Rather than me simply reiterate what Wilson states, I will present some of the highlights and ask that readers will follow the above link to read the entire exposition for themselves. It’s long and if you’re not used to reading books or articles from the 1800’s, it may be a bit of work to plough through it, but perseverance will be rewarded with insight and information that is, I believe, wholly biblical. One of the important points Wilson makes is that, “Romans 13:1–7 — has been grievously perverted.” I find that fascinating that even in his day, the middle of the 1800’s, he found that the current teaching of Romans 13 had been so far removed from what he believed to be the actual meaning of these verses. How much more than 150 years later is that still true?

The belief that Christians must not ever “resist” anything issued or decreed by the ruling class is how most Christians today view things. Jesus was “passive” (we are often told), therefore His followers must be as well. Is this true?

The general teaching of today is that we should only disobey the government when said government tells Christians to do something that is in direct opposition to God’s revealed law. The book of Acts is normally used as an example where the apostles were forbidden to preach about Christ, but did so anyway (Acts 4). This one is obvious because the command clearly went against God.

I’ve previously discussed aspects of what Paul talks about in Romans 13 in numerous previous posts that can be found at this search result. While I don’t want to go over ground we’ve already been over, I think it’s important to look at things with the prospect of a Biden presidency. Things will very likely mover much further Left than they are currently and we need to be prepared for that.

It is my opinion, based on what the Bible appears to make clear, not simply in Romans 13 or in Peter’s epistle (1 Peter 2:13-17), but in the very life of Jesus and in His apostles, that Christians have given in way too easily to all the lies and misinformation that plagues our world today, too often issued by our government. Instead of standing against these lies, Christians believe that we must simply be “passively obedient.” However, is this really what the Bible teaches us? Wilson takes issue with this mentality.

It seems very clear that an agenda is at work to literally unseat critical thinking and intelligence, replacing it with abject unquestioning obedience to the “state.” Wilson points out that what Paul and Peter were actually referring to were “good” governments in general, not governments that were directed by evil people with evil intent.

For if submission be a duty because magistrates are carrying forward a good work, the peace and happiness of human society, which is the argument Paul useth, it is implied in this that resistance is rather a duty than submission, when they manifestly destroy the public peace and happiness.

To believe that Christians cannot peacefully resist the government...