A ruler within a nation does not have the right or the authority to legislate what is contrary to God's commandments and to enforce it with penalties—that is tyranny. When he does so, he sets himself upon a pedestal to be honored above God (just as Nebuchadnezzar did with his golden image). Rulers may not command us to bow down and worship an image (as did Nebuchadnezzar), but when they legislate what is evil, they usurp the supreme authority of God and His law, and they rebel against Christ, the King of kings. This is essentially what Nebuchadnezzar did also.
The tyranny of rebellious rulers is not morally indifferent or neutral. Tyranny is not just a political debate of one political party's position vs. another political party's position. It is still tyranny even if the majority within a nation supports the tyranny. It is tyranny because wicked rulers no longer rule as God's ministers to us for good, but rather assert their own authority to rule by their own wicked laws rather than submitting themselves to the kingship of Jesus Christ and His righteous laws.
Tyranny is satanic, just as Samuel Rutherford writes (Lex Rex, p.34):
Tyranny being a work of Satan, is not from God, because sin, either habitual or actual, is not from God: the power [authority—GLP] that is, must be from God . . . .
We can clearly see the religious issue involved in the tyranny of King Nebuchadnezzar here in Daniel 3 in commanding worship to an idol, but let us not be blind to the religious issue involved in all tyranny—man's resistance to God's authority.
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