Lifeboat ropes are cut from the ship, and it drifts out to sea.

Acts 27:29-32

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“Fearing that we would be dashed against the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight. In an attempt to escape from the ship, the sailors let the lifeboat down into the sea, pretending they were going to lower some anchors from the bow. Then Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.” So, the soldiers cut the ropes that held the lifeboat and let it drift away.” Acts 27:29-32

The captain, crew, pilot, and owner of the storm-battered ship aimed to do all they could to avoid the rocks of the shoreline. They dropped four anchors from the back of the ship to slow the ship from drifting into the rocks and prayed for daylight to appear. Their plan was to run aground on a sandy beach, “…they saw a bay with a sandy beach, where they decided to run the ship aground…” Acts 27:39 This is the sandy beach of Malta! Malta is described in the posts on Acts 28:1-10. The “sandy shore” that the world government desires is described in the post on “The lowering of the water.” in Acts 27:27-28. The daylight comes for the global leaders when they see the sandy shore, “When daylight came…they saw a bay with a sandy beach, where they decided to run the ship aground… Acts 27:39

There were some crew members who tried to escape from the storm-battered doomed ship. That’s because the ship was too large for drifting into shallow water, and with no daylight, it was too dangerous to allow the ship to just drift near the rocky shore. The crew members pretended like they were going to lower some anchors from the front to save the ship and those aboard. Really, they lowered the lifeboat into sea to save themselves. The lifeboat was small enough to maneuver through the shallow waters. Those crew members didn’t care anything about the survival of those on the ship, only their own welfare.

The picture is grim to think of a world without functioning “lifeboats” in turbulent times. The “lifeboats” being healthcare, fire departments, law enforcement, social programs, etc. etc. Too grim for me even to comment on what that would be like when the governing authorities cut the lifeline from the general population. It would be so dire that people would be begging the United Nations to step in, to empower them with authority to be the one world government. After the United Nations become established as the one world government, the events of the Seven Trumpets of Revelations 8, 9, 11 and the events of the Seven Plagues of Revelation 16, the “lifeboats” will be cut loose, and the lifelines drift away. For Christians, we will always have our Lord Jesus Christ, He is the “Lifeboat”.

As followers of Jesus Christ, we see Him as being the Anchor of the soul and being the Lifeboat of Salvation to see us through the storms in this life. However, there are some preachers, who are nothing more than deceitful wolves in sheep clothing. They claim to be proclaiming the message of Jesus Christ as the Anchor of the soul, saying their mission is to lower the Anchor into the hearts and souls of the people. To the contrary, they are using the Gospel of Christ to save their own life by preaching a different Jesus that is not His Gospel of Salvation. They leave others to be battered by the storms without the hope of hearing the message of Salvation through the Gospel of Christ. The churches of today have abandoned the Gospel of Christ, and people are not hearing the message of the Cross.

Instead of preaching the testimony of Jesus, the deceitful preachers preach a Gospel based on the commandments of human beings. Jesus says, “And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’” Matthew 15:9 The Holy Spirit says this through Paul, “I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel… But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.” Galatians 1:6, 8 “For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” Matthew 16: 25-26

The captain of the ship was an elite Roman centurion, and he had a detachment of soldiers with him on the ship. When Paul saw the crew members trying to escape with the lifeboat, he said to the Roman soldiers, “Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.” What we need in this storm-battered world is for preachers who are able to stand with the suffering and hurting of this world and to give them hope through the Salvation testimony of Jesus. Preachers need to stand firm in their faith so that others on this global “ship” can be saved. The last thing the Roman soldiers were concerned about was the lifeboat, so they cut it loose and let it drift away. Those who govern over the passengers on the global “ship” do not care anything for the Lifeboat, who is Jesus Christ. They have cut all ties to the Gospel of Christ and Christianity is put into extinction, as described in Revelation 12.

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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