violent revolution

just take a look, take a hard look, at the french revolution, at the russian revolution, at the chinese revolution, at the mexican revolution, at the vietnamese revolution. see the hard results. is this what we want, what we want on our heads? the Bible teaches us to be civil to one another, to cooperate with the civil authorities unless it is a matter of serious conscience. rebellion, under most circumstances, is not encouraged. here we have no abiding place. our ultimate home is beyond all this. but then, we have pretty well rejected that teaching, have we not now?