Resisting the authority

He removes kings and raises up kings Daniel 2:21 (NKJV)

We are to obey the governing authorities, according to Romans 13:1-2  Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.    Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.

So, if God raised up a Hitler, then we must obey.  Right?

Maybe one could distinguish “authority” from the ruler.    The authority is from God, but not the ruler.   Yet Daniel says that God “raises up kings.”

If  God did raise up a Hitler, it does not mean the evil a Hitler does is not his own. 

It does not mean one must submit to the evil.

Some rulers go beyond their purpose; they step beyond the role government was intended to have, or what God raised them up to do.

Zechariah 1. 15  I am exceedingly  angry  with the nations at ease;  For I was  a   little   angry ,  And they helped--[but] with evil [intent].

The nations helped in the judgment of Israel—whom God was angry with,  "The Lord has been very angry with your fathers” (Zechariah 1:2)-- but the nations went too far.   

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.  2  And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, Daniel 1:1-2a

Hitler as a leader went too far.

His rise to power may very well  had been a result of where Germany had gone culturally and spiritually.   Of course, the treaty of Versailles with it’s impossible demands did not help matters.  Hitler’s rise and acceptance revealed the state of the nation.  The state of the nation and the Church in Germany was revealed. 

Did not Daniel and his friends refused to obey the authority with reference to worship?

"There are certain Jews whom you have set over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego; these men, O king, have not paid due regard to you. They do not serve your gods or worship the gold image which you have set up."  Daniel 3:12

“Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.    "If that [is] [the] [case], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver [us] from your hand, O king.   "But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up." Daniel 3:16-18

Though God raised up Nebuchadnezzar over Babylon and gave him authority over Israel, Daniel’s 3 friends did not obey the king and authority in matters of their faith.  They would be subject to the consequences of that authority of the King, but they were correct in this particular matter to disobey.  God’s intervention was pen vindication of their disobedience, though not everyone who rightly disobeys authority for their faith and the truth will experience such deliverance.