Your question seems to fall under the principle of interposition that we find illustrated throughout the book of Judges. In the Judges we see repeated cycles of sin, judgment, repentance, and restoration. The latter was accomplished when God would raise up a "lower magistrate" to lead the people against the oppressive tyrant.
Calvin summarized it like this: "That our first duty when suffering under an impious prince is to first call up the remembrance of our faults, which doubtless the Lord is chastising by such scourges. In this way humility will curb our impatience. And let us reflect that it belongs not to us to cure these evils, that all that remains for us is to implore the help of the Lord, in whose hands are the hearts of kings...."
"...he raises up manifest avengers from among his own servants, and gives them his command to punish accursed tyranny, and deliver his people from calamity when they are unjustly oppressed."
I believe that Godly military leaders would be in the position of the "lower magistrates", who might overthrow a tyrannical government on behalf of a repentant people.
The oath required of all officers and enlisted personnel in the United States military is blasphemous. It calls upon God to affirm an oath to an anti-Biblical document and thus oppose His own Word.
Taking this oath is a religious act of devotion to an idol: the United States Constitution. No Christian should take it and any Christian who has taken it should renounce it.
Your question seems to fall under the principle of interposition that we find illustrated throughout the book of Judges. In the Judges we see repeated cycles of sin, judgment, repentance, and restoration. The latter was accomplished when God would raise up a "lower magistrate" to lead the people against the oppressive tyrant.
Calvin summarized it like this: "That our first duty when suffering under an impious prince is to first call up the remembrance of our faults, which doubtless the Lord is chastising by such scourges. In this way humility will curb our impatience. And let us reflect that it belongs not to us to cure these evils, that all that remains for us is to implore the help of the Lord, in whose hands are the hearts of kings...."
"...he raises up manifest avengers from among his own servants, and gives them his command to punish accursed tyranny, and deliver his people from calamity when they are unjustly oppressed."
I believe that Godly military leaders would be in the position of the "lower magistrates", who might overthrow a tyrannical government on behalf of a repentant people.
The oath required of all officers and enlisted personnel in the United States military is blasphemous. It calls upon God to affirm an oath to an anti-Biblical document and thus oppose His own Word.
Taking this oath is a religious act of devotion to an idol: the United States Constitution. No Christian should take it and any Christian who has taken it should renounce it.
