Harry Jackson was the guest on “WallBuilders Live” today where the topic of discussion was “the difficulty immigrants have in gaining citizenship, which encourages illegal immigration.” During the interview, Jackson rolled out a truly incomprehensible theory about how President Obama was only enforcing immigration laws in order to make Republicans look bad … or something; we honestly have no idea what he was trying to say:
Now, one perversion of the immigration process would be that since the President and the current administration took office, they have enforced deportation and rounding people up in various places more than they had during George Bush’s time. And while they will not actually enforce the Defense of Marriage Act – DOMA – and think that’s unconstitutional, on the other hand, they have had more raids on immigrants to put them out of the country. And then they come down on the people in Arizona for being too hard on folks, and now, just weeks ago, there’s some legislation that let’s people stay, by executive order, let them stay in the country without going through a process.
So my concern is that the administration is playing a game of saying “hey guys, be afraid because you know the Republicans are not your friends and I only did what I did because I’ve got to enforce the law.” But it was really a process of demonizing one party versus another in an attempt to win an unfair advantage at the polls.
But one thing that was unmistakably clear was the point Jackson made later when he said that if we do not reject President Obama’s “ungodly agenda” by electing Mitt Romney, America will remain “under the chastening hand of God”:
Since 9/11, I believe America has been under the chastening hand God and the Lord is saying “I want to provide protection, provision, and freedom from plague or disease but you the Christian church within the nation have to return to me.” So I believe that if we go on four years more with the current administration, because our economic problems are spiritual and moral at root, that God’s displeasure is being manifest through the lack of finance and the lack of these things that we shared with you, the plagues and rejection are manifestations of chastening, the church has to vote the best it can our values, stop the onslaught of an ungodly agenda in America. And I think that if we do that, it will be the beginning stages perhaps of God saying “okay, I’m going to stop the process and bring you back to the place of blessing.”
