Word for Aotearoa (New Zealand): Land Justice
by Jennifer Choi, February 2025
The Spirit of the LORD says:
“Aotearoa (New Zealand),
The time has come to free your land from injustice. All types of land – residential, industrial, agricultural and natural – have been groaning under the systems of ownership and use that have been designed by the spirits of Empire and politics.
I AM the Creator of your land! I AM the one who has shaped your terrain and topography to enable dwelling, cultivation or rest. I have given you more than enough land for peoples of all generations to dwell on, and to produce abundance out of the land – for them to flourish.
Yet you deny people access to land – you control it and play the games of manipulation to induce politicians, businesses and even foreign governments to engage in foul play.
Not only has Empire controlled physical access and ownership – your nation has built economic systems and policies that actively diminish the ability of the original custodians of the land (Maori) and migrants (Pasifika, Asians, refugees, etc.) to occupy and benefit from land. You give them residence visas but bar them from opportunities to take up residence over land and property! (Ezekiel 47:22; Deuteronomy 10:19; Leviticus 19:34). Beneath the veneer of beauty and purity (“100% Pure New Zealand”) lie the cobwebs of greed and lust that erodes the land.
My judgment is at hand: Against the agents of Empire, and against any indigenous elite who have corrupted themselves to benefit from their political dances with the Empire; against those who cry “Injustice!” in front of the cameras but wink their eyes behind the scenes. All your injustices against the land, where you do not permit MY land to serve its purposes, will result in your robbery. As YOU have robbed, so shall you be robbed! Despite prohibitive laws and policies capping foreign ownership of land in Aotearoa, you will see effectual power and control over land masses (that you’ve held captive) slipping away through your fingers. Biosecurity breaches will become more and more frequent and threaten the viability of the plants and animals growing on your land. Earthquakes, floods, droughts and landslides will erupt continuously – climate change is not always the threat, your injustices are the threat! (Deuteronomy 27:19; Jeremiah 12:10-13; Isaiah 24:5)
Even as I judge the gatekeepers who hold back the land from the peoples of Aotearoa, and the land groans under their iniquity, MY people MUST quickly mobilise to take ownership and authority over land justice in Aotearoa. They must take responsibility to take possession of and redistribute land across the nation – break the locks off gates that unjustly prohibit access to land. Claim land that has been idle due to gatekeeping and politicking. Retore land that has been unjustly broken into and violated. Bring rest to land that has been overworked and abused. More and more of MY people need to purchase land and heal/redeem it – the resourcing mandate as well as the redemption mandate is upon you. (Leviticus 25:4; 2 Chronicles 7:14; 2 Kings 2:19-21)
MY people of Aotearoa, I will give you wisdom to re-conceptualise and re-design housing, farming and production sites and facilities – to set them up in a way that facilitates their optimal use and enables peoples to flourish. Companies and individuals touched by my wisdom and heavenly designs will form inter-disciplinary teams, combining science, engineering, agriculture, environmental management, architecture, fine arts, social/community development and governance. will collectively design and build new communities. They will design and occupy land. They will welcome and host the foreigners, widows and orphans (Ezekiel 47:22; Leviticus 19:34). They will gather as house churches and life-giving communities.
Ecclesia of Aotearoa – the arising remnant Ecclesia: YOU must take charge over the mandate for land justice across your nation. As I have said to my servant Joshua for his assignment to occupy: Be strong and very courageous!” (Joshua 1:7)