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You gotta fight for your right to migrate.  Then Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s remarkable promise to fight for the right of everyone in the whole world to migrate to the US is what first prompted me to write this series beginning in June 2018.

“Mexican Presidential Candidate Calls Mass Migration to US a ‘Human Right,’ ” ran the Daily Caller’s headline on June 22, 2018.

No sooner had I finished reading this remarkable statement than I realized that I’d soon be writing my second extended series on immigration.

It may seem to some that Lux Lucet has become an immigration blog, what with the subject occupying such a large portion of my posts over the past two and a half years. My first series, Immigration, Citizenship and the Bible, took me nearly a year-and-a-half to write and represented my first extended effort on the subject of immigration.

So why, after spending all that time and energy completing on extended immigration series, did I start another one less than six months later? There are several reasons.

First, immigration is a fascinating topic, one that incorporates a number of my favorite fields of study. It’s part politics, part economics, part philosophy and part theology. What’s not to like?

Second, it’s a critically important topic. Parents, at least wise one’s, naturally want to pass their heritage to their children and to see them prosper in the way. In Deuteronomy, we see this expressed in the saying that the Lord keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love him. Likewise, we’re told in Proverbs that a good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children. Fathers are encouraged to raise their children in the fear and admonition of the Lord, and children to obey their father and mother. But if current trends continue in the US and in Western Europe, it may well be that in a few decades not a few of these nations will cease to exist in anything like their historic form. There may be a France and a Germany and a United States, but these could well be just legacy place names only, with the actual peoples that historically occupied those places and their cultures being largely or entirely wiped out. The destruction of one’s heritage is not a blessing, but a sign of God’s curse. If the public policies pursued by the leaders of a nation and its people result, not in prosperity for their posterity, but in their destruction, it is reasonable to conclude that those policies are contrary to the law of God and must be repented of.

Third, immigration is one of the most poorly understood topics. If one is to prevent the destruction of one’s society, one first must understand why his society is being destroyed. But discussions of immigration policy, being prone as they are to emotional outbursts, are, for that reason, not always fruitful. I’ve heard Daniel McAdams, a former Congressional staffer for Ron Paul and Dr. Paul’s current co-host on the Liberty Report, say that immigration was his least favorite topic because of the extreme positions taken by various sides on the issue. For this reason, it’s important to find a way to talk about immigration in a way that focuses on ideas and not on people.

Fourth, immigration is a major weapon on the Roman Church-State’s arsenal for imposing an updated version of the Holy Roman Empire, not on Europe only, but on the whole world. Call it scalable tyranny if you will. It is imperative to understand the danger of Rome’s immigration gambit, yet most Americans are clueless about this. Former White House Chief Political Strategist Steve Bannon, himself a Roman Catholic, understands, at least in part, why Rome pushes immigration so hard. According to him, “unable to really come to grips with the problems in the Church, they need illegal aliens, they need illegal aliens to fill the churches. It’s obvious on the face of it…They have an economic interest. They have an economic interest in unlimited immigration, unlimited illegal immigration.

Fifth, Protestants, who should be at the forefront of the immigration debate, generally are missing in action. Either they avoid the subject out of fear or ignorance, or, when they do discuss it, they show themselves the intellectual thralls of Antichrist. Instead of going to the Scriptures to understand the mind of God on immigration, they instead are satisfied with repeating the tired and unbiblical arguments of the Roman Church-State, tricking it out in Evangelical garb to sell Rome’s nonsense to the unsuspecting sheep.

Sixth, immigration is a topic tailor made for Scripturalists. Scripturalism, the Christian system of thought developed by Gordon Clark and John Robbins, holds that the Bible has a systematic monopoly on truth. If Americans are to solve the knotty problem of immigration, they will not do so by turning to secular economists or political theorists. They must turn to the Word of God and seek his mind on the matter. It has been the goal of this author to begin the process of applying Scripturalist thought to the critical issue of immigration policy.

Mexico, Mass Migration and the Example of Moses: A Summary

As I noted at the top of this post, it was a rather curious and disturbing statement by then Mexican presidential candidate, and now Mexican President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO as the Mexican press calls him) that he would defend the right of people from all over the world to migrate to the United States. Stop and think about how odd AMLO’s promise really was. Could anyone imagine an American presidential candidate, Donald Trump for example, running on a platform that promised to defend right of everyone in the world migrate to Canada? It’s unthinkable. Yet such rhetoric is, apparently, right at home in Mexico. “Why is that?” I asked myself.

The answer to that question, I noted in my first post in this series, is the deleterious influence of the Roman Church-State in Mexico. AMLO’s rhetoric was not original with him. He was simply expressing a common belief, a belief originating in the unbiblical teachings of the Roman Church-State, that people in need have a right to impose themselves on the people of the United States, because their need gives them moral title to the property of the American people. I went on to explain that this belief was grounded on Rome’s fallacious doctrine called the universal destination of goods, which itself rests on the mistaken idea that God, when he created the world, gave it to mankind collectively rather than, as the Bible teaches, to individual men individually.

I then followed up this introduction to the crucial idea of the universal destination of goods with a detailed look at two principal Roman Catholic documents in which the Church-State set forth it’s theory of migration. The first of these documents is called Exsul Familia Nazarathana (The Emigré Family of Nazareth, hereafter EFN). You can read my the posts in this series related to EFN
here, here, here, here, here, and here.

EFN is an Apostolic Constitution, meaning that it is the highest level of papal documents, outranking even a papal encyclical. This 1952 document by Pope Pius XII (aka Hitler’s Pope) represents Antichrist’s declaration of war on the sovereign nations of the world, with migrants being pressed into service as the his foot soldiers with the intent of subverting entire nations.

Next came a post on the Caravan. As you may recall, the Caravan from Honduras was much in the news in the weeks leading up to last fall’s mid-term Congressional elections. The group that had swollen to, some estimated, 15,000 people was wending its way from Honduras, through Mexico, with its ultimate destination being the United States. In this post, I explored how the Rome’s arguments for mass, taxpayer subsidized migration set forth in EFT were the theoretical framework of which the Caravan was the practice. Theory always proceeds practice. And it was Rome’s Antichrist pope’s who had laid the intellectual groundwork for the Caravan.

Parts 9-13 of this series focused on a second major Roman Catholic document on immigration, this one titled Strangers No Longer Together on the Journey of Hope (hereafter SNL). While EFN should be seen as Rome’s master plan for using migrants to subvert the Protestant Westphalian World Order, SNL is the application of EFN’s destructive dogmas specifically to the circumstances of the United States and Mexico. You may read my analysis of SNL
here, here, here, here and here.

As bad as it is, Rome is not the only source of destructive immigration policies. As I noted above, there are plenty of ersatz Protestants who show themselves eager to serve the cause of Antichrist by promoting his evil immigration policies. In posts 14, 15 and 16, I set out to expose the treasonous activities of an organization calling itself the Evangelical (sic) Immigration Table. You may read these posts here, here and here.

Posts 17-21 are in part a review of Rome’s destructive doctrine of the universal destination of goods as well as a refutation of it. Post 17 serves as an introduction to this part of the series, 18 and 19 focus on the universal destination of goods, while posts 20 and 21 form the refutation of this ungodly doctrine. Worth noting is that the refutation found in posts 20 and 21 rests on John Robbins’ 1973 doctoral dissertation The Political Thought of Sir Robert Filmer.

Post 22 is a discussion of the long promised example of Moses. My intent here is to show that – contrary to the demanding, hectoring, entitled attitude expressed by migrants under the influence of the incompetent economics and politics of the Roman Catholic Church-State – Moses had no such notion that the need of the Israelites gave them title to the goods of anyone. Rather than claiming his right to take the property of the Edomites and the and hose who dwelt in Bashan, Moses and the Israelites went out of their way to respect the territory and the property of the people of these nations. If ever a people had a right to insist on their rights under the aegis of the doctrine of the universal destination of goods, it was Moses and the Israelites. They were, after all, on a mission from God. Yet they never so much as mention any notion that their neighbors are obligated to turn over their property to them. This account represents the practice of the original private property order established by God at the creation of the world in Genesis.

Final Thoughts

It is this author’s hope that Mexico, Migration and the Example of Moses has been helpful to you, the reader, in thinking through the issue of immigration. My strategy in this series has been to focus, not on the sound and the fury of the immigration headlines, but on destroying the theoretical foundation of the false ideas that control the conversation about, and practice of, immigration. And that theoretical framework, built as it is on the universal destination of goods, is the work of the Antichrist popes, the aim of whom is weaken and destablize sovereign nations by mass, taxpayer subsidized immigration, with the ultimate goal of ushering in one world government.

Seen in this light, immigration no longer is a fight between warring ethnic factions, but between the Christian economic and political system of limited government and private property – a system that John Robbins termed constitutional capitalism – and the tyranny of the incompetent system of economics and politics as advanced by the papal Antichrist and his henchmen in organizations such as the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.

This author would like to publically acknowledge his great debt to the work of late Dr. John Robbins, without whose insights this series would not have been possible. This debt can be seen in the many overt references to his work throughout this series, and more subtly in that his work has been the starting point for additional research on Rome and immigration done by the author himself.

If anyone would like to get an education on the dangerous economics and politics of the Roman Church-State, I cannot recommend highly enough Dr. Robbins’ 1999 book Ecclesiastical Megalomania: The Economic and Political Thought of Roman Catholic Church. In the opinion of this author, Ecclesiastical Megalomania may well be Dr. Robbins’ finest work. And given the high quality of his body of work, this is high praise indeed.

Although I am brining this series to a close with this post, Lord willing, this will not be the last article I write on immigration. It would not shock me in the least if at some point in the future I once again take up this subject in the form of a series. But for now, my intention is to turn my focus away from immigration to explore other topics such socialism. As anyone who pays even a little attention to the news likely knows by now, socialism is the hip new thing. Only it’s not new, and the tyranny implied in the socialist system of thought most certainly is not hip.

In closing, I would like to thank you, my readers, for your support in this project. It is my prayer that this series has been edifying to you. Special thanks go to John Bradshaw for his tireless work editing out all my typing errors, for his encouragement, for his prayers and for his fellowship in Christ Jesus.