A landmark is an object or feature of a landscape or town that is easily seen and recognized from a distance, especially one that enables someone to establish their location. My grandpa has a shed outside his home that’s been there for many years. On the side of the building, there are words written, visible from the road. After many years of seeing the same words on the building, it no longer stuck out; it made the writing ordinary and overlooked. Over time, the paint slowly started to break down and fade away until almost nothing so as the shed itself. What we knew as the Landmark became invisible because someone didn’t keep the inheritance alive.
14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it. Deuteronomy 19:14
When God used Moses to speak to his people, he empowered Moses to lead and guide them through the commandments of God and the wilderness. God called Moses onto Mount Sinai giving him the ten commandments Jesus said go and to teach these laws to thy people, so he went. Moses was away from camp for a short time, but back in the camp, the Israelites lost their sight of the God they were supposed to serve. The vision of the landmark wasn’t important, so they threw away it.
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
Job 24:2
As a tree grows throughout the years, placing or attaching something onto the tree after a while, you’ll find that it becomes apart of the tree, why does that happen? The tree begins to grow around or over the thing you’ve placed there. The tree slowly grows before you know it it’s too late, it’s taken over so now to any passing onlookers it will be normal. Trying to break free or getting your landmark back is a bigger fight all because you allowed your landmark to be removed. The elders built landmarks inside the church for thousands of years with praise, prayer, and fasting. They paved the way for us so we have something to hold on to and to pass down to our kids, saints, and family members. We must stay strong in the Lord keeping our landmarks, holding on to our faith, keeping the most important values in our lives. We all have landmarks that must carry on and not die. The elders planted the seeds; now it’s time for us to continue planting and reaping in the harvest.