Small Boats, Bigger Plans

On Monday of this week, a record 710 illegal migrants crossed the Channel on 11 small boats, which the BBC reports as ‘the highest number in a single day so far this year’. Although the numbers crossing have fallen compared to this time last year, nearly 10k have made the journey so far this year. In addition to other forms of migration played over the last decade, and the many more likely to arrive, the population of Britain is being changed, dramatically, and irreversibly. Now I welcome migration when it is controlled, legal and beneficial to both migrant and receiving country, but I am certain that the 710 illegal immigrants, now settling into their hotels, will be less of a benefit than those who apply via embassies and according to law.

I am angry that this situation is occurring, though a part of me has much sympathy for the people themselves. Even if they are not fleeing war and despotic regimes (Monday’s 710 came from France, which is a well-managed democratic republic), I suspect that I, too, would wish to relocate to an island in which the government gives away free money, free hotel rooms and free healthcare to anyone who just shows up. Who wouldn’t?

Theologically, I see being fulfilled the prophecy of Daniel chapter 2, in which the Lord shows to King Nebuchadnezzar a vision of empires to come:

And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

The vision of a statue made of different materials ends with the feet of iron and clay, which may refer to the revived Rome (the modern-day West) weakened by massive migration (among other things), in which the peoples, though living in the same neighbourhoods, cannot get on. Today, we are partly strong and partly broken, and neither do we cleave to one another.

The globalists might think they are uniting the world by undermining the nation-state (which God established after Babel) but it was all seen from afar. Better still are the words that follow:

And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. (v44)

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