Massacre in Chattanooga

by Frederick Hoehn, copyright 2015, all rights reserved.

Chapter 1

This last week, in Chattanooga, TN, a terrorist gunman killed five people.  He targeted military recruitment offices and a Naval facility.  

The gunman was slain by law-enforcement officers.  

So, on the Sunday TV talk shows, a big question was, "What was the gunman's motivation?"

That's kind of a dumb question, isn't it?  Isn't the answer obvious?

The murderer was a Muslim.  Muslims are people who have Islam as their religion.  Islam teaches that if you die as a Muslim martyr, you go straight to heaven.  

Some Muslims have been promised they'll go to a heaven where they get 72 virgins to be their wives.  

No, you don't get anyone to be your wife in heaven.  Jesus said that those who are accounted worthy to go to heaven, after arrival in heaven, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage.  

Notice that you have to be accounted worthy to go to heaven.  Murdering people doesn't help you get qualified to go to heaven.  

When you leave earth in death, you leave your body behind.  The part of you that dies is your body.

Then your spirit either goes up to heaven or down to hell.  

Of course, going to hell, and then the Lake of Fire, is also called the second death.  

It is a teaching of the Bible that those who go to heaven get new bodies.  

I believe those new bodies are bodies without sex organs.  No sex in heaven, and no marriage.  

That's only for this life on earth.  

My friend, Tom, and his wife were both Christians.  I believe they're both in heaven.  But they're no longer husband and wife in heaven, because Jesus said there's no marriage in heaven.  

Someone had a vision of people going into the gate of heaven.  If more than one person arrives at the gate of heaven at the same time, someone has to wait a little, because you go into heaven one at a time.

A scripture along those lines is "Every man shall bear his own burden."

You don't get into heaven on someone else's qualifications, but only if you yourself qualify.  Your name has to be written in the "Lamb's Book of Life" in heaven. 

The way to get your name in that book is to become a born again Christian (John chapt 3).

More on that in Chapter 2 of this book.   

But aside from the issue of marriage in heaven, the fact is, Muslim terrorists don't go to heaven.  They've been lied to, as they shall immediately see upon their arrival in hell.  

"Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life living in him." (1 Jhn 3:15)

Muslim terrorists are murderers, and they go to hell, not heaven.    

Islam is a religion founded by the false prophet Muhammad, who himself went to hell, along with everyone else who has started a false religion, for it is written, "He that digs a pit shall fall into it."

Now, I know that the Muslims say that Muhammad went up to heaven in a chariot of fire.

No, that was the real Prophet Elijah.

The false prophet, Muhammad, went to hell.

Muslims worship a false god, Allah.

In God's book, the Bible, God is never called Allah.  

The real God has a son, Jesus.  Allah does not have a son, Jesus.  So then Allah is not the real God.  

Islam teaches that it is right to lie to Infidels (non-Muslims).  But God says in Exodus chapter 20, in The Ten Commandments,  "You shall not bear false witness."

Another scripture on the subject says, "All liars shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone." (Rev 21:8)

I understand that brimstone is sulfur.  We did an experiment in College Chemistry lab involving the heating of sulfur.  

When you get sulfur hot, it makes a terrible stink, and if you get any hot sulfur on you, it will burn you.  

But I guess the Muslims who tell lies don't know they're going to hell, because they won't read the Bible that explains that to its readers.  

Chapter 2

Jesus said, "They shall put you out of the synagogues, yes, the time will come, that whoever kills you will think that he's doing a service for God." (Jhn 16:2)

That time is now, when people think that killing Christians is a service to God.  

And which god is it that they're doing a service to?  Well, to Allah, of course, not the real God.  

The real God has said, "Thou shalt not commit murder," and that's another of "The Ten Commandments." (Exo chapt 20)

But this raises another interesting difference between the Muslim god and the real God.  

All through the Old Testament, we see where if someone displeased God, He would sometimes strike them dead.  

There was a fellow named Uzzah.  It was his job to attend to the cart that carried the Ark of the Covenant.  As the oxen pulled the cart, the Ark wobbled some, so Uzzah put out his hand to steady it.  

But that was something he wasn't supposed to do.  It displeased God, and God killed him.  

Contrariwise, if Allah wants someone dead, he doesn't have enough power to kill that person, he needs a man or woman to go get the job done.  

So we see that the real God is much more powerful than the Muslim god.  

Which raises the question of whether there really is an Allah.  Muhammad said there is, but Muhammad is a false prophet.  

If there's an Allah, he doesn't live in heaven because the real God wouldn't allow it.  

If there's an Allah, he is probably a demon, a fallen angel.  

You're not doing yourself any good, and you are doing damage to yourself if you're worshiping a demon.  You are allowing demons to get into you.  

The Chattanooga terrorist Muslim was apparently Muhammad Abdulazeez.

He visited the nation of Jordan not long ago.  They said it was not unusual since he apparently had family there.  

Seems like there might have been another significant person there, the person who radicalized Abdulazeez.  

Abdulazeez had been an athlete, and was an Engineer with a good job and a car, earning good money.  

With those things going for him, why the sudden change in behavior?

Because, according to Islam, it's a short cut to heaven, and also you're doing something for Allah (who can't do it for himself).  

A short cut to heaven, and doing something for God seems like not too bad a deal, IF IT WERE TRUE.  

But it's not true, it's a lie.  What you get it a short cut to hell, and you've done something for a false god.  

Doing for a false god is doing something against the real God, who is able not only to kill you, but to also send you to a fiery hell.  

Senator Diane Feinstein believes that this occurrence in Chattanooga was by a "Lone Wolf" terrorist.

Yes, that's how it looks.  A Lone Wolf, except for that other person.  The person who radicalized Abdulazeez.

This incident is rather like the Ft. Hood Massacre from several years ago.  

The perpetrator there was the Muslim, Major Hasan.

What set him off?

Well, things seemed to be going well for Hasan until he got orders.  

When I joined the Army, I got orders to go to Boot Camp at Ft. Leonard Wood, MO.  

After boot camp I got orders to Ft. Bliss, TX, for Advanced Individual Training.  

After that, I got orders to go to South Korea.  

If you're in the military, you go where they send you, and Major Hasan knew that.  

In fact, when he joined the Army, he took an oath and swore that he would obey orders.

If you won't take the oath, they won't let you into the Army. 

But I guess that to Hasan, it wasn't a real oath, because it was an oath to Infidels (non-Muslims), and in the religion of Islam, it's OK, even encouraged, to lie to Infidels.  

Hasan was ordered to go to the battle zone, and he didn't like those orders.

What to do?  What to do?  

"Oh, here's what I can do," decides Hasan.  "I'll get my guns and start shooting people.  Someone will have to shoot me, and as a Muslim martyr, I'll go straight to heaven."  

And someone did shoot Hasan, but it didn't kill him, so he went to prison.  

To those who've been taught that murdering people will get you to heaven, YOU'VE BEEN LIED TO.  MURDERING PEOPLE DOESN'T GET YOU TO HEAVEN.  

Jesus said that to get you heaven, you MUST be born again. 

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.