Violence kills in Italy and New Jersey

Notice the following:

May 11, 2013

An immigrant illegally living in Italy went on a rampage with a pickaxe in Milan at dawn Saturday, killing a passer-by and wounding four others in an apparently random attack, police said…A 40-year-old man died after being struck on the head and abdomen with the pickaxe, police said. The victim was described as an unemployed man who was heading to a cafe near his home.

A man in his 20s who was helping his father to deliver newspapers to newsstands was among those wounded; another was a man walking his dog.

When asked about the motive, Col. Biagio Storniolo told reporters the suspect “was not being cooperative. He says only that he is hungry and has no home.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57584050/deadly-pickaxe-rampage-ends-in-arrest-in-italy/

May 11, 2013

A standoff between an armed man and dozens of police officers at a house in Trenton continued into a second day, the police said on Saturday, amid reports that the man had killed at least one person inside the home and was holding children hostage…A spokesman for New Jersey State Police said that it had supplied a SWAT team, a bomb squad, a canine unit and crisis negotiators. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/nyregion/standoff-in-trenton-enters-second-day.html

And yes, in other places various others are trying to kill each other.

Here is a section of prophetic scripture I would like to quote:

23 ‘Make a chain,
For the land is filled with crimes of blood,
And the city is full of violence.
24 Therefore I will bring the worst of the Gentiles,
And they will possess their houses;
I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease,
And their holy places shall be defiled.
25 Destruction comes;
They will seek peace, but there shall be none. (Ezekiel 7:23-25)

Violence leads to violence.

America will be consumed by violence (though the final amount will come from external sources) if it does not have national repentance; and prophetically, the situation in Syria must change (national repentance would help the Syrians, but their tendency to be against the Bible would seem to make that national repentance almost impossible).

But for all peoples, everywhere, personal repentance can be possible.

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