Contextualization For Aliens and Sojourners

Jesus and his parents slipped into Egypt to escape Herod’s infanticide.  Moses and the Israelites were delivered from Egyptian tyranny into the Promised Land. Early church believers poured out of Jerusalem to save their lives and consequently the gospel reached new corners of the world. The Apostle John was exiled on Patmos and wrote the book of Revelation. All fled their homelands because they were singled out by leaders within their own country as targets for persecution. In other words, they were refugees.

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