So, the Romeike family is facing deportation. They don’t want to be deported but, hey, that’s where we are. And unfortunately, this is sending us a very clear message about the kind of nation that our entrenched overlords wish to create. Because here’s the thing, smart people, I’m not saying WISE people, but smart people who control immigration policy always and only use their discretion to permit people to immigrate who will assimilate into the culture they want.
Please note well, I didn’t say people who will assimilate into the culture they HAVE. I said assimilate into the culture they want. Immigration is social engineering and anyone who says different is either stupid, or selling you something…or both.
Let’s see an example, shall we.
1 Kings 16:
29 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria over Israel twenty-two years. 30 Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of those before him. 31 He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him. 32 He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he built in Samaria. 33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole and did more to arouse the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, than did all the kings of Israel before him.
34 In Ahab’s time, Hiel of Bethel rebuilt Jericho. He laid its foundations at the cost of his firstborn son Abiram, and he set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, in accordance with the word of the Lord spoken by Joshua son of Nun.
Skipping ahead a little bit we read this in chapters 18 and 19:
1 After a long time, in the third year, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the land.” 2 So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab.
Now the famine was severe in Samaria, 3 and Ahab had summoned Obadiah, his palace administrator. (Obadiah was a devout believer in the LORD. 4 While Jezebel was killing off the LORD’s prophets, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them in two caves, fifty in each, and had supplied them with food and water.) 5 Ahab had said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs and valleys. Maybe we can find some grass to keep the horses and mules alive so we will not have to kill any of our animals.” 6 So they divided the land they were to cover, Ahab going in one direction and Obadiah in another.
7 As Obadiah was walking along, Elijah met him. Obadiah recognized him, bowed down to the ground, and said, “Is it really you, my lord Elijah?”
8 “Yes,” he replied. “Go tell your master, ‘Elijah is here.’ ”
And skipping ahead to when Elijah and Ahab meet we read this:
16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him, and Ahab went to meet Elijah. 17 When he saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”
18 “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you and your father’s family have. You have abandoned the LORD’s commands and have followed the Baals. 19 Now summon the people from all over Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel. And bring the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”
What we see in these passages over and over again is that Jezebel brought Baal and Asherah worship back to Israel. In fact, the ONLY times in the bible the terms “Prophet(s) of Baal” is in relation to the actions of Jezebel. And we never see the term “Priest(s) of Baal” before Jezebel arrives, but the formal worship of Baal is dealt with by Josiah later.
Jezebel is widely viewed by commentators and theologians as the person who introduced, or perhaps reintroduced Baal worship to Israel, and it is generally accepted that she imported the prophets and priests of Baal and Asherah who ate at her table and served her and her gods.
Jezebel was the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians who was the high priest of Baal, as in most of the ancient world the king and high priest were one in the same role—that’s why Roman Caesars were called Pontifex Maximus. Israel was if not unique, certainly the rarity of the ancient Mediterranean world, by not having their kings be the high priests.
So to Jezebel, it was obvious and clear that one of the first things she should do when she became Queen of Israel was bring in nearly 1,000 prophets and priests from home who would worship Baal and Asherah. But not only that, she needed to thoroughly and ruthlessly exterminate all the prophets of the LORD who were in the Northern Kingdom.
Why?
Because she wanted to transform Israel from a henotheistic, idol-worshipping, Yahwist society into a polytheistic Baalist society. Which is a fancy technical way of saying she wanted to change the Gods of Israel. And Jezebel, whatever else you could say about her, she was shrewd. She understood that social engineering takes planning, effort, and execution—not just the head-cutting-off kind of execution, but the carrying-out-of-plans kinds of execution…but you get the point.
And it isn’t really all that hard to engineer society if you have huge amounts of money and can murder people who oppose you and can grant favors to those who serve you. And you might be thinking, “Sure Lukey, you’re right, you can change the institutions but that doesn’t change how people think. Yeah, there were a lot of sycophants and hangers-on who just went along with Jezebel because it brought them power and wealth but it didn’t really change hearts and minds.”
To this I say: things take time.
No. You’re right, imaginary objector, just importing pagans and killing God’s servants doesn’t change the minds of people whose minds are already made up. But you’re creating the conditions to bring up future generations in a world where Baal worship is the dominant form of religion and the worship of the LORD is nowhere to be found. How long do you think that the silent, powerless majority of Yahweh worshippers will be able to remain the majority when their children and grandchildren and greatgrandchildren are growing up in a world surrounded by Baal worship, where all social reinforcement mechanisms like power, punishment, and politics favor Baal and Yahweh worshippers are executed?
Now, you might say, “Ahhhh, but Lukey-poo, God always preserves a remnant.” OK. Sure. But is that all we want? Do we only want a remnant? Because Elijah didn’t just want a remnant. He wanted Israel to stop wavering between two opinions and make up their minds once for all whether to worship Yahweh or Baal—and clearly he wanted them to worship Yahweh. Christians shouldn’t be satisfied with “a remnant.”
Now, perhaps you want to push harder and say, “But Luke, that’s not in our hands, if God is pleased to preserve a remnant then who do we think we are to talk back to God.” OK, and by the way, friends, I’ve HEARD these arguments. If you think that nothing is in our hands that our nation is entirely in God’s hands, then you need to read your Bible. Revelation speaks about Jesus as walking among the lampstands, and he’ll snuff out a lampstand that keeps guttering and sputtering. You don’t want your lampstand removed. And, also, God has not promised to keep a remnant in America. I don’t remember reading that in the Bible anywhere. There’s no single place where the words normally translated as remnant refer to a group of Gentiles saved by Grace to persist through all generations—and the only two uses of the word remnant in the New Testament are in Romans where Paul is quoting the Old Testament and is referring to Jews saved by grace.
So, there is no promise that there will always be a remnant. But even if, for sake of argument, let’s just say I missed a verse and there is some hyper-obscure passage that I missed and there’s ONE place where you could read that God promises that he will preserve a remnant of believers in all the Gentile nations where Christianity has taken root. Let’s say I missed a verse or two and you can make that case—it’s possible. I’ve made mistakes. Even IF that’s the case why should we want that!? Shouldn’t we want as many of our friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers to be saved as possible? Don’t we want as many people worshipping and serving God as possible? If we’re just gonna sit on our hunkers and say, “Well, God’ll preserve a remnant!” how do you think He’s gonna do that? And if your answer is that God doesn’t need you to spread the gospel then you might as well be dead, because you’re no earthly good!
But all this is both deeply relevant to the conversation, and also beside the point. The point is that the Godless entrenched bureaucrats in our country have been weaponizing immigration policy to create America as they desire it to be by transforming it. They wish to destroy the America that is and make a new America in their image. Now, we sadly, do not have time to go into all the details, or even most of the relevant details of what immigration policies are and why.
But here’s what I want you to pay attention to. Law abiding German immigrants who have been here paying taxes for 15 years, LEGALLY, who have assimilated into American society, who love Christ and want to utilize America’s freedoms to raise their children as Christians in a nation that the Supreme Court said was a Christian Nation, these Germans are being kicked out while Border Patrol fist-bumps illegal immigrants.
We are witnessing social engineering—and all social engineering is theological engineering, but that’s another story for another day—we are witnessing our government actively attempting to use its authority in immigration to change this country from what it was into something else. Again, it’s not entirely clear what that something else is, but if I had to guess by what I see, not just in immigration, but in all policy decisions, they wish to transform this nation into a land of godless criminals who are wage-slave serfs, addicted to pills to stop us from feeling feelings, sterilizing ourselves and murdering whatever children might drag the compliant wage-slave women away from the drudgery of being a strong, independent, powerful woman at the office, they want a nation beholden to their corporate overlords, living in some kind of educational-administrative-technocratic-governmental complex, and they wish to make this permanent by eliminating the middle class and the values intrinsic to a thriving middle-class, and most importantly by eliminating a godly middle class, because godly people have higher allegiances than to the party and to the state and to THE IDEOLOGY.
We are witnessing the change, we are witnessing the policies being enacted to transform this nation into a progressive utopia…….God help us!
Long story short, pray for your country, because we are living in interesting times.