My supposition is that the cone-heads, the name changers, those mother WEFers, were "God's chosen people", before this new "God's chosen people".

The "God" spoke of at that point in The Book is Elohim (plural of El) and describe a bunch of gold loving, drink loving, adrenochrome/sacrifice huffing entities.

So, i think that "God's used to be chosen people" are waiting for "God" to return. And want to buy their way back into their good graces.

And, if even half of this is so, then it makes sense of how much they want gold.

This just makes sense, but it is no way ascertainable to the truth in it.