Posted on 07/26/2024 8:36:09 AM PDT by 11th_VA
“Welcome the sojourner.”
“Love the stranger, for you were strangers in Egypt.”
“Love your neighbor.”
“Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of my brethren you did it to me.”
For decades, these Bible verses (or slightly modified versions) have been thrown into the face of even the most reticent Christians who would dare to advocate for strong and strict borders in their nations. More specifically, Christians in the US, UK, Australia, South Africa, France, Germany, and a short list of Western or Western-influenced nations are constantly told their advocacy for fewer foreigners pouring into their nations flies directly in the face of the most basic of biblical orthodoxy: “welcoming the foreigner.”
It’s time that this particularly heinous form of Scriptural butchery was addressed in specific detail because we know that our Adversary delights in the twisting of Scripture. In the potentiality of a “mass deportation” of illegal immigrants from the US, Bible-believing, faithful, spirit-filled Christians need to be able to clearly articulate what is good, true, and righteous in such a situation without fear of being “unbiblical” or “unchristian.”
A Modern-Day Horror Story
Before getting into the specifics of how Christian compassion is exploited and Scripture twisted to justify the current mass invasion of the West, we should make sure we are clear on what is actually going on.
There are many names for it. “The Migrant Crisis” and “The Refugee Crisis” are the preferred terms for cable news, but more biblical-sounding terms like “sojourners” are used by leftist evangelicals and their allies. Christians need not be ashamed to use the term, “Invasion,” as it’s the most descriptive of what’s currently happening.
The terminology matters because those seeking to promote the Invasion will attempt to dominate the language surrounding the debate. For this reason, it’s vital to be clear about what those who defend the Invasion are, in a practical sense, actually defending (in the US specifically, but the same applies to a number of Western nations):
A massive human trafficking network/market that starts in other nations but sees much business in the US. Recent estimates are over a million people in the US are currently entrapped in some sort of trafficked slavery, usually forced sex work.
An unfathomable amount of deadly drugs poured through our borders, arriving in every corner of the nation and causing WWII-level death. Fentyal, a drug with the potential to easily kill with only one use, now sits at only around $1 a pill.
An endless amount of revenue for multi-national drug cartels, solidifying their control over many regions and even entire nations.
Economic strain on native-born citizens because of the billions of dollars spent on migrants (entitlements, education, healthcare, etc.), the flooding of the job market, and competition for housing in an already unaffordable housing market.
A wave of preventable crime – rape, murder, drug use and trafficking, illegal squatting, and sophisticated shoplifting networks.
The collapse of social programs (like Social Security and Medicare) that native citizens have paid into their whole lives, bankrupted by those suddenly appearing on entitlement rosters.
The disastrous social effects of families being split up by migration (this is rarely discussed, but migrant families are very often plagued by dysfunction, domestic violence, and a host of social ills).
Whether they identify themselves as Christian or not, these are the travesties being defended by the “pro-immigrant” activists and those who support them. Not an abstract “care for the poor,” or “justice for the sojourner,” but rather a catastrophic tangle of mass violence, displacement, abuse, rape, death, and despair.
To be in support of the Invasion is already a profoundly un-Christian position. To defend such a position with Scripture rises to a shocking level of exegetical carnage…
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Actions are stronger than words.
When Baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph fled from Herod into Egypt, they had to pass numerous Roman Army checkpoints and posts, especially along the crocodile border. They went into Egypt LEGALLY. The relevant verse is John 10:1.... “Anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate,but climbs in by some other waY, is a thief and a Robb er.”
By the same principle that requires treating the alien as one of Israel’s own, there is also the proviso that the alien must conform to God’s expectations for Israelites:
Leviticus 24:22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God.
By their very disobedience to the sanctity of our borders, and by their failure to even attempt to assimilate, they abrogate the principle asserted by the anti-American, open-borders crowd that we are supposed to take care of the illegals.
Democrats love quoting the boble when it suits them. All lies of course. Like the “Brother’s Keeper” lie. Or the “turn the other cheek” lie. Or the “Jesus was an illegal alien” lie. Or the “Joseph and Mary were illegal aliens” lie. Or the “Spears in to plough shares” lie.
and more importantly and overlooked: Egypt was part of the Roman Empire.
Amen 🙏🏻!
You’re right.
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