Panorama of Prophecy: Episode 25 | “The Unsinkable Ship” | Doug Batchelor
Bible Questions:
00:00 – Intro
07:46 – Explanation of “casting lots” in the Bible.
09:54 – If Christ died on Friday, when did the women buy spices to embalm Him?
10:37 – What does the word “Nazarite” mean? Was Jesus a Nazarite?
12:09 – Who is Michael the Archangel?
14:33 – Can Satan read our minds and interpret our prayers?
15:47 – Even though men are visual creatures, shouldn’t they be expected to take responsibility for there own thoughts? I believe women should be modest, but do we have to take responsibility for the men too?
17:17 – What race are the two nations that Rebecca was carrying in her womb?
18:12 – Explanation of 1 Peter 3 verses 18 and 19.
20:20 – Will I be able to play the piano, sing, and be musically gifted in Heaven?
26:15 – Sermon – “The Unsinkable Ship”
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1 Peter 3:18-20
King James Version
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
The story of a man dressed as a woman is also a farce. What happened was a woman threw a shawl over an Irish boy's head because he was cold and shivering. Nobody ordered "women and children only." But Lightoller loaded women or children only–but Murdoch followed the actual orders, "woman and children first."
The life vests were filled with CORK, not Balsa wood. I used to own a Titanic life vest. John Jacob Astor used a pen knife to show his bride what the vests were made of, revealing cork. It's been on display for years.
The lights remained on because of the heroic efforts of the firemen (those who shoveled coal) and engineers who kept the boilers going. None of them left their posts and all perished in order to keep the ship afloat so that there would be time for help to arrive.
You are correct that the life vests broke the necks of many people who jumped into the water, but again–not balsa wood but cork.
The "Scotsman" who allegedly downed a bottle of whiskey was actually the ship's baker, Charles Joughin. However his story "doesn't hold water" because that amount of whiskey would have impaired him from swimming to a lifeboat, and he could not have stayed in the water as long as he did because the alcohol would have caused him to die sooner from hypothermia.
Margaret Brown was never known by "Molly" in her lifetime–again–Hollywood invention. She did help row the boat and did want to go back for other survivors, but she was a highly intelligent woman and understood from Robert Hitchens what would happen if they went back. However Officer Lowe did rearrange the seating in the lifeboats so that he could take two boats back to rescue survivors in the water, but he also took precautions.
Carpathia responded immediately and reached Titanic as fast as they could, but they were also breaking many maritime laws by racing through icefields themselves and endangering their own passengers. Ironically, only the captain of the Californian did the right thing. Smith should have anchored for the night, as Capt. Lord did, and Rostron would not have had to go rescue anyone.
The sister ships were (in order) Olympic, Titanic and Gigantic, which was later changed to Britannic, not Britannica. It wasn't the hull that struck Violet's head, it was the screw. She only received a minor gash.
And don't get me started on Wallace Hartley's violin. Let's just say I had a copy of the list of effects found on Hartley's body (when it was found) and his father signed for the effects–a violin nor plaque–was on the manifest. A researcher (friend of min) conducted an experiment and a violin would have disintegrated in the water, and not survived intact.
The story of John Harper was interesting, but there were over 7,000 people who pretended to be Titanic survivors. I know–I wrote the book on it, TITANIC IMPOSTERS. The most interesting story was of Reverend Robert Bateman. It is fascinating. He had gone to meet with people who knew George Mueller in England and learn his secrets of praying for provision for the orphans in his care. He returned home to America on Titanic and perished, but like Harper, prayed with those who could not make it to the lifeboats.
When his body was recovered and returned to Jacksonville, Florida, everyone in town from the richest to the poorest came out for his funeral procession–because Bateman had created ministries for alcoholic sailors, (Jacksonville was a port town) wayward women, their bastard children and other orphans, people with gambling problems and many other ministries. He led thousands to Jesus.
As for the fire, this was a common thing with ALL COAL FUELED SHIPS, and had NOTHING to do with the ship's hull nor the velocity at which it sank. All ships used coal and when there is friction from the ship's movements in the ocean, naturally there is a small fire, or smoldering in the coal bin. But it was contained to one bin and there was no danger to anyone, because they were shoveling that bin of coal into the fire until it was all used up, which took a few days.
Any naval officer can tell you that lookouts rely on PERIFERAL VISION to see off in the distance and only used binoculars to get a close up view of what they have already seen. According to some, the iceberg was "blue ice" indicating that they would not have been able to see it as anything but an opening in the ice field, because after an iceberg capsizes, it takes 30 minutes for frost to form on the surface making it visible. So this dark iceberg was not visible until 38 seconds before they struck. Binoculars would not have been helpful. They had a very short time to react and Murdoch was the best and bravest officer in charge of the bridge, but his ship would not respond to his commands, because the rudder was too small for that size of a ship–not only that but an iceberg–as you know–is only a small portion of what is below the surface and they actually ran over an ice shelf, as witness testimony and subsequent evidence in three separate debris fields proved that the bottom of the hull was ripped. Passengers said it sounded like running over marbles. pieces of the hull's bottom were found separate from the bow and stern to the south of them. There was no confusion on the bridge, nor any testing because Murdoch and Robert Hitchens were practically alone on the bridge, as one of the other officers went to conduct rounds. You called Murdoch's actions slow and fatal, but he did exactly what you do in emergency situations. He responded immediately by throwing into reverse to slow the ship and prepare to turn. There was no delay and no fatal mistake. The ship simply was not designed for such a maneuver, because the three screws (propellers are on airplanes–screws are on ships) were too close together and the wash did not allow for the rudder to move properly due to its small size. It is not true that if they had hit the iceberg full steam they would have survived. There certainly would have been damage, and perhaps they would have limped into port, but an officer is trained NOT to hit an object at full steam, straight ahead. There would have been serious financial repercussions, plus every mailroom clerk and every 3rd class male would have no doubt perished, because that is where they were located.
It did not pop rivets like a zipper–that's pure Hollywood stuff. It punctured or gashed holes into the first five compartments, and filled quickly with water. The fifth compartment was the most vulnerable because the bulkhead only went up to E Deck, and as water filled the bow it listed to one side and went down by the head. At the time the ship was built, they used state of the art materials for every inch of the ship. The water was closer to 26 degrees.
You were right in saying NOBODY had enough lifeboats on their ship, but Titanic actually had four more than required by law, and besides which they didn't have TIME to fill them all because the last two lifeboats FLOATED off the deck. The problem was that it was cold and nobody wanted to get into the boats until it became apparent that the ship might actually sink. And many of the third class passengers were unable to speak English to know where to go nor did they know the layout of the ship, and they most certainly were NOT locked out of emergency exits–they simply didn't know where those exits were, and waited for someone to show them.
Marconi-"grams" (wireless messages is what they were called) were installed solely for the entertainment of the first class passengers, and NOT for ship to ship communications, although they could accommodate messages to the bridge. It wasn't until after the Titanic sank that wireless messages were used exclusively for communications ship to ship, and passengers could only send messages in emergencies. Jack Phillips was exhausted from no sleep, having spent the entire night making repairs on the Marconi radio and trying to catch up on sending all the messages. In my opinion, he was a hero, who stayed at his post sending out pleas for help and providing information on their position until the electricity went out. He died on an overturned lifeboat from hypothermia just moments after learning the Carpathia had reached the survivors. He did not deliberately neglect to send messages to the bridge regarding the ice field and ONLY ONE message failed to be delivered. Yes, he was rude to the Carpathia operator, but he was working very hard after no sleep in 48 hours and a pile of work ahead of him and only one radio to send out messages. He was one of the top operators to graduate from the Marconi school and was placed on the Titanic because of his professionalism and skills.
Another interesting side note, there was another officer on the Californian who was studying Morse code who was listening in on the chatter AFTER the operator went to bed, but he couldn't understand what was being coded. The Californian was completely blocked in by ice, and even in broad daylight it took four hours for them to reach the coordinates where everyone thought Titanic sank. They would not have been able to rescue anyone. In spite of the Captain's refusal to heed the information about the rockets, in spite of the operator shutting down and going to bed, etc. The Captain was in bed (because the ship couldn't go anywhere due to ice and had shut down for the night) and had issued instructions not to be disturbed. He was roused at one point, but his officers failed to mention any distress or listing. In fact, they failed to observe lifeboats being loaded or the ship listing at all, but thought the ship had turned and gone away from view.
Amen