Please start a thread on these 2 passages. Because in the USA, the "rulers" "authorities" and "higher powers".....
are
WE THE PEOPLE. Thats how it works HERE. We ourselves are the authorities, and the government officials are SUBJECT TO US!
But in Rome and the near East there was in place a military dictatorship. With despotic kings. Yes, the citizens WERE "subjects".
But not in America.
Rom 13:1
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.