Separated nations

Just a few of my thoughts on what the Lord Jesus (God) has said about the separation of unregenerate people....

Signs of the End of the Age
3 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” 4 And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. 5 For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.

I ask you to read the above passage from Matthew 24, the disciples are asking the Lord what will be the signs of His return, look at verse 7 closely. The Lord talks of nations and kingdoms rising against one another... not a group of multicultural ethnic groups living on earth happily ever after as some liberal theologians and "false" preachers and teachers would have you believe. Instead it says (teaches us) that evil people (all people are evil) of different nations (races) are separated from one another, fighting against one another, until Christ returns. Let me add here, I believe God (Jesus) is sovereign, not man (you)... So no matter what you may propose about different races living together in harmony... it is not the Lord's will, and He will not allow man to over throw His decrees.

Let's look at God's word in the first book of scripture... Genesis 11: 1-9
The Tower of Babel
11 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. 6 And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.” 8 So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused[a] the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

Here in this chapter God(Father, Son, Holy Spirit) separates the inhabitants of the world. We cannot assume what scripture does not tell us, but we do know from scripture that Adam sinned and all those born of woman are imputed with this dark God separating force. The Lord, in verse 5, gives a glimpse of what the fallen heart is capable of if not governed by a sovereign Creator. Later in scripture we learn that God has an elect people that he will save out of every nation. with that being said, lets go to Revelations chapter 7

A Great Multitude from Every Nation
9 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10 and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” 11 And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12 saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”

Look again at verse 9 & 10 God(Father,Son, Holy Spirit) has gathered His people from every nation(different cultures)... that He has established since the tower of babel. From the first book to the last God keeps evil unregenerate people (that is everybody) separated for His purposes!

So what do I think about illegal immigration.... I am reformed in my theology. Therefore I believe the Lord has separated people for a reason. Had he wanted us to be one race of people sharing one land, He never would have confused the races at Babel. That's not to say that any one race is better than another or that there is one group of people that belong to God more than another one does. It's to say that if the Lord had wanted the whole of the human race to be a mixed lot, living as one race or as many races and ethnicity's in one land, He would have made us that way. He would have put us all in one land, whether of the same race and ethnicity or not, and had us live as one people for all of time.

Because I believe the Lord controls everything that happens on Earth, and everywhere, I believe the Lord is allowing this mixing of people in our country, and in many others throughout the world. I believe that for whatever purpose He has in place, He is allowing other nationalities to enter into countries that were once predominately one nationality. We have seen time and again, despite the blatant denial of so many, that this melting pot of ethnicity's does not work. Not only can we see it in our own country today- all we have to do is look at the discord between various groups of people, at the way those from other country's separate themselves and hold to their old ways, and at history which shows us that overall no two ethnic groups can truly mix for very long.

Scripture shows us that one ethnic group is used, time and again, to overthrow another land. I won't give specific verses because it's seen all throughout the Old Testament but it is there for our reading and understanding of how humans are used, time and again, not to create one people but to destroy each other.

We can also see it in our own countries history. There was a time, long ago, when this country belonged to the Indians, people we now call Native Americans. The Lord allowed white people to trickle into the country and look what happened. The white people did not assimilate and become like the new land they now called home. No, they came in, kept their old ways, mingled with the Natives, and eventually rose up, when their numbers were great enough, and overthrew the Native Americans.

Not only did they want to rule but they suppressed the people that had once ruled this country. Does that look like it worked out for America to be a melting pot of ethnicity's? Did the white settlers accept the ways of their new home and native peoples and settle in to become one of them?

Next came the slaves. Despite what many people say, and our secular history textbooks teach, there were good and bad slave owners. There were slaves that were thrilled to be freed and slaves that did not want to be free. There were slaves that fought for the south of their own willingness just as there were some that did everything they could to escape. But what do we see as the result of that?

Slaves, meaning what was called black people and is now called, African Americans, were once a minority people, suppressed and controlled. They were, by the Lord's hand, delivered from slavery and allowed to live free in a country controlled by white people. How did that work out? Over the course of history did they assimilate to the way of life and become one nation, accepting the ways of the country? Some did. And before anyone thinks I'm racist, I am not. The Lord made all people for His purposes. There are regenerate Christians in all ethnicity's and evil fills the hearts of all people, no matter their race or ethnicity. But...we can see in America today that for the most part the African Americans have not tried to mix and mingle and become as one race with white people. They kept their ways and they, for the most part, stayed separate.

It's that way no matter the ethnicity of the people or the country they live in. It can clearly be seen in American prisons today, the races are very much separated within those walls. Gone is the pretense of we are all one people.

Romans 9 teaches us that there are two separate groups of people but they are not separated because of their race or ethnicity, they are separated because of their evil hearts and the grace and mercy of God. Because I am reformed in my theology, I believe that God has an elect people, people that He chose before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4, 11) to be His, not because of anything they did, not because they are good, not because they are any better than any other people, but because God chose to have mercy on them.

For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” Romans 9:15 esv

And why does he have mercy on some and not on others? Only because it pleased Him to do so. He chose some people and not others, throughout all of time, long before the earth was made, simply because He wanted to.

All people are evil but some are granted a pardon from the evil sinfulness of their hearts. They are saved by God and separated, not by race, but by the condition of their converted heart, to be His people and they come from all nations and tongues.

History shows us that nations (ethnic groups) are used to destroy nations. We see it in Scripture and we see it in the course of the history of any country. And we can see it being worked out in the world today.

So many people would have us to believe that we can open our borders and allow anyone into our country that wishes to come. They tell us we can all live together peacefully, in harmony, that those in other countries seeking to come to our country only want the freedoms we experience but if we look at how that is all working out, we see it's not quite what wishful thinking would have it to be.

People from other countries aren't, for the most part, there may be a few, coming here to become one of us. They don't leave their cultures and lifestyles at the border and become 'American'. No, they bring their ways with them and they try to change our ways. The best we can hope for is that they will obey our laws and learn our language...and that they will be content to live among us and not take over. But hopeful thinking doesn't usually work out. Once any group of people grow in numbers enough...they start wanting things changed to better accommodate them. It can be seen in any group setting, even families. Homes with no children are not child friendly. The more kids in a house, the more child oriented it becomes. Glass dishes give way to plastic. Knicknacks give way to toys. English language gives way to other languages, already we must choose a number on a phone call to have the message given to us in English. Instruction manuals come with so many different languages that sometimes it's hard to find the page(s) in English.

Assimilation does not work. We've seen it time and again and we are seeing it now within the borders of our very own country.

Has America drank from the cup of sin to the point that our time is up? Is the Lord allowing, even controlling, the infiltration of other ethnicity's into America for the purpose of overthrowing the predominately white control of this country to give it into the hands of another nation? Only time will tell.