The following link provides a list of some U.S. house of worship shootings that have taken place since 2012:-
Some fatal shootings that have happened at U.S. houses of worship since 2012: Oct. 27, 2018: A gunman believed to have spewed anti-Semitic slurs and rhetoric on social media entered Tree of Life Congregation synagogue in Pittsburgh and opened fire, killing 11 and wounding six, including four...
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NONE of these people would have died
IF they simply read and followed the Scriptures, which plainly warn people
NOT TO GO TO CHURCH (or synagogue, etc.).
If you read the
Old Covenant/Testament, it talks about "groves" -- built up "high places" in every high hill and underneath every green tree -- which were the churches used for hypocritical and idolatrous heathen worship, which is why the kings of Israel that sought Godliness burned them to the ground.
2 kings 17:9-13
17:9 And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things that [were] not right against the "I AM" their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
17:10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
17:11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as [did] the heathen whom the "I AM" carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the "I AM" to anger:
17:12 For they served idols, whereof the "I AM" had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
17:13 Yet the "I AM" testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the Prophets, [and by] all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep My Commandments [and] My Statutes, according to all The Law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the Prophets.
2 kings 23:19-25
23:19
And all the houses also of the high places that [were] in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [the "I AM"] to anger,
Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
23:20
And he slew all the priests of the high places that [were] there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
23:21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep The Passover unto the "I AM" your God, as [it is] written in the Book of this Covenant.
23:22 Surely there was not holden such a Passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
23:23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, [wherein] this Passover was holden to the "I AM" in Jerusalem.
23:24 Moreover the [workers with] familiar spirits (mediums), and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of The Law which were written in the Book (Torah) that Hilkiah the priest found in The House of the "I AM".
23:25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the "I AM" with ALL his heart, and with ALL his soul, and with ALL his might, according to ALL The Law of Moses; neither after him arose there [any] like him.
In the
New Covenant/Testament, we are again warned that
ALL man-made temples (churches, synagogues, mosques, etc.) are places where God
DOES NOT DWELL.
Acts 7:47-53
7:47 But Solomon built him an house.
7:48 Howbeit
the Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
7:49 Heaven [is] My throne, and Earth [is] My footstool: what house will ye build Me? saith the Lord: or what [is] the place of My rest?
7:50 Hath not My hand made all these things?
7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit:
as your fathers [did], so [do] ye.
7:52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
7:53
Who have received The Law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept [it].
Acts 17:22-25
17:22 Then Paul stood in the midst of [the court at] Mars' hill, and said, [Ye] men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
17:23 For as I passed by, and beheld your gods that ye worship, I found an altar with this inscription,
TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you.
17:24
God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of heaven and Earth,
dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
17:25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though He needed any thing, seeing He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
And in the Koran/Quran it warns us yet again never to set
Sura 9:107-111
9:107. And there are those who put up mosques (churches; synagogues; etc.),
by way of mischief and BETRAYAL - to disunite the Believers - and in preparation for one who warred against "I AM" (
Revelation 12:7) and His Messenger aforetime. They will indeed swear that their intention is nothing but good; but "I AM" doth declare that they are certainly LIARS.
9:108.
NEVER STAND THOU FORTH THEREIN. There is an Holy Place (Mt. Moriah) whose foundation was laid from the first day on piety; it is more worthy of the standing forth (for prayer) therein. In it are men who love to be purified; and "I AM" loveth those who make themselves pure.
9:109. Which then is best? - he that layeth his foundation on piety (a Rock -
Matthew 7:24-27) to "I AM" and His Good Pleasure? - or he that layeth his foundation on an undermined sand-cliff ready to crumble to pieces? And it doth crumble to pieces with him, into The Fire of Hell. And "I AM" guideth not people that do wrong (if they are doing wrong Satan is guiding them).
9:110. The foundation of those who so build is never free from suspicion and shakiness in their hearts, until their hearts are cut to pieces. And "I AM" is All-Knowing, Wise.
9:111. "I AM" hath purchased from the Believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is The Garden (of Bliss): they fight in His Cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in Truth, through The Law (The Torah), The Gospel (New Testament/Covenant), and The Koran: and who is more faithful to His Covenant (in the Bible) than "I AM"? Then rejoice in the bargain which ye have concluded (to fulfill The Covenant of "I AM" written in the Bible): that is the achievement supreme.
There are no churches (or synagogues, mosques, temples, etc. which have not been subverted. None of these places should have been built to begin with, and nobody should ever gather there. These "high places" are places of business, built to deceive and steal from those who frequent such places.
That's why bad things keep happening in these bad places, which we have been repeatedly warned to stay away from, because God does
NOT dwell there.
www.theguardian.com
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