UNDERSTANDING IMMIGRATION AND MIGRATION

Psalm chapter 2






Today we are walking in: Understanding Immigration and Migration








Today we look to the word-KNOWLEDGE- H847 da'ath--knowledge, perception, skill, discernment





The Torah testifies.....................


Genesis 2:9


And out of the ground made Yahuah Elohiym to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. BERE'SHIYTH (GENESIS) 2:9 את CEPHER



Genesis 2:17


But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die. BERE'SHIYTH (GENESIS) 2:17 את CEPHER



Exodus 31:3


And I have filled him with the Ruach Elohiym, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, SHEMOTH (EXODUS) 31:3 את CEPHER


Exodus 35:31


And he has filled him with the Ruach Elohiym, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; SHEMOTH (EXODUS) 35:31 את CEPHER


Leviticus 4:23


Or if his sin, wherein he has sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish: VAYIQRA (LEVITICUS) 4:23 את CEPHER


Leviticus 4:28


Or if his sin, which he has sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has sinned. VAYIQRA (LEVITICUS) 4:28 את CEPHER


Numbers 15:24


Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the assembly, that all the assembly shall offer one young bullock for an ascending smoke offering, for a sweet savor unto Yahuah, with his oblation, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering. BEMIDBAR (NUMBERS) 15:24 את CEPHER


Numbers 24:16


He has said, which heard the words of El, and knew the knowledge of El Elyon, which saw the vision of El Shaddai, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open: BEMIDBAR (NUMBERS) 24:16 את CEPHER


Deuteronomy 1:39


Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it. DEVARIYM (DEUTERONOMY) 1:39 את CEPHER











The prophets proclaim..................


1 Samuel 2:3


Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for Yahuah is an Elohiym of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. SHEMU'EL RI'SHON (1 SAMUEL) 2:3 את CEPHER


1 Samuel 23:23


See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Yahudah. SHEMU'EL RI'SHON (1 SAMUEL) 23:23 את CEPHER






Nehemiah 10:28

And the rest of the people, the priests, the Leviyiym, the porters, the singers, the Nathiyn, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the Torah of Elohiym, their women, their sons, and their daughters, everyone having knowledge, and having understanding; EZRA V'NECHEMYAHU (NEHEMIAH) 10:28 את CEPHER


Isaiah 8:4


For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Shomeron shall be taken away before the king of Ashshur. YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 8:4 את CEPHER


Isaiah 11:9


They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Yahuah, as the waters cover the sea. YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 11:9 את CEPHER


Isaiah 28:9


Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 28:9 את CEPHER


Isaiah 32:4


The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 32:4 את CEPHER



Isaiah 33:6


And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times, and strength of yeshu`ah: the fear of Yahuah is his treasure. YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 33:6 את CEPHER


Isaiah 40:14


With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding? YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 40:14 את CEPHER





Jeremiah 3:15


And I will give you pastors according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. YIRMEYAHU (JEREMIAH) 3:15 את CEPHER






The writings bear witness.............



1 Kings 9:27


And Chiyram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Shalomah. MELEKIYM RI'SHON (1 KINGS) 9:27 את CEPHER


2 Chronicles 1:10


Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this your people, that is so great? DIVREI HAYAMIYM SHENIY (2 CHRONICLES) 1:10 את CEPHER


2 Chronicles 1:11


And Elohiym said to Shalomah, Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor את the life of your enemies, neither yet have asked long life; but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king: DIVREI HAYAMIYM SHENIY (2 CHRONICLES) 1:11 את CEPHER


2 Chronicles 1:12


Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto you; and I will give you riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had that have been before you, neither shall there any after you have the like. DIVREI HAYAMIYM SHENIY (2 CHRONICLES) 1:12 את CEPHER


2 Chronicles 8:18


And Churam sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Shalomah to Ophiyr, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to King Shalomah. DIVREI HAYAMIYM SHENIY (2 CHRONICLES) 8:18 את CEPHER


2 Chronicles 30:22


And Yechizqiyahu spoke comfortably unto all the Leviyiym that taught the good knowledge of Yahuah: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to Yahuah Elohiym of their fathers. DIVREI HAYAMIYM SHENIY (2 CHRONICLES) 30:22 את CEPHER


Ruth 2:10


Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in your eyes, that you should take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger? RUTH (RUTH) 2:10 את CEPHER


Ruth 2:19


And her mother in law said unto her, Where have you gleaned today? and where wrought you? blessed be he that did take knowledge of you. And she showed her mother in law את with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought today is Bo'az. RUTH (RUTH) 2:19 את CEPHER





Job 34:2


Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. IYOV (JOB) 34:2 את CEPHER


Psalm 119:66


Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed your commandments. TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 119:66 את CEPHER


Proverbs 1:7


The fear of Yahuah is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. MISHLEI (PROVERBS) 1:7 את CEPHER






The Principle and Power of Kingdom Citizenship: Keys to Experiencing Heaven on Earth by Myles Munroe


Chapter 8-Understanding Immigration and Migration


When I look around this country that has new people from other countries coming in, whether legal or illegal because the governmental system of their original country is not working. Of course that is not only happening here in the US but other countries also. Every week people are moving and changing countries, seeking to improve their lives. If things work out they stay and we call them immigrants.

These people are willing to leave behind their parents, aunts and uncles, their cousins and their friends; they make many sacrifices to uproot their children and adjust to a new culture and language. Emigrating gives them no guarantees of security or permanency, but they risk it anyway.


Although this country is attractive to many of these people, the system here is failing a lot of families. They live on the edge of survival, anxious and disheartened about the future.
There are so many stories of hardships you can find several new ones on the news every night.


Even the best forms of government that people have decided are not working all that well. The very countries that are attracting the most immigrants have a lot of problems. For example, countries built on the ideology of free enterprise and capitalism have produced one of the highest extremes of rich and poor people, along with the problems such as crime that come with that disparity in wealth.


I believe that our system of government is one of the best, but our safety nets have a lot of holes in them. Almost everybody is living on borrowed money, and they are chasing their tails trying to pay it back. Part of the reason is that democracy itself is built on distrust. That is why we have the “separation of powers” in the branches of government and that is why almost everything turns into a power struggle. Most new laws or improvements come with a downside.


Desire For A Better Country


Sometimes I think the Most High is laughing at the governing authorities as they strive to make impossible situations better. In fact, I know He is. Look at this Psalm:


WHY do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahuah, and against his Mashiach, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: Adonai shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Tsiyon. TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 2:1-6 את CEPHER.


Built into human nature is this desire for a better county. Yet no county we have ever had in the world can measure up to the King’s country.


This search for a better country is in vain if you limit your search to the countries on the face of the Earth. In fact, the national situation from country to country is so changeable these days that the sooner you shift your allegiance to the only country that will never fail you, the better. We need to follow our desire for a better country straight to the Kingdom of Heaven. It is a good thing that there is such a thing as dual citizenship, because that is what you and I are going to have to settle for as long as we are living on this planet.


As long as your citizenship is on the Earth alone, you can be only as secure as the country you belong to. Changing your immigration status and adopting Kingdom citizenship along with your earthly citizenship is the sole way to truly improve your lot. “But my Elohiym shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Mashiach Yahusha. PHILIPPIYM (PHILIPPIANS) 4:19 את CEPHER, wrote the apostle Paul. The King is the richest of the rich, and the people who step under His kingship can expect nothing but the best and the most consistent provision, starting immediately.


Aliens


Immigrants are aliens. Not aliens from outer space, but rather people who came to the host country as strangers, often alone and often without many resources.


The Bible says that Abraham considered himself an alien. So did Moses. Along with him, so did Joshua and Caleb. Centuries later, Esther was an alien in the nation where she was queen. Deborah was an alien. Isaiah was an alien. What it comes down to is that we are all aliens. None of us came from here; we were sent here from someplace else.


In the letter to the Hebrews, we find a paragraph that looks back through history. It is about faith, but it is also about aliens. Look at what it says:
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore Elohiym is not ashamed to be called their Elohiym: for he has prepared for them a city. IVRIYM (HEBREWS) 11:13-16 את CEPHER


You and I are like them--citizens of a heavenly country, but aliens from the point of view of the Earth. We are people who happen to be located on Earth for the time being. That at that time ye were without Mashiach, being aliens from the Devariym of Yashar'el, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without Elohiym in the world: But now in Mashiach Yahusha ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Mashiach. EPH'SIYM (EPHESIANS) 2:12-13 את CEPHER


Nevermind what country you live in; none of them will be an improvement over your main country, which is Heaven. So although you may be a citizen in good standing where you live, you are also an alien there.


We need to recognize this fact before we have to find it out the hard way, migrating from place to place in search of the right one. You know as well as I do that sometimes migration does not solve a thing. One of the biggest failure stories in the Bible is the story of the Prodigal Son, told in Luke chapter 15. It is a story about a willful migration, broken hearts, regret, and repentance. Like all of Yahusha’s parables, it is ultimately a story about the Kingdom. Here’s how the story goes.


A widower had two sons who were young men. The younger son demanded his half of his father’s estate and he took off for another country, expecting to find a better life there. Once he got there he squandered his money foolishly and brought himself to ruin. Not only that, but the country he was living in started to have a famine. He was desperate, so this Hebrew boy hired himself out to a local pig farmer, who made him carry pig slop all day long. He was hungry, and that made him even more desperate. Finally, he came to his senses and realized that he would have to eat his pride and return to his father, from who he had fled.


This is a lot like the human condition, don’t you think? Starting with Adam, we have willfully removed ourselves from our Abba’s house, even though the earthly country we find ourselves in is in famine, relatively speaking. The best the world can give us is pig food, and not enough of that. We can’t trust the jobs we have or the supply of resources. No matter how wealthy the world looks on the surface, it is bankrupt.


The young man set his face toward home, rehearsing to himself what he would say when he met his father again.
“I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before you, And am no more worthy to be called your son: make me as one of your hired servants. LUQAS (LUKE) 15:18-19 את CEPHER


But he never got to finish his little speech, because his father was so glad to have him back. The father quickly ordered up the best robe and new sandals for his feet and put a ring on his finger. He told the servants to kill the calf they had been fattening for slaughter and to throw a big party to welcome home the son. The father restored his younger son to full sonship status in spite of all he had done.


If you know the story, you know that the older brother did not like this at all. In fact, he was angry about it. It is similar to what happens in our churches sometimes, when hardworking, loyal church members feel unrewarded for all of their efforts and refuse to celebrate when someone they perceive as a slacker gets too much attention. This older brother was legalistic and judgemental.


He had always tried to do everything his father told him to but he never expected any party--and in his jealousy he was determined not to participate at his undeserving brother’s welcome-home party. He did not realize that he was every bit as foolish as his younger brother, but in a less obvious way. He did not know that the Most High is not impressed by his lifelong hard work, even if it was in the Most High’s (or his father’s) name.


Of course most of us do not want to identify ourselves with the older brother, but what it comes down to is that we are a lot like him after all. How does this apply to the Kingdom of the Most High? Our Father, the King, is always welcoming his sons back, and we need to get used to it. Better still, we need to become better aware of our own status as a son in the Kingdom, so we do not have to run away to find out we left something good, and so we can live to the fullest as Kingdom citizens right here and now.


Once You Were Far Away


You and I are aliens either way. I know which kind of alien I want to be, how about you? I want to be an alien in my earthly country because of my Kingdom citizenship, and not the other way around. This is a very real choice and the Bible talks about it in so many words.


As soon as you and I receive our citizenship paper from Yahusha HaMashiach, we are restored back to heavenly citizenship status. From then on we will be aliens and foreigners in our earthly country, but we do not mind.
Our objective now becomes learning a new way to live. We have been restored not only in a legal sense to full citizenship, but also, like the son in the story. To full family status as well. It takes a while to unlearn a familiar culture and to learn a new one. In our case, we need to learn to live by faith instead of by sight. All our lives, we have been conditioned to live by sight. When problems come up, we look for solutions and we worry lest we fail to find them. We lose our jobs and we panic. We get a dire medical diagnosis and we despair. It can take years to learn a new way of thinking--which is the way of thinking that we were meant for all along.


In our original state, we were not worriers. Kingdom people live by discerning and faith, not by their five human senses and their wits. Nothing could be farther from the truth, because we have come back to our family. Not only have we obtained new constitutional rights, we have got the Most High who is Echad!! He welcomes us with open arms, regardless of where we have come from, taking care of us.


Our pig-yard rags get exchanged for new garments, and --assuming we decide to stick around the abide by the rules this time--we can have everything we need, forever. We have obtained not only our legal citizenship rights but much more, because we are related to our Abba.


Once you are back in the Kingdom, you no longer have to worry about anything. Every problem will be solved by our Abba.


Once you are back in the Kingdom, you no longer have to worry about anything. Every problem will be solved by your Abba’s government. All the wealth is common. It is a great country. Oh, and I should mention that the currency in your country is love. Everything gets paid for by love. For in Yahusha Ha'Mashiach neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith in fervent love. GALATIYM (GALATIANS) 5:6 את CEPHER.


Illegal Immigrants In The Church


Now to counterbalance that good news, I have some serious news for you: not everyone who seems to be a citizen of the Kingdom is one. It can be quite a shock to discover that one place you thought Kingdom citizens would not feel like aliens, in the church. Which is not much different from everywhere else. In fact, the church is full of illegal immigrants, people who do not even know that they are only pretending to be Kingdom citizens. They carry Bibles, dress up in nice clothes, and act nice. But they are illegal because they do not have Kingdom passports.


The biggest illegal immigrant that Yahusha ever met was Nicodemus, the Pharisee. (John 3:1-21) If you will remember, Pharisees were religious specialists. They dressed right for the job; they prayed many times a day; organized services. But when Nicodemus met Yahusha, he had one question: “How do I enter your country?” He knew he was missing something.


Yahusha told him about being born again, and we will talk more about that in the next chapter. But for now I just want to point out how many Nicodemus's we have in our churches. They perform their religious duties well, but they have no relationship with Abba. They talk the talk, but they have not switched their citizenship to the Kingdom.


They are a little bit like people who go to the Bahamas and try to act like the local people to fit in. They walk down Bay Street in front of the government buildings. They buy something from a shop. They eat some Bahamian food. They try to talk like a Bahamian, ‘yeah mon…’ but none of that brings them even close to being a Bahamian citizen.


Some of these church people have been religious for a long time, but they have not changed kingdoms yet. Others may have been born again at some point, but they have not moved into thinking like citizens of their new country. They need to investigate what it means to become legal immigrants in the Kingdom of Heaven. It is never too late but the sooner they do it, the better.


This King Wants You
The King does not sit idly while illegal immigrants erode the integrity for His realm. In fact, He does not hesitate to display the power of His Kingdom when necessary.

The apostle Paul, whose name used to be Saul, was an “illegal immigrant” at first, someone who was zealous in the extreme for his religion but who did not understand that he was fighting against the Kingdom of the Most High. Having been a student of the Rabbi Gamaliel, who was considered one of the top pharisaical scholars of the day, Saul was well-educated and motivated to make his fellow Hebrews follow every last one of the Hebrew laws. As a native of Tarsus, which was not a Hebrew city, he seems to have been more determined than others to be the best Hebrew possible, and he was also a Roman citizen.


Saul could quote Greek and Roman and poets. He had been exposed to a broader culture than many other Pharisees, but he was very narrow-minded when it came to the followers of “the Way,” the name the early believers were known by. In fact, he hated the Way with a passion. He felt it was distorting and perverting Judaism, and he was determined to defend his faith from what he considered a dangerous sect.
Using his influence in high circles, he obtained permission to hunt down followers of the Way. He wants to destroy them before they become too influential. He knew he needed to hurry. The original band of eleven men had grown to a hundred and twenty people in the upper room that claimed to have had an encounter with this so-called Mashiach Yahusha after He rose from the dead. Then it had grown to five thousand and it was spreading faster than anybody had expected. The “cult” was infiltrating the synagogues and people talked about miracles. Somebody had to stop them, and Saul wanted to be part of that effort.


He joined forces with others who were persecuting the Way and they killed some of Yahusha’s followers. They drove other followers out of Jerusalem and nearby cities and scattered them across the Roman Empire. To hunt them down, Saul went to the high priest, “AND Sha'ul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the Talmidiym of Adonai, went unto the high priest, MA'ASIYM (ACTS) 9:1 את CEPHER, in order to get a letter of permission to travel to the great trade city of Damascus northeast of Jerusalem.


He and his companions made it into the city, but not as they had expected to. Before they arrived, this is what happened to Saul:
And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Sha'ul, Sha'ul, why do you persecute me? And he said, Who are you, Adonai? And Yahuah said, I am Yahusha whom you persecute: it is hard for you to kick against the pricks. And he trembling and astonished said, Adonai, what will you have me to do? And Yahuah said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told you what you must do. And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man. And Sha'ul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus. And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink. MA'ASIYM (ACTS) 9:3-9 את CEPHER.


While he was there, the Most High spoke to one of the disciples who lived in the city, an ordinary man named Ananias. He told him to go to a certain street and to ask for
Saul of Tarsus, who would be expecting him. Ananias was fully aware of how dangerous Saul was, but he obeyed:
And Chananyahu went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Sha'ul, Yahuah, even Yahusha, that appeared unto you in the way as you came, has sent me, that you might receive your sight, and be filled with the Ruach Ha'Qodesh. And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized. MA'ASIYM (ACTS) 9:17-18 את CEPHER.


Saul’s baptism signaled his switch to the Kingdom of the Most High. His miraculous conversion changed him from being a legalistic, angry, defensive Pharisee into a tireless evangelist for the Way. He had an assignment to fulfill for the King. He was humble and contrite about his past. Soon he became to be known by a different name, Paul, which means “small” or “little.”


He never looked back toward his former status as a leader of the Jews. He had become as much a full citizen of the Kingdom as those who had walked with the Yahusha in person before His crucifixion.


The Power of Kingdom Knowledge




One of the psalms says, “A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come nigh you. TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 91:7 את CEPHER. That means everybody around you can get laid off in a recession, but it does not have to touch you. You can go to bed at night without anxiety. The company you work for can decide to downsize, or “rightsize” the company or go into bankruptcy and you can still sleep at night with confidence that your King is looking after you.




When you place yourself under the government of the Kingdom and understand what that means, you will be living under a power that cannot be shaken by the strongest winds. You will be protected and aided in everything you do.




Kingdom Authority




Yahashua promised that when a person becomes a citizen of Heaven and therefore a member of His household, that he would give that person authority: “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. LUQAS (LUKE) 10:19 את CEPHER. That authority is not meant for overcoming only snakes and scorpions--it covers “all the powers of the enemy.” Because of that authority, nothing will destroy a person who has it. What a deal!




That means that we can have authority to tread on every demonic power, every social resistance, every economic avalanche, every disease, every torment. We can become immune to anything that tries to harm us.




Kingdom authority refers to your personal rights to exercise your power through alignment with constitutional law. I consider it a very important Kingdom secret. You can’t have this kind of authority unless you are a citizen, and unless you exercise it as a citizen. You can’t fake it. The sons of a man named Sceva tried to do that once, and it did not turn out very well:




Then certain of the vagabond Yahudiym, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil ruachoth the name of Adonai Yahusha, saying, We adjure you by Yahusha whom Pa'al preaches. And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Yahudiy, and chief of the priests, which did so. And the evil ruach answered and said, Yahusha I know, and Pa'al I know; but who are ye? And the man in whom the evil ruach was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. MA'ASIYM (ACTS) 19:13-16 את CEPHER




How many times do we step out in what we think of as The Most High’s authority only to find out that it was not? We get mixed up. We confuse power and authority, because we see power and influence all the time, but we see true authority in action less often. A drug kingpin is a powerful person who controls a sizable network of other people and assets. But in truth, all he has is a lot of influence. “The authorities”- the police and higher authorities- have legal authority over his activities, and they can win out over him.




When the police move in on criminal activity, they wear or carry some symbol of their authority such as a uniform or a badge. Even to enforce simple traffic laws, the presence of their authority is indicated by such symbols. If you tried to stop traffic on Miami Highway, you could stand there in your street clothes and hold up your hand, but I do not think the 18-wheelers would stop for you. It sounds like a recipe for self-destruction to me. However, if you went out there dressed as a traffic officer it would be different for you. Your authority to stop traffic would be obvious.




Kingdoms have symbols of authority, such as the crown. The most important symbol of authority is the scepter. Queen Esther knew about that one. She may have been the queen of the land, but she had to follow protocol to the letter if she wanted to save the minority group her family was part of. Unless her husband, the king, extended his golden scepter to her when she entered his throne room, she would be killed for approaching so boldly without permission.




She risked it, and her people were saved. (The entire Old Testament book of Esther tells the story.) We can risk it, too, because we can come before our King as if we have put on the righteous garments of His Son Yahusha, who comes with us. The death order gets cancelled, and we can make our request. The King’s authority goes out with us to accomplish the thing we have requested.




It is all in Whom you know and what you know about His Kingdom! I can assure you--the more you know about the Kingdom of Heaven and the more you step out on that knowledge, the better your life will be.




Your Own Immigration


Although you and I will probably not experience such a dramatic conversion, we are no less called to an assignment in the Kingdom. We are called to become Kingdom immigrants.


It is my prayer that every leader who hears this teaching would be able to capture the spirit of the Kingdom and understand its culture and benefits more than ever before. May nothing stop you in your search of full citizenship. May you be eager to leave behind your old loyalties and seek adoption into the only country that can guarantee both your present and your future.


May nothing get in the way of its life-changing impact. May you attract others to it. (When people ask why you are different, you will have to confess that you are from a different country, because it shows in your actions and your lifestyle that is so high and so unique that people will want to join you in citizenship in your new country. May they ask you how to get in--which is the topic of the next session in this series.