To Tina and all the Doves,
    I am an "expatriate", because my Father in Heaven has been looked upon as "strange and unknown" in a land that has become so bizarre and strange in itself, as to not be recognizable to my Christian eyes!
   ...a paraphrase by me in the Spirit of Christ Jesus from:


Exo 2:22  And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
 

...and who is this "SHE"? It was Israel for the Messiah...it is the Church for the Man-Child(who I believe is the Bride).

Rev 18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Rev 18:5  For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

...strangely enough, this ties in with all of the comments on "voting", and I must give thanks to our sister Tins A. for her obedience to the Holy Spirit for gently bringing up this issue as it relates to our place in the Body of Christ. This world is not our home and in it (like Abraham)we have no continuing city and should not take part in a contrived and deceptive system that is doomed only to perdition and failure.
                                                                                                        your brother, Chris K.