"Americans who love the Constitution and Bill of Rights see Ron Paul is the last best hope for America. If he loses, they understand that the way forward will only be through civil unrest and revolution to reclaim our American heritage.
Anyone who makes the claim that people who love the Constitution and Bill of Rights are “terrorists” are themselves guilty of sedition; they are subversives; they are traitors to America. And while these traitors are quick to take advantage of what America has to offer, they work to destroy her from within."
http://www.newswithviews.com/Stuter/stuter113.htm
Now, I don't claim that those who love the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are "terrorists", but I do not believe that the authority of the constitution supercedes the authority of God's Word for the Christian, and where the two are in conflict, it is the New Testament Law of Christianity that must be obeyed for one's actions to be right in the sight of the Lord. The Bible specifically condemns uprising against one's government, whether it be good or perverse. We must obey God rather than men, but to truly obey God, we must submit to those over us in every area that does not cause us to disobey Him, because that is what He has commanded:
1Pe 2:13 ¶ Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
19 For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
20 For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
If our duty to the constitution of a man-made government would cause us to disobey the command above, we cannot rightfully fulfill that duty. I believe that only those who value their lives, and the sovereignty of our nation, more than they value the Word of God, could commit themselves to an uprising. If these events are truly prophecy unfolding before us, as many involved with the "resistance" believe, then our nation will be ursurped into control, direct or indirect, by the beast of Revelation, whether we like it or not. If these events are not indeed the fulfillment of these prophecies, the command above still stands. In Matthew 26, we read of Jesus' betrayal at the hands of Judas:
Mt 26:47 ¶ And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
48 Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
49 And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him.
50 And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.
51 And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear.
52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
54 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
55 In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
"Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword". In 1 Peter, we read "Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously". Those who will argue that this was not intended as an example for us will have a hard time with 1 Peter 2:21. The Lord's warning is echoed in Revelation 13:10:
Re 13:10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
"Here is the patience and faith of the saints". The prime example of this was our Lord's crucifiction, but the Apostles also lived this out, choosing to suffer for Christ, and leaving their enemies in His hands, and not loving their lives to their death. Patience, as in, "when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God", from 1 Peter. We read of our Lord, "when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously"... is this not what is referred to in Romans 12:19?
Ro 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
It is only by patience, and faith in the righteouness of God in vengeance, that we can commit ourselves to suffer for Christ, even if it means losing our country, rather than to try and take matters into our own hands. Revelation 13:10 gives us the outcome of "the resistance", and those of us who ignore these commands will pay a price. Mark Dice, Alex Jones, and now possibly Ron Paul, cannot save us from the New World Order. This will only be done by Jesus Christ Himself when He returns in the clouds:
2Th 1:1 ¶ Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
5 ¶ Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
Heb 10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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