“Cast Out the Prophets”
The world loves and honors its own, and living prophets have never been received by it. Christ promised the meridian Apostles that they would be hated of all nations for his name’s sake and that they would be delivered up and killed (Joseph Smith Matthew 1:7). Only when death has silenced the voice of a prophet does the world erect shrines in his honor.
Similarly, it has been observed that many who eulogize George Washington or Abraham Lincoln would have been bitter opponents of these men had they lived in their day. Most who profess to reverence or worship Christ today do so very selectively, ignoring that which would have brought them into conflict with him had they been contemporaries.