| Dear Yasser . . .
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Depending on who you ask, Yasser Arafat is 1) fit to run the
Boston Marathon, 2) has terminal stomach cancer, 3) may have suffered a minor
heart attack, or 4) dead as a doornail. My instincts and the general consensus
among our various intelligence sources would indicate that he is somewhere in
between Options 3 and 4. Let's call it a 3 1/2 -- it was more than a minor heart
attack, but since Arafat's heart is the size of a pea, he isn't quite dead.
Enough. Yet. So there is still time for me to give him some much-needed advice.
Dear Yasser Arafat You have called Him a great prophet and a wise man in the past, like when you
ordered the takeover of His birthplace in Bethlehem. You are wrong. The Jewish
Man you called a great prophet and a wise man was neither.
Had He been a great prophet and a good man, then, when asked if He was God
come in the flesh, He would have said no, and then walked away from the Cross a
free man.
He wouldn't have had to endure the agonies inflicted upon Him, and COULD have
lived out His life, (as Islam teaches that He did), gotten married and raised a
family.
But He loved you, Yasser old man, so much that even though He knew that you
would slander Him and attempt to kill of His biological race and steal their
land, still He chose the Cross. So He could pay for your sins. Unless He was God Incarnate, He was a liar and a lunatic, since that was the
charge leveled against Him, and He was convicted based entirely on His refusal
to answer to the charge. You have damned yourself by faint praise.
Despite Islam's effort to incorporate the King of Kings into a religion as a
mere bit player, Jesus Christ would still like to introduce Himself to you, and
extend to you the free gift of salvation available to all men by grace through
faith in Him.
Even you.
Yasser, let me tell you, if it was me, I'd be making an exception in your
case, buddy. It wouldn't matter a bit to me how much you said you were sorry.
If I were in charge, I'd order another load of coal for your section of hell.
If I were Him, you and I would have the kind of 'come-to-Jesus meeting' that
leaves knuckle bumps all over your face (not that anybody could tell).
But, Yasser old man, I am NOT in charge, so you still have a chance. Jesus IS
and He is love, and so He even loves you.
Although He could have walked away, the Jew named Jesus chose to exchange His
life for your eternity. He lived the life that you were supposed to, and then He
willingly accepted the death that you, in particular, so richly deserve.
You will face the One Whose Name you took in vain by claiming Him as a minor
prophet of a counterfeit god.
Yasser, my guts tell me you haven't got long for this world. And you are
right about one thing. There is a world after this. But you won't be greeted by
72 virgins. Unless you first turn to your Advocate, you stand a much better
chance of being greeted by 72 Virginians. Bad-tempered ones who are sick of
greeting your victims.
The Bible says that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. In
your case, that is pretty obvious. It also says that the wages of sin is death,
which in your case, is looming large on the horizon.
But there is another death. Unless you turn your case over to Jesus, you will
stand before the Judge at the Great White Throne and will get a second sentence
of death.
Not the kind you think of, but an eternal, constant and conscious death. An
eternity in the kind of hell you gave your many victims. Except in their case,
it was over in a flash. Yours will never end.
The REAL Jesus told a story of a rich man and a beggar named Lazarus. He
described the rich man as faring sumptuously every day, while denying Lazarus
even the crumbs from his table. In fact, Yasser, whenever I read this story, in
my mind's eye, the rich man has your face.
Jesus said that in their times, both the rich man and Lazarus died. The rich
man awoke in hell, which he discovered is a real place. The rich man begged for
a drop of water to cool his tongue, tormented in the flames. He also begged that
his brothers could avoid his fate, meaning he remembered his earthly life. As
you will, Yasser, once you go to your reward.
It was interesting that although Lazarus was a beggar, Jesus called him by
name. But the rich man is only called the 'rich man' -- because he no longer has
a name. He doesn't need one, since nobody will ever call it again.
His eternity is sealed -- there will be no reprieve. Nobody will need it.
You will spend eternity alone, in the torment of the flames of hell, without
hope, with nothing but the memories of your crimes to turn to for comfort.
Yasser, unless you turn to Jesus, you will never hear your name again, because
you will be eternally dead to everyone in the universe EXCEPT YOU!
Think about it for a minute, my terrorist friend! Your death is upon you, and
the second death is waiting right around the corner. And in the second death,
you will live forever as a dead man. You won't wake up every morning wishing you
had done the right thing, because you will never sleep again.
You will just spend eternity awake, conscious, in torment and misery, with no
name and nothing for comfort but your memories of the opportunities you rejected
to avoid your fate. Trust Jesus Christ with your eternity, surrender your will to Him, and allow
Him to make the changes in your life while you seek to know Him better. Ask
Jesus to be your Advocate and to take you to heaven when you die.
If you do that, Yasser, as deplorable a human being as you are, you can know
eternal joy in the presence of the Savior, Jesus Christ, the Jew from Bethlehem
by way of Nazereth Whom you called a mere 'prophet'.
Or you can share the fate of the rich man.
In the final moments of His agony, as the weight of your sins, Yasser,
together with those of mine and every person who ever lived, were laid upon His
broken Body and His shed Blood flowed, He cried, "Tetelestai!" which is
translated into English as 'it is finished!' but means, 'paid in full.'
For those who wash themselves clean in that shed Blood of the Lamb, the
penalty for our sins has been paid -- in full, once and for eternity.
For those who enter eternity unwashed, that's how long it will take to cancel
their sin debt. Eternity.
Best of luck, Yasser. But if I was you, I wouldn't trust to luck.
Excerpted from the Omega Letter Daily Intelligence Briefing, Vol 25,
Issue:9
Yasser, despite the fact you have more
Israeli blood on your hands than anyone since Adolf Hitler, God loves you. Two
thousand years ago, a Jewish man named Jesus Christ was crucified for the sins
of the world.
Jesus
Christ, whom you used as just one more political tool in your bag of dirty
tricks, was neither a wise man or a great prophet.
In your description of Jesus as just one of
Islam's prophets, you have sealed your own eternal fate, Yasser. You have
labeled the Lord of the Universe a liar and a lunatic with your cynical effort
to praise Someone you do not know.
As His brother Jews cried, "Let His death be upon us, and upon our
children," as your ancestors stood by in amusement while our ancestors drove
nails into His Hands and Feet, He cried out, "Father, forgive them, for they
know not what they do."
The nature of the Judge that you will soon stand
before to answer for your crimes is not the same as you are used to. He won't
cluck sympathetically while you explain the necessity of killing the innocent as
part of your duty to your religion. You WILL stand before the Great White
Throne. And you WON'T be facing Allah.
But as richly as you deserve your fate, it isn't too
late to change it. Recognize you are a sinner in need of salvation and that
there isn't anything you can do on your own to atone for your sins.
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