Authorities Should Enforce the Law, Not Their Own Wants
There was the statement I once foolishly made when I was still a child that I wanted to be the president so I could do what I want. However that is plain foolish talk. In the Bible, God anoints authorities to do His will and not to do what they want. A good example is how God raised rulers and collapsed them like he did with Saul and Jeroboam. A problem today is that many authorities however are being in power getting served but not serving the people. These are what can be called as dictators like when Saul began using the throne of Israel for his self-interest, when Jeroboam began to create his own temple and appointing non-Levites for priests in his new temple and of course Ahab's corrupt regime.
One must understand that service is a cycle and the Bible commands everybody must have that submissive attitude in reverence to Christ in Ephesians 5:21 that everybody should submit to each other in love for Christ. If husbands expect wives to be obedient, they ought to be submissive to authority and loving their wives. In fact in Ephesians 6:6-9 we read the relationship between masters and slaves. Slaves are to obey their masters and masters are likewise to treat their slaves with respect. Dictators however are one-sided- people serve them and they don't serve the people. These can be in the form of husbands who mistreat their wives, parents who mistreat their children (which is as bad as overindulgence), teachers who are tormentors and not mentors and dictatorships like Communists and Nazis. This is because such people refuse to accept the fact that God anointed them. Whoever God anointed, He will also remove.
What these people fail to see is that they are in authority only because God said so. When God made Moses the leader of Israel, remember that every last law enforcement Moses made was obviously God's Law being enforced. That's a good authority- he is doing what God wants and not what he wants. One might also take a good look at the kings of Israel and Judah. David was blessed whenever he obeyed God but when he had his one night affair with Bathsheba when he was fifty years old (according to historical records), his family fell in shambles. When Solomon started to do what he wants instead of continuing the revival he did for Israel, it led to a divided kingdom after he died and some of his descendants were acting the way they wanted like Rehoboam, Abijah, Jehoram (who even married Athaliah the daughter of Ahab) who ruined his father's reforms, Ahaziah, Joash (who later gave in to peer pressure resulting to his death), Ahaz, Manasseh prior to repentance, Amon and even some of Josiah's sons were doing what they want. Also that was the real reason why the Northern Kingdom was unstable like how Jeroboam, Omri and especially Ahab (the most infamous one) really was abusing their power as authority.
Now for some examples of the fall of ungodly rulers. In Exodus 5:2 we read the Pharaoh of the Exodus even defy God and until chapter 13, he enforces his wants to the point he drowned at the Red Sea. Saul in 1 Samuel 15 lost his kingdom because he did not obey the voice of the LORD to completely wipe out the wicked Amalekites resulting to future trouble for Israel. The other is Ahab who is no doubt the most wicked king of the Northern Kingdom- he not only married the wicked Sidonian princess Jezebel but also persecuted the prophets of God without mercy. In fact, 1 Kings 21 the story of Naboth's vineyard when he abused his power to steal something he should never get. Obviously while he had the right to collect taxes from the vineyard but to steal what was not his and worse, Naboth was a dear saint of God, caused much trouble. In time, Ahab really died in the battle he went with Jehoshaphat to recover the land from the Syrians. Or perhaps another infamous example is none other than Athaliah who misused her authority as queen mother not only by manipulating her husband Jehoram (until he died), her son Ahaziah for a year and later she did the unthinkable by murdering her own sons. Or in the New Testament the Herods were the worst examples with Herod the Great's abortion campaign, Herod Antipas' live-in relationship with his sister-in-law Herodias, Herod Agrippa I trying to claim the glory of God for himself and so on. And the same thing happens to rulers when they abuse their power, sooner or later they get yanked out of their seats.