Romans 13

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. v.1

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Obeying authorities.  It is good and right to obey authority but there are some authorities who do opposite of what God desires.  Are we then to still obey them because of their authority?  Jesus said to render to Cesar what is Cesar's and God to what is God's, so I"m not trying to teach rebelling against our leaders today. What about Hitler though?  He was in authority, so does that mean he was placed there by God for the good of the Jews according to Romans 13:4?  Of course not.  My point: this section of scripture is applied wrongfully today.  The book of Romans was written during the Acts period when God's government was on earth for a time, meaning His rule was in authority of what the Kingdom will be like when it comes in fully.  His apostles were the ones ruling at this time for we see throughout the book of Acts the power they had.  These rulers were appointed by God and could not be resisted without resisting God.  Only those who did evil would've feared, not just anyone who did good. So these are the rulers and governing authorities mentioned here in Romans.  Understanding this makes every verse in verses one through seven make sense.
In Bible Teacher Nathan Johnson's article on "The Dispensational Place of Romans" he notes on this section in Romans 13:1-7:

This passage is speaking of the “governing authorities,” as the New King James has it, or the “higher powers,” as the King James has it. The ideas both of “governing” and of “higher” are in the Greek. If we should try to apply this to anything today, we will inherit no end of troubles. Most try to apply this to human governments today. Yet this would result in our concluding that, for example, Hitler was not a terror to anyone good, but only to evil people, and that ultimately he was God’s minister to people like the Jews for their good, and conscience should have told everyone in his domain to do everything he told them to! This is, of course, utterly impossible, and makes a mockery of the Bible. On the other hand, to apply this to religious authorities today is just as fallacious, and gives far too much power to the man-made religious organization called the “Christian church.” There are no religious authorities who fit the bill for this either.
Yet if we leave this passage where it belongs, squarely in the Acts period, we can quickly realize that there were representatives then of a much higher government than any that exists on earth today. These were God’s apostles, the ones He had given rule over His government. The statements here, when applied to the apostles, are all completely true and accurate, and indeed make perfect sense. It could not be otherwise, when talking about apostles. So this passage shows clearly that Romans was not written to people in our situation today, when we have no such authorities, either civil or religious. 

How have you tried to apply this passage to today but cannot fully do or agree to?  How does understanding the timing of when and who Roman's was written to help you understand  this passage better for today?