Lev 19:34 You shall treat the strangerH1616 who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Deu And I charged your judges at that time, 'Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alienH1616 who is with him.
Deu 26:11 And you shall rejoice in all the good that the LORD your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojournerH1616 who is among you.
2Ch 2:17 Then Solomon counted all the resident aliensH1616 who were in the land of Israel, after the census of them that David his father had taken, and there were found 153,600. 2Ch Seventy thousand of them he assigned to bear burdens, 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work.
Were there ever conditions for immigration?
It is assumed and expected that the foreign person was willing to and did fully assimilate into Israel
Deu 31:12 Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner H1616 within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law,
Exo If a strangerH1616 shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
Exo There shall be one law for the native and for the strangerH1616 who sojourns among you."
Num And if a strangerH1616 sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the sojournerH1616 and for the native."
Israel was not to simply accept people of other nations without conditions.
Israel was not to simply accept people of other nations without conditions.
God actually forbid Israel
There were also non-Jews/Gentiles in several places in the genealogy of Christ. Purity of bloodline, genetics or ethnicity has never been the concern.
There were also non-Jews/Gentiles in several places in the genealogy of Christ. Purity of bloodline, genetics or ethnicity has never been the concern.
The reason *national intermingling was forbidden is so Israel
Why conditions?
God is a jealous God; not because he's needy, but because he's loving i.e. he desires their highest good as well as his greatest glory.
If God is a certain way and he designed us to operate a certain way i.e. to not love him with all that we are and have and our neighbor as ourselves is to be drawn away from him. This would be to our harm as well as to those who draw us away. For these reasons, God commanded Israels (and our) complete spiritual and moral loyalty and faithfulness.
Anyone who receives Christ has access to God and is loved by him exactly the same, regardless of ethnicity.
Who's right?
You could say both sides of this debate are right and wrong. Promoters of Unconditional Immigration are wrong because there were conditions for good reason. Promoters of no immigration are wrong because God says to welcome and love all peoples.
In truth, most (if not all) people who are against unconditional immigration are not opposed to all immigration but simply immigration without guidelines.
Most things debated by the "left" and "right" are handled as if there are only two ways to look at things. In virtually every case, however, there is a third way, God's way.
Why conditions?
God is a jealous God; not because he's needy, but because he's loving i.e. he desires their highest good as well as his greatest glory.
If God is a certain way and he designed us to operate a certain way i.e. to not love him with all that we are and have and our neighbor as ourselves is to be drawn away from him. This would be to our harm as well as to those who draw us away. For these reasons, God commanded Israels (and our) complete spiritual and moral loyalty and faithfulness.
Anyone who receives Christ has access to God and is loved by him exactly the same, regardless of ethnicity.
Who's right?
You could say both sides of this debate are right and wrong. Promoters of Unconditional Immigration are wrong because there were conditions for good reason. Promoters of no immigration are wrong because God says to welcome and love all peoples.
In truth, most (if not all) people who are against unconditional immigration are not opposed to all immigration but simply immigration without guidelines.
Most things debated by the "left" and "right" are handled as if there are only two ways to look at things. In virtually every case, however, there is a third way, God's way.
For a discussion on distinguishing between morality and culture click here.
For a discussion on Gods promise of salvation to all people groups click here.
For a discussion on socialism and capitalism click here.
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*There are several incidents where Israelites married people from other nations. Moses, David, Solomon, and Boaz would be some examples.
For a discussion on socialism and capitalism click here.
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*There are several incidents where Israelites married people from other nations. Moses, David, Solomon, and Boaz would be some examples.
