I’m not into flags. I have no interest in representing any culture and history that isn’t subject to the Covenant of Christ. But that doesn’t mean I won’t fight under one rebel flag or another for the sake of convenience.
Nor is it some principle of rebellion itself, supporting the underdog or anything like that. Rather, it’s the basic moral orientation that I’ve already enunciated several times: Nobody has any business ruling over your life it they aren’t related by blood or marriage. That’s a fundamental assumption of Biblical Law. You can justify fighting every human government on earth, if you need a justification.
Whether Biblical Law justifies actually fighting in your specific situation is another issue. It could, depending on your convictions and mission, but that’s highly individual. You cannot assume that biblical values uniformly condemn a revolt simply because the Apostles could not justify it in their specific context. The Roman Empire was permitted by God, so rebelling against it was rebellion against God. Even then, Paul took advantage of politics to game the system. It’s a matter of prophetic word and conscience regarding any human government and our disposition toward that government.
In general, if a covenant believer is going to resist a human government, he must decide what the issue of resistance is. You cannot justify it over heritage unless that heritage is directly tied to the Covenant of Christ. Oppression itself is not a good excuse, either. One man’s oppression is another man’s freedom. And the Bible never supports the concept of human rights.
No, the only valid basis for resistance is your mission and calling against the specific context. The threat of a mandatory vaxx? Yep, I’d take up arms to avoid it. Not because of a threat to life, but the technology itself could too easily lend itself to seeking control over human volition. It’s the principle of the mRNA technology, not the use of injections. I still accept some vaccines, but that’s currently under review, since the system may have started lying about vaccines in general. I already reject flu vaccines, and have added pneumonia vaccines because the current medical practice isn’t helpful to older people (adverse reactions are rising).
There are other things I might resist, with violence if necessary. You have to decide for yourself.
However, I would counsel that when the you discern resistance is necessary, make sure you understand for yourself the principles involved. You need to consider what happens if God calls you to resist even when He won’t give you victory. That does happen. If resistance itself is the thing, then the outcomes don’t matter.
If that be the case, then there can be no terms of surrender. You stop fighting when your body is no longer able to fight. Usually that means when you are dead. In such situations, it justifies every man, woman and child fighting. Satan is the Prince of This World, and if it is him you are fighting, then leaving this world is preferable to surrender. You fight until one side is dead, and show no mercy.
There’s a difference between tactics and strategy. The strategy is to make the other side stop their aggression. The tactics answer the question of how to accomplish that. You might spare some, and maybe for a limited time, because it could help you win, but their lives have no intrinsic value. Their lives are already forfeit, as are yours. In the end, you have to understand the enemy’s commitments.
That’s the true meaning behind, “If you live by the sword, you will die by the sword.” You must decide if that’s the situation in which you find yourself. Once the time of the sword arrives, be sure you understand what it entails. It’s not a question of whether you will survive; it’s a question of how you will die. Make peace with that or don’t take up the sword.
