If you recall my post in August, last year, entitled, "Clash of the Titans and the Inevitability of WWIII", you will recall that the word, "titan", actually derives directly from, and essentially means the same as, "satan", and yet again it happens, 111 years later (and that number may be significant).
I do not wish to implicate the CEO of Ocean Gate for I have no idea of what his character was like. There are those who say he was arrogant because he persistently dismissed the serious concerns of others working in the same field and, yet, there are others who personally knew him and say that he was not arrogant but was adventurous, though careful. Whatever the sequence of events that led to such an horrific disaster, I cannot get away from the fact that the vessel's name was "Titan", a boastful name if ever there was one, and literally could be replaced with, "Satan", the name of the spirit of destruction. Titan implies greatness, power, strength but Satan implies accuser, destroyer, death. As noted above, if you have read that previous post then you will understand how this difference came to be and that the commonly accepted meaning of Titan is merely a boastful lie.
Something I have noted for many years is that you cannot rid something of its root without destroying the very thing that grew from it. A tree cannot be transposed without its root, a perfect parable of the concept, so the initial cause or reason of a thing or an idea is always at the heart of everything built on it and cannot be removed without that thing's complete destruction. Renaming things or redefining names does not change them but can, instead, simply disguise them which is essentially a lie.
What exactly the Titan disaster signifies, I cannot say at the moment, but nor can I assume that there is nothing to consider. On a first point, it seems that the "re-disaster" is a reminder to the world that man's imagined grandiosity is just that, imagined, and nothing occurs without God's say-so. In that fact we can be truly grateful to the Ever Living God for all that He has allowed us to accomplish, learn, create and so forth, even trips to the moon. However, we now live in an age of complete denial of reality, denying the reality of gender, of rightly-ordered male-female relationships, true historical accounts rather than imagined ones designed to incite hatred, rebellion and imagined victimhood, and so forth, ultimately the complete denial of a holy and righteous and just God. We live in the age of strong delusion and that is a sign that we are seeing the complete fulfilment of some scripture (as always, of course):
2Th 2:8-12 ASV And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming; (9) even he, whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, (10) and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. (11) And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie: (12) that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Yes, I have quoted that scripture on numerous occasions but only because I believe it is so pertinent to indicating just where we are in the scheme of things.
Consider that it is in the current age that we are seeing the near-complete outworking of that prophecy and, if that be the case, then I am confident that we will soon see the first global public appearances of the son of perdition, called in the above scripture, "the lawless one". We are most definitely in the age of lawlessness and strong delusion, shortly to be completely fulfilled.
However, it appears to me that the boasts of the Titanic and the Titan and their terrible demise serve as reminders to us all that satan, the spirit which man takes on when separated from God, will be sent to the completely dark and crushing depths of perdition and there is no hope for such, no future whatsoever. All who do not renounce that spirit and repent and come to the Lord will perish with that completely evil spirit. I have a gut feeling that, from this time forth or a time shortly to come, whoever continues to completely reject repentance towards God and salvation in Christ will have lost their final opportunity. The curtain must eventually fall and the signs are indicating that the son of perdition will soon make himself known, as will the two witnesses who will be the ones to make the final call to salvation and complete the great commission. Those who reject the undeniable evidence of the two witnesses and all that is occurring in the world are lost because they have become utterly devoid of truth so that there is no means to draw them back to God and nor is there anything left worth saving.
Yes, WWIII is inevitable but not terminal for those in Christ. We are rapidly approaching the darkest hour, some time in the next three to seven years is my guess (but don't trust those figures; assume it is always just around the corner).
Trust God, not man and again I say, trust God.
