Why?

"Yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think he doeth God service.” (John 16:2)

When the Jewish leaders led in the assault on Jesus which resulted in His crucifixion, they thought they were doing God a service. Just a few hours before His crucifixion our Savior declared that the time would come that His followers would be put out of the synagogues and be killed and those responsible would think they were pleasing God.

Jesus went on to say, “And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.” (John 16:3)  That explains why the Islamists are killing Christians and why a young man went into a building where Christians were involved in prayer and Bible study and killed nine of the worshippers of God. Paul the apostle says that before he was saved and while he was on his rampage of blasphemy and injury toward followers of Jesus, he “did it ignorantly and in unbelief.” (I Timothy 1:13)  The evil things that happen in our world would cease happening if the perpetrators would surrender their lives to the Lord Jesus Christ.