Psalm 2, Isaiah’s oracles, and the apostolic preaching put rulers on notice: opposing the Lord’s Anointed is a losing war.
Nations rage; rulers take counsel against the LORD and against His Anointed. Heaven laughs; the Son is set on Zion; kings are warned to kiss the Son lest He be angry (Psalm 2). The New Testament applies this to the coalition against Jesus — Herod, Pontius Pilate, the nations, and the peoples of Israel (Acts 4:25–28).
Judgment on rulers is not abstract politics. It is the claim that Messiah already has the decree, and resistance is futile.
Priestly rulers condemn Jesus. Civic power executes Him. Later the same kinds of authority persecute the Way. AD 70 then shatters the Judean ruling structure tied to the Temple. Rome remains an instrument and will answer for its own evils; the prophetic spotlight of the apostolic age is the crisis of the covenant people and their leaders who rejected the Son.
Against the LORD and against His Anointed — then the decree speaks.
Rulers are not neutral when they take that counsel.
Christ’s lordship relativizes every throne. The church does not seize the old Sanhedrin’s chairs; it confesses the risen King and refuses to treat condemned orders as the hope of the world.