Immigrants, Foreigners and Aliens

Immigrants, Foreigners and Aliens

 

How many are you an immigrant?

 

How many are you a foreigner?

 

How many are you and alien?

 

 

Let’s define:

• Immigrant a person who leaves one country to settle permanently in another country

 

• Foreigner a person from another country, thought of as an outsider, an alien, a stranger (Job 19:15)

 

• Alien a resident from another country who does not have citizenship in the country of residency

 

 

So let’s ask again…

 

How many are you an immigrant?

 

How many are you a foreigner?

 

How many are you and alien?

 

The word “immigrant” is not in The BIBLE, but there are some famous immigrants:

• Abraham (Gen 12:1, Acts 7:3-4)
• Elimelech, Naomi, Mahlon and Chilion (Ruth 1:1-2)
• Ruth (Ruth 1:5-22)

 

Know any famous aliens? The Israelites (Acts 7:6, Exd 22:21)

 

GOD will hear the prayers of the foreigner, that HIS NAME may be proclaimed in all the earth (1 Kin 8:41-43)

 

GOD accepts the foreigners (Isa 56:3)

 

A foreigner or alien shall be treated like a native (Exd 12:48-49, Lev 17:12, Lev 24:22, Num 15:16)

 

Shall not be mistreated (Exd 22:21, Exd 23:9, Lev 19:33-34, Jer 22:3, Zec 7:10)

 

The widow, the orphan, the needy, the Levite and the stranger, must be taken care of (Lev 19:10, Deu 14:29, Mat 25:35-44)

 

 

 

What does our Beloved LORD GOD say about immigrants, foreigners and aliens?

 

We are aliens or strangers in the world (Psa 119:19, Psa 39:12, 1 Chr 29:15, 2 Cor 5:6, Heb 11:13-16, 1 Pet 2:11, Jhn 15:18-19, Jhn 17:14, Jhn 17:16)

 

He who touches you, touches the apple of MY eye (Zec 2:8, Psa 17:8)

 

Touch not my anointed (Psa 105:15, 1 Jhn 2:20, 1 Jhn 2:27, 2 Cor 1:21)