Rapture 34

What if the sea gave up its dead?

February 5, 2007

Joel Akin

What if the sea had to give up her dead? In scripture the ships of the sea crossed her again and again and each time some died and many were carried into the sea and its depth. Some of the old captains said the water carried their body to corruption. It was a way of the body falling to pieces and being carried into the fish or into the deep.

We are not of fish but we are made of flesh. The flesh of sin is the body that is of evil. Evil is of sin and sin is of the flesh. Not all flesh is evil. Job wrote "In my flesh I will see the Lord" and he spoke of his flesh. His flesh was incorruptible. No other flesh can survive the encounter. If I am of flesh which is corruptible then I would fail to see and fail to understand and fail to comprehend the evil of sin. Thus I would fail and fail and fail until my mind is mine.

If I write with corruption it takes a mind of life to see it. For a mind of life is of God. For sin is of death and the life of sin is of rot and rot is of fester and sore.

So if the sea is to give up their dead then where would this be but in the sea of forgetfulness. The sea of forgetfulness is similar to the abyss of which the evil spirits spoke with fear. It is the place where God casts our sins so they are forgotten.

It is also why God created the sea for it is of salt. Salt is what we are meant to be. We are meant to carry salt as a sign of our faith and a sign of our life. It is meant to preserve the body and meant to preserve flesh so that it doesn't become corrupted.

On battle ships they had salt but if the battle were great they would savor the salt lest they lose the head. It was a way of leaving behind the men who had died lest they leave their head with them.

Some men who had died at sea did not know they had died and thus their soul covered the same period of thought as before. This wasn't just an evil spirit but often the men covering their watch at night.

Some sailors believed men were evil spirits who had been captured and moaned out the call of the late. The late was a way of saying it was dark and no one could see and if no one could see then no one could tell who they had passed. And that went for friend and foe.

So the abyss wasn't just a place of rest it was also a place of terror. And if the abyss were the sea then the sea were part of the deep and the deep were part of the abyss.

Now out of the abyss came forth all manor of creature. And the creature was of evil or of good. Some of those who fought for life had seen creature of the deep come forth. Even in the day of Jonah no one had seen a fish like the one who swallowed him. It was the first sole and the first sole had to flounder. Thus Jonah represented the men of the deep who had been cast in dead or in some cases alive.

They were carried into the deep and the darkness and there their soul could not seek familiar landmarks. So they became souls who had no reference of life. In death some were carried into the soul of men but that is only a myth to respect those who were carried to life. And land was considered safe but those on the lee or the left never knew what the sea would do. And thus many who passed it came to respect it with a salute. And that was a whistle or a sign. And thus the true salute came to be of the sal and the ute or the music of the wind instrument.

There are many legends of the sea and many are factual. These are stories that someday maybe I will write. Stories that carry us into the dark and into the depth of the sea.

But we want to know when the sea will give up its dead. And that perhaps is the key to this story. For if the sea gave up its dead that means the sea clings to them. For the sea means that those who are there are under authority and they are men and women and children who went into the depth and into the salt and into the noise of its eternal depth. And there they saluted those who had gone before and they figured those who had yet to come.

For in it are the secrets of time. Most of us are carried there in our dreams. We are wrought there in our magins and ations. And yet of its secrets few have really understood its nature. It is meant to be a nature of God. It is meant to be under Gods authority. And it is meant to be of things not seen.

Yet the sea is an element that is meant to submit and just as Jesus calmed the storm, when he desired calm, so the sea will calm and give its gift to the Lord. God has a way of making the sea submit and one could be the nature of life. For the sea will give up its dead when the time of the end is near. Many will ask why the dead of the sea are different. One reason is they were drowned or killed or sickened. Few died of old age or of peaceful causes. Those who did perhaps were carried to land. Those who had no life were carried into its depth.

In time we will understand that the Sea is a deep mystery. A mystery to which God will cling until we are wiser. And we are able to grasp that the sea is not just the abyss but also of time. And if we can think through that we will see that the sea carries its dead just as the air carries itself to a hole where that which is carried up or carried down comes to bear.

And that perhaps is part of the nature of life. For in it are the mysteries of life. And the mysteries are those things which we see and those things which are. For the sea still has secrets and will continue to hold them for us until the time of the end. For there are few of us who will die by the sea. Most of us die on land. And in that is truth and hope. For the abyss is calling to the abyss. And the song of salt is speaking forth to us to be at peace and rest and not fret about things that cannot be moved from east to west.