Are there prophecies in Holy Scriptures that foretold protestant divisions?

[Fraevo63]

I apologize if this is the wrong forum for this topic.
Are there prophesies that told the Church would split into protestant denominational divisions? There are so many Christian sects with so many sincere, well-meaning believers in Christ. It is troubling.

 

[Casilda]

2 Timothy 4

2 Timothy 4:1-5
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths. As for you, always be steady, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil your ministry.

 

[Dan_Defender]

‘That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.’ - John 17:21

‘Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.’ - Galatians 5:19-21

 

[Cor_ad_Cor]

Before coming into the Church 23+ years ago, I belonged to one of those, “we’re the original Christians from the Acts of the Apostles, Catholicism didn’t come about until Constantine” Evangelical Protestant groups. When asked why secular history didn’t agree, the answer was that the Catholic Church and government were in cahoots and our people were in hiding for fear of persecution until those brave men of the reformation…

While we know how off-base that was, in reality, I think there may have been slivers of honesty in their story… Protestantism in some form or another has existed since before the earliest New Testament letters’ ink had dried. They may not have been the church Jesus founded, but maybe they were indeed around… and in sincerity thought they were right. We can even read where St. Paul and his contemporaries were stamping out confusion and heresies that were already springing up. The Church from the earliest days has been good at putting these inaccuracies to rest. It was in the 1500s when it just got so out of hand, so popularized with newer communications and shifting politics that the Church found herself with a more public and difficult beast to put back in the box. Today, looking at the big picture, there are just too many things that don’t add up (e.g., this group I belonged to was sola scriptura yet can’t tell you what they did in the first couple hundred years before the scriptures were codified) while the true Church, the One, Holy, Catholic Church doesn’t have those discrepancies.

TL;DR - Yes, the Apostles knew it was coming. They were already fighting it.

 

[Fraevo63]

“…some preach Christ from envy and rivalry, others from good will. The latter out of love, aware that I’m here for the defense of the gospel; the former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not from pure motives, thinking that they will cause will cause me trouble in my imprisonment. What difference does it make, as long as in EVERY WAY, whether in pretense, or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed? And in that I rejoice.”
PHILIPPIANS 1:15-18

 

[Billy_Buescher]

(2Pe 2:1 DRB) But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be among you lying teachers who shall bring in sects of perdition and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift destruction.