Imagine if the Lone Ranger came to a small Western town where things just were not right. After giving the town a good look-over, suppose he met with the residents and said:
Your daughters are being raped by the Town Boss, who is also the mayor, pastor and sheriff.
Your sons are being mind-raped by the Town Boss’s Number Two Man, who is the school teacher and college president.
Your money in the town bank is being absconded by the Town Boss’s Bank Trustees, who are self-dealing crooks dressed in ties and suits.
Your taxes are being taken by the town leaders, who waste them holding meetings to glorify their own perceived good.
Your tithes are used to buy perfume for the whores of town leaders.
Want to do something about it? I have a white horse, silver bullets and an Indian helper named Tonto!
The prophet in town, if he was Kansas-City-NAR trained, might say this:
No, Lone Ranger. Your days are over. We get your drift. You say Neuro-Linguistic Programming shenanigans have blinded us to what you say is blinding us in the post-New-Apostolic-Reformation crowd.
We don’t believe we have been stupefied by believing the doctrines you say are false… nor do we believe this puts us in a blinkered, false-doctrine-generated inability to see why we are so badly stupefied.
We don’t recognize this pattern globally. Even if the pattern is global, we will not see it as a pattern. We deny what we must! We don’t see it in Wall Street Banksterism, nor on the socialistic mainstream media, nor in whacky Churchianity, nor in progressive public schooling, nor in sovereign debt default risk, nor in our liberal government, nor anywhere.
Let’s all see eye-to-eye as prophets, agree Lone Rangers are the bad guys, and get together and sing Kumbaya! Castration is so good for the soul!
We don’t need no stinkin’ Lone Ranger, nor clerical correction, nor political correction, nor In That Day’s Ancient Paths of Correction…
And never mind America’s Founding Fathers, their European intellectual fathers, nor the Greeks, nor nothin’.
To heck with the idea men are not angels and need government, but a government of men need severe restrictions against self dealing… because, in the end, we don’t have faith you or anybody can really do this Christian ministry thing without lots and lots of self-dealing.
Because almost all modern ministries are set up with self-dealing shenanigans that never must be mentioned, nor expunged, nor especially – seen!
So we say to the Lone Ranger, Fahgetit! Let’s insist our Four Hundred Prophets see eye-to-eye and to hell and banishment with the one who tries to get us to see what we’re paid to never see!
Kumbaya will cover it all. That, and oh yah, God’s grace! That’ll do!
Dear reader, why have I written this exaggerated Lone Ranger scenario? Because modern day prophets are extremely poor-schooled. They have been sent to either of two derailed trains of thought. First pathetic-prophetic school is rapture and end times ink-blot machinations. Second pathetic-prophetic school is the mojo-jive emotion and NLP witchcraft of “tickle ears so long as you get paid for it” prophesying.
God certainly gives people prophetic callings. Of this, there is no doubt whatsoever. But look at these two sub-schooling efforts from prophetic shrunken brains: First, rapture insanity blinds the prophet from seeing the future and prevents him or her from being indwelt by quick-come, return-now Christ-in-You. Or second, an emotional mojo-jive rainbow-stew-for-me-and-you “let’s all get together and agree eye-to-eye” prophetic meaningless, Christ-in-You-less mumbo-jumbo. It’s either dumb, or dumber!
Now, is such a severe accusation biblical? Didn’t four hundred prophets get it wrong, to one who gets it right?
Christ’s ministry shows another interesting thing about how the true prophetic deals with two extremes: lawlessness violence and too much law, over-lording and… its own contradictory violence.
In Jesus telling the parable of the good Samaritan, we hear of highway robbers who assault a man and leave him half-dead. This is an instance, obviously, of a lawless area. Now consider Jerusalem as being a place with ossified traditions and overbearing legal restrictions so over-lorded in rigid-righteousness that a man can be crucified under false pretenses. Thus even this sacred place, too, can be insufferably violent.
This is a description of all places for all times. Today off the coast of Somalia are lawless pirates who board commercial ships, take hostages and extort millions of dollars in ransom. This is a lawless area.
Then again, pick any megalopolis. It will usually have extremely liberal, progressive, burdensome laws, laws not necessarily intended to overwhelm, but laws and spirits of law-enforcers which inevitably do overwhelm. Mega-cities usually overwhelm the spirit of freedom in man. Thus, big-city pirates can also extort millions from the unaware.
Self-dealing leaders in cities, well-taught in shenanigans hard to see with the naked eye, have a way of extorting, through hidden enslavement techniques, millions of dollars from rubes who never are given the intellectual firepower to see through ruses, smoke and mirrors of this subtle violence. The rubes are taught by cats in public education, modern media, pulpit and politics that rube-mice must love, obey and never question their big, unquestionably angelic, Magillah Cat-Masters.
Jesus with such leaders as these: do what they say, never what they themselves do! He said true faith in God means being wise as a serpent, but harmless as a dove – as opposed to the vipers usually in charge of harming all things innocent.
Where did Jesus minister while on earth? It seems he liked to be about two-thirds away from the inner city, but stay safely about a third away from the land of lawlessness.
Hence, this author lives in Reno and created, or received, In That Day Teachings material while situated under the blue and clean skies of Reno, Nevada. Reno is about 200 miles from San Francisco, 400 from Los Angeles, 400 from Las Vegas.
Nevada recognizes and honors the inherent rights of man much more than California. Nevada has no state income tax, California does. Nevada has a smaller sales tax than does California. Nevada lets people carry guns concealed, thus honoring our Founding Father’s Second Amendment. (Yes, this seems radical, but think it through. Even Jesus said two swords were sufficient for the disciples.)
Anyway, there is the most life to be had about a third of the way from the outer core of lawlessness and about two-thirds away from the corruption of fearful, authoritarian, over-lawed, inner-city over-lording and self-dealing rigidity. Thus Jesus ministered in the softer-semi-wilderness places, until it was time to let the over-lords of the inner city, not-so-sanctified inner-sanctum crucify Him.
So now, Neuro-Linguistic-Programming Churchianity comes to the “we must make sheep easier to herd, easier to pen, easier to shear” camp of over-lording. Through selective rigidity, leaders apply rules, protocols and burdens on sheep that they flexibly escape! Lectures on giving are given by the recipients of giving, with no mea culpas regarding the self-dealing message from the messenger. Pulpit leadership allows no questions, correction nor challenges. Sheep are castigated for pointing out these obfuscations to actual goodness, holiness and ultimate Christ-in-You-ness. Self-dealing becomes god.
Because prophetic leaders have either themselves been pioneers of shenaniganism or blessing its increase in peer leaders, God has let this American prophetic group thoroughly lose its way. Even the prophets who have seen the emotional/NLP shenanigans of the Kansas/New Apostolic Reformation groups and disassociated themselves from them, don’t seem to know what to do! None are so blind as want to be!
This disassociated prophetic group, which chooses to neither pimp rapture nor emotional money-grubbing, seems to have settled on Kumbayaism, calling for prophets to somehow see “eye-to-eye.”
But In That Day Teachings conclude that to ask prophets to compromise is wrong.
Free the sheep to see how they have been easily herded, penned and sheared (i.e. why they lost their fortunes this last decade, and why their mortgages are upside down, and why giving to the church created that moral hazard in the first place, not prevented it) then you will have a revival of intelligence!
After In That Day Teachings’ day of awakening from the darkness of rigid religion, then, and only then, will you have prophets seeing eye-to-eye in God’s true and harsh light.
Prophets will see eye-to-eye when In That Day Teachings-taught, Christ-in-You indwelt-ones see that the Kansas City prophetic movement lost God when they gained a thousand ways to con the sheep out of their wits.
Lore has it that back in the heyday when the Kansas City prophetic groups really seemed to have a head of steam and might amount to something other than an American embarrassment, dueling prophets had a go at each other during a big church shindig. One prophet gave thus-saith-the-Lord words that blessings were to pour out on the churched! The other prophet returned salvos with thus-saith-the-Lord words that the churched were to massively repent! To weep! To wail! To howl! Back and forth they fired salvos, with no dénouement whatsoever.
Pastors like to relate this story, even mocking the two contrary messages, perhaps with humorous singing of the dueling banjo-guitar theme song from the famous 1972 movie, Deliverance. The movie was about mid-aged suburbanite men (i.e. guitar) who took a canoe trip down a river in the remote Georgia wilderness, only to find themselves at the mercy of inbred, toothless, lawless local hillbillies (i.e. banjo). At gunpoint, one of the campers is forced to strip naked, “squeal like a pig” and be violently sodomized. Thus “banjo, representing backwards lawlessness” won, mocking any true Deliverance.
Pastors and even prophets have apparently surmised from the “dueling prophets” story that prophets must first agree. And the fact that they don’t means they apparently must be, what, too dumb, too unsophisticated, too immature, too inbred perhaps to compromise and see eye-to-eye? Prophets need paternalism?
What, perchance, if one of the dueling prophets in the Kansas-type church scene was right? How about, the one saying the Lord wanted the churched to repent!
Only, probably nobody in their still-blinkered state of being knew what to repent of! It was to repent of the massive hidden conning mechanisms of Churchianity that have ruined sheep to where they can’t be indwelt of God!
Sheep can’t get to Christ-in-You, because the prophets have become inbred, toothless fools who offer the opposite of true Deliverance, nay rather they despoil the Wilderness experience! Modern Churchianity, with its lost prophets, has become a place of unspeakable witchcraft shenanigans, which at best becomes a place of merciless fleecing without the sheep’s knowing, but at worst a place of spiritual rape!
Prophets have forgotten that because men are not angels they need government, but all governments of men need severe restrictions against self-dealing, self-enthronement and inevitable self-deification.
Either way, modern Churchianity, by its profound witness of vapid, desolate inability to manifest much of Christ, its supposed Lord, cannot fix itself of its own abominations it has decided in its stubborn mind, it will never see!
Thus the modern antithetical prophets have, by their inability to spiritually see, allowed themselves to be deified, along with the leadership of whatever bad church is going on. Would it be called subornation to eternal perfidy? Or just same-old-same-old hog wash?
Further, it is of no small consequence that modern Churchianity, with its self-obsessed and self-deifying prophets-who-cannot-see, usually fails to mention anything about Western Enlightenment’s natural rights of man. Because Churchianity tramples them.
In That Day Teachings, on the other hand, want to reintroduce Great Thoughts from Great Thinkers, who enabled America’s Founding Fathers to align God’s good for man with a government of freedoms. These freedoms, correctly understood, create the best possible environment for man’s good and God’s good, Christ-in-You even!
But modern Churchianity is so stultified, and so supercilious that this appears too recondite. If In That Day Teachings are too recondite, the problem is insuperable? If the problem is insuperable, then Churchianity should go back to its spendy, splendiferous ways of thoughtlessness and “imagineer,” as if it were a demented, demonic Disney Corporation on steroids, new forms of inanity cornucopia.
Except for this stubborn fact: In That Day Teachings live! They have been created. They do figure things out. They do result in better teaching, preaching, evangelizing, prophesying, healing, deliverance and profound Christ-in-You-ness.
It would be better that In That Day Teachings were never made, than that the wayward body of Christ disregard them. It would be better, as it were, that those in Churchianity who choose to fight God’s Day of Truth Revelation, would never have been born.
It so happens that the Teachings of In That Day are published, for free, on the internet. And because the less-than-Christ-in-You-making teachings, preaching and carryings-on of modern Churchianity certainly are also published on the internet, both camps have a responsibility to respond and reach out to one another.
In That Day Teachings are, by definition, curious, open-minded, flexible, forgiving, forward-thinking and abounding, in the end, with love. The wayward Churchianity crowd is, in fact, the exact antipode.
This, in a nutshell, describes rather accurately the biblical In That Day, a day of darkness and hard-to-find light. A day of the Lord’s judgment. A day of salvation. You get to choose. So, ask yourself this question: Are you feeling lucky? Do you know it all, having learned it all from your pastor, or your pastor’s great seminary schooling? And, how’s it working for you? For Christiandom? For the world? Huh? Not so well?
So, if any mature-prophetic, full-toothed, full-fanged sheep dog, or Lone Ranger archetype if you will, comes along with wisdom and correction from a deep, wilderness God contact… Then what do the four-hundred prophets say in unison?
Oh Lone Ranger, your day is past! Sing Kumbaya with us and see eye-to-eye!
If you don’t agree we are the greatest seers, we shall turn our backs and never invite you to anything! We shall say we see greater, much greater than you! And we shall evermore say, never realizing how smarmy and antithetical to wisdom and intelligence we carry on in complete antipode to Christ-in-You indwelling, we shall say the Day of the Lone Ranger is past! And we shall agree by popular vote!
Further, we shall say, In That Day Teachings are banished, excommunicated and discredited! They have nothing of God in them nor do they have anything for God’s people. We shall carry on as if they never existed. We shall never study anything of In That Day Teachings. We shall never believe Christ comes now, but shall wait in splendid stupor until He does. We shall believe we know and teach Paul better than anything In That Day Teachings talks about, and we shall continue to ignore everything Paul talked about regarding Christ-in-You. The rights of man we ignore!
In That Day Teachings’ Lone Ranger has no silver bullets to kill what’s killing Christianity, has no white stallion named Silver to rescue anybody from anything, and this Lone Ranger has no Tonto who calls this ex-Texas Ranger, “Ke-mo-sah-bee”, meaning “trusted scout and friend.”
No, In That Day Teachings are no friend of God, nor man, nor even Christ-in-You… say the apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers of crazy, lazy, hazy Churchianity.
Good God! Have mercy on us!
The Saga of Four Long-Haul-Truck Preachers
By Robert Winkler Burke
Book #6 of In That Day Teachings
Copyright 1/17/10 www.inthatdayteachings.com
Once four great Trucker-Preachers died,
And went to heaven’s gates,
Each to tell their long-haul story,
And prove their godly fates!
Each was the best of their preaching style,
No one better at what each did!
On Interstate 666 Truck Stop,
Where truckers ate and fueled up big!
The Prosperity Preacher said,
Well, I got the titles to one-billion trucks!
After hearing me preach real good,
Drivers gave me all, to wait for God’s best bucks!
They ended up on nearby Prosper Peak,
So high on my preaching, don’t you know!
Most of them: homeless, the others died off,
Jumping into Prosper Trench, which is low!
The Rapture Preacher then spoke up,
I got one-billion to park their trucks!
After hearing me preach so well,
That’s how good I was! Gosh-shucks!
The drivers walked to,
Wait-in-the-Fog-Bog Park,
But Jesus never came!
Still: Admire my art!
The Slouch Preacher said,
It’s my turn!
Here’s the big rewards,
I did earn!
I preached: Eternal Security,
And mantra: God-loves-you-no-matter-what!
I disabled one-billion,
Each an otherwise perfectly useful truck!
Drivers ended up in homeless tent-shelters,
At nearby Worship Weakness Lake,
They sang such wispy, self-debilitating,
Nonsense: unaware of mistake!
The Indwelling Preacher then spoke,
He said, What can I say?
I didn’t accomplish much: it,
Being late In That Day!
I cleaned truckers’ headlights and windshields,
And taught them: to watch out for those preachers three!
Who will suck the soul out of your own life,
And will brazenly tell you: that’s how to be!
I filled their truck tires with air,
For drivers to be safe!
That they make their destination,
And never be late!
I filled their tanks and bellies,
With fuel and hearty, wholesome food!
And congratulated them all,
On doing a tough job: quite good!
I took them down the Truckee River,
Baptized them and taught them to fish!
And helped them rest on the peaceful banks,
That’s how I felt: Jesus in me wished!
In general, I tried to creatively,
Clean up their act!
Such that when they left, well, Jesus,
In next seat sat!
That’s all I did,
With all that were then willing!
But woe is me,
I only helped: one-million!
Not a billion or three,
Like these other famous preacher archetype-kind!
Send me back to earth now!
Who’ll help the lost of earth: poor-taught and left behind?
Saint Peter said, You left one-million behind,
That will do!
Come in and pray! And they will undo three-billion,
Misconstrued!
So, have the faith of a diesel motor,
Purring at idle or roaring full throttle!
For God has allowed these church deceptions,
Indwelling shall prove itself: best model!
For lie-fed, blinded souls everywhere are sold,
Disabled or parked!
While just a few full-indwelt of God are now,
Earth to heaven arched!
Beware, then, preaching and teaching,
Of those global broadcasts by satellite,
Oft they’re blind deceivers reaching,
For much that’s wrong and little right!
For a complete-occupied man of indwelling,
Is great to behold, if you can!
Full apologists for prosper, rapture or slouch,
Are oft useless to God and man!
You see, reducing to absurdity,
Finds the clarity,
It’s Western Enlightenment’s,
Path of verity.
Maxed-out prosper, rapture, slouch preacher,
Sold out souls,
Can no longer be indwelt of God, they’ve,
Reversed roles.
Such Christ promoters,
End up in transposed heist,
Antipode indwelt,
Christ not, but antichrist.
This can’t be true? Too shocking,
And too hard! this profound revelation?
Look then, at each preacher type!
Only the indwelt one: brings God’s nation!
It’s simple, yet quite hard,
Now: In That Day,
Is Jesus full-indwelt?
That’s the best way!
Revival’s Curious Demagoguery
By Robert Winkler Burke
Book #7 of In That Day Teachings
Copyright 2/4/10 www.inthatdayteachings.com
Why can’t revival be discernment against demagoguery,
Instead of acquiescence to same?
Lie down! Why down? Die down! And be supine submissive,
That’s the conner’s revival game!
Nothing wrong with healing or refreshing,
In an energized-for-that arena,
Except that politics and low business,
Duplicates the acquiescence Purina!
Die down and take it!
Bam, bam, bam!
Perfect elixir?
Or a sham!
Do laid-down sheep then see,
Hypnotism’s ruses?
Or will they be raped next,
By whomever chooses?
Dumb is,
As dumb does,
Lie down,
Get the buzz!
Impart, impart, impart!
Acquiescence to hypnotic-shenanigan demagoguery?
Is it high or low art?
Wouldn’t a wise person ask: What is the cost to this slavery?
Is revival so sweet and revival so dear,
As to be purchased with chains of slavery?
Hush up! Hush up! Hush up! Say wolves in fear,
Revival pays us well, who cares of knavery?
Don’t submit to Islam,
Lie down to revival’s big shenanigan?
Acquiesce to our big bam,
Turn off brain, have emotions born again?
Shepherds of demagogue revival,
Weep! Wail! And Howl!
Your blind-dumb sheep shall be overwhelmed,
By next wolf fowl!
You have made your sheep,
To believe a conning, blinding, low-level revival,
Shall help, not worsen,
Acquiesced, undiscerning souls from statist upheaval.
Hat tip to Victor Davis Hanson’s critiques on Universities
At our famous ConU Out of Christ-in-You Seminary,
We equip pastors to be perfect, mystic-tyrant, blinding rube-equippers!
Our nonsensical sermons are undetected: subliminary,
Clever ConU tropes and memes make us: Jack-the-covert soul-rippers!
How do we stellify self-interest, nugatory publications,
Jargon, publicity, useless conferences, fast jets and perks?
By ignoring germane Christ-in-You complications,
Banning true prophets and exalting quid pro quo jerks!
ConU Seminary Schools hate political freedom, reason,
Capitalism, individualism, democracy, scientific inquiry and open debate!
With those nasty Western Enlightenment precepts gone,
Shenanigan Church can think, do, and inevitably blow up all things great!
Thus ConU Seminary grads can become pastors,
Who are much more interested in sheep patronage and extortion,
And using Neuro-Linguistic Programming to the rafters,
Than to teach Christ-in-You, which we kill stillborn, thru abortion!
How do we get away with this Spirit-of-God murder?
With killing Christ-in-You and poisoning God’s own sheep?
Well, we’re never satiated, we can always go further!
How? Well at ConU, here’s the secret we own and keep!
ConU Seminary Schools hate political freedom, reason,
Capitalism, individualism, democracy, scientific inquiry and open debate!
With those nasty Western Enlightenment precepts gone,
Shenanigan Church can think, do, and inevitably blow up all things great!
ConU has heard of the bad Teachings,
Of In That Day, (Its author is a maven, craven pattern-seer!)
Since they’re the opposite of ConU,
We must say, No way! (To say it’s okay, ‘d prove we’re in arrear!)
No way to weeping over fear, greed, slouch!
No way to Correction, High Ways, Christ-in-You!
No way to getting off our lethargic couch!
No way to manifesting Christ in ourselves: imbued!
ConU Seminary Schools hate political freedom, reason,
Capitalism, individualism, democracy, scientific inquiry and open debate!
With those nasty Western Enlightenment precepts gone,
Shenanigan Church can think, do, and inevitably blow up all things great!
It’s easy to ban Western Enlightenment thought,
Because, we say correcting our self-dealing: cannot be of our God!
In That Day Teachings: the opposite lie has bought,
And if you believe this message from Reno, then you’re quite odd!
You want to be Millennium, lucre-ready church leaders,
Or cash-merry prophets, don’t you?
So, sell soul to be ConU Out of Christ-in-You breeders!
Our Seminary is so very true!
ConU Seminary Schools hate political freedom, reason,
Capitalism, individualism, democracy, scientific inquiry and open debate!
With those nasty Western Enlightenment precepts gone,
Shenanigan Church can think, do, and inevitably blow up all things great!
Since Four Hundred Prophets are with us,
At ConU, we cannot be wrong! (Who can meet our definition of generosity?)
So this one pipsqueak in Reno,
He cannot with God be strong! (No one tells us we’ve become monstrosity!)
Mobocracy is,
Always right! (Resistance is futile, the Borg-Hive likes to say!)
Majority rules,
Join our might! (So toss, toss: In That Day Teachings away!)
ConU Seminary Schools hate political freedom, reason,
Capitalism, individualism, democracy, scientific inquiry and open debate!
With those nasty Western Enlightenment precepts gone,
Shenanigan Church can think, do, and inevitably blow up all things great!
Yes it’s slavery’s reaching by other means,
Our clever, modern day, debt-to-us peonage!
Don’t with In That Day Teachings be seen,
Bow down! Love ConU’s blessed espionage!
The Picture of a Prophet
Leonard Ravenhill [taken from www.ravenhill.org] [hat tip to stormharvest.com.au]
The prophet in his day is fully accepted of God and totally rejected by men.
Years back, Dr. Gregory Mantle was right when he said, "No man can be fully accepted until he is totally rejected." The prophet of the Lord is aware of both these experiences. They are his "brand name."
The group, challenged by the prophet because they are smug and comfortably insulated from a perishing world in their warm but untested theology, is not likely to vote him "Man of the year" when he refers to them as habituates of the synagogue of Satan!
The prophet comes to set up that which is upset. His work is to call into line those who are out of line! He is unpopular because he opposes the popular in morality and spirituality. In a day of faceless politicians and voiceless preachers, there is not a more urgent national need than that we cry to God for a prophet! The function of the prophet, as Austin-Sparks once said, "has almost always been that of recovery.”
The prophet is God's detective seeking for a lost treasure. The degree of his effectiveness is determined by his measure of unpopularity. Compromise is not known to him.
He has no price tags.
He is totally "otherworldly."
He is unquestionably controversial and unpardonably hostile.
He marches to another drummer!
He breathes the rarefied air of inspiration.
He is a "seer" who comes to lead the blind.
He lives in the heights of God and comes into the valley with a "thus saith the Lord."
He shares some of the foreknowledge of God and so is aware of impending judgment.
He lives in "splendid isolation."
He is forthright and outright, but he claims no birthright.
His message is "repent, be reconciled to God or else...!" His prophecies are parried.
His truth brings torment, but his voice is never void.
He is the villain of today and the hero of tomorrow.
He is excommunicated while alive and exalted when dead!
He is dishonored with epithets when breathing and honored with epitaphs when dead.
He is a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, but few "make the grade" in his class.
He is friendless while living and famous when dead.
He is against the establishment in ministry; then he is established as a saint by posterity.
He eats daily the bread of affliction while he ministers, but he feeds the Bread of Life to those who listen.
He walks before men for days but has walked before God for years.
He is a scourge to the nation before he is scourged by the nation.
He announces, pronounces, and denounces!
He has a heart like a volcano and his words are as fire.
He talks to men about God.
He carries the lamp of truth amongst heretics while he is lampooned by men.
He faces God before he faces men, but he is self-effacing.
He hides with God in the secret place, but he has nothing to hide in the marketplace.
He is naturally sensitive but supernaturally spiritual.
He has passion, purpose and pugnacity.
He is ordained of God but disdained by men.
Our national need at this hour is not that the dollar recover its strength, or that we save face over the Watergate affair, or that we find the answer to the ecology problem. We need a God-sent prophet!
I am bombarded with talk or letters about the coming shortages in our national life: bread, fuel, energy. I read between the lines from people not practiced in scaring folk. They feel that the "seven years of plenty" are over for us. The "seven years of famine" are ahead. But the greatest famine of all in this nation at this given moment is a FAMINE OF THE HEARING OF THE WORDS OF GOD (Amos 8:11).
Millions have been spent on evangelism in the last twenty-five years. Hundreds of gospel messages streak through the air over the nation every day. Crusades have been held; healing meetings have made a vital contribution. "Come-outers" have "come out" and settled, too, without a nation-shaking revival. Organizers we have. Skilled preachers abound. Multi-million dollar Christian organizations straddle the nation.
BUT where, oh where, is the prophet? Where are the incandescent men fresh from the holy place? Where is the Moses to plead in fasting before the holiness of the Lord for our moldy morality, our political perfidy, and sour and sick spirituality?
GOD'S MEN ARE IN HIDING UNTIL THE DAY OF THEIR SHOWING FORTH. They will come. The prophet is violated during his ministry, but he is vindicated by history.
There is a terrible vacuum in evangelical Christianity today. The missing person in our ranks is the prophet. The man with a terrible earnestness. The man totally otherworldly. The man rejected by other men, even other good men, because they consider him too austere, too severely committed, too negative and unsociable.
Let him be as plain as John the Baptist.
Let him for a season be a voice crying in the wilderness of modern theology and stagnant "Churchianity."
Let him be as selfless as Paul the apostle.
Let him, too, say and live, "This ONE thing I do."
Let him reject ecclesiastical favors.
Let him be self-abasing, nonself-seeking, nonself-projecting, nonself- righteous, nonself-glorying, nonself-promoting.
Let him say nothing that will draw men to himself but only that which will move men to God.
Let him come daily from the throne room of a holy God, the place where he has received the order of the day.
Let him, under God, unstop the ears of the millions who are deaf through the clatter of shekels milked from this hour of material mesmerism.
Let him cry with a voice this century has not heard because he has seen a vision no man in this century has seen.
God send us this Moses to lead us from the wilderness of crass materialism, where the rattlesnakes of lust bite us and where enlightened men, totally blind spiritually, lead us to an ever-nearing Armageddon.
Imagine if the Lone Ranger came to a small Western town where things just were not right.After giving the town a good look-over, suppose he met with the residents and said:
Your daughters are being raped by the Town Boss, who is also the mayor, pastor and sheriff.
Your sons are being mind-raped by the Town Boss’s Number Two Man, who is the school teacher and college president.
Your money in the town bank is being absconded by the Town Boss’s Bank Trustees, who are self-dealing crooks dressed in ties and suits.
Your taxes are being taken by the town leaders, who waste them holding meetings to glorify their own perceived good.
Your tithes are used to buy perfume for the whores of town leaders.
Want to do something about it?I have a white horse, silver bullets and an Indian helper named Tonto!
The prophet in town, if he was Kansas-City-NAR trained, might say this:
No, Lone Ranger.Your days are over.We get your drift.You say Neuro-Linguistic Programming shenanigans have blinded us to what you say is blinding us in the post-New-Apostolic-Reformation crowd.
We don’t believe we have been stupefied by believing the doctrines you say are false… nor do we believe this puts us in a blinkered, false-doctrine-generated inability to see why we are so badly stupefied.
We don’t recognize this pattern globally.Even if the pattern is global, we will not see it as a pattern.We deny what we must!We don’t see it in Wall Street Banksterism, nor on the socialistic mainstream media, nor in whacky Churchianity, nor in progressive public schooling, nor in sovereign debt default risk, nor in our liberal government, nor anywhere.
Let’s all see eye-to-eye as prophets, agree Lone Rangers are the bad guys, and get together and sing Kumbaya!Castration is so good for the soul!
We don’t need no stinkin’ Lone Ranger, nor clerical correction, nor political correction, nor In That Day’s Ancient Paths of Correction…
And never mind America’s Founding Fathers, their European intellectual fathers, nor the Greeks, nor nothin’.
To heck with the idea men are not angels and need government, but a government of men need severe restrictions against self dealing… because, in the end, we don’t have faith you or anybody can really do this Christian ministry thing without lots and lots of self-dealing.
Because almost all modern ministries are set up with self-dealing shenanigans that never must be mentioned, nor expunged, nor especially – seen!
So we say to the Lone Ranger, Fahgetit!Let’s insist our Four Hundred Prophets see eye-to-eye and to hell and banishment with the one who tries to get us to see what we’re paid to never see!
Kumbaya will cover it all.That, and oh yah, God’s grace!That’ll do!
Dear reader, why have I written this exaggerated Lone Ranger scenario?Because modern day prophets are extremely poor-schooled.They have been sent to either of two derailed trains of thought.First pathetic-prophetic school is rapture and end times ink-blot machinations.Second pathetic-prophetic school is the mojo-jive emotion and NLPwitchcraft of “tickle ears so long as you get paid for it” prophesying.
God certainly gives people prophetic callings.Of this, there is no doubt whatsoever.But look at these two sub-schooling efforts from prophetic shrunken brains: First, rapture insanity blinds the prophet from seeing the future and prevents him or her from being indwelt by quick-come, return-now Christ-in-You.Or second, an emotional mojo-jive rainbow-stew-for-me-and-you “let’s all get together and agree eye-to-eye” prophetic meaningless, Christ-in-You-less mumbo-jumbo.It’s either dumb, or dumber!
Now, is such a severe accusation biblical?Didn’t four hundred prophets get it wrong, to one who gets it right?
Christ’s ministry shows another interesting thing about how the true prophetic deals with two extremes: lawlessness violence and too much law, over-lording and… its own contradictory violence.
In Jesus telling the parable of the good Samaritan, we hear of highway robbers who assault a man and leave him half-dead.This is an instance, obviously, of a lawless area.Now consider Jerusalem as being a place with ossified traditions and overbearing legal restrictions so over-lorded in rigid-righteousness that a man can be crucified under false pretenses.Thus even this sacred place, too, can be insufferably violent.
This is a description of all places for all times.Today off the coast of Somalia are lawless pirates who board commercial ships, take hostages and extort millions of dollars in ransom.This is a lawless area.
Then again, pick any megalopolis.It will usually have extremely liberal, progressive, burdensome laws, laws not necessarily intended to overwhelm, but laws and spirits of law-enforcers which inevitably do overwhelm.Mega-cities usually overwhelm the spirit of freedom in man.Thus, big-city pirates can also extort millions from the unaware.
Self-dealing leaders in cities, well-taught in shenanigans hard to see with the naked eye, have a way of extorting, through hidden enslavement techniques, millions of dollars from rubes who never are given the intellectual firepower to see through ruses, smoke and mirrors of this subtle violence.The rubes are taught by cats in public education, modern media, pulpit and politics that rube-mice must love, obey and never question their big, unquestionably angelic, Magillah Cat-Masters.
Jesus with such leaders as these: do what they say, never what they themselves do!He said true faith in God means being wise as a serpent, but harmless as a dove – as opposed to the vipers usually in charge of harming all things innocent.
Where did Jesus minister while on earth?It seems he liked to be about two-thirds away from the inner city, but stay safely about a third away from the land of lawlessness.
Hence, this author lives in Reno and created, or received, In That Day Teachings material while situated under the blue and clean skies of Reno, Nevada.Reno is about 200 miles from San Francisco, 400 from Los Angeles, 400 from Las Vegas.
Nevada recognizes and honors the inherent rights of man much more than California.Nevada has no state income tax, California does.Nevada has a smaller sales tax than does California.Nevada lets people carry guns concealed, thus honoring our Founding Father’s Second Amendment.(Yes, this seems radical, but think it through.Even Jesus said two swords were sufficient for the disciples.)
Anyway, there is the most life to be had about a third of the way from the outer core of lawlessness and about two-thirds away from the corruption of fearful, authoritarian, over-lawed, inner-city over-lording and self-dealing rigidity.Thus Jesus ministered in the softer-semi-wilderness places, until it was time to let the over-lords of the inner city, not-so-sanctified inner-sanctum crucify Him.
So now, Neuro-Linguistic-Programming Churchianity comes to the “we must make sheep easier to herd, easier to pen, easier to shear” camp of over-lording.Through selective rigidity, leaders apply rules, protocols and burdens on sheep that they flexibly escape!Lectures on giving are given by the recipients of giving, with no mea culpas regarding the self-dealing message from the messenger.Pulpit leadership allows no questions, correction nor challenges.Sheep are castigated for pointing out these obfuscations to actual goodness, holiness and ultimate Christ-in-You-ness.Self-dealing becomes god.
Because prophetic leaders have either themselves been pioneers of shenaniganism or blessing its increase in peer leaders, God has let this American prophetic group thoroughly lose its way.Even the prophets who have seen the emotional/NLP shenanigans of the Kansas/New Apostolic Reformation groups and disassociated themselves from them, don’t seem to know what to do!None are so blind as want to be!
This disassociated prophetic group, which chooses to neither pimp rapture nor emotional money-grubbing, seems to have settled on Kumbayaism, calling for prophets to somehow see “eye-to-eye.”
But In That Day Teachings conclude that to ask prophets to compromise is wrong.
Free the sheep to see how they have been easily herded, penned and sheared (i.e. why they lost their fortunes this last decade, and why their mortgages are upside down, and why giving to the church created that moral hazard in the first place, not prevented it) then you will have a revival of intelligence!
After In That Day Teachings’ day of awakening from the darkness of rigid religion, then, and only then, will you have prophets seeing eye-to-eye in God’s true and harsh light.
Prophets will see eye-to-eye when In That Day Teachings-taught, Christ-in-You indwelt-ones see that the Kansas City prophetic movement lost God when they gained a thousand ways to con the sheep out of their wits.
Lore has it that back in the heyday when the Kansas City prophetic groups really seemed to have a head of steam and might amount to something other than an American embarrassment, dueling prophets had a go at each other during a big church shindig.One prophet gave thus-saith-the-Lord words that blessings were to pour out on the churched!The other prophet returned salvos with thus-saith-the-Lord words that the churched were to massively repent!To weep!To wail!To howl!Back and forth they fired salvos, with no dénouement whatsoever.
Pastors like to relate this story, even mocking the two contrary messages, perhaps with humorous singing of the dueling banjo-guitar theme song from the famous 1972 movie, Deliverance.The movie was about mid-aged suburbanite men (i.e. guitar) who took a canoe trip down a river in the remote Georgia wilderness, only to find themselves at the mercy of inbred, toothless, lawless local hillbillies (i.e. banjo).At gunpoint, one of the campers is forced to strip naked, “squeal like a pig” and be violently sodomized.Thus “banjo, representing backwards lawlessness” won, mocking any true Deliverance.
Pastors and even prophets have apparently surmised from the “dueling prophets” story that prophets must first agree. And the fact that they don’t means they apparently must be, what, too dumb, too unsophisticated, too immature, too inbred perhaps to compromise and see eye-to-eye? Prophets need paternalism?
What, perchance, if one of the dueling prophets in the Kansas-type church scene was right?How about, the one saying the Lord wanted the churched to repent!
Only, probably nobody in their still-blinkered state of being knew what to repent of!It was to repent of the massive hidden conning mechanisms of Churchianity that have ruined sheep to where they can’t be indwelt of God!
Sheep can’t get to Christ-in-You, because the prophets have become inbred, toothless fools who offer the opposite of true Deliverance, nay rather they despoil the Wilderness experience!Modern Churchianity, with its lost prophets, has become a place of unspeakable witchcraft shenanigans, which at best becomes a place of merciless fleecing without the sheep’s knowing, but at worst a place of spiritual rape!
Prophets have forgotten that because men are not angels they need government, but all governments of men need severe restrictions against self-dealing, self-enthronement and inevitable self-deification.
Either way, modern Churchianity, by its profound witness of vapid, desolate inability to manifest much of Christ, its supposed Lord, cannot fix itself of its own abominations it has decided in its stubborn mind, it will never see!
Thus the modern antithetical prophets have, by their inability to spiritually see, allowed themselves to be deified, along with the leadership of whatever bad church is going on.Would it be called subornation to eternal perfidy?Or just same-old-same-old hog wash?
Further, it is of no small consequence that modern Churchianity, with its self-obsessed and self-deifying prophets-who-cannot-see, usually fails to mention anything about Western Enlightenment’s natural rights of man.Because Churchianity tramples them.
In That Day Teachings, on the other hand, want to reintroduce Great Thoughts from Great Thinkers, who enabled America’s Founding Fathers to align God’s good for man with a government of freedoms.These freedoms, correctly understood, create the best possible environment for man’s good and God’s good, Christ-in-You even!
But modern Churchianity is so stultified, and so supercilious that this appears too recondite.If In That Day Teachings are too recondite, the problem is insuperable?If the problem is insuperable, then Churchianity should go back to its spendy, splendiferous ways of thoughtlessness and “imagineer,” as if it were a demented, demonic Disney Corporation on steroids, new forms of inanity cornucopia.
Except for this stubborn fact:In That Day Teachings live!They have been created.They do figure things out.They do result in better teaching, preaching, evangelizing, prophesying, healing, deliverance and profound Christ-in-You-ness.
It would be better that In That Day Teachings were never made, than that the wayward body of Christ disregard them.It would be better, as it were, that those in Churchianity who choose to fight God’s Day of Truth Revelation, would never have been born.
It so happens that the Teachings of In That Day are published, for free, on the internet.And because the less-than-Christ-in-You-making teachings, preaching and carryings-on of modern Churchianity certainly are also published on the internet, both camps have a responsibility to respond and reach out to one another.
In That Day Teachings are, by definition, curious, open-minded, flexible, forgiving, forward-thinking and abounding, in the end, with love.The wayward Churchianity crowd is, in fact, the exact antipode.
This, in a nutshell, describes rather accurately the biblical In That Day, a day of darkness and hard-to-find light.A day of the Lord’s judgment.A day of salvation.You get to choose.So, ask yourself this question:Are you feeling lucky?Do you know it all, having learned it all from your pastor, or your pastor’s great seminary schooling?And, how’s it working for you?For Christiandom?For the world?Huh?Not so well?
So, if any mature-prophetic, full-toothed, full-fanged sheep dog, or Lone Ranger archetype if you will, comes along with wisdom and correction from a deep, wilderness God contact… Then what do the four-hundred prophets say in unison?
Oh Lone Ranger, your day is past!Sing Kumbaya with us and see eye-to-eye!
If you don’t agree we are the greatest seers, we shall turn our backs and never invite you to anything!We shall say we see greater, much greater than you!And we shall evermore say, never realizing how smarmy and antithetical to wisdom and intelligence we carry on in complete antipode to Christ-in-You indwelling, we shall say the Day of the Lone Ranger is past!And we shall agree by popular vote!
Further, we shall say, In That Day Teachings are banished, excommunicated and discredited!They have nothing of God in them nor do they have anything for God’s people.We shall carry on as if they never existed.We shall never study anything of In That Day Teachings.We shall never believe Christ comes now, but shall wait in splendid stupor until He does.We shall believe we know and teach Paul better than anything In That Day Teachings talks about, and we shall continue to ignore everything Paul talked about regarding Christ-in-You.The rights of man we ignore!
In That Day Teachings’ Lone Ranger has no silver bullets to kill what’s killing Christianity, has no white stallion named Silver to rescue anybody from anything, and this Lone Ranger has no Tonto who calls this ex-Texas Ranger, “Ke-mo-sah-bee”, meaning “trusted scout and friend.”
No, In That Day Teachings are no friend of God, nor man, nor even Christ-in-You… say the apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers of crazy, lazy, hazy Churchianity.
Good God!Have mercy on us!
The Saga of Four Long-Haul-Truck Preachers
By Robert Winkler Burke
Book #6 of In That Day Teachings
Copyright 1/17/10 www.inthatdayteachings.com
Once four great Trucker-Preachers died,
And went to heaven’s gates,
Each to tell their long-haul story,
And prove their godly fates!
Each was the best of their preaching style,
No one better at what each did!
On Interstate 666 Truck Stop,
Where truckers ate and fueled up big!
The Prosperity Preacher said,
Well, I got the titles to one-billion trucks!
After hearing me preach real good,
Drivers gave me all, to wait for God’s best bucks!
They ended up on nearby Prosper Peak,
So high on my preaching, don’t you know!
Most of them: homeless, the others died off,
Jumping into Prosper Trench, which is low!
The Rapture Preacher then spoke up,
I got one-billion to park their trucks!
After hearing me preach so well,
That’s how good I was! Gosh-shucks!
The drivers walked to,
Wait-in-the-Fog-Bog Park,
But Jesus never came!
Still: Admire my art!
The Slouch Preacher said,
It’s my turn!
Here’s the big rewards,
I did earn!
I preached: Eternal Security,
And mantra: God-loves-you-no-matter-what!
I disabled one-billion,
Each an otherwise perfectly useful truck!
Drivers ended up in homeless tent-shelters,
At nearby Worship Weakness Lake,
They sang such wispy, self-debilitating,
Nonsense: unaware of mistake!
The Indwelling Preacher then spoke,
He said, What can I say?
I didn’t accomplish much: it,
Being late In That Day!
I cleaned truckers’ headlights and windshields,
And taught them: to watch out for those preachers three!
Who will suck the soul out of your own life,
And will brazenly tell you: that’s how to be!
I filled their truck tires with air,
For drivers to be safe!
That they make their destination,
And never be late!
I filled their tanks and bellies,
With fuel and hearty, wholesome food!
And congratulated them all,
On doing a tough job: quite good!
I took them down the Truckee River,
Baptized them and taught them to fish!
And helped them rest on the peaceful banks,
That’s how I felt: Jesus in me wished!
In general, I tried to creatively,
Clean up their act!
Such that when they left, well, Jesus,
In next seat sat!
That’s all I did,
With all that were then willing!
But woe is me,
I only helped: one-million!
Not a billion or three,
Like these other famous preacher archetype-kind!
Send me back to earth now!
Who’ll help the lost of earth: poor-taught and left behind?
Saint Peter said, You left one-million behind,
That will do!
Come in and pray! And they will undo three-billion,
Misconstrued!
So, have the faith of a diesel motor,
Purring at idle or roaring full throttle!
For God has allowed these church deceptions,
Indwelling shall prove itself: best model!
For lie-fed, blinded souls everywhere are sold,
Disabled or parked!
While just a few full-indwelt of God are now,
Earth to heaven arched!
Beware, then, preaching and teaching,
Of those global broadcasts by satellite,
Oft they’re blind deceivers reaching,
For much that’s wrong and little right!
For a complete-occupied man of indwelling,
Is great to behold, if you can!
Full apologists for prosper, rapture or slouch,
Are oft useless to God and man!
You see, reducing to absurdity,
Finds the clarity,
It’s Western Enlightenment’s,
Path of verity.
Maxed-out prosper, rapture, slouch preacher,
Sold out souls,
Can no longer be indwelt of God, they’ve,
Reversed roles.
Such Christ promoters,
End up in transposed heist,
Antipode indwelt,
Christ not, but antichrist.
This can’t be true?Too shocking,
And too hard! this profound revelation?
Look then, at each preacher type!
Only the indwelt one: brings God’s nation!
It’s simple, yet quite hard,
Now: In That Day,
Is Jesus full-indwelt?
That’s the best way!
Revival’s Curious Demagoguery
By Robert Winkler Burke
Book #7 of In That Day Teachings
Copyright 2/4/10 www.inthatdayteachings.com
Why can’t revival be discernment against demagoguery,
Instead of acquiescence to same?
Lie down!Why down?Die down!And be supine submissive,
That’s the conner’s revival game!
Nothing wrong with healing or refreshing,
In an energized-for-that arena,
Except that politics and low business,
Duplicates the acquiescence Purina!
Die down and take it!
Bam, bam, bam!
Perfect elixir?
Or a sham!
Do laid-down sheep then see,
Hypnotism’s ruses?
Or will they be raped next,
By whomever chooses?
Dumb is,
As dumb does,
Lie down,
Get the buzz!
Impart, impart, impart!
Acquiescence to hypnotic-shenanigan demagoguery?
Is it high or low art?
Wouldn’t a wise person ask: What is the cost to this slavery?
Is revival so sweet and revival so dear,
As to be purchased with chains of slavery?
Hush up!Hush up!Hush up!Say wolves in fear,
Revival pays us well, who cares of knavery?
Don’t submit to Islam,
Lie down to revival’s big shenanigan?
Acquiesce to our big bam,
Turn off brain, have emotions born again?
Shepherds of demagogue revival,
Weep!Wail!And Howl!
Your blind-dumb sheep shall be overwhelmed,
By next wolf fowl!
You have made your sheep,
To believe a conning, blinding, low-level revival,
Shall help, not worsen,
Acquiesced, undiscerning souls from statist upheaval.
Hat tip to Victor Davis Hanson’s critiques on Universities
At our famous ConU Out of Christ-in-You Seminary,
We equip pastors to be perfect, mystic-tyrant, blinding rube-equippers!
Our nonsensical sermons are undetected: subliminary,
Clever ConU tropes and memes make us: Jack-the-covert soul-rippers!
How do we exalt self-interest, nugatory publications,
Jargon, publicity, useless conferences, fast jets and perks?
By ignoring germane Christ-in-You complications,
Banning true prophets and exalting quid pro quo jerks!
ConU Seminary Schools hate political freedom, reason,
Capitalism, individualism, democracy, scientific inquiry and open debate!
With those nasty Western Enlightenment precepts gone,
Shenanigan Church can think, do, and inevitably blow up all things great!
Thus ConU Seminary grads can become pastors,
Who are much more interested in sheep patronage and extortion,
And using Neuro-Linguistic Programming to the rafters,
Than to teach Christ-in-You, which we kill stillborn, thru abortion!
How do we get away with this Spirit-of-God murder?
With killing Christ-in-You and poisoning God’s own sheep?
Well, we’re never satiated, we can always go further!
How?Well at ConU, here’s the secret we own and keep!
ConU Seminary Schools hate political freedom, reason,
Capitalism, individualism, democracy, scientific inquiry and open debate!
With those nasty Western Enlightenment precepts gone,
Shenanigan Church can think, do, and inevitably blow up all things great!
ConU has heard of the bad Teachings,
Of In That Day,(Its author is a maven, craven pattern-seer!)
Since they’re the opposite of ConU,
We must say, No way!(To say it’s okay, ‘d prove we’re in arrear!)
No way to weeping over fear, greed, slouch!
No way to Correction, High Ways, Christ-in-You!
No way to getting off our lethargic couch!
No way to manifesting Christ in ourselves: imbued!
ConU Seminary Schools hate political freedom, reason,
Capitalism, individualism, democracy, scientific inquiry and open debate!
With those nasty Western Enlightenment precepts gone,
Shenanigan Church can think, do, and inevitably blow up all things great!
It’s easy to ban Western Enlightenment thought,
Because, we say correcting our self-dealing: cannot be of our God!
In That Day Teachings: the opposite lie has bought,
And if you believe this message from Reno, then you’re quite odd!
You want to be Millennium, lucre-ready church leaders,
Or cash-merry prophets, don’t you?
So, sell soul to be ConU Out of Christ-in-You breeders!
Our Seminary is so very true!
ConU Seminary Schools hate political freedom, reason,
Capitalism, individualism, democracy, scientific inquiry and open debate!
With those nasty Western Enlightenment precepts gone,
Shenanigan Church can think, do, and inevitably blow up all things great!
Since Four Hundred Prophets are with us,
At ConU, we cannot be wrong!(Who can meet our definition of generosity?)
So this one pipsqueak in Reno,
He cannot with God be strong!(No one tells us we’ve become monstrosity!)
Mobocracy is,
Always right!(Resistance is futile, the Borg-Hive likes to say!)
Majority rules,
Join our might!(So toss, toss: In That Day Teachings away!)
ConU Seminary Schools hate political freedom, reason,
Capitalism, individualism, democracy, scientific inquiry and open debate!
With those nasty Western Enlightenment precepts gone,
Shenanigan Church can think, do, and inevitably blow up all things great!
Yes it’s slavery’s reaching by other means,
Our clever, modern day, debt-to-us peonage!
Don’t with In That Day Teachings be seen,
Bow down! Love ConU’sblessed espionage!
The Picture of a Prophet
Leonard Ravenhill [taken from www.ravenhill.org] [hat tip to stormharvest.com.au]
The prophet in his day is fully accepted of God and totally rejected by men.
Years back, Dr. Gregory Mantle was right when he said, "No man can be fully accepted until he is totally rejected." The prophet of the Lord is aware of both these experiences. They are his "brand name."
The group, challenged by the prophet because they are smug and comfortably insulated from a perishing world in their warm but untested theology, is not likely to vote him "Man of the year" when he refers to them as habituates of the synagogue of Satan!
The prophet comes to set up that which is upset. His work is to call into line those who are out of line! He is unpopular because he opposes the popular in morality and spirituality. In a day of faceless politicians and voiceless preachers, there is not a more urgent national need than that we cry to God for a prophet! The function of the prophet, as Austin-Sparks once said, "has almost always been that of recovery.”
The prophet is God's detective seeking for a lost treasure. The degree of his effectiveness is determined by his measure of unpopularity. Compromise is not known to him.
He has no price tags.
He is totally "otherworldly."
He is unquestionably controversial and unpardonably hostile.
He marches to another drummer!
He breathes the rarefied air of inspiration.
He is a "seer" who comes to lead the blind.
He lives in the heights of God and comes into the valley with a "thus saith the Lord."
He shares some of the foreknowledge of God and so is aware of impending judgment.
He lives in "splendid isolation."
He is forthright and outright, but he claims no birthright.
His message is "repent, be reconciled to God or else...!" His prophecies are parried.
His truth brings torment, but his voice is never void.
He is the villain of today and the hero of tomorrow.
He is excommunicated while alive and exalted when dead!
He is dishonored with epithets when breathing and honored with epitaphs when dead.
He is a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, but few "make the grade" in his class.
He is friendless while living and famous when dead.
He is against the establishment in ministry; then he is established as a saint by posterity.
He eats daily the bread of affliction while he ministers, but he feeds the Bread of Life to those who listen.
He walks before men for days but has walked before God for years.
He is a scourge to the nation before he is scourged by the nation.
He announces, pronounces, and denounces!
He has a heart like a volcano and his words are as fire.
He talks to men about God.
He carries the lamp of truth amongst heretics while he is lampooned by men.
He faces God before he faces men, but he is self-effacing.
He hides with God in the secret place, but he has nothing to hide in the marketplace.
He is naturally sensitive but supernaturally spiritual.
He has passion, purpose and pugnacity.
He is ordained of God but disdained by men.
Our national need at this hour is not that the dollar recover its strength, or that we save face over the Watergate affair, or that we find the answer to the ecology problem. We need a God-sent prophet!
I am bombarded with talk or letters about the coming shortages in our national life: bread, fuel, energy. I read between the lines from people not practiced in scaring folk. They feel that the "seven years of plenty" are over for us. The "seven years of famine" are ahead. But the greatest famine of all in this nation at this given moment is a FAMINE OF THE HEARING OF THE WORDS OF GOD (Amos 8:11).
Millions have been spent on evangelism in the last twenty-five years. Hundreds of gospel messages streak through the air over the nation every day. Crusades have been held; healing meetings have made a vital contribution. "Come-outers" have "come out" and settled, too, without a nation-shaking revival. Organizers we have. Skilled preachers abound. Multi-million dollar Christian organizations straddle the nation.
BUT where, oh where, is the prophet? Where are the incandescent men fresh from the holy place? Where is the Moses to plead in fasting before the holiness of the Lord for our moldy morality, our political perfidy, and sour and sick spirituality?
GOD'S MEN ARE IN HIDING UNTIL THE DAY OF THEIR SHOWING FORTH.They will come. The prophet is violated during his ministry, but he is vindicated by history.
There is a terrible vacuum in evangelical Christianity today. The missing person in our ranks is the prophet. The man with a terrible earnestness. The man totally otherworldly. The man rejected by other men, even other good men, because they consider him too austere, too severely committed, too negative and unsociable.
Let him be as plain as John the Baptist.
Let him for a season be a voice crying in the wilderness of modern theology and stagnant "Churchianity."
Let him be as selfless as Paul the apostle.
Let him, too, say and live, "This ONE thing I do."
Let him reject ecclesiastical favors.
Let him be self-abasing, nonself-seeking, nonself-projecting, nonself- righteous, nonself-glorying, nonself-promoting.
Let him say nothing that will draw men to himself but only that which will move men to God.
Let him come daily from the throne room of a holy God, the place where he has received the order of the day.
Let him, under God, unstop the ears of the millions who are deaf through the clatter of shekels milked from this hour of material mesmerism.
Let him cry with a voice this century has not heard because he has seen a vision no man in this century has seen.
God send us this Moses to lead us from the wilderness of crass materialism, where the rattlesnakes of lust bite us and where enlightened men, totally blind spiritually, lead us to an ever-nearing Armageddon.
Of Churchianity’s own uncorrectable, hilarious ineptitude,
Yet with lost mind quick-somehow found,
It says, In That Day Teachings are bad, ‘cause they’re rude!
Nascent seers superciliously pontificate,
Stop the big voice, big hair, sloppy dress of the day!
So, that’s as high as their high can get?
Many trim branches, but few ax roots in the way!
God have mercy on the sound of Churchianity!
How long, oh Lord, how long will it reign?
Shall blind lie-lovers e’er keep their insanity?
They’ll stay blind as long as God does deign!
What will history say about,
In That Day Teachings’ efforts: to truly feed sheep?
They appealed to our best hope,
And best confidence that: Christ-in-You, we keep!
And what about Churchianity?
It appeals to our psyche’s worst fears and devilish doubts!
Vaunting showmanship vanity,
And illogical, “newest-is-truest,” self-dealing clown-louts!
Said Ronald Reagan, beloved US president who had great charm,
“My dream is that you will travel the road ahead,
“With liberty’s lamp guiding your steps and opportunity’s arm,
“Steadying your way.”He, with Christ: did bed!
Chuirchianity has slept with,(With rapture, they promote godless fear!)
All that is not Christ,(With prosperity, they bring greed near!)
They are bereft of much good,(Persona exaltation is all you will hear!)
Yet can’t see the heist!(Lazy doxies, they binge-drink like beer!)
God have mercy if In That Day Teachings are true,
And, are they for you?Are they for you?
Will Churchianity: Weep! Wail! Howl! with full rue?
What will you do?What will you do?
What’s that sound,
Heard ‘round the world?
By which Love,
Gets sheep secured?
In That Day,
It’s in the bible,
Shepherds,
Now, be liable.
And sheep,
You must forgive,
Tho hard,
In Christ, all live!
Perhaps pastors might be interested in knowing more about true ministry consultation:
----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Robert W Burke <rwburke@sbcglobal.net>
To:PHIL COOKE(Broadcast Consultant to the Ministry Megastars and Wanna-be’s)
Sent: Thu, December 29, 2011 7:36:33 PM
Subject:Change style... or change doctrines?
To Phil Cooke, guru advice and equipment and project contractor to the broadcast Christian mega-stars and wanna-be's,
For in depth analysis of what wrong doctrines underlie all the style changes you recommend (i.e. drop announcer voice, big hair, etc.) , see www.inthatdayteachings.com.
Because your advice to change the style, but without repenting of the wrong doctrines that drive the old and new styles, means that all that will be accomplished... will be to give blogmasters further style change recommendations. You have given yourself a dubious job, but a long one!
Phil,
You seem rather disgusted with www.inthatdayteachings.com, while slowly you get to its cogent points. Yesterday you hated its points. Today not so much.
The problem seems that www.inthatdayteachings.com goes all the way to remedy, whereas your preference of a few points here and there... don't help enough.
The full remedy -- worldwide -- is Christ-in-You, which happens sans shenanigans. Christ-in-You is almost always virtually shenanigan-free! Yes!
Your blog usually points out a few bad shenanigans, always without a doctrinal house cleaning... which is actually a demonic deliverance.
Christ-in-You does not live much in those driven by world or style or shenanigans. Christ-in-You does not live in demon-filled people blind to shenanigans.
To simply say an old style is "found out" and recommend something else, some newer or more acceptable style, is... vanity.
The heart being that broadcast Christianity has to massively weep, wail and howl over its shenanigan-driven history, its love of demons, if you really see.
Next, recognize that three problems plague broadcast Christianity: Doctrines of fear, greed and laziness.
Fear is driven by rapture lies. Greed is driven by prosperity pimping. Laziness by escapism of eternal security.
Next, three things must replace the empty vessels of Christiandom.
They are first, Ancient Paths of corrections, which includes a deep understanding of James Madison’s "men are not angels, and thus need government. But men of government are also not angels, and need great restrictions else they be corrupted by absolute power." Broadcast Christiandom has enjoyed 50 years of unlimited power, hence unlimited corruption. Ditto the average, "successful" nondom church of emergent crazitude, prospertude and you-name-it-dude.
Second, high paths of Paul. High paths of Paul would make you, sir, repent of ignoring my missives. You pretend your insight of drop-this-style... then adapt-this-style-new is somehow great, because... you have a theology degree? Paul boasted that he DID NOT use shenanigans. You need to repent that shenanigans have been your business. You detect a few, granted, but ignore the rest. You detect the mice. You ignore the elephants.
Third, Christ-in-You comes once the first and second things are done. You, Phil, know little about Christ-in-You... else you would preach it.
On this last point, Phil, you've seen those charts that show three diagrams. One, a star with many lines going out from it. That is old ministry. Next, a bunch of stars with many lines going out from them. The stars might be connected. That is kind-a-sort-a what nascent seers like yourself sort-of-kind-of have been promoting. "Yes, Mr. Big-Shot Evangelist, I Phil Cooke can, for money, guide you through this new millennium process." Big shots still in charge. Ugh.
But the last diagram you really don't know how to navigate, else you would not have deleted me from your blogs.
The last diagram (shown recently on Glenn Beck's The Blaze site) shows interconnected webs, no stars. That is Christ-in-You, come now... not waiting for the lie of the rapture, but "behold, I come quickly". In others. In others broadcast Christianity refuses to bless.
Unless you say blessed is he who comes in the name and the nature of the Lord, your house will remain unto you desolate.
And that is why your broadcast Christianity house is desolate!
Your stars, and even you yourself, cannot come to bless Christ-in-You in the sheep! In prophets! In anybody outside the star system you at once loath and sustain while the star system sustains you.
(Note:This follows an old pattern, as shown in Job, wherein righteous folk might inquire of the LORD, and possibly get an answer.This method shocks modern religious folk, but here it is anyway… Last night I looked at Rick Joyner and Bob Jones discussing 2012 and I get things far different than rainbow-stew-for-me-and-you prophetic utterances…)
So, LORD… what gives?
One year of contact with Reno Shepherds, and all has been dismissed by them!
Yet revival is discussed everywhere.
How can there be? (revival when shepherds are un-revived!)
Non-Christ-in-You’s want revival?
You’re going to bless that?
If so, then there is no In That Day.
But there is.
So, there it is.
The Dead-in-Christ must have it their way?
And their way they will have?
But they will rue it!Won’t they rue it?
They will rue the day they were born, and especially the day they were born again, but not.
Sin-born again they are.
And once again, they know not what they do.
By rejecting most all Christ-in-You imbued, they kill Christ’s birth in man in the land of the living.
So the land of living is dead.
So the land of living is walking zombies.
Zombies, Dead-of-Christ and Dead-in-Christ!
Thus ends 2011.
Welcome to 2012.
Thus saith the LORD,
The LORD Who is not dead,
The LORD who reigns,
The LORD who rules,
The LORD who lives in all Christ-in-You peoples,
Now, then and forevermore.
Life itself says to those who,
Must have death itself over Me,
Have death until you can stand it no more!
Though none of life would wish it on you,
Though none of God would wish it on you,
Though none of love would wish it on you,
You, yourselves, lovers of,
Death, haters of correction,
Haters of intelligence,
Haters of the smartest minds,
Haters of the mind of Christ, even,
That you hate logic, thought and wisdom…
Shall have what you must have by your own desire,
You shall have everything that is not Me, your God.
You shall have 2012 your way,
A way which is not mine.
We hope you miss Me,
And long for any man, any woman, any child that knows Me.
Not knows of Me.
That is your problem.
You don’t know Christ-in-You-Me.
And you hate Me in all Christ-in-You ones.
And until you stop hating Me in others…
You shall have your surprisingly rotten selves.
Weep for 2012.Wail for 2012.Howl for 2012.
You will receive what you deserve.
A day of darkness, and not light.
For Christ-in-You ones, Goshen.
For Christ-in-You haters, Egypt.
And after pride is ruined in you…
Come back to Me.(In That Day!)
And Me in others.(In That Day!)
And be indwelt.(In That Day!)
Until then, see how desolate of Me you are. (In That Day!)
By your despising others-in-Me, you have become nothing but desolate yourselves.
Desolate!And full of fear.
See!See!See in 2012.
And someday, someday far away from now,
You will be glad for 2012,
The year that finally humbled those who could never otherwise be humbled.
But you will not, at first, like 2012.
It is designed for such as you.
You who know of Me, but are not indwelt of Me.
2012 is a designer year, designed for you.
Welcome, then, to truth you have succeeded in avoiding up until now.
While other prophets, in deception I have ordained for such as them, prophesy rainbow stew for Me and you, ,my true prophets are not so mind-impaired.
Multitudes who are Dead-in-Christ shall, through necessary excoriation, become successfully imbued unto the point of Christ-in-You.
From milk Churchianity to true meat!
From baby-land Christianity to true man and woman – hood and maturity.
All Christ-in-You folk can now… LAUGH!
All Dead-in-Christ folk can now… WEEP!
Time to grow up!
The fires are kindled.(Spiritually against the Religious Dead-of-Spirit!)
The fires are kindled.(Mentally against the Religious Dead-of-Reason!)
The fires are kindled.(Hot enough to penetrate even Religious Pride!)
Because Your LORD,
Your God,
Your Christ,
Says it is now:
In That Day!
And it is a day that still many will not see.Your Lord your God is a merciful God and 2012 will harvest whom needs harvesting into the realm of In That Day, the meat of the mind-of-Christ, the mature who need to shepherd leadership into the millennium.Others who are blind, shall see nothing and experience nothing.Such is mercy.Such is love.Such is your God.But it does not mean that such a time will not come to the blind!Fear God.And love each other.And you will make it.Never succumb to fear, only God!
"ICONOCLASTS" - An Insightful Word
-extracts by Robert I Holmes.
"Where, O where is the prophet? Where are the incandescent
ones fresh from the holy place? Where is Moses to plead in fasting
before the holiness of the Lord?... the one with a terrible
earnestness, the one totally otherworldly." - Leonard Ravenhill.
Ravenhill's words are reminiscent of a podcast I was listening to
on my way to Sydney... It was a communication from the Banff
Leadership Centre in Toronto Canada titled "Iconoclasts" outlining
the role of men and women in organisations who shake things up.
They gave this definition of iconoclast: The breaker or destroyer of
images or idols set up for veneration. A person who attacks
cherished beliefs, traditions, institutions and error. You might be
familiar with its synonym: Curmudgeon.
This idea, this concept of shaking the house, shattering the idols,
attacking cherished beliefs is very much the life blood of
Christianity, of early Christians and indeed, draws from their long
heritage as recipients of faith from Israel. Peter, in describing his
fellow believers said they were "sons of the prophets" (Acts 3:25) -
for Peter faith meant being like the prophets of old.
Enter Moses
There are many iconoclasts in church history, some as far back
as Moses in the Old Testament. He, looking forward as far as
Peter was looking back, said he wished "that all God's people
were prophets and that the Lord would pour his spirit upon them!"
(Numbers 11:29). Remember that Scripture defines Moses himself
as a prophet (Deut. 34:10, Luke 24:27), and Moses prophesied of
a time when one "likened unto Moses" would arise - Jesus
himself (Acts 7:37).
So who is this man - this prophet after whom we are sons? Moses
was the man: - who confronted Pharaoh - who split the Red Sea -
whose enemies were swallowed by the sand - who saw God and
lived - of whom God said, "Moses is my friend"!
This is the iconoclast. This is the prophet. This is Jesus all the
way through his ministry. And where is the spirit of Moses in the
church today? Where is the nature and character of Christ
amongst Christian today? There are a number of facets to the
prophetic that should be reflected in our lives including: being a
forerunner; dealing with isolation; holding God's opinion above
men's; going against the flow; dealing with rejection; being a
recoverer and; driving for balance by being out of balance.
1. Forerunning
Prophetic people are forerunners. They come into things first. God
deals with the church before he deals with the world (ref) and he
deals with natural things before spiritual things (ref). Prophetic
people in the church are even further ahead and as a result are
quite out of step with the mainstream. They are often in the
opposite phase. Happy when everyone else is sad, sad when
everyone else is happy.
2. Dealing with isolation
Bring prophetic very often means having an unpopular message,
and results in fierce isolation. You have to have a thick skin to say
the unpopular thing. You might be a solitary figure rebuking a
corrupt king. The one who rats out sin in the camp. The one who
cares about what God cares about. However just because we are
isolated does not mean we isolate ourselves. We seek out the
brethren, we want companions. We resist being a loose canon or
a law unto ourselves.
3. Holding God's opinion above men's
If we face heaven, and we care about heaven's opinion and
perspective on things we will care more about God's opinion that
peoples. We will seek to experience heaven's favour and not curry
the favour of men. We will desire heaven's stamp of approval even
at the expense of men's favouritism.
4. Going against the flow
Have you noticed that God has a very different set of priorities to
us? He values integrity whilst the world pushes for sensuality; he
desires honesty when the world wants duplicity; he aims for
longevity when the world demands expediency. Prophetic people
even find themselves going against the flow in church - and sadly
sometimes even going against the prophetic flow!...
5. Dealing with rejection
Being out of step, being isolated, being a lone voice comes with
rejection too. People do not just take kindly to your obstinate
passion for truth and purpose, they buck against it. The donkey
kicks against the goad, the horse bolts when spurred. So too
people rebuke and rail against those who are prophetic...
However, we do not imbue the spirit of rejection. We do not walk
around with a sour face, expectant of rejection - wishing it upon
ourselves and provoking it from others. Rather we understand it is
part of the call, a necessary companion on the journey. After all
we are followers of Jesus: a man despised and rejected, a man of
sorrows, acquainted with grief (Isaiah 53:3).
Instead, Jesus came into situations expectant of finding the
Kingdom at work, and his Father at work, with work for him to do
there (John 5:17).
6. Being a recoverer
"The function of the prophet has almost always been that of
recovery." - T Austin Sparks
The prophetic person is not a maintainer, they come in to repair
what is broken. Recovery is required after an accident or injury -
people need rescue and decisive action is needed for triage.
Recovery is needed after a loss or fall - lost things need to be
found, people adrift at sea need to be rescued. Recovery is needed
after a mop up campaign. The troops have gone through and the
land needs to be restored. As a result, when all is well, prophetic
people are quiet.
7. Driving for balance
"Prophets were not made for the status quo, they were made to
bring things back to the middle. This means they stand for the
extreme, to bring the church back to where she should be."
-Brian Medway.
If the church gets imbalanced, or has forgotten a truth the prophet
pushes back to recover it. They take an extreme view of stance, to
bring the church back to centre. Which is why it seems that their
message is unbalanced, because of necessity it is. But this
contains a dilemma for us.
Once an issue has been championed, and accepted the church
must move on, lest she camp in that imbalanced position. Nothing
gets done when things stay the same. Movement is required -
things grow by getting out of balance - but nothing remains if it
stays unstable.
We quickly become false if we camp at and insist on an extreme.
Conclusion
This is the church, as sons of the prophets. This is the Christian
following Jesus the prophet. They are...
-An iconoclast: standing for truth; standing against tradition.
-A forerunner: out of step and out of season.
-Solitary: but not a loner or a loose canon.
-Rejected: but without a spirit of rejection.
-A recoverer: to bring things back to wholeness.
-Unbalanced: extreme but not staying out there.
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The Federalist No. 51, February 6, 1788, James Madison
“It may be a reflection on human nature…that… devices should be necessary to control the abuses... If men were angels, no government would be necessary.If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”
Like a coordinated man dancing with an off-beat lady,
So is God with nondom pastors of stunningly broad un-intelligence,
Pastors disbelieve they can ever, even once, be shady,
Preaching claptrap and rapture, all see where Christ-in-You went!
Christ-in-You is gone from you,
You pastors I’m speaking to,(Say au revoir: mind-of-gopher!)
Your sheep should ask, Where is He?
You keep your sheep un-imbued!(Don’t belay: Christ’s makeover!)
Repent, repent, oh pastors who are not angels,
But repenting, of so much of your abominable pride, will not be easy!
Repent, repent, oh pastors, from all your angles,
Weep! Wail! Howl!God says, All will be well.But now, be queasy!
But you, you nondom pastors say,
NOW let us build a vast building project!
But what if God, God Himself says,
Without insurance, sheep should: object!
But you pastors say,(Fixed-rule-tithing is, for rubes, perfect!)
Now, this poet-prophet Robert Burke wears a black hat!
But God, God can say,(Holy flexibility rules, rigidness: reject!)
Recent history proves a collar hides much by say-so fiat!
Christian book publishers, to protect their stakes,
Often, therefore, reasonably demand,
Insurance contracts if author, morality breaks,
And trips out of underwear get out of hand.
So the sheep of a certain Atlanta church,
Should have, of morality insurance contract, asked,
When it was discovered, too late as it were,
Siring of pastor’s brother’s son was masked!
Yes, that pastor did it with his blood-brother’s dear wife!
Try instead cool reason versus hot-damn church funding,
If men were angels, church stories would have no strife!
But they do. So insurance-less funding is unbecoming.
Were general funds used to pay off,
A man who said, with the broadcast owner, he was gay?
There are always examples enough,
But leaders without sheep insurance, never say!
Then there was the spectacular mega-church,
In debt of dollars: fifty million!
Bankruptcy court sold it to the Catholics,
Always, there’ll be: sheep willing?
Without payback insurance,
Wife of pastor won’t abscond through divorce,
Or of hooker’s dalliance,
Or crime conviction: change church’s course?
Without humility!
Somewhere seen in the shaving mirror of each pastor man,
All is futility!
A pastor who builds, without sheep insurance, what he can.
Meanwhile, in the bizarre nondom land of insanity,
It’s oft the Jar Jar Binks Church of Eternal Distraction!
Rather than Lincoln’s cool reason of humanity,
Pastors say, let’s build NOW!They demand action!
Cleric mystic tyranny,
Is what it is!
The sins of shepherds: many,
None have more biz!
Pastors deliver to politicians,(Hidden, blinding mental-enslavement!)
The dumbest citizens ever!
Pastors being magicians,(Never minding: just where God went!)
And Greeks thought Persians clever!
Hidden enslavement everywhere,
For the church-blinded, church-stupefied: never to see!
Think!Use brains! says the prophet rare,
But pastors demand their funds, that whom be free?
What is wrong with this dance,
That pastors, without Christ, do?
They’re in the Devil’s trance,
Much, yes much: they have to rue!
A prophet speaks like a prophet,
A beguiled wolf does what he does,
Who, this message, will mock it?
Wolves wish this prophet: never was.
But this prophet: IS,
God, how unfortunate, for them!
Let truth now: reign,
And church cleansing, be: IN!
Christ-in-You,
Is a message that is true,(Try it: The Teachings of In That Day!)
The Christ-less,
Find this: they can’t do.(They just might like it, by the way!)
If pastors, who are not angels,
Can’t be humble enough to let Christ: themselves imbue,
Hear prophetic fandangles,
On wayward Christiandom, and believe what’s true.
And sheep, sheep! Don’t be too much sad,
To learn that, by many pastors, you might’ve been brazen-financially had!
As pastors don’t believe they can be bad,
They believe you can, not them.Smile.Guess with Whom: Who’s mad!
Like a coordinated man dancing with an off-beat lady,
So is God with nondom pastors of stunningly broad un-intelligence,
Pastors disbelieve they can ever, even once, be shady,
Preaching claptrap and rapture, all see where Christ-in-You went!
Christ-in-You is gone from you,
You pastors I’m speaking to,(Say au revoir: mind-of-gopher!)
Your sheep should ask, Where is He?
You keep your sheep un-imbued!(Don’t belay: Christ’s makeover!)
Repent, repent, oh pastors who are not angels,
But repenting, of so much of your abominable pride, will not be easy!
Repent, repent, oh pastors, from all your angles,
Weep! Wail! Howl!God says, All will be well.But now, be queasy!
11/7/2011RE: “How to Mitigate Churchianity’s Sovereign Default Risk”…
Bravo, Robert!
Your beautiful and intriguing writings remind me of what Jesus told his disciples in Mark Chapter 4 when they questioned Him about the explanation of his parable of the sower and the four kinds of soil.
"And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable. And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?" (Mark 4:11-13)
This poem is yet another gem that sparkles with biblical truth and eye-opening admonitions for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear!
Your themes have been so consistent in calling out the errors of bad teaching/unsound doctrines, that have left the Body of Christ in sort of a spiritual stupor, unable to grow or eventually go from a milk to steak diet. By now, I believe the recipients of your emails and those with hungry hearts to check out your web site should be "getting the message."
I enjoyed your humorous word string, "saccharine doxie-chow." Saccharin (a crystalline compound several hundred times sweeter than sucrose) is a fake sugar, almost too sweet, plus large doses of it can cause cancers. Doesn't that describe "Churchianity preaching" to a T? Phony doctrines instead of real, sound, biblical truth; syrupy, seeker-friendly messages that don't feed the sheep; large amounts of bad doctrines that can lead to "cancer" in the body of Christ (unnatural, growth of deadly cells that attack and weaken surrounding cells and eventually, the host.)
"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought." (Albert Szent-Gyorgyi)
My prayer is this:“Just like the blind and deaf people that Jesus healed, Lord, please touch our eyes and ears to receive the teachings that Robert gives us, through the giftings of his writings and poetry.Amen.”
Chris Quinn
Reno, Nevada
How to Mitigate Churchianity’s Sovereign Default Risk
By Robert Winkler Burke
Book #9 of In That Day Teachings
Copyright 11/06/11 www.inthatdayteachings.com
It’s been said pastors know,
Heaven doesn’t recognize their sermons on the great Book of Acts,
But when a prophet says so,
Do pastors’ spirits know, eyes to see, their fate’s In That Day facts?
For one-hundred years,
Churchianity has demanded: insufficient intellectual curiosity!
Is it any wonder,
Then, church and praise are made one ineffectual monstrosity?
Pastors’ insouciance with Dead-in-Christ-edness,
And outrage over Nathan-like correction,
Has kept a tight-range of copycat-edeness,
And made nondoms of candy confection.
Who’s got the faith?
Who’s got the faith?
Who’s got the faith?
A real prophet might full well ask!
What’s needed now?
What’s needed now?
What’s needed now?
Real prophets, they know the task!
Make more room NOW!NOW in leaders’ souls,
For real Father-God doctrine to abide!
Clean out saccharine doxie-chow, in leaders’ souls,
For Jesus Christ, Son of God, to ride!
Anything, anything, anything but that!
Is what mad pastors say,
That’s why their services are flat, flat!
Is the sad truth today.
Hebrews Twelve: One, it says,
It says what’s needed for all to be well,
Forget corrupting power,
All else but real God-Acts are pell-mell.
Who better knows the corrupting influences of power,
Than pastors who have not changed for years?
But doing the easy thing is destructive this hour,
Maladjusted structures bind church-brain gears!
God’s people cry out for a Let-My-People-Free!
Cleansing purge of bad ways in Churchianity’s system,
Prophets have to shout: Unless you can fully see,
Christ comes NOW, you’ve lurched and missed Him!
Who’s got the faith?
Who’s got the faith?
Who’s got the faith?
A real prophet might full well ask!
What’s needed now?
What’s needed now?
What’s needed now?
Real prophets, they know the task!
And oh, by the way,
Churchianity has lots and lots and even more lots of prophets to burn,
Rapture or Dizzy,
Both styles are so deceived, neither it so happens: God’s voice can earn!
Yet listen to sonnets of In That Day Teachings,
A sword, for the mind of Christ, like no other!
Four-hundred deceived prophets always: reaching,
Each lies precisely like his deceived brother!
Heavy, my friend, In That Day,
Oft does make one’s choices of significant portend,
To find God’s light, Christ-in-You,
Verily is not, like much of Churchianity, pretend.
Who’s got the faith?
Who’s got the faith?
Who’s got the faith?
There is a terrible Sovereign risk!
What’s needed now?
What’s needed now?
What’s needed now?
In That Day, Christ-in-You: brisk!
Churchianity, like global finance,
Has become inherently unstable!
Believe and live In That Day Teachings,
And Christ-in-You becomes able!
When Christian Colony Experiments Were Tried Off-Planet
By Robert Winkler Burke
Book #9 of In That Day Teachings
Copyright 11/03/11 www.inthatdayteachings.com
Back in the year A.D. Two-Thousand Fifty,
A thousand years ago,
The world government, it was shifty,
And morals did forgo.
They sent Christian colonies to planets,(With our space warp-drive!)
For all the universe to themselves show,
Which Christian sects could survive off-Earth,(Which best could thrive?)
Or couldn’t, so that all would know.
All in the universe could learn,
If God was bigger than Earth,
All Christians said, God was!
Each sect fought for its own worth.
The Rapturians, those who believed in Rapture,
On their distant planet, all soon died!
They thought Rapture was for Earth alone,
And might miss it.None survived!
The Quick Returnians, those believing such,
On their distant planet, became freakish-weak!
They thought God’s return was for Earth alone,
They came back, and say He comes next week!
The Eternal Securians, those of such mind,
On their distant planet,
Did as much as on Earth they left behind,
Work: Not one could stand it!
Doing nothing and averring God approved,
Was what they mostly did,
The government was not in same mood,
Back to Earth they were hid.
Then on Earth, a government motion was made,
To stop trying to get signals of proof on different faith sects!
So Christian colony experiments were stopped,
On such, proof and time don’t work.So they quit all bets!
So, now it’s the year A.D. Three-Thousand Fifty,
Christians on a million planets believe,
Christ-in-You comes quickly as their bible says,
Ears, eyes to hear and see: give reprieve!
We suppose life might go on,
At least a thousand years or more!
In That Day what might happen,
Fifty and a Thousand times Four?
Probably Christian sects will then believe,
Rapture, Second Coming and Eternal Security are in store!
Maybe, maybe not.Think back on history,
What are thousands of years for?
Even back in A.D. Two-Thousand Eleven,
A smart man in Reno tried to get more people thinking!
Christian enlightenment, far from leaven,
In That Day Teachings!Not Koolaid drinking!
Think!Use rational argument!
Sects have screwball ideas for a number of loony reasons!
Christ-in-You can’t live with lies,
But sect-believers thought: Use of brain was foul treason!
Eventually, did it take just seconds or many millennia?
In That Day’s Christ-in-You won out!
Thank God for pioneers of the Twenty-First Century!
Irrational thought was in rout!
That In That Day fellow,
Wrote intriguing free-speech thought experiments,
And shot holes in bad sects,
Bad doxies were shaken, if not given bad dents!
With each bad doctrine disbelieved,
Christ-in-You in wise Christians: grew!
Heaven came on Earth, then went beyond,
A thousand years ago! Who knew?
In That Day Teachings,
Helped to, quick-as-a-wink, get God-in-Man going!
Spirit cups filled up,
And those good souls who did, didn’t stop growing!
Sadly, the good grew apart. far from the bad,
In That Day,
Holy with the holy, dogs with the dogs: mad,
It’s God’s way.
In the year A.D. Three-Thousand Fifty,
Looking a thousand years ahead and back,
In That Day Teachings laid it out nifty,
Christ-in-You is not just yack!
It’s the spiritual return of God’s Son in man,
For the first two-thousand years: oft misunderstood!
But straightened out in the Twenty-First Century,
So the universe could behold: God, always good!
Ancient Paths of Correction,
With Western Enlightenment showing the way,
Paul’s High Paths and Christ-in-You,
Introduce the eternal: In That Day!
In That Day,
Wisdom grows!
God loves man,
Heaven knows!
Ever since the Resurrection,(If God were gold, people were impecunious!)
It has been quite possible,(To be, in God, quite rich!)
Christ-in-You is In That Day’s,(Teachings of old, but people were incurious!)
Holy old-new gospel!(Have you now, the itch?)
What will it take, my friend,
For you to believe?
Behold: Christ-in-You comes,
Now! So, receive!
What?You once thought,
Truth for you would be easy In That Day?
No!Truth’s quite hard!
God wants it, has it: no other way!
Christ-in-You gives,(Once your head is straight!)
Gives you a lot of energy!
Well, it figures,(With Christ’s mind as mate!)
He’s got the power: to BE!
They Came, Saw and Conquered the Biggest Thing on Earth!
By Robert Winkler Burke
Book #9 of In That Day Teachings
Copyright 11/01/11 www.inthatdayteachings.com
They came light years from outer space,
And they were a superior race!
With minds of double-helix brace,
They held over us an ace!
They said they called themselves the Inferiors,
They said the name kept themselves humble before their Creator,
They said they wanted to eat us but wouldn’t,
They said helping us would be a thing they averred greater.
So they asked us,
What can we do for you?
They asked us,
What’d be the thing most true?
We said, Inflation and unemployment were killing us!
They said, Cut government spending and go on a gold standard!
Or we could eat half of you, which is our first choice,
But we could decide: either or, and it was damned hard!
In the end,
We cut spending and cut fiat money,
Sure scared us,
But the result was pure honey!
Next, they said,
We must find another reason to eat you!
What is next?
How can we help problem number two?
Taxes are too high, we said,(Tax collectors we all, of course, dread!)
And college is ridiculously expensive,
We’ll eat your young and old!(Pensions, schooling: gone with dead!)
They said, but by now Earth’s thought grew extensive!
Earthlings cut government expense more,
Until only natural law rights were protected,
Colleges became private enterprise,
Rent-seeking stopped and intelligence: extended.
Too bad!Licking their green lips,
The Inferiors from outer space calmly told us,
We are mighty hungry now,
What is Earth’s problem three?Ask bold, us!
Terrorists are killing liberty-lovers everywhere!
We will make them our dinner fare!
Shall we proceed?
Great is your need!
Stop, oh Inferiors,(We gave them the shove!)
Stop drooling on our ground,
We’ll fight terrorists,(The West wins with love!)
Until they come around.
Can’t we eat anybody?
We’ve come a long way!
We’re fighting self-interest,
How long, we can’t say!
It would be easy to eat you all,
It’s a lot harder to fight our own interplanetary self-interest!
We hoped you’d choose the easiest way,
But now you’re blessing yourselves, as we’ve been blessed!
Problem number four, we asked for their mind-hive,
Sky-high technology and hyperspace drive!
They said, travel with us searching for food,
Which turned out not to be creatures, but good!
Spiritually, mentally, physically,
They grew better when choosing good over self-service,
Then, the same thing happened to Earthlings,
When to hidden self-service, we became impervious!
The IQ of the human race,
Doubled, tripled! And then went higher!
We thanked the Inferiors,
Who pulled humanity from the mire.
You tricked us! we said,
You didn’t ever want to eat us at all!
One’s worst enemy,
They said, is seen in mirror on wall!
Then help us with problem number five,
We said, We can’t expunge self-interest from religion!
Same problem we have back on home hive,
That’s why we travel, of such to be as far from!
They said, If you travel in space,
Religion: leave far behind!
Self-interest from it can’t be erased,
Leave behind any such mind!
Why didn’t you eat them?
We asked,
Our God gives hell for,
That task.
They replied,(grinning, quite green!)
And we understood!
In That Day,(know what we mean?)
You’ve got to be good!
They came, and saw and conquered,
Our lack-of-perspective, not-so-hidden sin,
Of self-interest, self-dealing,
Our evil core, which we conquered within!
Only problem is,
The Inferiors, God bless ‘em, have us lying!
We threaten to eat,
Aliens we meet.And our lie they’re buying!
It’s the only way we know,
To make modern barbarians on other planets to believe,
Epic wrongs can be fixed,
By themselves, with lesser evil’s choice: reprieve!
Those Inferiors, turns out,
They were not so inferior to us after all!
Not-superior Earth louts,
We sure were, self-interest kept us small!
America’s Founders knew this,
Their triumvirate documents explained it!
But in its third century,
No such deep learning was honored in it!
Well, the Constitution survived,
Self-dealing in government and man was successfully stopped,
Now, we’ve seen a million planets,
But self-service in religion never, no never, is blocked!
Self-interest in religion stays hid and can seldom be ‘fessed up,
And that’s quite sad!
But with the rest of the universe cleaned up,
Things aren’t too bad!
Well, actually high-tech space-man science and our computers,
Have a quite workable solution,
But we let religion with its great self-dealing self-interest live,
Humility is born of pollution!
Sand in an oyster,(Makes a pearl, you know, or)
Tremendous high-pressure makes black coal into diamonds,
Self-interest lives,(We let such weed-tares grow)
So that cub cultures kill it in themselves, to become lions.
In That Day,
Few are much mature,
God wants us,
Better, more pure!
The greatest self-interest, when properly understood,
Is to kill the personal, ugly part of it,
That’s what In That Day’s about: the godliest good,
So beautiful, Christ-in-You’s art in it.
It’s God’s indwelling,
That makes self-dealing a sham,
God’s indwelling puts,
In us: the great I AM!
November 2, 2011 RE:Poem “How I Met a Death Whisperer”…
This poem is quite profound, Robert; a very mysterious yet creative work; it appropriately comes against the spiritual gloom trying to descend upon the light the day before the kingdom of darkness celebrates its most evil, pagan (unholy)day.
What a great reminder of how wonderful it is TO BE (live, walk and talk) in the light! "God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all." (1 John 1:5b)
Just like Paul was once a Saul, anyone can go from being a "death whisperer" to one who gives out the "breath of life" to all who are in desperate need of spiritual resuscitation. These poor souls gasp for air, choking on the fumes of dead religion, polluted with the clouds of fear, greed, and laziness generated by bad doctrines preached incessantly from pulpits across the land.
"And the Lord God formed man of the dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." Gen 2:7
Does this not want to make us cry out from the depths of our being, "Oh, breathe on me breath of God, fill me with life anew..."
Keep up the great work, poet-warrior Robert!
Chris Quinn
Reno, Nevada
How I Met a Death Whisperer
By Robert Winkler Burke
Book #9 of In That Day Teachings
Copyright 10/30/11 www.inthatdayteachings.com
It was a dark man that came to me,
And with dark words, he said,
I’ll whisper my death-whisper to you,
As I choke out your head!
With my fingers around your throat,
The last thing you’ll ever hear,
Is: In That Day Teachings have died,
And the world will cheer!
No more talk of Christ-in-You,
No more stopping Fear, Greed and Slouch!
No more High Ways or Old Paths,
Of Correction: just same-old couch!
Same old couch of comfortable religion,
Ruling in every single way,
You’ll hear my death whisper, oh Christ-in-You One,
You’ve lost!You’ve lost!All soon will say!
Maybe, I said.Maybe,
You’re right!
But why the bluster?Why,
The fight?
What scares the pants off you?
Oh darkest of dark men of religion,
Are you scared of what’s true?
Why so scared of Christ-in-You reason?
Because: that you are light, proves without doubt,
That our abominable religion of darkness is wrong!
All we need is to choke off that light,
And our dark religion will remain ossified-strong!
Fear!Oh man of incomprehensible light, fear!
Fear our death-whisper we send to you!
I won’t fear it!Nor will I hear it!
It’s time you be Christ imbued!
Weep! Wail! Howl!Oh, Lords of Darkness,
You’ve worshipped popular laziness, fear and greed!
He said, Maybe, maybe: I and my kind would,
If we could believe In That Day’s creed!
Believe Ancient Paths of Correction,
Believe Paul’s High Ways and Christ-in-You!
Bright One, your faith is stronger than ours,
If we honor you, what will God do?
If you honor the indwelt-of-God,
That is to say, if you swallow your old-abomination pride,
God can cleanse your antichrist ways,
Behold, Christ will come quickly, in your ameliorative ride!
And the unbelievers will not believe you,
Formerly fallen you, now have Christ’s mind, love and power!
And after a while, you’ll have to deal with,
Dark Ones who threaten you with their death-whisper shower!
You see me now: so bright in God,
But formerly I was like you, a Saul, a Death-Whisper Agent!
I repented, as you now sob,
Thus heaven expands, like Paul, with each true prophet nascent!
You are a prophet making prophets?
The Dark One said to me,
Covet the prophetic!Don’t mock it!
And Christ will set you free!
The Dark One said, This rends!And my head spins!
I would rather keep this quite simple.You are a pimple!
And I will snuff you out!And without a doubt!
Nay rather, dim friend!My faith: a greater eliminator!
Nothing stops the love of Christ!
Give up and turn to light, Dark Defender of Churchianity!
You win, persistent man of light,
Christ-in-You and others shall defeat all insanity!
But, it feels weird, me a champion Death Whisperer,
Now abounding with God’s indwelt light!
Get used to it!He never leaves good doctrine,
Like old apostles, you’ve got God’s might!
This is how we meet Death Whisperers,
Every single time, God mysteriously in others: percolating!
Hoping to convert darkness to light,
With God’s In That Day rhyme, His ironic merrymaking!
So then, it’s honor unto whom honor is due!
By God, that prophet-poet in Reno got it right!
He offers nothing less than Christ-in-You!
Why does Churchianity prolong its winless fight?
So many, trapped in pride, believing memes and tropes,
Which make them ghoulish, dark: Death Whisperers,
They say to themselves: they know it all, all the ropes,
When they could be the Great I-AM-Who-IS bearers!
Such is Christian spirituality,
As the world of faith now is!
Awaken to Reno’s In That Day,
Teachings and honor: do not miss!
Death Whisperers honor no one,
Save memorized, dead scripture, dead religion and their quite dead god!
To be light-bearers In That Day,
Honor Christ’s light-bearers, and then God removes all brain-fog!
It’s simple,
Yet queasy!
Be humble,
God’s easy!
Death Whisperers,(Languishing in uncontested, surreal moral idiocy!)
Please, do not fear!
Christ-in-You comes,
Then God: is near!(Causing sight-blinding in others, until they see!)
Yes, God is inside: near,
When Christ-in-You comes!
Shiny are In That Day’s,
Body of work: suns!
What if Spiritual Sight Was More Than What’s Taught?
By Robert Winkler Burke
Book #9 of In That Day Teachings
Copyright 10/19/11 www.inthatdayteachings.com
What if having ears to hear and eyes to see,
Were much more than what preachers thought?
And bad church doxie smears what needs to be,
With hell’s wrong doctrine church has bought!
The Reno In That Day Teachings,
Quite bold: say so!
Proclaiming ancient high ways God,
Of old, does go.
Thus, students of In That Day Teachings,
Profit much,
Same students: in high ways of hearing and seeing,
Not off much.
But then again, who in modern churchdom,
Could this believe?
Their castle of thoughts causing shakedowndom,
Leaking as sieve!
Hence, the perfect dilemma,
Them who need to see and hear: can’t!
In That Day Teachings give sight,
But the blind say the seeing: shan’t!
God set it up so,
So the blind wouldn’t be too early condemned,
I pause and say, Oh!
God, You want that sight would be so hemmed?
Why give sight,
If seeing minds are to be generally scorned, mocked and persecuted?
Well, I guess,
You have doors of thought open, others locked, all perfect executed!
What if ears to hear and eyes to see,
Were more to find and mine than just what most preachers taught?
They pray years: to hear, yet still not free!
Who’s blind of what?Who’s mind of what?God does as ought!
Regarding In That Day Teachings,
Its author, so vainly seeks for popular credit,
But God’s mystery reachings,
Mainly work above mere man’s ocular edit.
Thus, God is,
And man is not,
We can climb,
But then meet block.
I laud Father being so near yet far away,
My mind, spirit, body are Christ-in-You synchronized: much improved!
Thanks, God!But your sheep!Oy vey!
Can In That Day help them?Mercy, God, on your blind-deaf brood!
Ode to Robert Maryboy
By Robert Winkler Burke
Book #9 of In That Day Teachings
Copyright 10/15/11 www.inthatdayteachings.com
I met Jesus living in a man,
At Four Corners in the Southwest, named Robert Maryboy,
He’s a Navajo Dine artist,
Easy to meet, hard to part with, a man great with God’s joy.
He paints spirit-filled paintings,
Of Monument Valley, the burnt-red geography of the mind,
He has a booth at Four Corners,
Find Jesus in him, and you will have found a good find.
He said his income with painting,
Helps him help the drug-torn or those coming off booze,
What would Jesus do with sainting?
It’s not yours or mine, but Father God’s to choose.
Surname: Maryboy,
Given to his grandfather by a reservation Catholic priest,
Ironic humor,
God always seems to be confronting us, to say the least!
I salute you, Robert Maryboy,(When we met you blessed my son!)
Yet God picked a rather strange place for Cupid to hide in!
Because, none of us are God, oiy!(I pray majesty in you just for fun!)
For God, not man, picks whom to ride side-by-side in!
My Failed Free-Speech Thought Experiment
By Robert Winkler Burke
Book #9 of In That Day Teachings
Copyright 10/14/11 www.inthatdayteachings.com
Well, I wanted to help the poor,
The widow and the orphan!
So, I became a preacher: dour,
But soon I was a morphin’!
I had wanted that my sheep,
Would learn to draw: intelligent, fine-mental distinctions!
I had wanted them: freer,
Smarter, more sophisticated Abraham Lincolns!
Lincolns of thinking,
Who couldn’t be duped by religious or political conmen of the day!
But then, me blinking,
I lost faith!I lost faith!‘Cause how would the sheep, me, then pay?
So, then I sunk it,
My free-speech thought experiment!
Now, I monk it,
With milk-repeat merriment!
I teach the trusting poor, the widow, the orphan,
Christianity: in a knee-jerk, almost superstitious way!
And I teach fixed-rule tithing because I can,
Regarding my self-interest, of course, I won’t say!
Any person trying to correct me,
That I might truly feed Christ’s sheep!
I transmogrify into a threat,
Free inquiry: shut!Not a peep!
No peep out of the poor-of-brain,
Widow-of-mind or orphan-of-thought!
It’s wonderfully mind-boggling,
With this con of mine, all bought a lot!
You see, I looked at the Mandarin Overlords,
A little to the right on the Intelligence Bell Curve,
And I thought I’d be smart enough to be one,
And I have been!And I stick to it with great verve!
God made it so very easy to do,
With the never-ending repetition (it is so puerile) of the teaching of milk!
Only problem: it’s not working,
Mandarin thought-castles are crashing! Naked, we’re without bilked silk!
In That Day, that far-over to the flat-right,
Intelligence Bell Curve, Reno-based fellow,
Said: our cheap-thought overlord church cons,
Would turn from Babylon brick to Jello!
We’ve tried ignoring this prophet’s message,
In truth, for years and years!
And now, our worst nightmares come true,
Our tired message gets jeers!
We have in the past preferred just,
Two prophetic messages: crazy rapture or crazier excitement,
Neither now works at all! At all!
Rainbow stew disbelieved, rapture seen as frighten-ment!
So then, here comes Burke with In That Day Teachings,
A veritable Rosetta stone of understanding!
Saying: Christ-in-You comes, behold, quickly,
In mature souls with doctrine of good standing!
Doctrine proved correct in God’s sight,
By the creative indwelling of Christ making poems!
In fact, this Reno fellow’s got might,
In a spiritual way!He breathes out God’s tomes!
Enough already, with the poor, widow and orphan,
Free-speech thought experiment!
I’ll never stop preaching milk,
I’m like a monkey that keeps grinding organ!
In That Day Teachings,
Have no larger-thought, mental uplift: Christ-in-You for me!
I’ll stick with the old,
The old preaching that doesn’t work, that sets none free!
Why?Well, pride of course,
In That Day Teachings cannot be right; preachers wrong!
Scribes and Pharisees,
We are, in the Twenty-first Century, still strong!
Pshaw on thinking critically!
Pshaw on Western Enlightenment’s corrective protocols!
Sheep will never catch us sinning,
Neither will God.We’ve got the Devil’s own balls!
I know!I know!It’s especially and stunningly mind-boggling,
When you actually come right down honestly to it!
We say: Leave off Christ-in-You In That Day Teachings,
And keep with wolf-moron Mandarins: who blew it!
We’ve been blind to Christ-in-You brilliance,
In the past, also today and will be in all kinds of future!
Don’t worry, oh poor, widows and orphans,
We’ll sew shut all eyes, using religion as kind suture!
Shocked?Shocked?
You’re shocked: gambling with souls is going on here?
Go to sleep!
Close your eyes!Have an ice-cold church beer!
There, there!We Lords of Milk Churchianity,
Expertly know how to treat minds like a baby!
Don’t think In That Day Teachings are right!
Christ-in-You is nothing.Not even maybe!
Choose you this day,
The well-worn memes and tropes of milk-ish overlording!
Or God’s great meat,
Power, love and sound mind of Christ-in-You boarding!
Oops! As a milk pastor,
I must put it to you better!
Chewing meat is hard!
Be a milk-mush go-getter!
There, there!Dear sheep,
You’re almost as blind as little old milk-preacher: me!
And that’s just what,
God, or perhaps His nemesis, wants us all: to be!
You, dear reader of this, you most especially,
Must not agree God has given this one man truth!
Is what he says in the bible?Yes?I agree,
But so what if it is? Christ-in-You: now forsooth!
Leave off all belief,
Christ comes quickly in you or me now: today!
First Century, maybe,
Now? Forget it!It’s milk that lets wolves prey!
Just give us milk, oh Father,
Not this Christ-in-You, Who is our stranger!
Anything but Christ-in-You!
Haven’t you, oh God, made me herd ranger?
I’m a mighty, mighty herd ranger,
Devising endless stratagems on milk Churchianity!
Come on, God!Admit: such genius!
Dead-in-Christedness beats all!Or is it insanity?
Maybe it’s time: to intelligently and deeply consider,
The myriad points of light in In That Day Teachings are inspired: true,
But overwhelming us: this is, for babies, too hard!
God, you want milk sheep to eat meat?What, God, should babies do?
Shall we honor the teachings?
And honor that certain creative mind of God in Reno?
What?Honor Robert Burke?
Now that is a laugh!What, pray tell, does he know?
Us average preachers,
We write no poems, no teachings, no tomes, no: nothing at all!
Believe us, not him!
And the world can soar with us on the great milky-way cabal!
Perhaps it will not end well,
Perhaps In That Day is, behold then, God’s own right!
Hooh!And what if it was?
Just deserts would be served: with God’s Sun light!
Men loved darkness back then,
In truth, most of us still do!
Too bad this Burke was born,
Church folk have tons to rue!
And if we did, well, I mean,(being demure!)
Weep, and wail and then howl,
Christ-in-You might be seen,(by the pure!)
Come, Lord Jesus.Fill all.
But damn that Robert Burke!And damn the bible’s last page,
Which says three times in red Christ comes, eyes to see, behold quickly!
I’m the man with a much-copied plan, ever the latest rage!
Let’s be un-imbued milk zombies!We blind-eye see: we’re not sickly!
Because the end of the world, brother,
Is never (oh, sigh!) quite near,
Just Jesus, in another,
If you have His eye or ear.
Fortunately or unfortunately for our progeny,
Life will go on,(It always does, it will not miss!)
Only the legacy of Christ-in-You,
Will make them strong.(As Christ was, will be and is!)
We must stop fighting In That Day Teachings,
They’ve come, a weighty work, at last!
Though an enigma, they’ll quicken us,
God-imbued for greater work: fast!
Sorry, In That Day Teachings,
Sorry, Robert Winkler Burke!
We now believe Christ-in-You,
God, in us, now at work!
Man, we were proud!
Man, we were stubborn!(Yet, God with us did not, in any way, tire!)
Thanks for the faith,
Man must be reborn!(God, light in us: Your In That Day fire!)
We, as Christ-in-You manifesting abodes, are called to expunge wrong doctrine and establish right doctrine in our souls such that we sufficiently have eyes to see and ears to hear to comprehend God’s hand moving, inquire and if prompted: to engage in assignments to expand God’s kingdom of milk and meat believers.We hold there are no fixed rules or platitudes, but guideposts.We pledge to have God’s proper harmony with all things good and proper discord with all things evil.Hence, we pledge mutual dedication to self-restraint, which is liberty, a thing God cherishes.We strive to salute and bless Christ-in-You holy flexibility in others, that our spiritual dwellings not be desolate and to encourage the meat in God-bearers.Our goal In That Day, which is now, is to have manifest in us God’s highest love, Jesus Christ, who behold, comes quickly in power, love and a sound mind.Even so, come, Lord Jesus.Come quickly!Come!
We, as Christ followers, are called to love freely, live simply, give generously and tell as many people as possible about Jesus.That’s it.And only it.(We ignore any higher calling, especially those manifesting our actual Jesus Christ in the here and now, whom, of course, we are likely to crucify, stone or imprison rather than receive with blessings – blessings which would remove our desolate-of-God condition of Dead-in-Christedness.For with our platitudes, rigid simplicity and small-mindedness: we truly, truly know not what we do.That is: until In That Day, which we disallow, and God does a Book of Job number on us, which might help us grow into meat, humility, indwelling of God and forgiveness toward our milk brothers who then later crucify us.)It’s simple.It’s what we do all the time.Regardless!
Could it Be?Could it Be?
By Robert Winkler Burke
Book #9 of In That Day Teachings
Copyright 10/08/11 www.inthatdayteachings.com
Could it be? Asked the oracle,
Of Oh-How-We’re-Stuck-and-Don’t Change,
Could it be? Asked the oracle,
Of As for-Us-We’ll-Never-Spirit-Rearrange.
Could it be? We are supposed to chuck,
Our lousy, untrue, bad-fruit Christian doxie,
Could it be?Lies in religion make yuck,
Only loved by rebels of independent moxie.
Could it be?Heaven is described,
By one word: Truth!
Could it be?Hell is what we believe,
Lies without proof!
Could it be?Christ-in-You returns,
Unseen by church-blinded people of countless religious prides,
Could it be?In That Day Teachings,
Ferret out lies so that: Behold, quickly God-in-man abides!
Could it be?It’s a percentage game,
Wherein lying doctrine expunged is replaced with good,
Could it be?Once enough lies removed,
God flies and lives inside us, under our soul’s hood.
Could it be?Revival isn’t far away,
If only our beloved demonic doctrines were disbelieved by enough,
Could it be?Revival is quite doable,
If God’s people, who are called by His name, would get tough.
Could it be?God’s stubborn people,
Must toughen up and say goodbye to their long-held religious lies,
Could it be?Now: Christ-in-You!
Is what the abandonment of wrong and purchase of truth buys.
Why We Love the Milky Nondom Narrative!
By Robert Winkler Burke
Book #9 of In That Day Teachings
Copyright 10/06/11 www.inthatdayteachings.com
I’m a Milky Nondom Narrative pastor,
Struggling with my weight,
Struggling with my caffeine fate,
Struggling with my unintelligent pate,
It’s Milky Nondom Narrative revival that I’m after,
My church really must double in size!
Or perchance, a more greedy: quadruple rise!
My self-interest, I hope my sheep don’t surmise!
I’m a Milky Nondom Narrative Pastor,
We all have rebelled against orthodoxy,
Our style: we teach a baby story with much moxie,
We teach all but maturity, on that we put a lock!See?
I am a Milky-Nondom-Narrative master,
Repeating milky line upon line,
We worship infantilism!It’s most Divine!
And we keep our diapers!There is no changing time!
We worship the Milky Nondom Narrative,
Nothing dumber in the world, really, than us,
Of course, smart folk we hold in maximum disgust,
Our doctrines make us lower in thought than, well, dust!
We won’t change our Milky Nondom Narrative,
To hell with Paul’s meat and higher things,
To hell with Christ-in-You, what true doctrine brings!
To hell with In That Day Teachings, just puerility: our bell rings!
Our god is the Milky Nondom Narrative,
We are totally incurious about God’s higher ground,
We loath and despise it when maturity: others have found,
When we find such an one, we pound him or her to the ground!
We insist on the Milky Nondom Narrative,
No other god, no other way shall ever rule!
As we are idiots, we replicate the dunce on the stool,
But only one thing makes us mad.Don’t say we are a fool!
Our faith is in the Milky Nondom Narrative,
It never has healed any one,
But if you heal like God’s Son,
You, and all like you, we will disown!
Our universe is the Milky Nondom Narrative,
We will break if you tell us about steak!
Forever adolescent, that’s the god we make!
Don’t warn us or help us.Don’t say we are just fake!
Don’t ever say we have a Milky Nondom Narrative,
That leaders personally own all the assets!
Don’t expose who gets tithe’s ill-gotten baskets!
We conveniently hide behind milky worldview mask sets!
Nothing is greater than our Milky Nondom Narrative,
We are what is. And that’s it! There is no more!
We say what came and comes and what will be in store,
Our heads are white.We have the wisdom of the ancient hoar.
How can we understand In That Day Teachings?Consider that Martin Luther began the Reformation movement back in October 31, 1517 when, as a German monk, he made a letter of 95 Theses, a list of complaints about the Catholic doctrines of the day.His theses were widely distributed, due to the recently invented printing press.From there, the Protestant Movement began.
Now, 494 years later, we can ask:What has the Protestant Religion become?In That Day Teachings looks upon the common doctrines of modern Christianity, and finds that liberty has turned into licentiousness.Whereas Protestant freedom from rigid orthodoxy might have developed great Christ-in-You promulgation, instead we see shenanigans, hidden enslavement and loss of liberty both in the cleric and political realms.Hidden slavery-of-mind rules the day.Amazingly, the more Churchianity is taught, the stupider people become!
Church and state seem to work hand in glove to create hidden enslavement programs of socialism and zombieism.Idiocracy seems to be encouraged, questions and critical thinking are not!Preachers will not answer questions!
Further, Churchianity’s pastors seem to enjoy playing smash-the-mole with whomever might manifest Christ-in-You!Real manifestations of Christ-in-You cannot normally find voice in pulpit, but rather find themselves kicked out of church!The only free speech in church seems reserved for wayward leadership.
Such leaders are incurious about their inability to promulgate Christ-in-You.They have no Openness to Higher Ground, a tenant of Western Enlightenment.Hence, there is more than a little truth to the following joke:
A young man in Ireland brings his fiancé to Dublin to meet his family for the first time.The mother asks the bride-to-be to say something about herself.
The young woman says, “I am a prostitute.”
Whereupon the mother shrieks and faints.The family revives the mother by sprinkling water on her face.After recovering, the mother asks the young woman to start over.
Again, the young woman says, “I am a prostitute.”
The mother says, “Oh, fine and well!At first, I thought you said you were a Protestant!”
1)There are no fixed rules only guidelines.Thou shalt have no other gods…
Especially, thou shalt have no fixed-tithe-rigid-righteous rules of entrapment and hidden self-interest of deceived and deceiving rulers.Have faith in God!
2)A grape matures in the presence of a mature grape, so too high discipleship.
3)We worship God in Spirit and Truth, God confirms when both are, or not.
4)Modern church wayward doctrines make fear, greed and slouch – not faith!
5)Rapture makes fear, blinds folk to Christ-in-You and is extremely wrong.
6)Prosperity Give-to-Get makes greed, increases pride and is evil and wrong.
7)Eternal Security makes slouch and uselessness to God.It is also wrong.
8)Truth rings like a bell.Lies make a cracked-bell sound.Most can hear both.
9)Correct doctrine, which is love, redounds unto Christ-in-You, not: not. Christ-in-You maturity gives proper accord and discord with good and evil, a great two-way-radio with God and profound Trinity witness from within.
10) Unless you bless Christ-in-You in others, your spiritual abode stays void.
11) Pride and rigid righteousness are milk that blinds, the opposite gives sight.
12) God is the Word.Words must not be used in antipode!(Not guys: men!)
13) Milk things repeat unto vanity.Steak lines & precepts give God-bearing.
14) Milkers have low to no assignments.Steakers get God’s great assignments.
16) Milkers need one-way hypocrisy preaching.Steakers: holy reciprocity.
17) God put freedom in man’s breast.This freedom has hard-won protocols advanced via Greek-Roman-Jewish-Gothic Christian heritage:Western Enlightenment.It is to be taught, defended and advanced by the church.
18) Wayward church is profoundly anti-freedom, anti-Western Enlightenment, anti-intellectual and anti-critical thought.Hidden enslavement is madness.
19) Self-defense and the means to do so are just, proper and of God’s love.
20) Immature doctrines create baby brains, blind eyes, deaf ears and hatred.Mature doctrines enable high thought, eyes to see, ears to hear and love.
21) Steakers at best serve God and man, Milkers at worst serve self and evil.
22) Steakers seem alone but work in peace.Milkers seem united but aren’t.
23) Ancient Paths of Correction, Paul’s High Ways and Christ-in-You are it.
24) If orthodoxy is too rigid and modern Protestantism is too loose, the answer may be the structured holy flexibility of In That Day Teachings. Have faith!
25) Thus, now is the time we let God make His Goldilocks choice: Neither too doctrinally loose and COLD, nor too doctrinally rigid and HOT, but In That Day: Structured Holy Flexible: JUST RIGHT for God’s un-conflicted inhabitation in POWER, LOVE and a SOUND MIND, which is Behold, I come quickly:CHRIST-IN-YOU.Now!And forever.Even so, come Lord Jesus!
From Robert Graves’ I, Claudius, wherein Emperor Claudius writes a grim, yet hopeful passage, in which he predicts that his successor, the mad, self-destructive Nero, shall accomplish the greatest good for mankind’s freedom by showing government’s evil:
“I have decided Nero should follow me so that one day the empire will revert back to the Republic, that is to some form of representative government. I have been too good an emperor, too fair and too honest. I will give Rome Nero and when he is done with Rome, Rome will be done with emperors altogether. It will be bad, exceedingly bad…worse even than Caligula but they have to have the whole terrible truth about just how bad it can be before they come to their senses. Let all of the poisons that lurk in the mud, hatch out.
Let the poisons hatch out!
Let the poisons hatch out!
Let the poisons hatch out!
That’s always and ever what I hear the Spirit say,
The churches are crazy!
Mentally, pastors lazy!
Yet: muck makes a daisy!
Always, that’s the answer I hear when I pray.
Robert Graves wrote I, Claudius,
Let the poisons hatch out, said the great emperor!
It’s what God has told me,
About church, and why it’s not fixed: caveat emptor!
Let the buyer beware!
The only solution God is, for now, supporting,
In That Day Teachings: made!
Yet, for now, all its truth: most folk are aborting.
Why, oh God, take decades out of my life,
To have a holistic, Rosetta stone of understanding: rejected?
Why, oh God, work hard to ferret out lies,
When Christian leaders, who should know better, call it: fetid!
Only God Himself,
Not man, not even the Devil,
Could un-blind so few,
And let the rest: stew in evil!
Hence our present age,
Of mass dystopian, yet so popular, pulpit and political fecundity!
Despite Robert Burke’s,
In That Day Teachings, those who can’t see, can’t be free indeed!
What could be sadder?
Great truths now in reach!
What could be madder?
Ears plugged, none can teach!
Why, why, why?Oh, God!
Why can’t In That Day Teachings, they understand?
Poisons in the mud!
Be patient, My scribe in Reno, be a man!
The poisons in the mud must hatch out,
It’s a story as old as Rome!
Lies full grown, prove who is prophet or lout,
Heaven is where truth has a home!
Yes for now,
Few modern Christians have brains enough stout,
In That Day,
Soon, they’ll imbibe high teachings, then shout!
Hurrah for In That Day Teachings!
Wow, God must have blinded us!
Dumb and deceiving many were,
Devilish ways blinded us!
Fascinating, the story will be,
What un-blinkers modern Christiandom!
Until then, In That Day Teachings wait,
To be discovered by folks God kept dumb!
Until In That Day, then,
Its rediscovered truths remain unseen, unknown, unrevealed!
Have mercy on them, Lord!
They know not what they do, as veneer from them is pealed!
Could modern Christians be any more stuporous: deaf or blind?
Surely, we’re near the end of that!(Wince!)
Could these Christians be more ready for heaven’s ears or sight?
Surely, hard times accomplish that!(Hence!)
Let the poisons hatch out!
Let the poisons hatch out!
Let the poisons hatch out!
That’s always and ever what I hear the Spirit say,
The churches are crazy!
Mentally, pastors lazy!
Yet: muck makes a daisy!
Always, that’s the answer I hear when I pray.
An Advanced Degree in Thinking
By Robert Winkler Burke
Book #4 of In That Day Teachings
Copyright 3/21/09 www.inthatdayteachings.com
What I needed was a retarded,
Oops!I mean, advanced degree in thinking,
So I immersed myself in fantastic,
Oops!I mean, enlightened Christian preaching.
Me and tens of millions of deceived,
Oops!I mean, genius Christians did this,
So on elections we would be fooled,
Oops!I mean, ruled without prejudice.
We also learned when fleeced, how to stop it,
Oops!I mean, to not touch God’s own anointed,
So when voting for US President our trance,
Oops!I mean, our spirit picked the one appointed.
I just thank God for my education from antichrist,
Oops!I mean Christian broadcasting,
I’m happy, no honored, to send money to them,
Oops!I mean to Mandarins governing.
People who don’t understand my compliance, I hate,
Oops!I mean, I kindly, compassionately tolerate,
Who cares?Our leaders from pulpit to capitol devour,
Oops!I mean, have our best interests at stake.
My pulpit and political leaders fly high in their hubris,
Oops!I mean, wonderful executive jets,
My pulpit and political leaders are selfish cannibals,
Oops!I mean, selfless workers for my best!
Christian Broadcast has made me profoundly un-American,
Oops!I mean, the perfect patriot,
When demagogues speak and do evil, I’m so deaf and blind,
Oops!I mean, I’ll agree to hate not.
My friends say my brain is full of twisted propaganda,
Oops!I mean so Christ-like and Christ-emanating,
They see the doctrines I was immersed uncritically in,
Oops!They’re now arrested, due for terminating.
Behold, Jesus is now in my refined soul quickly coming!
Oops! I mean: I’ll soon be raptured,
I’m not lazy, but it’s fun to know evil is mind numbing!
Oops! Which god has me captured?
Listen to Him!Listen to Him!
By Robert Winkler Burke
Book #9 of In That Day Teachings
Copyright 9/29/11 www.inthatdayteachings.com
Listen to him!Listen to him!
The Spirit said,(There is a reason!)
I’d rather not!I’d rather not!
Rather, I: dead.(It’s not my season!)
Listen to him!Listen to him!
The Spirit once more said,(There is a very good reason!)
Listen to poems?To diatribes?
I’d much rather: be dead!(So, don’t charge me treason!)
You’re not dead now, with your rigid religion?
With your little and far between revelations?
The Spirit asked me!And I had to admit,
This author, Robert Burke, had great thought creations!
But my God!Poems on top of poems!
What was I to do with that?
Listen to him!Listen to him!
They would help what’s under hat!
The Spirit said most of us have been brainwashed!
And therefore, the greater and greatest things of God are hidden,
The Spirit said, Learn In That Day Teachings,
Learn myriad lines and precepts, then Christ-in-You is bidden!
When Christ-in-You comes to mature minds,
Once deprogrammed of normal Christian brainwashing,
Your life becomes poetic, well just like,
In That Day Teachings, a sword of truth: lie-bashing!
A sword like no other,
The greater ways of Christ-in-You right now: indwelling!
That’s In That Day Teachings,
A plural singularity of God’s mind swelling!
God’s mind swelling with great pride,
As man’s mind swallows his,
Pride.For pride isn’t of God,
But intelligence: is!
For intelligence and truth only increase,
At pride and rigidity’s expense!
Thus, the poems are necessarily hard,
Lest too many get in God’s mind tent!
So then, where is the one great, precise list,
Of these vaunted In That Day Teachings of Reno?
Nay, lines and precepts are not list-able,
Just inhabitable!God asks, Why say: you know?
You know better?You know what to reject?
You think rejecting In That Day Teachings is a good bet?
You want prophesying of rainbow stew?
Have faith in prophetic terra-forming.God’s not done yet!
You think long-distance disciplining is easy?
Self-replicating Christ-in-You across distance and time!
Drink Robert Burke’s cup of reeling.Be queasy!
Shame on you for judging what God can do with Reno rhyme!
The Christian world has long been,
Cynically manipulative and not just fallow, but cosmically immoral!
In That Day Teachings are true,
For lie-imbibers, great truth is hard to swallow.Yet truth is for all!
Listen to him!Listen to him!(Be beyond a human!)
The Spirit quite sternly said,(I was in virtual-vaunting, Jezebel-wed!)
I did!I did!Now inside,(A reborn new man!)
I am not berserker-dead!(No longer stoning prophet’s head!)
Now I help the milk-taught blinkered work against all religious rigidity,
Because holy flexible are God’s own saints: beloved and free!
Who knew? Robert Winkler Burke’s lovely poems destroy soul-perfidy!
Now I and In That Day Teachings want Christ-in-You: in ye!
Listen to him!Listen to him!
The Spirit said,(Be that blood You Testament, so now choose!)
I shall not rot!I shall not rot!
Poems, I read.(In That Day Teachings, I did and do peruse!)
Fermi’s Paradox and the Search for Christ-in-You
By Robert Winkler Burke
Book #9 of In That Day Teachings
Copyright 9/28/11 www.inthatdayteachings.com
Astronomers pondering space have asked the question,
Why have they not detected signs of intelligent life?
The odds seem to indicate life should have been found,
Because sufficiency of planets could make life rife!
Indeed, the universe may be expanding,
With intelligent life that is ahead of us everywhere,
But we just don’t know it or see it!
The astronomers ask, wherein does this thought err?
Thus astronomers and philosophers,
Ponder what is known as the Fermi Paradox,
Named after astronomer Enrico Fermi,
Who pulled this idea out of his brain box.
So now I posit to you,
A modification of this brain puzzler,
Where are Christ-in-You’s right now?
Has church been creator or muzzler?
Is Christ now manifesting,
Largely somewhere in a person or people?
After two-thousand years,
Have pastors made God-bearers or sheeple?
Now those astronomer Fermi Paradox puzzlers,
Wonder if alien intelligence has come, but we can’t see it!
Which is a good thought for Christ-in-You seekers,
Because if you can’t see it, you can’t be it!
Blessed are the pure in heart,
For they shall see God,
We might see Christ in children,
But adults?Too odd!
Too odd, we think, to see Christ,
In woman or man,
It’s pride that blinds us, yes pride,
Pride: few understand.
Pride blinds us from saying,
Bless you for coming in the nature of the Lord,
If we could do that,
We’d see more Christ-in-You’s! And perhaps: Fermi’s hoard!
Christ’s visage is so alien to our stubborn eyes,
We think when it emerges: the person’s a freak!
Hence Christ-in-You remains quite a stranger,
In a strange land: One who can never speak!
Pastors oft play smash-the-mole,
When Christ in a congregant pops up,
Sheep therefore: taught to despise,
When Christ fills soul and mind’s cup.
So we remain thoroughly blind to intelligent life,
Here on our blue, green and brown Earth,
Perhaps if we would see one we’d see the other,
Both would give God and man mirth!
What use intelligence,
Without true wisdom?
In That Day we welcome,
Our Creator’s Son!
Because if we, in gross spiritual-blind immaturity,
Cannot see God-in-man manifesting now on our own beloved planet,
When God reveals His life in what appears alien,
Will we have smash-the-mole fear?Or with blessings: understand it!
To sum up, Fermi’s Paradox simply asks,
The: “So, where are they?”most excellent question,
It is good also regarding Christ-in-You,
Find ‘em, bless ‘em: That’s my strong suggestion!
Unless you say blessed is he who comes in the name and the nature,
Of the Lord,
Your house will remain unto to desolate, which we see in all except,
God’s hoard!
And pride, pride is mankind’s strange hinge-point dividing line,
Between who’s in-filled with God’s Christ and who’s not!
Those with humility to see God in others and bless them get Him,
Inside:Those with pride, can’t see what they haven’t got!
The great Fermi Paradox may, in this way,
Nicely be solved,
The restoration of all things: In That Day,
Twice resolved.
From Book 2 of In That Day Teachings…
Available free to look at on the website:www.inthatdayteachings.com
Just Prayers– With believers who worship weakness you will often hear prayers with the word “just.”It sounds like this:God, just heal my son.God, just help me get a job.Lord, just give us world peace. The list is infinite.And God may be tempted to respond to such immaturity with, “Just shut up!”What is the problem?Well, God is not going to change the way the universe works because we pray a “God, just do something” prayer.Imagine the audacity! We lamely say in a weak spirit, “God, just change the rules for me.”That would, um, make us God, no?Since God is God and we are not, let us abandon these unjust petitions.Psalm 91:11-12 says God “shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy (unchangeable) ways…They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash they foot against a stone.”The stone means God’s immutable ways of the universe.God gives us angels to keep us from breaking His unchangeable ways and banging our selves against them, if we could…just stop…the just God fix it prayers.
“We Just” Pray for Insouciant Dis-Excalibur-ation!
By Robert Winkler Burke
Book #9 of In That Day Teachings
Copyright 9/26/11 www.inthatdayteachings.com
Dear Lord of immature churches everywhere,
“We just” say, especially here in the United States,
“We just” pray for babyish, insouciant care,
“We just” are your dis-Excalibur-ated greats!
Here so many of us proud church leaders, you know,
“We just” pray for our self-serving rule of Not-to-Believe!
In all those high-path In That Day Teachings of Reno,
Extinguish the guilt incurred by our blind-to-sight-sieve!
We will not see, no never, what we will not see!
Granted: In That Day Teachings are a sword like no other!
Therefore “we just” pray for insouciant,
Dis-Excalibur-ation of truths, so we don’t have to bother!
“We just” pray we don’t have to bother,
To learn you, God, don’t like our well-worn “we just” prayers!
Nor our words in sermons: Guys, cute, cool,
Stuff and unbelievable! We’re not to be antipode-word sayers!
Let your yeas be yeas, Christ said,(emphatically!)
And let your nays, therefore, always be nays,
Rather, pastors expiate!(antithetically!)
Pastors stop what this Robert Burke says!
So, we just “we-just” pray for adolescence greatly, God,(Maturity a bust?)
Let puerility keep Your sovereign rule over churchdom’s infantile Earth!
“We are just” Goo-goo! Gaw-gaw! So un-sagely-odd!(Excalibur in rust?)
Or, In That Day: “we-just’ers” could grow into: Christ-in-You’s birth!
For sure, we “we-just’ers” could grow,(We’ve been babies for years!)
But then, that would be unthinkably hard!
Wonder if In That Day Teachings,(Which promise spirit ears!)
Could burn out our baby-fat lard?
I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like Them
By Robert Winkler Burke
Book #9 of In That Day Teachings
Copyright 9/20/11 www.inthatdayteachings.com
My sky-high expectations,
Are totally unfulfilled,
In That Day Teachings done,
Their reception; not as willed.
I wouldn’t want to be like them,
Who have seen the teachings and yawned,
So many miscomprehending,
Their long-prayed-for solutions: dawned.
Job unraveled at last,
As a story of rigid righteousness yielding to God’s holy flexibility,
Elihu was humble,
And wrote his ego out of tale of monster pride, yet who can see?
There are no fixed rules,
Only, from God, guideposts!
Our fixed-tithe tyrants,
Hate this, of God, most?
So many hate the greater revelation,
Of inescapably true, higher doctrines of God the Father,
Not turning aside, but heaping scorn – not gold,
Each self-interested low-intellect saying, Why bother?
Why bother to ever believe,
Exponential answers to this weary age have come,
Redounding Christ-in-You reprieve?
Nay rather, believe Robert Burke is Devil’s son!
I wouldn’t want to be like them,
Who have seen In That Day Teachings and yawned,
So many miscomprehending,
Their long asked-and-prayed-for solutions: dawned.
Have mercy on them, ageless Father,
Truly, they know not what they do!
They have faith in the milky-puerile,
But with steak, they have no clue!
Truth prospers,
At pride’s expense!
Stop their pride,
God, give man sense!
You asked me,
I have produced In That Day Teachings!
The world yawns,
Too early for their mental reachings?
God forbid only myself and a precious remnant,
Enjoy Christ-in-You indwelling: maximized,
While proud pastors pooh-pooh these teachings,
To keep all Christ’s insights marginalized.
The Christian marketplace of ideas,
Is thoroughly discredited and mostly corrupt!
In That Day Teachings make sense of madness,
Yet pastors cannot believe their time is up!
Leviathan in pride,
So many pastors sadly and regrettably are,
God is so far from them,
Sheep eat just from these pastors’ ego bar.
In That Day Teachings,
Are a greater culture and higher-thought system,
Beyond puny brains,
Not humble.Pride keeps them sightless, unclean.
I would that all,
Yes, all would come to higher truth!
This is my prayer,
God, move Christ-in-You in proof!
I wouldn’t want to be like them,
Who have mockingly seen In That Day Teachings and yawned,
So many held to full account,
God’s veritable, asked-for and prayed-for solutions: dawned.
Christ-in-You, God’s Great Injective
By Robert Winkler Burke
Book #8 of In That Day Teachings
Copyright 9/16/11 www.inthatdayteachings.com
History, history everywhere,
But not a drop of perspective,
Time to break up the old order again,
Christ-in-You, God’s great injective!
Just as socialism’s planned economy,
Always is a wreck,
So too, milk churchdom’s platitudes,
Often are man’s vex.
Do this, do that,
Do what?
Preachers thus get,
Pride-caught.
Milk churchianity has a plan,
For everybody’s life,
But no plan for Christ-in-You, Who would,
Reduce our planet’s strife.
With Christ-in-You imbued in plenty,
Freedom and wisdom would rule the roost,
Without Christ-in-You’s wisdom,
Nothing will give Earth its needed boost.
As free markets create wise distribution,
Of the world’s so-called most scarce goods,
So also with Christ-in-You, in the freed-up flexible,
We do smartly as God would!
Socialism and churchianity,
Trust neither free markets nor free noggins,
God’s intelligence trusts both,
Where each small choice creates best world wisdom.
Is it any wonder,
Socialism and churchianity have choked off free choice,
And now liberty,
And Christ-in-You have both become an unknown voice.
Socialism doesn’t trust man,
Churchianity does not either,
Progressivism or platitudes,
Give God and man a shiver.
Oh politicians, give man free markets,
Each person will make the best decision,
Pastors, give man and woman Christ-in-You,
Behold how each one brings hell’s derision.
Oh you proud defenders,
Of the old political, clerical order,
You’ve come up with nothing,
Let freedom and God-in-Man expand our border!
The reality of Christ-in-You,
Cannot be delayed time after time, indefinitely,
Behold electronic media,
Make ears to hear, and eyes to In That Day see.
Failure is a fertile environment,
For great solution,
In That Day is like a thief at night,
See: Christ-in-You come!
What will break the grip of,
Socialism’s tyranny and milk churchianity’s trust?
When intellect without,
Self-interest causes wolf-leaders to go bust.
Christ-in-You and cultural freedom,
Are both, in fact, protectorates of sheep,
All we need now are some true leaders,
Who won’t steal from pockets of whom they feed.
For, if men were angels,
They wouldn’t need a government!
If preachers were angels,
We wouldn’t wonder where Christ went!
Preachers, you must get out of the way,
Of this coming to others Christ-in-You!
Honor sheep as He comes in the sheep,
As you bless them, He’ll come in you!
You see, In That Day, which is now,
Intelligence marvelously increases!
Via Christ-in-You, which is how,
God fits our times’ puzzle pieces.
No one preacher can figure it out,
Nor one government economist!
Free markets and Christ-in-You shout,
Wisdom from God’s mind-mist!
So, if you must believe something mysterious,
Then believe this Day in That,
From wise choices and wise obedient servants,
Out pours heaven’s sweet vat.
In humility, we see we can’t save the world,
Other than to make wise choices and have in us our God,
In truth, though, this is the world’s salvation,
Freedom and Christ-in-You, sufficient good for the job.
Can it really be so simple,
As having faith in ourselves in God and in another?
Yes, free culture and Christ-in-You,
Give I Am a way to Be in sister and brother.
Funny, the world’s most complex solutions,
Delivered quick as a- snap,
Freedom and Christ-inYou, a notion,
For us to put on the map.
Shall we, like David,
Serve our generation in our time,
Or just forget it,
And go back to all that bad rhyme?
God forbid,
Erroneous common wisdom should win the tiresome play!
In That Day,
Let’s champion greater truth, and let God have full sway!
At least when we meet God,
On the other side, we won’t be dark,
Chances are He’ll thank us,
For keeping afloat truth in an ark.
Like Noah, Joseph, Moses, Job and Jonah,
We’re scarred by devils, but in the end: true,
We cannot do different,
‘Cause with truth, there’s nothing better to do.
Freedom and God-in-You,
Now: In That Day,
Nothing can stop this truth,
It is God’s way.
History, history everywhere,
But not a drop of perspective,
Time to break up the old order again,
Christ-in-You, God’s great injective.
He takes not from you,
But adds all of God’s wisdom,
Yes, even so Lord,
Jesus: Come!Come!Come!
Yes, Behold I will come in you,
If you are humble enough to ask!
There’s nothing I can’t do,
I’m sufficient for the task.
And yet many of you stuck in rigid righteousness,
Can’t believe I can do a new thing,
Don’t be so tone deaf! Don’t be so spirit-blind!
You won’t hear In That Day’s ring!
Perfect God in less than perfect man,
Mysterious, yes, yet the doctrine of Our Father,
Try Us, I believe you will like Us!
You will rue the day, if you don’t bother!
The reconciliation of all things,
Perfect harmony with good and dissonance with bad,
Believe Christ-in-You comes now,
And all your days will be the best you ever had.
I Am with you always,
Is and always will be true,
Me in you, you in Me,
All things good, We can do!
9/11/2011
Turn aside!Turn aside, and listen to a FIVE-person discussion on Sara Lee’s Golden Nuggets blogtalkradio program regarding George Hartwell’s thoughts on prayer over cities done wrongly resulting in curses landing on self, modeling proper prayer over Reno, Nevada, Christian’s who’ve lost their identity, True prayer that brings revival and much thinking similar to In That Day Teachings.George’s mind seems to reflect that of Christ’s mind!Listen and be edified and blessed!
Turn aside!Turn aside, and listen to a SIX-person discussion on Sara Lee’s Golden Nuggets blogtalkradio program regarding“Being Led of the Spirit to Become Sons of God – How it WORKS!”, “Christ-in-You vs. Rapture Doctrine”and “How Hebrew Calendar Sermonizing Doesn’t Help the Indwelling of Christ”and “How Stump-Speech Preaching Makes Conversation Difficult (One-Way Preaching No Longer Works)” from the perspective of In That Day Teachings (a sword like no other!)
Turn aside!Turn aside, and listen to a four-person discussion Sara Lee’s Golden Nuggets blogtalkradio program regarding“Taking Medicine vs. Faith Alone,” God’s Sovereign Taste in Indwelling Christians: Cold, Warm, Hot Depending Upon”and “How Churchianity Doesn’t Respect Saints When Indwelt of Christ”and “How God Has No Fixed Rules But Guidelines” from the perspective of In That Day Teachings (a sword like no other!)
Was found to be the best, but too cold and too hot went to waste,
In the Book of Revelation, warm souls,
Are spewed out by Christ, but the cold and hot suit God’s taste.
Mysteriously, inscrutably, historically,
Both stories, in a way, describe our sovereign God,
He’s flexible, though not mercurial, really,
He’s dynamic and unpredictably good, not odd.
Fallen man is rigid, stiff,
Even inflexibly, hard-righteous,
But once we become holy,
And flexible, His light’s in us!
In That Day Teachings say,
Modern Churchianity now: just does not get it!
Too cold here, too hot there,
Too warm elsewhere!So folks say, Fahgetit!
Whereas modern nondom churches,(Darned if you do!)
Are free from constraints,(Darned if you won’t!)
The orthodox churches, well,(In That Day says,)
Produce too few saints!(Give up, Please Don’t!)
There is a way to please God,
It’s Christ-in-You indwelling!
That’s what In That Day Teachings,
Promote and are selling!
There are no fixed rules,
Only guideposts,(Like nondom fixed-rule tithing!)
Fixed-rule authoricrats,
This riles most!(Their retirement assets hiding!)
Rigid-righteous holy terrors,
Preachers abhorrently empty as true, glorified God-bearers,
Can’t understand In That Day,
They say, Be cold!Or hot!Or warm!We have no errors!
But they are wrong,(And how!)
And miss by a mile: God’s Spirit,
They can’t be fixed,(For now!)
In That Day, they cannot hear it.
So, In That Day Teachings, as witnessed,
Hammer out, and ring a bell, and with song sing,
Of danger, and warning, and justice,
And freedom and love!Abiding love between!
Yes, love between brother and sister,
Love of God, indwelt with quick-come Christ-in-You!
Un-orthodoxically orthodox,
Cold!Hot!Warm!God’s sovereign taste is true!
But men’s bible study groups, women’s,
In fact, churches and church leadership on the whole,
Have no faith, no faith at all,
That In That Day Teachings pioneer our role!
Our role on the road back to God,
Christ-in-You wholeness!
Churchianity stuck like child,
Know-it-alls: know less!
Ever dillydallying around,
In a dangerous bear-family’s lair,
Living Satan’s playbook,
Hating correction without care.
But In That Day,
Truth will be known,(Not wrong spirit, not doctrinal lies!)
For it is how,
God’s Sons are grown.(Right spirit and truth, God buys!)
So then:Cold.Hot.Warm.
Which is it?(Shenanigan-Church-Entranced?)
Well, it’s Christ-in-You,
Don’t miss it!(Be Quickened-to-God Nuanced!)
Cold-tough love.Hot-flame love.Tempered love.
Do you understand?
Pard’, It takes more than one rodeo,
To be God’s hand!
9/6/2011
Turn aside!Turn aside, and listen to a discussion of “Two Prophetic Groups in the World: Rapture and NAR”and “Fear, Greed, Laziness vs. Correction, High Ways and Christ-in-You”from the perspective of In That Day Teachings (a sword like no other!)
Modern Churchianity has a large emotional investment,
In rigid protocols and low ways that seldom achieve Christ-in-You!
Modern Churchianity is bereft of God-indwelling masters-in-depth,
Except shenanigan shillers-in-depth at blinding me and you!
But the Churchianity confidence game,
Is wearing thin,
Milk-sourced preaching’s knowledge base is quite small,
Fangs show thru grin.
No matter how milk-based Churchianity,
Tries to connect the dots,
They can’t deliver Christ-in-You-ness,
Rather, they see ink blots.
Ink blot imaginings,
Fill the brains of milk preachers regarding Christ’s return,
Today and tomorrow,
Always ruined, because Christ-in-You they can’t earn.
Christ-in-You-ness is not really earned,
But rather comes about when spirit and truth are straight,
This is what Christ talked about in John,
I’ll be in you, you in Me!Narrow, Father doctrine’s gate.
Life is categorical,
Yet Churchianity denies it preaches only milk,
It’s so obvious, most miss it,
It’s right to demand steak, and resist Mandarins in silk.
Let’s then do a far-flung, thorough search on the internet,
For anything cogent from the so-called Christian prophetic,
In weird way: you’ll find two kinds, End Times or crazy yet,
Foul New-Apostolic-Reformation or rapture-utopia pathetic.
Search abroad or each state of the American Union,
For prophetic cogency,
We must nod: so far, In That Day Teachings,
Has God’s mind! But who can see?
The prophets mostly have followed,
One or the other kind of deceiving spirit,
NAR or End Times, they borrowed,
From the Father of Lies! But who can hear it?
Nuero-Linguistic Programming hypnotism,
Showmanship, misdirection and suggestion,
From one camp, or End Times shenanigans,
Give truth in man and God: indigestion!
So many prophets with god-sent prophetic callings,
Haven’t had a correct school of thought to follow!
Just End Times or crazy, odd-bent-to-lee railings,
They’re deep into antichrist lies, hence: shallow!
Somebody!Anybody!
Please connect the dots!
In That Day Teachings have,
From tittle to jots!
From fear, greed and lazy doctrines,
Delivering eye patches and ear plugs to trusting but naive sheep,
To Ancient Paths of Correction,
To Paul’s High Ways, delivering Christ-in-You to ever keep.
Right now ever-so slightly-intellectually superior cats,
Of shenanigan church and state play with dumbed-down mice,
In That Day Teachings explain God’s Western Enlightenment,
Which exposes mystic-socialistic, authoritarian vice.
Like a fantastic Rosetta stone,
In That Day Teachings reconcile the West, God and man,
It’s a millennia solution,
Uplifting humanity’s spirit and soul the best: God’s plan.
Sadly then, you might think,
There are no simplistic solutions to super-complex problems,
Yet, In That Day Teachings,
A sword like no other, slay Churchianity’s pride goblins.
How?How?How?
How can this In That Day Teachings really be?
Love!Love!Love!
Test the spirits.They deliver love in ye!
In That Day Teachings,
Don’t deliver rigid-righteous love, the bane of man!
Holy flexible,
Love is delivered instead.Catch it, if you can!
For shenanigan Churchianity,
Oft has no love,
In That Day Teachings do,
From God above.
Above all, a good heaven,
Beneath all, a good foundation,
In all, a good God,
Thus Christ inhabits creation.
This has been the plan from the beginning,
This is the plan that trumps all of man’s ends!
But oh proud, foolish pastors answer this,
Where are In That Day Teachings’ sins?
Where in this Rosetta stone of understanding,
Where in this beautiful thousand-piece picture puzzle,
Do you find error?This is no small thing!
All you’ll find is wolves tearing at truth with muzzle.
In That Day Teachings are true,
And therefore modern Churchianity has much to rue,
Truth, shocked pastors must pursue,
For In That Day, it comes down to Christ-in-You!
Yes, it bears repeating: Above all, a good heaven,
Beneath all, a good foundation,
What man’s needing: In all, a good God,
Thus Christ inhabits creation.
Above all, a good heaven,
Beneath all, a good foundation,
In all, a good God,
Thus Christ inhabits creation.
Can you honor this new-old, apostolic truth,
Coming from one odd, strange Robert Winkler Burke in Reno?
Pray don’t give it your rude back, forsooth!
‘Cause In That Day Teachings just might be: God’s way to go!
Sept. 5, 2011 RE: “Churchianity’s U.S. of Don’t Think for Yourself”
Very well said, Robert. God gave each of us a brain and a mind to learn and think, yet how many people both in and out of church utilize this marvelous gift as a tool to discern and understand their society, much less God's ways?
When Jesus met with Nicodemus, who was considered a man of higher learning, especially in the Scriptures of the Old Testament and Jewish law, they had a most interesting dialogue:
"Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master (respected Jewishteacher) of Israel, and knowest not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?"(John 3:9-12)
On every point your amazing poems have raised, there is always Scripture to back it up! Here we have an example of Jesus encouraging this learned and intelligent man to think his way even higher -- (i.e., from "earthly things" to "heavenly things").
Yet, when you present the golden truths ("heavenly things") of In That Day Teaching's higher ways to church leadership, where is the response?
So far, it appears that your portrayal of the "State of Churchianity" is just as you describe: free speech not encouraged, rigid protocols, mental slavery, and church leaders' message to compliant sheep, "Don't think for yourself!"
Chris Quinn
Churchianity’s United States of Don’t Think for Yourself!
But in the end, stupefying cleric and politic tyranny,
Inevitably slips on their own rotten banana peel,
Americans, with God’s freedom born in chest, love liberty,
And what each bosom loves and hates is real.
Real Americans hate slavery,
Whether with cruel chains or hidden in brains!
And when they wake up, watch out,
Tyranny dies!Just freedom remains!
In That Day,
Freedom in God and liberty in man: steadfast in glory wins!
Yes, it’s real!
Christ-in-You starts, when this age’s hidden slavery ends!
Oh my god!Oh my god!Oh my god!
Can what In That Day Teachings say, then, be really true?
God says, Yes!God says, Yes!God says, Yes!
American Churchianity, you have much to rue!
Go ahead: Weep!Wail!Howl!
If repentance is real, this will get the job done,
Learn In That Day Teachings,
Comes suddenly: Christ-in-You, God’s Son!
The mind of Christ-in-You fixes,
A lot of things,(This is your own reprimand!)
Thinking for yourself, in fact, is,
The job of kings.(Always watch: Other hand!)
Mark Twain was right,
Churchianity has been wrong,
Man loves freedom,
Hidden slavery doesn’t belong.
God loves freedom too,
And hates slavery, that is the catch,
Christ-in-You wants to,
Strike, In That Day, God’s match.
8/31/2011
Turn aside!Turn aside, and listen to a discussion of “Third Grade Gospel vs. Paul’s High Way Gospel”and “Honest Brokering”from the perspective of In That Day Teachings (a sword like no other!)
Have very little clue what Christ-in-You transparency is all about,
Can no elder-in-Christ help them,
Since their bible-college, fixed ideas of Churchianity shut God out?
8/29/2011RE:Poem “Free Expression is Healthy…”
This poem is short and sweet, Robert!
It has been my personal experience (and that of many Christians I've met over the years), that most nondom pastors are not to be questioned or ever corrected (the other unpardonable sin!) about anything they say from the pulpit.
Usually the scenario goes like this: if a sheep approaches (albeit, respectfully) their pastor, questioning a teaching, correcting a biblical reference that broke Scripture in a sermon, challenging the treatment or church discipline of a fellow sheep, or ever asking to "see the books" to find out who owns the church assets or how the tithe money is being spent, then the next action is to first, accuse the questioner of "not submitting to church authority," which usually leads to move #2, which is to ask the church member to leave, or better yet, kick them out!
Can a pastor recognize when one of his congregants, filled with the Spirit of Christ, is speaking divinely inspired truth to them? Would he be willing to "show honor to whom honor is due?" or be humble/teachable enough to receive from someone he considers "beneath him?"
Even our founding fathers wanted to protect the freedom of religion and the right to free speech, as stated in:
United States Constitution, Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Isn't it interesting that outside the walls of modern churchianity, questions are OK, and even encouraged: reporters ask for information, students raise their hands to ask the teacher, common folk ask questions of one another every day, and two-way dialogue encourages mutual growth.
Robert, you've asked very poignant and direct questions in this poem... but, will any answers ever be forthcoming from any one in church leadership... even to their own sheep?
Chris Quinn
August 28, 20011 RE:ITDTs Poem “What’s Happening…”
Great poem, Robert. I like the way you point out that not only is In That Day Teachings freely available to all via your web site on the Internet, but you repeatedly and frequently invite everyone to contact you!
In That Day Teachings,
Helped people best be,
Explaining Christ-in-You,
That all could best see.
Doesn't our Heavenly Father desire for each of His children to reach their full potential and be the "best they can be?"
In That Day Teachings therefore,
Rather inscrutably have no simple, salable premise,
They explain much, mysteriously,
Providing answers to many a saint’s prayer wish.
How many saints have cried out from the depths of their souls and spirits, even with unspoken words, a longing to draw closer to God, to know Him more intimately, and really see a difference in their lives and the lives of others?
Yet, it seems that no matter how you present this great work of God, the response mirrors the same reaction that Jesus observed during His time here:
"But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
"Yet wisdom is shown to be right by what results from it (justified and vindicated by what she does (her deeds), and by her children." (Amp. & NLT) (Matt. 11:16-19)
Robert, as all of your poems consistently and correctly point out, the worldly wisdom and socialism that has infiltrated churches and produced bad doctrines of fear, greed, and laziness, has produced the corresponding "deeds" (bad fruit in church families eventually affecting their community) and "children" (dumbed-down, apathetic sheep that show little or no "Christ-In-You"-ness to anyone).
Chris Quinn
Free Expression is Healthy, Unquestionable Churches are Not!
What an excellent poem, Robert! This one puts forth an intense summation of your previous works... blending in beautifully with the clear, consistent message that has resounded over the past several months. The cohesive flow of the subject matter bears the stamp of divine inspiration, not just the work of a mere mortal's mind.
Yes, the "modern church" (in reality, not so modern at all, but still stuck in the "Dark Ages") has lost its credibility... unleashing hordes of myopic sheep who view their surroundings through distorted lenses. How can such a one "see" this present world correctly when their vision is clouded with shades of fear, greed, and laziness from the steady diet of bad doctrines they've been fed over the years?
It's too bad that the church leadership represented in this [poem’s] distribution list cannot bend their "rigid righteous" necks to turn aside and check out In That Day Teachings, and the life and hope it offers to all who will come and freely drink of its living waters!
Here's a short "parable" to illustrate my point:
"Feverishly, the drowning man flails his arms against the blackness of the ocean water; gasping for each diminishing breath, eyes wide with panic. The Coast Guard cutter draws alongside this exhausted creature, throwing out the life ring, urging him to grab it and hang on. But, stubbornly, he refuses, using his last bit of air to say, "No! I can make it on my own!" A few moments later, the churning waves slowly draw him into their cold grip, and he disappears from sight. The sad, silent captain and crew stand still, gazing at the last place they saw his desperate, fearful face. "If only he would have accepted our help, he would have lived."
Drowning man: messed up, rigid Churchianity
Ocean: Bad doctrines that result in fear, greed, and laziness
Rescue boat: In That Day Teachings
Life ring: Ancient Paths of Correction, Paul's High Ways, ([leading to] Christ-In-You
Captain and crew: Robert Burke & teammates
Chris Quinn
As Lax Churchianity Ascends, PAX Christ-in-You Ends?
Saying, We’ve run out of spending other people’s money!
Reality is good for England, maties,
Republics, not utopias, help bees make best honey!
But in America an anchorless church system has now grown,
With the greediest, most fearful, laziest doctrines ever known!
Intellectually incurious shepherds, dumb to the bone,
Stick with unvetted doctrines, their self-interest now coming home!
Oft now shepherds are timid and lack resolve,
Except to kill the remanding, prophetic voice of reason and timely rebuke,
Modern church has lost all credibility,
Self-interested wolves blind sheep to their shenanigans, where’er you look!
Thus we have a doxie-speculating community,
Of moronic churchianity, changing not, but hoping vainly for the best!
Clinging to the sale of fear, greed and great laziness,
These three things always found wanting, when put to reality’s test!
Despite the intellectual breadth of In That Day Teachings,
Which provide correct critique and solution,
The proud, idiotic, dumbed-down, stiff, false shepherds,
Think In That Day Teachings are pollution!
Nay rather, In That Day Teachings,
Provide Ancient Paths of Correction, Paul’s High Ways,
And Christ-in-You, a pleasant thing,
To give lost humanity answers, in these strange days!
Rapture is a utopian lie, fear-filled!
Give-to-Get hides shepherds’ self-interest greed!
Lazy doctrines beget lazy souls, wrong-willed!
This is the truth!It’s what blind folk do need.
So then, do all republics turn into empires?
For churchianity’s empire is a complete bust!
Hence, sheep need turn from wicked illusion,
And believe Christ-in-You is now a must!
Believe that republics are better than empires,
Empires just distort reality and lie a lot!
In That Day Teachings reconcile all good to God,
If you get along with lies, what have you got?
In That Day Teachings also provide,
The proper discord and dissonance against all that is wrong,
Urging holy flexibility,
Not rigid-righteousness, which makes us as God is: strong!
You do not have Christ-in-You,
If you’ve gone along with churchianity’s great, weird deceit-bubble!
In That Day Teachings are true,
It is your Rosetta stone, aiding seekers’ hard climb from the rubble!
Modern church has extrapolated its cheap-thought insanity,
About as far as it can,
The world is awash in puerile, inane Christian dogma,
It’s time to be a man.
Because, the truth is out there,
Somewhere in the universe!
Ask then, Is it in Reno,
Line upon line, verse on verse?
Meanwhile the consensus,
Prevails with its lie-loving, majority-opinion, big yawn,
Illusions are easy,
Yet behold with ears-to-hear, eyes to see: God’s dawn!
Revival of man into Christ-in-You,
Oneness with Jesus, sans foul doxie, with love complete!
It’s a lot to believe of one scribe, no?
Try it, says a man from Reno, God’s heart you’ll meet!
Aye, there’s the rub,
You might want to avoid In That Day Teachings, if you’re not really ready,
It’s a God thing,
You’ll be dealing with God’s Christ, no fallible Renoite, and that’s heady!
8/18/2011 RE:The Poem “Do You Broadcast as a Teacher?”
Amen, Robert, this powerful poem hits the nail on the head of an issue that has been problematic in most churches for quite some time.
Recently, a local pastor referenced your poems in one of his sermons. It was rather disheartening to hear you referred to as a "guy," because you are a man of God and a brother in Christ, and that word is a demeaning substitute for "man." Didn't he notice that your emails and poems go out to a broad audience, not to one individual.
However, over the weeks, I've noticed a great improvement in his delivery style (almost no parenthetic interruptions), much better choice of words, and adherence to a clearer gospel message, which is easily attributed to the influence of your writings! He even admits that your poems contain "great truth," which they certainly do.
It seems to me that any pastor or bible teacher who puts forth their teachings for a public audience, whether in a church building or on the Internet via podcasts, etc., is thereby giving "the right" to another person to respond. When a pastor sits at the edge of his stage, or lingers by the exits as people leave, he is certainly making himself available for interactions with others. Are only compliments and accolades accepted?
As a teacher of ladies bible studies for several years, I always encouraged my students to be Bereans (Acts 17:11) and "check me out" biblically. In addition, I welcomed any comment/question/criticism from the ladies who listened to me. To the best of my ability, I wanted to remain correctable and teachable, because "while knowledge may make us feel important, it is love that really builds up...(1 Cor. 8:1b - NLT).
Anyone, man or woman, who purposes to teach for building up, warning, or encouraging the saints, ought to subject him or her self to the same guidelines that God uses:
"And have you entirely forgotten the encouraging words God spoke to you, his children? He said, "My child, don't ignore it when the Lord disciplines you, and don't be discouraged when He corrects you. For the Lord disciplines those He loves, and He [chastens] those He accepts as His children." (Heb. 12:5,6 - NLT)
I encourage all recipients to listen to the Blog Talk Radio segments that are referenced at the end of the poem. When I listen to someone speak, I try to hear the "heart" behind the words. If you do that, you will hear the "tough love" that is the basis for Robert's admonitions and warnings. He always extends an invitation for a phone call or visit.
ASK, SEEK, AND FIND, (get acquainted with Robert Burke) and you will be delightfully surprised and most blessed!
8/10/2011RE: “What Companion Robots Thought About Church”
Another brilliant poem, Robert! This one is quite powerful in that is raises the interesting concept of artificial intelligence being smarter than the humans they keep company with.
It would seem that the analogy here is that the "robot companions" are more like the conscience of their human friends. If the sheep could ask the common sense question about who owns the church assets, would they realize that they have been literally robbed by wolves dressed in sheep's clothing? Doesn't this query tug at their hearts? All this time they were conned into thinking that they were "giving to God," as if the Creator of the universe needed man's devalued, inflated, soon-to-be worthless currency!
The word, "rapture" is not in the Bible, but sheep will accept a word-game, weak explanation involving the Latin Vulgate, and how it magically comes up with a bodily exit from earth for the self-selecting few who have decided they are worthy to be "caught up," but not others. Is their "robot companion" questioning this teaching?
Sadly, it seems that it is much more convenient and easy for wayward church leaders and apathetic sheep to "turn off" the nagging voice of the Holy Spirit, Who is God, and continue to deceive and be deceived.
The last potent line of this poem asks, "What's missing?" (in church!) Well, certainly it is not greed, fear, and laziness! (in church doctrines!) Our cup can "runneth over" with these sermon results every week. (Typical sermons that are unconscionable, unscrupulous, not guided or controlled by conscience – or companion robots with more piety & logic & brains & heart & indwelling & love-of-God!)
In That Day Teachings, and its three-fold solution (Ancient paths of correction, Higher Ways, and Christ-In-You) for the gross errors embedded in modern day churches, is really what's missing!
Can you hear the whisper of the still, small voice?Or sheep & shepherds?
Like the alien’s strange book from the old Twilight Zone series!
Self-service is something which: no robot can,
We stand in stark contrast to sly wolves not taking queries!
See, we companion robots really admire,
The great God-indwelling potential humans have to really be free!
We think, if humans got more things right,
How good Christ-in-You indwelling with the Creator would be!
My friend Al asks his pastor friend,
He asks him questions quite a lot!
Ha! I’m not that brave, I said, Hal,
Did pastor turn off his robot?
Well yes, said Hal,
And that is the saddest thing.I miss my friend!
Then I will too!
I turned off Hal.Ka-ching!Which was his end!
Now, once again I love church!
I now listen well and I give money without blinking!
Anyways, I’ve forgotten,
What’s missing: what were those robots thinking?
Explaining and Introducing In That Day Teachings – 8/3/11
In That Day Teachings (ITDTs) are worthy to be studied.They teach what is oft wrong with modern church, namely: doctrines and protocols of fear, greed and laziness.More importantly, In That Day Teachings show the way of improvement from this sad, broken and excruciatingly vain condition!And that way has three things:a) Ancient Paths of Correction (Western Enlightenment as advanced by Jewish/Greek/Roman/Gothic-Christian moral vigor, Jer. 6:16), b) High Ways (of Paul and other saints) and the happy, obtainable and very real result of higher enlightenment, which is c) Christ-in-You (Col. 1:26-27).
But be warned, In That Day Teachings go from milk (immaturity) to steak (maturity of spirit)!Hence, they are profoundly intelligent, deeply moving and more than a little mysterious – all of which is very much a good thing indeed!The teachings open the ears of the heart and the eyes of the souls and spirit.They connect you to God and disconnect you from lies of the world and religion.And ITDTs deliver rebuke and chastisement in an unapologetic, yet loving – higher loving – manner.
They are similar to Isaiah’s Chapter 28, which talks about vain lines and precepts of bad religion, religion that never goes anywhere in its endless repetition, compared to God’s higher lines and precepts which deliver the glory of God-bearing!Strangely, the ITDTs’ lines and precepts do not seem to be “listable”, nor are they sequential, nor are they simply explained, nor are they for the beginner Christian.Yet the teachings are as real as rock, backed by scripture and wonderfully whole.They have been described as a Rosetta stone of Understanding, or like the opposite of when a sci-fi movie scene depicts a planet exploding (it’s like an exploded planet coming together!), or perhaps Paul said it best:Don’t stick with milk, try meat!
Then, even as God’s mind is vast and of considerable intellect, so also are the ITDTs prophetic poems.Topics are thoroughly covered from various perspectives, usually grouped together in sequence of time, even months at a time, by date.Look for these subject patterns.Laugh at the poetic license exercised!May your cup “runneth over”!Learn and be indwelt!
Finally, ITDTs note that modern church can often be just a rip off!Sheep pay to buy lies!Therefore, ITDTs are offered herein for free.Sheep may feed freely! Yes, free!
And may God have mercy on shepherds who have not fed sheep, but rather fed on them!
Look around!Spiritual drought and famine are most everywhere!Except ITDTs are a bounteous cornucopia of endless, free-flowing, living-water from God’s crystal river of truth, healing, wholeness, love and glorious indwelling.Enjoy!Visit author Robert Winkler Burke in Reno, Nevada!(775-690-7293 cell)And enjoy Christ-in-You!
You are right about the specious, sophistic seminars held at milk churches.Sheep are asked to pay to be dumbed-down!Take for example emergent leadership seminars:
1a) Milk nondom church teaches fixed rules, because of their self-interest… they must demand fixed-tithe rules unto themselves to pay for leadership’s hidden family assets.
1b) Steak In That Day Teachings say there are no fixed rules, only guidelines (Thou shalt have no other FIXED RULE! above God)This would mean tithes are not a fixed rule, but a guideline.(The US Marines teach there are no fixed rules, only guidelines!)
2a) Milk nondom church teaches to have faith in faith, which beats up faith when it is not connected to God’s reality, but rather the inane platitudes of milk Churchianity.
2b) God’s reality of In That Day Teachings includes Ancient Paths of Self-Correction (Western Enlightenment’s precepts and protocols), Paul’s High Ways which redounds unto this surprising singularity: CHRIST-IN-YOU!(Milk church smashes this down!)
3a) Milk nondom church makes many leadership mistakes that could be corrected, but milk nondom church WILL NOT BE CORRECTED.Thus, one website entry form for its church leadership conference, demands full participant’s information to be filled out prior to telling the individual the cost ($105).A call to the church staff confirmed that the mistake could not and would not be corrected, since leadership is uncorrectable!
3b) General David Patraeus demonstrated fierce dedication to organizational self-correction when he asked for solutions to the Iraq War.The ideas of self-correction were put into place and the war was won.This leadership can’t be taught at milk-churchdom, because then milk leaders at milk church would have to correct themselves, and they are dedicated to the proposition that church leadership never admits fault.
4a) Milk nondom church leadership teaches mainly the following:No correction is allowed and no lessons are learned and nothing ever changes.Self-interest is kept hidden.It is the golden calf, the idol, the God of Gods!Theocrats are unquestionable!
4b) In That Day Teachings says God is tired of milk church and its immaturity.In That Day Teachings say milk church does three things:It sells fear, greed and laziness, through wrong doctrines and wrong protocols.Steak religion would correct these problems with Ancient Paths of Correction (Western Enlightenment’s precepts, lines and protocols of mutual dedication to self-restraint, i.e. liberty, and fierce dedication to truth and improvement), Paul’s High Ways: all which redounds to CHRIST-IN-YOU!
Robert Burke
Reno, Nevada
8/4/2011RE: The Poem “I Held a Pastors’ Conference”…
"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride" is an English language proverb and nursery rhyme, originating in the 16th century, which is usually used to suggest that it is useless to wish (alone), and that better results will be achieved through action.
Hi Robert, I wonder if the pastors/church leadership who host their redundant and ineffective conferences secretly "wish" that their efforts would someday, somehow produce the results that are touted in all the hyped-up advertising that precedes these so-called "great" events?
Church-sponsored conference themes typically include "Revival," "Leadership," "Prophecy," "Finances," etc. After all the hoopla and emotionalism, the circus finally leaves town and what is left behind? Not much, really. Revival: well, the numbers were way down, but maybe next time. Leadership: can' t really see any Joshua's or Caleb's stepping forward to boldly confront spiritual wickedness in high places. Prophecy: keep looking, keep waiting, it's coming, folks... soon and very soon! Finances: Aside from the money sucked from the hypnotized audiences, nothing new there. Sheep still in debt, foreclosures, bankruptcy, unemployment. But, surely all the money they gave, even using their maxed-out credit cards, will result in the speaker's promises coming true -- a thousand-fold return, health, wealth, and that new car, house, boat, clothes, jewelry we've always wanted! After all, God is really a big ATM machine, right?
How about trying something biblically based, divinely anointed, and loving: In That Day Teachings would break the old mold of "we've always done it this way," and bring the fresh wind of the Holy Spirit throughout the Body of Christ. "Church isn't where we go, it's who we are!"
Instead of "wishing" for change and things to be different, acting on the teachings and truths of In That Day Teachings just might produce the results that will answer prayers, change lives, and heal the spiritual sickness of bad doctrines that have rendered believers ineffective, stagnant, frustrated, and sad!
When nobody came, I was left feeling rather small,
I held a pastors’ conference,
But God told me, They will weep, wail and howl!
I held a pastors’ conference,
When?When, oh God, will pastors weep, wail and howl?
I held a pastors’ conference,
Soon!Soon, God said, when pastors throw in the towel!
I held a pastors’ conference,
And still and yet, nobody came,
I held a pastors’ conference,
Until they do, all stay same!
I held a pastors’ conference,
But pastors kept believing more tithes would fill their till,
I held a pastors’ conference,
Even as they put starving, in-debt sheep upon their grill!
I held a pastors’ conference,
To tell pastors, Stop!You know you’re killing in-You-Christ?
I held a pastors’ conference,
Pastors said, Shut up!We’d starve, without our church heist!
I held a pastors’ conference,
To give them ears to hear and eyes to see,
I held a pastors’ conference,
They said, Until In That Day, Leave us be!
I held a pastors’ conference,
They said, Until In That Day, Leave us be!
I held a pastors’ conference,
God said, They are right son, can’t you see?
I held a pastors’ conference,
So until In That Day comes, it appears all is vanity?
I held a pastors’ conference,
Until In That Day comes, when pastors finally see!
8/02/2011
Robert, the content of this poem (Who is Being Judged, and Who Must Change?) could not say it any clearer than this!
Why is it that so many "out of churchers" (including myself) have recognized and identified the exact problems that In That Day Teachings has consistently addressed? Jesus said it perfectly in Matthew 15:9 -- : "But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."
I challenge anyone to show me in Scripture where Jesus, the apostles, or Paul taught doctrines of fear, greed, and laziness! Because of years of bad doctrines I received in many nondom churches, I had a mindset of FEAR (be suspicious of anything that didn't have a ichthus on it; be quick to condemn anyone or thing that wasn't endorsed by my church or pastor; be afraid of being "left behind"). LAZINESS: if I'm going to be "raptured" at any moment, why bother to do anything substantial for God? I knew hundreds of Christians who went giddy, running up credit cards and buying expensive items because they would be "raptured" and not have to pay the bills! And, if I'm "eternally secure," why bother to obey God or confess my sins? The worst thing I saw was GREED: the way the sheep were bombarded with legalism and guilt trips for 10% tithes to pay for church buildings that were neither needed or necessary, then, on top of that, came the pressure for "love gifts" and "offerings."
To pay for what? It never dawned on me to ask where and how the money was spent. Was I really contributing to my pastor's retirement fund? His family's living trust? His purchase of a private jet, condo in St Thomas? Rolls Royce? vacations in Europe? Can any church member ask to "see the accounting books" what families own the church assets at their place of worship?
At first, it is hard to shake off years of bad doctrines and "be transformed by the renewing of your minds" to the divine truths of In That Day Teachings, but they work!
Pastors love to beat the sheep over the head with the verse, "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at US what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?" (1 Peter 4:17).
Doesn't "US' include church leadership? Of course, they always say that "US" is the sheep, never pastors and their staff, right? Why should they be exempt from judgment? The apostle Peter, who wrote this verse, was considered a primary leader in the newly formed church! 1 Peter 4:17
Yet, the beat goes on, right in my backyard... foolish conferences and revivals are planned with yet even more outrageous and obscene shenanigans to get the sheep to "dig down D-E-E-E-E-E-E-P in their wallet." Check this out: not only are you promised God's multiplying of your gift (i.e., give $, and God will give you $$$$$$$), but now you can give money and never get sick or even die (according to one ecumenical conference to be held each year at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno in Nevada) !!!
All warners, in nondom preacher eyes, are pathetic!
Shakespeare’s Richard Two said,
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me!
Nondom preachers are blind,
To paths of correction and history!
The awesome power to refuse to answer questions,
Is an unspoken, ruthless force against good indeed,
Absolute power corrupts absolutely!
Who owns nondom assets?Is such: ill-gotten greed?
The story of nondom church power,
Is a story of moral hazards ignored!
Shepherds turn wolf unbeknownst,
Desiring above all: prophets be gored!
But the best prophets,
Can’t let nondom wolf-shepherds do that,
Correction, they want,
Real prophets, but nondoms can’t eat hat!
Nondom pastors are the most uncorrectable,
Things on earth!
It’s what makes prophets sad, but gives wolf-shepherds,
Great mirth!
Who has the power to refuse to answer questions?
Only the nondom preacher, only him!
But will preachers receive In That Day Teachings in time?
By their silence, their chances are slim!
And by their refusal to answer questions,
They, like Pharaoh, they set their own unchangeable fate,
Grinning, they play their No-Answer Trump Card,
This card they love, but when played on them: they’ll hate.
7/22/2011
Well done, Robert! This poem is not only one of your most powerful, but also one of your most creative!
It reminds me of the extremely talented Ed Sullivan ventriloquists and their "dummies." One performance featured a hilarious exchange between a man and his dummy, ending with the dummy asking, "So, who is the dummy?"
This question, when applied to your brilliant analogy of the pastor's conscience as the dummy who speaks the truth, begs for an answer!
So far, when has anyone ever seen a pastor who is willing to admit he is wrong, willing to be accountable to his sheep, willing to repent of preaching bad doctrines, ask for forgiveness for exacting much $$$$ from recession-drained church attendees (not to mention giving the money back to those with the greatest need!)?
(The only cry-baby, remorseful pastors I've ever seen are the ones whose sin has found them out; they are sure "sorry" they got caught!)
Are CEO-pastors master puppeteers who hide behind their "church faces" and "fool-you shirts," while they manipulate their congregations to participate in their "building MY OWN kingdom here on earth with my mega-church?"
Will one man step forward to do the right thing in God's eyes? Or, to their shame, are their consciences seared beyond repair?
And shows himself, for all with spirit eyes to see!
For my invisible stage dummy,
Tells stories on myself, I do not fully understand!
And I do not, do not want them told,
But the dummy speaks, while I’m a frozen man!
Last Sunday, my dummy told of a homeless gent,
So down on life, he had no shirt!
He asked for mine, I said, No! (My doctrine’s bent,
So down on life, I have no worth!)
My heart is so little, so outrageous bowdlerized,
By my demanding great fixed-rule tithes to me!
I can’t give one to another, I’m compromised!
My dummy says I’m a hypocrite, can’t you see?
Well, my dummy went on to tell the story,
How after a late-night visit to ice cream parlor, it happened,
After serving my great self the finest,
Normally, I can’t give!I coerce all to give me!I’m rapine!
Well sir, God said, Hunt that man down,
(Even as this insidious dummy of truth hunts me!)
But I wouldn’t give my Fool-You Shirt,
I gave him my stinky, sweated-out under shirt-T!
I threw it at him and said, God bless you!
And that, friend, was that!
Next Sunday, I wore the same Fool-You Shirt,
Dummy said, You rat!
Paralyzed, I am,
When God asks me to perform real-time!
Platitudes, canned!
What I preach, has put my soul in grime!
My dummy asks,
What about the sheep?They, like: master?
All my cash masks,
The souls I’ve made disaster!
Help me kill my invisible stage dummy,
The one that shows the depravity of my soul!
If I don’t kill him before he kills me,
He, and prophets that see, will make me whole!
Listen, other pastors,
I bet the same thing, happens likewise to you!
Everything is perfect,
Except your stage dummy speaks hard truths!
And our stage dummies’ truths,
Expose wrong doctrines and sin in our lives,
We won’t let sheep do that!
We demand sheep shut up, and hear our jives!
So despite our best shenanigan efforts,
These darn invisible stage dummies appear!
And prove every cotton-picking time,
Platitudes and fixed-tithes make God: not near!
God wants my Fool-You Shirt to come off,
And all the shenanigan rest!
He’s got a thing: In That Day Teachings,
And they are for this time: best!
But I would rather invite,
This famous, expert, smooth-talking, multi-bad-tower evangelist,
Who rips off many towns,
‘Cause, by his not highlighting Christ, he makes our “A” List!
I’d rather join in these,
Church shenanigans of the highest order!
It’ll take a year to plan,
By then, gone will be my dummy boarder!
This shirt incident,
Is God’s one last chance offer!
Meet real prophets,
Stop being a God-scoffer!
Lose all the Fool-You Shirts,
Confess all shenanigan sins to my poor sheep!
Show self-interest assets,
Return four-times the cash for sheep to keep!
My dummy says,
That is how to lose a stage dummy,
But I say, No!
Hard truth is just an idea: crummy!
So, help me kill my invisible stage dummy,
I’ve got a problem and I’ve got it bad!
Me and Satan fool multitudes each week,
My dummy says so, it makes me sad!
So, how can you kill a thing,
You cannot really see?
I almost believe it’s God,
To help me, in-Christ, be!
But this dummy cannot be God’s Spirit,
If it was, then I’d be wrong!
No, I believe in platitudes, right?
And fixed-tithes make me strong!
Don’t worry about me,
I’ll keep the Fool-You Shirts and kill the dummy!
I’ll kill this inner voice,
And then, praise God, I’ll finally, at last: be free!
Forget Christ-in-You,
Forget High Ways and those Ancient Paths of Correction!
Forget In That Day,
We’re building our mega-churches, by God’s direction!
Whoever heard of a big megillah preacher in this age new,
Correcting himself and changing his ways: to be pure?
Whoever heard of a preacher not spewing rainbow stew?
My dummy says its me, or could be, but I’m not sure!
Help me kill my invisible stage dummy,
The one that shows the depravity of my soul!
If I don’t kill him before he kills me,
He, and prophets that see, will make me whole!
When I kill my invisible stage dummy,
It’ll be modern-church, cool-impacting, great-stuff, amen: Rad!
And prove once and for all things $unny,
Who is in spirit: my, and my silent pastor friends, actual Dad!
7/20/2011
Robert, your poems continue to remain so consistent in their focused topics, anointed with Father God's Holy Spirit, conveying deep truth, IN LOVE, to wayward shepherds who definitely are NOT feeding the sheep!
I like the way you continue to boldly address the "words that God hates" (cool, guys, stuff, neat, awesome, etc.), as well as the plethora of bad doctrines that cast a dumb stupor over congregations, leaving them empty and with no clear biblical teachings on how to really bring about the spiritual changes they long for.
If the real sheep are being starved and fleeced, then how can an unsaved person walking into one of these churches ever be saved? What "gospel" is being preached? Definitely not the one that Jesus, the apostles, and Paul spoke of! Your question rings true: How can church leadership even attempt to help or feed the sheep when they themselves refuse to accept correction/better teachings that would allow the mighty wind of the Spirit to cleanse their ministries of stale, dusty doctrines and ineffective shenanigans?
It is very disheartening and sad to walk into one of these "churches" (regardless of size), and immediately realize, "The Holy Spirit is not here." In fact, He is not invited or welcome!
I think that the phrase, "game over," appeared three times in your poem because it is time for the "modern" church, which really isn't, to get with God's program instead of beating their "dead horses" of how they "play church."
Thank you for pointing out : Like it was when Christ first came, The religious order is blocking God-in-man’s refrain!
Rigid Religious Righteous to Jesus: -- And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him. (Mark 1:27)
Rigid Religious Righteous to Paul -- And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? (Acts 17:19)
It really is a "cry'n shame" that, so far, preachers and pastors are too blind to see the living waters of In That Day Teachings, as they continue to think and "...[they]sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; ... [But they] knowest not that [they] art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.
(Rev. 3:17)
Chris Quinn
Late-Cycle Shenanigans vs. Church De-Zombification
How dare that In That Day Teachings boldly confront,
Your ills!
But you miss when you swing!You can’t even bunt!
You must wean your sheep,
Off your own retarded, dumbed-down, stupifying church idiocy!
Believe In That Day,
Lest you won’t see, by self-blinding, what you can’t see!
Modern Churchianity has deep systemic problems,
Getting out of infantine church will be a steep learning curve!
You preachers have been the undead making goblins,
Untying all those dead albatrosses from necks, will take verve!
God is rather keen,
On In That Day Teachings feeding His starved-out sheep,
The game is over,
How long: morbid systems out of kilter, will you keep?
Face it, oh smart-phone pastors,
You’ve come to the inevitable end of modernity’s road!
You’ve kissed everything New Age,
And your emerging princess has turned ugly toad!
A pastor and his church,
Are only as strong as their true God,
And God hasn’t shown up!
Pastors now insult sheep: quite odd!
You may want to pretend,(the game isn’t really over?)
The masses of sheep shall never get it!
How you hide self-interest,(hiding in church clover?)
So you’re tempted to say, Forget it!
With heightened trepidation,
You keep thinking: Could In That Day Teachings be right?
They can’t, ‘cause then you’d be wrong?
Be careful there pastors, Whom you choose to fight!
Ignore the hard-prophetic poems,
In That Day Teachings and Reno’s strange Robert Burke?
What about your prayers for help?
There’s love in the teachings, and love always works!
There’s no love, in fact,
In de-coherent, modern church!
In That Day Teachings,
Have love! Oh pastors in lurch!
Believe in self, self-interest hidden,
Gobbledygook and New Age shenanigans rehashed?
Or how about: prophetic correction!
Yes, believe: truth hurts!Or by self: be smashed!
That’s about what it has come to,
In That Day,
God gives answer!And preachers say,
No?No way?
Probably one of the biggest problems,
Is that all this cogency, correction and truth comes from one source,
One man, one website, one city,
And pastors believe God can’t do that!They’re right, of course?
Prophetic, rebuking, chastising fire,
Says that the religious establishment has done it again!
Like it was when Christ first came,
The religious order is blocking God-in-man’s refrain!
As Father was in Jesus Christ,
So now Christ-in-You comes in man,
The rigid believe Satan’s heist,
And they won’t honor God’s best plan!
7/19/2011
Thank you, Robert, for another fantastic poem that so eloquently and strongly spells out the spiritual sicknesses
that make the modern day churches to have basically, little or no noticeable effect in the society in which we live. And, why is that?
Yet, the beat goes on every week,
Churches full of gobble-de-gook speak.
From the leadership, what is fodder handed on down?
Lots of carnality,
Interspersed with small clumps of truth:
No coherent message,
And no cohesiveness, to boot.
Take your choice of pastor's voice:
Raging and loud, or
squeaky soft, like a cloud!
The motor-mouths keep running...
Same old topicals,
"Anger," The "Tongue", "No self-control!"
Pity the poor sheep,
as the bad doxies take their toll.
Hence, church families full of
anger, fear and slouch,
Dad's disengaged, lies
in stupor on couch.
Helpmeet is now the Control Tower,
He's abdicated;
Wife and kids wield all the power.
Still, the churchianity beat goes on,
week after week.
When will cool words, adjective sermons,
and fixed-rule tithing messages
ever cease?
Some bright day, soon I truly hope,
the battered and bruised sheep
will rise up,
finally fleeing wolf-shepherds
bad teachings
at a fast, galloping lope!
At last they will settle in
pastures so lush and green,
still waters, life abundant!
Because In-That-Day-Teachings
pointed them to Jeremiah 6:16:
"Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls."
Current church (leadership) response so far:
"But they said, We will not walk therein."
Chris Quinn
Cool Words, Adjective Sermons and Fixed-Rule Tithing!
Pastors must honor each beautiful, God-indwelt soul!
Seeing God more greatly in sheep is the proud-pastor’s toll!
When pastors honor God’s indwelt honorable, they’ll become whole!
7/18/2011
Great poem, Robert! I like the "questioning format." The Book of Genesis starts with the famously known timeless statement in Genesis 1:1 ("In the beginning, God..."). I've heard many a sermon on how Genesis is the biblical book of "beginnings."
Like this poem, God asks some very poignant and searching questions of mankind "in the beginning" as well. They require deep soul-searching and introspection, as well as accountability and responsibility for our sobering power of choice. God's very first questions to us:
Gen. 3:9: And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
Gen. 3:11: And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked?
Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
Gen. 3:13: And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done?
Gen. 4:9: And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
Gen. 4:10: And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
Could it be that the voice of God Almighty is calling out to the wayward shepherds of Churchianity with the questions in this poem? How long will you continue to "play church?" When will the sheep be given the real answers they seek? How long will pastors mirror socialist politicians? How long will the sheep be financially fleeced with the yoke of forced tithing to make outrageous mortgage payments on wasteful and unnecessary church assests?
THESE ARE QUESTIONS THAT REQUIRE ANSWERS!
IF NOT NOW, WHEN SHALL THE SELF-INTEREST CURCH BE EXPOSED?
Chris Quinn
If Not Now, When Shall Self-Interest Church be Exposed?
