Paul made it quite clear that Christians are to submit to the governing authorities.
Did they disband their off-shoot cult back in Paul's day, and submit to the Jewish religious hierarchies ruling that the Messiah hadn't turned up yet?
I can't see any submission on the part of the Christian cult. The Jews and the Romans made it quite clear that they were a dangerous cult, yet they didn't drop their activity of continuing to harvest followers and promote the idea of Jesus as the Messiah.
