So the title of my message tonight, Immigration or Invasion? Immigration or Invasion? Let me put a disclaimer right away on this message tonight by saying that I am not against immigration, but I am against uncontrolled immigration. And more importantly, folks, the Bible is against it. You see, I'm not here tonight to give you my opinion. I'm here tonight to show you what the Bible has to say on this subject. And the Bible does have a lot to say on it, and we want to get to the Word of God tonight, and we want to ask the question that's found in the Bible, what saith the Scripture? Not what saith the preacher, but what saith the Scripture? So this is a hot potato subject, but there are times when we must address subjects like this. We cannot tiptoe nor pussyfoot around these subjects. And we shouldn't be afraid to approach them. We shouldn't be afraid to consider them as long as we have the searchlight of Scripture. So we're going to get the searchlight out tonight and we're going to try to answer this question. Is what's happening in our nation at the present time Just immigration or is it invasion? Is it immigration or an invasion? So let's try to answer that question tonight. And let me say before we go any further, thank God for immigrants who have come to our country and who are prepared to work. They are an asset to our community and we all know them. Perhaps we even have them in our family circles, and they've come from foreign lands, and they've settled here, and they work hard. Well, all I can say tonight is thank God for them. But the people that God's Word has a problem with tonight are those who come to our country, who enter our nation, but they refuse to work. unfortunately there are people in that category. I'm sure you remember on the 23rd of November last year in Dublin an Algerian immigrant stabbed three children and a care worker. He had been living in a the Republic of Ireland for 23 years. The only problem was he hadn't worked one single day. He was living off the state for 23 years. That is the kind of person that Scripture condemns. Maybe you say tonight, well, show me a scripture. Show me a Bible verse that speaks about this issue. Well, let's get the searchlight out right away, and you're gonna be turning to a number of different verses tonight, just so that you know that this is not my opinion, but this is what the word of God has to say on the matter. So first off, 2 Thessalonians chapter three. 2 Thessalonians chapter three. And we'll give you the page number. It's page 1,196. That's if you're using the Pew Bible. Page 1196. 2 Thessalonians chapter three, verse 10. Listen carefully. For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. Did you notice it? I'll say it again. Don't miss it. If any would not work, neither should he eat. If you're not prepared to work, you don't deserve to eat. It's very simple. That's what the Bible teaches. Do you know laziness is a terrible thing? And it's one of the scourges of our nation today. Idleness. Another reference for you, another verse that I want you to turn to tonight is the Old Testament, and it's Ezekiel. Ezekiel chapter 16, verse 49. Ezekiel 16 and 49. And again, listen carefully to God's word. Behold, we're on page 849, by the way, 849. Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom. Pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. So there you have it in Ezekiel 16, folks, the Lord is telling us why he destroyed Sodom. We know obviously that Sodom was destroyed because of homosexuality. But did you know that Sodom was also destroyed because of laziness, because of idleness, Fire and brimstone fell upon the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, not only because the people were engaging in what the Bible called an abomination, but they were also a very lazy people. They were a very idle people. And God does not look kindly upon this particular sin. And so let me say tonight that we have enough laziness in our own country, among our own people, without importing it from other places. So let's go back to the question we asked at the start, immigration or invasion? Well, it's the latter. I believe that we are being invaded today. You see, we sang that hymn earlier, that great old hymn, when evil smites, when foes invade. Did you notice that? When foes invade. I believe that we are being invaded in our nation, and in fact, we have been invaded for quite a few years now. That's not just a sweeping statement. Folks, I intend to prove to you tonight that we have been invaded. There's a question, of course, that comes right away. Why does the Lord allow this? Why has the Lord allowed us to be invaded? I mean, back in 1940, he kept Hitler out and the Nazis At the time of Dunkirk, whenever Hitler and his cronies were looking across the English Channel and it seemed, humanly speaking, it was the perfect time to invade, but somehow he didn't. And we know that it was a miracle of Almighty God that kept the Führer at bay and spared our land from invasion. So why is it that now in 2024 that the Lord has permitted us to be invaded? I believe it's because we've turned our backs upon him. We have disowned the Lord. We have more or less shaken our fist in the face of almighty God as a nation, as a people, and we have said to him, we don't want you. We don't want your word. We don't want your gospel. And therefore the Lord, in his justice, has taken away the shield of protection from us. In 1940, we had a shield of divine protection upon our nation. Not any longer, folks. Of course, the great need is for repentance and revival to come. And we as the church need to repent and we need revival. And we need to turn to God and cry out to him for mercy. But back to the question in hand. Let's try to establish tonight why an invasion is taking place and that by design. You see, what is happening in our nation and has been happening now for a number of years is being done by design, deliberately, on purpose. It's not an accident. Evil is afoot. Those in authority over us are actively trying to replace the indigenous Christian population with migrants from other religions, and it's called the Great Replacement. Remember that term tonight, the Great Replacement. Of course, this is nothing new. As the Bible says, there is nothing new under the sun. Turn with me now, please, to 2 Kings chapter 17, because there was a great replacement back in the days of Old Testament Israel in 2 Kings chapter 17. And if you go down to verse 24, 2 Kings 17, verse 24, We're on page 434, 434 in the Pew Bible, 2 Kings 17 verse 24. And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Eva, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria, instead of the children of Israel. And they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof. So what is happening here is that Israel, because of their wickedness, has been taken into captivity in Assyria. And the king of Assyria, he replaces the people of Israel with these people from other nations and from other religions. And so you have this great replacement that's taking place. in Old Testament days. So that which is happening in our day and generation is not some new thing. This has happened before. The king of Assyria, he wanted to stamp out the truth of God's word in Old Testament days. He wanted to snuff out the light of truth in Old Testament days, and how does he do it? He replaces the people of Israel, the great replacement. And it's happening in our day and generation. Most people are unaware that it's happening, but it is. And the figures bear this out. Let's take the UK, for example. As an example, our nation. At one point last year, 400 hotels up and down the United Kingdom were full of illegal immigrants. 400 hotels. These immigrants had come across the English Channel on dinghies. Listen to this. Costing the taxpayer eight million pounds per day. That's what it's still costing us on the 16th of June, 2024. Eight million pounds per day. And there was you wondering why the grass hasn't been cut. Startling figures. The BBC, of course, are doing their bit as well. Let me read to you from an article on the Prophecy Today website. White Britons woefully underrepresented at the BBC. White Britons made up just a third of BBC trainee journalists, taken on its flagship scheme between 2022 and 2024, despite whites comprising the majority of the population. So there you have it. White Britain's underrepresented, in fact, woefully underrepresented at the BBC. But maybe you knew that already. What about the US? You want some figures from the US? And one day last November, 14,000 illegal immigrants, or aliens is the term that's used in the States, 14,000 crossed the southern border into Texas from Mexico. That's in one day. One day. 14,000. Not legal immigrants, illegal ones. And then there's the Republic of Ireland. Do you know that last year, 125,000 migrants arrived in the Republic of Ireland? Think about that now. 125,000 in one year. I could go on and on tonight, folks. I could bore you with figures about cities across Europe, and now it's migrants who are in the majority. And we could go on and on tonight, but the point I'm simply trying to prove is that the great replacement is taking place. So the Great Replacement is in full swing with globalist Western leaders complicit in this scandal. But why are they doing it? What is their objective in it all? Well, they have a twofold objective. Their goal is twofold. So two aims. that the ruling elites have. Number one, the reversal of what God did at the Tower of Babel. The reversal of what God did at the Tower of Babel. And by the way, Did you know that the Amazon headquarters or the proposed Amazon headquarters in Washington, D.C. are modeled on the Tower of Babel? I saw a picture, the plans, the architect's plans for the Amazon headquarters in Washington, D.C., and they're exactly like the Tower of Babel. But this is the goal of the globalists in this great replacement of the Christian population. Their goal is to reverse what the Lord did at the Tower of Babel. Well, what did the Lord do at the Tower of Babel? Well, turn with me to Genesis chapter 11. Genesis chapter 11. So another scripture for you tonight, just in case you think that this is just my opinion. No, we're backing up what we say from the word of God. Genesis chapter 11, go down please to verse number six. And the Lord said, behold, the people is one, And they have all one language, and this they begin to do, and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth, and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord did there confine the language of all the earth, and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. So man, in Genesis chapter 11, man plans to build the Tower of Babel to settle in the plain of Shinar and he's being blatantly disobedient to the command of God to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, the whole earth. Instead, he's rebelling against his maker and he's determined to stay in this location. The Lord comes down and he scatters man's plans, and he causes the people to speak different languages. They're confused. They don't understand one another. So the people in each language group, they head off across the earth and form the different nations, all part of the sovereign plan of God. The nations, the nations of the earth, But what is happening today in our society, in our country, in our world, in fact, is that evil men are trying to undo this. And they're trying to bring the nations together and to bring us back to Babel. so that we become one world again, just as it was in Genesis chapter 11. Because there are plans afoot for a one world government and a one world religion. I mean, that's old news. That project started decades ago, I firmly believe. Another scripture for you tonight, Deuteronomy 32 verse 8. Just in case you can't really get a handle on this idea that the Lord ordained that the world should be made up of nations. Deuteronomy 32 verse 8. Let's try to understand that the Lord did not plan that we would just be one global nation, or as the elites talk about, one global village. No, the Lord planned that this world would be made up of many nations. So Deuteronomy chapter 32 and verse eight. We're on page 238, 2-3-8, Deuteronomy 32 in verse 8. When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. So the Lord divides the people into nation groups. And that happened at Babel, and that's what Moses is referring to here. But then you notice that Moses speaks about the bounds or the borders. You see, there are people today who argue for uncontrolled borders, open borders, just let everybody in who wants to come. Let everybody come and go as they desire. But no, the Most High has set the bounds of the people. according to the number of the children of Israel. He has given us borders and the borders are to be controlled. Nationhood is ordained by God. Do you know the word nation is mentioned, wait for it, 438 times in the Bible? You can check it when you go home. 438 references to the nation or nations. So this is definitely something that has been ordained by God. Do you know the Lord Jesus in Luke chapter 24 spoke about nations? Luke chapter 24. And I want to hear the sound of pages rustling, please, as we turn to Luke chapter 24. And I want you to go down, please, to verse 47. That's the verse that we're after. Luke 24, verse 47, on page 1,063. And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations beginning at Jerusalem. Among all nations. The plan of God was that evangelists would go forth into all nations. Has the church fulfilled that great commission faithfully? I'm afraid not. It's the great omission. The Lord doesn't say for outsiders to come to us, foreigners to come to us, and we'll preach to them when they come to us. Now, of course, that's what the church does. That's what we should do. But ultimately, the Lord is saying, don't sit back, church, and expect people to come to you. You go to them. Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations. baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. The Lord Jesus refers there to the gospel in verse 46 of Luke 24. Notice it, verse 46. And said unto them, thus it is written, And thus it behoved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day. The gospel, the glorious gospel. And folks, that brings me to the second reason why the ruling elites are engaged in this great replacement. It's not only to do with reversal, the reversal of what the Lord did at Babel, but it's about the removal of the gospel. The reversal and then the removal. You see, wicked men in authority today, they want to eradicate the gospel. They want to snuff out the light of the gospel, the glorious gospel that we cherish and we love. And Jesus tells us here what that gospel is. It's about the suffering of Christ, and it's about his rising from the dead. That's what it is, very simple. Christ's sufferings upon Calvary, his agony upon the cross, the shedding of his blood on Calvary, his death. The soul that sinneth it shall die, but Christ became sin for us. He became the great substitute. He died in our place. The wages of sin is death. We deserve the wages, but he took our wages for us. And because of his death on Calvary and his resurrection the third day, because of the empty tomb, then he offers us the gift of eternal life. And I know tonight that many of you have received that gift and you have no regrets about doing so. One final verse as we finish tonight, John chapter one and verse five. John 1 verse 5, you see, no matter what evil men try to do, they will fail miserably. According to John 1 and verse 5, on the same page as before, 1063, and the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not. Hallelujah. The light of the gospel, the light of the world, the Lord Jesus Christ, his gospel will never be destroyed. The light of his gospel will never be put out. The light of his gospel will always overcome the darkness. You know, it's amazing when you walk into a dark room and you turn the light on, what happens? The whole room lights up. Who won, the light or the darkness? The light. When you turned the light on, did the darkness win? Was the room still full of darkness? Not a bit of it, for the light is stronger than the darkness. Hallelujah, the light of Christ's gospel is stronger than Satan's darkness. Shall we pray?