Deuteronomy 32 is a key to understanding the Worldwide Immigration Issue

The United States is not alone in facing the immigration issue—it is worldwide. The issue is also fraught with incredible hypocrisy in the U.S. and Europe. Once again, many protest without truly thinking the issue through—they are ignorant to the true issues.

If we reject God’s Royal Law it is most difficult to understand the root problems and issues we as humankind are facing. The world rejects God’s Law and stubbornly prefers ignorance to truth. The dictionary describes ignorant as “lacking knowledge or training, unlearned, uniformed; unaware.” When I lived in Texas it meant “you should know better.”

The nations are ignorant of God’s Royal Law because they choose to be.

I’ve been waiting on the Lord and seeking understanding of this issue of immigration for many months. What is God’s mind on this issue? It takes time to wait on the Father. He has a lot to say on this issue. I don’t pretend to have all the answers—but Elohim has instruction for us.

Deuteronomy 32.1-9 is a good place to begin:

Listen, you heavens, and I will speak; hear, you earth, the words of my mouth. Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

I will proclaim the name of the Lord. Oh, praise the greatness of our God! He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.

They are corrupt and not his children; to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation. Is this the way you repay the Lord, you foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator, who made you and formed you?

Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you. When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.  For the Lord’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance.

In these verses Moses is giving the tribes of Israel their final instructions before entering the Promised Land. He is referring to the heavens as witness to what he is saying. Teaching falling like rain refers to the Law/Torah coming down from heaven like the rain that makes the earth to bloom.

Moses proclaims the Name of the Lord, the Rock, who is just and righteous in all His ways. The nations, especially God’s chosen, are corrupt and crooked—refusing to follow the Law. Is this the way to treat your Father?

Then Moses explains how the Most High divided the nations (Gen 11) and gave each and every nation a national inheritance. The Word/Law instructs us to be good stewards of the earth. Yeshua spoke several parables addressing stewardship of the earth and our responsibility. Each nation has resources that are to be used for the benefit of their citizens. If we work together as He wishes all problems could be solved.

God has established each nation according to the number of the sons of Israel/Jacob. The Lord’s portion or allotment is His people. The ones He has chosen (Deut 7.6-8). If we look at a map of the world we see that Israel’s portion is smaller than the state of New Jersey. The surrounding nations have massive areas of land but still want to see the destruction of Israel!

Do you see how this all relates to the immigration issue? Nations are not fulfilling the stewardship of the land they have inherited from the Father. This is simple—if nations followed the Father’s instructions there would be no need to flee and seek asylum in other nations. The nations are corrupt and crooked in all ways.

Injustice is everywhere in this corrupt world. We have Biblically established the root cause of this issue. It is quite simple—but the solution is practically impossible because  humanity is unrighteous and refuses to obey simple commandments of give and share.

Our Father has divided the nations and created borders for them. He has allotted an inheritance to every nation and creed on the planet. He gave the people he choose to be an example to the world a tiny portion in comparison to most nations. In spite of all this, economically Israel is very prosperous. They lead the world in technology and many other areas—but that is not the topic today.

What are some of the reasons that people want to flee their home nations? There are too many to list, but one reason is the injustice and economic situations in many poor nations. One reason they are poor is because the rich nations colonized many of these nations in the past and siphoned off much of their natural resources. Simply put, it is the sinfulness of the nation’s themselves.

In the U.S. we have been experiencing protests against President Trump and our immigration situation. Note that there are no real solutions being offered. Most of these protestors are ignorant of the deep issues—they just hate Trump. Then our politicians use the issue to forward selfish ambitions.

The European Union has many immigration dirty secrets. They love to bash President Trump on his approach while hiding behind their hypocrisy on the issue. Check out these links:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/12/libya-european-governments-complicit-in-horrific-abuse-of-refugees-and-migrants/

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/firing-at-refugees-eu-money-helped-fortify-turkey-s-border-a-1199667.html

https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2018/05/22/niger-europes-migration-laboratory

https://www.rt.com/news/431382-hungary-poland-czech-migrants/

As you can read Europe has paid Turkey to build a wall and has been financing refugee camps that are much more horrific than the things being done in the U.S., in fact in March of 2018 national Public radio described the conditions in one camp on a Greek island: “Trash lined every corridor. The overwhelming stench of rotting garbage, urine and feces made them want to vomit. The few toilets overflowed with human waste. Women shared tents with unrelated men.” Camps built to hold 2,000 regularly hold 6,000. https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/03/09/589973165/europe-does-not-see-us-as-human-stranded-refugees-struggle-in-greece

These are incredibly difficult conditions and issues that are not easily repaired. The root cause is the failure of humanity to obey God’s Royal Law as written.

I honestly don’t see a solution on the horizon. What I do see is that these events have tremendous prophetic meaning for our time. God is judging the nations by allowing this to happen. He did not create this problem—we did. These events will force changes in the EU and the United States that will eventually lead to a financial crises.

It will also cause a backlash in Europe towards Islam as many refugees are coming from the Arab nations that are in a state of war. In other instances Islam is immigrating in order to change the “Christian” nation into a Muslim nation.This will eventually lead to the Psalm 83 war in the Middle East in the not too distant future.

God judges the nations by allowing them to disobey His law. He is not a snidely God reacting to every sin we or a nation commits. No, the Father allows us to do it our way until we recognize our sinfulness and turn and repent. When the nations refuse His ways crises will arise. God is revealing our sinfulness to us by allowing us freedom of will. We create our problems not God—He has given us instruction we refuse! It is so easy to blame the Father for the results of our disobediance!

Yeshua will return at the appointed time and establish justice and righteousness in the earth. Until that time we are to “occupy until” He comes. This means we should understand the Biblical reasons for what is occurring in the world and why. We also should be supporting ministries and people who are working in humanitarian service.

If possible we should donate to trusted, God inspired organizations, serving in these areas and proclaiming the salvation of our God. Some of us may even be able to go and serve. At the very least we should be watching and praying.

The world has no real solutions because the world rages against the Almighty. We have a life to live but we can still find ways to do the small things the Father asks of us. Dominion theology is not the answer—Only Yeshua can and will save us in that day. In the meantime we should be lights in a dark world and bring glory to His Name.