Leviticus 19:33-34 is not a proof text for open borders. Since it’s currently being butchered all over the internet, I hope this helps.

Ruth (the Moabite immigrant) says it very plainly: “Your people shall be my people. Your God, my God.” - Ruth 1:16 Translation: the migrant accepts the culture of the destination country.

And also The same law applies both to the native-born and to the foreigner residing among you. Exodus 12:49 You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God. Leviticus 24:22

Do you really believe god sees borders from on high?

To reside temporarily... then leave.

It's pretty wild that you kick off the video claiming Leviticus 19:33-34 is being misused and then spend the whole time talking about borders, law, and order. The ironic thing is, all that stuff you mentioned actually backs up the point you are trying to dismiss. The Bible assumes borders exist both to mark responsibility and territory and, in some contexts, to provide protection, but always within God’s call to justice and mercy and acceptance of outsiders, not the exclusion of them. Sojourners were fully accountable to the law and yet commanded to be loved, protected, and treated justly. That's literally the same situation we have with immigrants following our laws today. The chaos we see now is not coming from people calling for humane treatment. It comes from the government’s mass round-ups, violence, and actions that ignore due process and constitutional rights, affecting people who have done nothing violent, along with American citizens. Speaking out for justice or peacefully protesting is not anarchy, no matter how anyone tries to paint it. Funny enough, the verses you quote from Exodus, Deuteronomy, Isaiah, Psalms, and Acts all show the exact opposite. God calls His people to justice and mercy. He expects outsiders to be treated with dignity and fairness. Following the law and showing compassion aren't opposites. They go hand in hand. Claiming today is somehow different only works if you assume all immigrants are criminals by default, which Scripture never does. In the end, everything you emphasize about order and law ends up proving the very point you are trying to dismiss. God wants us to enforce laws, yeah, but with mercy and actually caring about the people we're dealing with.

Romans 13:1 “Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities…” 1 Peter 2:13–14 “Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake.” The chaos at the border is the result of violating Gods word.

We’ve got a whole nation reading scriptures… love it!! 🤍

Excellent!

God is a God of Nations and Borders: Act 17:26  And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

Who is arguing for open borders? I don't believe in open borders, but I do believe that God's Word is not silent on immigration, and it is a travesty that many Christians are putting current-day politics above what the Bible plainly says about the sojourner or alien.

It's also not instructions to governments.

How about Exodus 22:21 “Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt."

you just butchered the teachings of our Savior. that all sounds great however, you missed the most important part of your argument, ... in the New Testament we read... Gal 3:28 "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus"....therfore, what borders? we are all children of God Almighty in Christ, what borders? sorry alisa, thats some OT thinking,...we all need CHRIST to solve every problem in this world... Love God, Love one another, period.

Nor the myriad of texts in Deuteronomy. They get lumped in, too.

No we are using the scriptures to defend American policy huh.

Agreed. So has does the Pope, someone who should know better, make such a Biblically incorrect and missing the target pronouncement. Seems he should be concerned with the lack of order that forces people to flee, and the crimes of forcibly breaking laws to "migrate" illegally.

PRAISE GOD! America 🇺🇸 can deport the bad Samaritans AND the good Samaritans alike!

Leftists love Romans 13 when they want to inject you with an experimental “vaccine,” but not so much when it comes to border-jumping, social-services-stealing illegals.

I’ll agree with this if we become a Church/State like Israel was. Since we aren’t, Jesus taught us to be humane to those who are downtrodden while still keeping things together. Solution? Find a way to make immigration obtainable and treat all with kindness while being lawful.

You did not exegete the text. You told us what it does not mean. Exegete the text and tell us what you learned and how you would apply it in your daily life.

Thank you for ALWAYS being Biblical. Last week I listened to your talk on repentance and you included Job. I am in Job (one chapter a day so today is 36) and boy, so much in there. You always break down God’s word to bring out “true truths.”

Thou shall not kill Thou shall not covet Etc etc People coming to the land should fit on with the rules of that land. Like the Good Samaritan be kind helpful etc etc

so why doesn't israel have open borders??????

At the least, please shave your head.

"Do you know what sojourners could NEVER DO in Israel? They could NEVER inherit land. They could NEVER take permanent possession of the land. They NEVER had a legal stake to the land. It was not theirs to have- it belonged solely to Israel." For the full sermon please see The call to "let our light shine" before men was not new to Isreal in Jesus’ day. It is the NT continuation of Israel's mandate to model God's character to outsiders. One of the reason’s God set Isreal apart was to show all the other nations of earth what it meant to live in relationship to a Holy God. As part of God’s grace to Isreal in favoring them, they were to show the same sort of kindness to others. Abraham, and by extension Israel, had been a stranger to God. Therefore, they were to treat others in the same manner God had treated them, with favor and kindness. Thus Leviticus 19:33–34, “When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.” So, case closed? We all know, some well-meaning people suggest this verse calls for unrestricted openness to anyone arriving at our borders. A careful look, however, at the text and context shows that's not what Scripture teaches. As with any text, misunderstanding even one word can lead us away from what God intends. What our modern sensibilities get so wrong is our failure to FIRST define what is meant by the word “sojourns.” SECOND, we need to know what it means to BIBLICALLY “do no wrong.” And THIRD, we need to know what it means to BIBLICALLY LOVE others. As a hint, in the same way the modern church hopelessly makes Jesus a God of mushy love, it has also hopelessly made a mockery of what it means to do no wrong as well. To begin, a sojourner is NOT someone who just happens to show up at your door someday asking for some bread. AND GUESS what, neither is a sojourner equivalent to an alien or foreigner. Sojourners and foreigners, or aliens, are identified by very different words in the Bible. The Hebrew is clear, there is one word which Hebrew uses to identify sojourners and one which it uses, in distinction, to identify foreigners, or aliens, and those it considered as being outsiders and not belonging to the land. Sojourners are most closely related to what we call legal immigrants, at least in terms of their legal status for being here. Foreigners, or aliens, are those who do not belong in the land, and if they are in the land it can only be for a special dispensation, such as to cross over, or some foreigners may come as emissaries. If they came for any other reason, they were considered enemies. Biblical sojourners are not random border-crossers, invaders, or hostile in sense to the land. Sojourners were never enemies of the land. They are individuals who came to live among other people groups, AND they had to submit to the nation's laws and customs. AND – they had to come with PERMISSION. In the Bible, sojourners are ALWAYS depicted as grateful residents, who have agreed to live according to the LAW OF THE LAND Moreover, they can only come to live as sojourners – BY INVITATION. The Israelites themselves, came to live in Egypt only upon Pharoah’s invitation giving them permission to do so. Gen. 45:18, “ come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.’” They were explicitly invited to come by Pharaoh. Even so, when they finally arrived, guess what they did? THEY ASKED permission if they could still come. Genesis 47:4–7 “They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land… now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.” Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you. The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. … Then (and only after asking permission and clarifying they were allowed to come) Joseph brought in Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh.” JOSEPH was the most powerful man in all of Egypt save Pharoah, and yet he himself as a sojourner, asked Pharaoh permission for his family to come.

The only problem is it’s not being butchered. Piper offered an observation of the text in his tweet, not an interpretation. You’re free to interpret the text, but don’t mischaracterize Piper’s tweet like you do with everyone else for clickbait.

Sojourner noun A sojourner is a person who stays in a place temporarily, without the intention of permanent settlement—someone who dwells for a time, then moves on. The root languages in concert denote a person(s) who dwell in a land and follows the deified law of said land(s)

it may not be a prooftext for open borders, but it certainly speaks to how "strangers" are to be treated while they are here.

So it's your assertion that an omnipotent deity who created an entire universe, can't put out a writing everyone can grasp? Seems a disappointment.

It’s the non-church crowd who loves to bend the Scriptures to suit their narrative

@DougWhittier62 I agree I am in Levitcus as I read in the morning.