“Justice—do you rulers know the meaning of the word? Do you judge the people fairly? No! You plot injustice in your hearts. You spread violence throughout the land. These wicked people are born sinners; even from birth they have lied and gone their own way. They spit venom like deadly snakes; they are like cobras that refuse to listen, ignoring the tunes of the snake charmers, no matter how skillfully they play. Break off their fangs, O God! Smash the jaws of these lions, O Lord! May they disappear like water into thirsty ground. Make their weapons useless in their hands. May they be like snails that dissolve into slime, like a stillborn child who will never see the sun. God will sweep them away, both young and old, faster than a pot heats over burning thorns. The godly will rejoice when they see injustice avenged. They will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked. Then at last everyone will say, “There truly is a reward for those who live for God; surely there is a God who judges justly here on earth.””
Psalms 58:1-11 NLT
There is a reason why people feel so inclined to rebel against authority and it is two fold. The first is that people are sinners. They have been tainted into their own field of gravity and now move further and further away from God by their own momentum. Rebellion is a matter of intuition for them. Nevertheless, this produces more and more chaos in every system before men. As these systems increasingly move away from God, it becomes increasingly logical to dissent against them. In this way rebelliousness and protest are often entangled and eventually conflated. However they need not be. There is true injustice in the world and God has disdain for it more than men do. It is a corruption of his intended order. It is appropriate to cry out to him for his providence against the things that flow out of this corruption. It sis appropriate to cry out for jaw of the lion to be smashed, and the fang of the viper to be broken. It is appropriate, vivid as it may be, to hope for the day when the blood from these wicked men soaks the feet of the godly. However this is all done with the hope for a restored order. It is not rebellion for rebellions sake. We must carefully walk this line, lest we fall over its sharp edge.
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