First off, nothing in Noah’s Covenant or the rest of the Bible requires you to resist. If you want to play along and believe God wants that from you, by all means, play along. You do have to reconsider when your decision applies to others. If by choosing to go along, you are dragging along others under your leadership, the burden is much higher. At that, you may well be required by Noah to resist.
Having covered that, there is a distinct ethical-moral consideration. Unless the threat is immediate, you cannot justify outright aggression. Naturally, it’s between you and God when the threat becomes “immediate,” but quibbling as an excuse for unjust bloodshed will fall heavily on your soul. All the more so when you lead others. The call from Noah is to form your tribe, then attempt to disentangle to the degree possible. If the ruling regime won’t allow it, consider ways you might resist and satisfy Noah.
Naturally, in these modern times, you should expect any government agency to use deception. If the decision has been made to, for example, to force the population to accept immunizations against the H1N1 flu, it is unlikely they’ll announce the intention honestly. People like me have already made enough noise and there is a significant portion here in the US who will not volunteer. Indeed, they will fight it. Expect the government to seek ways to sucker us into it.
That being the case, we do have some reason for being on-guard against any attention from the government. For example, I am a disabled veteran. In the past, I got most of my medical needs treated at the local VA clinics. In the past year, I found their treatments were pointless on a couple of things, and found my own solutions. I managed to cure some long-standing issues for which they were content to treat merely the symptoms. I haven’t been back in over a year. I’m trusting them less and less. I’m keeping my eyes open, reading the news, and checking non-mainstream sources. Depending on how it looks, when they call me to come in for the flu shot this fall, I may decide it’s time to quit going there altogether, forever. If I even suspect there are plans, all the more so if I hear about efforts, to make this stuff mandatory across the population, it’s time to make that final break.
Each of us has to decide for ourselves what’s required of us to obey Noah.
