This verse is also found in 1 Chronicles 16:22. This statement is a message from God, a warning sent to everyone that we must not harm God’s chosen people or his messengers. God defends and protects people he chooses for his divine purpose.
God’s chosen ones are those who are here to fulfil his purpose, which we often refer to as works of God, kingdom work, or mission work. They don’t get to choose their mission, God already chose them meaning they are born with a purpose to serve the lord.
As they are delivering God’s will, God may operate through them on the mission and hence we must not harm or hurt them in any way. God covers those who believe in him, those who are called by him, or those who follow him.
For example, imagine the Holy Spirit residing in a chosen one or a prophet delivering wisdom/guidance to those in need by way of wise counsel, or say the holy spirit singing through an artist to glorify kingdom work, or healing the sick by operating through a doctor/healer or the holy spirit operating through a social worker uplifting, caring for the poor and we harm them, mock them. God is not going to keep quiet as chosen ones are a representation of him. They are delivering his will through their work.
It boomerangs when we harm a chosen. Yes God is very merciful and forgiving. Jesus teaches us to forgive, be kind and compassionate however Father humbles all those who come after his people and refuse to repent or look within to get right with God.
Jesus was killed at 33 years of age due to extreme jealousy from people who failed to acknowledge his anointing and his divine purpose. A chosen artist was bullied, publicly humiliated, mocked on award shows/talk shows, belittled, boycotted and killed at 33-34 years of age. A brutal murder was presented as a suicide. Depressed and druggie they called him, rubbish!
A child of God he was whose majority piece of work had a divine message, a divine purpose to deliver. All those who participated in his mockery, sabotage, ending, cover up, are any of their films, power, authority working today to make business like before? None!
It’s a direct hit, a curse from God to humble the sinners that hurt a child of God who wronged nobody. Each one of them including the industry has suffered some form of wrath/ending/downfall in their lives. God’s wrath is not to punish anyone but to humble the sinners to look within, introspect, and repent for their sins to get right with God.
That’s why the Bible says, “Touch not my anointed, do my prophets no harm”.
Bhagavad Gita says nothing different. Chapter 4, verse 7: “Whenever there is a predominant rise in unrighteousness, a decline in virtue, O’ Arjuna, at that time I will manifest myself on Earth to destroy evil doers, to re-establish dharma & protect the righteous.