Jesus personifies the essence of Hawaiian culture: Love. Hawaiians worshiped I’o – Jehovah prior to the Tahitian invasion.

David Malo recognized the similarities of Hawaiian and Jewish customs. Cultural understanding is essential for land disputes.

Allodial title criterion is found in Levitical precepts of law: “The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine (Jehovah’s).”

God’s covenant is everlasting. His promises endure for all generations to those who place their trust in him.

Selling interest in the land is like Esau trading his birthrights for a bowl of stew and “laid waste his mountain and his heritage.”

The ahupua’a system is a land division like the ancient tribes of Israel; divided by families yet still one nation.

When the plantation era began much of the land was leased and through time “absorbed” into the companies. Those who retain these lands must process a “quiet title and quitclaim” to sell it.

Since the allodial heirs exist it proves to be an insidious practice of using the courts to take the land. “This is a people robbed and plundered . . . and no one delivers and no one says, ‘Restore!’ Who among you will listen to this?” (Isaiah 42)

“The Life of the Land is perpetuated in Righteousness of Christ Jesus!” These wise words of Queen Ke’opuolani compel us to repentance. Redemption! Recompense! Restore!

Through Jesus the oppressor will come to an end and vanish from the land. Trust his promises. The islands will rejoice – established in love and righteousness.

Michele Lincoln

Lahaina

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