12/18/2025
Reformation!
The last little while, the Holy Spirit has had me studying on the great reformers: John Wycliffe, John Hus, Martin Luther, John Knox and many more. These men stood for truth against the Catholic Church (religious spirit). For that, they were beaten, jailed, ridiculed, and some burned at the stake. These men paid a heavy price for what we believers in Yeshua Jesus have access to today.
As the Word of God was translated from Hebrew to Greek, to the latin vulgate in the 1300s, the average man could not read latin and most catholic preists didn't study their bible. So it's no wonder why the catholic church back then was able to lie to people, commit atrocities and genocides, and maintain control, taking the Lord's name in vain by representing Him wrongly. People couldn't read the bible for themselves. Well that changed in the 1370s.
A reformer named John Wycliffe and some of his buddies began to translate the bible from Latin to English. It took them roughly 13 years to do it. Now think back then; no cell phones, no computers, no type writers. The printing press had not been invented yet. They did it all by hand.
So never take the Word of God you have today, in English, for granted. It came at a costly price.