Frantic mourners surged toward the tomb, trampling the olive tree saplings that were planted around the grave according to Islamic tradition. One policeman knelt on the marble and kissed the tombstone.
The article went on to say that mourners were heard to say...
As the coffin was carried toward the gravesite, police jumped on top of it, waved their arms and flashed the victory sign. People chanted, ''With our blood and our soul we will redeem you Yasser Arafat!''
''It is not what we expected,'' said Palestinian Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat, who traveled in the Egyptian military helicopter with Arafat's coffin. ''At the same time, we had to do the burial before sunset in Islamic tradition. ... I expected much better, more organized, but things got out of hand, unfortunately.''
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Look at the chaos that is going on. The blindness. The Pastor at my Church has been talking about this for the past few weeks. I don't pretend to know much about what is going on in the Middle East. All I know that this blindness scares me. I sit here a little speck of dust in a world of anger. Following a God that has given his love to me. He has given his promise to the nation of Israel...... (Please see... for the entire text of Mysteries of the Bible.....http://www.bible-truth.org/myst-2.htm)
The nation of Israel was God's witness of who He was to both the Jew and the Gentile nations. (see Deut. 28:37, 1 Kings 9:7, Psa. 44:14, Jer. 24:9, Eze. 22:4) When God called Abram (Abraham) in Genesis12:1-3 He promised him four specific things:
- 1. Make of him a great nation. V2
2. To bless him and make his name great.
3. To be a blessing and to bless them that blessed Abram and curse them that cursed him.
4. In Abram would all the nations of earth be blessed.
- a. These promises were made unconditionally by God.
b. The promised "seed" is singular and means the seed referred to in Gen. 12:3 is Christ.
c. V17...That the promise was fulfilled in Christ. Note is states the promise cannot be disannuled!
- I didn't mean for this to become my own personal soap box or a Bible Study, but I am beginning to get scared at what I see on the news lately. The blindness is just mind boggling.
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Lu dear, what you are seeing after Arafat's death is just a continuation of how he lived his life. It is tragic!
There is a lesson for all of us in this. What do we want our legacy to be? If we live our lives by hatred and violence, that will be the legacy that survives after we are gone.
If we live our lives in the light of God's Truth and walk as Jesus walked, then our legacy will be one that pleases Him.
loving you
karyl
i agree with the previous comment. for some reason, a great many of these people only understand violence... sad as it is, it seems to be the way they both live and die. and never with any peace. all we can do for them, i suppose is pray. God Bless,
sara
I have to agree with that i read once that children learn what they live and i believe that and live by that. Kenz has started to go to church every sunday and when im off rather didnt work the nite before i go with her i want her to know about god and to believe in god, to know he'll always be there. I dont know all that much about the bible but after reading the paper..(www.thedailyreview.com I print this paper :-)) am i starting to understand that so much of whats going on is terrible not just in the sense of killing but really terrible could this possibly be start of the holy war? I dont know... i do know my daughter isnt going to grow up in the world like i did and its a sad thing....... HUGsssss to y'all
Tempy
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