It’s been a while since I last made a post entry. It’s actually been that busy.
So, as I return, the US is aflame with ICE raids that are sending illegal aliens home and many of the scofflaws, both home and abroad, are having a conniption.
An interesting argument being raised by the scofflaws ‒ a scofflaw is simply a person who refuses to obey the law ‒ is that Jesus was an immigrant.
Therefore, since Jesus illegally “migrated” across foreign borders, then it is okay for everyone else to do the same in today’s world.
Such argumentation is ridiculous on its face and demonstrates just how ignorant some people can be when they refuse to pick up the Bible and read it.
First, Jesus was born in a Jewish family, in a Jewish city (Bethlehem), and in Jewish country (Israel).
He even died outside Jerusalem, on a hill called Golgotha, which was the Jews’ capital.
Granted, Israel was under Roman control at the time, but that does not negate Jesus’ Jewish heritage.
Second, the only time we know of Jesus leaving Israel was when he was a child and King Herod was out to kill him.
Joseph, Mary, and Jesus were commanded by God to flee to Egypt until the threat had passed.
Immediately after Herod died, all three returned to Nazareth, a city in the Jewish settlement of Galilee.
Hence, they were not “immigrants” while in Egypt, at least in the official sense of the word.
Third, Jesus’ parents not only paid the Roman poll tax, but Jesus later thwarted the Pharisees attempt to discredit Jesus by trying to trick him on the question of taxation.
Jesus’ response was, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s” (Matt. 22:21).
Jesus, in other words, upheld civil law, he did not try or encourage anyone to subvert or disobey it.
That is a far cry what from we see today, especially in regard to immigration law.
Lastly, when Jesus exited Israel at his ascension into heaven, he was still a Jew.
He never migrated to any other country, even though some later thought he made a trip to India, which was preposterous.
Hence, Jesus was never an immigrant and was an advocate of keeping civil law.
Moreover, he would have never approved of those scofflaws today who seem to think that breaking the law is the Christian thing to do, and then referencing Jesus as the prime example of what an immigrant is, when Jesus never migrated anywhere.
