The lowering of the water.

Acts 27:27-28

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“On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea, when about midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land. They took soundings and found that the water was a hundred and twenty feet deep. A short time later they took soundings again and found it was ninety feet deep.” Acts 27:27-28

Today, we know the Adriatic Sea as being the body of water on the northeast-ish side of the “boot” of Italy. In the days of this scripture verse, the ship was being driven by the storm across the Adriatic Sea, near Malta!  The waters were lowering as they approached Malta! They were about to be shipwrecked there, as revealed in Acts 28:1. Malta would be the last stop before arrival to the world capital and is described as an atheistic culture of humanism, Click here for posts on Malta from Acts 28:1-10.

Taking “Soundings” was a method of determining the depth of the water. Today, ships have sonar to measure how deep the water is, but in the days of the Bible, a rope with a weight tied to the end was used. The rope was thrown into the sea, like an anchor, and markings were on the rope [like markings on a tape measure]. Basically, the rope was an extra-long measuring tape and wherever the water was on the markings of the rope they knew how deep the water was. The captain and crew of the ship knew they were coming close to the sandy shore because the reading on the rope showed that the water was becoming shallower. The water dropped 30 feet in just a short time.

Before coming to the shallow waters, the ship was storm-battered for “fourteen days” barely able to stay afloat. The weight of the cargo and tackle of the ship had to be thrown overboard [Acts 27:18-20]. As they saw the water level lowering, they knew they were drawing close to the shoreline, and that sandy shoreline was, Malta!

Today, the “ship” of the people and nations of the world is being severely battered by the winds of violence, crime, illegal immigration, riots, economic woes, and protests. Cities, states, and nations are struggling to stay afloat within their fabric of society, economically, culturally, and within the confines of their national constitution. As a result, the “water levels” within the hearts and souls of people in cities across the globe are lowering.

With the lowering of the spiritual water, peoples and nations are approaching the sandy shore of the atheistic culture of humanism at “Malta!” While we hear about the lowering of water levels in lakes and rivers, it’s the lowering of the spiritual waters that the global government and its global culture thrive on. This water level is lowered by polluting and corrupting the best of human sentimentality and intentions. People are being driven away from the spiritual waters. The waters are being made undesirable, uncomfortable, miserable to be in, and turned to mire. Good is called evil and evil is called good. Instead of people living in the light they are given darkness, and living in darkness is called understanding and light. The sweetness of human intentions is polluted with bitterness, and positive reinforcement is given for bitter attitudes. “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” Isaiah 5:20

When the spiritual water level is lowered, we begin to see the sand, the spiritual sand. Belief in God disappears, the Gospel of Christ dwindles, the Holy Spirit is shunned, and the fruit of the Spirit are scarce. On this sand is what the global government and its culture are built on, the sand within the physiology of the people. This spiritual sand enables the atheistic entity with power over physiology to exist. This entity replaces the conscience and spirit to give life to the image of the beast to speak and live through people. The global culture is groomed to the mark of the beast by what they are given to say and do. Click here for a post on human physiology being turned to sand. Our Lord Jesus Christ says, “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand…” Matthew 7:26-27

“Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; Though the labor of the olive may fail, and the fields yield no food; Though the flock may be cut off from the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls—Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.” Habakkuk 3:17-18

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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, 3:1