He was talking about the Church that protestants broke away from in the 16th Century. God never intended for a German monk to splinter his Pilgrim Church on Earth. He weeps.
At the gross idolatry of the Papacy, the soul destroying works righteousness, the appropriation of secular power when His kingdom was not of this world.
The German monk was the messenger that returned Christianity to its former self. Returned scripture to the people so that all could read and hear the words of His Gospel. God's hand of providence is clearly seen in the fact that the Pope's former weapons of excommunication and the interdict were ineffective. Still the Catholic church doubled down on its heresy claiming entrance to heaven depended on their approval, something they never bothered to check on with the King of Heaven before promulgation. The second sword of the papacy was stricken from the pope's hand by the kingdoms of the earth, the first, the spiritual, stricken by God Himself.
Wow....
You know the mind of God and what He’s doing in heaven?
I don’t think so........
So true. Will they come back?
The idea that the “church” was some unified body with everyone in proper subjection to the primacy of Rome before the schismatic heretic from Germany forever ruined the perfect unity.... that fiction is so ridiculous as to be laughable.
It is propaganda, not history.