A Biblical and Historical View of our Current
Immigration Crisis
Sermon by Mrs. Rachel Pendergraft
Our nation is in the midst of a crisis,
unprecedented in numbers and racial diversity. This crisis
poses very real dangers to the stability of all levels of our society whether it
be educational, political, economic, or domestic.
Unfortunately, whenever the topic of
immigration comes up it is all too often met with idyllic sounding phrases such
as “our country is a country of immigrants” or “Immigrants built America”.
Even the objection to unrestrained
immigration, once prevalent among Christian conservatives, is increasingly being
called into question. Some
Conservatives may still speak out in opposition to immigration, but we find that
on a local basis, the Churches of America are in fact leading the way toward
more immigration, by their acceptance and active outreach programs toward the
new immigrants to America.
Any statements against immigration are labeled
racist, bigoted, hateful and unChristian. Conservative Church leaders tell their
congregations that while immigration policies may be wrong, our Christian faith
nevertheless compels us to open up our hearts, our homes, our neighborhoods, and
our places of worship to the immigrant.
The reasons Christian conservatives often tout
as proof that immigration is not healthy to the nation as a whole are
meaningless unless the race issue is factored in.
The reasons most often given are:
1 The new immigrants do not want to learn the
English language
2 The new immigrants are an economic burden
3 The new immigrants bring diseases
4 The new immigrants won’t let go of their
strange customs
And to summarize the complaints about
immigration by conservatives it is generalized into the immigrants unwillingness
to assimilate into American society.
Before I go further, let me state, what many
of you already know, the immigrants I am referring to are not immigrants of
European ancestry. And there need not be a breakdown of legal versus illegal
immigrants. Whether legal or not, it is the racial background of the immigrants
that brings the crisis.
We are not in the midst of a crisis because we
are being over run with German, French, Czech, or other non-English speaking
white people.
We are not in the midst of a crisis because
our shores are being flooded with Europeans fleeing starvation as the Irish had
to, or by Europeans escaping the rise of Communism as the Hungarians or
Lithuanians were forced to do.
Our national prosperity is not being hampered
by the ethnic customs of the Swedes, Norwegians, or Dutch.
America is a land that was blessed with great
natural resources and abundance. This land can and has supported multitudes of
people from the different nations of Europe; All with different languages,
economic backgrounds, and different customs. America is indeed the gathering
places of the sons and daughters of Europe.
Using the excuse of language, economics, or
custom in objecting to the new immigrants is ludicrous.
It is so obviously ludicrous that the
immigrant rights groups can see right through it and it is why they call anyone
who works for immigration reform a racist. It is easy for them to see that the
objection is based upon race, but the conservative leaders because they lack a
back bone and are cowards, cry, “No its not the race, it’s the culture” No
wonder the conservative camp is losing the battle and are so easily painted as
two faced by the liberal media.
For example, in 1996 the Christian Coalition
helped to defeat legislation, which would have cut legal immigration by a modest
one-third. The group said that this reduction was against “family values”
because it would have prevented immigrants from bringing in their relatives.
And many Christian organizations have praised
Hispanic immigrants for being so family oriented saying they are a positive
influence on the material driven white families of America. Their proof?
Hispanics typically have very large families with a stay at home mom - easy to
do when you live off white taxpayers.
If indeed its only a culture clash than
instead of working to stop immigration, conservatives should put their effort
behind helping the new immigrants assimilate and educating those who don’t
want to assimilate about the benefits of being truly American.
The fact is the white race produces a higher
level of civilization. Historically they take greater care in protecting the
innocent, the elderly, the fatherless, those who are defenseless or disabled,
and our natural resources. While our people have hit bottom on numerous
occasions, it has always been as a result of turning away from the natural laws
that God created. And the foremost law that has always been violated was one of
racial purity.
The Bible tells us that the love of money is
the root of all evil. Miscegenation is often not viewed as a result of this
Biblical truth, but it is.
The colored races have never been able to
conquer the white race militarily.
Great civilizations of antiquity have fallen
due to race mixing and the colored races have either been imported for labor and
profit or upon the white man entering a heathen land - the natives were
not expelled but used for labor and profit.
Three examples will make my point
1. Egypt James Henry Breasted, in his History
of Egypt, p. 28 says, "The conclusion once maintained by some
historians, that the Egyptians were of African Negro origin, is now refuted.”
Quoting from Ernst Cox’s “White America”
published in 1923
The consolidation of the kingdoms of upper and
lower Egypt by Menes, the first Pharaoh, occurred 3400 years B.C. the accession
of Teharka, a mulatto, to the throne occurred about 688 B.C. “it was at
this juncture that we can trace the rising fortunes of Prince Teharka, he was
the son of a Nubian woman, and his features, as preserved in contemporary
sculpture, shows unmistakably Negroid characteristics. There is, then, an
interval of some twenty-seven centuries between the first Pharaoh and the date
when a mulatto inherits the throne. It was of this period, when negroids were
upon the throne, that Isaiah foresaw the downfall of Egypt."
Of Egypt we read in Isaiah 20 “At the
same time spake the Lord by Isaiah, the son of Amos saying. Go and loose the
sackcloth from off thy lions, and put off they shoe from they foot. And he did
so, walking naked and barefoot, and the Lord said, Like as my servant Isaiah
hath waked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and
upon Ethiopia; so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners
and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot.”
In II Kings, 18: 21 we read regarding Egypt,
“Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon
Egypt; on which if a man lean, it will go unto his hand and pierce it: so is
Pharaoh King of Egypt unto all that trust on him.”
At one time the Adamite Egyptians were a great
friend to the Israelites. Joseph had married an Egyptian princess, the daughter
of the priest of On, worshippers of the one true God. The Israelites found
comfort here among racial brothers and sisters.
The great achievements of Egypt were in its
earlier dynasties or during what was called the Old Kingdom
Again quoting from White America: "The
sixth dynasty marks a foreign policy of increasing vigor. The Negro tribes of
the south were compelled to contribute quotas to the Egyptian armies; and the
use of these levies against white neighbors with whom the Egyptians were at war
marks an unsavory epoch in the history of the contact of races. The non-creative
races compelled to rely upon their own resources in war or in peace, are
insignificant competitors with the white man. But armed with the white man’s
inventions, they are transformed into formidable competitors, immediately
attaining ranks which nature has not conferred upon them and assuming an
influence, which they are incapable of maintaining. The later Pharaohs use of
multitudes of Negro troops against the enemies of Egypt had much to due with the
final decay of Egyptian civilization
Certain of the Pharos sought to prevent the
mongrelization of Egypt by restricting Negro immigration, even to the extent of
inflicting the death penalty upon the immigrant. But the Negro was a docile,
subservient woman and soldier, and these characteristics created a demand to the
influence of later less enlightened pharaohs. So they came for centuries; not by
force of arms in battle array, but as a subjugated and enslaved people. The
blood of a people who had not produced a civilization should have been
instrumental in lowering the status of the Egyptians so that progress ceased, is
a lamentable event in world history. Negro blood made the proud Egyptian a
mongrel.”
2. India - Madison Grant, in his The passing
of the Great Race, says: “The Hindu today speaks a very ancient form of the
Aryan language, but there remains not one recognizable trace of the white
conquerors who poured in through the passage of the Northwest."
The ancient literature of the Aryan is
embodied in the RigVeda and the Epics. The Vedic times cover approximately the
six hundred years intervening between 2000 B.C. and 14000 B.C. These writings
afford us a fair conception of Aryan society and reveal a vigorous, white,
conquering people, well organized, respecting their women, already in possession
of ancient laws, glorying in agriculture, passionately religious, imposing their
faith and culture upon the surrounding colored population. Themselves they
designate as a people of “fair complexion” and those whom they have subdued
as “colored,” From the Punjab these blond Caucasians extended their way,
imposing themselves by force and the influence of superior culture.
When occupying the Punjab, the Aryans did not
expel those whom they conquered. Through the history of their conquests, the
Aryans have not expelled a subjugated people whom they could profitably enslave.
The Aryan conquerors of India instituted a
caste system based not on vocation as now, but on marriage within the class. The
highest caste was of the warrior and priesthood and was reserved for the Aryan.
The lowest class was for the nonwhite and was the merchant and laboring class.
Quoting again from Ernst Cox, “There has
ever been a deplorable freedom between the white and non-white races which has
resulted in an increasing number of mix breeds. In India, cast prevented
interracial marriage, but was incapable of preventing illegitimate unions. The
Aryans, intent upon retaining race purity, yet unable to restrain men of their
race from unions with colored women, and in most instances unable to discover
the guilty white, turned its wrath upon the mix breed. The half-castes were not
permitted to reside within the limits of the city; were reviled by all, both
black and white; and finally, the Aryan laws provided that, under certain
conditions, the soldiers might slay them without mercy. It is evident that such
extreme measures should not be permanently enforced, most of all by men of the
Aryan race, whose history is generally marked by tolerance to race and creeds.”
Originally Hinduism taught that “caste”
was the will of God to keep the races separate. When the illegitimate mix breeds
of India, 26 centuries ago had increased until they outnumbered whites, An
aristocratic mix breed arose named Buddha, who stripped Hinduism of racial
caste, and sought a religious reformation that would level the races of India
Today, the inhabitants of India, are the same
breed as the “untouchables” of ancient Aryan dominated India.
3. South America - The Aryan/Caucasian
influence on South America can be seen in the remains of the ancient pyramids,
ancient highways, and temples. The race mixing as in Egypt and India thousands
of years ago toppled a once advanced civilization. When the white Castilian
Spanish came to South America in the 1500s they found a barbaric culture of
human sacrifice and vile superstition amongst ancient ruins.
The difference between North and South America
including Mexico exists in the reason for whites coming. In South America,
whites came in search of wealth. Not bringing any women with them, they married
into the native population to form profitable alliances. This was not done at
first with approval. After it was seen to be a problem, white women were
encouraged to go to South America so that white unions could be started. This
gave rise to a new white aristocracy in South America with a very very small
white population being left mostly in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Chili.
However, soon the laws against intermarriage that were set up to promote white
families were overturned, again for political alliances.
In North America however, it was not conquered
for the sake of profit, but for the sake of Jesus Christ and Christianity.
Entire families came to plant communities for the Lord and the new nation
prospered.
By my examples of great civilizations
destroyed through the love of money and the resulting “alliances” with non
whites and resulting mixed breeds, you should begin to see how relevant the
discussion is to our situation now in America, and in fact all of our white
sister nations.
We tend to blame all of the problems our
people face in this nation upon the anti-Christ Jews. It is true that they
oppose everything that is good, decent, and orderly. It is true, that while they
oppose, in theory, race mixing for themselves, they advance it among our people.
It is true that the dedicated Jewish Marxist knows that the surest way to
conquer America is by promoting the immigration of millions of non-whites to our
shores. It is true that they have control over the publishing houses,
educational institutions, Christian seminaries, media corporations, and there is
scarcely an institution in our modern society in which they do not have premier
influence. They have indeed deceived our Christian people and have used the
so-called preachers of God to do it.
But for the love of money, our people as a
whole have allowed themselves to be deceived and to believe a lie. Our people
relish in their own deception and yet at the same time wonder why their job is
being done by someone in India, Mexico, or other third world nation.
There is an elite mentality among some of our
people and the Jewish circles they run in, that as Pastor Robb says, “relishes
in having a lower class to serve them.” This globally conscious crowd
belittles anyone who opposes immigration and calls them haters and bigots. But
its this same liberal class who secretly likes that idea of being waited on and
serviced by non-whites. While they work to bring in more cheap labor, they look
down upon whites that resent having their jobs sold to foreign non-white nations
and jobs in the U.S. watered down on the pay scale.
EXAMPLES
President Bush has proposed legislation which would allow
illegal aliens to remain in the United States and apply for permanent legal
residence. Said The Wall Street Journal (1/7/04), "The program would be
open to individuals not yet in the U.S. as well as the eight to 12 million
undocumented [i.e., illegal] foreign workers now in the country."
This proposal comes with 9 million Americans looking for
work, while millions more have given up seeking employment, or are
under-employed at part-time jobs. The president seems unconcerned about
these fellow citizens, as he promotes opportunities for foreign workers.
The U.S. admits almost 1,000,000 legal aliens annually,
the highest sustained rate in our history For every 100 illegal aliens who
find jobs in the US., 65 American workers are displaced Over the last 30
years, Congress has tripled legal immigration levels Uncontrolled
immigration will drive the U.S. population from 270 million today to 392
million by 2050 Between 1997 and 2006, the projected total net cost to
taxpayers for immigration will be $865.98 Billion.
Immigrants are taking significant advantage of affirmative
action programs originally set up to benefit disadvantaged native-born
minorities. This is the conclusion of Washington-based researcher Jim Robb in
his book, Affirmative Action for Immigrants: The Entitlement Nobody Wanted.
The heart of the problem, says Robb, is that affirmative
action favors certain races and ethnic groups, irrespective of their country of
origin. Thus a naturalized Asian Indian is counted the same, under affirmative
action, as a native-born black American.
Today about 75 percent of all legal immigrants living in the
U.S. are Hispanic, Asian, and black, the groups covered by affirmative action.
Many of these immigrants are not citizens, but for all practical purposes their
lack of citizenship poses no problem to obtaining employment—and benefiting
from affirmative action. One reason is a provision of the 1986 Immigration
Reform and Control Act, which outlaws hiring preference for citizens.
A new report by the Center
for Immigration Studies concludes that over 33 million legal immigrants
and illegal aliens now live in the United States, an increase of 2 million
immigrants since the recent April 2000 Census7. How significant is an
increate of 33 million people?
33 million is larger than the current
population of Canada.
33 million is the combined populations
of the 20 largest cities in the U.S in 2000, according to the U.S. Census
Bureau: New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San
Diego, Dallas, San Antonio, Detroit, San Jose, Indianapolis, San Francisco,
Jacksonville, Columbus, Austin, Baltimore, Memphis, and Milwaukee.
33 million people in the U.S. would require over 12 million
housing units8, would require 15.8 million more passenger cars9,
and would consume about 825 million barrels of oil a year (25 barrels per person
per year). 33 million Americans will consume all of the economically recoverable
oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in less than four years time.10
33 million people can be expected to consume 2.26 billion
cubic feet of roundwood per year (80 cubic feet per person). Over 75 million
acres of forest will be needed to supply 33 million people with their paper and
wood needs.11
Post 1970 immigrants and their
descendants have added more than 55 million people to our country; this is the
equivalent of absorbing all of Central America in thirty years. Yet Central
America's, Mexico's, and China's populations have grown even larger. Clearly, we
are not able to address the world's problems by attempting to absorb their
excess population.
The Population
Reference Bureau projects the U.S. will add 140 million people to
it population between 2002 and 2050, thus increasing the population of the U.S
from 287 million to 420 million12.
In 2002, the fertility rate of the U.S. was higher than that
of 70 other countries, "including less developed China, Korea and
Thailand." Indeed, four other less developed countries also have a
fertility rate lower than that of the U.S.: Iran, Cuba, Singapore, and Sri
Lanka.
Former U.S. Census Bureau demographer Jeffrey Passel (now with
the Urban Institute) issued a conservative estimate there are "at least 8.5
million undocumented foreigners in the United States." This means that the
population of illegal aliens in the U.S. is larger than the population of any
one of the following 41 states: Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia,
Massachusetts, Indiana, Washington, Tennessee, Missouri, Wisconsin, Maryland,
Arizona, Minnesota, Louisiana, Alabama, Colorado, Kentucky, South Carolina,
Oklahoma, Oregon, Connecticut, Iowa, Mississippi, Kansas, Arkansas, Utah,
Nevada, New Mexico, West Virginia, Nebraska, Idaho, Maine, New Hampshire,
Hawaii, Rhode Island, Montana, Delaware, South Dakota, North Dakota, Alaska,
Vermont, or Wyoming.
About 70 percent of the foreign-born
population in the U.S. in 2000 entered the U.S. after 1980, and more than 40
percent entered the U.S. after 1990. The Select Commission
on Immigration and Refugee Policy discussed in 1980 implementing a cap on
immigrant admissions of 425,000 per year. In 1982 the "Bumpers
Amendment" to cap legal immigrant admissions at this level was nearly
passed by the U.S. Senate. Yet it did not pass, in good part because some
senators believed the numbers to be still too high and opposed amnesties for
illegal aliens. In 1986, however, an amnesty did pass with no cap on legal
immigrant admissions. Today legal immigration alone into the U.S. is running at
over twice the level called for in the above-mentioned "Bumpers
Amendment".
Approximately one out of five
babies born in the U.S. in 2000 had a foreign-born mother.
Border Agents Assail Bush “Guest Worker” Plan as
Amnesty ... U.S. Border Patrol agents are furious about President Bush's
proposal to create a guest worker program for millions of illegal aliens,
union leaders say. The agents - many of whom otherwise support the White
House - savaged the Bush proposal as a grab for Latino votes and a favor to
the business community that relies on cheap labor. And they say they are
bracing for a rush of people trying to sneak into the United States.
Anticipating, however, that the President’s promise of a limited
legalization program might be misinterpreted by would-be immigrants, top
officials at the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement - the Border
Patrol's parent agency - last week prepared a questionnaire for agents to
use when quizzing people they have detained to ascertain, to what degree,
the proposal influenced their decision to come. (LA Times, January 23,
2004)
Democrats Call Proposed Amnesty a Good Starting Point,
Want More Sweeping Changes ... House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the concepts of the president's proposed changes are just a
starting point. "President Bush's re-engagement on immigration policy
is welcome," said Pelosi. "But immigration policy must not be the
subject of election-year window dressing." Specifics on the measure
remain limited, but what is known is that the proposed move -- a formal bill
version of which could come by the end of the month -- would be the broadest
changes made to U.S. immigration laws since 1986. The proposal would
establish a new immigration classification allowing millions of illegal
aliens a chance to gain temporary, three-year legal worker status that could
be renewed. Temporary workers would also ultimately be allowed to apply for
permanent residency status. It is estimated that around 60 percent of the 8
million to 12 million illegal immigrants living in the United States come
from Mexico, making the issue very important to the Latino electorate. (Washington
Times, January 7, 2004)
The Economic Times published
a report that the Bush Administration,
speaking through U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, has assured
India that its workers who come to the United States on H-1B visas will
receive Social Security benefits even though they don't comply with the
rules American workers must meet.
The Economic Times of India reported that
India's Commerce and Industry Minister Arun Jaitley said in Washington, D.C.
that Zoellick "gave him the assurance," and that Jaitley also met
with Commerce Secretary Bob Evans who presumably confirmed this assurance.
Since the article was datelined out of Washington on June 14, it is all the
more remarkable that we didn't hear about this on U.S. networks.
In order for you and me to receive Social
Security benefits, we have to pay taxes into the system for 10 years or 40
quarters. Those who come here from India on H-1B visas are allowed to work
here for three years and get one three-year extension, for a total of six
years -- but that's not ten years!
"Totalization" is the bureaucratic
buzz word to describe executive agreements to give foreigners employed in
the United States Social Security benefits to which they are not entitled. A
similar "totalization" plan is now cooking in our State Department
to give Social Security benefits to Mexican aliens, even if they are in our
country illegally.
Totalization makes sense only if you
understand that the goal is to force U.S. taxpayers to subsidize the
scandalous practice whereby multinational corporations hire cheap-labor
foreign replacements for American workers. This makes even better sense when
you understand that the big contributors to politicians are corporations and
their executives, not U.S. workers who are laid off.
the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and
Immigration Services (formerly the INS) has taken several steps to promote
the entry of more foreign nurses.
In order to increase the number of foreigners
who can come in and take U.S. jobs, the Commission on Graduates of Foreign
Nursing Schools has just approved several new organizations to administer
the English language test to foreigners. American workers. Outsourcing jobs
to a site in a foreign country enables the corporations to avoid the
numerous regulations with which U.S. businesses must comply.
The Boston Globe revealed the reason why tens of thousands
of information technology (IT) jobs have been outsourced overseas in the
last couple of years, and why major American banks, brokerage houses, and
insurance companies plan to shift 500,000 more jobs overseas in the next
five years. MBA graduates of the Indian Institutes of Technology can be
hired for $12,000, compared to the average starting salary of Harvard
Business School graduates of $102,338.
The half-million jobs figure was reported by business
consulting firm A.T. Kearney Inc., which surveyed 100 major companies. It's
all a matter of money; the big banks are following the trail to Asia blazed
by Microsoft and IBM.
A study by Forrester Research of Cambridge, MA, estimates
that the rush to export U.S. jobs will accelerate and corporations will send
3.3 million American jobs overseas by 2015. India is expected to get 70
percent because many Indians speak English.
The future is now. U.S. companies are already using Indian
employees to do research and development, prepare tax returns, evaluate
health insurance claims, transcribe doctor's medical notes, analyze
financial data, dun for overdue bills, read CAT scans, create presentations
for investment banks, and more.
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co is planning to set up an equity
research department in Bombay and build up its Technopolis office to 1,100
Indian employees by the end of this year. Delta Air Lines has contracted
with two Indian companies to handle some of its customer reservations.
Morgan Stanley plans to experiment with hiring stock
analysts in India, and Goldman Sachs Group and Citigroup are studying the
benefits of shipping research jobs to India. Industry observers say that
every bank on Wall Street will soon reap the cost benefits of the
inexhaustible supply of business graduates in India eager to work for as
little as ten percent of the market rate in New York or London.
General Electric Co. shifted software development and
back-office jobs to India under CEO Jack Welch. Today, GE's Indian engineers
are contracted for tasks as sophisticated as analyzing the materials and
design of new jet engines.
So, it's not just the steelworkers and the blue-collar
manufacturing workers who are getting shafted by the global economy; it's
smart college graduates, too. As one executive, who has no shame about
replacing Americans with foreigners, said, "If it can be done by
sitting at a desk in front of a computer, then it can be done abroad."
Some U.S. companies such as American Express are using
Indians to service American customers by telephone. The Indians adopt
American names (Sanjeep becomes Sam, Radhika turns into Ruth), learn how to
avoid British colloquialisms, and take speech therapy to sound American.
Many American companies subcontract with Indian
software-serving companies, especially with the three largest: Tata, Infosys
Technologies, and Wipro Technologies. These Indian companies then transfer
their employees to the United States on L-1 visas (which are supposed to be
issued only to key employees).
Business Week reported that L-1 visas were the ticket of
entry to take a U.S. job for half of Tata's 5,000 workers, for one-third of
Infosys's 3,000 U.S.-based workers, and for 32 percent of Wipro's U.S.
employees. L- 1 visas enable Indian workers to replace U.S. workers, and
they bring in their spouses and children on L-2 visas.
New Jersey residents were shocked to learn that state
officials had hired contractors who in turn arranged for operators working
in Bombay, India, to handle calls from the state's welfare recipients. New
Mexico residents were shocked when KOAT-TV reported that the state hired
aliens as computer programmers in the Taxation and Revenue Department, and
then paid private attorneys to process their green cards.
These are just a few examples of the
immigration crisis and its affects on the economy here in America.
While some of these examples are of jobs being given to non-whites in foreign
lands, they are able to get those jobs because of the overwhelming influence of
aliens in our midst. And still Americans almost across the board take part in
financing their demise by investing in corporations that send jobs overseas.
Again, it’s the love of money.
The Bible tells us in Leviticus 24:22 that “Ye shall have
one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of our own country:
Strangers who live in our land have basic rights in regard to
their personal safety. But, we do not have an obligation to bring them here or
keep them here. And those that are here temporarilily must obey the
commandments of God.
Deuteronomy 31:12 says “.Gather the people together, men,
and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they
may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do
all the words of his law"
Our people are told in Genesis 12:3
“And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that
curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
But while all families of the earth are to be blessed through
our people
We must remain loyal to our heritage.
1 Peter 2: 9
“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy
nation, a peculiar people”
Amos 3:2 You only have I known of all the families of the
earth” The word “known” is the same word as used in as “know” in
marriage relationship such as Genesis 4:1 And Adam knew eve” Israel is the
bride of Christ and he has only known Israel as his wife, but that doesn’t
mean that he isn’t dealing with the other nations of the world.
His peculiar and anointed people will rule and reign with him
one day when the New Jerusalem - the government of God comes down upon earth.
And who will we rule and reign over? Over the whole creation in the bondage of
corruption!
Romans 8:21-22
“Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from
the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For
we know that the whole creation groaneth and travailed in pain together until
now."
But while we wait for the return of Christ, our nation must
still adhere to the laws he gave us. Not the laws, which were intended to bring
us closer to God, that is the law that became burdensome. And Christ came in the
place of animal sacrifice, and purple fringe, and anything that was meant to act
as an intercessor between us and the father. Jesus in the only way to the
father.
But yes, the laws regarding the function of government,
of society, are to be followed lest we are cursed by the natural God instituted
law of consequence.
Deuteronomy 28:15 tells us “But it shall come to pass, if
thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all
his commandments and his statues which I command thee this day; that all these
curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee:
And one of these curses we read regards the stranger in verse
43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou
shalt come down very low
Verse 44 ..he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
Our people have tolerated sin in our land for the sake of
profit. We have through history, given up our heritage for gold and silver. We
do not safe guard our children from evil. And as a result race mixing has
occurred and we have become the tail.
Our people must be told that they are suffering because they
are selling their birthright, and refuse to obey the laws of God.
The suffering will worsen - but in this land of the
regathering we know there is hope. God allows our punishment to continue - for
our people to reap what they sew. It is the last great lesson - and the over
comers of this generation will join with those of the past to rule at Christ’s
side.
There are 6 things that our people need to do
1. Prepare to wage war: Not in the
material sense, but psychologically
Jer. 51:20 “Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for
with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy
kingdoms
No kingdom or government will dominate but the kingdom of the
Lord
2. Sound the warning
“Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and
show my people their transgressions and the house of Jacob, their sins.” Isa.
58:1
3.Return to the land and get out of the
cities
“Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to
field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the
earth.” Isaiah 5:8
Matthew 11:20 “Then he began he to upbraid the cities
wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not.
Cosmopolitan: international - a mingling of the races
2: Develop a relationship with God
: Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you “ James 4:8
Before God has used any of his messengers, they have developed a close spiritual
relationship with the almighty.
1. And the most important of all - Move
with fear before God
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good
understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth
forever” Ps. 111:10
I put this as the most important: because we must begin with a
healthy dose of fear. Not a fear of our enemies, but a fear of God.
Our nation can receive healing, first and foremost by
beginning to fear God and the consequences of not obeying God. Right now with
the stranger rising above us: there is only bewilderment. But God is not through
with us yet, and in time the lower station that our people will reach will
instill within them fear - out of that fear they will reach out to God for help.
And I’ll close with a favorite verse of many of us,
including Pastor Robb.
With the fear and respect of God once again in the hearts of
our people:
God tells them in 2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people which are called by my name will humble
themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways: - then
will I hear from heaven, will forgive their sins, and will heal their land.
Let us Pray
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