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19. The loss of the Titanic, 1912

1st September 2001 by Arthur Eedle

Morgan Robertson was born in 1861. His father was a ship’s captain on  the  Great Lakes in America.  He followed his father in becoming  a seaman,  and spent six years at sea.  After this he quit seafaring  and went  to New York and studied to become a jeweller. At 33 years of age he  married.  But his business was not altogether a success,  and  this together with a frail wife,  and his own failing eyesight,  led him  to sell up. He desperately sought a new means of making a livelihood.

One day he read a sea story by Rudyard Kipling,  and this inspired him  to  make  use of his own sea  experiences.  Beginning  with  short stories,  he  found that he could make a meagre living out of  writing. But  soon his wife became a full invalid,  and this forced him to write continuously to keep them both alive,  and writing didn’t come all that easily to him.

One evening in 1897,  whilst in his New York apartment on 24th  Street,  he had  a new idea for a story,  rather longer than had been his norm.  It would be about a huge British liner, which he would christen the TITAN, and its disaster on its maiden voyage.  He entitled the story THE WRECK OF THE TITAN,  or FUTILITY. The following are some of the highlights of the story on the night of its crash.  Here are the facts, as they were portrayed in the story.

“Ice ahead.  – – Too late. – – The bow of the Titan began to lift. – – The music in the theatre ceased.  – – People were screaming.  – – A great gash appeared in its bow.  – – 75,000 tons dead-weight had hurled itself  at the iceberg at fifty feet per second.- – The ship  gradually slipped  over  onto  its  side.- – The boilers broke  away  from  their moorings.- – The  roar of escaping steam.- – The whistling of air  from hundreds  of  open dead-lights as the water  entering  expelled  it.- – Gradually she sank with an enormous loss of life.”

Now compare – The  Titanic  was a luxury liner built in Britain.  It  was  huge, 66,000 displacement tons,  and 882.5 feet in length.  She carried 2,224 people  on  her maiden voyage.  Sailing at full speed off the coast  of Newfoundland in the late hours of April 14th 1912,  she hit an iceberg. The bow was ripped open, cold water poured in through the gash, and the mighty ship was upended,  and broke in two before finally sinking  with the loss of 1,513 lives.  There were not enough lifeboats,  because the ship was said to be “unsinkable.” Only 711 were saved.

The comparison with Morgan Robertson’s story is uncanny, quite apart from the similarity of the name. The Titan was 75,000 tons (Titanic 66,000);  800 feet (882.5 feet); 19 watertight compartments (16); 3 propellers (3); 24 lifeboats (22); 3,000 people on board (2,224); traveling at 25 knots on hitting the iceberg (23).

Furthermore,  the  Titan  was a British  ship,  the  biggest,  the safest,  the  Maiden voyage,  April in the Atlantic,  the iceberg,  the crash,  the  sinking and the terrible loss of life.  All these  factors were common to the story and to real life.

Was this mere coincidence?  How could a man write a story with  so many coincidences, 14 years before it actually happened? The answer may be  found  by knowing  that when he wrote, he  had  an astral writing partner,  in  other  words  he  was making  use  of  spiritually  dark intelligences. This is why I refused to record his actual words in this account, because they had been written by demonic energy, and I have no desire  to display the actual words,  which would thereby give glory to Satan, and possibly defile the mind of the reader.

But  this  is not the only  coincidence.  The  well-known  English author William Thomas Stead (1849-1912) died on that Maiden voyage.  He was a first-class passenger, an active  researcher into psychic happenings,  and  had  himself written  a  short story which proved to be an uncanny  preview  of  the Titanic disaster.

In 1874, a work by the poet Celia Thaxter likewise described the unalterable fate of a collision between a ship and an iceberg.

What are we to learn from these facts?  Is it not that Britain was making  a  boastful statement to the rest of the world?  “Here  is  the world’s  greatest liner.  She is unsinkable.  We don’t need to  provide more  than a handful of lifeboats.” Isn’t this just the sort of  remark which  gives  Satan  the  power he needs to act?  If it  was  true  of Nebuchadnezzar,  and later of Herod,  why not of Britain?  Here was the signal for Britain’s destined collapse,  given in 1912. She was riding high at that time.  Her empire was at its zenith.  But the days were drawing in. Only two more years to go and the whole course of history would be changed for ever.  I see the sinking of the Titanic as a symbol of the sinking of Britain,  and as with the ship,  so with the Nation, quite the majority of its people will go down with it. Why? Because we have lost the faith of our fathers, and the Hands that once lovingly protected us have now imperceptibly withdrawn.

711 were saved,  and 1513 lost out of 2224. This represents almost exactly  one thirdsaved,  and  one is  reminded  of  the  prophecy  of Zechariah (13:8-9) which says,  “In all the land two parts shall be cut off and die,  but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third  part through the fire and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried.  They shall call upon my name and I will  hear them.”Although it may still be early days,  I feel that  this event of 90 years ago is significant, symbolic,  and prophetic.  Satan had the whip hand over the Titanic,  and was able to predict in advance what he would do. But this nation is ultimately in the hands of God, and the events that are happening to us are not to be looked at as circumstantial, coincidental, or capricious. They are part of a divine plan.  The Devil may strike, but God will use his activities to His own end.  As always,  he will ultimately bite the dust.  We  need  much refining. So does the whole of  the  Western World, which is currently going through the birth pangs of a new age, not the “New Age” commonly spoken about these days, but the “Millennial Age of Gold.”

Filed Under: Recognising the Hand of Judgment

About Arthur Eedle

Arthur was born in 1931, and became a Christian in 1948. At London University he gained a 2nd honours degree in Physics. He went on to get a Teaching Diploma, and throughout his career life taught physics in England, Kenya, and Hong Kong. Coupled with his love of science, he was a keen student of Greek and Hebrew, and gave many lectures on Biblical subjects. Read more

Recognising the Hand of Judgement

Introduction

1st August 2001 By Arthur Eedle

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2. The fire at York Minster, July 9th 1984

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3. Louise Brown. First test-tube baby. 1978

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4. “Papal infallibility” 1870

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5. The Great Seal of the United States of America

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6. Benjamin Crème and the Maitreya

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7. Helena Blavatsky and Theosophy

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8. Counterfeit miracles

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9. The testimony of a Messianic Jew

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10. “Spiritualism” and “Enlightenment”. Karl Marx and Charles Darwin

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11. San Francisco Earthquake, and Azusa Street

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12. The Llanelli Vision of July 1914

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13. The Olympic Games revived. 1896

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14. The emergence of the European Union. Revival of the Roman Empire

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15. The Dreyfus Case, 1894 – 1906

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16. Dr. Theodor Herzl

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17. Dr. Theodor Herzl and the Zionist Congress

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18. Russia, Lenin, and Aristocoli’s prophecy to Valentina

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19. The loss of the Titanic, 1912

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20. The loss of the Airship R101

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21. Suffragettes and Women’s Liberation

1st September 2001 By Arthur Eedle

22. The Angels of Mons and the White Cavalry. 1914 – 1918

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23. The House of Windsor, Balfour, Allenby, 1917

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24. The Upper Hand and the Lower Hand – Two Systems

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25. The Twenty Year Truce. 1919–1939

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26. Mist and Rainbow. 1940 – 1944

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27. The Nazis and the Nuremberg Trials

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28. Queen, Archbishop, and Church

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29. Lawlessness in British Politics

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30. The Royal Family

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31. The Puppet Masters

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32. Drawing the threads together

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