Prophetic Last Days II

James Holmes

"For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened." (Romans 1:21)

Here's what we know about James Holmes, the man who allegedly shot up a suburban Denver theater and murdered at least 13 people while wounding 50 others: He was recently pursuing a doctorate in neuroscience at the University of Colorado-Denver before withdrawing from the program. According to reports, Holmes used to live in San Diego before he moved to the Denver area in 2011.

Typically, before all the bodies of the victims that Holmes gunned down were in the morgue, the "experts" and anyone else who could offer an opinion on the shooter were claiming that he was "mentally ill" or deeply disturbed emotionally. And they tossed all the usual labels at him that pseudo-experts usually do; psychopath, paranoid schizophrenic, Bipolar I, Bipolar II,  Trichotillomania, Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia, blah blah blah, ad infinitum ad nauseum. 

Holmes isn't mentally ill or emotionally disturbed--he's evil. And it's irrelevant how or why Holmes became evil or what he exposed himself to that motivated him to become a mass murderer. He didn't catch some pathological disease that rewired his brain and caused him to become a murderer. Nor can he or anyone else blame his parents, childhood deprivation, early life experiences etc. for his actions because that just provides convenient cop-outs for terrible behavior. Holmes made a moral choice to do what he did and he knew exactly what he did and why he did it.

Unfortunately, our modern world simply refuses to believe in moral absolutes and the presence of evil. Certainly, some religious quacks will claim that Holmes was demon possessed, and maybe he was. Demon possession still exists and it often affects those who have exposed themselves to Satan and a dark spiritual realm through drugs, Eastern Mysticism and the occult. We don't know yet whether Holmes was involved in any of that.  What's truly tragic however, is that so much of Christendom has forgotten about that dark spiritual realm to pursue solutions for evil through psychological counseling and psychiatric treatment.

James Holmes will be examined by court-appointed psychiatrists who will try to determine whether or not he was legally insane when he went on his shooting rampage. Certainly, Holmes' attorneys will try to have him declared insane because capital punishment is legal in Colorado even though that state hasn't executed anyone since 1997. Eventually, like most tragedies such as this one, it will fade from memory and be forgotten until it happens again. And when it does, we'll probably get the same reactions. 

What's the antidote to evil? The apostle James wrote: "Submit yourselves, then to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts you double-minded. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up." (James 4:7-10)