Thanks for the
temptation
By: Elias Bejjani
1/1/2002
Thanks for the Lebanese installed
officials who exported to our Diaspora camouflaged human antiques with hearts full of
hatred and deeply rooted grudges.
Thanks to Lebanon's Interior Minister, Baabda's appointed president's son-in-law, for
successfully delegating an evil team of agents to the Diaspora designated to monitor what
we say and do.
Thanks and congratulations to Lebanon's Internal Security superiors who brutally and
savagely assaulted patriotic peaceful students, lawyers and engineers in front of the
Justice Palace in Beirut.
Thank you for successfully hiring an extremely efficient venomous Diaspora team who wear
deceptive robes and big crosses around their necks. This team has through words and
actions far surpassed you in subservience, infiltration and Trojan acts. Thanks to the
Intelligence Security forces that raided St. Joseph's University campus in Al- Dekwani and
confiscated the Lebanese flag. Rejoice, you have become a role model for a Diaspora team
that have vowed to blemish the Lebanese communities' reputation through tagging its
members with terrorism.
Thanks to some of our Diaspora
community members, whose conscious has turned numb, lost all human incentives and
desensitized themselves for love, forgiveness and empathy.
Thanks for those who have sold their tongues and stances to the highest bidder.
Thank you for giving false and forged affidavits against righteous nationals.
Thanks for those who have authorized assailants to trespass the 10452-km square doctrine
believers from God's temples. Thanks to those who turned a blind eye on honor and dignity
after volunteering to uphold it.
Thanks for those who deluded themselves into punishing comrades that remind them of their
cowardliness and weaknesses. Thanks for those who forged their testimonies to serve
vicious aims.
Thanks for those who abandoned the honorable stances to which they had previously
committed.
Thanks for the chameleon-like men, for their acts, stances, commitments and statements.
Thanks for those who planned
venomous conspiracies at the expense of their allies and at the expense of their country's
holy cause.
Thanks for those who withdrew their crucial support, abandoning their allies and comrades
when they were needed the most. Thanks to those who volunteered to advocate for devious
practices, deception and sin.
Thanks for those who showed no gratitude for patriotic parties and organizations that had
and still defend courageously Lebanon's faith, dignity, identity, history and human
rights.
Thanks for those who denied sacred sacrifices offered by thousands of martyrs who gave up
their lives on Lebanon's altar. Thanks for those who adopted the "divide and
conquer" imperialistic concept.
Thanks for the shepherds who appeased and sided with Lebanon's oppressors.
Thanks for the Shepherd who claimed his ownership for the temple.
Thank you Shepherd for heretic
and camouflaging acts ignoring that the temple is the body of Jesus who said: "It is
written in the Scriptures that God said, "My Temple will be called a house of prayer,
but you are making it a hideout for thieves" (Matthew 21.12)
Thanks for the shepherd that dispersed his sheep and sent them to courts with false and
fabricated allegations.
Thanks for the officials who divide the ranks of our people, abuse their resources,
distract their efforts, close down their temples, fire their righteous priests, confiscate
their funds and trespass their peace advocates from the temple.
Thanks for the parenthood that had accused its own children.
Thanks for those who boldly unveiled their political and patriotic shameful affiliations
and beliefs.
Thank you for removing the masks from your deceitful faces.
Thanks for all those who gave
themselves the right to judge others ignoring what Jesus has said in this regard: "Do
not judge others, so that God will not judge you, for God will judge you in the same way
as you judge others, and he will apply to you the same rules you apply to others."
(Matthew 6-7)
Thanks for those who are putting us through temptation because they inspire us to focus
more on Jesus' teachings: "Happy are you when people insult you and persecute you and
tell all kinds of evil lies against you because you are my followers. Be happy and glad,
for a great reward is kept for you in heaven. This is how the prophets who lived before
you were persecuted. (Matthew 5-11)
Yes, as Our Lord Jesus taught us,
we will love our enemies and bless those who curse us.
We shall thank our oppressors and persecutors in a bid to teach them what they should have
preached and to show them how real forgiveness, tolerance and love should be.
Yes, as Almighty God has put his begotten Son through forty days of temptation at the
hands of Beelzebub, we are currently put through temptation to test our faith,
convictions, values, unity and patriotism.
Yes, as Jesus was victorious in his temptation test, we are going by God's blessings to
defeat those who are putting us through temptation.
We believe in Jesus who said: "I am the road and the truth". The truth will
prevail no matter the obstacles.
Yes, we will keep on turning the left cheek whenever we are struck on the right one
because we believe in Jesus' message. "Do not take revenge on someone who wrongs you.
If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, let him slap your left cheek too" (Matthew
5-38) At the same time as Jesus instructed us, we shall defend ourselves. The Bible
states: "If you do not have the money to buy a sword, sell your garment and buy
one." Our sword is symbolized in faith, courage and in witnessing for the truth, as
well as patience in facing injustice.
"Happy are those who are merciful to others; God will be merciful to them" (Matthew 5)
Talking about judgment, rewarding, temptation, and sin brings to mind what Jesus said to his betraying disciple Judas: "How terrible for the man who betrays the son of man! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born!" (Matthew 26-22) . Neither persecution nor intimidation shall be able to deter nor weaken our struggle for freedom, justice, peace, love and truth. We live in the hopes of resurrection. We find our conciliation in Jesus' holy words: "Happy are you when people insult you and persecute you and tell all kinds of evil lies against you because you are my followers."
Long Live Free Lebanon
Long Live the truth