Giving In is Giving Up

   Retired professor of legal history Stephen B. Presser recently wrote “…the COVID measures may have been only a dress rehearsal for even more draconian sacrifices to be enforced in the name of preventing harmful climate change” (Chronicles, 9/21).   If Presser is correct, we can also conclude that resistance by 100 million Americans to the vaccine mandates is a dress rehearsal for mass resistance to upcoming tyrannical measures that would further the climate change hoax.

   Christians who would automatically be submissive to such edicts and executive orders rely mainly on Romans 13:1-4 – to wit: “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities.   For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.   Therefore, whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.   For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad.   Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority?   Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good.   But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain.   For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer” (ESV).  
 
   Other verses calling for submission to government include (1) Hebrews 13: ...