<p>27:41 <em>But striking a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground- </em>The desperate situation of Paul and those with him therefore points forward to an awful time of tribulation for the believers just prior to being &lsquo;saved&rsquo; into the Kingdom. This climaxes in coming to the place where two seas meet (Acts 27:41)- surely a reference to the judgment seat. There, it becomes apparent what is to &lsquo;remain unmoveable&rsquo; and what is to be &lsquo;broken&rsquo; or dissolved. These very same Greek words occur in 2 Pet. 3:10-12, about the breaking up or dissolving of all things at the Lord&rsquo;s return; and of the unmoveable quality of the Kingdom which we shall receive, when all other things have been shaken to their destruction and dissolution (Heb. 12:27,28).&nbsp;</p><p><em>And the prow stuck fast and remained immovable, but the stern was being broken up by the violence of the waves</em>- Several times we read about them using the anchors. Then in :41 we read of the forepart sticking fast and remaining &quot;unmoveable&quot; . There are connections here with Hebrews 6:19, which speaks of the hope of the Gospel as &quot;an anchor of the soul... which entereth into that within the veil, whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus&quot; . The idea of Christ as a forerunner, the firstfruits, is surely to be connected with &quot;the forepart&quot; of the vessel remaining unmoveable. As they crawled up the shore on Malta, Paul and the others would have looked back to that unmoveable bow of the ship; perhaps they went to see it the next morning, as it stood proudly amid the calmed waters. That sight would have stayed with Paul; perhaps the Spirit used that memory when it inspired Paul to use the same Greek word (the only other occurrence in the NT) in Heb. 12:28: &quot;We receiving a Kingdom which <em>cannot be moved</em>, let us <em>hold fast</em>&nbsp;&quot; (AVmg.), as the bow of the ship &quot;stuck fast&quot; . This is all further proof that we should see the incidents of Acts 27 as parabolic of deeper spiritual things.&nbsp;</p>