Death on the Strip

Last night all hell broke loose in America......AGAIN.

This time the carnage was on the Las Vegas Strip where a single, crazed gun-man dispatched the lives of over sixty fellow citizens.

Above five hundred are in hospital with wounds registering from acute to critical.

All incurred within the space of a five minute death spree directed from the 30th floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel.

The shooter, Stephen Paddock, had no previous criminal record. No arrests, no violations, no connection with the police for any form of crime. Clean. And yet this is the man who is now classified as the worst mass murderer in American history.

So the speeches, the hand-wringing, the second guessing, the search for motive, the psycho-analysis, the expert's opinions, the yada-yada are now in full spate. However, you can guarantee one thing..the root cause and the real reason for this previously normal and sane human-being turning into a killer will NEVER be mentioned. And, we may ask, what might that cause be?

The most simple of answers my friend. He was TAKEN OVER BY DEMONIC SPIRITS that directed and drove him to kill.

To be a christian means that we not only believe in Christ the Lord, but that we also believe in the devil, the Lord of Darkness.

Bring the work of the devil into this equation of horror and evil and suddenly it all makes sense..... spiritual sense.

If you will take the trouble to read Mark chapter 16 you will see that the first order of business in the Great Commission is to cast out devils. DEVILS  folks. They are as real today as they were in Bible days. Don't believe me? Then instead of Mark 16 read the New York Times and tell us your version of why 60 people tonight are lying dead in a Las Vegas morgue.

Ian

The Death of David Mainse.

I recall a factoid worth repeating: on the day that President  Kennedy was shot, on that same day a great Christian statesmen passed to his reward in heaven. In all the storm of media attention surrounding John Kennedy's assassination, the death of C.S. Lewis passed unnoticed. So much for earthly acclaim. 
But, I am heartened by the scripture in Psalms that says "The death of His saints is precious in the sight of God."
To bring the matter up to date. Last week Hugh Hefner died in California whilst here in Canada David Mainse passed on to his reward from the Lord. You will not have heard a peep of this event through your local media, it being drowned out in the roars of acclaim from the South.
David was a pioneer in Christian Broadcasting. He founded a daily T.V. programme called 100 Huntley Street where his studio was based in Toronto. The name was later changed to CROSSROADS, the large Headquarters from where the Gospel was daily broadcast across the world.
As a Canadian writer and preacher I must honour the passing of this great man of God.
Heaven is surely a richer place today, not only with the arrival of David but the the thousands of souls that made heaven their home because of his life and ministry.
Well done David, good and faithful servant.

Jubilate.

Ian