INSIDER: Why Mass Migration is Contrary to the Great Commission
For evangelical Christians, the passage known as ‘the Great Commission’ is foundational to our spiritual ethos. The ‘evangel’ in the word ‘evangelism’ (εὐανγέλιον) means “good news,” which implies that it’s our job to tell people exactly how good the news of Jesus’ death and resurrection truly is. For most children raised in evangelical churches, memorization of Christ’s commission to us is memorized and repeated often.
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost…
God does indeed care for every nation, tribe, ethnicity, race, and rung of the socio-economic ladder. This is why Jesus ordered his followers to go to the nations, teach them, and baptize them upon their understanding and embrace of the Message. This is Christianity 101.
But today, it seems, the Christian ethos has been compromised and commandeered by the insincere and unlearned, who have turned the Great Commission on its head. Insisting that our Christian duty is bringing the nations to us, they’ve perverted and twisted Jesus’ message of love and reversed it in an unbiblical direction.
LIBERATION THEOLOGY JESUS
In the latest news cycle, Christians in America are being lectured by the rainbow-bedazzled ministers of liberal mainstream denominations and who John Knox referred to as the “Monstrous Regiment of Women.” The lecture is simple; Jesus wants us to bring the nations to us, let them pilfer our communities, take our homes and jobs, and be unleashed inside civilized, Christian nations.
But nothing could be further from the truth.
Although Social Justice proponents, practicing a form of sub-Christianity that is nothing less than Cultural Marxism in clerical collars, have been demanding we hand over our house keys to illegal migrants for years, Trump’s new border policies (which is nothing less than enforcing current immigration law) have set off their outrage to epic proportions.
At the National Cathedral in Washington, Episcopal priestess Mariann Budde angrily lectured President Trump with the only style of which bull-dyke lookalikes are capable. Budde, who interred homosexual “hate crime victim” Matthew Shepherd in the interior walls of the cathedral (Shepherd was not a hate-crime victim, but was killed by rival methamphetamine dealers), is no newcomer to woke religion. She is a practitioner of a subversive sect of pseudo-Christianity known as Liberation Theology.
Liberation Theology was invented during the Cold War in South and Central America by Roman Catholics (the Jesuit Order, in particular) and charismatic evangelicals as a response to the Communist threat. With their adoption of Cuba as a puppet state and quickly making inroads to the region, these professing “Christians” invented new doctrines that would make a compromise with Marxist philosophy, out of fear that Communists would take over and persecute believers.
The basic tenets of Liberation Theology is a de-emphasis on the propitiating work of Christ’s death and resurrection for the forgiveness of sins, and replaces this traditional understanding of the gospel’s purpose for a Christ that is little more than Christus Exemplar (Christ the Example). Preaching that Jesus didn’t become incarnate to take on flesh as a suitable sacrifice for sins, they insist that Jesus only came to identify with the poor, the marginalized, and the oppressed.
This ‘oppression narrative’ would resonate – they thought – with Marxist theory in regard to class struggle between the proletariat and bourgeois, and would entice the Communists to leave their churches intact as useful to the Communist mission, rather than scuttle and imprison them. But in the end, the Communist takeover never fully materialized (a few nations notwithstanding), but the new and subversive “Christian” gospel took off.
In America, Liberation Theology took two forms; the first, is that which is held by the butch lady preachers like Mariann Budd. It’s more generalized than the other form, created for black churches, called Black Liberation Theology. In the latter, the gospel became specifically tailored for African Americans. Its gospel had little to do with anything about Jesus at all. In Black Liberation Theology, the central story is not of Jesus but Moses, and the main theme is not the forgiveness of sins, but setting free captives (leaning heavily upon the Exodus account of the Jews fleeing Egypt).
When you see either stripe of Liberation Theology, whether that held by wealthy and liberal white women, or held by lower socio-economic black Americans, the Jesus preached is not one who came to be crucified to die for sins. He is a Jesus they describe as “a lower-income, brown-skinned immigrant and political asylum seeker.”
That the real Jesus could have his servants fetch gold from the mouths of fish and whose treasurer had full money bags, or that Jews were the lightest skinned semitic people in the region, or that he lawfully moved within the empire (he did not migrate) as an infant whose parents took him back home at the first opportunity, for them are irrelevant and inconvenient details. None of those facts help their narrative.
IMMIGRATION JESUS
Liberation Theologians pushing a culturally-suicidal agenda of opening up America’s borders to foreign invaders, often cite Old Testament passages commanding Israelites to be kind to the alien (lawful residents not belonging to the Body Politic of Israel, primarily the Canaanite tribes who were native there) and sojourner (those traveling through the country, not settling there).
As I explained in the post Does God Oppose Mass Deportations? God Invented Mass Deportations, the Old Testament passages most frequently cited are used by Liberation Theologians and Cultural-Suicide advocates with grotesque category errors. The “aliens and sojourners” spoken of under Mosaic law are not the equivalent of illegal aliens.
Those who slipped through Israel’s borders unannounced, and those who broke Israel’s laws, were categorized in Old Testament law as foreign invaders. They were not to be coddled; they were to be put to death.
To the contrary of the Liberation narrative, aliens who made residence in Israel were expected to respect and obey all the laws required of the Israelites. They were expected to respect the cultic religion of Israel, despite not being required to worship with Israelite ordinances or take part in rites (they were, however, allowed to convert and take part). Those whose influence was oppositional to Israel’s laws and religion were to be purged, exiled, or executed.
Evangelicals like Neil Shenvi, the full-time apologist defending former SBC president, JD Greear, against credible accusations of liberal compromise, have stated in recent weeks that “The Bible doesn’t prescribe a particular immigration policy or a particular response to illegal immigration.”
This, of course, is absurd. God quite literally handed down very specific and explicit immigration policies to Old Testament Israel. An entire book of the Bible deals with God’s orders to build a border wall, and numerous other passages exist throughout the Old Testament which detail God’s further instruction on immigration and border walls.
Furthermore, the Bible has much to say about foreign invasion, and most often it is a sign of God’s divine punishment upon a nation. There’s not a single account in Scripture of a godly nation being invaded by foreigners and having their culture subjected to the influence of occupying peoples. But there are many prophetic warnings of mass migration coming as a direct result of God’s punishment.
Because – as Romanists, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestants all believe – Jesus’ messaging did not conflict with, but confirmed Old Testament truths, the immigration positions of Jesus were the same as the immigration positions found in Mosaic Law.
The notion that Jesus’ message conflicted with Mosaic Law is form of heresy known as Marcionism; the idea that the God of the New Testament is somehow different than the God of the Old Testament. God is immutable, meaning that he doesn’t change. And although Protestant Confessions state that the Judicial Code given to Moses has been abrogated with the nation of Israel itself (chapter 19 of both the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Second London Baptist Confession), the fine print clause says that the “general equity” (timeless and universal moral principles) are still abiding. In other words, the details have changed, but the moral principles they contain still abide.
EXPORTING JESUS
The message of Jesus is not one that insists his followers import the masses into their country or communities, or turn over their homes and livelihoods to them. Rather, Jesus specifically commissioned his followers to export themselves to foreigners, not import foreigners to them.
Lazy Christians with a fake Liberation gospel, who’ve never stepped foot on the Christian mission field and sparsely if ever give their income to fulfill Christ’s commission, would like us to believe that we’re obeying Christ by bringing the unwashed masses into our country. Nothing could be further from the truth.
All evangelicals should be incredulous to claims of born-again illegal immigrationists who suddenly seem very committed to obeying Christ’s commands. As if, they would have us believe, they took a break from endorsing sodomy-based marriage, gay adoption, childhood sex changes, euthanasia death-pods, womb massacres, and Communist wealth-redistribution schemes to preach to us their very sincere religious notions on immigration.
They would have us believe that despite ignoring Christ on every other single social issue, we should listen to their preaching on handing over our communities to hordes of foreigners. It would seem that the one thing all of their various social positions have in common is not concern for Christ’s opinion, but adopting policies that weaken the United States.
But the Great Commission could not be clearer. If one wants to show their love for the foreigner, they must go to the foreigner. This is what was modeled to us by the Apostles. In fact, the entire concept of the Apostolate is that these are men who have been sent out (that’s what απόστολος means) to proclaim to foreigners the Gospel message.
In recent days, Trump’s moratorium on grant disbursements to Non-Government Organizations reveals the extent of anti-Great Commission subversion in evangelicalism has taken place. Many “Christian Charities” have turned out to not be Christian Charities at all, but government proxies used to launder taxpayer dollars to migrate Third World problems into the United States. They are not doing the work of the Great Commission, but thwarting it.
PROTECTING AMERICA TO PROTECT THE GREAT COMMISSION
The United States is the largest exporter in the world of two things; pornography and the Gospel. In coming days, we must destroy one, and protect the other.
The U.S., largely fueled by the Bible Belt, provides the bulk of funding for world evangelization. Our little humble country church houses of meager means are the biggest donors to missions organizations and greatest senders of missionaries around the globe. Therefore, America must remain a stable and productive country, with a thriving and bustling economy, with peaceful communities and clean streets, for us to continue to support the Great Commission around the world.
The Powers and Principalities of Darkness in high places know this, and their push for illegal immigration is of intentional demonic design to undermine the American capacity to send missionaries around the world. If our jobs our taken, our people are replaced and dislocated due to housing shortages, our communities suffer due to migrant crime, and our religious heritage is undermined – perversely in the name of Jesus – our ability to support missionary endeavors will be hardest hit.
If we genuinely care about the lost abroad, we must protect our borders as much as God demanded Israel protect theirs under the Old Covenant. If we want the lost overseas converted, we must protect the economy and culture of America, so we can maintain our capacity to send missionaries and evangelists.
In other words, the Great Commission is not advanced by weakening America, but by strengthening missions through cooperative evangelical enterprises only made possible by a protected Christian homeland.