Charlie Kirk, an outspoken Christian, evangelist, patriot, husband, father, and friend to many, was assassinated on September 10, 2025 while speaking at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University. The suspected killer is in police custody; pray that justice will be carried out. Pray for the Kirk family and for his many friends.
I hope that you have watched the memorial service for the late Charlie Kirk, held in Arizona on Sunday, September 21, 2025. If not, I encourage you to locate a recording of it online and watch it in the entirety. The stadium was packed with people and millions have watched it via (live or recorded) video.
You should be encouraged to hear about Charlie’s strong faith in Jesus Christ and in his courageous sharing of the Gospel message, particularly to the youth and young adults of America. You will also observe the impact that his life, and now his death, have had on so many people- causing many to see their own need to have a personal relationship with Jesus, and to share the Gospel message with other people. Some describe this as being another Christian revival or awakening, or as being like a tsunami of new Christian believers. Speakers at the memorial challenged those who attended/saw the memorial to continue Charlie’s work.
I share the confidence of other Christian believers, that Charlie is now in the presence of God, where he is being rewarded for his service and for his sacrifice. I hope that his death will indeed be a stimulus for a resurgence in the Christian church on the scale of the Great Awakening in the 18th and 19th centuries, that millions of people will become new believers in the U.S. and around the world, and will then grow in their faith, and that this awakening will continue for multiple generations. These are things we should be praying for.
But it’s also possible that this current revival is like a tsunami, a giant wave that sweeps through, but recedes in a relatively short time. Perhaps we will see a giant wave of new believers, followed by smaller waves, and then the “Demand for Salvation” (level of new believers) will fade away, as has been the case in recent decades. We should be thankful for this coming multitude of believers, whose names are recorded in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
God knows everything that happens and that will happen. He knew that Charlie would be killed and allowed this, knowing that Charlie would be safe with Him and that his sacrifice would bring many to faith in Jesus. God knows how great the harvest will be; God knows each of the people whose new faith in Jesus will enable them to spend eternity with Him.
This tragedy also provided an opportunity for some people to show their true evil hearts. Perhaps some will ultimately see the truth and will truly repent, turning to the Lord Jesus and away from their current ways. We should pray for such redemptions. But it is likely that God has searched many of these hearts and has found them hardened against Him. Their names are not found in the Lamb’s Book of Life and they are destined to spend eternity in the lake of fire.
Either way- Great Awakening or Tsunami of Salvation- it doe not change what is recorded in Bible prophecy. There is a future time coming when the events of Bible end times prophecy will occur. The prophecies tell us what will happen, and the sequence and duration of the events. But only God the Father knows the moment that they will begin. As Christians, we must trust Him, knowing that He has already determined the perfect time for these events to occur.
When the ever-growing Supply of Sin and the Demand for Salvation reach the critical points that God has pre-determined, the end times events described in Scripture will occur, including the Rapture, Tribulation, and second coming of Jesus Christ. This is depicted in this chart from chapter 6 of “Lifeline, A Guide to Surviving the End Times.”
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