Voice of the Kingfisher speaks out …from a different perspective
by Elinor Montgomery
The Cross and Noah’s Ark vs. the Titanic (Part 1)
April 02, 2012
The nighttime passes away with the arrival of the sounds of morning and the promise of a new day. It was just one hundred years ago, the 15th of this month, that the passengers aboard the Titanic spent a night to remember, after which they would never be the same again. It came as such a surprise when shock waves were felt around the entire world with the news of the sinking of the Titanic – that enormous ship of which it was said that even God could not sink it.
Husbands, wives and children were sound asleep in their beds. Others were dancing and making merry above them, and still others were merely on deck staring into the clarity of the moonlit night when, to their horror, an iceberg began to loom straight ahead. It would appear that there was no way of preventing a deadly collision between it and the ship.
At first, it was felt by some as a mere bump in the night, but not everyone felt it. For those who noticed it, they were assured by the stewards and watchmen that there was no need for alarm. They were assured that there was nothing they could not fix straight away. Why would there be any need for concern, for, after all, this was a ship, which everyone had been told that not even God could sink? Yet, why did this bump in the still of the night cause such a stab of fear in the hearts of those who knew the ocean just waited to claim its victims when they least expected it?
Listening to the violins and the music of the night could give a false sense of security to those dancing on what strongly resembles a great iron empire named for the mighty god of religion, called Titan, just awaiting its fate, which has come to all the other religious empires of the world. First, there was Babylon, the empire of gold; then there was Medo-Persia, the empire of silver, followed by Greece, the empire of bronze as the metals grew in strength. And last, but not least, were the two legs of the early Roman Empire and the latter-day Revived Roman Empire, both of iron, with the final one becoming a One World Order and the strongest and biggest of them all. Did this ship, Titanic, not symbolize that final iron empire of the Babylonian system of empires, which is now raising its ugly head?
For anyone on board ship, who had felt it begin to list, it would take very little imagination to put two and two together and ask oneself if, in fact, one’s fate would be sealed that night, as the great and mighty ship went down. Were the passengers going to become an example to the world of what the seawater, which God had separated from man at creation, can do to him? Were they about to ride that beastly monster, sailing its way across the waters in a race with time, to the bottom of the sea and into the oblivion of the darkness awaiting them on the ocean floor?
As the world, like a ship of fools, moves into the darkness of its nighttime, evil will cover the earth like a deadly pall, which had covered it before, when Jesus hung on the cross bearing your and my sins for us. The ones who had not believed on Him for their salvation, were now about to face their own crosses, as the water engulfed the ship. He had made it possible for everyone to have a lifeboat, but man thought he knew better, and failed to see the need for the lifeboats of salvation.
It was a ship in strong contrast to the ark of Noah, when one righteous man was found, to whom God spoke, telling him to build an ark that would carry him, his wife and his children, along with a gathering of the animals over the deadly seawaters. God was going to allow a flood of the waters to destroy His human partner of creation who had rejected Him for the father of evil in the rebellion of sin. To the contrary, this was no ship of fools dancing on board, oblivious to the dangers that lay ahead. Noah had listened to the voice of God and had obeyed his Father and Creator. He was secure in his faith and obedience.
It was nothing more than frozen seawater, which took the Titanic down – the same waters God had separated from man at Creation so that he would know nothing but the good of the living water. He was Jesus who told the Samaritan woman at the well about the difference between the living water, from which you can drink and thirst no more, and the seawater. The latter was a totally different thing, which would leave one thirsty.
When Jesus took our sins on the cross, He said He thirsted. He endured our judgment so that we would not have to face the coming night when seawater would fill our mouths and lungs and, suddenly, we would become desperately thirsty for the water of life, which God had given us to keep us from that deadly water of sin, which kills.
On this, the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, is it not a warning of the real disaster that lies just ahead with the coming judgment of God upon a sinful world, about to be taken down in the fire judgment? For God covenanted with Noah, saying that when He looked upon the rainbow He would remember His covenant and never destroy all flesh with the waters of a flood again.
The rainbow is the light broken for you and me so that God will remember us as He looks upon the cross during this nighttime of evil. It is then that He will remember His Son’s brokenness, the One who is the Light of the world, and, because of this, He will also remember those who have trusted on Him for salvation. It will indeed be a night to remember.
It is all in man’s hands now, to whom God gave free will. Will we choose to dance on the Titanic, or will we choose, like Noah, to be in the safety of the cross, the ark of our salvation, which will lift us up as if on eagle’s wings as the serpent spews water from his mouth like a flood that might cause the woman to be carried away? The good news is that the woman (God’s people of His marriage covenant) has the testimony of Jesus Christ firmly held in her hand, given in the spirit of prophecy. This is no ordinary woman; this is the bride of Christ, destined for the throne, who can walk with her Beloved over the water, which will destroy the faithless and the disobedient.
Rejoice, for He is risen, and your salvation is at hand!
And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ (Revelation 12:13-17 KJV).
Worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy (Revelation 19:10 KJV).