George Whitefield s The Great Awakening - 1401 Words

George Whitefield is an individual like no other. He’s an individual who made a mark on history. He was an average person who lived to make a major difference and would be one of the most well known individuals to take part in the Evangelical Awakening of the 1700s. It was a time when you saw God’s hand in the world like never before. When looking back in history, specifically Christian history, we would say that George Whitefield truly made his mark on history during the evangelical awakening. He was one of the biggest proponents in spreading the word of God, and he was not to go unnoticed. However, how much do we really know about such an important historic event? The Great Awakening is known as a religious revival that swept across the†¦show more content†¦Many of these individuals had been baptized as infants, but chose to be baptized again as believing adults. (www.anabaptists.org) Preachers of this unstable ideology of Anabaptism were taking refuge in the Lutheran town of Mà ¼nster. Among those hiding out were the disciples of Melchior Hoffman. He was a new prophet who had new knowledge of influence after his recent conversion to the Anabaptist movement. He had begun to teach his followers to recognize the signs that would precede the golden age of heaven fifteen centuries after the crucifixion. It didn’t take long for these ideas to become a â€Å"massive obsession† in the town of Mà ¼nster. Lutherans and Catholics alike worked hard to teach over him. He was soon arrested due to his revolutionary preaching. In the early sixteenth century, scholars were studying the millennial expectations of the ancient worlds that had become such a radical component for the central institutions of Christendom. Advocates of this new millennial belief appeared after the completion of the New Testament. They argued diverse assumptions of this revolution, but found common roots in Revelation 20:1-10, which states that those who died for defending Jesus would sit at God’s right-hand with the power to judge and Satan would be released from his prison and thrown into a fiery lake of burning sulfur where he would be tormented. When it came to this new movement, by the