Monday, October 31, 2016

Editorial: Is America Over if Trump Loses?

Editorial


Is America over if Donald Trump loses? It will be very hard to ever break the Democratic political dominance in the Executive and Judicial Branches if he does lose. If nothing else, the swarms of immigrants who will be brought into the U.S. from Mexico, Syria, and elsewhere will likely overwhelm the historic American electorate. Even if these new immigrants don't believe in the social policy issues of the Democratic party, on issues such as abortion and homosexuality (and it's related issue of transgenderism), they will nevertheless vote for that party because they will assume the other parties are racially biased against them.


So the answer to the question is YES, America is likely over if Trump loses!

Donald Trump Reveals What Changed His Mind on Abortion and Led Him to Become Pro-Life

An interesting story from www.lifenews.com about changing from pro-abortion to pro-life. This follows this post about abortion dangers. For two very interesting books click HERE.
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Donald Trump Reveals What Changed His Mind on Abortion and Led Him to Become Pro-Life

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Micaiah Bilger    Washington, DC
                                                                   

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sat down with the Catholic station EWTN this week to discuss why he rejected the “pro-choice” position on abortion and became pro-life, The Blaze reports.
Some pro-lifers remain skeptical about the sincerity of Trump’s position and promises regarding the right to life. During the interview with Raymond Arroyo, Trump responded by emphasizing that he, like other presidents before him, has changed and does want to protect unborn babies from abortion.
“I am pro-life,” he told Arroyo.
Trump said a “number of moments” influenced his change of heart on the matter, but the biggest was a “magnificent person” he knows who was almost aborted.
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He told Arroyo:
One was a couple that I know very, very well. And you had a strong pro-life and you had a strong pro-choice, and they argued over — the mother was pregnant — they argued over the child.
One — I won’t get into the specifics — but one wanted to abort and the other said we can’t do that, we’re not going to do that. Anyway, they had the baby — it was a long time ago — and the baby is such a magnificent person, who I know, a magnificent person.
And the person that was actually pro-choice is now pro-life because of it, and it had an effect on me.
Trump noted that President Ronald Reagan also was “pro-choice” on abortion at one time, but changed his mind and became a strong pro-life advocate.
Back in 1991, Trump told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he was “pro-choice in every respect” and that he would not ban partial-birth abortions. But in February 2011 just before the conservative CPAC conference, Trump announced that he had changed his position on abortion and was pro-life. During an interview with Fox News, Trump described himself as “pro-life” and promised to fight to reverse Obamacare, which contains abortion funding loopholes.
During an interview in April 2011 with CBN News, Trump explained the reason for his conversion by relating the same story that he did with EWTN.
“One of the reasons I changed — one of the primary reasons — a friend of mine’s wife was pregnant, in this case married. She was pregnant and he didn’t really want the baby. And he was telling me the story,” Trump told David Brody. “He was crying as he was telling me the story. He ends up having the baby and the baby is the apple of his eye. It’s the greatest thing that’s ever happened to him. And you know here’s a baby that wasn’t going to be let into life. And I heard this, and some other stories, and I am pro-life.”
On the campaign trail, Trump has been fairly consistent with his pro-life policies. In September, Trump released a letter outlining his specific pro-life policies. One of them is to defund the abortion chain as long as it keeps killing unborn children. Trump also called to make permanent the Hyde Amendment, which bans direct taxpayer funding for abortions in Medicaid. He also said he will appoint “pro-life justices” to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Trump has made some troubling comments about the abortion business Planned Parenthood in the past, but lately he has been consistent about his support for defunding it and giving those tax dollars to community health centers that offer comprehensive health care.
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Friday, October 28, 2016

Should Christians Celebrate Halloween?

An interesting article from http://www.ucg.org/ about Halloween. This follows this post about the immigration threat. For a free magazine subscription or to get the books recommended for free click HERE! or call 1-888-886- 8632.


Should Christians Celebrate Halloween?

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Monday night millions of children around the nation will be donning costumes, ringing doorbells and uttering the traditional “trick or treat” Halloween greeting. Most people consider this a harmless, fun activity for children. Others condemn the entire occasion because of the pagan origin of the day and connect it with demonism and the occult.
An article from a prominent Christian magazine suggested that “Christians should embrace the ‘devilish’ holiday with gusto—and laughter.” The author suggests that Halloween presents us with an opportunity to “mock” and “laugh at” Satan and “the forces of evil.”
A local pastor, writing wistfully of his past childhood Halloween celebration, said, “I enjoyed being a devil.” He asserted that “a child doesn’t think of a red devil as an enemy of God or the apostle of hate and destruction.” He went on to defend wearing costumes as merely superficial, and suggested that opposition to celebrating Halloween stems from lack of confidence in Christian beliefs.

Really only harmless fun?

Wait a minute! Is it unchristian for parents not to want their children to dress up as the Devil? Or does Satan theDevil even exist? According to a recent Barna survey, nearly 50 percent of professing Christians do not believe that Satan is a living being. For these folks, the whole question must be a moot point. But perhaps the rest of us ought to reconsider our perspective regarding Halloween.
Would anyone dare to suggest applying this reasoning to Hitler? Would wearing Hitler masks and swastikas and dressing like the skeletal remains of his victims be an appropriate way to “laugh at” Hitler and “mock” the diabolical evils of Nazism?
Is Satan a laughing matter? Does God want our children to associate fun and treats with the forces of evil?
I am not implying that a child who puts on a Halloween mask is dabbling in the occult or is in danger of demon possession. I am simply questioning the suggestion that Halloween serves a positive Christian purpose.
According to Deuteronomy 12:31-32 Deuteronomy 12:31-3231 You shall not do so to the LORD your God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. 32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
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God does not approve of recycling, reconstituting and relabeling pagan customs to celebrate Christian events.

Carnal holidays trumped by God’s Holy Days

My wife and I just finished celebrating eight fun-filled days of the Feast of Tabernacles with more than 700 men, women and children here in Central Oregon. I so much wish all of Christianity could share the joy of this meaningfuloccasion. Here is a God-ordained festival that was observed by Jesus, Paul and the apostolic Church and is still celebrated today by many Christians. It is one of seven annual Holy Days that foreshadow future events in God’s plan (Colossians 2:16-17 Colossians 2:16-1716 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
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) rather than focusing on the powers of darkness that form the legacy of Halloween.
Anyone who dares express objections to Halloween has two strikes against him: 1. It is fun for the kids, and 2. It is a long-standing, firmly entrenched custom in our culture.
But the Feast of Tabernacles has Halloween beat in both categories: 1. It is fun for kids and the whole family and is eight days long, and 2. It was established thousands of years ago by God Himself. And most importantly, it and all of Holy Days of the Bible teach valuable lessons about the plan of God.
For more information, I invite you to read our free booklets, Holidays or Holy Days: Does It Matter Which Days We Observe?  and Is There Really a Devil?

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Broccoli...On the Side?

A timely post from www.thesource4ym.com about current music. This follows this post about the movie "Birth of a Nation." This follows this post about the TV show "Designated Survivor." This follows this post about rap songs referencing Donald Trump.
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Dynamic ImageNo, they’re not audio files from a porn video. Nor are they old clips from interviews with Donald Trump. They’re just a couple of examples of what passes for music these days.

Fair warning: When you read these lyrics you may need Clorox wipes and rubbing alcohol for your mind.

Without a doubt, Billboard’s Top 10 is “the list” every musical artist wants to be on. Musicians who earn a spot on this list usually go on to be household names…on every inhabited continent. But just because a song has worldwide appeal doesn’t mean it’s necessarily positive, healthy, or responsible. Sadly, this week’s Top 10 has several songs representing some staggering lows. I’m going to unveil two.

Here’s a quick discussion of both of them…and a few tips for steering your teenagers around them (and other songs like them).

Broccoli by D.R.A.M. (featuring Lil Yachty)
When you’re a rapper and your real name is Shelley Smith, you reinvent your identity. Nowadays, Smith goes by D.R.A.M. which stands for Does. Real. Ass. Music. (I’m not kidding. That’s his stage name.) Though D.R.A.M. has had limited success in the past, his recent collaboration with Lil Yachty, another artist with the non-rapper-sounding-name of Miles McCollum, has raced to the #6 position on Billboard’s Hot 100 this week.

The song is titled Broccoli, which is slang for marijuana. But getting high is only half of D.R.A.M’s intention. He wants to get something else, too. Here’s what he repeats throughout the song:



In the middle of the party b**ch get off me
In the cut I'm rolling up my broccoli
Ya I know your baby mama fond of me
All she want to do is smoke that broccoli
Whispered in my ear she trying to leave with me
(She wanna f**k)
Said that I can get that p**sy easily
(I'm gonna f**k)
Said I can hit that sh*t so greasily
I'm a dirty dog I did it sleazily

Umm, that’s a lot of asterisks.


Aside from the vulgarity, the music video objectifies women so profoundly that it hardly ever shows a woman’s face, opting to focus exclusively on their twerking booties instead. Further, the online video, which has been viewed more than 55 million times on YouTube, shows D.R.A.M. repeatedly spanking the same girls as they bend over.

Broccoli is so coarse, so vulgar, and so demeaning toward women that it prompted bloggers to draw comparisons between what our hypocritical nation is upset about what national leaders to say versus what we allow musical artists to say.

Look, Broccoli’s message is completely out of bounds (in lyric and imagery). But at least it’s clear about its message. The same can’t be said about the next song….

Side to Side by Ariana Grande (featuring Nicki Minaj)
Anyone who watched the 2016 Video Music Awards on MTV - which weren’t that many, evidently - got a sneak peak of this song’s launch. Coming off of Ariana Grande’s Dangerous Woman album, Side to Side is the result of her partnership with songstress (and seductress) Nicki Minaj.

Just a few years ago, Grande was known for her portrayal of “Cat,” a harmless (and mindless) girl on Nickelodeon’s beloved Victorious. Grande soon leveraged the show’s popularity into a singing career which allowed her to become an international icon. However, the message in Side to Side is anything but kid-friendly...even if a bit of deciphering has to be done.

The reggae-pop chorus repeats the following lines in rhythmic fashion:

I've been there all night
I've been there all day
And boy, got me walkin' side to side (side to side)
I've been there all night (Been there all night, baby)
I've been there all day (Been there all day, baby)
Boy, got me walkin' side to side (side to side)

Where have Ariana and Nicki been all day (and night)? And why are they walking funny? The music video, which has been viewed more than 230 million times on YouTube, leads us to believe the girls’ soreness has something to do with long hours spent riding exercise bikes at the gym.

But clarity is granted once Minaj starts rapping.


This the new style with the fresh type of flow
Wrist icicle, ride d**k bicycle
Come true yo, get you this type of blow
If you wanna Minaj I got a tricycle
All these b**ches, flows is my mini-me
Body smoking, so they call me young Nicki chimney
Rappers in they feelings 'cause they feelin' me
Uh, I-I give zero f**ks and I got zero chill in me

Nope, the song has nothing to do with a sports-related injury. The song is about Grande having so much sex with her significant other that she can’t walk straight the next day.

Don’t believe me? The Huffington Post claims Side to Side is “way more sexual than we thought” and Grande even reveals the NSFW meaning of her song when she says, “That whole song is about riding leading to soreness. ‘Ride d**k bicycle’ is the lyric, indeed.”

I’ve been watching this song for the past five or six weeks. For a while, it wasn’t trending on Billboard’s charts, but now it confidently “rides” into the 10th spot on Billboard’s Hot 100. That means it’s been listened to by millions of young people millions of times, added to their playlists, and even downloaded enough that it has achieved the prestigious status of a ringtone.

But where will this “ride” take our teenagers?

If only these songs were an anomaly on the charts. Sadly, the No. 1 song on the charts right now, Closer, has the chorus, “So baby pull me closer in the backseat of your Rover…”. And Bruno Mars’ new song 24K Magic, currently sitting at No. 5, says:

Oh sh*t, I'm a dangerous man with some money in my pocket (keep up)
So many pretty girls around me and they waking up the rocket (keep up)…

So how can we help our kids steer clear of musical choices like these songs above? Here are a couple of very simple ways parents and youth workers can do that.


  1. Stay tuned in to what is popular. I didn’t say, “Stay tuned in to what your kids are listening to.” I’m actually saying, “Be mindful of all that’s out there that your kid will be exposed to...even if they don’t download it.” No, you don’t have to survey every song in the universe, but it wouldn’t hurt to take 5 minutes each month to scroll through Billboard’s Top 10 on their Hot 100 Chart. If a song is on that list, your kids will have almost certainly heard it. If you don’t recognize a song, do a quick Google search for the song’s lyrics. Read through them and then navigate over to YouTube to see if the song has a corresponding music video. (NOTE: Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t. At other times, the music video might be released later than the song itself.) This is such a small investment of time, but it will keep you and your kids from getting sidelined by musical messages like these above.
  2. Use today’s music to spur dialogue. The Source for Youth Ministry has a great list of songs used as MUSIC DISCUSSIONS that can aid in this endeavor and even help teenagers grow in their faith. Of course, we choose songs that actually have substance in their composition, unlike the two songs mentioned above. But songs like Broccoli and Side to Side can still generate insightful discussion with the teenagers in your life if you’re willing to ask some well-crafted questions. For example:

      Have you heard this song?
      What is he/she saying? How do you think that will work out?
      What prompts an artist to release a song like this?
      What does it say about our culture that a song like this would be so popular?
      What impact could this song have on someone who plays it on repeat?

  3. Understand the need for ongoing conversations. In Jonathan McKee’s insightful book More Than Just the Talk, he shares research from the American Academy of Pediatrics encouraging parents to consider having repeated discussions with their children about many aspects of sex instead of just one “big talk.” Surveys show that kids have explicit questions (probably because songs and entertainment like this are commonplace) and are looking for explicit answers. The question parents need to ask is this: Do you want your kids going to Ariana and D.R.A.M. for answers… or to you? The conclusion of the study was simple: “The more parents talked with their children, the closer their relationships.”

Are you having these conversations? Not every time the radio turns on… but more than just that one talk last summer?

Stay aware of what’s out there and use every opportunity you can to teach your teenagers the values you hold dear.


David R. Smith David R. Smith is a 15-year youth ministry veteran who helps youth workers and parents through his writing, training, and speaking. David specializes in sharing the gospel, and equipping others do the same. He co-authored his first book this year, Ministry By Teenagers. David provides free resources to anyone who works with teenagers on his website, DavidRSmith.org. David resides with his wife and son in Tampa, Florida.

Thursday, October 27, 2016

The Immigration Threat

An interesting article from http://www.ucg.org/ about the immigration threat. This follows this post about prophetic disasters. For a free magazine subscription or to get the books recommended for free click HERE! or call 1-888-886- 8632.


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A series of attacks in Germany in late July 2016 by Islamists—a number having entered the country as refugees—has brought renewed criticism of policies of welcoming refugees. “Anxiety over Germany’s ability to cope with last year’s flood of more than 1 million registered asylum seekers [largely from the ongoing Syrian crisis] first surged following a series of sexual assaults and robberies in Cologne during New Year celebrations.” But the violence has turned deadlier since then (Associated Press, July 25)—in France, Belgium and elsewhere too.
The British vote to leave the European Union was motivated in part by concern over immigration and open border policies. Many have had enough of multiculturalism leading not to a blending of peoples but to a fragmented society of growing foreign enclaves and ghettos hostile to the host nation.
“Let‘s be honest about this: Immigration without assimilation is not immigration; it’s an invasion.”
As a result of popular outcry, Europe’s borders have had some toughening of late, “prompting migrants to switch focus to the United States, but their trek is being thwarted in Central America, where a bottleneck has formed,” with many Africans, Haitians, Afghans and Pakistanis waiting to move north (AFP, July 23).
Of course, the United States has been dealing with immigration problems for years, including calls for open borders. Over past decades the national makeup of those coming in has dramatically changed. And following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, fears have grown about terrorists crossing into the United States among those immigrating.
All of this amounts to a serious threat to Western countries. As former president Ronald Reagan warned, “A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation”—at least in terms of the nation-state. Jan Brewer, former governor of Arizona, which has seen a lot of illegal immigration, echoed, “A nation without borders is like a house without walls—it collapses. And that is going to happen to our wonderful America.”
In the run-up to the current U.S. presidential elections, Louisiana governor and Republican primary presidential candidate Bobby Jindal spoke out against unfettered immigration and multiculturalism, saying: “Let’s be honest about this: Immigration without assimilation is not immigration; it’s an invasion … When you look at what’s happening in Europe, you’ve got second and third generation immigrants that don’t consider themselves parts of these societies, those cultures, those values. We mustn’t let that happen here” (Breitbart, Nov. 4, 2015, emphasis added throughout).
Moreover the Republican candidate for the general election, Donald Trump, “has yanked the issue of illegal immigration front and center … Trump has tapped into an angry pulsating nerve … To the dismay of both Republican and Democratic parties, Trump’s message is resonating” (Monette Maglava, Asian Journal, Nov. 24, 2015). Trump has even called for stopping Muslim immigration until those coming in can be properly vetted.
We certainly need to be paying attention to the political scene in regard to the immigration issue. And most importantly we need to know what the Bible tells us on the matter, both in terms of how to approach it and what the fallout will ultimately be on the national and world stage.

Devastating impact on European society

Conservative social commentator and former presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan points out regarding the mass migration into Europe from Africa and the Middle East:
“With birth rates in this smallest and least populated of continents below replacement levels for decades, Europe is aging, shrinking and dying, as it is being invaded and altered forever. Optimists point to how America absorbed the 15 million that arrived in the Great Wave of immigration from 1890 to 1920. But they ignore the differences. America’s immigrants were Europeans from Christian nations coming to a country with a history of assimilation. And the Great Wave stopped in 1924, for 40 years …
“Unlike America, [modern] Europe has never known mass immigration. And those pouring into Europe are Arab, African and Muslim, not European Christians or Jews. They come from other civilizations and cultures. And they are not all assimilating but rather creating enclaves in Europe that replicate the lands whence they came” (“Can Europe Survive This Invasion?” Nov. 9, 2015).
This has led to serious consequences. In Sweden, 40 years after embracing multiculturalism, “violent crime has increased by 300% and rapes by 1,472%. Sweden is now number two on the list of rape countries, surpassed only by Lesotho in Southern Africa” (Ingrid Carlqvist and Lars Hedegaard, “Sweden: Rape Capital of the West,” Gatestone Institute, Feb. 14, 2015). Some attempt to explain this by changed police reporting, but this cannot account for such a mind-numbing increase.
How has this been tolerated? Salim Mansur writes at the American Thinker that open-door immigration and multiculturalism are “based on the spurious idea that all cultures are equal and, therefore, deserving of equal respect and treatment” and “might also be viewed as the response of Western liberal democracies driven by a sense of guilt for past wrongs. This sense of guilt is uniquely a Western phenomenon …
“The French political philosopher Jean-François Revel observed, ‘Democratic civilization is the first in history to blame itself because another power is working to destroy it … What distinguishes it is its eagerness to believe in its own guilt and … [that it] is zealous in devising arguments to prove the justice of its adversary’s case and to lengthen the already overwhelming list of its own inadequacies’” (“Brexit and Multiculturalism,” June 26, 2016).
Western liberal democracy has also facilitated the change in Europe. Mike Gonzalez of the Heritage Foundation quotes former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in stating: “Multicultural societies have only … functioned peacefully in authoritarian states. To that extent it was a mistake for us to bring guest workers from foreign cultures into the country at the beginning of the 1960s” (DailySignal.com, Nov. 25, 2015).
This is affirmed by the late columnist Dr. Samuel Francis in his book, America Extinguished: Mass Immigration and the Disintegration of American Culture. He writes, “Virtually every ‘multicultural’ and ‘multiracial’ society in human history has had either an authoritarian government—the empires of ancient times, as well as those of the Habsburgs and Romanovs of more recent periods that were described as ‘prisonhouses of nations’—or a never-ending cycle of unstable governments” (2002, p. 19). With terror increasing, the tight discipline of such regimes is starting to appeal to more in Europe.

American assimilation abandoned

America was for a long time more successful in assimilating immigrants than Europe. George Washington actually used the word “assimilated” in this context—and this was widely embraced until more recently.
Mike Gonzalez, in another article, pointed out that when large numbers of immigrants came through Ellis Island at the turn of the last century, “they encountered what was then called—quaintly, and without irony or angst—an Americanization program. They were actually taught to love their new country … Today, our elites are far too ‘sophisticated’ to promote Americanization” (“America Used to Know How to Assimilate Immigrants,” TheFederalist.com, Jan. 12, 2016).
Of course it helped that previous immigrants were not as markedly different as they are now. A review of Dr. Francis’ book on mass immigration notes that it “points out that ‘the melting pot [of blending culture] has been possible at all only because what was melted in it was never very different in the first place.’ The overwhelming majority of immigrants until recently had a macro-level resemblance to the people already here: white, mostly Christian, with European folkways, institutions and morals.
“‘Since they were largely homogeneous to begin with, it’s not all that surprising they formed one nation that has retained that homogeneity until recently.’ Unfortunately, the homogeneity no longer exists. Most of our recent immigrants are radically different from America’s host population, so assimilation is far more difficult” (John Attarian, “Immigration Without Assimilation: A Formula for Dispossession,” The Social Contract, Spring 2004).
A prime example given of assimilation not happening is many Hispanics and other immigrants not learning English. In some public school districts, students have to be taught in literally dozens of languages—creating an unnecessary and enormously expensive financial burden for schools and taxpayers.

A major shift in immigration policy

The major shift in U.S. immigration came with the late liberal Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy ushering the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act through Congress. As Breitbart News reports: “That legislation resulted in the fundamental transformation of the demographic, economic, social, and political landscape of [the] nation, exactly the opposite of what its supporters promised. The Kennedy immigration law abolished the national origins quota system, which had favored immigrants from nations with a similar heritage to our own, and opened up American immigration visas to the entire world.
“While about nine in ten of the immigrants who came to the United States during the 19th and 20th century hailed from Europe, the 1965 law inverted that figure. Today about 9 out of every 10 new immigrants brought into the country on green cards come from Latin America, Africa, Asia or the Middle East … In 1965, according to Pew, the country was 84 percent white, 11 percent black, 4 percent Hispanic and less than 1 percent Asian. In 2015, as a result of Kennedy’s immigration law, the country is now 62 percent white, 12 percent black, 18 percent Hispanic and 6 percent Asian.
“Pew projects that in forty years time, ‘no racial or ethnic group will constitute a majority of the U.S. population,’ as ‘whites are projected to become less than half of the U.S. population by 2055’” (“Ted Kennedy’s America: 50 Years After the Law That Changed Everything,” Oct. 3, 2015).
Part of the motivation for this change was liberal opposition to values rooted in the nation’s white European heritage. But another aim was to bring in impoverished immigrants to increase the numbers of those dependent on government—and politicians who would supposedly see to their needs. “To paraphrase Emma Lazarus, give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, and I will turn them into a redistributionist voting block loyal to one political party” (Charlotte Hays, “Europe Is Committing Suicide—Will the U.S. Follow Suit,” Independent Women’s Forum, Mar. 29, 2016).
The term assimilation has been rejected of late, being replaced by integration. Being integrated means immigrants are made to fit, but by making accommodations for them . For example, providing everything in Spanish, so there’s no expectation for learning English. They don’t even need to become Americans. A survey by the Pew Research Hispanic Center found that more than half of young Hispanics (under age 40) did not identify themselves as Americans. This extended to even second- and third-generation native-born Hispanics.
Of course, the biggest problem for the moment is immigration paths being infiltrated by terrorist enemies seeking to destroy—as is the case in Europe as well. Author and former assistant U.S. attorney Andrew McCarthy points out that it’s not enough for a needed vetting process to just identify terrorists, but those apt to become jihadists after they settle here: “We find two necessary ingredients: (1) a mind that is hospitable to jihadism because it is already steeped in Islamic supremacism, and (2) a sharia-enclave environment that endorses jihadism and relentlessly portrays the West as corrupt and hostile. Our current refugee policies promote both factors” (NationalReview.com, Nov. 28, 2015).

A biblical assessment

Above all, we should consider what Scripture has to say on immigration, borders and assimilating or not. Abraham, the father of the faithful, was a migrant who relocated from Mesopotamia to Canaan and moved for a while to Egypt. His grandson Jacob, renamed Israel, lived for a time back in northern Syria and later moved with His family down to Egypt. His descendants became an oppressed and enslaved people in Egypt before their deliverance in the Exodus, when they left accompanied by a “mixed multitude” (Exodus 12:38 Exodus 12:38And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
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Westerners are being made to finance their own destruction via taxation, and forced to tolerate an invasion of their territories and the dilution of their cultures.
Clearly God allowed people of other ethnic heritage to dwell among the Israelites—and He later allowed foreigners to settle among them. In fact, God commanded that aliens not be mistreated or deprived of justice, that charity and hospitality be shown them and that the Israelites were to love resident foreigners as themselves—remembering when they themselves were foreigners in Egypt (Exodus 22:21 Exodus 22:21You shall neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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; Leviticus 19:9-10 Leviticus 19:9-109 And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. 10 And you shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather every grape of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.
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; Leviticus 19:33-34 Leviticus 19:33-3433 And if a stranger sojourn with you in your land, you shall not vex him. 34 But the stranger that dwells with you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
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; Leviticus 23:22 Leviticus 23:22And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not make clean riddance of the corners of your field when you reap, neither shall you gather any gleaning of your harvest: you shall leave them to the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
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; Leviticus 24:16 Leviticus 24:16And he that blasphemes the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemes the name of the Lord, shall be put to death.
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; Leviticus 24:22 Leviticus 24:22You 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.
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). David and Solomon even employed skilled foreign-born labor in the building of God’s temple and accepted immigrants into Israel’s military.
On the other hand, Scripture does not promote a borderless world, completely unrestricted immigration and multiculturalism with no assimilation. God caused people to spread out and resettle in national groupings when he confused the languages at the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11). He set the boundaries of peoples (Deuteronomy 32:8 Deuteronomy 32:8When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
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), and explicitly defined national and tribal borders.
He even defines such borders for the time when Jesus Christ will rule over all nations in the future (see Ezekiel 47-48). And He warns against removing set landmarks (Deuteronomy 19:14 Deuteronomy 19:14You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess it.
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; Proverbs 22:28 Proverbs 22:28Remove not the ancient landmark, which your fathers have set.
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)—these denoting territorial claims of both private families and broader nations.
Furthermore, immigrants were not immediately reckoned as Israelites—but needed to become rooted over generations. And the set requirement was not the same for all foreigners. Because of their former mistreatment of Israel, Ammonites and Moabites were not to be considered part of Israel until the 10th generation, whereas Edomites and Egyptians could be so reckoned in the third generation (Deuteronomy 23:3-8 Deuteronomy 23:3-83 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever: 4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. 5 Nevertheless the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam; but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the LORD your God loved you. 6 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days for ever. 7 You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian; because you were a stranger in his land. 8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
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). (We do have the cases of Rahab of Canaan and Ruth of Moab marrying into Israel—and becoming ancestors of Jesus Christ.)
Nevertheless, those who came in were to have equal protection under the law, and—most relevant to our current situation—they were to be assimilated under the same laws and customs.
God told the Israelites, “One law and one custom shall be for you and for the stranger [or immigrant] who dwells with you” (Numbers 15:16 Numbers 15:16One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojournes with you.
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; see Numbers 15:15 Numbers 15:15One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojournes with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as you are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.
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; Numbers 15:29 Numbers 15:29You shall have one law for him that sins through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojournes among them.
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; Exodus 12:49 Exodus 12:49One law shall be to him that is home born, and to the stranger that sojournes among you.
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; Leviticus 24:22 Leviticus 24:22You 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.
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. Foreigners were expected to adapt to Israel’s culture, not the other way around. Immigrants were to obey all of God’s laws, including keeping the Sabbath (Exodus 20:10 Exodus 20:10But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates:
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), keeping the Feasts of Pentecost and Tabernacles (Deuteronomy 16:11 Deuteronomy 16:11And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD your God has chosen to place his name there.
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; Deuteronomy 16:14 Deuteronomy 16:14And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates.
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), fasting on the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16:29 Leviticus 16:29And this shall be a statute for ever to you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojournes among you:
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) and offering sacrifices for sins (Numbers 15:27-29 Numbers 15:27-2927 And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering. 28 And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sins ignorantly, when he sins by ignorance before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him. 29 You shall have one law for him that sins through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojournes among them.
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).
In a modern context, local pockets of sharia law would be out of the question! A model such as God gave Israel would prevent many of the problems we see with immigration into the West. No Islamist or others seeking to perpetuate antibiblical cultural elements would want to come to such a society, knowing their efforts would be rejected. (For more on how Christians should view the issue, read “A Christian Perspective on Immigrants ”.)

Needed perspective in looking ahead

It’s important to keep a proper perspective in watching these disturbing world events and trends. Part of that perspective involves the true identity of America, Britain and other nations of Northwest European heritage.
We need to realize that the migration of the ancient Israelites did not cease in the Promised Land. For they were later taken captive by the Assyrians and afterward migrated far to the northwest, eventually settling in Northwest Europe. The nations that emerged from here are Israelite—foremost among them being Britain and the United States, descended in large part from Joseph’s sons Ephraim and Manasseh. (See our free study guide The United States and Britain in Bible Prophecy to learn more.)
Satan wants to see the Israelite nations destroyed—with God’s promises and prophecies brought to naught. Indeed, with so much in these events being self-destructive and utterly irrational, we should recognize that malevolent spirit forces that are beyond normal human comprehension are at work.
Consider that, as one author points out, Westerners are being made to finance their own destruction: “Just imagine that for a second. A people are being forced via taxation and under threat of punitive ‘thought/hate crime laws’ and guilt propaganda to tolerate and pay for an invasion of their territories, the dilution of their cultures and their own displacement and eventual replacement.
“Previously, territory would have to be gained through warfare, with a high price paid in both blood and money. Not any more, because multiculturalism negates the need for invaders to fight for territory. The financial burden of conquest is passed on to the conquered who are being forced by their own governments to surrender” (Christopher Green, “How Monocultural Multiculturalism Is Raping Identity,” LibertyGB.org.uk, July 4, 2016).
As people come to see the failure of open borders and multiculturalism in Europe, there is increasing call for change. But what they’ll end up with is not the change that’s needed. Rather, it will be the totalitarian kind that has taken hold of mixed cultures before.
Already we see Europeans turning more and more to the far right. And in fact the Bible has prophesied that a terrible European dictatorship will arise in Europe—in part as a reaction to threats from the south. Are we seeing the beginnings of a backlash against the multicultural utopianism that has landed Europe in its present predicament?
Pat Buchanan concluded his piece with these words of warning: “Can a civilization survive the replacement of the people who created it by people of other races, religions, and civilizations? Ask the Native Americans. Will Europe remain Europe if she is repopulated by Arabs, Muslims, Asians and Africans. What will hold Europe together? Free trade? … One day soon, a voice will arise across the Atlantic calling for an end to this invasion, by force if necessary, and declare: ‘Let Europe be Europe!’”
The growing immigration crisis is but one of many geopolitical trends shaping our world and leading to a time of unparalleled global conflict before Jesus Christ’s return. Continue reading Beyond Today to understand what these events and trends mean. And stay on the alert. Darker times are coming.

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