However, the passage does not end there. It continues to say: “... the authority do not strike fear in people who are doing right, but in those who are doing wrong. ... They are God’s servants, sent for the very purpose of punishing those who do what is wrong.”

For in Micah (6:8), as in many places elsewhere in the Bible, it says: “O people, the Lord has told you what is good, and this is what he requires of you: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God.”
At numerous times in the Bible, prophets stood up against kings when the kings committed adultery or idolatry, exploited the poor, oppressed the people, or otherwise behave unjustly. The prophets were certainly “rebelling against authority”. But they were commanded by God to do that. Who can say the prophets were wrong?
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