....”Why so difficult for Educated, Lofty, Ordained, and Powerful Religious and Political Leaders to figure this out?”.....
Jesus let us know this would come.....where “they” would believe they were doing God a service....(such as accepting Islam and other religions as having the same God)...and He told us they do this because they haven’t know Him nor the Father.
So they are blinded from the truth because they do not know Him....and believe a lie.
That is the only possible explanation. :-)
The whole Ferguson Thing is also an amazing example of how people can believe a lie, even when the truth is presented in all its obviousness.