What Charlie Kirk's Death Could Prevent

A Love Letter to Everyone - Including Our Divided Family

To every person reading this—whether you agree with us or despise everything we stand for, whether you're family or stranger, whether you're celebrating or grieving, whether you're religious or secular, conservative or liberal, member or non-member—we love you. Not the shallow "love" that tolerates everything, but the deep love that tells the truth because truth sets people free.

"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another." John 13:34

To our precious children and grandchildren, to our family scattered across different beliefs and politics, to our dearest friends who may feel hurt or confused by our words: You are not our enemies, but if you were, we would love you still. Like Bradley Cooper's character writing to his destined love in Silver Linings Playbook, we write this with the desperation of people who know LOVE CONQUERS ALL—if we're brave enough to receive it.

Our family isn't perfect. Many families are divided today—politically, religiously, ideologically. Ours is too. But Wendy and I believe we are all filled with the love and life of God as a gift of His grace, if we're willing to deny our pride and receive God's goodness as something to share, starting with our enemies and those who hate us.

We acknowledge your unique perspective, your pain, your discomfort, your experience. We don't dismiss your heart or your journey. But we cannot and will not tolerate hate that destroys lives, whether that hate comes wrapped in religious robes or political banners, whether it's institutional control that drives children to suicide or ideological confusion that drives people to violence.

This is our attempt to love you with truth, to speak what must be spoken because children are dying and families are breaking and someone must say: RECEIVE HIS FAITH AND FAITHFULNESS AND REJOICE. There is a better way. Love conquers hate, but only if we choose love over comfort, truth over tolerance, grace over grievance.

We love you. All of you. Even—especially—if you hate us for what follows.

Craig and Wendy Rogers

A Gospel Vision for Utah's Transformation Through Enemy Love

September 11, 2025: A Day of Sobering Reflection

Today marks the 24th anniversary of the jihad attack on New York City—September 11, 2001—when evil revealed its face to America. Today, I write with a heavy heart yet with exceeding joy, celebrating both Charlie Kirk's life and the lives lost in that original 9/11 attack. But yesterday, September 10, 2025, became another September 11th for our generation when Charlie Kirk was murdered by an assassin's bullet at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah—the very heart of old-time Mormonism, near Brigham Young University.

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the worst possible day, yesterday was an 8. Evil showed its face again, but Jesus is even more real than the evil that took Charlie's life.

I've been sent to Utah for over 30 years for this very reason—to expose the darkness and proclaim the light. Having just published my six-part exposé on Utah's mental health crisis and institutional failures, the facts and realities are fresh in my mind. Early FBI reports indicate the shooter was transgender and politically motivated by far-left ideology. For those of us living in Utah, Charlie Kirk's death should be no surprise—it's just another casualty in America's most unique mental health war. We're used to it. We're hoping Charlie's tragic loss won't be lost in Utah's statistics, and that it will bring the attention and help we desperately need.

But I don't want to gloat or say "I told you so." I want HELP. More than that, I want to imagine what could have been different.

The Head of the Snake: Identifying the Real Enemy

Yesterday was tragic, senseless, evil—pure hate. But let's not be surprised. We are in a war, and war is shocking, but the carnage should be expected. Instead of harping on political and religious stupidity, let's take a deep dive and find the head of the snake, the real culprit behind all this evil.

The source isn't political parties or religious institutions—it's the dark forces in the unseen world wreaking havoc on humanity. Humanity remains clueless, enslaved by lust, pride, and ego, blind to the fulfillment of God's prophetic Word, the unseen war playing out before their eyes.

The Real Enemy Revealed: "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places." - Ephesians 6:12

Satan knows his time is short. The Harpazo approaches, and he's unleashing everything in his arsenal—institutional religious control that drives children to suicide, ideological confusion that breeds violence, and systematic hatred that turns image-bearers of God into assassins.

The Enemy's Strategy Exposed

Institutional Religious Bondage: Create systems claiming God's name while accumulating $100+ billion and driving Utah's youth suicide rates to America's highest.

Individual Ideological Rebellion: Confuse God's created order through transgender ideology and anti-authority hatred.

Violence Against Truth-Tellers: Silence those proclaiming biblical truth through intimidation and assassination.

Mental Health Destruction: Create unbearable psychological pressure through perfectionism and identity confusion.

The data from my exposé reveals Satan's methodology, but today's story is solution-based. Before we can apply the solution, we need the sober diagnosis—the absolute truth about the darkness behind the scenes. We must be fearless Davids with a single slingshot, ready to take down the giants.

The Giants Exposed: What My Research Revealed

The six articles I published exposed giants that have terrorized Utah for decades:

The Statistical Giant: Utah's #1 ranking in youth suicide rates while claiming to represent Christ's restored church.

The Financial Giant: Over $100 billion accumulated in secret while children lack mental health resources and families sacrifice financially.

The Control Giant: Information suppression, critic silencing, and systematic punishment of those asking honest questions.

The Discrimination Giant: Economic and social advantages tied to religious affiliation, creating second-class citizenship for non-members.

The Legal Giant: Court system capture and law enforcement bias protecting institutional interests over individual welfare.

These giants have been revealed, detailed, and exposed. But today's story cannot be a seventh exposé—it must be built on that foundation to tell a new story: the story of loving our enemies.

The Alternative Reality: If Utah Had Chosen Love Six Months Ago

Let me paint a picture of what yesterday could have looked like if six months ago—back in March 2025—every man, woman, and child in Utah had suddenly decided to believe the Bible, every word, and began seeking God with all their hearts, minds, and souls.

What if they had denied themselves, picked up their crosses, died to self and all forms of selfishness, and instead decided to receive God's grace and apply everything Jesus and His disciples taught, exactly the way they taught it? What if they had begun living and walking every day in the image of God?

The Institutional Transformation

Instead of Religious Oligarchy: "But it is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be slave of all." - Mark 10:43-44

The $100+ billion would have been distributed to address Utah's mental health crisis. Religious leaders would have stepped down from positions of political power, recognizing that Christ's kingdom is not of this world. The 85-90% Mormon legislature would have been replaced by servants focused on the common good rather than institutional protection.

Instead of Information Control: "And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." - John 8:32

All financial records would have been opened. Critics would have been welcomed with love. Former members would have been embraced rather than shunned. The September Six would have been restored and honored for their scholarship.

Instead of Child Endangerment: "And He took a child, and set him before them, and taking him in His arms, He said to them, 'Whoever receives one child like this in My name receives Me.'" - Mark 9:36-37

Every child in Utah would have received world-class mental health care. Perfectionist pressure would have been replaced with unconditional love. Youth suicide rates would have plummeted to zero as children experienced the easy yoke of Christ rather than the heavy burdens of institutional expectations.

The Individual Heart Transformation

The Future Shooter's Journey: Six months ago, this person struggling with gender identity confusion and political hatred would have encountered the love of Christ through transformed Utah communities.

Instead of transgender ideology engraved on ammunition, imagine this person discovering their true identity in Christ: "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come." - 2 Corinthians 5:17

Instead of anti-fascist hatred driving them to violence, they would have experienced the peace that passes understanding: "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." - Philippians 4:6-7

The Transformed Encounter: Six months of gospel transformation would have meant that when this person approached Charlie Kirk's event, they would have come with questions, not weapons. They would have said, "Charlie, I've struggled with identity issues and political anger, but I want to understand God's truth. Can you help me find peace?"

Charlie Kirk's Response in a Transformed Utah

Charlie, surrounded by a truly Christian community rather than a religious oligarchy, would have responded with the heart of Christ: "Come, let's sit down together. Tell me your story. Let's pray and seek God's truth together."

Instead of a gunshot ending a life, there would have been an embrace between former enemies. The crowd would have witnessed not an assassination but a conversion—hatred transformed into love, confusion replaced with clarity, violence exchanged for peace.

September 10, 2025: The Day Love Could Have Conquered Hate

The Morning That Could Have Been

If Utah had been truly transformed six months prior, September 10, 2025, would have begun differently:

6:00 AM: Instead of planning violence, the future shooter would have awakened to community members checking on their welfare, offering breakfast and prayer.

9:00 AM: Instead of loading ammunition engraved with hate, they would have been in Bible study with believers who loved them unconditionally.

12:00 PM: Instead of positioning on a rooftop with a rifle, they would have been in the front row at Charlie's event, ready to ask honest questions in a safe environment.

The Event That Should Have Happened

Charlie's Message: Instead of debating controversial topics in a hostile environment, Charlie would have been speaking to a crowd united in love. His message would have focused on gospel reconciliation rather than political division.

The Audience Response: Instead of applause for clever comebacks, the crowd would have responded with prayer for those struggling with identity and political confusion.

The Transformative Moment: When the former future shooter stood to ask their question, instead of hostility, there would have been anticipation of another testimony of
God's transforming grace.

The Question That Could Have Changed Everything

"Charlie, six months ago I was consumed with hatred and confusion about my identity. I was planning to hurt people who disagreed with me. But this community loved me when I was unlovable. They showed me Christ when I couldn't see Him. How do we help others find the same peace I've found in Jesus?"

Charlie's Response: "That's the gospel, friend. That's why Jesus came—to transform enemies into family, to bring peace where there was chaos, to give identity to the lost. Thank you for sharing your testimony with us."

The Crowd's Response: Not political applause, but worship—recognizing God's power to transform the most hardened hearts.

The Ripple Effects of Love: Families Transformed

The Shooter's Family

Instead of receiving a devastating phone call about their child committing murder, the shooter's family would have been celebrating six months of miraculous transformation. They would have watched their child transition from hatred to love, from confusion to clarity, from violence to peace.

Their testimony would have become a beacon of hope for other families struggling with children caught in ideological extremism or gender confusion.

Charlie Kirk's Family

Instead of grieving a husband and father taken too soon, Charlie's family would have celebrated another successful event where the gospel transformed lives. They would have welcomed the former future shooter into their extended family, as is common when enemies become brothers in Christ.

The Community Response

Instead of Division: "By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." - John 13:35

The event would have united rather than divided Utah communities. Democrats and Republicans would have prayed together. Religious and secular communities would have recognized God's power working through love.

Instead of Fear: "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love." - 1 John 4:18

Parents wouldn't have worried about their children's safety at public events. Communities would have felt secure knowing that love had conquered the hate that breeds violence.

The Biblical Foundation: Love Your Enemies

This isn't wishful thinking—it's biblical reality that we've failed to implement:

Christ's Clear Command: "But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." - Matthew 5:44-45

The Apostolic Example: Stephen praying for those stoning him to death: "Lord, do not hold this sin against them!" (Acts 7:60). Paul's transformation from persecutor to apostle through the love of believers who refused to hate him.

The Ultimate Pattern: Jesus on the cross: "Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing." (Luke 23:34)

The same power that transformed Saul into Paul could have transformed Charlie's assassin into a testimony of God's grace.

The Demon That Couldn't Be Cast Out: Why Love Failed Yesterday

This brings us to the sobering reality of Matthew 17:14-21, Mark 9:14-29, and Luke 9:37-42—the demon the disciples couldn't cast out because of their little faith.

The Father's Desperate Plea: "Teacher, I brought You my son, possessed with a spirit which makes him mute; and whenever it seizes him, it slams him to the ground and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth and stiffens out." - Mark 9:17-18

Replace "possessed with a spirit" with "consumed with transgender ideology and political hatred," and you have yesterday's tragedy. A child was seized by spiritual forces that made them mute to reason, grinding their teeth with rage, stiffened out by ideological rigidity.

The Disciples' Failure: "And I told Your disciples to cast it out, and they could not do it." - Mark 9:18

Utah's religious institutions failed to cast out the demons of hatred and confusion. Despite claiming spiritual authority, they were powerless against the forces destroying children's minds and hearts.

Jesus' Diagnosis: "O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you?" - Mark 9:19

The same unbelief that prevented the disciples from casting out demons prevents Utah's religious institutions from addressing the spiritual warfare behind the youth suicide crisis and political violence.

The Solution: "This kind cannot come out by anything but prayer." - Mark 9:29

The demons of institutional control, ideological hatred, and mental health destruction require prayer, fasting, and genuine faith—not religious programs or political solutions.

The Prophetic Warning: This Generation's Unbelief

Jesus was referring not just to His immediate generation but to the last generation before His return. We are that generation that can't cast out demons because of little faith.

The Current Reality

Religious institutions accumulating wealth while children die.

Ideological movements promoting confusion and hatred.

Political violence replacing spiritual warfare.

Mental health crises masked as social justice.

The Coming Glory: After the Harpazo, when believers receive glorified bodies, even with little faith we'll move mountains literally. But until then, in these bodies, we suffer under the weight of unbelief.

The Encouraging Truth: "I can do all things through Him who strengthens me." - Philippians 4:13

Jesus has given His followers His faith. If we use even the smallest portion, we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.

What Charlie Is Saying from Heaven

Knowing Charlie's heart and his passion for the gospel, I believe he's celebrating in heaven right now, high-fiving Jesus, knowing that his death won't be in vain if it awakens people to the spiritual warfare we're in.

Charlie's Heavenly Message: "Use my death to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ and fight for freedom of speech. Freedom was assaulted yesterday with an assassin's bullet, but God can deflect it to be one of the biggest blessings to ever happen to Utah. Expose the evil dark forces breeding hate, overcome them with love, and set the captives free. I'd gladly give up my life to see hundreds of thousands of children saved."

His Call to Action: "Now, more than ever, is the time to love our enemies and return to our first love, Jesus Christ. Don't waste time pointing fingers or fighting politically. Love like Jesus loved. Die to self like He died for us. Transform enemies into family like He transformed us."

His Hope for Utah: "Let my blood water the seeds of revival in Utah. Let my death expose the darkness so the light can shine brighter. Let my assassination become the catalyst for the greatest spiritual awakening Utah has ever seen." I forgive those who killed me.

The Ancient Wells of God's Love

What would it be like if Charlie's death tapped the ancient wells of God's love, transforming every man, woman, and child in Utah through love working through grace and mercy?

The Wells Reopened: "Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped up and filled with dirt." - Genesis 26:15

Utah's ancient wells of God's love have been stopped up by:

Institutional religious control replacing personal relationship with Christ.

Financial accumulation replacing sacrificial service.

Information control replacing truth that sets free.

Perfectionist performance replacing grace and mercy.

The Digging Required: "So Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham; and he gave them the same names which his father had given them." - Genesis 26:18

Charlie's death could inspire Utah to dig again the wells of authentic Christianity:

Grace Wells: Replacing perfectionist pressure with unconditional love.

Truth Wells: Replacing information control with transparent honesty.

Service Wells: Replacing wealth accumulation with sacrificial giving.

Love Wells: Replacing institutional loyalty with enemy love.

Crushing the Serpent's Head: Exposing the Real Enemy

Charlie's death must not be wasted on political finger-pointing or religious defensiveness. Instead, it should expose the serpent's head and crush his evil reach.
The Serpent's Strategy Revealed:

Divide and Conquer: Pit religious against secular, conservative against liberal, member against non-member.

Accumulate and Control: Build wealth and power while claiming divine authority.

Confuse and Destroy: Promote identity confusion and ideological hatred.

Silence and Intimidate: Attack truth-tellers through criticism, discipline, or violence.

The Serpent's Head Crushed: "And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel." - Genesis 3:15

Christ's victory at the cross ensures Satan's ultimate defeat. Charlie's death, like Christ's death, can become the very means of Satan's destruction if it awakens Utah to spiritual warfare and gospel love.

The Urgent Call: We're Running Out of Time

We are in the last minutes of the last hour before Jesus appears for His Bride. The Harpazo approaches rapidly, and we must use whatever time remains to love our enemies and set captives free.

The Signs Are Accelerating

Religious institutions claiming Christ's name while destroying children.

Ideological movements promoting confusion and hatred.

Political violence replacing civil discourse.

Mental health crises reaching epidemic proportions.

Truth-tellers facing assassination.

The Time for Love Is NOW: "And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment." - Philippians 1:9

We cannot wait for institutional reform or political solutions. We must love now, serve now, sacrifice now, and speak truth now.

The Vision: Utah Transformed by Enemy Love

Picture Utah six months from now if Charlie's death awakens genuine enemy love:

Former Enemies Reconciled:

Religious and secular communities praying together.
Conservative and liberal families sharing meals.
Members and non-members serving side by side.
Truth-tellers and critics embracing as brothers.

Children Saved:

Youth suicide rates dropping to zero.
Mental health resources abundantly funded.
Perfectionist pressure replaced with unconditional love.
Identity confusion healed through gospel truth.

Institutions Transformed:

Religious organizations serving rather than accumulating.
Political systems representing all citizens equally.
Business networks based on merit rather than religious affiliation.
Legal systems protecting the vulnerable rather than the powerful.

The World Watching:

Utah becomes a model of genuine Christianity.
Other states seek to replicate the transformation.
The gospel spreads through demonstration of love.
Enemy love becomes the church's defining characteristic.

The Faith to Move Mountains

Jesus promised that if we have faith as small as a mustard seed, we can move mountains. Utah's mountains of religious control, ideological hatred, mental health destruction, and political violence can be moved by faith working through love.

The Mountain-Moving Faith: "And He said to them, 'Because of the littleness of your faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, "Move from here to there," and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.'" - Matthew 17:20

Charlie's death gives us the faith to believe that God can transform Utah's darkest tragedy into its greatest victory. His assassination can become the catalyst for the spiritual awakening that moves every mountain of evil opposing God's love.

The Coming Glory: After the Harpazo, with glorified bodies, we'll literally move mountains with very little faith. But until then, we move mountains of hatred with love, mountains of despair with hope, mountains of division with unity.

The Prayer of Faith: Charlie's Blood Crying Out

Like Abel's blood crying out from the ground, Charlie's blood cries out for vindication. But unlike Abel's blood crying for vengeance, Charlie's blood cries for redemption.

The Blood That Speaks: "And to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel." - Hebrews 12:24

Charlie's blood joins Christ's blood in crying out for mercy, forgiveness, and transformation. His death can water the seeds of revival if we respond with love rather than hatred.

The Prayer of Faith: "Father, let Charlie Kirk's blood water the seeds of spiritual awakening in Utah. Let his death expose every work of darkness and release the light of Your love. Transform his assassin, heal the shooter's family, comfort Charlie's family, and use this tragedy to save hundreds of thousands of children. Let Utah become the model of enemy love that You've always intended Your church to be. In Jesus' name, Amen."

The Choice Before Us

Today, September 11, 2025, we face the same choice America faced 24 years ago after the Twin Towers fell. We can respond with hatred and division, or we can respond with love and unity.

Charlie Kirk's death presents Utah—and America—with a divine appointment. We can use his assassination to fuel more political division and religious defensiveness, or we can use it to demonstrate the transforming power of enemy love.

The Call to Love: "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." - John 13:34-35

The world is watching to see how Christians respond to the assassination of one of our own. Will we choose love or hatred? Will we seek revenge or redemption? Will we point fingers or extend hands?

The Promise of Victory: "And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death." - Revelation 12:11

Charlie overcame by the blood of the Lamb and his testimony, not loving his life even unto death. Now we must overcome the same way—through love, testimony, and willingness to die to self for the sake of others.

The Final Challenge: "And if it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." - Joshua 24:15

The choice is before us. We can serve the gods of hatred, division, and revenge, or we can serve the Lord of love, unity, and redemption.

Charlie Kirk's blood cries out from Utah's ground, not for vengeance, but for transformation. His death can crush the serpent's head if we respond with the love that casts out fear, the grace that transforms enemies, and the faith that moves mountains.

The Harpazo approaches. We're running out of time. Let's love our enemies while we still can.

Maranatha! Come quickly, Lord Jesus!

In memory of Charlie Kirk, who loved his enemies even unto death, and in hope of the Utah transformation that his sacrifice can inspire.