[ WP ] `` I need you to understand something before I kill you . ''

I need you to understand something before I kill you. I do not hate you. I know you do n't deserve this. 
 
 But you have been drafted, against your will, into a war against an unstoppable Enemy. And I am His foot soldier. My orders are barbaric, to be sure, and I consider whether they are worth following... But i know more of the world beyond death than you could learn in a thousand lifetimes, and the One who sent me knows more than I could learn in a thousand eternities. 
 
 I kill you not to punish you for your fathers' sins. I kill you to punish them. Your absence, your sudden and undeserving removal from this world, will show them the futility of their struggle. It is not revenge, per se... But they will, finally, understand the One they have been fighting. Their Enemy is not a statue, like one of their gods. He is a Father. And the pain they have put His people - His *children* - through will, finally, be understood. 
 
 Because this is what it takes. Thanks to your deaths, your fathers will relent, and His people will be freed. Even that change of heart will not last, and your fathers will be crushed beneath the Red Sea. But they will die having chosen, once in their life, to show mercy. 
 
... But I'm doing a poor job explaining this. The Father understands all this much better than I do. Come closer, I'll send you to Him. It wo n't hurt.
