Speaking of Global emigration patterns
Deuteronomy 28:43 “The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
Yeah … good news indeed. Just look at what a bang-up job we are doing already with all the world who has already come here. Why the Gospel is changing everything and everybody. The world who is coming here is converting hand over fist. Racial harmony is everywhere, abortion is down, minority on white crime is almost non-existent. Just imagine how successful the Gospel will be by 2046.
This is cowardice. Mohler is trying to turn Lev. 26/Deut. 28 upside down and pretend that what they describe as a curse is actually a blessing. Mohler’s out (consistent also with R2K) is to say that these verses of blessings and cursing no longer apply and that they only applied (or still apply) to Israel. The issue is that this requires us to believe that what God calls a curse on one nation is actually a blessing on other nations.
Now let’s be clear here. The point is not that we should not preach Christ to all who come within the sound of our voice. The point is that it is foolish to flood one’s land with peoples who are strangers to our faith, our customs, our history, our language, and our culture and who often hold antipathy to the same. Yes, we must herald the Gospel but all because we must herald the Gospel that doesn’t mean, contra Mohler, that it is good news that we are being flooded with those who are making the visible church exiles in the land of their Christian Fathers.