“Unsurprisingly, the suppression of truth has expanded beyond the mere rejection of the existence and goodness of God.”
The mother of Colt Gray, the 14-year-old accused of killing four people at Apalachee High School last Wednesday, called a school counselor before the attack after receiving a cryptic apology text from her son. Despite the warning about an unspecified emergency, the shooting began 30 minutes later, leading to the deaths of two students and two teachers, with nine others injured.
Authorities had questioned Colt about online threats months earlier, but no action was taken at the time. His father, Colin Gray, faces charges for providing the weapon used in the shooting, while Colt will be tried as an adult for murder.
Unsurprisingly, the suppression of truth has expanded beyond the mere rejection of the existence and goodness of God (Romans 1:18-19). Today, we live in a world where stubborn authorities refuse to deal with how our rejection of the ethics and morality of the Judeo-Christian ethic are leaving our children vulnerable, self-mutilating, suicidal, and murderous. We have been warned in God’s word that rejecting Him would lead to the suffering of future generations (Hosea 4:6), and now we see how a failure to respond quickly to the warnings of a mother, however troubled she may be, has led to the deaths of four people, injuries to multiple others and trauma for an entire community. This is not a new problem, and if our elected leaders do not come to their senses, or better said, if we don’t come to our senses and elect better leaders, the sadness and despair will only increase (Deuteronomy 31:17).
This is not a new problem in our country. Not only have communities and individual parents been in denial about the effects liberal policies and progressive ideologies are having on younger generations, but there is often active suppression of information when that information runs counter-narrative to those policies (Isaiah 8:11-13).
It has taken over a year and numerous court filings before the FBI would release the manifesto of the Nashville Covenant school shooter. The troubled minds of both the Apalachee shooter and the Nashville shooter were well known before the attacks happened, with the former being previously interrogated by the police for “online threats to commit a school shooting” and the latter being heavily medicated with SSRI drugs for multiple years and was under psychiatric care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center for over two decades.
No one should have been surprised at the danger these individuals posed to themselves and others long before they illegally acquired weapons. Long before a mother’s call to the school could have stopped the recent shooting, our nation’s response to the call of God to wake up from our rebellious ways could have begun our healing (1 Samuel 2:30). Until we stop suppressing the obvious problem (2 Chronicles 24:20) and wake up to the real solution, (2 Chronicles 7:14) we will continue to wake up to more shocking stories of shootings, stabbing, and sedition.
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