Homegrown Murderers in the U.S. 

by Frederick Hoehn, copyright 2015, all rights reserved.

Chapter 1

This last week, a young Caucasian man went into a black church in Charleston, SC, and shot people, including the Pastor.  

It was one of the main topics on the Sunday talk shows on TV.  

A while back, a young man shot people at a theater in Aurora, Colorado.  

And there were the Columbine shootings.

And the shooting of Gabby Gifford, and the others in Arizona.   

And many other such incidents in our nation.  

What is the common thread?  

What causes these shooters to do so?

Demons.  

Demons get people to go out and commit murder.  

Do you remember that "Son of Sam" shooter?  He said his dog told him to murder.  

But dogs can't talk.  He might have thought it was his dog, but it was a demon that told him to murder.  

Demons are fallen angels that rebelled against God back when Satan rebelled against God.  

There's a scripture that seems to indicate that one third of the angels followed Satan, becoming demons.  

It is the purpose of demons to steal, to kill, and to destroy, like Jesus said, in John 10:10

Most forms of insanity are demonic in origin.  

Demons and angels are spirit beings.  They don't have flesh and blood bodies like we do.  

So, we can't see them with our natural eyes.

Satan is called "The Prince of the Power of the Air." 

Demons travel around in the air, looking for someone to tempt, or someone to hurt.  If they find someone to get into, they like to get into humans.  

Howard Pittman spoke about demons in his teachings, and Kenneth E. Hagin, and Lester Sumrall.  

An excellent book by Sumrall is, "Demons, the Answer Book."  Be sure to read the chapter about the woman who had been bitten by demons.  

The fang marks were visible in her arm.  

At the place where I'm living, there was a crazy woman, downstairs, who lived here for years.  They've come and taken her away.  

But something bad happened to her decades ago.  

The Bible says we should, "Forget the things that are behind, and reach out to the things that are ahead." (Phil 3:13)

But that woman wouldn't forget about the bad thing that happened to her, until it grew to the size of a mountain in her life.  She let an incident ruin her life.  

The Bible says we should, "Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." (2 Cor 10:5)

We're supposed to rule over our thoughts, not just let them run wild.  

How do the demons get into people?

Sin.  

The committing of sins allows demons in.  

The use of illegal drugs is one way that lets demons in.  Another way is the use of pornography.  That will let demons in.  

Or, excessive use of alcohol.  Adultery, fornication, blasphemy, coveting, stealing, etc. 

Jesus said, "He that looks at a woman to lust for her has committed adultery with her already in his heart."  

Pornography is a billion dollar industry that is quite displeasing to God.  Pornography destroys lives.  Pornography sends people to hell.  Pornography can kill you.  

Pornography is addictive, like alcohol is addictive, or drugs.  

Pittman described how a demon "stalked" a man, like an animal would stalk its prey.  

The demon was tempting the man.  

At some point, the man yielded to the demon, and then Pittman saw the demon enter the man through the pores in the man's forehead.  

The reason Pittman was able to observe that is that he had been having medical problems, and had been pronounced dead by the medical authorities.  

Pittman said that his spirit left his body.  

He said, at that point, "I passed through a dimensional barrier."  He passed into "the spirit world."  

Then an angel took him on a tour of the spirit world, and showed him how demons operate.  

The angel took him up outside the wall of heaven.  The Lord told Pittman that he was being given more time on earth, and gave Pittman a message to preach.

Pittman's spirit returned to his body, and he lived several more years, preaching the message that the Lord had given him to preach.  

People can also build up hatred for others over a period of time.  Demons encourage that.  

Chapter 2

My Dad had an unpleasant experience with a Jewish employer, so Dad jumped to the incorrect conclusion that all Jews are bad.  

Dad was wrong.  I've met some fine Jews, and have had some excellent teachers that were Jewish.  I learned a lot.  

"Don't be angry, and don't sin.  Don't let the sun go down on your anger" (Eph 4:26)

It says not to let the sun go down on your anger.  Get rid of that anger before sundown.  Forgive.    

"And be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you." (Eph 4:32)

We're supposed to forgive others.

God doesn't want us holding grudges against people.  

In another place, Jesus said that if we don't forgive others, God won't forgive us.  

And we need God to forgive us so that we can go to heaven and avoid hell.  

This young man in Charleston, SC, thought he was going to help make the world more right.

It's not up to us to go around putting the world right.  You can't just go punishing everyone that you think needs punishing.  

Doing so would make you a law breaker, and then punishment would come to you, as will happen to that offender in South Carolina.  

God says, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay says the Lord." (Rom 12:19)  

Just let the Lord punish those who ought to be punished.  

There are video games now that are extremely violent.  

Perhaps some teenagers can play those games without becoming murderers.  But some young people seem to have trouble distinguishing between the video game and reality.  

And some have not received proper foundational training regarding the fact that God says, "Thou shalt not commit murder." (Ex chapt 20)

Have you noticed that some of the movies that are around now, such as on TV, are depicting it as a normal thing that the hero is cohabiting with his girlfriend that he is not married to? 

Movies sometimes give people wrong ideas.  No, you're not supposed to be shacking up with your girlfriend.  God has ordained marriage, not shacking up.  

The State of Colorado has made marijuana legal.  I believe it's a mistake.  The use of marijuana dulls the mind.  

And marijuana often leads to the use of the harder drugs like cocaine and heroin.  

People have done things under the influence of marijuana that they wouldn't have done without that influence, as it is with alcohol.  

In the short run, Colorado may be getting more income from marijuana users, but in the long run, they are likely to reap a bumper crop of unwanted crimes that could have been avoided.  

I expect that the cost of the crimes will exceed the revenue from marijuana.  

But I believe there's a big connection to this problem of homegrown murderers with the problems of our education system.  

We are graduating young people who can't read and write properly, and who can't do mathematics.  

Employers don't need graduates like that.  

Please see my book, "Why Johnny Can't Read."

But also, the thing that produces ignorant graduates is also teaching bad attitudes.  

The young man in Charleston, SC, had a bad attitude.  

He didn't respect authority.  He didn't respect other people's rights.  He didn't respect the law.  

A bad attitude can absolutely ruin you.  

When I went through the school system, our nation was producing high scoring graduates.  

More recently, however, we've sunk to near the bottom of the list.  

Why?

It's very simple.  THEY TOOK THE DISCIPLINE OUT OF THE SCHOOLS.  	

If you go into the U.S. military, they send you to Boot Camp.  The main thing taught at boot camp is discipline.  If you can't learn to follow orders, you're out of the military, that's all.  

When I was in Jr. High School, if a young man misbehaved, he went to the Vice Principal's Office.  The Vice Principal would apply the paddle to that young man.  

And you know what, they graduated people who could read, write, and do math.  

But then some people came along and said, "Oh, no, you mustn't spank the students."

And as a result, our graduates can't read.  

There is a saying, "Spare the rod and spoil the child."

That's not exactly a scripture, but the Bible says something like it:

"He that spares his rod hates his son, but he that loves him chastens him at times." (Prov 13:24)

Do you get it?  If you won't spank your son when he does wrong, it's because you hate him.  

"Don't withhold correction from the child, for if you beat him with the rod, he won't die.  You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell." (Prov 23:13,14)

It says spank the child so that the child won't go to hell.  

When you spank the child for his misbehavior, you're teaching him to have a better attitude.  

Apparently, that wasn't done for the young man in Charleston, SC.

I had a job in California where a co-worker of mine was having a problem with one of his children at school.  The officials told him that if he spanked the child, they would come and arrest him.  

I don't know if it's still like that in California, but if it is, and if you're a California parent with a child or more, then I suggest, MOVE OUT OF THAT STATE.  

You get born again by obeying Romans 10:9,10--
"That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has 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.