12 Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.
blessed is he who waits and comes to 1335 days – adding 45 (1335 – 1290) days to 1471, we come to 1516, when Martin Luther began his protest against the sale of indulgences. That one would arise in 1516, who would not be stopped, was the prophecy of a monk by the name of John Hilten in the year 1500. Hilten wrote a commentary on Daniel, and Revelation.
While most people are familiar with the date of 1517 as the start of the Reformation, Martin Luther himself, and the Lutheran Church use the date of 1516, agreeing with Hilten’s prophecy. In 1516, Luther held a public discussion with a theologian named Feldkirchen. The Reformation Historian Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubigné wrote, “The disputation took place in 1516. This was Luther’s first attack upon the dominion of the sophists and upon the Papacy, as he himself characterizes it.” And again he wrote, “This disputation made a great noise, and it has been considered as the beginning of the reformation.” (History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Book 2, Chapter 9)
Martin Luther was not murdered like his predecessor, Jan Huss, and the many Moravian brothers who died between 1468 and 1471, as we describe in verse 7. Martin Luther and Jan Huss represent the two witnesses in Rev 11:3, and their churches, the Lutheran and Moravian churches, are the “two lampstands” in Rev 11:4. They represent Christ, the stone that struck the statue, described in Dan 2:45. They are “the two anointed ones, who stand beside the Lord (Adonai) of the whole earth (who is Christ).” (Zech 4:14).