Strange Tides wash...ashore.

Rating: Null/10 (11 August 2011)

Strange Tides wash...ashore. Sometimes you can be surprised at what you can see and hear at a movie; "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" is one such movie. One: When Jack Sparrow was trying to get away from men pursuing him, he jumped down and into a horse pulled carriage. Inside was an aristocratic looking woman. In order to appease her to his good, he began to whisper (seduce) in her ear. She being immobilized,and after gaining his objective, he leaves her - but her expensive ear jewel is gone. The whole time he was seducing her, he was stealing her ear ring! How true with the great seducer of all time. When Satan whispers in the ear of man, he is stealing what precious jewels he can. The first seduction of man occurred in this fashion. While he was whispering in the ear of Eve, he was stealing the precious jewels God had given Adam and Eve. Satan's deceitful promise ended in man being robbed - death. He took the jewel right out of the ear while speaking seductive words. Two: There was a scene with men in a small boat out on the waters. A mermaid swam up to the boat. One man was mesmerized with her. He was drawn to her beauty. He wanted to be with her, so he went to go over the edge of the boat to be joined to her. As he was about to join his lips to her, her beauty changed to fangs. Some mermaids took men to the bottom of the sea. This one, later, washed up in a fishing net. A reminder Satan can allure man to become one with his false beauty, but his plan is insidious; his plan is bring man under his power and carry him down to the bottom of the sea (death). Three: Even the clergyman was drawn to the mermaids beauty. Though his motive may have seemed virtuous, for him to be with her, he went down with her into her world. Even in the movie, it did not show that he going with her produced the outcome of love and life - it alluded to that. The reality in our world is that any man drawn to the beauty of this world, whether clergy or whatever, will be taken down to the depths of the sea - death. Four: There was a corpse of a treasure seeking pirate in a room of scattered treasures, which treasures had the appearance of cankering. The corpse had a ring still on his finger. The words of Jesus came to mind, "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Mark 8:36-37) All treasures will canker. In the moment of death, a prized ring sits on a dead body. What will a man give in exchange for his soul? Who would have thought " Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" would have spoken such truths? Strange Tides wash truth ashore.