Human authority is the shadow of the Father. He is the unseen presence behind earth's rulers and hides His issues within its order. He knows us entirely and the ancestral iniquity in our bones. He places us in the boiling crucible of authority where our flaws will rise to the surface and cry for release. And the test is whether we will let life's rulers kill our rot by fire . . . or flee the flames and keep the disease.
Authority is the supreme test of faith.
God is God. . . Yes, God can give me into the hands of a brutal controller. He did so with idolatrous Israel.