Introduction:
Today,
politics
deeply
divides
Americans;
and with the
media having
become the
propaganda
arm of the
government,
helping
shape the
political
landscape,
the debate
over liberal
vs.
conservative
views is at
fever pitch.
I have seen
their images
for decades,
but I only
discovered
their story
just today.
In
the language
of the
natives of
Easter
Island, they
are called
"Moai".
There are
879 of them
still
standing to
this day all
around the
island.
Radio-carbon
dating
suggests
these giant
stone heads
to have been
created
about the
year 1200
A.D. They
were built
by the
natives of
the island,
called the
"Rapa Nui", believed to
have
migrated
from other
Polynesian
islands some
1,500 to
2,000 miles
away.
The best
information
that we have
about them
actually
comes from
the oral
histories
taken by
Christian
missionaries
in the
1860s. The
natives of
those days
reported
that the
statues were
memorial
monuments to
the dead
ancestors of
the original
settlers.
The
Wikipedia
website
explains it
this way…
"The
most visible
element in
the culture
was the
production
of massive
statues
called moai
that
represented
deified
ancestors.
It was
believed
that the
living had a
symbiotic
relationship
with the
dead where
the dead
provided
everything
that the
living
needed
(health,
fertility of
land and
animals,
fortune
etc.) and
the living,
through
offerings,
provided the
dead with a
better place
in the
spirit
world."
In simplest terms, the
Moai were
worshipped
as idols!
They were
wondrous
accomplishments
of human
ingenuity in
their day,
but they
soon became
the
tombstones
for the very
people who
created them
to worship!
Referencing
Wikipedia
one more
time, we
read that:
"…cannibalism
took place
on Easter
Island after
the
construction
of the Moai
contributed
to
environmental
degradation
when extreme
deforestation
destabilized
an already
precarious
ecosystem."
In order to
build these
huge idols,
the Rapa Nui
people had
to clear
hundreds of
acres of
critical
forestation.
Many species
of trees
were lost,
especially
those which
had been
used to
build
fishing
boats. With
the trees
gone,
several
species of
birds
disappeared,
removing
another
important
link in the
food-chain.
The
native
population
declined by
some 85%
over the
next century
and the
culture was
soon
thereafter
overcome by
other
Polynesian
groups.
Their
ancestor
worship
disappeared
with them.
Just as the
worship of
the One True
God brings
His blessing
upon any
people group
around the
world, the
holiness of
God brings
judgment
upon any
people who
worship
false gods.
This
statement
may sound
harsh to the
ears of
modern man,
even some
Christians,
it is no
less true,
biblical and
historically
well-documented.
Proverbs
14:34 (NIV)
says,
"Righteousness
exalts a
nation, but
sin condemns
any people."
When Israel
worshipped
God in
spirit and
in truth,
they
prospered.
When they
did not,
they
suffered and
declined.
When the
Reformation
swept
through
Europe,
it
brought
along with
it blessings
of
prosperity
and
security.
Now, as
Europe has
become
greatly
secularized,
it is
declining in
both. Our
own country,
once made
great by its
devotion to
Christian
morality and
principles
is drowning
in its own
idolatry as
it rushes to
deconstruct
the dikes of
biblical
safeguards.
Ecclesiastes
10:8 (NKJV)
warns us:
"He who digs
a pit will
fall into
it,
and
whoever
breaks
through a
wall will be
bitten by a
serpent."
and Proverbs
22:28 (NKJV)
echoes the
warning as
well:
"Do not
remove the
ancient
landmark
which your
fathers have
set."
The ancient
landmarks of
Easter
Island have
never been
moved and
they carry a
somber
warning to
those of us
who are
choosing to
worship
idols in
place of the
worship of
the true
God, Jehovah
and His Son,
Jesus
Christ. If
they could
speak aloud
they would
say,
"Those who build and worship idols will be destroyed
by
the works of
their own
hands!"
I invite you
to visit my
website,
www.torahmessiah.org,
dedicated to
winning the
souls of my
Jewish
people to
Yeshua,
their
Christ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island