The San Bernardino Massacre by Frederick Hoehn, copyright 2015, all rights reserved. Chapter 1 Yesterday, Wednesday, Dec 2, 2015, two suspects died in a shootout with police, after a mass shooting in San Bernardino, CA, at the Inland Regional Center, apparently a social services facility. The mass shooting left 14 dead and 17 wounded. The suspects died in a black SUV that was a rental vehicle. The two suspects were Syed Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfoon Malik, 27. She was from Pakistan. She had pledged allegiance to the leader of ISIS. She will no doubt share hell with the leader of ISIS. Farook, claimed to be devout. Devout what? A devout Muslim. The couple were the parents of a baby girl. Thus, they were bad parents, who brought a baby into this world, and then behaved in such a way that the Police had to kill them, so that now, they won't provide the proper care for their baby that parents ought to provide. Couples who bring children into the world are entering into a covenant, in the sight of God, to care properly for those children-- "Train up a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old, he won't depart from it." (Prov 22:6) So then, God is saying in His book, the Bible, that parents should raise up their children properly. But someone might say, "But they were Muslims, so why should they have to obey the Bible?" Well, you see, God holds people responsible for what he has written in His book, the Bible, even if they choose to follow Islam. If you choose not to read the Bible, that doesn't make your disobedience of God's instructions OK. In earthly courts, defendants have sometimes said to the Judge, "I didn't know that was illegal." And then the Judge said, "Ignorance of the law is no excuse." If people are doing something that is OK in their religion, but is against the teachings of the Bible, it's not OK just because they have that other religion. To be on the safe side, Muslims ought to do some reading in the Bible. If they did, they would see conflicts between their religion and what God has said in the Bible. One good example is, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord." (Rom 12:19) God tells us not to avenge ourselves. But the Muslims take vengeance. But this couple chose to disobey God, instead of raising their child properly, by choosing suicide by cop. As a result, they can't provide their daughter with proper training. One person who chose "Suicide by cop", a couple years ago, engaged in a high speed chase on the freeway. A lot of law enforcement vehicles chased him. Then he pulled over, and so did they. Everyone got out of their cars, and he pointed his gun at the Police, and before he could hurt them, they shot him. Later the Police found that his weapon had no ammunition. Why did he do that? Because he wanted to commit suicide by cop. Generally speaking, when people choose to engage in a gun battle with the Police, the Police win. I thought everyone knew that. What a pity to have to learn that the hard way, but then when you're insane, like this couple, bad things will happen to you. But insane people with every kind of insanity have one thing in common. They all have demons. Demons are fallen angels that rebelled against God when Satan rebelled against God. Unfortunately for Muslims, they have no authority to cast out demons from people. No, you have to be a Christian to have authority to cast out demons. (Luke 10:19, Mark 16:17,18) But Judy Woodruff, Reporter on the PBS Newshour said, "We don't have the motive." (for the shooting spree) You don't have the motive, Judy? Muslim Terrorists, who go around killing, think that they're doing something for Allah. That's the motive for Muslim Terrorists, whose religion teaches them that if they die as Muslim martyrs, they go straight to heaven. And Jesus said that the time would come "that whoever kills you will think that he's doing God a service." (John 16:2) That time is now. The FBI is apparently treating the incident as a terrorist act. Investigators found two deliberately crushed cell phones in a nearby dumpster. Investigators are at work to retrieve as much data as possible from those cell phones. But on one of the major TV networks the question was raised whether Farook had been radicalized. How much more evidence do we need? 14 dead and 17 wounded. Yes, I think it's clear that Farook had been radicalized. Muslims who have not been radicalized don't go on shooting sprees. But there's really no good way to predict when a Muslim not radicalized will change into a radicalized Muslim. The suspects had a huge cache of bullets and bombs. The local U.P.S. delivery man said that a lot of packages had been delivered to their house. Packages, probably, that contained many of those weapons, and perhaps materials for their pipe bombs. This couple are also thieves, who stole that black SUV from the rental car company. Someone might say, "No, I think they rented it legally." No, you're mistaken. I've rented cars myself, from time to time. When you rent a vehicle, you're entering into an agreement with the rental car company that after the rental period, you'll return the vehicle to them, in reasonably good condition. But instead, this couple rented the vehicle, and then destroyed the vehicle with Police gunfire that shot up the vehicle. Of course, the Police weren't trying to destroy the vehicle, they were trying to kill those idiots before those idiots killed Police. Thus, the couple stole that SUV from the rental company. I don't claim to be an expert at business matters, but surely this is not good for the rental car company's bottom line. Surely they didn't get more money out of the rent of the SUV than the value of that vehicle. Car rental companies really ought to be more careful before renting cars to Muslims. Perhaps a good policy would be to require a large cash deposit in advance, when renting a vehicle to Muslims. However, I think there are some laws that forbid discriminating against people because of their religion. So then, what you do, as a rental car company, is you say, "No, we weren't discriminating against them because of their religion, we were discriminating against them because of their insanity, since all Muslims have demons in them from their idolatry in worshiping a false god." On Judgment Day, God will surely hold this couple guilty not only of their Murders, but also of being bad parents, and of the theft of an SUV. But as Muslims, they no doubt thought that by dying as Muslim martyrs, they would automatically go to heaven. But no, they went to a fiery hell, where their worms don't die, and where the fire is not quenched, where there's crying and gnashing of teeth. But Fred, how do you know they went to hell? Because 1 Jhn 3:15 says that "no murderer has eternal life living in him." Eternal life and going to heaven are the same thing. And if you don't go to heaven, then you do go to hell. You don't get to heaven by murdering people. Someone speculated that this could have been just a workplace dispute. No, a workplace dispute would have been more spontaneous. This couple prepared by acquiring all those weapons. The fact that they dropped the little baby off with its Grandmother early that morning indicates preparation. Another Muslim that became radicalized was Army Major Hasan of the Fort Hood Massacre, several years ago. But I think that was a case of self-radicalization. Major Hasan, at Ft. Hood, TX, was thought of as a good citizen for years. But then something happened. Major Hasan was given orders. There's nothing unusual about a soldier getting orders. It occurs on a regular basis. You go to boot camp at some Army base, and then you get orders to somewhere else, perhaps to Advanced Individual Training at a different Army base. Then you get orders to somewhere else, according to the needs of the Army, and all soldiers whether officer or enlisted understand that. At any time, you might get orders, transferring you to a different duty station. But Major Hasan got orders to a combat zone, and he didn't like those orders. He just didn't want to go there. Can't fault a man for having some personal preferences, can you? But, didn't he take an oath when he joined the Army to obey orders and to loyally support the government of the United States? Of course he did. And if he had refused to take that oath, they would not have let him into the Army. So what to do, what to do? Oh, Hasan thought, "Here's what I'll do. I don't have to obey these orders and go where I don't want to go. I'm a Muslim, so I'm guaranteed to be promoted to heaven if I die a Muslim martyr. That's what I'll do, I'll die a Muslim Martyr and go to heaven rather than obey my orders." "Just never mind about the oath that I swore when I entered the Army. And just never mind that God said, All liars shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone." (If you go to the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, then you don't go to heaven.) And some Muslim clerics have promised men that if they die Muslim martyrs, they'll get 72 virgins to be their wives in heaven. Oh, really? But didn't Jesus say that people in heaven neither marry nor are given in marriage? Yes, but the Muslims don't bother to read that part, so if you promise them 72 virgins, they don't know that Jesus said that can't happen. So Hasan got his guns and started shooting people. Sooner or later someone would have to shoot him back so he could die a Muslim martyr. Unfortunately for Hasan, things didn't quite go according to plan. He did get shot, but it didn't kill him, it only paralyzed him. Unfortunately, also, when he was promised to go to heaven by dying a Muslim martyr, he was lied to, for it is written, "No murderer has eternal life abiding in him." (1 Jhn 3:15) (Going to heaven and eternal life are the same thing.) Chapter 2 And there have been various incidents in the U.S. Military where Muslims have turned on their fellow soldiers, and started killing them. So, I suggest that we not allow Muslims to be in the U.S. Military, because we have no way of knowing when they're going to flip out and start killing fellow service men and women. It's like the famous "fifth column" back in World War 2. Traitors within our own ranks. There's a commercial that has been on TV for Hebrew National frankfurters. They say, "We answer to a higher power." But the Muslims think they're answering to a higher power by following Islam. Unfortunately, they've missed the real salvation available in the Lord Jesus Christ, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and Savior of the World, for those who accept his salvation. But someone might whine, "Well, we shouldn't be doing racial profiling." I would like to know why not? Do you know of any other group in the world that just as a normal way of life go around blowing people up, and shooting them, and stabbing them, beside the Muslims? I therefore do not see how it's wrong to automatically treat every Muslim as a suspect until proven otherwise. And even if a certain Muslim seems to be a peaceful Muslim, how do we know that an hour from now, he won't become radicalized, and start killing people? A Muslim martyr, in their view, is someone who dies doing Muslim service, such as a suicide bombing. And then, there are people who lament for the Migrants to Europe from Syria. And what is the religion of those Migrants? Islam. They're Muslims. But if you're a European nation, or a nation anywhere else, why would you want those Muslims to enter your nation, not knowing how long afterward they'll start mass murdering and blowing things up? It is well known that radical Muslim groups are recruiting on Facebook and Twitter. Someone might try to justify that with "Freedom of Speech." No, that would be misapplying Freedom of Speech. Freedom of Speech comes from the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution. And that right is for which people? It's meant for Americans. It is not meant for our enemies who come here and want to destroy us. Freedom of speech is not for them. Because of the fact that Facebook and Twitter seem to be very poor at preventing radical Muslims from recruiting at their websites, thus making those companies enemies of the United States, let's send the U.S. Army to permanently shut down Facebook and Twitter, and then there will be no more Muslim radicalization from Facebook and Twitter. Jesus said, "You MUST be born again." (John chapt 3) To become a born again Christian, obey Romans 10:9,10-- "That if you confess the Lord Jesus with your mouth, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you're saved. For with the heart man believes for righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made for salvation." ___James chapter 1 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are dispersed around, greetings. 2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various temptations, 3 Knowing this, that the testing of your faith works patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, so you'll be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God for it, who gives to all men liberally, and won't find fault, and it shall be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. 7 For let that man not think that he'll receive anything from the Lord. 8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. 9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted, 10 But the rich, in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he'll pass away. 11 For the sun has no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower of it falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes, so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. 12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation, for after he's been tested, he'll receive the crown of life, that the Lord has promised to those who love him. 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted with evil, nor does he tempt any man, 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust has conceived, it produces sin, and sin when it's finished, produces death. 16 Do not err, my beloved brothers. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, nor shadow of turning. 18 He chose to father us with the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. 19 So, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, 20 For the anger of man doesn't accomplish the righteousness of God. 21 So, lay apart all filthiness and the unnecessary naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man seeing his natural face in a mirror, 24 For he sees himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 26 If any man among you seems to be religious, and doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is for nothing. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. ___James chapter 2 1 My brothers, don't have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. 2 For if a man with a gold ring comes to your assembly in fancy clothes, and a poor man in dirty clothes comes in also, 3 And you have respect to him that wears the fancy clothes, and say to him, "Sit here in a good place," and say to the poor, "Stand there, or sit here under my footstool," 4 Aren't you then partial in yourselves, and have become judges with evil thoughts? 5 Listen, my beloved brothers, hasn't God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him? 6 But you have despised the poor. Don't rich men oppress you, and bring you before the judgment seats? 7 Don't they blaspheme that worthy name by which you're called? 8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor like yourself," you do well, 9 But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as sinners. 10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 11 For he that said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not kill." Now if you don't commit adultery, yet if you kill, you've become a breaker of the law. 12 Speak in such a way, and do, as those who'll be judged by the law of liberty. 13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has shown no mercy, and mercy rejoices against judgment. 14 What does it profit, my brothers, though a man says he has faith, and doesn't have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister needs clothes, and lacks daily food, 16 And one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you don't give them the things that are needed for the body, what good is that? 17 Even so faith, if it doesn't have works, is dead, being alone. 18 Yes, a man could say, "You have faith, and I have works, show me your faith without your works, and I'll show you my faith by my works." 19 You believe that there is one God, you do well, the devils also believe, and tremble. 20 But don't you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? 21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 Do you see how faith worked with his deeds, and by works faith was made perfect? 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness, and he was called the friend of God." 24 You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. 25 Likewise also wasn't Rahab the prostitute justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? 26 For like the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. ___James chapter 3 1 My brothers, don't be many masters, knowing that we'll receive the greater condemnation. 2 For in many things we offend all. If any man doesn't offend in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. 3 See, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so they'll obey us, and we turn around their whole bodies. 4 Look also at the ships, which though they're so large, and are driven by fierce winds, yet they're turned around by a very small helm, wherever the captain wants. 5 Even so, the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how great a matter a little fire kindles! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, so is the tongue among our members that it makes dirty the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of animals, and of birds, and of snakes, and of things in the sea, gets tamed, and has been tamed by mankind, 8 But no man can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless God, the Father, and with it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God. 10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be. 11 Does a fountain send out at the same place sweet water and bitter? 12 Can the fig tree, my brothers, produce olive berries? Or a vine, figs? So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh. 13 Who is a wise man, possessing knowledge among you? Let him show out of a good lifestyle his works with meekness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, don't glory, and don't lie against the truth. 15 This wisdom doesn't descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be reasoned with, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace by those who make peace. ___James chapter 4 1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your lusts that war in your members? 2 You lust, and don't have, you kill, and desire to have, and can't obtain, you fight and war, yet you don't have, because you don't ask. 3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask wrongly, so you can consume it on your lusts. 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is an enemy of God. 5 Do you think that the scripture says for nothing, "The spirit that lives in us lusts to envy?" 6 But he gives more grace. So he says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he'll run away from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and cry, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he'll lift you up. 11 Don't speak evil about each other, brothers. He that speaks evil about his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil about the law, and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you're not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy, who are you that judges someone else? 13 Go on now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we'll go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and make a profit," 14 Actually, you don't know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is a puff of steam, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. 15 For you ought to say, "Lord willing, we'll live, and do this, or that." 16 But now you rejoice in your boastings, all such rejoicing is evil. 17 Therefore to him that knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin. ___James chapter 5 1 Go on now, you rich men, cry and howl for your miseries that shall come on you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your clothes are moth eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are rusted, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire. You've heaped treasure together for the last days. 4 See, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you've kept back by fraud, shouts, and the shouts of those who've reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath. 5 You've lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton, you've nourished your hearts, like in a day of slaughter. 6 You've condemned and killed the just, and he doesn't resist you. 7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain. 8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is getting near. 9 Don't grudge against each other, brothers, so you won't be condemned, see, the judge stands at the door. 10 Take, my brothers, the prophets, who've spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. 11 See, we count them happy that endure. You've heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. 12 But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, not by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath, but let your yes be yes, and your no, no, so that you don't fall into condemnation. 13 Is anyone among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is anyone merry? Let him sing psalms. 14 Is anyone sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he has committed sins, he'll be forgiven. 16 Confess your faults to each other, and pray for each other so you'll be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man is does a lot of good. 17 Elijah was a man subject to the same kind of passions that we are, and he prayed earnestly that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit. 19 Brothers, if any of you strays from the truth, and someone converts him, 20 Let him know, that he that converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.