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Old 07-02-2009, 01:30 PM
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No. It was not wrong. These weren't mere individual citizens taking up arms against those in authority. Rather, these were magistrates standing up against a tyrannical king for the good of the people over whom they ruled/served. If there are two magistrates to whom you're accountable, and one is more just than the other, to whom do you submit? The answer is easy: the more just of the two.
I have a couple questions:

(1) Is the lesser magistrate morally permitted to rebel against a greater magistrate? If so, why?

(2) Where is the Biblical evidence for this principle of following the just magistrate when they conflict? Is Judges the best book to look for that?
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