Exodus 23:1-3: “Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.  Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment (that is, to twist judgment or to turn aside judgment to force an unjust outcome): Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause (that is, don’t show partiality to a person because they are poor because they seem to be underprivileged).

Psalm 26:5-6: “I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.  I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O Lord…”

Psalm 2:1-5: “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed (Christ), saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.  He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.  Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.”

Luke 23:1-25: “And the whole multitude of them (the Jewish leaders who had just convicted Jesus of blasphemy and reckoned Him worthy of death) arose, and led him (Jesus) unto Pilate.  And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.  And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews?  And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it.  Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man.  And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.  When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilaean.  And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time.  And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.  Then he questioned with him in many words; but he (Jesus) answered him (Herod) nothing.  And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him.  And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.  And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.  And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him: No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him (my note: the Scriptures as a whole still condemn Herod and Pilate as having role in the murder of Christ since they did not stand for truth and rather enabled and complied with the wicked mob who demanded Christ’s death).   I will therefore chastise him, and release him.  (For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast- (my note- that was only so because of an unrighteous concession which the Romans had made to the Jews- the guilty should be punished while the innocent should be released anyways.)  And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas: (Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)  Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spoke again to them.  But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.  And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done?  I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go.  And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.  And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.  And he released unto them him (Barabbas) that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.”

Acts 3:13-15 (the Apostle Peter is preaching to the Jews in Jerusalem): “The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.  But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.”

Acts 7:51-60 (Stephen is preaching to the Jewish leaders after being arrested by them on bogus charges): “Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.  Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted?  and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.  When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.  But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.  Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul (who eventually became the Apostle Paul and mourned his involvement in this murder).  And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.  And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.”

By the way: Why did the Jews see the need to kill Jesus through the Romans yet killed Stephen on their own?  Probably because Jesus was much more well known to the public than Stephen.  Jesus’ murder came through deliberate counsel.  Stephen’s happened in the heat of the moment.  Stephen could be killed under the radar much more easily than Jesus.  Killing Jesus would have been much harder to get away with for the Jews if they had not done it through the Romans.  The Jews had no legal power under the Romans to execute anyone.

Acts 14:19-20: “And there came thither (there) certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and having stoned Paul (who was converted to Jesus and preaching Him publicly many years before this point- this was well over a decade after Paul had been a persecutor of the Christians), drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.  Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.”

Zionist professing Christians aren’t likely to tell you how vicious Christ rejecting Jews can be.  It is insane to not recognize how contradictory faithfully worshiping Jesus Christ and supporting the Christ rejecting Jewish state of Israel are to each other.

In Acts chapter 16 we even have the Roman-appointed authorities not only going along with, but also directly joining in with a mob, by unjustly beating the Apostles Paul and Silas.  The authorities came to regret this and tried to secretly release them from jail.  Paul made them come to the jail  themselves and bring them out with the reminder that they had done a very bad thing according to Roman law- which carried the implication that he might get them in very big trouble with their Roman superiors if he chose to make a complaint to them.  Paul’s reproof forced them to think about their guilt in what they did.  It was not sinful vengeance (some literally say Paul should not have done what he did in reproving the Philippian authorities in Acts chapter 16).  Paul’s resistance did not come from a personal grudge nor did it cross any righteous boundaries.  That can never be said of those who incite and/or join in with unruly mobs.

Acts 17:1-7: “Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.  And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.  But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.  And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down (my note: that was only so in their minds because of their upside down sinful perspective of the world) are come hither (here) also; Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus (my note: it is true the Apostles preached Jesus as the Ultimate King who demands subjection to His Word- but this statement was false in its implication that Jesus is a rival King to Caesar in this age- He is not, though He will be a rival to all authority that is not subject to His authority already when He returns).”

In Acts chapters 21 and 22 we see the Apostle Paul attacked by an unruly mob doing the things which make a mob unruly.  

Acts 21:27-32: “And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him (Paul) in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him, Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.  (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)  And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.  And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.  Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul.”

This mob was screaming falsehoods, believing things others said that were  not confirmed, being emboldened in violence by the lack of restraint of others in the mob, they were doing things which they would never do without the protection and temporary emboldening of the mob that they are part of, people trying to take the law into their own hands without committing the matter to the proper authorities, and there was an overall spirit of irrationality and sensuality.  No regard for principle.  No regard for decency.  No regard for order.  They were utterly out of control until their sense of self-preservation demanded that they back off.  They were wrong to do what they did here- even if Paul were really a harmful man.  

Ironically, when Paul was a Christ rejecting Jew himself, and had been involved in the murder of Stephen, he was well regarded among the Jews, he had a high status  among them, and was in no danger at all from them.  And that is because the world of the Jews who reject Jesus Christ was truly upside down- and remains upside down to this day.  Every Zionist professing Christian betrays Jesus Christ by supporting them as if they are God’s people; and in supporting them, they promote one of the greatest lies ever thrust upon mankind.  

Yet even Jews who reject Jesus Christ should not be targets of an unruly mob.  The criminals among them should be brought to justice- in keeping with law and order.

The Bible does indeed know of righteous mobs- mobs supporting a righteous cause which are not unruly.  

We see one such example organized by Nehemiah.  He was the Governor over the Jews for a span in Old Testament times.  The Jews had lost their kingdom and were under Persian rule when Nehemiah  was their Governor.  He organized a great multitude to stand against rich Jews who were oppressing other Jews through predatory lending (Jewish predatory lending goes back a long way).  This was the most orderly and efficient way for him as a leader to nip a major problem in the bud and reverse the horrid consequences of the oppression done by those being stood against (see Nehemiah 5:1-13).

We also see in Acts chapter 19 that even a heathen man who worshiped an idol still had the common sense and decency to know that an unruly mob defending his false goddess needed to be dispersed.  Even this heathen idolater properly discerned that no good can come from an unruly mob.  

Acts 19:23-41: “And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.  For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen; Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.  Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands: So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshipeth.  And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.  And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theater.  And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not.  And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theater.  Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused: and the more part knew not wherefore (why) they were come together.  And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward (my note: this was the Jews who did not profess Jesus to be the Christ trying to disassociate themselves from the Christians who professed Jesus to be the Christ- many of whom, even in the gentile city of Ephesus, were ethnically Jewish too.  It is pathetically ironic now that many professing Christians, most of whom are ethnically gentiles, try to associate themselves with Jews who openly reject Jesus Christ).  And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defense unto the people.  But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.  And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshiper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?  Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly (Christians, listen and take note).  For ye have brought hither (here) these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.  Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another (my note: file a complaint or a lawsuit with the authorities- don’t take matters into your own hands- and disassociate from mobs who are trying to take matters into their own hands).  But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly.  For we are in danger to be called in question for this day’s uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.  And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.”

We surely did not cover everything which the Bible has to say which pertains to unruly mobs.  What has been covered is sufficient to make the point that members of unruly mobs are always in sin.  

Take the matter to the authorities or, in the extreme cases when the authorities themselves are the problem, appeal to other authority (if you can’t go a higher one than go to the highest possible lesser authority), to take action and mobilize against the evil authorities with a clear mission, clear directions, clear rules and boundaries, and provision of oversight to do things as orderly, efficiently, and as peacefully as things can possibly be done to deal with the evil- without committing evil in the process.  

Some of the worst heathens are politicians and ultra-rich people who control politicians.  They seek to make laws to establish wickedness and to oppress righteousness.  

Psalm 94:20-23: “Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?  They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.  But the Lord is my defense; and my God is the rock of my refuge.  And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off.”

These ultra-heathens rise up in the shadows against God and against those who are not part of their little cabal, destroying the lives of the righteous, the lives of those who might stand in their way, and destroying the lives of others in the process whom they view as collateral damage.  Such are the worst kind of unruly mob.  And one aspect of their rising up in the shadows is manipulating others to openly riot to aid in the achievement of their desired wicked outcomes.

Righteous authority will use the most brutal force necessary to put down mobs and bring criminals to justice.  The people of Sodom found that out the hard way in Genesis chapter 19.  

Psalm 74:22-23: “Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.  Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.”

Psalm 93: “The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.  Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.  The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.  The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.  Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O Lord, for ever.”

The following Scriptures seem very appropriate to close this message with.

Proverbs 17:4: “A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.”

Proverbs 1:10-19: “My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.  If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.  Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.  And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.  So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.”

Proverbs 14:15-18: “The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.  A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.  He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.  The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.”

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