It faced serious legal challenge because the policies were despicable and condemned across the world. Separating children from their mothers was evil. For those who choose their idolatry over the compassion of Jesus Christ realize that there are still around 1400 children separated, six years later. Yet Joel Webbon wants to go further down the heresy hole and pretend that it is biblical justice to instead of separating them, just killing them outright. Who among us has not asked that timeless question - who would Jesus shoot? Let us not lose sight of one other factor here. This article is not from Charisma News, or Christianity Today. It appeared in Newsweek, a most decidedly secular reporting source. Do you think this rhetoric is lost on the lost? Do you think they cannot see the insanity of this proposal? The sheer evil and hatred that Joel Webbon advocates for in the name of Jesus? Do you think anyone would want to listen to what we have to say about Jesus after hearing this psychopath make this argument for inane biblical justice? It is not just Webbon. He has over 25,000 followers on Twitter. That is how this brand of toxic NAR dominionism spreads like gangrene throughout the body of Christ. If you think the man who taught us to turn the other cheek if we are slapped secretly wants us to shoot and kill migrants so we can instill fear in people, then you do not worship God. You are engaged fully in idolatry.
"Republicans have promised to resume construction of the wall to curb the flow of migration, and GOP lawmakers argue it will deter human and drug traffickers. However, while Webbon frequently reposts Trump and vice-president-elect JD Vance's social media posts, Webbon's ideas and remarks are far outside of Trump's and other Republican leaders proposed policies. There are no proposed policy to shoot and kill migrants. Newsweek has reached out to Trump's press team for comment via email on Friday. In the episode, Webbon continued that the United States' needs a border wall, "We need guys on that wall, standing on top of that wall and if someone starts to approach the wall, there needs to be a warning 'back away,' if they don't listen to the warning they need to be shot and killed." Webbon said that killing some migrants "will be the more merciful option." "What will end up happening is you'll have a handful of people that will get killed and then thousands of people that don't experience the misery of coming and then having to be removed and families split up," he said. "That is the way Biblical Justice is done, one is punished and the rest stand in fear, that's the Bible's model," he argued. He said that this "threat of death" would nearly eliminate all immigration. Webbon reposted a video segment of his comments on X, formerly Twitter. He has over 25,500 followers." - Newsweek
That is not biblical justice. Such a statement is so unbiblical it is staggering. What is also telling here is the assumption made that separation is somehow necessary when it was abhorrent in and of itself. You fix that situation by not separating children from their families - not by shooting people so others never have to be separated. It is also completely tome deaf to what these people are dealing with that makes them travel thousands of miles to try and come here. Joel Webbon never had to face the choice of watching your sons get forced into gangs or your daughters raped. He did not have to live in abject poverty. He was born a child of privilege in this country and thinks he somehow earned it. Or that he somehow deserves it. He looks upon these people abjectly, not with Christlike compassion. He does not view them as fellow human beings. He also does not even recognize that some of them no doubt are brothers and sisters in Christ. None of that matters to him - only his idolatry does. When you can so casually recommend killing other people based on socioeconomic status then you have dehumanized them beyond the point of empathy. That would be bad enough beloved but to do that while wrapping yourself up in Jesus is simply disgusting. When the Sons of Thunder wanted to reign fire down upon the Samaritan village that rejected Jesus, they were rebuked. Jesus said they knew not what spirit they belonged to. We know full well what spirit Joel Webbon belongs to and it is not the Holy Spirit.
Reverend Anthony Wade - January 7, 2025
