In posting this, I suddenly realized that those who work against God and His Son and His people are always motivated by Jealousy, as pointed out in these chapters.
Is our current problem in politics motivated by the same murderous jealousy? Is pedophilia the tender of the realm of those ungodly who hate the Lord?
Finally, do not overlook the part about God having His angels mark His people with an invisible seal on their foreheads.
This invisible seal (note... it's a spiritual seal. Satan or Satan's people on earth will counterfeit God's invisible seal with a physical seal to be able to "buy and sell" that believers will not be able to take under pain of the loss of their salvation.) God's invisible seal is mentioned in the Book of Revelation:
Revelation 14:1
Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144, 000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.
Revelation 7:1-4
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree.
Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea:
"Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God."
Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144, 000 from all the tribes of Israel.
Some capital punishment is needed for the treason committed.
Well if 70 elders agreed to engage in idolatry, what kind of lone nut would disagree with the big names, the expert authorities? After all, it's only a filthy swamp if it's the Establishment in DC. Those filthy, corrupt, lying pols...
Of course, they are not swamps when the religious establish them. 2000 years of consensus can't possibly be wrong, much less the problem.. It's those heretics, the "Donald Trumps" who come along with real vision in order to actually accomplish something useful and clean up this town.
"Crucify him!"
Good biblical reference. Very applicable to today