Advice of the pilot and owner of the ship followed over the words of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 27:9-12

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“Much time had been lost, and sailing had already become dangerous because by now it was after the Day of Atonement. So, Paul warned them, “Men, I can see that our voyage is going to be disastrous and bring great loss to ship and cargo, and to our own lives also.” But the centurion, instead of listening to what Paul said, followed the advice of the pilot and of the owner of the ship. Since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority decided that we should sail on, hoping to reach Phoenix and winter there. This was a harbor in Crete, facing both southwest and northwest.” Acts 27:9-12

As described in the previous post on Acts 27:5-8, the storms were making it difficult for the ship to sail a steady course off of Cnidus. Cnidus is circled in yellow on the map below, just below the word “ASIA”. For that reason, the captain sailed the ship towards Crete, hoping the island would provide shelter from the storm winds. When arriving near Fair Havens, Paul warned the captain about sailing on and wanted to harbor in Fair Heavens for the winter, but as we see in the verse of this post, the centurion followed the advice of the pilot and owner of the ship. He decided to sail for Phoenix and to pass by Fair Heavens. On the small map, in the top right corner of the larger map, Fair Havens is seen towards the bottom middle of the image. Phoenix is seen towards the west and slightly north of Fair Havens.

As the storm-beaten people and nations of this world are driven towards the world capital of the one world government, harboring in a fair place is not good enough, they want to arrive at the phoenix [a star that represents rebirth] of the one world government.

Sailing was dangerous after the Day of Atonement because that meant hurricane season had approached. The “Day of Atonement” is the day that our Lord Jesus Christ atoned for sin. In spiritual terms, it is dangerous to sail when the atonement made by Jesus Christ is left in the past. Unfortunately, the global government and its global culture have done just that, leaving what Christ did for us on the Cross in the past, and after that they sail for the world capital to be established as the one world government.

Paul warned the Roman commander, and all that were on the ship, that it was too dangerous to sail after the “Day of Atonement”, which meant hurricane season was at the door. Paul made it clear that sailing forward would be disastrous and bring great loss to the ship, cargo, and human lives. Paul was concerned for everyone on the ship; the life of the Roman commander, the crew, the prisoners, and his Christian friends. As followers of Jesus Christ, we are aware of the disaster and great loss coming to this world as well as the loss of human life. The Gospel of Christ has been left behind as the quest for the earthly Garden of Eden, through the one world government, presses forward. The events of the Seven Trumpets of Revelation 8, 9, 11 and of the Seven Plagues of Revelation 16 reveal the disaster and loss coming to this world.

There is Salvation for those who hear and listen to the word of God, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16 This is for the leaders of today’s society, on a local, state, national, or global level. This is for every person living for the global culture. This is for every non-Christian “prisoner” of the atheistic global culture, and for every friend of Jesus Christ and His children.

The Roman commander [captain of the ship] ignored the warning of Paul and followed the advice of the pilot and owner of the ship. In today’s culture, the local, state, national, and global leaders refuse to listen to the word of God. Instead, they listen to the “pilot” and “owner” of the world agenda, which is the atheistic entity that has power over physiology to give people what to think, feel, say, and do. This entity gives life to the image of the beast to speak and live through people in every city around the world. People are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they are given to say and do.

The majority on the ship agreed with the “pilot” and “owner” of the ship, that “Fair Havens” was an unsuitable harbor to dock in for the winter. Today, the “majority” are the people in every city around the world that agrees with the entity that gives them what to think, feel, say, and do. They are the global culture who plainly say that they do not want to “make port” in a world experiencing spiritual winter, as they riot, protest, and in other ways demand compliance to the goals of the United Nations. They rally for the establishment of the one world government. They want to sail on as they use the stormy winds to propel further along the way. They choose their own “suitable” winter harbor instead of listening to the word coming through the Holy Spirit. For example, they take refuge in a political party, or other affiliations, that most closely embraces the agenda of the one world government. They will change “harbors” as the stormy winds dictate, to reach the global port. They despise the Gospel of Christ and the prophecies of the Bible.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11