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Most @TGC tweets get a few comments/shares. This one got hundreds of both, many nasty. Some were offended by use of words. migrant/refugee to describe Jesus. But, Jesus WAS a refugee to Egypt. And, by Incarnation, he made himself nothing, put on flesh, dwelt w/ us, was rejected. https://twitter.com/tgc/status/1341769284889030656
2/ Some think refugees are illegal immigrants. No. Websters: “Refugee' came directly from the French word 'réfugié' with a very specific meaning: it referred to Protestants who fled France following the revocation in 1685 of the Edict of Nantes.”
Those fleeing persecution.
Those fleeing persecution.
3/ Migrants also aren’t “illegal.” Abram/Sarai were migrants from Ur to Canaan. “Hebrew” basically means “migrants from across the river.” The story of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph fleeing to Egypt to escape the rage of a vindictive Herod is a refugee story. Why is this controversial?
4/ Jesus put on flesh and identified with us. He was poor, rejected, no place to lay his head, was falsely accused and suffered under an unjust, oppressive system, thirsted, hungered, slept, laughed, wept, and really died. He also rose from the dead. In a real place. As a Jew.
5/ And he died to forgive and break the power of sin and death, destroy the devil’s works, to make all things new. @JennyYangWR explicitly points to Jesus as our hope and declares Him as the final word for the refugee and for all of us. This isn’t “wokeism.” It’s the gospel.
