Müntzer had again fled, this time to Nuremberg, and then he fled Nuremberg to return to Mühlhausen. But his lifetime of serial fleeing would soon be at an end, for here and now his great hour of action had come, and Müntzer could at last mount the world stage to play the part of his waking dreams. In Mühlhausen, he amassed and led an armed militia that he humbly dubbed the “Eternal League of God.” It rallied under a rainbow banner daubed with the painfully ironic maxim “The Word of God Endures Forever.”
