A Little and Mere 3-Propositions on Romans 13:1 and Observance to the Higher Powers

Romans 13:1 KJV "...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..."

My people, give ear, attend to my word,
In parables new deep truths shall be heard;
The wonderful story our fathers made known
To children succeeding by us must be shown. 
Instructing our sons we gladly record
The praises, the works, the might of the Lord,
For he has commanded that what he has done
Be passed in tradition from father to son. 
Let children thus learn from history's light
To hope in our God and walk in his sight,
The God of their fathers to fear and obey,
And ne'er like their fathers to turn from his way.  
The story be told, to warn and restrain,
Of hearts that were hard, rebellions, and vain,
Of soldiers who faltered when battle was near,
Who kept not God's cov'nant nor walked in his fear.  
God's wonderful works to them he had shown,
His marvelous deeds their fathers had known;
He made for their pathway the waters divide,
His glorious pillar of cloud was their guide. 
Unharmed through the sea, where perished their foe,
He caused them with ease and safety to go;
His holy land gaining, in peace they were brought
To dwell in the mountain the Lord's hand had bought.  
He gave them the land, a heritage fair;
The nations that dwelt in wickedness there
He drove out before them with great overthrow,
And gave to his people the tents of the foe.  
His servant he called, a shepherd of sheep,
From tending his flock, the people to keep;
So David, their shepherd, with wisdom and might
Protected and fed them and led them aright.  (TH, 301).
   

1.)  Where did the civil magistrate come from?  Where did law enforcement come from?  Did it come from the fallen anthropology of sinners in an ultimate sense?  Where did the judicial system from come?  Does it originate from the mere mind of fallen man?  How do we see that fallen man began to govern society by civil law?  A ultimate sense of abiding the justice of the law is God's divine judgment opposed to Cain in the beginning Chapters of Genesis.  The concept of justice comes from God.  At the human level it is imperfect justice.  God's justice is perfect and ultimate justice touching the good of mercy for the elect and the good of justice for the non-elect, but the secondary cause of higher powers is that of the proper place of the civil government.  The civil government has the place of the sword of retribution.  Shouldn't this be a picture of God?  

2.)   Yes it ought to picture God, but the spiritual sword is God's written Word.  In this Word, He establishes the subordinate authority of the civil magistrate, civil government or law enforcement.  We see that Cain began a society, but criminals tend to have power because of fear.  The Lord judged Cain in the ultimate sense, because it was His divine and mysterious purpose.  There is a general benevolence that God extends to all kinds of sinners but especially to those of ultimate justice of hell.  To think about the ultimate destiny of hell where punishment of sin unto an eternal agony blazing is the essence of life turned into a living death is surely the greatest of punishments that defies the finite mind of man.  God gives reprobate men like Cain civil change, but this is all Cain can muster due to his radical corruptions in being turned over to himself.  Hell does not have the power to redeem or justify, because the eternal Christ alone has the power to redeem fallen sinners by His Cross that made hell itself shutter with the absorption of divine justice of the glory of the Father through the eternal sacrifice of the Son by the supernatural application of God's Spirit that accompanies His written Word.

3.)  The civil magistrate is placed by a holy Triune God to make sure the peoples of the earth obey the civil laws of men, but because man is imperfect there are unjust laws.  God may have brought this about to teach fallen sinners of His justice, or for a pursuit of humility.  The simple thing to keep in mind is the happiness of Job after tribulation, the prosperity of Jacob in wrestling with God and the mind-set of St. Polycarp to obey Christ over an unjust law.  Creation rights belong to God alone, but human rights belong to us because we are made in the image of God.  God alone is innocent and pure and holy, but there is no darkness of sin in Him: namely, He cannot be put on trail for any accusation, but who are any of us to respond back to God?   Man has failed at this question due to an out of place view of sovereignty. God alone is the Supreme Potter to do whatsoever He pleases in earth and on heaven.  There should be no question of ultimate sovereignty.  The rights of ultimate sovereignty belong to a holy God alone, but the higher power has a subordinate sovereignty to a Being who has the Power of Being.  He made all things and we see all things that He made.  He is not dependent on anyone, but His foredetermined purpose is that we reflect His intent in all things: namely, God's intent in bring about all in foredetermined predestinarianism is holiness and goodness and purity.  We ought to think we are here to do good, because the Bible says that we are not only ordained to do good but also because we are created to do good.  The civil laws of men should be simple but also good.  Every citizen has the human responsibility to obey the civil laws of men.  Do you pay taxes even though we hate the level or degree of them?  Do you obey the traffic rules?  Do you wear your sit belt?  There is a sense where if men create a just law but fallen man fails it is a sin against God but also a a civil violation against the civil authorities.  Like God remember mercy in judgment even as angels do.   It does not mean man is ultimate in the ultimate sense, but it means all good comes from God.   God alone is ultimate.  If man has a law that means its sin and also violation of civil law, it also shows that God was right all along to establish laws of good.  There should be no question on separation of church and state: namely, such separation is like asking a mother to stop weaning her child at those precious years.  The church if obedient to the Word is like a mother to the child of governing authorities.  The written Word has the divine truth of God, but the higher powers in a subordinate standard should apply them.  

Not worthy, Lord! to gather up the crumbs
With trembling hand that from thy table fall,
A weary, heavy-laden sinner comes
To plead thy promise and obey thy call.
I am not worthy to be thought thy child,
Nor sit the last and lowest at thy board;
Too long a wand'rer and too oft beguiled,
I only ask one reconciling word.
One word from thee, my Lord, one smile, one look,
And I could face the cold, rough world again;
And with that treasure in my heart could brook
The wrath of devils and the scorn of men.
I hear thy voice; thou bidd'st me come and rest;
I come, I kneel, I clasp thy pierced feet;
Thou bidd'st me take my place, a welcome guest
Among thy saints, and of thy banquet eat.  (TH, 356).