The number
of illegal immigrants entering the United States is at record levels, and even
Left-leaning sites can’t make those numbers look rosy (though they are
trying). Inept and corrupt political
leadership is a major contributor to this crisis, but it would be a mistake to
stop our analysis there.
Things that
happen in the physical world are reflections of the things happening in the
spiritual world. If there is a flood of
immigrants at the Mexican border, there is a spiritual reason for that. The Holy Prophet Moses in his book of Deuteronomy
spells it out for us. He writes,
A nation which you have not
known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors; and you
shall be only oppressed and crushed continually; . . . The sojourner who is
among you shall mount above you higher and higher; and you shall come down
lower and lower. He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him; he shall
be the head, and you shall be the tail. . . . "Because you did not serve
the LORD your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, by reason of the
abundance of all things, therefore you shall serve
your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in
nakedness, and in want of all things; and he will put a yoke of iron upon your
neck, until he has destroyed you. The LORD will bring a nation against you from
afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose
language you do not understand, a nation of stern countenance, who shall not
regard the person of the old or show favor to the young, and shall eat the
offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed;
who also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle
or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish (28:33, 43-4, 47-51).
All these curses shall come
upon you and pursue you and overtake you, till you are destroyed, because you
did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his
statutes which he commanded you (28:45).
In brief,
when we see an invasion happening, it is likely because the country being
invaded has turned its back on God the All-Holy Trinity and the commandments He
has given its people to follow. A look
back through history gives abundant confirmation of this. The ancient Roman Empire fell away into
hedonism, debauchery, and persecution of Christians and was afflicted for
centuries by Germanic barbarian invaders.
Some years later, after Christianity had taken root in Western Europe
and the peoples there were flourishing again, the heathen Vikings were a
scourge upon them because of their corruption.
The same thing occurred in Constantinople/New Rome, and that Christian
Empire fell to the Muslim Turks in 1453 after centuries of encroachment and
warfare by the Turks. The Serbs fell
under the Turkish yoke in 1389 for similar reasons. Kievan Rus likewise was razed by the Mongols
a little earlier, in the 13th century, for falling into various
disorders after rising to a high state of Christian civilization.
The same
pattern is recognizable deeper in the past, with the Medes conquering the
Persians centuries before the Birth of Christ, and so on. And now we are seeing it in the United States
and in Europe: Sinful, evil things like pornography, easy
divorce, psychedelic drug use, abortion, etc., are legal and being promoted as
healthy ‘freedoms;’ people are abandoning Christianity; and following in their
wake is a massive foreign population resettling in the midst of them.
Because of
the causal connection between disobedience to God and harmful immigration
flows, Christianity must become a regular part of the policy conversation at
every level of government. There is
progress at the State level, where things like requiring the Ten Commandment to
be posted in schools and universities and allowing Christian chaplains in many
of those same places have advanced, as well as laws limiting social media use
by children and requiring age verification for pornographic web sites. But this sort of approach needs to become the
norm, not the exception.
We must be
honest with ourselves: Modernity has had
a terrible effect on us. The acid bath
of the Enlightenment has destroyed our love of God and made us worship idols
instead. We have focused on freedom
in the past, but there is another big one in the West – mammon, or, as it
is often referred to in our constitutions and other political tracts, property: ‘John Adams made a similar assertion years
later in 1790 in his Discourses
on Davila, calling property as “sacred as the laws of God.” . . .
During the Philadelphia Convention, John
Rutledge of South Carolina reminded the delegates that “property was
certainly the principal object of Society.”’
We will be
ashamed to stand before the Christian
martyrs in the next life, who saw the futility of rejecting God to worship
earthly things: ‘The [Roman] judge
informed them of the imperial order that all were commanded to sacrifice to the
gods. Nicander replied, that order could not regard Christians, who looked upon
it as unlawful to abandon the immortal God, to adore wood and stones.’
We may not
adore statues of Rome’s pagan gods these days, but without a doubt we have an
idolatrous fixation on materialism/mammon.
This
description of a Buc-ee’s makes the point entirely too well:
. . .
The rest is
at https://thehayride.com/2024/06/garlington-the-spiritual-dimension-of-the-border-crisis/.
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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us
sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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