther would support as ordained of God to put down the peasant revolt would install the inquisition to clean out by torture and murder Protestant adherents in Spain and Holland.”

 

“IRONICALLY, Luther, who should have been the champion of individual rights, set the cause of Protestant freedom back literally hundreds of years and he imposed on the German people the “iron fist” method of discipline and the unthinking obedience to government authority…Even the Catholic rulers used Luther’s tract, Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants to justify their own slaughter of the peasants whom they had defeated.”

 

Source Little Book

The Bible, sweet for the Words of God but bitter because of Pharisee doctrine…the author defends Martin Luther even while acknowledging his evil!

 

PHARISEE DOCTRINE: Resistance is futile!

¹ Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: THE POWERS THAT BE are ordained of God.

² Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

³ For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:

⁴ For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

⁵ Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

⁶ For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.

⁷ Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

Romans 13