{"id":1591,"date":"2021-08-24T13:25:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T13:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2021-10-25T15:58:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T15:58:52","slug":"stories-of-christian-martyrs-chester-a-chet-bitterman-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/stories-of-christian-martyrs-chester-a-chet-bitterman-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories of Christian Martyrs: Chester A. &#8220;Chet&#8221; Bitterman III"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chet Bitterman went in with his eyes open. He knew that sharing<br>the Gospel could be costly. It could cost everything. But he<br>willingly went to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/colombia\/?_source_code=VSLEG02C4\">Colombia <\/a>to bear the Good News. \u201c\u2026I find<br>the recurring thought that perhaps God will call me to be martyred for<br>Him in His service in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/colombia\/?_source_code=VSLEG02C4\">Colombia<\/a>. I am willing.\u201d Bitterman penned those<br>words in his diary before he and his wife, Brenda, arrived in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/colombia\/?_source_code=VSLEG02C4\">Colombia<\/a>.<br>Bitterman\u2019s devotion to his Savior was evident: \u201cI am willing.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the gunmen came into the Wycliffe Bible Translators guest<br>house in Bogot\u00e1, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/colombia\/?_source_code=VSLEG02C4\">Colombia<\/a>, early the morning of January 19, 1981, they<br>were looking for the mission\u2019s leader, a more high-profile hostage whose<br>captivity could somehow help their cause. Who they got instead was<br>Chester A. Bitterman III, \u201cChet\u201d to his friends. The next day President<br>Ronald Reagan took the oath of office, and American hostages left Iran<br>after 444 days in captivity. Their ordeal was over, with the Bittermans\u2019<br>just beginning.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They hadn\u2019t been in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/colombia\/?_source_code=VSLEG02C4\">Colombia <\/a>long. Their mission career and their<br>translation work lay before them. They had gone to language school and<br>helped in various tasks for Wycliffe, including managing the guest house,<br>serving as buyer for goods needed by mission workers and even as radio<br>operator. Finally, it seemed God was opening the door for them to move<br>into the jungle with the Carijona Indian tribe to begin language study<br>and eventually translation work. In the days before M-19 terrorists kidnapped Bitterman, he had been scouring hardware and building-supply<br>stores, stockpiling materials for their move to the Carijonas.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-vom-subscribe-ad\">\r\n\t\t<figure>\r\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.persecution.com\/stories\/wp-content\/plugins\/vom-custom-block-subscribe-ad\/assets\/magazine-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\r\n\t\t<\/figure>\r\n\t\t<div class=\"text-button\">\r\n\t\t\t<p>Request your free magazine<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/free-magazine\/?_source_code=VSTORYM1\" class=\"wp-block-button__link\" aria-label=\"Subscribe to our free magazine\">Subscribe<\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t\n\n\n<p>The terrorists\u2019 demands were twofold. First, they wanted their views<br>printed in several of the world\u2019s leading papers. The second demand was that all Wycliffe mission workers be out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/colombia\/?_source_code=VSLEG02C4\">Colombia <\/a>in thirty days, or<br>Bitterman would die. Wycliffe\u2019s stand was clear: The work God had called them to in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/colombia\/?_source_code=VSLEG02C4\">Colombia <\/a>was not complete, and they could not desert the effort. Bitterman wouldn\u2019t want them to leave with so many people still unable to read God\u2019s Word in the language of their heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Negotiations went on in fits and starts. Brenda and her two young<br>daughters\u2014one barely old enough to walk\u2014waited and prayed and<br>hoped. They prayed Bitterman would remember the Scriptures that he<br>had faithfully memorized. The guerrillas maintained their stance that<br>Wycliffe must leave; Wycliffe agreed to leave when their translation work<br>was done, more than a decade into the future. His captors released a letter from Bitterman. His words carried not discouragement and worry, but an exciting sense of mission and possibility:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Lord brought 2 Corinthians 2:14 to mind: \u201cBut thanks<br>be to God, who always leads us in triumph through the Lord<br>Jesus Christ.\u201d The word for \u201ctriumph\u201d was used for the<\/em><br><em>Roman victory parades, when the soldiers were received back<br>at home by the cheering crowds after a successful battle\u2026I<br>have had a lot of free time to think about such things as Daniel\u2019s three friends\u2026and Paul and Silas\u2019 experience in the jail<br>at Philippi.<\/em><br><em>In the case of Daniel\u2019s friends, God did something very<br>unusual through His power for a specific purpose, so that<br>through everything, all concerned would learn (i.e., have their<\/em><br><em>misconceptions corrected) about Him. The result of the experience was that everyone learned who He was. Remember<br>Paul and the Praetorian Guard. Keep this in your thoughts<br>for me. Wouldn\u2019t it be neat if something special like this<br>would happen?<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brenda was thrilled to see that her prayers were being answered.<br>Bitterman was remembering the Scriptures. Even as he was held hostage, the Lord\u2019s work was being accomplished. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/colombia\/?_source_code=VSLEG02C4\">Colombian <\/a>media reports about Wycliffe\u2019s work included reference to the Gospel message and shed a positive light on Christian workers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/bibles\/?_source_code=VSLEG05\">Bible <\/a>verses Bitterman had mentioned in his letter were printed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/colombia\/?_source_code=VSLEG02C4\">Colombian <\/a>newspapers. The Word was going out. On the morning of March 7, forty-eight days after Bitterman\u2019s<br>abduction, his life was ended by a bullet to the chest. His body was left<br>on a bus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A sedative in his blood suggests he may have felt no pain.<br>And still the message went out, even after his death. A radio interview with Bitterman\u2019s parents was broadcast numerous times across the<br>country. \u201cI\u2019m sorry I won\u2019t see Chet again in this life,\u201d his father said,<br>\u201cbut I know I\u2019ll see him again in Heaven.\u201d He went on to say how much<br>Bitterman loved the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/colombia\/?_source_code=VSLEG02C4\">Colombian <\/a>people. His mother said that even though<br>her son had been killed, she still had love for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/colombia\/?_source_code=VSLEG02C4\">Colombia <\/a>and its people.<br>\u201cWe\u2019re hoping the guerrillas come to know God,\u201d she said.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bitterman was buried at Loma Linda, the Wycliffe base where he\u2019d<br>lived and worked. His burial in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/colombia\/?_source_code=VSLEG02C4\">Colombian <\/a>soil carried its own message<br>of his love for that land and its people. At memorial services around the world, men and women stepped forward to answer God\u2019s call to full-time service, to take Bitterman\u2019s place on the dangerous front lines of ministry work. Applications to Wycliffe skyrocketed in the months after his death.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Wouldn\u2019t it be neat if something special like that would happen?&#8221;<br>Bitterman\u2019s words carry the echoes of prophecy. Something special did<br>happen. God\u2019s Word went forth; people\u2019s hearts were touched and<br>changed. Through one man laying down his life for his Savior, many<br>lives were changed. The avalanche of blessing and ministry began with<br>three words: \u201cI am willing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This story is an excerpt from Foxe: Voices of the Martyrs. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/foxe\/offer\/?_source_code=VSAEG01\"><em>You can get your own copy free with any donation to The Voice of the Martyrs.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chet Bitterman went in with his eyes open. He knew that sharingthe Gospel could be costly. It could cost everything. But hewillingly went to Colombia to bear the Good News. \u201c\u2026I findthe recurring thought that perhaps God will call me to be martyred forHim in His service in Colombia. I am willing.\u201d Bitterman penned thosewords in his diary before he and his wife, Brenda, arrived in Colombia.Bitterman\u2019s devotion to his Savior was evident: \u201cI am willing.\u201d When the gunmen came into the Wycliffe Bible Translators guesthouse in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, early the morning of January 19, 1981, theywere looking for the mission\u2019s leader, a more high-profile hostage whosecaptivity could somehow help their cause. Who they got instead wasChester A. Bitterman III, \u201cChet\u201d to his friends. The next day PresidentRonald Reagan took the oath of office, and American hostages left Iranafter 444 days in captivity. Their ordeal was over, with the Bittermans\u2019just beginning. They hadn\u2019t been in Colombia long. Their mission career and theirtranslation work lay before them. They had gone to language school andhelped in various tasks for Wycliffe, including managing the guest house,serving as buyer for goods needed by mission workers and even as radiooperator. 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