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Dr. Jim Garlow is a lifelong pastor who most recently served in San Diego, California, and now leads Well Versed, a ministry dedicated to bringing biblical
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From Well Versed to Border Crisis 0:10 Well, we welcome you. We're on chapter 37. Chapter 37 of reversed from culturally woke to biblically awake. Chapter 37,0:22 boy, is this a hot topic, the border. In 20 16, I wrote the book Well Versed. I've referred to that before before. This is a book that came out listing the0:33 biblical foundation of 30 political topics. It's the first in this series. And in there, I addressed the border situation. I had to update it quite a bit when I came to discussing this0:45 issue in the most recent 1. Why so much had changed? Now what was the background to my writing in in 20 16 on this book well versed, volume 1 here?0:58 That was that a number of years ago under Ronald Reagan, there was an amnesty program. There were so many illegal aliens in the country. Yeah. We're we're allowed to say those words in the country, and there1:09 was agreement to do an amnesty, allow those who were here to stay in a pathway to citizenship, and then they would close the doors and get their act together. And so1:22 that did not occur. And so by when I wrote the book of 20 16 on this, there was another problem of a lot of people in the country who were undocumented or, let's use that word that's so controversial,1:34 illegal. And so I proposed a pathway to legality, not a pathway to citizenship. I I thought it through carefully, and I thought, what's what are the1:46 scriptural principles at stake that I can appeal to that seem like we'd work our way through this? I frankly thought I would get a fair amount of criticism from them. I actually didn't didn't get any that1:58 I'm aware of. And I laid out this pathway to legality, not a pathway to citizenship, where there was a recognition that laws had been violated, but an attempt to2:10 accommodate the situation we found ourselves in. And I did that thinking wrongly that our government would get its act together. It didn't. David Barton and I coauthored a book called This2:22 Precarious Moment, and we laid out the 3 steps that need to be taken. And thanks to Dayton David Barton's profound understanding of the history of America, that book covers2:33 also, thanks to him, it covers an incredible walk through of how our founding fathers understood dealing with immigrants. And and they had a brilliant understanding of it, and I would2:45 submit they were quite scriptural in their approach. Now again, as I wrote that book in 20 16, I assumed our government would literally get its act together, and it did not. And little did I know that under Joe Biden,2:57 20000000, it's possible that way more than that. Some people are saying higher numbers. I don't know what that number is. People who had come into the country illegally. I wanna walk you through 1 of the words I3:09 covered in my book, Well Versed, and, some words we just need to be aware of in the Hebrew language that give us some clues to how to handle this issue and how to understand their nature of immigration.3:22 The the reason is because I wanna have a biblically grounded compassion for the immigrant. But I don't wanna lead listen to, I'll call it the bleeding heart liberal, who milks us for a false3:34 understanding of the nature of compassion and damages the very country that God has raised up called America. In the Hebrew, there are 3 words, 3 key words, there's actually some others, before for the3:46 word stranger or immigrant or for the word foreigner that's living among you. Now3:58 when I say the bleeding heart liberals, let me give you an example. Some of the leftists will say, well, welcome the the scripture says to welcome the stranger. I have hospitality to the stranger.4:10 Well, in Eastern culture, hospitality is a highly regarded virtue. There's no doubt about that. But they misuse and they abuse the text. They'll even say, Jesus Jesus had to flee from he had to4:22 go down to Bethlehem. He was he was a foreigner in a foreign land. Well, no. That was actually the country of his ancestry. That's why they were there. They were there for the senses. Well, they say, well, he went to4:32 Egypt. He was forced into Egypt. He was forced into to seek asylum, and so he's in a foreign country. And so he was an illegal immigrant. No. Egypt was a part of the4:44 Roman Empire. The Roman Empire was 1 nation. It'd be like going, from California to Arizona. It's like crossing state lines, back in that day and time. It was all a part of 1 empire.4:56 So just completely false statements. And those are used to manipulate. Let's understand what the nature of of of immigration is in terms of the Hebrew scriptures. The first word is5:07 ger. This is the immigrant that comes into your land, comes legally into your land, and wants to go by your rules as a nation, your traditions, your5:19 customs. Your God shall be my God, your people shall be my people. Kind of Ruth like Ruth When she embraced, her mother-in-law her mother-in-law and her mother in law's nation, her mother in law's God,5:32 we welcome that kind of immigrant. That's a that's a good kind of immigrant to have. And we have many people in our nation that are immigrants that have come from other countries who bless this nation because they5:44 come as a gear. There's a second 1. It's nakar in the Hebrew. What's nakar? Nakar has the meaning of being a temporary5:55 person. It could be like a student visa. It could be a temporary work permit. This is a good kind of immigrant but they don't overstay their visa. They understand6:07 legalities. They respect that. So maybe they're here on a 2 year student visa or maybe they're here on a worker permit for 1 year or whatever. That's a good kind of immigrant and we welcome and we6:19 should welcome that kind of immigrant. This comes from the Hebrew words from the Hebrew scriptures, what we call the Old Testament or what's called the Tanakh. There's another kind, that's the Tsar. What's the6:31 tsar? This is 1 who is invading army. This is 1 who comes with nefarious intent. This come this 1 doesn't deny, their nation, renounce their nation they come from. They would6:43 come carrying the flags of the people the place they come from. The the czar is the 1 who comes in violating the law by coming the way they come, and they violate the laws. They don't embrace the values of that culture.6:55 This kind of immigrant needs to be removed. We welcome those who come legally. A nation needs them, a nation wants them, a nation welcomes them. This7:06 we do not welcome. Those 3 words right there provide a tremendously clear understanding of the immigration issue. Don't let someone manipulate you and say, well7:18 you're not welcoming the stranger, you're not welcoming the immigrant, you're not welcoming the foreigner. Yeah we do. Welcome 1 who comes legally. We welcome 1 who even comes on a temporary work permit and honors it by7:29 leaving when that time is up. The czar is the 1 who comes with ulterior intent. They come illegally and they may once they not only they're illegally the way they entered, but7:41 they may be even illegal in the way that they they function at that particular time. I've gone to 3 different border schools. 2 was put on by a friend of mine, and the third was put on, by7:53 an individual who was as connection in high places. I'll just say it that way. And, we went down to the border on 2 of those schools. And 1 of them was to the CPC, Central Processing Center,8:05 in the very south part of Texas on the border. Learned a lot on those days and it's times of training we went on that. In the, Central Processing Center, people8:18 were coming in. This was during the Biden administration. They were coming in by the thousands every day. 5, 6000 a day. After that, it jumped, I think, as high as 12000, per day. Just strains coming8:30 through. Ironically, on the time we were there, all the persons, every single person who was lined up, who had been taken the night into custody the night before, that was lined up where we8:41 were, every single 1 of them were young, male, military age, Chinese. China's a long ways away from our southern border.8:53 But that's what they all were. And then we went to the back of the CPC where they were having been processed and were ready to be released. Given their free cell phone and their cash. And every single9:05 1 in there was a male military Chinese except for 2, and those were Chinese females. Now it's not that they're the only country coming. There's 1609:17 nations that were coming across during those Biden era when maybe 20000000 or so came into the country. They were when they get to central processing center, you had climate control, very sophisticated9:29 climate control rooms. All kinds of gauges on the outside of each room. People were sleeping, and they were provided hot meals. They have to be out of there by 72 hours, and so they're9:41 processing asking information on them. Of course, as I later found out, they know virtually no information about any of them coming in. They know who know who they are, and they're being released with cash.9:53 They're put on airplanes. This was during the Biden administration, flown to wherever they wanted to go, and housed in in very nice hotels at the cost of the American taxpayer. Every time we'd fly into our San Diego10:04 airport, it's where I live, San Diego. Every time we fly in there, like midnight, returning home from speaking engagements and stuff, there was all these people all over the floor lined up, all with their cell phonesHebrew Words for True Biblical Immigration 10:14 being charged up constantly, every single time. We got on planes multiple times where before first class was put on, I don't fly first class unless I get bumped up there, but before first class even got10:26 on, here were here were these people with papers all with matching backpacks, generally very, very young. I've seen them as young as a group of 4 boys 1 time. I I10:37 estimated that they were maybe as young as 9, as old as 12, 13. I don't think 15, but but 4 boys by themselves coming into the country.10:49 We've sat by people on planes who could not speak English. My wife communicated through Google Translate with them and found out they had just arrived. And they were from Africa and, on their way being11:01 flown, I think in that case, to New York City to be housed housed there, American taxpayer. A complete mishandling of how the whole issue is supposed to be. I'm not telling you anything you don't already11:13 know. Everybody's aware of what we're talking about. Hundred and 60 different nations. You know, you think of if somebody travels, say, 1600 miles from Guatemala or whatever, comes to Texas border. That's a long walk. It11:25 always intrigued me. I'm a guy who happens to be overweight, and I'm not proud of it. I'm ashamed of that. But if I walked 1600 miles, I I wouldn't be overweight. And I don't see I don't understand why it was that these11:36 caravans massive amount of caravans. Here they are arriving, and they have clean clothes and nice nice, athletic shoes, and many of them overweight. How is that possible? People who walk 160011:47 miles don't generally look like that. It was obviously because of USAID dollars going into various charities that were actually moving them intensely as we all know the stories of that of that now.11:59 Is that a good thing? No. That's not a good thing, and I'll tell you why in just a moment. But 160 different nations, China is 7500 miles away. And yet in my own county of San Diego12:11 County, there's a place where the where the where the the the Chinese, illegal aliens would come across the border, a specific place just east of San Diego, the city of San Diego,12:23 going out towards the desert. And a and a guy who lived in that area says, let me tell you what happens right here. He says, see all those those tracks in the sand there? That's the big turnaround for all the buses. It's12:33 where the Chinese come over the mountain, and this is where they meet. And then later, he took me to into the city, El Centro. He says, see this hotel, that's where they house them here before they start moving them all12:44 across the nation, the Chinese. I think something like 21000 Chinese had come in to San Diego County alone. Illegals. Who are they? We don't know. They're military age. Males. Is that a good thing? Of course12:56 not. It's absolutely not. That's czar. We should be aware. Our government should never have allowed such a thing during the Biden administration. And then we went to that hotel he showed me, and sure enough, there were13:06 the unmarked white buses, that were that were moving these these, Chinese illegals, in into the heart of our country, wherever they they they wanted to go. So it's a tragic mismanagement13:18 horribly, horribly managed by the Biden administration. Our agent the agents, the border patrol agents, we were down the border. And they when we were down there, they reported 14 of them had committed13:30 suicide, during that time frame because there was so much pain in trying to do their jobs, and they were allowed to do their jobs. On top of that, the the the lack of13:41 compassion for particularly women and children in these caravans where they were sexually exploited, and some of them were murdered. They took us to locations where they found bodies13:54 and and bodies of of of little babies. These the people who are border patrols, many of them were ex military. They served in military, then they went into border patrol related work. And14:07 most of them reported that we've seen far more death. This is from Thea talking to us. We've seen far more death right here on this border than we ever saw in action in military. The pain, some of14:18 them, they described individual bodies floating in the water not because they couldn't swim and they drowned, but because they didn't have enough money to pay the cartel. So the car pay cartel just killed them right14:28 there. And by the first border school I ever went to, I think it was the first or second, this is the first. They told a story of what the cartel had done to a border patrol agent's daughter.14:42 And it's an image, I'm not gonna repeat what it was because it was so graphic, it was so horrible. I can't get that image out of my mind of how much pain and suffering is going on the border.14:54 When it went we went from Joe Biden to Donald Trump, and that change, it dropped 98 percent overnight, literally. Dropped instantly. We didn't need new policies. We need,15:05 as Donald Trump said, a new president. I would ask the agents in uniform. They had to be careful what they said because they were in uniform. They were working for then Joe Biden as president. And I would say, what's why15:17 is there so much coming through? Has there been a change in the law? They'd say, no. No change in law. The law's the same, but just change in policy. That was a nice way of saying, we're not following the law. We're15:27 violating the law. The most amazing thing to me during that time frame, was watching Alejandro, Mayorkas, Homeland Security secretary,15:39 watching him when he's interviewed by Congress, and he would say over and over he's the most effective liar I've ever seen. He would say over and over, the border's secure, the border's secure. I've never seen anyone lie15:48 so effectively, with a straight face, without flinching, the border's secure. And and while those congressional hearings were going on, the news agencies would sometimes put on a split screen, and you see the people16:00 pouring across the border. What did he mean when he said secure? And then secure, and we're getting information on each 1 as they come in and then turning them loose. That's what security meant to him.16:12 And and and so I asked a guy who had been the top level of 3 different asset, border patrol ICE, and another 1, a guy who'd been at the top level of the only guy I know who's been at the top level of all 3 organizations.16:24 I said, what do we know about these people coming in? She said, we know absolutely nothing. All we know is what they give us. It goes into the computer. Now if they come in with a record, if they come in with a record,16:34 we we know that, we know something about them, then we can block that person from entering, but we don't know anything about them. And so we assume everybody's just asylum. So they were pouring across our border in16:46 staggering amounts. What does our what does our border patrol need? Well, Donald Trump knew right away what they needed, and they they told us, the border patrol people themselves, said it's very clear. We need drones.16:57 Said we have about 20 drones. We need 90. Said you know how much the cartel has? It has between 360 and 400 drones. The cartel has more drones, more capacity to watch what's going on17:09 than our own than our own enforcement agents, on the border itself. He said we need a wall. Walls are effective. Now there I can just break in this for a little humorous story if I can.17:21 We were with some people who are former members of the cabinet. They were telling stories about Donald Trump, some kind of fun stories. And 1 of the stories was, Donald Trump was meeting with the people who were gonna17:31 build a wall. This was during his first administration, Trump 45, not 47. He was meeting with them, and he likes people in uniform. So the army corps of engineer came in, came in. They came in in in uniform. So17:43 here's what it's gonna look like. He says, I I I want the wall way higher than that. That's why that's too short. It's gotta be a lot higher. They said, well, we can't. We can't get the proper support to it. We can't17:52 build it higher. I said, well, of course we can. They said, no. We're we're unable to. We can't do that. So he phoned. He right in the White House. He phoned the guy who put the flagpole up, down at Mar a Lago. Now theEyewitness Border Chaos Under Biden 18:03 flagpole story is the story itself. He had it 50 foot high, and the city said you can't have it 50. You can have it 30. He fought with them forever, and they said we're gonna fine you 10000 a month. He did it for a year,18:12 dollars 120000. At the end of the year, he says, okay. I'll I'll I'll make the full flagpole, 30 feet, not 50. If you'll give that hundred and 20000 dollars I've paid you to veterans. So they agreed to do that according18:24 to the story been told. And then Trump went down and went back and had his had his people build a 20 foot mound and put a 30 foot pole on flock on top of it. So he still had 50 foot, in the air. Now18:36 another version of the story, it was 150 foot, not 50 foot. So I don't know which is accurate, but we do know the story of the hill and the mountain. I've been to Mar a Lago. I've actually seen that. But now back to the18:45 story of him meeting with the Army Corps of Engineer regarding the building of the fence. And he said, I want it a lot higher. So he had to call his flagpole guy. He said, yeah. All you do is this and this and this and18:55 this, this amount of concrete, this and this. And he said, okay. Do what that guy did. So he says, okay. We'll make we'll make it higher. And he asked questions a number of questions about the fence. He said, what kind19:05 of rebar are you gonna be using? And they told him. He said, oh, no. No. Remember, he's a construction guy. He's built a lot of stuff. He says, no. We're not gonna use that rebar. That's not good rebar. That won't last.19:15 We're gonna use this kind of rebar. Now when when have you had a president of the United States telling about the rebar in concrete? And then the next 1 was, what color is it gonna be? He said, we're gonna leave it kinda19:24 natural. He said, no. No. No. No. We gotta paint it paint it black. Make it nice. So they finally flew the president down to see the wall, nicely painted black. They painted 2 miles of it. They took him into the middle.19:35 So as far as he could see, it looked like it was painted. He got there and said, what paint did you use? They told him, he says, that paint and he used the word I won't use. He said, that that paint's horrible. That's19:45 that's my word. That paint's terrible. Redo repaint this and use this kind of paint. Give give us better kind of paint. Enough humorous about the wall, but I just want you to know that little backstory that we've heard19:55 directly from some of the people on the cabinet and some of the people in the West Wing. So they need drones. They need a wall. They they need they need cameras. They need all weather roads, and they needCompassionate Borders and Closing Prayer 20:07 cable under that roads. Those kind of things. Then you have a country. You have a country with borders. There's no country if you don't have any borders. I live in San Diego. I've crossed over to Tijuana. I see the board20:19 border wall there. I see those all weather roads. I see that myself. I've seen it in my own eyes, and it's needed. The bottom line is we've gotta stop the human suffering that's going on, enormous suffering. The20:31 the the immigrants have been coming in under the Biden administration. It's like a modern trail of tears. A trail of tears when the Native Americans were driven across America and so many, what we used to call Indians,20:41 Native Americans died. A painful story. The trail of tears. Well, that's what that became. The amount of of of of of human trafficking, the amount of death, the amount of murder, the amount of rape20:53 is absolutely staggering to humanity. Nothing about that was compassionate. Nothing about that was compassionate at all. Let me just remind you as we close, we welcome. There's a stranger,21:05 the immigrant, the foreigner. These are words used in the scriptures. The bible has God is all knowing. He puts the truth in his bible. The ger, the 1 who comes legally and obeys and follows21:16 the customs of that land, the traditions of that land, we welcome the ger. We always have. And then the car, that's the 1 who comes temporary, the student visa. But they they they21:28 follow the law, and they leave when the student visa is up or the worker permit is up. But then the czar is the 1 who comes like an invading army. That's the 1 who come nefarious. That's the 1 who does not embrace.21:39 That's the 1 who enters illegally and who stays illegally. It should be that that 1 we have a right as a nation and obligation even scripturally to stand against. And now we're moving from culturally woke to21:50 biblically awake.21:53 Let us come before the mighty lord of hosts. God, protect our borders from any harm and danger. Keep our nation safe. You22:05 are the light and salvation of our nation, so we shall not be afraid. You are our fortress, protecting our borders from danger, so we shall not tremble.22:18 It is you, almighty king, who causes the enemies of this nation to stumble and fall. So we thank you, father, that you put a hedge of your protection around about us, that22:30 you secure our borders and guard our gates, That father, what will come in will be of you and of good, and all evil and all that's not of you will be expelled now.22:42 In Jesus' name, amen.22:45 We hope you enjoyed the video. Thank you so much for watching. Hey, don't forget to check out this discussion questions that are attached. Have a fun time studying, and we will see you in the next chapter.In this video 0:00 From Well Versed to Border Crisis10:10 Hebrew Words for True Biblical Immigration18:00 Eyewitness Border Chaos Under Biden20:00 Compassionate Borders and Closing PrayerComments No comments yet. Start the conversation.
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