[TheRealThing]

I would suggest that Christ viewed broken humanity as "harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd." But, as with the citizenry of Jerusalem, whom Christ wished to gather to him as a hen its chicks, they would not come, and, truly, their house was left to them desolate.

And that was in reference to His own people. Politics were central in that day too, as appointees and bureaucrats from Rome ruled the people. We of the gentile world will certainly fare no better than they. Especially in America, where there are so many who realize the peril of facing our Judge without the Blood of Christ to cover our sins, much less in accepting our government's having changed God's laws and redefined God's character by legalizing sin. Votes matter much more than a lot of people think.

And I might add. Christ referred to the orthodoxy as snakes and men with mouths like open sepulchers. He did not accept compromise in such matters, because there is only one means of mitigation, the afore mentioned blood of Christ.