WHY KIDS ARE KILLING KIDS IN COLLEGE – April 18, 2007, Part #2

Part #1 (below) was written the day after the massacre at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999.  Nothing has changed!  There is no repentance of our war against Almighty God.  We have learned nothing from that horrible day eight years ago.  Bloodshed continues coursing down the corridors of our schools, workplaces, and streets with ever increasing ferocity.  Now it has come to one of our colleges – this time it’s Virginia Tech! 

The media is busying itself trying to point its long crooked finger of blame on police, college administration, city, state, federal officials and, of course, George Bush!  Yet there is absolutely no solution any of these can offer to prevent the violence that is savaging our kids.  Our problem is with God Himself! 

He has a controversy with us.  It is delineated in six simple verses found in Hosea 4:1-6.  We have cast God behind our backs, expelled Him from school, and banished Him from the school yard.  As we have done this, an enemy has crept in to rob, kill, and destroy our children.  Yes Virginia, there is a devil!

We have shed blood in the womb (over fifty million children slaughtered) and we have been reaping an ever increasing harvest of bloodshed in our streets (Hosea 4:2).  We are not getting away with it.

That is why we mourn today for those who have been so needlessly slaughtered (Hosea 4:3).  We throw up our hands toward heaven and ask, “WHY!”

It is my responsibility today to tell why:  “My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.  Because you have rejected knowledge, I also have rejected you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.”  Hosea 4:6.  What happened at Virginia Tech on the morning of April 16, 2007, is a sign and judgment from God that we have turned our back upon Him.

 “Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain.”  Psalm 127.

 WHY KIDS ARE KILLING KIDS IN HIGH SCHOOL – April 21, 1999, Part #1

During a week of bringing the Gospel of Christ to local high schools and confronting the abortion industry with its savaging of our children in Buffalo, New York, Operation Save America Director, Rev. Flip Benham made the following Statement:

Blood is coursing down the corridors of a high school in Littleton, Colorado and the blood shed in those hallways is on our hands.  We have no one to blame but ourselves.  In high schools across this country (Edinboro, Pennsylvania; Pearl, Mississippi; West Peducah, Kentucky; Jonesboro, Arkansas; Eugene, Oregon), it has become increasingly obvious that our schools have become the very gates of hell. Violence of every sort is overwhelming our public schools in spite of the vehement protestations of school officials and the Department of Education.  These people have refused to face reality for years.

Why has the public school become, apart from the local abortion mill, the most dangerous place for a young person to be?  Why are our kids, who have been given everything money can buy, killing their friends in school?  Why have our schools become veritable jungles where "survival of the fittest" has become a reality? The answer is simple. Violence was done in the hearts of our children long before it murderously manifested itself in the hallways of our schools.

God was violently expelled from school by a Supreme Court decision in 1962 (Engle vs. Vitale). He was banished from the schoolyard and His Commandments removed from the school walls in two other Supreme Court decisions (Abbington vs. Schemp, 1963 and Stone vs. Graham 1977). He has been replaced with police guards, metal detectors, drugs, condoms, gangs, assault, rape, murder and violence of unprecedented order.

We have violently robbed our children of purpose and destiny by allowing God to be removed from their education.  Genesis 6:11-13 tells us that violence filled the earth because the people God created chose to remove Him from their minds and hearts. When God is removed, violence always fills the void.

We fathers have violently removed God from our children by abdicating our responsibility to live Godly lives before them.  Mothers have violently removed God from our children by denying them divine maternal love and dropping them off at day care centers. We have all done violence to our children by allowing the smallest and weakest to be slaughtered at abortion mills. Government schools have done violence to our children by removing the knowledge of God from them.

"Do not be deceived America! God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows."  That's what the Bible says!  We in America have sown violence into the hearts of our kids, and we are reaping a whirlwind of violence in our schools. We have removed every vestige of the knowledge of God from our children and should not be surprised at the manifestations of senseless brutality and violence that replaced Him.

We are today raising a nation of predators!  We have kids who don't give a rip about God, their neighbor, or themselves.  They will rob, kill and destroy simply to get what they want when they want it.  We are raising kids without a conscience who kill at a whim.  Then we look at each other with awkward amazement and wonder what in the world happened.  We have purposely removed God from the hearts and minds of our children and are suffering the horrible consequences of our foolish arrogance.

To restore peace in the classroom, we must first corporately and publicly repent of our sin – the removal of God from the lives of our kids.  We must acknowledge the fact that we are not smarter than He is, and invite Him back - Ten Commandments and all!  We must bring God back to school!  He promises to return if we will humble ourselves and pray 2 Chronicles 7:14.

What will it be, America?  Another godless million-dollar program that will never touch the cancer of violence destroying our kids?  Or, will we have the courage to call on the Great Physician Himself, and ask Him to perform the surgery that will completely remove the cancer forever!