Submission or Resistance to Luciferian Governance?

A Note Written by Abbot Tryphon:


As followers of Christ, we are called to wage peace, not war, for our Saviour has brought us the peace that passes all understanding. As His disciples, we must renounce all violence and tumult. We Christians must become peacemakers in this world, for peace means reconciliation, and Christ is the author of peace and reconciliation.
When we Christians work for peace, it should hardly surprise us when we receive a special blessing attributed to being peacemakers, for “they shall be called sons of God.” The message of the Sermon on the Mount is that those who seek to surrender to God, participate in God’s grace as they go to their enemies to make peace, for they are seeking to do what their Father has done, loving people with His love.
As we surrender to God, and abandon the effort to get our needs met through the destruction of enemies, God comes to us in Christ to make peace with us; and we participate in God’s grace as we go to our enemies to make peace. It is good to remember that no one has ever been converted by violence.
We are peacemakers speak about peace as something already victoriously won. As peacemakers we can celebrate the peace that is part of our glorious past or as something that will be won in the other world. Peacemakers must continue to point out injustice, hypocrisy, and suffering, so being peacemakers does not lead to becoming isolationists. We are peacemakers when our actions and our words bring to light problems far away from us.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God (Matthew 5:9)”.
With love in Christ,
Abbot Tryphon

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Saint Irenaeus and Justin Martyr in the second century made several statements about promoting peace, about the goal of peace, about the peaceful motives and actions of Christians. It is interesting that Saint Irenaeus' statement about turning the sword to peaceful purposes leaves room as Jesus did, for the use of weapons for peaceful purposes. Weapons do have peaceful purposes. Justin Martyr and many others used the imagery of turning swords in the plows, which leads one to believe he was meaning to disarm. There is a great bit of difference between turning the use of weapons to peaceful purposes and disarming. Clement of Alexandria painted word pictures of Christians absorbing blows and not striking back, not filing law suits, and seeking reconciliation. He went so far as to say, "The one instrument of peace is what we employ: the Word alone, by whom we honor God. We no longer use the ancient psaltery, trumpet, and flute. For those who are expert at war and are scorners of the fear of God were accustom to make use of them." You see there was a big stream of pacifist influence from the Greek Philosophers, and of course Clement of Alexandria's star student was the heretic Origen. Origen had such an adverse opinion of his own manhood that he castrated himself as an act of holy sacrifice. You see, not all early Christian voices are equal, and when you have Protestants quote mining the "early fathers" they quickly affirm themselves. Not understanding context and word fallacy, a friend sincerely believes that late heresy of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture is confirmed in the Didache - a Church document contemporary with the new testament. She believes this is apostolic teaching, and her quote mining false teacher has her convinced. There is no doubt whatsoever that peace with all who will live peaceably is a goal of the Christian Faith. This is true and I take nothing away from it, but I always have a caution when clerics teach "Peace" that has the ring of pacifism. I especially miss the part where they are supposed to distinguish between violence and necessary force. They lump any kinetic action together as violence, making a mockery of Jesus with a whip in his hand. Pacifism is a demonic dogma that mocks the proper peace Christians should pursue, that peace based in Truth. Again and again, in scripture, we are warned against the fantasy of peace that is false. False Peace is an illusion, a seduction, misdirection, a paralyzing psyop that is death-engendering. The subject of peace is not a simple one.

Undoubtedly, the pursuit of peace is recommended, but we cannot say Christ commanded it. Jesus talked in terms of peace, being doing what is right. He even indicated that doing what was right might cause a disturbance, and if causing disturbance with your peace, where people would not be peaceable with you, to leave them and retain your peace. He also said, "Mat 10:34ff Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household." Jesus' words seem confusing to Pollyanna pacifist christians (with a little c). How could the "Prince of Peace" not bring peace upon the earth? You can't understand it until you understand that peace, whose core is not Truth, is not peace. In fact, it is delusion. Jesus considered this when instructing his disciples that he sent across the countryside to preach repentance. (It was not yet the Gospel they were preaching, as they shortly learned). He said to them, "Mat 10:12ff And when ye come into an house, salute it. And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you. And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city." As you see here, his disciples bring peace with them, but it is not a static condition they create around them. Real peace is not static; it is dynamic and leads to Truth. Truth and Peace are inseparable. There is another kind of peace - at least as the words are translated into English, which means, "be silent, shut up, hold your tongue or in the first person - to remain silent." And indeed, there are many times when not speaking is wise. But those times do not represent "peace" as an idea of harmony; instead, it is like refusing to add gasoline to the non-peaceful fire that is already burning.
Saint Paul taught, Rom 12:14ff Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord." The seventh chapter of the Second Maccabees gives a rather horrific demonstration of Saint Paul's teaching. We will examine that. Abbot Tryphon knows the limits of "as much as lieth within you." Some say, but it is Christ's Holy Spirit that is within us, and they forget that Jesus was no pacifist. There comes a time when one must stand, and as history teaches, there are times when we must organize and fight.





Pacifists try to use Saint Paul's teaching of submission to authority as a mindless slavery to any evil civil authority might suggest. Most pacifists are non-religious, agnostics, atheists, or Sola Scriptura heretics. The former mock Christians with the following text to prove that they are not "truly Christian" if they are not pacifists, and the latter group takes the text out of all context as if it is positive law. They approach this text with the same idiocy that those who mock the right to privacy as a prerequisite for human dignity; they say, "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear," speaking of the invasive omni-surveillance of this present totalitarian "national security" government. They quote Saint Paul, " For rulers are not a fear to good works, but to evil. And do you wish not to fear the authority? Do what is good, and you shall have praise from the same." Now, if you removed the context of this statement and took it as a universal law or commandment, it would represent a significant lie that Saint Paul's fate proved to be lie.
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Rom 13:1 Let every soul submit to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except by God, and the authorities that exist are instituted by God.
Rom 13:2 Consequently the one resisting the authority has opposed the ordinance of God, and those opposing shall receive judgment to themselves.
Rom 13:3 For rulers are not a fear to good works, but to evil. And do you wish not to fear the authority? Do what is good, and you shall have praise from the same.
Rom 13:4 For he is God's servant to you for good. But if you do evil, fear; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God's servant, an avenger for wrath to the one practicing evil.
Rom 13:5 Therefore it is necessary to be subject, not only on account of wrath, but also for conscience' sake.
Rom 13:6 For on account of this you also pay taxes, for they are ministers of God, always giving attention to this very thing.
Rom 13:7 Render therefore to all their dues: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.

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There is no mystery in it. The key is the framework Saint Paul himself gives it. He is not speaking of all authority, but only a certain kind of authority that fits the parameter he gave, "For rulers are not a fear to good works, but to evil." What happens when they have become a fear to good works, as indeed they have in this country? None of the rest governs then. Saint Paul would argue against Holy Writ if he argued that we are not supposed to resist evil and actively do so. "Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? . . .And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday . . " This is the language of Liberty and Justice and NOT of servitude to evil and injustice. Nothing St. Paul could say could contradict it.

This passage talks about what is true and acceptable religious service so that Liberty is our Bounded Duty and apathy and compliance to and with evil is participation in the evil. When we take the cornerstone of basic Christian theology and understand how we may participate in another's sin, we may also participate in a group's sin, a community's sin, a state's sins, a nation's sins, and hundreds of millions have and do. So how can that happen? Christianity 101, we can participate in the sin of another by counsel, by command, by consent, by provocation, by praise or flattery, by concealment, by partaking, by silence, by defense of the sin committed. Where does that leave us?


There are limits beyond which imperial or legislative authority may not go. According to Tradition, when Nero bade the Apostle Paul to abandon his faith as the condition of Paul's life and liberty, Paul did not hesitate to say that the emperor was intruding on the province to which he had no claim, and that he must obey God rather than man. So far as our life in the community goes, there must be some form of government, which may be modeled according to the varying opinions of men; this is the history of local, state, and national governments. What do we do with the overarching governance of the Spirit of the anti-Christ, the Globalist Anglo-Judeo Luciferian extra-governmental apparatus that is conducting systematic genocide, under the name “population control.” Population control is undertaken with the same tools as “pest control” by eliminating unwanted creatures. Population control is population reduction, is systematic soft and hard genocide. Are we to bow to those authorities? It is difficult to say, and especially difficult for the followers of Sola Scriptura who lack the Tradition, giving Saint Paul's words of submission to authority the full scope of his experience. It doesn't matter if the government is monarchical, republican, autocratic, or socialist. There are boundaries to the authority of government. When we have Saint Paul's words of submission without his declaration of “Liberty” before the emperor, we are left with a warped understanding of his teaching because he taught with his words and his martyrdom. But Peter and the apostles answered and said: "We must obey God rather than men.” This was spoken to the rulers when they had stepped outside the bounds of their authority.

Joan Robinson shared this meme, and it reflects secular understanding or pragmatic resistance as if that resistance is based upon what is recognized as "scientific" and "unscientific." This is practically true, but one has no foundation to categorize in that way in a culture so deluded as that of our culture, where men have gone mad and cannot discern between what is actual empirical science and what is ideology wrapped in science, which we call scientism. There has to be a foundation of understanding that can discern which is science and which is scientism; even at that, it is a false category for the basis of behavior. Even the last sentence does not hold the key, where the category is moved from "science" to "justice," saying good people don't obey unjust laws. Just as this society cannot distinguish reality enough to understand the difference between empirical science and scientistic ideology, it cannot differentiate between actual justice and Marxist social justice. Both sides arguing for and against mandatory vaccines in this culture-grown-insane claim to be reasonably arguing for science and justice. Only one side was arguing for science and justice.

I told Joan:
This was timely. I'm working on a presentation about when compliance is evil. I'm dissecting Saint Paul's words in Romans about submission to authority and the times he and other Apostles refused to submit to authority. Protestants don't have the horrendous story of a mother and her seven sons who were brutally tortured and murdered because they refused to eat swine that the Pagan Antiochus had sacrificed in the captured Temple. They each prophesied the fate of Antiochus, and against all odds, Antiochus left this world begging God for relief of his suffering and restoring all he had stolen and profaned. Submission to Luciferian purveyors of human sacrifice is NOT an option for anyone whose Christian faith is genuine. And that resistance takes two forms: refusal to submit and accepting death when that is all one can do and organized battle when God allows.
In Second Maccabees the 7th Chapter we have the horrendous story of the evil ruler tormenting a mother and her seven sons, mocking their devotion to the Mosaic Law of God – Yes, for the Hebrews the Mosaic law was law.

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2Macabees the Seventh Chapter:
It came to pass also, that seven brethren with their mother were taken, and compelled by the king against the law to taste swine's flesh, and were tormented with scourges and whips.
But one of them that spake first said thus, What wouldest thou ask or learn of us? we are ready to die, rather than to transgress the laws of our fathers.
Then the king, being in a rage, commanded pans and caldrons to be made hot:
Which forthwith being heated, he commanded to cut out the tongue of him that spake first, and to cut off the utmost parts of his body, the rest of his brethren and his mother looking on.
Now when he was thus maimed in all his members, he commanded him being yet alive to be brought to the fire, and to be fried in the pan: and as the vapour of the pan was for a good space dispersed, they exhorted one another with the mother to die manfully, saying thus,
The Lord God looketh upon us, and in truth hath comfort in us, as Moses in his song, which witnessed to their faces, declared, saying, And he shall be comforted in his servants.
So when the first was dead after this number, they brought the second to make him a mocking stock: and when they had pulled off the skin of his head with the hair, they asked him, Wilt thou eat, before thou be punished throughout every member of thy body?
But he answered in his own language, and said, No. Wherefore he also received the next torment in order, as the former did.
And when he was at the last gasp, he said, Thou like a fury takest us out of this present life, but the King of the world shall raise us up, who have died for his laws, unto everlasting life.
After him was the third made a mocking stock: and when he was required, he put out his tongue, and that right soon, holding forth his hands manfully.
And said courageously, These I had from heaven; and for his laws I despise them; and from him I hope to receive them again.
Insomuch that the king, and they that were with him, marvelled at the young man's courage, for that he nothing regarded the pains.
Now when this man was dead also, they tormented and mangled the fourth in like manner.
So when he was ready to die he said thus, It is good, being put to death by men, to look for hope from God to be raised up again by him: as for thee, thou shalt have no resurrection to life.
Afterward they brought the fifth also, and mangled him.
Then looked he unto the king, and said, Thou hast power over men, thou art corruptible, thou doest what thou wilt; yet think not that our nation is forsaken of God;
But abide a while, and behold his great power, how he will torment thee and thy seed.
After him also they brought the sixth, who being ready to die said, Be not deceived without cause: for we suffer these things for ourselves, having sinned against our God: therefore marvellous things are done unto us.
But think not thou, that takest in hand to strive against God, that thou shalt escape unpunished.
But the mother was marvellous above all, and worthy of honourable memory: for when she saw her seven sons slain within the space of one day, she bare it with a good courage, because of the hope that she had in the Lord.
Yea, she exhorted every one of them in her own language, filled with courageous spirits; and stirring up her womanish thoughts with a manly stomach, she said unto them,
I cannot tell how ye came into my womb: for I neither gave you breath nor life, neither was it I that formed the members of every one of you;
But doubtless the Creator of the world, who formed the generation of man, and found out the beginning of all things, will also of his own mercy give you breath and life again, as ye now regard not your own selves for his laws' sake.
Now Antiochus, thinking himself despised, and suspecting it to be a reproachful speech, whilst the youngest was yet alive, did not only exhort him by words, but also assured him with oaths, that he would make him both a rich and a happy man, if he would turn from the laws of his fathers; and that also he would take him for his friend, and trust him with affairs.
But when the young man would in no case hearken unto him, the king called his mother, and exhorted her that she would counsel the young man to save his life.
And when he had exhorted her with many words, she promised him that she would counsel her son.
But she bowing herself toward him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spake in her country language on this manner; O my son, have pity upon me that bare thee nine months in my womb, and gave thee such three years, and nourished thee, and brought thee up unto this age, and endured the troubles of education.
I beseech thee, my son, look upon the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, and consider that God made them of things that were not; and so was mankind made likewise.
Fear not this tormentor, but, being worthy of thy brethren, take thy death that I may receive thee again in mercy with thy brethren.
Whiles she was yet speaking these words, the young man said, Whom wait ye for? I will not obey the king's commandment: but I will obey the commandment of the law that was given unto our fathers by Moses.
And thou, that hast been the author of all mischief against the Hebrews, shalt not escape the hands of God.
For we suffer because of our sins.
And though the living Lord be angry with us a little while for our chastening and correction, yet shall he be at one again with his servants.
But thou, O godless man, and of all other most wicked, be not lifted up without a cause, nor puffed up with uncertain hopes, lifting up thy hand against the servants of God:
For thou hast not yet escaped the judgment of Almighty God, who seeth all things.
For our brethren, who now have suffered a short pain, are dead under God's covenant of everlasting life: but thou, through the judgment of God, shalt receive just punishment for thy pride.
But I, as my brethren, offer up my body and life for the laws of our fathers, beseeching God that he would speedily be merciful unto our nation; and that thou by torments and plagues mayest confess, that he alone is God;
And that in me and my brethren the wrath of the Almighty, which is justly brought upon our nation, may cease.
Than the king' being in a rage, handed him worse than all the rest, and took it grievously that he was mocked.
So this man died undefiled, and put his whole trust in the Lord.
Last of all after the sons the mother died.
Let this be enough now to have spoken concerning the idolatrous feasts, and the extreme tortures.

There is no universal commandment of pacifism in the New Testament, but it is falsely taught continually. Every time there is an instruction to peace, in is given in a specific context. Here is an instance where Saint Paul is cautioning Bishop Timothy about certain heretics that were troubling the area:
2Ti 2:19 Nevertheless the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal: "The Lord knows those that are His," and, "Let everyone naming the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness."
2Ti 2:20 Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor.
2Ti 2:21 Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, having been consecrated and useful to the Master, having been prepared for every good work.
2Ti 2:22 Flee youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
2Ti 2:23 But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they bring forth fights.
2Ti 2:24 And a servant of the Lord ought not to fight, but to be gentle to all, skillful at teaching, forbearing,
2Ti 2:25 in meekness instructing those that oppose, if God perhaps may give them repentance, to a full knowledge of the truth,
2Ti 2:26 and they regain their senses and escape out of the snare of the devil, having been captured alive by him to do his will.

What was the result of this abomination in the Temple of the Lord, where Antiochus had sacrificed both Swine and Human on the same altar? Judas Maccabeus began a resistance movement, he and his friends and relative went city to city finding the men who would fight. They all agreed to meet at a certain time to form a force to go against Antiochus with Deadly Righteous Force. Maccabeus no knowing if indeed the force would be righteous prayed that God would forgive them their sins and lift his curse against them, and would empower them to seek justice. When a much greater force that Judas could raise formed against them, he didn't say, "Stay with me." Instead he said, "Those who do not Trust the Lord for victory leave now." And about one third of the thousands had gathered went running away. And in a very short time God replaced them plus more men. The tables were turned and ultimately the Jews regained Jerusalem. Antiochus was stricken with disease and begged for mercy.

So yes, as much as lies within you live peaceably with all men, but do not forget the admonition to protect the weak, and the innocent. Because what you do and allow done to them, to your children, to those in your protection, you do to Jesus, himself. Do not neglect your duty as men so as to bow to some pacifistic fantasy, some false goodness that, as Joan's Meme state clearly, is just cowardice.
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