"Therefore he who resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; . . ." (Romans 13:2a)The logical ramification is simple. Because civil government is an institution of God, to rebel against government is to rebel against the God who has established it. In his commentary on Romans, the nineteenth-century Scottish evangelist Robert Haldane wrote, âThe people of God then ought to consider resistance to the government under which they live as a very awful crime, even as resistance to God Himselfâ (An Exposition of Romans [McLean, Va.: MacDonald Pub. Co., n.d.], p. 579). . . .