The first mention of "alien" in the Bible is in
Exodus 18:3; And
therein the word "alien" is Hebrew
translated in Strong's
Concordance as:
1) stranger, sojourner
1a) a temporary inhabitant, a newcomer lacking inherited rights
1b) of foreigners in Israel, though conceded rights
Which things (scriptures, covenants) are an "allegory" and a "mystery"
to solve: allegoric mystery "written aforetime for our learning":
Romans 15:4; Galatians 4; Colossians 2:2. So what does the Bible say
about
aliens? It says they're strangers, sojourners, temporary inhabitants,
newcomers lacking inherited rights, foreigners (not Israel, of
Jacob-->Israel; not us of them-->us). Us-ward is neither of
them vs them who oppose themselves with law vs law is as loser vs
loser. Us-ward
allegorically speaks of pure grace (void of law) that is
neither of
such law vs law nor laws vs grace divisions.
Us-ward is not divided,
and especially not divided against itself as law vs law is, and as them
vs
them are. Hence us-ward is neither of Adam1 vs Adam2, since "as in Adam
all die".
Alienation: Modern Definitions
- in property law: legal transfer of ownership
to another part (alienation form His Grace via another law: transfers
ownership of you from grace to law);
- in medicine: medical term for splitting apart the faculties of the
mind (biblically double minded: law vs law; or naturally bi-polar: laws
vs grace);
- social alienation: an individual's estrangement from it's own
community, society, or world (eg: I am not of this world: John 8:23, I
am from above).
- Marx's theory: separation or antagonism of things that belong
together (law does not belong with mercy and peace, only grace
multiplies mercy and peace)
Alienated: spiritual alienation from God is
due to Legalism
In the natural, we use the modern term immigrant
or foreigner to
describe an alien, as someone who arrived, but is not yet a citizen,
and on probation, or adopted, till they gain proper citizenship and
rights; Then they are no longer an alien, but a citizen. In the
spiritual, even a child who
differs nothing from a servant (knows not
what his master doeth) could be an alien, alienated from God (Grace) by
legalism. When a child puts away law to
become a man,
reconciliation to God begins. When a servant puts away sacrifice (is of the
law) to be merciful,
then reconciliation to God begins. Colossians 1:21 notes alienated (shut out from intimacy
and fellowship) is akin to being enemies (law is enmity) of God, and
such occurs in your mind (not in God's mind); So we are exhorted to get
our mind renewed, to have the mind of Christ is the end of the law, to
become friends with God (Grace) rather than servants of Law. For Law vs
Grace are "contrary"
things and contrary things cannot co-exist in peace. So we are told
Christ is our peace who abolished
the law (the enmity).
When I became a man (man of child/man) I put away childish things (laws
of laws/grace), since my legalism alienated me from His Grace Mercy
Peace until I flushed all my law as if flushing dung to gain "Christ is
the end of the law", not the mend of law: Luke 5:36,37; Romans 10:4;
Philippians 3. For until I flushed my law as dung, it alienated me from
understanding grace
is sufficient simply means no law at all is required, because law
hinders (alienates). Grace helps (reconciles).
Impure
religion: arrives defiled by law, then
gets worse-end
by LAW<--Law.
(Vengeance is mine, saith the LAW to the Law;
which is vexation
of Grace)
Pure religion: grace & truth arrived
undefiled, remained unspotted
(unlawed)
Out Of
Church Christians are leaving churches that preach impure religion.
Parents can be alienating, become as
aliens, to their own children
Parents can be alienating their own children by
being legalistic instead of grace us. As such the relationship between
parent and child becomes alienation rather than reconciliation when the
child gets old enough to leave. Parental Alienation of children results
in a millstone necktie drowning, when connecting the biblical dots from
"forbid (law) them not", to other verses about a millstone.
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What does Bible say about aliens?
Verses about alien, aliens, alienate, alienated, alienating
alienation from God:
Exodus 18:3 And her two sons; of which the name of
the one [was] Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a
strange land:
Deuteronomy 14:21 Ye
shall not eat [of] any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it
unto the stranger that [is] in
thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou [art] an holy people
unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's
milk.
Job 19:15 They
that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
Psalms 69:8
I am become a stranger unto my
brethren, and an alien unto my
mother's children.
Isaiah 61:5 And
strangers shall stand and
feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien
[shall be] your plowmen and your vinedressers.
Lamentations 5:2 Our
inheritance is turned to strangers,
our houses to aliens.
Ezekiel 23:17,18 And
the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her
with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them. So
she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my
mind was alienated from her,
like as my mind was alienated
from her sister.
Ezekiel 23:28 For
thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand [of
them] whom thou hatest, into the hand [of them] from whom thy mind is alienated:
Ezekiel 48:14 And
they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the
land: for [it is] holy unto the LORD.
Ephesians 2:12,13 That
at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of
Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope,
and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye
who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 4:18 Having
the understanding darkened, being alienated
from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of
the blindness of their heart:
Colossians 1:21
And you, that were sometime alienated
and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
Hebrews 11:32-34 And
what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon,
and [of] Barak, and [of] Samson, and [of] Jephthae; [of] David also,
and Samuel, and [of] the prophets: Who through faith
subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the
mouths of lions, Quenched the violence of fire, escaped
the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant
in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
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