Born of Rebellion

I'm currently in a class wherein I'm reading many Christian authors' and theologians' works.  I was reading The Twelve Articles of the Swabian Peasants, and I began to wonder:  Is rebellion against an unjust system of government biblical?  Martin Luther would say no, for in Romans Paul commands "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.  Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment."  If this is so, then what do we make of the revolutions that have happened already that are beyond our capacity to influence?
I speak mostly of America, a country born out of rebellion.  If it was a sinful revolt (a thing that I'm not entirely certain of, but will assume for the sake of the next argument), then can something good come out of it?  God is sovereign and able to use even evil for His purposes.  St. Matthew's genealogy of Jesus places the line of Jesus through Solomon, who was born of Bathseba after the first child of David's adultery had died.  Further back in the genealogy is Rahab the prostitute.  The line of Jesus is littered with sinful people, but God used even the imperfection of each of these to lead up to his perfect salvation.
God speaks through the prophet Isaiah to tell Israel that Babylon and Persia were chosen as his instruments to the eventual good of Israel, though they themselves were pagan nature.  Time and time again when Israel sinned against God, he used the destructive forces of evil things around it to draw them close to himself.  This refining love is spoken of by the prophet Malachi: "“For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.  But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.  And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts." In Paul's second letter to the Corinthians, he states "We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies." God uses pain and destruction to carve away the parts of his people that have lost their way.  This is the purpose of evil and destruction, to separate true believers and to strengthen their faith and trust in God.
If this study did not go where expected, pray pardon me for that.  I spoke toward what my mind was brought to, and it is my hope that it might be of help to some.