Please pray up, pack up, and heads up.  We are going home.

Gerry Almond


Dear Doves:

When I was a small child, I remember being very fascinated with the sinking of Titanic.  All my life I thought about it off and on.  Now I know why.  I believe that it was a picture of America at its end, as well.  The disastrous sinking did several things worthy of note:

1.  God used it, I think, to round up most of the greedy and arrogant money men of the Edwardian Era (John Jacob Astor, Levi Strauss, H. H. Guggenheim, etc) into an ark and send them to the bottom of the ocean along with their greedy empires.  As a result, the wives who survived, for the most part, inherited the money and used it in an entirely different manner than their husbands would have.  They supported libraries, hospitals, colleges, and such.  Many worthy institutions benefited from the redistribution of the wealth of these powerful men.  It slowed down Satan’s plan to implement his new world order as well.

2.  It killed the Edwardian Era.  It was a cruel class system that needed to end.
I believe that God judged it and He is the One who ended it.  It also put brakes on what was going on in America, economically also.  New York City was in shock over such a tragedy as this.  It was evidently engraved into men’s minds by God as a warning for them to not repeat what England had done.  After all, 306 American citizens were on board Titanic, many of which were wealthy.  Most of these died.  The United States Senate immediately investigated this tragedy because of its import the American economy.

3.  God had forewarned some folks about the disaster as far as 14 years in advance.  A book almost perfectly describing the disaster was authored way before it happened.  The author, Morgan Robertson, even named the ship “Titan” in the book “Futility, The Wreck of the Titan”.  God must surely have inspired this man to write the book as it almost completely paralleled the disaster of Titanic. 

4.  Most people don’t know that the Titanic was at first to be named “Gigantic”, but this was later changed as being to “harsh” for such an opulent ship.  A nurse employed by wealthy travelers to look after their infant refused to accompany them because she had had a vision of the sinking.   She desperately tried to talk them into staying in England, but, of course, they would not hear her.  (She lost her job, but saved her own life, as it turned out). 

5.  The general English and U. S. populations were under the impression that the Titanic was “practically unsinkable”.  Both the architect and captain said that they thought it was.  J. Bruce Ismay, C. E. O of White Star Lines, the owner of RMS Titanic said at a cocktail party that “after all, you are aboard the unsinkable Titanic”.  The Titanic’s third officer James Lightoller was cautioned by traveling companions when he was enroute to board the ship, “not to disparage the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic.  She is, after all, representative of England’s finest hour”.  The ship was considered unsinkable only   because of her 16 watertight compartments.  The problem was later discovered that it would sink because the watertight walls only extended upward to E deck and thus did not go all the way up to the top deck and, if a hole were made in the bottom of the ship, the doors would be useless.

6.  The total passenger and crew count was 2,201 souls.  There were not enough lifeboats, however, it was discovered that the boats had 1,176 seats, and had the men been men, there were enough seats in the lifeboats for every woman and child aboard plus 1 crewman per boat.  Some of the infants could be carried in the mother’s arms.  Therefore, God did not judge the women.  He judged the arrogance of the men.  Titanic’s third officer, Lightoller, testified that many boats were launched without full complement.  Discoveries later showed that the seamen aboard the ship believed that Titanic would stay afloat at least 3 to 4 hours longer than it did.  That is why they did not panic and behaved in heroic fashion.  What they did not know, however, is that the iceberg that sank the ship not only opened the side of the great ship, but also opened a slit in a 70 ft section of the bottom, right along the keel line.  This let water into the mid ship area as well as the forward part.  The ship was thus doomed to sink much faster than it would have with only a side swipe event.

7.  The steamer California lay only ten miles away and could see Titanic.  The Captain and crew ignored all flares, signals, and sounds.  The wireless was turned off and the operator was asleep when the Titanic was going down.  They said that they just could not believe that the Titanic would sink…it was after all, unsinkable.  Also, they thought that the emergency flares were only the passengers and crew having a grand party.

8.  The steamer Carpathia was too far away, by 2 hours sailing time, to reach Titanic in time to rescue the passengers and crew.  By the time Carpathia arrived, all that could be seen were lifeboats floating in the open ocean and many, many frozen corpses.  (God was merciful in their deaths, inasmuch as freezing is a rather painless way to go.  However, the initial judgment felt like being stuck with 1,000 knives, until the extremely cold water numbed the body).

9.  RMS Titanic was designed along the same lines and was about the same size as was Noah’s ark.  The ark dimensions have been used as the model for every great ship since.  The ark was perfectly balanced and able to navigate deep waters and turbulent tides.  Water displacement is the secret to a ship floating.  It must displace enough water, and when it does, even iron and steel will float.  

10.  Now, note if you will, that the sinking of Titanic occurred April 15, 1912.  But, she set sail from Queenstown, Ireland, just 3 days earlier on April 12, 1912.  Exactly 100 years to the day later, April 12, 2012 was the middle point of the 70th week of Daniel’s prophecy.  And exactly 3 days later back in 1912, Titanic lay on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, and 1,514 souls had gone out into eternity.  And, exactly 3 days later in 2012 there remained only 1,332 days until the end.  That is 2 x 666. 

11.  The crucial point of God’s end times program, that is the last 1,335 days, began on the 100th anniversary of the sailing of this great ship.  It was also, I believe, a picture of the decline and destruction of the United States of America, which is now a close resemblance to the Edwardian Society in its greed and vile conduct.  In my imagination, I can see America the beautiful, just like Titanic the beautiful hitting the iceberg of God’s judgment.  When?  Exactly 100 years to the day later, April 12, 2012.

As I said, I have been extremely fascinated by this ship.  I am sure God put the feeling there so that today, I can easily see the analogy of Titanic to America.  However, in the broader sense, I think it may apply to the whole world, as God sinks this entire mess.  In the prophecy of Daniel, there is a vision of the Lion (England) with eagle’s wings (The U. S.).  Daniel beheld until the wings thereof were PLUCKED.  I think this may refer to the demise of the United States prior to the final judgment of England.

May the Lord continue to bless you for His glory.  Keep on looking up, for our redemption surely draws nigh.  Not long to go.

YBIC

Gerry A.