The love of death and evil abounds more and more
Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse according to the word of God. So this is expected in this present evil world. Remember Herod's decree?
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
---MATTHEW 2.16