Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. It is good to share a life of obedience with Christ. And Christ obeyed even to death. To obey is better than sacrifice. God could have crushed them if this was His will.
Character is built through sufferings and perseverance.
Rejoice rather than be sad. Your reward is not earthly ones. Place your hope in the future, in heaven, in what is to come prepared by our loving God. The prophets set examples for us, in that they did not kill off their adversaries, but obeyed God and lived out their calling and lives, even unto death. No prophet is branded Warrior King.