The Wicked Spirit of Illegal Immigration

Wicked Illegal Immigration: Reading from Genesis 11:1-9 (this is describing the people who had multiplied on the earth after the flood in Noah’s time): “And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence (there) upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.”

These people displayed a great level of foolishness and contempt against God in their attempt to make a name for themselves and to build this tower. They were united in their anti-God/antichrist attitude. That unity led to this great effort. God saw this imagination (and by the way, with verse 5 consider the popular 1970s song called Imagine– look up the lyrics and see what it is about if you are not familiar with it; you will see a good demonstration of how some things never change). God intervened to scatter them and to confuse their language so that going forward there would be separate peoples with separate nations with their own language.

National borders then are ordained by God. To treat a nation like its border is a light thing, and as if its border laws are trivial or nonexistent, is at its core defiance of God. It is rebelling against the verdict of God which was handed down through the confusion and scattering at Babel. It is the telling of a lie in a practical way, as if fallen mankind is good and as if these people at Babel should be justified who were bent on rebellion in founding a one-world government in which humanism reigned while the knowledge of the true God and His ways would be suppressed. It is similar to how not covering up one’s body is now at its core defiance of God, since God decreed that man be clothed after he fell into sin. He even deemed Adam and Eve’s fig leaves to be insufficient covering (hence He clothed them with the more thorough covering of animal skins).

It is a sign of increasing lawlessness and defiance against God that illegal immigration is so prevalent, justified, and enabled.

The standard practice in ancient times regarding refugees and other immigrants was to get permission from the king of a nation to come dwell in that nation. That is why Jacob’s household had an interview with Egypt’s Pharaoh before they settled in Egypt (Genesis 47:1-4), and why David went to the King of Moab (in 1 Samuel 22:3-4) to secure refuge for his parents in Moab when he was being persecuted within his own nation, and why David later went to get permission from the King of Gath of the Philistines to secure refuge for himself and his followers when Saul King of Israel was seeking his life (1 Samuel 27:1-3).

This proper process of law and order was obviously not to be set aside when God commanded in the Law of Moses in Deuteronomy 10:19: “Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.”

We even see Israel asking permission of other nations to pass through their land when they were traveling through the wilderness between Egypt and Canaan.

Numbers 20:14-21: “And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us: How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers: And when we cried unto the Lord, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border: Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king’s high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders. And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword. And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing anything else, go through on my feet. And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand. Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.”

Immigrants who just walk into a nation, or enter otherwise without permission, are illegal invaders. That is much more the case when they settle in that nation. And when this is done by a horde of people it is a mass invasion of a nation. Politicians and other government officials who turn a blind eye to this are enablers of evil and they sin greatly by omission in their failure to protect the people whom they are supposed to be serving. When they go further, like our politicians and bureaucrats have done, by giving free handouts to these illegal invaders, they are stealing from their own people, further aiding the invasion, and encouraging others to come and invade as well. It is madness, it is dangerous, and it is morally inexcusable.

These hypocritical politicians and bureaucrats even go further by putting up walls around their own political conventions and frequently living in gated communities which they are utterly insistent are never to be breached.

Not unrelated, as the Jews commonly and falsely thought they had a right to the privileges of God’s covenant (including the land of Canaan), and thought that they would be spared from God’s wrath though they walked contrary to Him, so the professing Christian commonly and wrongly thinks they have an interest in Jesus Christ, and think that they’ll be spared from God’s wrath, though they also walk contrary to Him.

Like the spirit of those illegally immigrating to America (or to any other nation), and of those who justify and enable the same, and the spirit of the modern Jews who think they have a right to Canaan in their sin, this is also the spirit of illegal invasion.

Fallen, rebellious mankind wants God’s favor without death to self and sin, often ignoring the clearest proof that this will never happen. Man wants to think that there is another way into God’s favor, or wants to think that death to self for righteousness’ sake is past, when it has in reality been shrunk from and avoided. Man is in truth under probation from God and has been put in circumstances which testify of the misery and dire condition of his spiritual state.

Mankind’s overall miserable condition on earth reflects the truth that our fall in sin is deep and very serious, making it evident and logical that, at best, there is a long and arduous road that must be entered, and traveled to completion, in order to be lifted out of this dire condition and restored to Paradise. Fallen, rebellious mankind wants to believe that our prognosis is not so bad, but choosing to believe in a lying prognosis is in itself fighting God and kicking against the verdict which He has laid down. Does God require more than just good words and attempts to please Him? Does He actually expect man to die to self and suffer to do righteousness without cutting corners? Yes.

Imagine the Prodigal Son going home and hoping to be received apart from his godly father’s terms, hoping to be received without subjection to his godly father’s rules and discipline, without being ready and willing to lose face and suffer in, and as a result of, such subjection. Obviously, it’s crazy to think that he could be received like that- and the Prodigal Son knew that he would not be received apart from these things. Don’t believe that God wouldn’t require you to suffer in order to do what’s right before Him.

No one is truly repentant towards Him when they have cutoff points in relation to doing what is necessary to keep His rules, live within His boundaries, and overall be subject to His Supreme Authority as God.

2 Corinthians 7:10-11a: “For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge!”

These very things which are essential characteristics of true repentance before God are considered unnecessary, or they are often counterfeited,in the realm of professing Christianity, as well as modern Judaism, as they militate against God and against His righteous standards being lived out without excuse and compromise. No wonder that is so since at their very foundation is compromise with truth and catering to the unrighteous demands of man in order to have a thriving religious business.

There is a wall around God’s eternal kingdom which you can read about in Revelation chapter 21. And you can also read in the final chapters of the Bible how God has warned that those who practice deceit, those who defile, and those who in any way do wickedness in His eyes will not enter into that kingdom but will rather have their part in the lake of fire which is without it. We must overcome sin through Jesus Christ. We must follow Him obediently, abiding in Him to be saved from sin’s guilt and power through Him, faithfully aligning with and living by the Word of God, not loving our lives unto death. The Christian race must be lawfully entered into through Him, and faithfully run by Him to the finish line, within proper Christian boundaries.

To hope for entrance to that kingdom without meeting the requirements to enter that kingdom is the essence of the spirit of illegal immigration.

If you are practicing, enabling, and/or justifying illegal immigration then you are surely opposed to God’s ways and surely need to repent. You are at least in agreement with, if not directly involved in, lawless deeds which have contributed to much theft and much innocent blood being shed. And the message sent by the enabling of illegal immigration contributes to the enabling of all forms of lawlessness and increases the moral corruption of the earth significantly.