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By faith he (Abraham) lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise;
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Like Abraham we believers, children of God, are here in this present world as resident aliens, strangers and sojourners. Not citizens but as ambassadors for the Kingdom of God. Just as it is written:
“For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;” {Php.3:20} and “Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ…” {2Cor.5:20}



When Moses had gone to Midian after leaving Egypt he married Zipporah and they had a child. Moses named the boy Gershom. That means ‘a stranger there’ — גר שם in Hebrew. When we are born again we are born as aliens and strangers in this present world! Peter would make that clear as he instructed us, the people of God, to live here in this present world (wherever ‘here’ is for you) as aliens and strangers proclaiming the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness and into His marvelous light. {2Pet.2:9-11} 



God’s Word makes it clear that our citizenship is in heaven from which we eagerly await our Savior Jesus Christ. {Php.3:20} Since I was saved and called to ministry in 1976 my wife Alice and I have traveled and lived in many, many countries sharing the love and the Word of God.. I have been subject to the governing authorities in each one as instructed by the Lord. {Rom.13:1} I have owned and licensed a number of vehicles not only in the United States but in Central America and Great Britain but I could not vote in those places. I was an alien and a sojourner in all of them!



Jesus praying to the Father said, speaking of us (John 17) ‘while we are still in the world (v.11} we are not of the world” (v.16) and, like Abraham, reside here scattered about as strangers in a strange land. As ambassadors we represent the Kingdom of God and are responsible to faithfully bring the message of that kingdom to this dark and dying world—the Good News.



The Lord is the absolute ruling authority and yet it is apparent that the world, as well as some of the ‘church’, manages to ignore that. But all of that will change at the appointed time:



“And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war. His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems; and He has a name written on Him which no one knows except Himself. He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses. From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty.
And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.” (Revelation 19:11-16)
 
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