Why the Buffalo Shooter Targeted Blacks and Jews

The following program is recorded content created by the Truth Network. How do we respond to the tragic massacre in Buffalo this weekend? It's time for the Line of Fire with your host, biblical scholar and cultural commentator, Dr. Michael Brown. Your voice for moral sanity and spiritual clarity. Call 866-34-TRUTH to get on the Line of Fire.

And now, here's your host, Dr. Michael Brown. Thanks for joining us today on the Line of Fire radio broadcast. There are people mourning right now. There are people in shock. There are families that have been torn apart. There are people whose lives have been forever changed.

We don't want to ignore that. We want to start with human suffering. We want to start with compassion for those hurting. As we talk about issues today, welcome to the broadcast.

This is Michael Brown. Here's the number to call, 866-34-TRUTH, 866-348-7884. As the show goes on, we'll take calls on all manner of subjects. You can weigh in on anything you want to ask me, any question you want to at 866-34-TRUTH. But I want to focus first on very sensitive, difficult issues.

I want to get input from as many of you as I can and be interactive as I share what I understand to be going on in our society, what are some of the big problems, what we can do to bring about positive change. Let me say first that when I finally got hit with COVID, after not suffering with it at all until right after Christmas, day after Christmas of last year, and first week real mild thought I'll just be over things in a few days, and then the second week is when it got much worse. So, you know, laying in bed and then spending a day in the hospital, you really can't do anything much because you're not healthy. All I want to do is sleep. If I was up, I didn't have energy to do anything constructive. I mean, every so often I wrote a little, but that was it. Otherwise, I just wanted to sleep and do nothing.

If there was sports on, I'd just watch it and fall back asleep. There's no energy to do anything because I wasn't healthy. So the first thing was to get my health back, and really it's about a week and then it's back to normal, so three weeks really total. But, you know, then getting back to full strength. But it's the same spiritually. If we're not spiritually healthy, we're not going to be able to bring about positive change in the world around us. If we're not spiritually healthy, even if we can recognize the problems and see what's wrong, we're too weak, we're too beaten down, we're struggling too much to be able to bring positive help.

It's like we see the darkness, but our light is not shining. So we're here every day, five days a week and then through our articles and videos and posts, seven days a week, 24 hours a day. We are here to serve you, to minister to you, to help you get healthier and stronger and healthier and stronger. And those who are thriving, we're here to help equip you to be world-changing in even a more effective way, to infuse everyone with faith and truth and courage.

That's my goal here. If we talk about controversial issues, the goal is not to stir up controversy. I have no desire to provoke people.

I have no desire to push buttons. God forbid. That is contrary to our calling as followers of Yeshua to be peacemakers, not troublemakers. At the same time, I'm committed to truth.

At the same time, I'm committed to walk through a minefield where there are all types of traps and explosives that could be dangerous with the goal of helping us get where we need to be as a body. I'm going to talk more directly about Buffalo in a moment and we are going to talk about some controversial issues. But let me first share something I learned during the presidency of Barack Obama. I had been on the air beginning when he was a senator campaigning for the Democratic nomination, which he then won and then became the president for eight years, our first black president. So during that time, we talked through a lot of race-related issues because these things were in the news. We wanted to process them together and get different perspectives, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Democrat, Republican, conservative, liberal, interact, test everything by the word. So we were doing that. And we're having great conversations on the radio and people coming, calling in from all backgrounds. And I mean, we talked through difficult things like the killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman. And was it murder or homicide at that level?

And I mean, really difficult race issues. And we did it in a way that built relationship deepened our understanding of one another, deepened our ability to communicate. And I said, hey, let's just make it the rule here. You can offend me. You tell me the truth.

If you think I'm missing something, I have a blind spot. You go ahead. I'm asking you for the right to speak truthfully to you. But you start speaking truthfully to me. I give you that right.

So we developed a relationship. And then I wrote an article and it was addressing Christians who voted for President Obama and who voted with a real desire as African-Americans to see an African-American president and so on, a black president. And I asked, what about issues like abortion? What about this?

What about this? I've written enough things addressing Jews, addressing whites, right? Addressing men. I mean, I'm all three of those things, right? Always addressing fellow believers.

But I noticed in the comments section, which I read to that article there, a lot of black readers offended with me, like who gave you the right to write this article? I realized, you know, I haven't built a relationship. We haven't experienced, we haven't established trust like we have on the radio going back and forth for years and years and years. And some of you listening to me for 13, 14 years or 10 years, and you build a relationship.

Some of you have called in, some of you have written to us. So there's that mutual respect even in the midst of our differences. I hadn't built that in the same way with many of these readers who were new to me and therefore they took offense like, who are you? I understand. I understand where they were coming from.

So hopefully if you're brand new that you'll put this in the context of the fact that we've been building relationship for years with our listening audience and those that have been with us for a while, you know me well enough. So we look at this tragic shooting in Buffalo. Yes, there was a church shooting as well over the weekend. Another shocker from what we can tell thus far, this was a Taiwanese Presbyterian church, so Asian Americans and the shooter himself was Asian American. So from what we know, it did not seem to be someone attacking Asian Americans because they were Asian Americans. It could have been some internal issue within the church.

You know, sometimes you have an estranged husband who comes in violently. Who knows? Terrible tragedy. Terrible tragedy for sure. I want to focus in the loss of life there is equally tragic. I want to focus on Buffalo in that there were more people involved, there were more casualties, and the killer himself left behind a manifesto.

He had published that online. And we're in a day and age where it's not just that you have people who hate blacks, people who hate whites, people who hate Jews, people who hate this group and that group. But now they're saying we have to exterminate them. We have to wipe them out.

We have to take up arms and start killing them. So obviously there are more and more people in our society giving over to this kind of evil, either through mental illness, through familial breakups or breakups in the home, or just giving themselves to demonic power, or drug related, or perhaps blurring the line between fantasy and reality with video games and those kinds of things. Whatever it is, these types of horrific shootings have been going on more and more for years now in America. But this is all the more shocking when we still have so much racial tension going on in America, the killing of George Floyd being a key event in our recent history, and then often the media fueling the fires more deeply and fueling the fires of distrust and political leaders fueling the fires of distrust. So while all that is happening, then you have these horrific acts like this. So initially what we knew was simply that this is a white teenager who wanted to kill blacks.

That's true. From everything we know, the alleged shooter and his manifesto lengthy manifesto he posted online. So he's home during the pandemic. He does online research. He becomes convinced of all of this and the white population is being replaced, etc. And he's got to do something about it. So he drives three hours to this market. Apparently the day before scopes it out, dresses like a homeless person, scopes the place out before the shooting and then goes in, put body armor, start shooting.

Ten people killed, three others injured. Again, you're just going to the market. Some of us do that every week, every day. You just go into the market with your family, husband and wife together. Let's just go shopping. Pick up some things. Somebody, hey, I'll be home in an hour, mom.

You never come home. So I know there's loss of life every single day. There's a car accident.

There's a sudden death and people weren't expecting it. It's, it's all the more exaggerated when someone takes it into their own hands to cut people down. So is the narrative true that the shooter was a white supremacist who wanted to kill blacks? Yes, absolutely true. The shooter was also a white supremacist who is an antisemite.

It's always, almost always goes hand in hand. I've never read the writings of a white supremacist who wasn't also an antisemite. So let me just share a little bit more with you. I have an article on my website, the Buffalo shooter, wanted to murder blacks and Jews, especially Jews. So, so this is, this is from his online manifesto.

All right. In his own words, I'm quoting the killer. The real war I'm advocating for is the Gentiles versus the Jews. We outnumber them 100 times and they are not strong by themselves. By their Jewish ways, they turn us against each other. When you realize this, you will know that the Jews are the biggest problem the Western world has ever had.

They must be called out and killed. John Ernest was 19 professing Presbyterian Christian when he went into a synagogue in Poway, California at Passover and began shooting. When this is what he told a 9-11 emergency line dispatcher, quote, I just shot up a synagogue because Jewish people are destroying the white race. New York Post reported through his quote research, the self-described white supremacist and antisemite came to see how low white birth rates around the world saw them as a crisis that will call ultimately result in the complete racial and cultural replacement of the European people is what John Earnest, the synagogue shooter said. It is unlawful and cowardly to stand on the sidelines as the European people are genocided, his word around you. I did not want to have to kill Jews, but they have given us no other option.

This is a very, very evil ideology that targets black Americans, Jewish Americans and others. It must be confronted. It must be confronted.

We'll be right back. It's the Line of Fire with your host, Dr. Michael Brown. Get on the Line of Fire by calling 866-34-TRUTH.

Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Thanks friends for joining us on the Line of Fire. 866-34-TRUTH. Again, as we talk about ideology, as we talk about the motivations of the Buffalo shooter, may God bring him to repentance and sanity and whatever years he has ahead, may he spend them trying to make right the wrongs he's committed. The fact is, you cannot give back a life you have taken.

You cannot ever fix that. So, don't want to take away from the human suffering. Don't want to take away from the human grief. Don't want to take away from the trauma that many black Americans feel right now, thinking how many people like this are out there?

How many more white supremacists are out there? This is how many Jews felt after the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh where 11 Jews were slaughtered and the man yelled out, the white man himself, you know, all Jews must die. It's traumatizing to communities that have a history of suffering. It's traumatizing to communities that look back in their history. It's not that far they have to look back, but there was a pattern of these things happening and it was just the norm. So, I do not, for a moment, want to detract from the human suffering and pain involved here at all.

There's nothing I can do about that beyond saying pray for the families of the victims and for the survivors. But, we need to understand this ideology. We need to understand its roots. And we also need to know how this is going to be exploited by the secular left-leaning media.

Okay? Very, very important that we understand how this is going to be exploited. Friends, don't let someone else set your emotional tone. Don't let the media set your emotional attitude.

Let us set it based on who God is and what his word says and eternal realities. We can be so inflamed by the left, by the right. We can be so inflamed in a carnal way. We can be so inflamed politically. We can react so much to rhetoric and propaganda that we lose God's perspective. And rather than us functioning as the salt of the earth, as Martin Luther King said, being thermostats more than thermometers. We just become thermometers.

We just reflect the temperature and the climate around us. We've got to be very careful these days. Things are posted in subtle ways and headlines and when you actually dig deeper, you find out a lot of it is very, very misleading.

Very misleading. You can watch a video and it's, there it is, there's the evidence. Then you find out, oh, the story behind the video. Ah, it's more of the story. So let's let's not let the media play us like a drum.

All right, let's not do it. So there's an article on the Jewish news website, which you need to know about the antisemitic ideology behind the Buffalo shooting. You say, well, wait, there were blacks that were killed, not whites, not Jews. I understand that. I understand that there are larger issues we're looking at. All right.

And I want to tie these together in a moment. So your article posted from Jewish telegraph telegraphic agency, a manifesto attributed to the lead shooter outlines widely held conspiracy theories about Jews and immigrants. It also cited the how the synagogue attack is a reason to stream on Twitch. I mean, the kind of world we're living in where someone live streams, they're going to go massacre people, kill people in cold blood.

People have never met and then go live stream this. What kind of sick world are we living in? The man charged with killing 10 people at Buffalo, New York supermarket Saturday allegedly was motivated by a conspiracy theory that has spurred recent deadly attacks on Jews, among others. An online manifesto attributed to Peyton Gendron, 18, explains that the attack was spurred by the theory that a tide of immigrants is crowding out white populations in Western countries. Manifesto also says that Jews are the real problem, but they can be dealt with in time.

The top supermarket located just a few miles from the Canadian border was chosen because there's an area with many black residents. The manifesto says 11 of the 13 people there shot were black law enforcement officials said. Law enforcement authorities are working to verify that the manifesto was written by Gendron, et cetera. The baseless theory outline outlined in the manifesto is known as great replacement. Of course, the left to say, hey, Tucker Carlson endorses that theory and therefore Tucker Carlson is part of the bloodshed.

That's another subject we'll get to. It has united white supremacists across borders in their hatred of Jews and immigrants. Replacement theory has inspired multiple antisemitic and extremist attacks, including the 2018 Pittsburgh shooting in which 11 Jews were murdered, the 2019 attack on a New Zealand mosque that held 51 and the 2019 massacre at a Texas Walmart that targeted Hispanic immigrants.

In 2017, white supremacist marching in Charlottesville, Virginia, infamously chanted, Jews will not replace us. Manifesto cites the perpetrator of the New Zealand massacre as a chief inspiration and says that its author learned about the dangers of immigration from online research, including on 4chan, a website popular among right-wing trolls. The theory has gained significant traction in right-wing media and politics.

Tucker Carlson, the top-rated Fox News Channel opinion host, has trafficked for more than a year in replacement rhetoric. In one passage in the manifesto allegedly written by Gendron, the writer echoes Carlson's phrasing in a notorious September 2018 segment which began, how precisely is diversity our strength? The manifesto launches a similar salvo. Why is diversity said to be our greatest strength?

Okay, it goes on from there. It brings this mindset, this replacement theory, has gained currency among some Republican officials, etc. The author, scrolling down this article, the author says he departs from many white supremacists, including that Jews are for the most part white, but he cites pages of quotations from the Talmud and he says Jews are polluted by learning they're God's chosen people. They're permitted to hate and exploit the goyim, or non-Jews, and to engage in pedophilia.

Are you an anti-Semite? Yes, the manifesto reads in one place. Later the author answers the question, why attack immigrants when the Jews are the issue?

The answer reads, in part, they can be dealt with in time. Alright, frightening stuff to read. We'll let Tucker Carlson address these on his own because I have not followed his broadcast or the comments that he has allegedly made on this. I say allegedly, there's a quote just to say what's the larger context to look at that.

I've only glanced at this, so to be fair, where I think there's criticism deserved or I think the criticism is unfair, I need to look at it more and then hear what he has to say in response, okay? That being said, we already know where this is going. Please hear me. On January 6th, because of the actions of a tiny group of people compared to the massive crowd that was there, alright? Massive crowd that was at the rally in DC honestly thought that there was election fraud and they were calling on Congress to write this and not certify the elections and do an investigation. President Trump was totally unwise in his rhetoric. President Trump provoked things by, look, you believe our government is being taken from us.

You believe this is it. You believe that we'll never have fair elections again and the president is stoking your fires even if he says we're going to walk peacefully to the – you don't do that. It was irresponsible. It was foolish, alright? Absolute foolish and irresponsible.

In the days leading up to him, his rhetoric as the most powerful man on the planet was foolish and irresponsible. Those are my views, which I've made public since that day. However, the vast majority – the vast, vast, vast majority of the people that were there were not there for an insurrection of the government.

We're not planning to overthrow the government, let alone to overthrow it violently. But on that day, the left got its narrative confirmed. You see, all you Trump voters are white supremacists. All you Trump voters are Christian nationalists. All you Trump voters are insurrectionists. The left had its narrative and it has been beating that narrative like a drum ever since.

It is one of the downfalls of President Trump that with all the good he did and with the justices appointed and so many positive reforms and the Abraham Accords, with all the good he did, that his irresponsible rhetoric opened the door to that type of madness, which then led to the rhetoric being confirmed that if you voted for Trump, you're a white supremacist Christian nationalist insurrectionist. Now the left has its new narrative that the Buffalo Shooter is just a mainstream Republican. Look at this headline from Rolling Stone magazine.

This is just from yesterday, May 15th, by Natalia Levine. The Buffalo Shooter isn't a lone wolf. He's a mainstream Republican.

The right wing extremists who control the modern GOP are all gripped by a racist delusion. The Shooter is just the latest to act on it. That's the allegation.

Well, if that's the case, hang on. What happened just a few months back? The parade massacre. A black man in Waukesha is now going to avenge or become Kyle Rittenhouse's judge and jury and now pronounce judgment on the people at the parade. He goes and mows through the crowd, killing many white people, many elderly among them, children, hit, terribly injured.

So here's an article on Front Page Mag. Was Waukesha Christmas Parade Car Massacre a BLM black Christmas terror attack? I might as well say because of the BLM ideology, well, he was just a mainstream Democrat.

If you're a Democrat, you stand for that. Friends, this is the type of irresponsible rhetoric. I don't mean the Front Page Mag headline, which identifies this with BLM and not with the Democratic Party as a whole, et cetera, or liberals as a whole. And we rightly identify the Buffalo Shooter with white supremacy, not with whites as a whole, not with Republicans as a whole, just like the parade massacre does not reflect blacks as a whole, Democrats as a whole, liberals as a whole. But it's this type of irresponsible right.

He's just a mainstream Republican. When you do that, you provoke further anger. You provoke further division. And it's happening on both sides, friends.

It is happening on both sides. And we had better be very careful. 866, three for truth. You can say, preach it brother, or tell me I'm crazy. Phone lines are open to either of you.

We'll be right there. It's the line of fire with your host, Dr. Michael Brown. Get on the line of fire by calling 866-34-TRUTH.

Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. According to quotes in a manifesto that has now been blocked online, the Buffalo Shooter identified himself as an authoritarian leftist who hates Fox News. So again, to put someone in simple categories is not just problematic.

It is destructive. I tweeted this out, oh, maybe an hour ago. The new narrative from the left is that the Buffalo Shooter was a typical Republican.

If that's the case, then the Waukesha parade killer was a typical Democrat. Enough already. This kind of rhetoric only leads to more anger and violence.

866-348-7884. Welcome to the line of fire. Why do I talk about things that are so provocative? Is it because, oh, that draws eyes or that gets people listening or no, that's immature, fleshly, carnal. The reason we talk about them because it's the world that we live in and as God's people, as followers of Jesus, we cannot just be moved by the media, by reporting, by the latest social trends. I was interacting with a colleague of mine, a dear brother, a black Jewish brother, believer in Yeshua. We were interacting and I said, you know, I posted something a few years ago that black Americans did not find racially offensive and it was an abortion comparison and talking about the humanity of the slave and the past, the humanity of the baby in the womb today. And I said, when I posted it recently, it got pushed back and he basically said the climate has changed in America.

And I said, I mean, he had some really good input from me as always, but I said to him, but let me ask this though, is the climate change positive? We're talking about the moral climate, we're talking about the emotional climate. In other words, has a lot of the change in the emotions of Americans been provoked by the media on the left and the right?

Those are questions we have to ask. How are we being influenced? I saw some of my dear friends, colleagues during the 2020 elections and Nancy was literally weeping over this. We saw friends of ours become so politically caught up. And I mean, it's just that there was anger and there was division and there was, listen to all kinds of conspiracy theories and we thought, what's happened? We've lost our bearings. So if I can help, if I can be a voice saying, let's walk through the minefield together where there can be a lot of potential misunderstanding and let's talk together as we do and listen to each other.

And above all, listen to the Lord and calm our hearts. Let's be part of the solution for the nation. I wrote an article you can find on our website, askdrbrown.org, askdrbrown.org saying, saying the revolution is here.

What we've been talking about for over 20 years, a moral and cultural pushback against the radical left. We've been saying for years it's coming. It's here. Not fully, but it's here. But unless it's gospel-based, it'll fail.

Unless it's gospel-based and Jesus-centered, founded in the Word and powered by the Spirit, it's going to fail. 866-3-4-truth. Let's go to Troy in Raleigh, North Carolina. Welcome to the line of fire. Thank you for having me, Dr. Brown.

You're welcome. I had a question kind of like going on this whole thing of like they're young people that everything's being politicized, polarized, and it's like there's a lot of young people who have really a desire to change, see change, and I think like the BLM movement was a chance for them to, you know, get on the side and just feel that they're fighting for like a moral right. So my question would be not specifically to any specific movement, but like I'm a young person, I have energy, I have passion, I want to serve the Lord, and I want to get in the fight.

Like there are even stories of young people going to Ukraine because they want, you know, just to get involved with something. So it's like, okay, how do we create that excitement and something practical for, besides prayer and, you know, reading our Bible and going to church, but like what, how can we come together and really affect change in our world with such a climate? Yeah, I love your question, Troy, and it's something that I've talked about as well over the years. I remember back in 2020 as we were revving things up for this massive prayer repentance event called D.C. September 2nd of 2000 that drew several hundred thousand believers together from six in the morning to six in the evening to pray and fast and cry out to God for the nation and to repent of our own sins. I remember a young man, maybe 20-ish, said to me, give me a cause and I'll die for it.

So I've had that in mind ever since. And it's easy for us to react outwardly to the negative things we see, right? You know, Antifa, burning down cities, BLM, which I separate from the important truth that every black life matters, BLM and what that was doing and other movements that, in my view, do far more harm than good. It's easy to just look at that bad, evil, what's with these people. But I ask what's behind it. So in the 60s, during the whole counterculture revolution, which is known for sex, drugs, rock and roll, Eastern religion, there was a lot of rebellion.

The flesh owned the day in so many ways. However, many young people – I was one of them at the time, lived through it, got into the whole drug scene – many young people were looking for something more. This has got to be something more than the American dream.

There's got to be more than just having a nicer house than our parents did and a better job and getting our kids into a better school. There's got to be more to life than that. They were asking questions. And through most of America, the church did not catch what was happening spiritually and say, you're asking the right questions. You'll only find the answers in Jesus. And here's the real purpose of life. And here's how Jesus is the ultimate counterculture revolutionary, bringing about change. But it's through love and through kindness and through self-sacrifice, et cetera. So the church missed a big opportunity there.

Satan seized it and filled that void with all these other things so some of the lives were destroyed. In the same way now, I agree many young people want to see justice and equality. Many young people want to fight for the underdog, the perceived victim.

That's true. Unfortunately, because it's not Bible-based and because it's influenced by so many media lies and distortions and educational lies and distortions, they end up on the wrong side of issues. Perfect example being so many of them in the college campuses, et cetera, are so hostile to Israel. And look at Israel as a genocidal state and compare Israel to the Nazis. Look at what they're doing to the Palestinians. They look at the micro and they see powerful Israel, impoverished Palestinians, evil Israel, Palestinian victims. And of course you want to see help for everyone in the land, including Palestinians. But they don't look at the larger picture in history, which puts everything in a completely different context. And you realize, wow, unless we stand with Israel for justice, we'll never see justice for the surrounding peoples. So in the same way, so I said that, Troy, not so much for you because I think you understand these things, but for everyone else to give my perspective there. So what then can young people plug into?

One thing is the pro-life movement for sure in a holistic way, not just voting, but in a holistic way, trying to educate their generation on the humanity of the baby in the womb from every different angle, scientific angles, moral, philosophical angles, human interest story angles, personal testimonies, Bible. So that's all right. Hang on, Troy. I hope you're still able to listen.

We lost your your call there. So that's one big thing. Pro-life movement. Another thing is there are plenty of churches that are working hard for racial reconciliation and for deeper understanding of one another. That's another cause you can get involved with.

And by the way, pro-life is not just the baby in the womb but the baby outside of the womb. What can you do to advocate for that? Where do you see issues, say, in inner cities? Maybe educational things. Maybe you get involved in the educational system to bring about positive change.

And maybe you could be a mentor. We know churches that work with local schools, and the schools call them in as churches, as congregations, and say, could you help us? We're really struggling. We don't know what to do with our young people.

So you go, it starts to do, hey, we're going to go clean up the area here. You know, and hey, we're going to get to know some of the kids. Yeah, I play basketball. Here's a kid who plays basketball. I'm going to ask him, do you want to shoot some hoops and be a mentor to him?

There are lots of things like that that we can do that are practical, that are important, that we can give our energy to along with prayer and preaching the gospel to the lost. Let's go over to James in Macon, Georgia. Thanks for joining us on the Line of Fire. How are you doing today, brother? Very well, thank you, sir. Go ahead.

Yes. No, I just wanted to comment that, or ask your opinion, do you think that what we're seeing lately with the shootings and the different just hatred-driven things are that much more of a sign that we're re-exploded today? Not necessarily, simply because we've had many worse evils in the past. For example, you have World War II, which results in, what, 20 million deaths, and a lot of that was hate-driven. You have the fact that slavery was a normal way of life in much of America, and that the Africans were treated as not fully human, and that was just a way of life.

And then we had segregation in parts of America up until the 60s. So that's worse than what we have today. So, James, I live with a sense of urgency always, because this is a dying, messed-up world, and we only have one life in which we ourselves can seek to make a difference. And as Reinhard Bonnke used to say, plunder hell to populate heaven, and then make a living difference in this world. And I live with an eager desire to see Jesus return, but, as I've often referenced, when I came to faith in 71, I was told, this is it. Jesus is coming back any moment. All the prophecies are lining up. The counterculture revolution of the 60s, that was proof, that was the final apostasy, that was the great falling away.

So I look at things in a much bigger way, a larger picture, especially around the world. And when Paul said, in the last days, perilous times will come, when he's writing to Timothy in 2 Timothy chapter 3, it's interesting that he goes through a list, and it's pretty much what you see in every generation, the things he lists there. And then he says, avoid people like this. In other words, Timothy, in these last days in which we're living, we've been in the last days since the death and resurrection of Jesus, in these last days in which we are living, there'll be perilous times.

It's not going to be a cakewalk. Jesus said in John 16, 33, in this world, you'll have tribulation, but be encouraged of overcome the world. And we live as overcomers.

So it's an urgent hour, but I don't look at it as a sign that we're the final generation. Hey, thank you so much for the call. It's The Line of Fire with your host, Dr. Michael Brown. Get on The Line of Fire by calling 866-34-TRUTH. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown.

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And when you do, I want to give you free, instant access to a powerful video I preached on why so many Christians are leaving the faith. So order Has God Failed You today at AskDrBrown.org. My friends, just this moment I noticed a new headline announcing more information about the California shooting. Remember I said at the outset, from what we could see, here you have an Asian American shooting other Asian Americans, so perhaps it was some internal church issue and it was not a matter of racial hatred.

Well here's the new report from AP News. Hate against Taiwanese led to church attack. A gunman in a deadly attack at a California church was a Chinese immigrant motivated by hate for Taiwanese people. The shooting killed Dr. John Chang, 52, and five others were wounded and attacked in a Southern California church. So boy, how extraordinary. And this Dr. Chang, just as there were heroes that tried to stop the shooter in Buffalo, ran at the shooter, tried to disarm him, he got shot, but then pastor hit the man over the head with a chair, others tied up with electrical cords. But another form of hate.

Isn't that remarkable? You know, there's a Talmudic tradition that asks the question, why was the first temple destroyed, 586 B.C., and the, Talmud's not giving that date, I'm just giving that date, why was the first temple destroyed? And the answer was, well, you had idolatry, you had murder, you had immorality, but then the exile lasted seven years, then the temple was rebuilt. Why was the second temple destroyed? This is the year of 70, and at the time of Talmudic composition, it's now been centuries, it's still destroyed, it hasn't been rebuilt, and the answer is baseless hatred.

Now, that baseless hatred theme ties in with other Talmudic stories, et cetera, which, to me, missed the point if there was baseless hatred, there was baseless hatred against the Messiah. But it just struck me now, all the baseless hatred, white against black, black against white, Gentile against Jew, Asian American against Asian American, it's epidemic, it's epidemic, friends. We have a message that can change things. Please hear me, friends, you and I, as followers of Jesus, we have a message that can change things. Can we set an example and step higher? Can we set an example and say, in the midst of a hateful society, we will not be haters ourselves? Paul writes in Romans 12, don't be overcome by evil, overcome evil with good.

All right, I'm going to switch subjects, take a couple more calls while we have some time. Please hear me. I believe if there's one little thing I could deposit everyone today, it's that last point, let us not be overcome by evil, let us overcome evil with good, let us overcome hate with love. That's the Jesus revolution we advocate.

That's where change can come. Let's go to D'Arzburg, Tennessee. Giuseppe, welcome to the line of fire. Hey there.

Hello, Dr. Brown. Good, got you. Caught you there by surprise. Go ahead, sir. That's okay. I've just been, last five years, I've been researching a lot of the grace teaching movement, and I've also been following you for longer than that, and I've really loved everything. And then when it came to the grace topic, it kind of like, brought me into this confusion because I love following a lot of your stuff, but then you wrote a book.