 Enter legally
The first requisite for anyone wanting to come to America is to enter
legally. That means that all of the laws that have been established in the
United States that relate to people coming here must be observed and obeyed.
It seems like a first grader could understand that requisite. If you want to
come to my house to visit me you knock on the front door, wait for me to
answer and then enter at my invitation. You are then welcome for a visit. If
you wait until midnight, break open the back window, crawl through it and
then hurt me on your way to the kitchen to take my food, you are not welcome
for a visit under those circumstances.
For generations people have come to America to seek a new life. America is a
country that was founded on the principle and practice of freedom. Freedom
is God-created within the heart of each person in the world and that voyage
of seeking freedom is burning deep inside those living on every continent on
earth. America’s individualism and entrepreneurial spirit has always created
an environment where people who are exercising their freedoms can grow to
heights never before achieved. People from all over the world have
recognized that for the past two-hundred and fifty years. For the most part
those people have come through the front door and have been invited in to
partake of the wonderful riches of freedom, hard work and the
entrepreneurial advantages this country offers. For those who insist on
breaking the back windows, we must ask them to step around to the front and
join those who are waiting in line to be invited in through the front door.
Learn the Language
Unification of any people group begins with language. Jokingly we pass off
the difficulty of learning a new language by referring to the children who
live in the country whose language we want to learn, “If a child could learn
it so easily, how difficult could it be?” We recognize that learning a new
language is not an easy task. It takes study, practice, many mistakes in
pronunciation, odd phraseology and patient persistence. But it also takes
assimilation with the indigenous peoples of that language’s region or
country. That is a first step in building relationship and culture.
We read in the tenth chapter of Genesis that Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham and
Japheth spread out across the earth and formed nations after the flood. When
those three had sons, nations were formed and settlement occurred. We read
the account of Japheth’s line,
“From these the coast lands of the nations were separated into their lands,
every one according to its language, according to their families, by their
nations.” (Genesis 10:5) “These are the sons of Ham, according to their
families, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their
nations.” (Genesis 10:20) “These are the sons of Shem according to their
families, according to their languages, by their lands, and according to
their nations.” (Genesis 10:31)
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 From the eleventh chapter of Genesis, however, we read about the
dispersion of the nations at Babel. The entire human population
spoke the same language and recognized the tremendous power that
unity and concentration had. They were going to build a city to
exceed the heights of heaven “to make a name for ourselves.” But God
had wanted them to spread across the earth to populate it, so He
“confused” their common language and gave them different languages.
On the basis of that language they grouped themselves and formed
their own communities and only then became obedient to spread out
across the entire globe.
America is a nation that is formed from immigrants from all over
the world. It is a nation that has risen from remnants of other
nations scattered across the globe. To be a strong nation it must
share in the commonality of a language that is known and understood
by each citizen. The culture is varied and rich in diversity,
therefore, language is the remaining constant that provides the
thread of distinction.
Study the History
Someone has said that if we are unaware of our history, we are
doomed to repeat it. Perhaps because we have established our
founding on the Judeo-Christian heritage we are constantly seeking a
study of where we have been.
For fear that future generations would forget, Moses wrote in
Deuteronomy 4:9 that,
"Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou
forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart
from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons,
and thy sons' sons;”
Surly it is important to teach the power and majesty of God. His
power and role in history for the "sons' sons" was so important that
one generation should not pass without each of the sons being taught
of the very source of salvation.
By contrast, without re-teaching one generation after another that
there is a history that is rich in our country, is to watch
succeeding generations of "sons" grow weary and faint and lose all
perspective of where America has come.
The outgrowth of that generation will be to perceive with blinded
eyes, turn the truth to a lie, and revise events to see wrong in
place of right, accept current, perverted things as good things, and
become the very ally of the true source of revisionist history. As
each succeeding generation follows along that path, the truth from
having lived and experienced past accomplishments and noble events
becomes less challenged and people begin to relegate those past
events of history as simply a harmless fairy tale of allegory.
People need to be awakened to the importance of learning the history
of America!
Part 3 will cover the remaining conditions for immigration into the
United States.
[By JIM KILLEBREW]
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