Dear Yasser Arafat
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
