One day before September 11, 2025, Charlie Kirk had just begun participating in an interactive debate at Utah Valley University in Orem (near Provo). The event was taking place at a terraced outdoor amphitheater on Wednesday early afternoon, surrounded by university buildings and near the campus food court. Approximately 3,000 people attended the event. Kirk was considered “the most articulate spokesman for America and its unique value system” (according to Dennis Prager) and “great, and even legendary, [who] understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America” better than anyone (according to POTUS Trump).
According to Deseret News reporter Emma Pitts, the first question asked of Kirk at the debate was if he knew how many mass shooters were transgender. Kirk picked up an available microphone and said, “Too many.” As Kirk was picking up the microphone to answer a second on the same subject, a bullet fired by a sniper positioned on top of the Losee Center, 200 to 300 yards away, struck him on the neck, hitting his jugular vein. Grainy security footage showed the shooter lying down while taking his shot, and then running away immediately after firing. Kirk was taken by personal vehicle to Timpanogos Regional Hospital in Orem, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The ’why’ – according to commentators
House Speaker Mike Johnson warned that America’s ‘toxic’ politics are fueling violence in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: “We have to call out political violence. There are deranged people in society, and if they are encouraged along this way, they will do dangerous things.”
Former President George W. Bush urged Americans to reject violence and embrace civility: “Today, a young man was murdered in cold blood while expressing his political views.”
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox declared: “I want to be very clear that this is a political assassination.”
Ben Shapiro noted: “The 1960s and 1970s were a time of tremendous change in American history, and of tremendous violence. Political assassinations became commonplace; bombings and terror attacks were excused by a variety of supposedly great intellectuals. And eventually, America rejected all of it. Now, we’re watching the same ugly picture reappear . . . And the wave of violence, a wave already breaking on the shoreline, appears as though it is only the beginning. But it feels as though a tsunami is coming … And what comes next could be far more devastating even than what we have seen thus far. That tsunami, if left unchecked, will wash away this entire republic.”
Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. condemned the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, 31, saying “once again, a bullet has silenced the most eloquent truth teller of an era.”
An elegy to Charlie Kirk
Rev. Franklin Graham, one of the nation’s most prominent Christian voices, told Fox News Digital that “America is mourning the loss of Charlie Kirk. Our hearts break for his wife and family. He loved this country, loved God, and loved his family. He was a gifted and courageous communicator of truth. Even more importantly, Charlie Kirk was a passionate follower of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Charlie Kirk’s rock-solid values – his ‘why?’ – in his own words
A video of Kirk shows him being asked how he would want to be remembered. Kirk pauses and then answers directly: “I want to be remembered for courage for my faith. That would be the most important thing. The most important thing is my faith in my life.” Kirk’s unapologetic faith in Messiah Yeshua was always at the forefront of everything he did and said, as seen in this interview.
Charlie Kirk’s warnings to America
Kirk once stated: “If you believe in something, you need to have the courage to fight for those ideas, not run away from them or try and silence them.”
Charlie Kirk sounded an alarm on many occasions regarding the threat to America coming from a synthesis of Islamism, Marxism and woke-ism:
- “The spiritual battle is coming to the West and the enemies are woke-ism or Marxism combining with Islamism to go after what we call the American way of life. The American way of life is very simple. I want to be able to get married, buy a home, have kids, allow them to ride their bike till the sun goes down, send them to a good school, have a low crime neighborhood, not to have my kid be taught the lesbian, gay, transgender garbage in their school. While also, not having them have to hear the Muslim call to prayer five times a day. That’s important. These two threats are combining forces to come after us.”
Just under one month ago, on August 12 2025, Kirk stated:
- “I am a defender of Israel as a homeland for the Jewish people. When I went to Israel, I saw the Bible come to life. We, as Christians, must honor the Jews. If Israel laid down their weapons, all the Jews would be killed. Israel has a place in God’s plan.”
Israelis deeply honor Kirk for his heart for the Jewish people and their state
PM Benjamin Netanyahu stated: “Kirk was murdered for speaking truth and defending freedom. He fought the lies and stood tall for Judeo-Christian civilization. We lost an incredible human being. His boundless pride in America and his valiant belief in free speech will leave a lasting impact. Rest in peace.”
Yair Netanyahu (the PM’s son) writes:
- “I had the privilege of having lunch with Charlie and his wife Erika in Jerusalem when they visited Israel a few years ago. The Charlie I met was so young, yet wise beyond his years. I met someone deeply knowledgeable in history and geopolitics – someone who understood the importance of Israel to America, to the Christian people, and to the Christian faith. He recognized that our shared Judeo-Christian civilization is under existential threat from both radical Islam and the radical left. May he rest in peace, and may his legacy and message live on”
Dennis Prager, renowned American conservative talk-show host, writer and commentator, adds:
- “The most articulate spokesman for America and its unique value system – a country founded to be free, based on Jerusalem and Athens, the Judeo-Christian value system and the Greek emphasis on logic and reason. Charlie was a uniquely gifted individual who, in his teens, created the largest movement of young Americans committed to preserving and growing America and its ideals. He tirelessly went from campus to campus, from Oxford to Utah, dialoging with any student who wished to debate him. Using his vast reservoir of facts and his exceptionally speedy and articulate mind, he gave them what seemed to be unlimited amounts of time, and then calmy eviscerated all their anti-American, anti-Western, and anti-Judeo-Christian positions.”
Charlie Kirk’s prophetic comments regarding the spreading of assassination culture
On April 8, 2025, five months ago, Charlie Kirk posted on his X feed, warning America of something he called ‘assassination culture.’ The spread of this murderous sickness, he pointed out, is virulent on the left, and it is the natural outgrowth of a left-wing protest culture (something I was raised on by my Communist parents) tolerating violence for decades.
- “Assassination culture is spreading on the left. Forty-eight percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk. Fifty-five percent said the same about Donald Trump. In California, activists are naming ballot measures after Luigi Mangione. The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy. Any setback, whether losing an election or losing a court case, justifies a maximally violent response. This is the natural outgrowth of left-wing protest culture tolerating violence and mayhem for years on end. The cowardice of local prosecutors and school officials have turned the left into a ticking time bomb.”
Charlie Kirk’s (and his wife Erika’s) love for America, its Jewish-Christian biblical-moral foundations, their unswerving commitment to the God of Jacob’s perspective on the sanctity of human life and divinely-gifted gender identity, and their unshakable loyalty and love for the Jewish people and their Promised Homeland – these two are heroes of the faith.
- “They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to death with the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented – people of whom the world was not worthy . . .” (Hebrews 11:37-38)
On September 10, 2025, the day Charlie Kirk was brutally murdered, he made one last post on his Twitter account, referring to the horrific murder of Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old refugee from the Ukraine who had fled the war there in search of safety and opportunity in the USA. Zarutska was seated alone on a Charlotte, North Carolina light-rail train when she was stabbed three times without warning (including once in the jugular) by Decarlos Brown Jr. The fatal wound caused her to bleed out and die on the train. Kirk, shaken by the brutality, posted the image of Iryna in his final post, with six words: “America will never be the same.”
How should we then pray?
- Please pray for Erika and their two young children for comfort at this time of extreme grief
- Please pray for the capture of the murderer and for justice to be done swiftly
- Abraham pleaded for the sparing of Sodom, but it was not to be (see Genesis 18:16-32). In spite of what seems unavoidable, perhaps you would want to intercede for America – in the way that Jonah’s sailor captain did (Jonah 1:6); or the King of Nineveh (Jonah 3:9); of King David facing the death of his son (2 Samuel 12:22); or YHVH’s extended offer (Amos 5:5)
Your prayers and support hold up our arms and are the very practical enablement of God to us in the work He has called us to do.
In Messiah Yeshua,
Avner Boskey
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