The Middle Ages was a time of stagnation and abject penury for most of the inhabitants of Europe and Africa. The church in league with the ruling classes perpetuating the counterfeit system established by Constantine in 325 AD, the amalgamation of pagan religions into the system we call Christianity. They subjected the masses with these man-made traditions, creating a citizenry of surfs and puppets while they lived in wealth at the expense of the poor. The reformation is one of the greatest events in the history of Christendom. We all have heard of the great risk taken by Martin Luther and how he almost single handedly brought the Roman Church up on charges for which they had no defense. He was not the only reformer active at this time. There were others who quietly behind the scenes began to spread Bible truth. In spite of the total absence of religious freedom and a continual program of hunting out and murdering anyone who worshipped Yahweh in any way except that established by Constantine in 325 there remained a remnant who followed the truths of the early apostolic assemblies. From time to time those faithful were discovered. The establishment knew they were the remnant and descendents of those who never bowed to the Universal Romanist Church but claimed they were a new set of spin-off groups of heretics insisting on following the outlawed Jewish Messianic traditions.