Ed Stetzer: "If we are pro-life, we are pro-refugee."
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Whether we like it or not, many of the minor prophets were very concerned with how Israel treated the foreigner / sojourner / strangers that were traveling through their lands.
There’s also a reverse parallel of God’s command to the (soon to be deported) Israelites, who were heading to Babylon in Jer. 29:4-13:
“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease. But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare. For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that they dream, for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you in my name; I did not send them, declares the Lord.
“For thus says the Lord: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.”
It may be that we are witnessing this flood of migration because God wants to use us as ministers for their own salvation.
"Our task today is to tell people — who no longer know what sin is...no longer see themselves as sinners, and no longer have room for these categories — that Christ died for sins of which they do not think they’re guilty." - David Wells
it may be that we are witnessing this flood of migration because God wants to use us as ministers for their own salvation.
More Muslims have come to faith in Christ since 9-11 than the previous 14 centuries. Estimates range from 3 to 7 million people. Many of these are immigrants and refugees, having migrated from the Middle East to Europe. This should not be surprising because God has sovereignly used the unforced and forced migration of people groups to remove socio-cultural barriers and become more open to the gospel. Here is an article from Mission Frontiers explaining how God is moving in the hearts of Muslims, maybe because of ISIS.
http://www.zwemercenter.com/research/?search=How+Isis+is+spreading+the+…
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