Jeremiah 6:16 – Thus says the LORD, “Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths, Where the good way is, and walk in it; And you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’”-- New American Standard Bible
By Robert Winkler Burke
Copyright 2011
An outsider’s prophetic insight on modern Christianity;
wherein escapist orthodoxy is challenged to the core
In the beginning, God wrote a story.Here is mine.Hope it helps Christ-in-You!
As I write this, I appear to be a failed man by all the world’s measures.I am a twice-divorced, 58-year-old man.I claim to be a Christian, but I have been a college binge-drunk (I no longer drink alcohol), I have availed myself of the world’s oldest profession, legally in Nevada (I am now celibate), I have been kicked out of churches (for seeing too much and thereby offending its leadership), I have climbed to the top of Mt. Rose (near my home in Reno), Mt. Whitney (California), Fuji (Japan) and even the Cheops Pyramid (Egypt).Yet I am no stranger to loneliness, depression and heartache.One time some rather odd neighbors accused me of stalking, but a higher court agreed with me that I was innocent.I feel I have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, enough that no common shepherd would accept me… only the uncommon one.
I have three grown sons from my first marriage.I sustain myself from revenue from my beloved father, at this writing age 89, who has me joined with an oil-producing business.
I am a curious man with a curious passion.I am the eccentric author of In That Day Teachings, providing free information about the biblical “In That Day” on my website, www.inthatdayteachings.com.
In pursuit of my goal, I have experienced excesses beyond zeal-of-the-Lord into wackiness.I made strange videos wherein supposed utterances of the Lord included cussing and foul railings against the female gender, televangelists and other innocents.More than a decade ago I was sucked into and later saved out of crazy church operations under different banners like prosperity, rapture or slouch.
Somehow I have fallen into and out of much.Yet still, I have been granted keen insight, perhaps even manna from above, that I hope some can appreciate.I especially hope s one might understand this work to be a comprehensive solution package that fully answers a lot of earnest prayers seeking truth from the fog of spiritual war.
I wish a cleaner gentleman had come up with all this.But I couldn’t find one no matter where I looked.Sorry, I am all you have to explain: this big package of In That Day Teachings.
By the way, I am so bold as to call this package a “Rosetta Stone of Understanding.”Let me explain.The first one had three languages on it.Greek, Coptic and Egyptian Hieroglyphics.Prior to discovery of the stone, modern folk couldn’t figure out what the hieroglyphics were saying.But after discovering the three-part Rosetta stone, knowledge could be restored from the ancient world.Bravo!
In That Day Teachings also have three things:A) Christ-in-y=You-ness (see Col. 1:26-27), B) Western Enlightenment (God’s multi-millennium package of communal procedural uplift) and C) Higher Teachings (Paul’s Way, which has for so long been butchered by well-meaning but shrunken-head church leaders dedicated to spurious doctrines.
Despite the obvious and reprehensible flaws of its loathed author, me, one Robert Winkler Burke of Reno, Nevada, I invite you to be uplifted, increased in stature, brain-muscle strengthened, laugh and learn In That Day Teachings.
Or not.
(Hope not: not!)
Hoping All in Christ,
Robert Winkler Burke
Reno, Nevada
P.S.Aging man-of-war that I am, I must tell you I love to practice Russian Martial Art, as taught by Vlasdimir Vasiliev of Toronto, Canada and Mikhail Ryabko of Moscow, Russia.They are followers of the Russian Orthodox Church, and know nothing of my Christian writings.But Mikhail Ryabko believes Russian Martial Art may be the art of Czar David, which would be King David to us.
Russian Martial Art has taught me flexibility and maturity.Also my students in Reno have learned flexibility and maturity (I am an Instructor-in-Training.)Also, my Christian pastor friends I visited in Bungoma, Western Kenya, in 2008 and 2009 learned flexibility and maturity.They love it!My Christian friends love Russian Martial Art because, besides being immanently practical, it helps understanding higher teachings of the spirit.
I believe In That Day Teachings along with Russian Martial Art both teach great flexibility and maturity.This is quite a trick, actually.I haven’t noticed churches able to do this much, have you?Because here’s the stunner:Great flexibility and maturity are two undeniable attributes of God Almighty Himself!
We would all do well to learn greater flexibility and maturity!Who knows?You might even need to have these two notable character traits deeply embedded and tested in your soul!
So, that’s a warning, sort of.Before you think you can believe, or quickly dismiss for that matter, my teachings ask yourself this question:
Got flexibility and maturity?
If this throws you for a loop, would you want your boss to be rigid-righteous, or holy-flexible?Everyone would want the latter, of course!
So then, would you want people under your discernment to consider you rigid-righteous, or holy-flexible?Everyone under you, would want the latter, of course?
Since this is universally true, for Christ’s sake, why are so many people rigid-righteous?
And the answer, of course, is pride.Truth grows at pride’s expense, and vice versa!
Rigid-righteousness grows at humility’s expense!And that has been the problem all along!God asks us In That Day, to forgo rigid-righteousness and enter into holy-flexibility!And that will take swallowing a lot of pride, and growing a lot of humility!
1)Praying for Uncorrected Revival vs. Repenting of Wrong Doctrine
John the Baptist said to repent.Jesus said to repent.And their sharpest words were directed against the religious leaders of the day.But the religious leaders of today say that they, themselves, have nothing much to repent about.Instead they call for revival for an unrepentant, uncorrected Church.American preachers now find revival chiefly in Third World countries who are hearing the mega ministry spiel for the first time.But in America, faith-movement leaders are finding very little new manna.In the modern nations, who have heard the faith message for many years, revival waits.Like Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn we “got to decide, forever, betwixt two things.”The Church either must massively repent regarding wrong doctrine or pray giddily for heavenly affirmation for an uncorrected Church’s revival.The Church tells us it is righteous, blessed and needing only our money.To believe anything else is, well, to be wrong, damnably so.But perhaps we can help this Church self-enslaved to wrong doctrine escape its shackles of deception.Perhaps we can say, with irony as did Huck when he went against his religious upbringing and helped his friend Jim escape slavery, “All right, then, I’ll go to hell.”
2)Teach How to Hear God vs. Teaching Anything Else
The Church teaches many things, but it rarely teaches the disciplines to hear God’s rhema instant-now voice.If platitudes were sufficient for tomorrow’s emergency, Confucius or Lao Tzu or preacher Tom, Dick or Harry would be fine.But some of us have a sneaking suspicion that Father God Almighty just might be able to tell us individually what we really need to do better than, well, the placebo pandering, opinions or promptings of anybody else.This ability to hear God’s rhema voice, by the way, trumps rule-based activity, which is why Jesus so often seemingly violated His own Father’s laws.If the letter of the law (any law, even the law of tithing) kills, it is the Spirit of God (for example, prompting one person to give to another, rather than tithing into the ministry bucket) which gives life!
3)Escape by Rapture vs. Survive Overflowing Scourge
One thing a person can say with certainty about the rapture is that we haven’t seen anybody raptured yet.A less certain observation is that whereas rapture books have sold in the millions, no good answer is available to the question that since rapture authors believe themselves soon gone, what need have they of rapture profits?Nevertheless, rapture makes for delightful mental escape.However rapture theology fails to prepare its believers for the Lord’s fierce and overflowing scourge which the prophets of the Bible so emphatically warned about.This makes believing in fly away fallacies a rather unsafe bet.
4)Irresponsible Eternal Security vs. Free Will Responsibility
Whereas a new citizen of the United States of America renounces his former citizenship and promises to obey the laws of the land, our dear Church of Eternal Security believes we can at once become citizens of God’s kingdom, but not be truly concerned with obeying our King’s laws; since we somehow become “eternally secure.”However, if a naturalized citizen of America would follow that same advice and rob a bank, he most likely would find himself in a federal prison and unhappily “secured” for what may seem like “eternity.”Of course, the Eternally Secure Church believes God’s gift of free will responsibility magically disappears after a salvation prayer.Why, then, doesn’t the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service also cover its new citizens with such wonderful absolution?If they did, perhaps we citizens would become foreigners just for the opportunity to become new citizens of America, free from the recompense of high crime!
“Should JEEE-ZUS tarry!” so many preachers like to say.But one might ask, how can they be so bold as to imply our Lord is late for their party?Isn’t it the reverse?Doesn’t Jesus want to manifest himself in every man, woman and child?Or is He who they believe will fix everything instantly, late with the instant fix?Yet the last page of the Bible tell us three times:“Behold, I come quickly” (to manifest Myself in all who have prepared themselves by shunning unjustness and filthiness and paying the high price to be righteous and holy.)Are we baby theologians in need of an instant-fix God who will appear independent from us to right all wrongs; or are we mature believers instructed to be prepared, ready and watch for Christ to manifest Himself in ourselves and others and rejoice In That Day?So, we can choose to be either a “Tarry in me baby” or “One in whom He may be!”
6)Worshiping Worldly Profits vs. Honoring Rebuking Prophets
The five-fold ministry includes prophets, but rare is the church with a prophet operating in Biblical fullness.More common is the church with profits to grow buildings, grow staff, grow television ministry and grow sometimes huge convention meetings.If a living prophet is heralded, is it one who rebukes as did Moses?Is it is one who rebukes as did Jeremiah?Is it one who rebukes as did John, Jesus and even Paul?Or do we find prophets who prophesy rainbow stew for me and you?Sadly, we find the latter and not the former.No church serves two masters, and the master of the world is often the master of the church.And the master of the world will not be rebuked by a prophet.Perhaps this is why so few churches want correction, but so many revival; so few a prophet, so many entertainment; so few steak, so many milk.
7)Tithing Rule vs. Jesus’ Three Red-Letter Tithing Denouncements
Many ministers excitedly herald Malachi 3:10 and sing the virtues of rule-based tithing.However, few pastors just as excitedly herald the three red letter denouncements from Jesus of tithers who displeased God.Jesus taught that when you hear from God, there are no rules.He and His disciples didn’t wash before eating corn, He healed on the Sabbath, He wasn’t ordained by man and He taught rule-based tithing was not necessarily pleasing to our Father!Perhaps the reason people cannot hear Jesus’ rhema word on how much to give to whomever is because so many ministers have exalted their teaching above that of God’s Son.Martin Luther said, “To go against conscience is neither right nor safe.”Satan can indeed tempt a person to tithe wrongly.Jesus said so.But modern ministries refuse to line up with Jesus and get tithing right.They are guilty of a kind of subornation of sin, getting others to do something in a way that displeases God.Worse yet, prosperity preachers add self-service to the mix by teaching a seed harvest doxie that goes like this:Give to get!Amplified it is:Give directly to my non-profit organization which channels wealth directly to me, and believe God will nebulously channel wealth directly back to you by some less direct, less selfish, less conniving, more nebulous way.
8)What Would Jesus Do (WWJD) vs. Obeying Jesus’ Rhema Voice
Youth ministries have embraced the “What Would Jesus Do” doctrine and encouraged sales of jewelry, clothes, books and anything marked “WWJD.”However if WWJD where tried by any real organization it would fail.For example, what if every person in the US military acted upon the thought, “What Would President Do?” Chaos would follow!The US military must, in the end, do what our President, as Commander in Chief, says.Jesus said, “Blessed are they who hear my (rhema) word, and obey.”Granted, at first we may not hear from God well, and must settle for doing what we think He wants.The trick is to rapidly advance to hearing directly from God.Jesus is very much alive, contrary to what the WWJD doctrine implies, and He will tell us precisely what to do, if only we believe and pay the price of righteousness to hear!
9)The “About” Factor vs. Enough “About” Already, for Christ’s Sake!
Ministries which forever teach “about” Jesus and never involve themselves with manifesting Jesus (including love, healing, tongues, prophesy, gifts of the spirit, miracles, etc.) are like an F-15 flight school that forever teaches “about” the fighter jet but never expects anyone to be its pilot.Granted, an F-15 Eagle is an extremely complicated machine.Some could choose to blab “about” it for eternity.Likewise, an errant minister may blab on “about” Jesus eternally but never manifest much of His Spirit.God help the ministries trapped in such rotten and despicable doctrine.Such “about” preachers can be detected by the fact that their sermons are almost always boring.And finally, these curious “about” preachers have nothing of the spirit of Chuck Yeager, or an eagle, or our Lord, or anyone you must ever hope to be.
God is a Spirit.God breathed His Spirit into us.Jesus promised the Holy Spirit would teach us all things.But most preachers avoid teaching the dynamics of God’s spirit realm.So the world turns to New Age because the Church cannot explain this age.The world turns to fortune tellers because the Church turns away prophets.Christians are full of evil spirits because the Church says it cannot happen.Television preachers are proud of their ranting spirits, their money-extracting spirits and especially their uncorrectable spirits.God created a kingdom of spirits, but the modern church hides from the knowledge of it.The Church believes it has God’s truth in the form of the word, usually only the logos and seldom the rhema.God believes His Church must have His Spirit, as evidenced by signs which the Church tends to reject.The Church must stop its hide-from-spirits-but-seek-truth game. God says you cannot have His Truth without His Spirit.The Church which settles for one, has neither.
11)Unhappy Heresy Hunters vs. Happy Hear-and-See Campers
Unhappy heresy hunters want to kill the doctrine of those who say that a strictly literal interpretation of God’s word is wrong.Jesus was crucified by unhappy heresy hunters.Jesus did not interpret scripture literally.Woe to any person similarly filled with God’s Spirit, who steps outside their literal word mind-prison, and comes under their gun sights.For unhappy heresy hunters have rejected the Holy Spirit, and are spiritually blind.And it upsets them to discover others who see spiritually and help others to also see spiritually.So heresy hunters live to kill the two witnesses of life on earth:God in man and man in God.But true seekers can find happiness in God.
12)Doing Dispensational Dogma vs. Making the Crooked Paths Straight
If a gay midget who was missing a leg, an ear and half his private parts was elected President of the United States, somewhere a dispensational preacher would say, “This too is in the Bible!”For about a hundred years end-times eschatologists have distorted history, blasphemed His story and encouraged histrionics regarding their know-it-all theories about the appearance of Mr. Antichrist, the mark of the beast, the avoidance of tribulation and the fly away, false salvation promise of rapture.But what can be expected from such misguided teachers who take the Bible literally?They literally interpret it like a psychological ink blot.Instead of the Holy Spirit teaching them all things, God lets them provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces.And so, the mad dispensational teachers ignore John the Baptist’s admonition to do the hard and necessary work oftearing down mountains (of a soul’s lies), filling in the valleys (of a heart’s missing good spirits) and making the crooked paths (of a mind’s wrong doctrine) straight.But if the dispensationalists’ literal interpretation of the Bible is correct, then let us seek first a good, used bulldozer.
The truth that some Christian ministries are guilty of preaching a baby Gospel is proven by how they celebrate Jesus’ birth.The season of Christmas is often simply taught as a pageant of nativity.However, a cursory review of Luke’s telling of the story reveals that Father God arranged for eight members of Jesus’ family and friends who were extraordinarily spirit-filled, prophetically spirit-speaking, spirit-led or spirit-obedient.This spirit-led living enabled them to avoid the kill zone of infanticide.This message is lost on ministries who poorly prepare their sheep to similarly avoid modern kill zones.So, Christmases come and go without families being filled with the Holy Spirit, as this part of the story is ignored.And then for some families who subsequently experience tragedies that could have been avoided by hearing from God’s Spirit, instead of being able to laugh in rhema, they weep in Ramah.For this the Church tells them to tithe?Christmas should be merrier.
14)Beam Me Up, Scotty! vs. Give God-In-You a Chance
The word “rapture” is found in the Bible precisely as often as the phrase “Separation of Church and State” is found in the United States Constitution, Bill of Rights or Declaration of Independence.However, the American Civil Liberties Union has no problem making their anti-god agenda succeed, somehow.Likewise rapture preachers, somehow.We have been sold a pack of lies because neither America’s founding documents nor the Bible respectively bars God from America’s public arena nor promises the world a fly-away escape from tomorrow.Nevertheless, truth will prevail in these matters.And the truth of God’s end-times plan is that He really must dwell in us, or else!Stated roughly (but actually quite accurately), the saints go marching in God while the butt-heads get themselves eliminated.For God so loves the world, that in that day of judgment which now is, He will manifest Himself in us to perform His word.This is both our hope and God’s plan for tomorrow.
15)Getting Abomination of Desolation Dollar$ vs. Building Holy Abodes
The dispensational teachers’ dream is for a Third Temple to be built in Jerusalem which will some day have a Mr. Antichrist appear with a pig which he sacrifices on an altar, thereby causing all dispensational book sales to soar to astronomic levels.However, a spiritual reading of the matter reveals that we are Christ’s third temple, and we choose to be either antichrist-like or Christ-like.And in choosing to put either our own piggish selves on the throne, or Christ; we can cause either our own abomination of desolation to keep God forever banished from our soul, or we can work with repentance and truth to get and keep God dwelling in us and we in Him.God’s dream in these latter days is, well, the latter.
16)Mining for Armageddon Million$ vs. Death to Almighty Self
Ooh, ooh!Is this war or the next one the biggie of the Bible?Should we subscribe to the Jerusalem Post or support the preacher who does?When we buy a book or watch a movie on the Battle of Armageddon, should our fear of the future be small, medium or super-size?Should our attention be diverted away from dethroning self, which is the Armageddon for most every individual and family, or with imagining the mother of all wars?Saddam Hussein was wrong when he prophesied about the First Gulf War being such a mother, but why do we still support teachers who divert attention from the battle of self (which enables Christ-likeness) to some future mother of all wars (which promulgates fear.)Answer:The death-to-self Gospel doesn’t allow much self-promotion, self-exaltation or self-aggrandizement; but fear-mongering does.
17)Betting Bad News Brings Big Buck$ vs. Empowering to Overcome
EXTRA!EXTRA!Read all about it!Bad news SELLS dispensational books, tapes, conventions and television shows!What a surprise!There is bad news!Wow!!!And so go the dispensational programs under the banner of Christ.At the end of most breathless presentations of their bad news gospel, is their fear-of-the-future-without-dispensational-insight altar call.“UNHOLY BAD NEWS, Robin!” says Batman, “Where is Superman when you need him?”Comics and bad news aside, real shepherds must teach their sheep to be disciplined and hardened overcomers, who can acutely hear and obey God’s rhema voice, so that they are equal to any emergency.
18)Mining Omega Codes for Million$ vs. Who Is the Christ?
The Bible certainly contains mysterious codes.Maybe it has Adolf Hitler’s name, or Charlton Heston’s.Maybe it has your name, my name and sister Sue’s.Does any of this help us to be more like Jesus?Let us hold ministries accountable for where they put the attention of their followers.Do the shepherds fixate on factoids?Do the shepherds fixate on selling their factoids?How do these factoids help their sheep get in the right fold?Having bought and read yet another Christian book of amazing facts, real and imagined, can you hear, obey and expand God’s kingdom better than before money went from your wallet to the author’s?Is it mere knowledge, or spiritual knowledge; is it mere worshiping in truth, or worshiping in spirit and truth; is it mere logos facts or partnership with a living Holy Spirit that helps Christ in us be?Then let all taught of the Lord with eyes to see, ears to hear and hearts to obey, witness to the world who is the Christ.Let all who can, witness who is the Christ.Let all who can, see who is the Christ.Let all who can, be who is the Christ.From the east to the west, let Christ, then, return in a cloud of His sanctified vessels, at His sudden time, in His awesome power, with His conquering love and His perfectly sound mind. And leave off emergent gobbledygook and prophetic jabberwocky!
19)Mining Believers for Billion$ vs. Lessons Freely Received and Given
In better times, Christian television programs had modest appeals for funds.But now programs seem to be mostly commercials.They hawk DVDs, CDs, VCR tapes, cassette tapes, books, Bibles, electronic Bibles, software, clothes, trinkets, candles, anointing oil, seminars, conventions, crusades, cruises, indulgences (oops, Martin Luther stopped that years ago, didn’t he?) and perhaps their own mothers if they could.The Gospels don’t tell us much about what was sold under Christ’s watch.However Christ did admonish his disciples who received freely to, well, give freely.To paraphrase Peter:“Silver and gold have we none, but such as we have we freely encourage you to shop on our website, or use our toll-free order line, and pay by credit card and be fulfilled by our mega-ministry warehouse center!Use VISA or MasterCard to buy my Jesus Wants You Debt Free book!Malachi 3:10, brother.Wave that check! Support me and get your one-hundred fold blessing!No, make that a thousand fold blessing with your next thousand dollar love gift!These incredible offers won’t last forever!Help me pay for my NEXT BIGGER, FASTER… (Watch this!Watch this!)EXECUTIVE JET!!! And, of course, We’ve got to buy aircraft rapture insurance!(WINK! WINK!)Call and pledge today!Sow your NEED to our GREED!(You didn’t hear that!)Act now, and sign up for our LUXURY SEA CRUISE!Attend our Jesus Wants You Skinny Seminar and then enjoy the ship’s all you can eat buffet.Or attend the Don’t Be a Gullible Christian Seminar for an additional $2,000.Or for just $10,000 more, you can attend our Means Justify the End Times Conference.To purchase this life-changing cruise all we ask is that you pay for you and your family, and MEand MINE!!!PAY-RAISE THE LORD!”
20)We Don’t Need Maturity vs. Be Ye Spiritually Mature, and Live
Current popular Church teaching discourages the very mandate God requires in this day, which is to die to self at ever increasing levels, manifest God at ever increasing levels and expand God’s kingdom at ever increasing levels.Why is this so?Because: Common Christian doctrines about the future, which typically includes the rapture, the imminent second coming as a spectacular singularity and eternal security, are delusional.Why die to self, if a “Beam-Me-Up-Scotty-God” is going to get us out of our life’s battle zones?But when a hard thing comes to the unprepared (and, by the way, unraptured) believer, that believer is unable to conquer the situation if he can’t hear and obey God’s rhema voice.Ditto for eternal security believers.Why try the rugged road of righteousness, when a simple sinner’s prayer and the belief that “Jesus did it all” is so much easier?But when a hard thing comes to the (supposed) eternal security believer who doesn’t know God’s voice, he is slaughtered by the enemy.Same goes for believers of the Imminent-Return-of-Mr.-Fix-It-All-Jesus.Why learn the disciplines to hear and obey Jesus’ rhema voice, when He “soon and very soon” will set foot on the Mount of Olives and make everything so blessedlyperfect?So when most every opportunity to manifest Christ fails to happen in the unsanctified life of a baby-doctrine-taught Christian, the purposes of heaven are massively frustrated.And it is so sad.Because today’s Church clings tenaciously to its wrong doctrines, which result in multitudes dying in ignorance and failure because they learned little more from the Church than unrighteous love mush.When God’s small quiet voice prompts believers to leave off unjustness and filthiness, and acquire righteousness and holiness; likely as not that believer’s preacher on Sunday will repeat rapture, eternal security and imminent return teachings, which is today’s lazy, hazy, crazy, give-up-gospel message saying:Why try?
21)No Pride of Life Here! vs. Prospering in Circumcised Humility
To walk in God’s abundant, overflowing prosperity without fierce warfare against pride-of-life puts us in danger of becoming world-class hypocrites.Knowledge makes us prideful.Success makes us prideful.Money makes us prideful.Luxury cars make us prideful.Executive jet travel can really make us prideful.Exclusive, isolated-from-the-plebian mega-ministry living absolutely can make us prideful.But it apparently doesn’t affect any mega-ministers of this age, according to their incessant lifestyle boasting.And when confronted, they protesteth too much.The result:Mega-ministry followers don’t fight pride-of-life as they themselves prosper.Just count the jaywalking masses as they leave the next ministry conference event.Watch them walk past the downtown needy.Watch them butt in line at the airport, with no decent concern for others already in line.Pride of life puts leaders and followers above the laws of man and God every time.And it is a shame.It hadn’t ought to be happening, but it is.The cut of our covenant needs be hidden, lest we be prideful and our boasting interfere with God’s work.
22)Give One to Another vs. Give Tithes and Offerings to Ministries
The ministries of Jesus and John are summarized quite compactly in the Gospels.Jesus said His ministry boils down to loving God and loving your neighbor.Then He modeled that by giving His life as a demonstration of that agape love.However, the taught-of-mega-ministry sheep often focus on tithing, prosperity, rapture, end-times dispensation doctrine and anything but giving one to another.John’s ministry was summarized by the question, What should we do?John said give your extra coat to another.Then he said the second thing is as the first, but with food.The emphasis is on giving one to another.This agape love of one giving to another is God’s definition of heaven on earth.But the mega-ministers’ message of tithe-to-ministry-and-prosper-until-rapture too often absolves devotees of their agape duty to give one to another.The ministries whose top-of-mind-awareness message is “tithe-and-reap-blessings,” well… their force is not right.Though their ministry coffers are full, and though ministries themselves often give to each other’s ministries, the message the sheep learn from mega-ministers is to first give to the ministry, then all will be well.These ministry sheep have been absolved from ever giving anything to anybody, person to person.Such sheep make hell, not heaven on earth.Until the mega-ministries emphasize giving (love, gifts, respect, honor, time) one to another trumps giving (love, gifts, respect, honor, time) to ministries, their Gospel remains tragically skewed, and God’s kingdom coming to earth tragically delayed, and those supposedly taught-of-the-Lord will remain tragically unable to manifest their Lord’s Behold-I-Come-Quickly return.This is the latter day abomination of desolation: God unable to indwell in abodes of wrong doctrine and deceived spirits.
Television Christian ministers sometimes present inane, bellicose banalities pretending to be profundities of the highest order: You’re NOT getting it, they say. Other ministers sometimes give manic, emotional diatribes spewed out with machine-gun furor, along with endless scripture quotes of bounce-back-and-forth-scripture-chasing confusion and misdirection of thought.Other ministers employ a staccato of claptrap clichés, background musical crescendos and witchcraft-controlling rapid fire directives:Turn to your neighbor, say this, do that, turn to a Bible verse, turn to another, go back to the first, consider this verse but don’t turn to it, rub your belly, pat your head, finish my sentence, Simon says don’t think!This allows the Lords of Lunacy to hypnotize their sheep to say B-A-A-A-A-A, and A-A-A-A-A-MEN and T-I-I-I-I-I-I-THE and do everything disconnected from God’s Spirit to convince themselves of their happiness without ever truly being fed Christ or being ever able to manifest Him.The sheep are not being fed Christ, they don’t act Christ-like but they do continue to have a craven desire to get “filled” again at the next expensive show.Deca-millionaire ministers regularly extract from followers, some in poverty, to give their ministry ten percent of their income and buy their next “life-changing” book or other must have products, conventions or cruises!It is beyond scandalous.Christ-fed sheep are wise, not suckers; quickened, not dead-looking; independent, not grotesquely obsequious.Sheep that are fed Christ are healthy.Sheep that are fed ego and deception look like some of the misshapen, beguiled troops who now attend ministry meetings.Such conference shepherds teach how to be obnoxious to the Lord and useless to man.This is the fruit of some modern ministries:Abodes of prideful desolation teaching more abodes to be proudly desolate, unable to please or manifest Christ, but nonetheless manically thrilled with ministry witchcraft mojo deception.Turn to somebody and say He’s in the house.This is Revelation’s last page warning against whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
24)Manifesting Our Devilishly-Deceived Selves vs. Manifesting Christ
Amazingly, the Bible’s main message seems to have been lost in centuries of clutter.The message is that Christ must come and manifest Himself in us now.With the Holy Spirit He can indwell in us, if – and it is a big if – we have our heads screwed on straight, meaning we have Father God’s doctrine (i.e. hard truth) and its discipline, which disallows every form of pride, vanity and self-exaltation.This despite what television preachers blithely witness to the contrary.All would be fine except the horrific fact that conventional Christian religion is seemingly opposed to that singular good thing from ever happening in its body.Many of conventional Christianity’s habits, traditions, beliefs and doctrines are perversely opposed in everlasting enmity to the ultimate realization of Christ actually indwelling in us.All of the Bible’s transcendent truths, of Christ transitioning Himself into our selves, as seen in John’s chapters 14 through 17, or Isaiah’s call-outs to this high way, or the Bible’s first page command to have dominion over the spirit realm, or the Bible’s last page’s triple iteration that Jesus comes quickly have been lost to truth.It is well understood that Christ was filled with the Holy Spirit without limit, but the Church has taught to receive Christ without His Spirit.Even those who opt to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, often stay content at an extremely miniscule portion of spirit-led life.Out of this hellish stupor believers in Christ must rise up and demand to receive full baptism of the Holy Spirit and full baptism of the fire of sin-revealing and sin-overcoming tribulation until we in humility and obedience hear, obey and manifest Christ at levels all creation groans in anticipation to see the revealing thereof.In other words, we must be in whom comes quickly our God.When we read, “Behold, I come quickly,” we must agree with Jesus that in our lives:Yes, He certainly came and was, He certainly comes and is and He certainly will come and be in us.Who we are must be who Christ is.Who Christ is must be who we are.He is the great I am.And He calls to us and says: Now, with Me be.Behold, I come.Are you ready?Behold, I come:I in you, you in Me.Behold, then, the Body of Christ rise and shine!
25)Unrighteous Capitulation vs. the Sword of Truth and Spirit
Country western singer Waylon Jennings wrote, “Lord, it’s the same old tune, fiddle and guitar.Where do we take it from here?...It’s been the same way for years.We need a change.”Many television preachers teach rule-based tithing, rapture, eternal security, dispensational dogma, the imminent return of Just-Fix-Everything-Instantly-Jesus (their own miscreant selves excluded, of course!) and that the only prophet is an entertaining one.Such prophets could not get even a dog that wet the carpet to show remorse.Yet the Church itself is neither housebroken nor repentant enough for God to indwell at sufficient levels.In truth, there is no rapture, no eternal security and Jesus comes quickly in the prepared-for-Him-inside now.Giving must be rhema-based not percentage rule-based.The Church’s end-times dispensational doctrine is a colossally wrong misdirection and poorly prepares the Church, much less the world, for tomorrow’s troubles.Tribulations come with opportunity to be sanctified because hard circumstances penetrate a soul’s stupor.Only when the Church teaches the disciplines required to worship God in spirit and truth and then hear and obey Christ’s rhema voice will the Church be equal to tomorrow’s emergencies, opportunities and potential revivals.TV preachers rake in millions of dollars in sales by pandering fear, greed and giddiness to sheep worldwide.This, despite occasional rebel critics who, to paraphrase Jennings, ask, “Are you sure Christ done it this way?”Truly, the Church has missed it by a mile.Ministries will have to massively repent of wickedly hanging on to wrong doctrines, which make them unable to manifest Christ themselves, and for their brazen audacity in hawking their worldly antichrist opinions like voracious whores.Why should God’s people buy Satan’s doctrines from the Church?Church leaders, wash the inside of the cup.Church leaders, die to self.Church leaders, stop extracting dollars unrighteously.Church leaders, stop flailing at the world with a scabbard of puerile doctrines, and pick up Christ’s two-edged sword of spirit and truth.And use that sword against your wrong beliefs and your wrong spirits.And then publicly repent of your misdeeds of proclaiming truth that was not truth and being of a spirit that was not of God.The world will see you become more and more as God’s very truth and even as God’s very spirit.And then, verily verily the Lord God Almighty says unto you, you will see true revival.
Indwelling, Western Enlightenment and Higher Teachings.These are three things not particularly hard to read.But it turns out to be something very hard to have faith in.
Faith for what?Faith to fix much that’s wrong with modern Christianity, and not insignificantly, the world for that matter.
The world currently suffers from universal hidden enslavement.It’s hard to see, but if you scratch the surface, it’s there.Call it socialism.Call it soft tyranny.Call it too much taxation.Call it lousy church.Call it easily penned sheep!
I call it politic and cleric mystic tyranny, the eternal plague of mankind.Just watch the other hand, and you’ll see lots!
From the pulpit: you’ll see three things.Greed.Fear.And slouch.Pastors call it prosperity give-to-me-get-from-God (wink-wink, I add) preaching, rapture dispensation (so called, I add) “prophecy” and emergent-seeker-friendly “relevance” (is a comment really necessary?)So, I call all this: shenanigans.
From the politicians we seldom hear them thank the pulpit for serving up such gullible, easily penned, ready-to-be-further sheared sheep!They should, because politicians sell mainly socialism, which includes much greed (get others to pay!), fear (what if they don’t?) and slouch (never mind Margaret Thatcher said socialists always run out of other people’s money!)
So church is stuck in shrunken-head land.It wants to stay within the 800 pages of the bible, where pressures to think like an upright non-monkey are kept to an absolute manageable minimum.
Thus, it’s time for Western Enlightenment to come to the rescue for the church, and also by the way, individuals!But what is Western Enlightenment and what will it do for us?
Western Enlightenment is the great treasure trove of proven-by-fire wisdom of the Greek-Roman-Jewish-Gothic-Christian ages.The list is too long to ever really tally, but it mainly consists of continued correction against the dark side of us all.Things like trust but verify, speak truth to power, three-part constitutional republic government, Natural Law, the walk should match the talk, advancement through faults exposed and forgiven.Shorthand, it is LOVE in capitals, love from above, God’s lovely, orderly live-life advice.
Western Enlightenment mandatory membership requirement for correction has been despised and rejected for about as long as hateful and divisive socialism has been worshipped and accepted.That would be for about one-hundred years, as of this writing.
Let us pray it will not take the church, or the world’s individuals, one hundred years to get back God’s brilliant, self-correcting Western Enlightenment!(Which reminds me, don’t confuse what I’m talking about here with “Enlightenment” of the early teen millennium when God was removed from intellect.)
Now, here is the magic.When people get back to Western Enlightenment’s precepts and lines (see Isaiah 28), they will inevitably, inexorably and haply get back to Higher Teachings, sometimes also called Higher Thought.And after their thinking is at least somewhat better organized, they will get back to Christ-in-You indwelling.
Voila!The restoration of all things!Christ-in-You indwelling (Go, God-in-you!), Western Enlightenment (still advancing, through the ages!)and Higher Teachings.All improving.All self-correcting, even if at less than perfect levels.All, at some percentage or the other, God-bearing
Interestingly, the work reintroduces abiding teamwork, verses the Frankfurt Socialist School of endless divisiveness without faith-for remedy.
Un-gullible, intelligent folk who always watch the other hand vs. dupes of Christian greed-fear-slouch mongering, dupes passed onto politicians ready and willing to further fleece the shivering sheep with hidden slavery’s soft or not-so-hidden slavery’s hard socialist tyranny.
And lastly: confirmable salutatory immanently-honorable Christ-in-You-ness understood, explained and celebrated in man, woman and child.
Not bad for a millennium day’s work.Or more correctly: In That Day.What is In That Day?It’s God’s biblical time of uplifting dénouement.It’s His period on the end of His sentence.No, it is not the end-of-days.Nor is it that crazy notion some call rapture.It is simply His day when he can tolerate stupefied Christians no more!He wants a greater mind-meld with us, His creation.And by God, He will get what He wants!
Hence, now is the time when God’s mind gets opportunity to download His apps of light, intelligence and indwelling.It’s been a rare but wonderful thing that’s happened to saints since creation.But now, In That Day perhaps, God’s nature in us can be had for a cost that is at once low but also high.
What does it take to join in God-bearing In That Day?Well, some already are in In That Day.They found the way by themselves or even with church!But the rest need help, and sadly many might discover the price is too high.
What is the cost of Christ-in-You-ness?Pride.You’ve got to lose it.That is often too high a price for many.Hope that’s not you!
Before losing wrong doctrines of greed-fear-slouch (read prosperity-rapture-emergent-sonsnes) you’ve got to lose pride in such hogwash.Because bad doctrine drives bad devils in our souls!Lose the bad doctrines, and you lose the great things bothering oneself inside oneself!
Then, you also have to have faith in tough-as-nails truth!See the last sentence of the above paragraph.Often, church-talk avoids such tough talk.I don’t.
So sadly, many won’t lose pride and gain faith.They’ll walk away, like the rich young ruler did to Christ.(We’ll have faith such a man will grow, and perchance come back?)
But as for you, dear reader, you won’t cling to pride and wrong doctrine, will you?No?
Okay, I promise to be short.We’ve got some really big concepts to discuss herein, but the last thing the Christian world needs is another dumb, long book of church-speak.Hence the common vernacular used to punch through the spiritual haze of it all.
So, if I’m too abbreviated for you, go to www.inthatdayteachings.com and search through my poetry books or other miscellaneous pages.Use your browser’s search field and type in any word, phrase or subject you desire.Hopefully something useful will pop up.
But, I might be too wordy for you.Sorry.Let me explain. In Isaiah Chapter 28, it says in verse … of the Amplified Bible:(thanks to www.biblegateway.com)
9To whom will He teach knowledge? [Ask the drunkards.] And whom will He make to understand the message? Those who are babies, just weaned from the milk and taken from the breasts? [Is that what He thinks we are?]
10For it is [His prophets repeating over and over]: precept upon precept, precept upon precept, rule upon rule, rule upon rule; here a little, there a little.
11No, but [the Lord will teach the rebels in a more humiliating way] by men with stammering lips and another tongue will He speak to this people [says Isaiah, and teach them His lessons].
12To these [complaining Jews the Lord] had said, This is the true rest [the way to true comfort and happiness] that you shall give to the weary, and, This is the [true] refreshing--yet they would not listen [to His teaching].
13Therefore the word of the Lord will be to them [merely monotonous repeatings of]: precept upon precept, precept upon precept, rule upon rule, rule upon rule; here a little, there a little--that they may go and fall backward, and be broken and snared and taken.
You see, church has been idiotically repeating the same-old-same-old for years.It’s really not much in the way of true lines and precepts building upon lines and precepts.It’s just often brain-fluff repetition of known stories and sayings de-linked with much in the way of profound.
However, these In That Day Teachings are different.They ARE line upon line and precept upon precept of God’s doctrines, way and life of High Teachings… as known by every saint that ever lived, and as kept in the bosom of any prophet ever stoned to death…. And as understood, recognized and taught by Master Jesus Christ Himself.
But therein lies the problem.In That Day Teachings are somewhat ethereal.Sometimes even so high as to be rather inscrutable.Then again, they are plain as a steak.And they produce good fruit.Inspect yourself after exposing yourself to the teachings’ cogency.
You’ll find the teachings go far, far beyond and above normal churchianity.Wow!You’ll think, my pastor would never go for this!
Why?Because they are often stuck in institutions of wrong doctrine.But you are not!
But there still are many objections to overcome.Why is there no discernable order, as in one through ten or something like that.Again, I say sorry.Isaiah simply called them line upon line and precept upon precept.That’s the best description I’ve seen, actually.
The teachings are not God’s Big One-Hundred List of Truths!No, they are not.
If you want to make a list, go ahead.I’ve done it.And the list becomes too much to ponder at once.
It’s actually very similar to creating a list of Western Enlightenment’s (WE) precepts.Here, let’s try:
a)Natural Law
b)Leaders who receive correction from underlings
c)Three-part constitutional democratic republic government
d)Speak truth to power
e)Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely
f)Free speech and ridicule used against ossified institutions and leaders
g)The right to self-defense including guns, rifles and shotguns (and knives!)
h)One man one vote
i)Equal protection under the law
j)Opposition to political correctness and all Frankfurt School shenanigans
k)Flexible command
l)Trial by jury of peers
m)Honor unto whom honor is due (esteem WE pioneer/heroes)
n)Self-Sacrifice is Great Love (self-on-altar for sake of group not-on-altar)
o)Settle for best (or least worst), avoid unobtainable “perfect” utopian memes
p)Property rights, intellectual rights, income rights, savings rights
q)Etc.
I don’t know about you, but these concepts stop the brain, engage a lot of tough-as-nails thought to buy into, and only years of teaching or learning about these things enable a mind that can carry so many buckets of buckets of teachings.
So, to produce this particular book about higher teachings of God, I choose not to list how many and what are the myriad of teachings.If you are new to this material, be hungry for much more than a dozen concepts (lines and precepts), yet be content if you understand several score or so (meaning 60 to 100).
Wow, you might be thinking.Where did this man get all this information?
Good question.Ever ask a saintly person you happened to meet where they got it?
Well, if you have… and I have… the answer is not so surprising.A person packing a lot of these precepts and lines usually has received it… (in the beginning, anyway) from somebody else and or “elses.”They received higher teachings from another high-taught one or group of ones.
In my case, a group of about three I was able to meet and learn from back in Southern California from about 1994 through the year 2001.They want to remain anonymous, and I will respect their wishes.I have lost contact with them, and I believe most or all of them are with the Lord in heaven, or will soon be.
This group that met me was like a lot of groups here and there that help people in extraordinary ways of the spirit.They, like all of us, were an unfinished work in process.But believe me, they were a lot further down the road than you meet in churchianity!
Hence, lacking perfection I made mistakes.Most groups do.Most individuals do.
Over the years, I’ve met several people who have been helped by such groups, and also been such groups themselves helping others.
Strangely, these groups are at once comprised of very intelligent minds yet minds that have yet to succeed in creating written work that has publishing success.
I hope to break that track record with this work.
And you can see the progress of my mind if www.inthatdayteachings.com still has a record of my earlier work, recorded in Book Two.Therein you will find excessive words, excessive anger, excessive bitterness, yet amazing insight, amazing cogency, amazing pierce-the-bubble-of-fog in churchianity!So, witness how God works in a sad soul such as myself, and take faith that God can work much more easily in you!
In the 1959 Movie Ben Hur, Pontius Pilate said to Ben Hur, regarding bad-man Messala, “What he did had its way with him.Where there is greatness, great government or power, even great feeling or compassion; error also is great.We progress and mature by fault.”
So it has been for all of us, and our ancestors since the beginning of time.This Western Enlightenment precept is no less true for these In That Day Teachings.They, and I and perhaps even you: are a work in process, unavoidably having fault, then progressing and maturing, if we sufficiently repent, forgive… and thereby expand all love.
Also, I find that this pioneer work is much like all pioneer work.Not only does the pioneer get arrows in the back, but the biggest problem is simply the breakthrough!
In 1954 Roger Bannister became the first person to achieve a sub-four-minute mile, 3:59.4.Since then the ‘four-minute barrier” has become the standard of all professional runners of the mile.Whew!
Let’s hope the same for readers of In That Day Teachings!
As for me, I write things, especially poetry, that changes me.I hope it will change the world, but it first changes me.It begins by the ridiculously humbling demand within that requires napping after great spiritual uplift.So I have napped a lot.
This pioneer work has required that I not disbelieve it.That I not succumb to shear insanity, nor deep depression nor even uncontrollable ecstasy.I have had to simply plow through the work and believe.
Then, later on… surprising miracles happen.It is a strange work.People, on occasion, believe I am at a much higher station in God than I could imagine myself ever obtaining.
Well, it is God’s mysterious way.And believe me, brother and sister, it is mysterious.You can bet on that.
The most surprising thing I think I could ever encounter in life, is a reader who plowed through all available In That Day Teachings material, and wasn’t changed for the better.
Of course, there are always the “uncorrectables” looking for a fight.Let’s not fight them, okay?
For after all, In That Day Teachings are work that will test prayers asking for help to hike spiritual Mount Zion, or Hebron even!The High Country is always there, somewhere in God.The question is, dare we hike it?
Oh My God!Greed, fear and slouch are not attributes of God?
No way.No how.Not ever.Not tomorrow.Not yesterday.Uh, uh.No, no, no!Nope.No way, Jose.En Espanol, nunca!
Happily for us, but sadly for some church folk, it turns out that In That Day Teachings continually discover what’s wrong with church:Namely: greed, fear and slouch.And these three things are connected to doctrines.
Ouch!That is the really tough part.Identifying lousy doctrines, jettisoning them and replacing them with God’s attributes!Hurray!
But first we must attend to the ever-present doctrines of greed, fear and slouch that unfortunately are so common in common Christianity.
And before we get into details, be warned.We’re not playing games, here.Yes, the language is casual and loose by way of introduction.But getting rid of greed, fear and slouch doctrines is going to be one of the toughest things you’ll have to do In That Day.
Okay, you might say to yourself, what idiot Christian would want to hang onto greed, fear or slouch?I better not answer that question, so as to not offend.But if you get my drift, these cherished doxies are most likely to be in your typical modern church.
And if you have been going to the typical modern church, this isn’t going to be easy.If you are not ready to receive answers to prayer about “oh-God-I-just-want-to-grow-in-you” and you want to hide out in small religion, be my guest!Go ahead.And sadly, go away.
But if you want to walk up to the bar of truth, order a stiff one and swallow it down no matter how bitter it makes your stomach feel, march on brave soldier!
And one more warning:Don’t argue with me on this chapter.Just swallow it in whole at first, and later dedicate yourself to prayer and ask for confirmation.Because, the confirmation is there.It’s everywhere.But don’t get hung up on your pet doctrine.
Because, it is likely that many readers will have one predilection or the other.So delight in the deconstruction herein of the doctrines you don’t adhere to.And then later see all three doctrines are equally bad.
Okay?Okay.
To begin with, greed is promulgated by the Prosperity Doctrine.It says, more or less, if you give to a Prosperity Preacher then God will give you a blessing.Sometimes the blessing promised by the Preacher, or rather it’s a promise the preacher says God will perform… is a thirty, sixty or ninety or for the sake of rounding hundredfold or thousand-fold (heck, why not!) increase.
Now, an economics professor will tell you if you want an increase, then perform a service or deliver a product or earn a return on an investment.Perhaps even discover a buried treasure.But econ profs usually abbreviate it to the fact that we get money by providing a good or serve.Period.
The above paragraph is from Western Enlightenment.It is reasonable.It makes sense.It is logical.It is industrious, even.You might even say it is godly.
But give-to-get shenanigans as practiced by so many wolf-shepherds… well it is anti-Western Enlightenment, hence: un-correctable.It is unreasonable.It makes no sense.It is illogical.It is greedy, especially.You might even say it is ungodly.I do.You?
Okay, either you see it or you don’t.No use for pages of material here.
Next comes fear as promulgated by the Rapture Doctrine.It says, more or less, if you believe in Christ that’s not enough.You also have to believe that he’s coming to take you away, and that soon!Then you will be blessed, that is IF you believe those two things:In Jesus, and that Jesus takes you out.Sort of an “in” and then “out.”If you don’t believe in the “out” portion enough, well maybe you won’t make it “out.”Hence: fear.
Rapture Doctrine makes fear of being “Left Behind.”Because those left behind get the mother of all tribulations.And we all want to avoid hard work, you know!Never mind some poor chaps or chapesses we know seem to already have lived through nothing but excruciating tribulation.They can’t have it any worse, because that’s all they’ve known.We must forget that, and rather believe in shenanigans.Because that’s what rapture theory is.
Now, you may protest:The bible clearly says on the last page, “Behold, I come quickly.”To which I say, precisely!
Precisely, what?Well, let’s hold that discussion for another chapter.But suffice it to say we need eyes to see and ears to hear spiritually just how quick Jesus comes in Spirit to us continually.Only the fearful can’t see too well spiritually, can they?Trust me, they cannot.
Without getting too upset with me, consider this logical conundrum we might potentially have here:Fearful folk believe in the rapture, and the rapture creates fearful folk.
Jesus, on the other hand, says that with eyes to see and ears to hear spiritually, you shall see He comes quickly!But you must be strong and of a good courage!(Duh!)
Yet the rapture preachers never stop preaching their ink-blot imaginings (Rorschach inkblot test I believe it’s called) regarding dispensational dystopia.Further, rapture is always a utopian belief that like all utopian creations: is insidiously provided to its believers though never quite obtainable in the here and present.It is the definition of a utopia:Something to believe in and occupy oneself with, but has the same chance as a snowflake in hell of ever actually coming into existence.
The great political philosopher Eric Voegelin warned in 1956 to not “immanentize the Eschaton,” meaning don’t try to bring the end-of-days into today.He warned it is the con-man’s trick, easy to trick others with, a con that creates confusion and smallness of mind, a con that amps up fear and breeds illogical hysteria.If you don’t believe me, look at the Muslim parallel with their twelve imam shenanigans.Oh, the horror!
The above paragraph is from Western Enlightenment.It is reasonable.It makes sense.It is logical.It is industrious, even.You might even say it is godly.
But fear-mongering rapture promulgation, as practiced by so many wolf-shepherds… well it is anti-Western Enlightenment, hence: un-correctable.It is unreasonable.It makes no sense.It is illogical.It is fearful, especially.You might even say it is ungodly.I do.You?
Okay, either you see it or you don’t.No use for pages of material here.
And the third-most common demon to be found in church systems is slouch.That would be emergent church.That would be seeker-friendly church.That would be pastor-in-Hawaiian-shirt-and-flip-flops, dude!Oh yah, casual church!Can I hear a, “That’s cool, dude!”
Right.Or, not so right.Emergent gobbledygook is extremely toxic to a good mind.Even to a not-so-good mind, gobbledygook is still quite toxic!
The bible says, “Let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.”Mathew 5:7.You said it, Jesus!
Slouch church is always saying things like this:“Hey guys, we need to be relevant and seeking.Remember, Christ never forgot you. How many of you know, it’s illogical to ask how-many-of-you-know questions and not count hands?If we just knew our problems are explained by one word, expectations!Don’t think, and don’t be disappointed.Have you voted socialist?You didn’t hear that!Remember, doctrinal discussions are divisive!So, don’t have them!Relationships!That’s the word!Impact!That’s another word.So is blah, blah.No, that’s two words.Disparate fluidity.That’s another two words.Impressed?That’s another word.Stream.Another.Stop.(Can’t!)
Such gobbledygook, whether in church, school or capitol, competes against everything else that is good that occupies your mind.Nonsense can and will replace sense, if allowed.Nonsense is a lie.Lies create death.Truth combats nonsense.Truth creates life.Life is better than death.Choose life.Therefore, void gobbledygook.
The above paragraph is from Western Enlightenment.It is reasonable.It makes sense.It is logical.It is industrious, even.You might even say it is godly.
But slouch-thought promulgation, as practiced by so many wolf-shepherds… well it is anti-Western Enlightenment, hence: un-correctable.It is unreasonable.It makes no sense.It is illogical.It is fearful, especially.You might even say it is ungodly.I do.You?
Okay, either you see it or you don’t.No use for pages of material here.
So there is what I hope you find a merciful short descript of churchianity’s three plagues:Greed, fear and slouch.Caution.Do not try to correct your leaders if they preach any of these three things.Remember, by definition greed, fear and slouch are anti-Western Enlightenment.Therefore, adherents of same are uncorrectable.Sorry.It’s just the way it is.
You might enjoy correction.Your friends and loved ones might.But no leader of greed, fear or slouch will ever stand to be corrected.It is stupid of us to think they might!They won’t!No, not ever!
If you want to keep walking higher with God, you’ll have to become an out-of-churcher, if you are not already.Or you will have to keep your mouth shut around the estupidos.
I find it vastly easier to simply not attend greed-fear-slouch church!
But happy will be the day if any greed-fear-slouch leaders repent!Oh, hallelujah, that would be a miracle!But they won’t, because they can’t, because they believe their doctrines.
Part of the problem is that those doctrines help the leaders to have faith.In effect, they pay their leaders well.Problem is, they are being paid by the duped!So it just beats up the faith of the duped?
Why does greed-fear-slouch help its leaders but hurt its duped followers?Because money is a rather fine guarantee against life’s unpleasantness.Greed-fear-slouch merchants receive good pay!That pay protects them from their own advice!
But the poor sheep, well that’s another matter!They receive terrible benefits from supporting merchants of greed-fear-slouch.Such sheep beat up their faith!They are at the bottom, not the top, of the Ponzi pyramid.They also receive little protection from the idiotic decisions one makes from greed, or fear or slouch!Too bad for them!
One would think this is all obvious, except for one strange thing.How do the deceivers deceive?I call it Nuero-Linguistic-Programming (NLP).Look it up.It is high, high witchcraft.It is the art of mind control.It is the alpha omega for shrunken-brain pastors creating shrunken-brain sheep.
And that, friends, we will wait to discuss in another chapter, as now I see that, just like Jesus said in John 16:12, “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.”
Maybe even I can’t bear them now.
You?Didn’t think so.
Just remember:
No Greed!
No Fear!
Not any,
Slouch!
Amen.
What’s Wrong with This Coin?
By Robert Winkler Burke
Of inthatdayteachings.com
Copyright 10/3/08
What’s wrong with this coin?
This dark copper I have here,
One side has the face mask of greed,
The other, the face mask of fear.
Heads is the face mask of Prosperity:
Give to get anything.
Tails is the face mask of Rapture:
Fear missing the King.
I got this coin from being partners,
With preachers on TV,
They sell me one lie or the other,
I buy fear or greed.
But this coin buys nothing in heaven,
It’s not the coin of that realm,
Instead it’s the coin of lie making,
Where deception rules helm.
Fear and greed are two spirits,
Both not of God.
Funny, I got them from churches,
Few think it odd.
Some love fear but loath greed,
Hating the prosperity creed,
Others love greed but loath fear,
Thinking rapture is bad feed.
Fear and greed are just two faces,
Of Satan’s same wretched coin,
Fear and greed can’t get you to heaven,
They come from Satan’s loin.
I’ve never heard a prosperity preacher,
Who didn’t believe in the rapture,
I’ve never heard a rapture preacher,
Who my money didn’t need capture.
Fear and greed, greed and fear,
Emotional boom and bust,
Blessed are the courageous poor in spirit,
In God of heaven they trust.
Without worshipping fear and greed doctrines,
We can worship God in spirit and truth,
Jesus comes quickly to indwell such clean souls,
In whom devil lies and spirits do forsooth.
So if you want to truly miss the King,
Worship fear or greed,
Support prosperity and rapture ministries,
Your money they need.
They need your hard earned money to broadcast,
Lies all over the place,
They are driven to keep Christ from indwelling,
The whole human race.
But oh, how preachers and people do much love,
Doctrines of rapture and prosperity,
They keep hell busy minting fear and greed coinage,
For their hell on earth machine.
So what’s wrong with this fear and greed coin,
With smiling or frowning mask face?
Nothing, the coin separates truth from lie lovers,
With the bugaboos of greed, fear and slouch out of the way we are freer to discover some really good things in God.And the main thing now would be Openness to Higher Ground.That is something the political philosopher Eric Voegelin noticed about Western Enlightenment.
Western Enlightenment is always open to Higher Ground.You know, like Moses was.He turned aside to inquire about God’s Burning Bush.Good thing he did.He got rid of the Hebrew’s slavery, freed them up and changed history!
But you know, it’s not easy to be Open to Higher Ground, even though it was God’s original idea in the first place.I mean, let’s be honest!The LAST place you are ever going to find anyone open to Higher Ground is in churchianity!Don’t make me laught!
Okay, so here’s the deal.We are going to need three things to approach Higher Ground.We need strength, courage and humility.Let’s start with humility.If we have invested a lot in prosperity church, or rapture church or slouch church… it is hard to leave.
Again, we know we can’t correct the triple-headed beast of churchianity, but still… it is a hard thing to leave off.So grab a big portion of humble pie, eat it and say, “I regret buying their lies, I won’t anymore, and I’m outta here.”
Good, that didn’t hurt, did it?Sure it hurt!It always hurts to humble oneself.
By the way, I lifted “Strength, Courage and Humility” from Russian Martial Art.They have a saying, “The goal is to do permanent damage to one’s own ego!”Ha!
Next, it takes courage to leave insanity, err churchianity, because group-think is comforting!But you will find those old hymns, the bible’s proverbs, actually some of the sermons you remember… they were pretty good so long as you did what they said, not what the greed-fear-slouch leadership did!
“Though none go with me, I still will follow!”So, though your greed-fear-slouch group thinks you’re crazy, you might have to leave alone.That takes courage.
How do you get courage?Pray for it.Read Joshua’s first chapter, wherein it is mentioned four times!(Along with strength.)
And Joshua knew something about leaving Egypt, i.e. the world!(Even worldly religion!)He said it took strength and courage.
Where do you get these marvelous things?Well, you might try a good exercise program.As your body gains strength and courage, so also your soul and spirit.
Also, do everything in the right time.Not easily done, but great for maturity!
And figure, others have done it.You can too!
One benefit from leaving stupid doctrine, is that it no longer has the effect of shrinking your brain.It keeps shrinking the heads of folks enjoying greed-fear-slouch, but once you leave all that, you will enjoy a much greater mind.
And that’s the point:To improve your mind by getting rid of bad doxie, increasing your strength, courage and humility… so that finally the right doctrines get in (never easy!) and God gets to delight in your much-improved mind and thereby cohabitate it with you!
Oh my God, is that what is going on with In That Day Teachings?
Yes, yes and yes.
The goal is to get you fully invested by Christ-in-You-ness.
Well, why can’t God do that now, you might ask?
Well, God can do anything, of course.And He does, of course.
So nothing prevents God from inhabiting fully the minds of lotsa of folk with plenty of greed-fear-slouch in them.Only God doesn’t.Or I should say, He doesn’t much.
God does NOT occupy the minds of the greedy-fearful-slouchy because it would confuse people when they saw Him doing it.Nothing like God Almighty in a fearful person!You see, it’s too conflicted.Also, it’s too dangerous.
God-indwelling is primarily for the mature.And true maturity usually consists of some noteworthy levels of strength, courage and humility.
Because a God-indwelt person has chosen, and usually chosen for a long time, strength over weakness, courage over fear and humility over pride.
And don’t get me talking about pride!Okay, I will. Pride is the number one killer in churchianity.The only thing that kills pride is humility.Ask Job.Ask Satan, even.(Just kidding.)
God simply does not like pride.
So use humility.
Use courage.
Tryeven,
Strength.
Amen.
I am a Man of the Cloth
By Robert Winkler Burke
Of inthatdayteachings.com
Copyright 9/28/08
I went to the convenience store,
To buy a Diet Envy-Me Coke,
And to get me a smoke,
A Golden Cancer Prosperity Cigar!
Funny thing was, the man said to me clear,
We ain’t got none of that old stuff, you hear?
No sir, We ain’t got none of that old stuff, you hear?
He says to me, We got a special:
One hundred percent off,
That means to you it’s for free!
Humble pie, cases and cases, piled to the sky,
That means it’s all you can eat!
I says to him, You got anything else?
He says, I got a box of Orthodox Soap.
You got to be kiddin’ man, that’s not for me!
Maybe it’d work on the Pope!
Nah, it ain’t for the Pope,
It’s for you, Man of the Cloth,
Now this guy’s giving me ministry!
He says, The pie and the soap,
It ain’t no joke,
Heaven hopes it’ll set you free.
I gets out of there fast,
I go to my friend,
My Everything’s Cool Christian Saint.
I says, Gimme a little bag,
No make it big, friend,
Of Lung Bustin’, Seeker Friendly Mary Jane!
Funny thing was, the man said to me clear,
We ain’t got none of that old stuff, you hear?
No sir, We ain’t got none of that old stuff, you hear?
He says to me, We got a special:
One hundred percent off,
That means to you it’s for free!
Humble pie, cases and cases, piled to the sky,
That means it’s all you can eat!
I says to him, You got anything else?
He says, I got a box of Orthodox Soap.
You got to be kiddin’ man, that’s not for me!
Maybe it’d work on the Pope!
Nah, it ain’t for the Pope,
It’s for you, Man of the Cloth,
Now this guy’s giving me ministry!
He says, The pie and the soap,
It ain’t no joke,
Heaven hopes it’ll set you free.
I gets out of there fast,
I go to my liquor store,
I says, Gimme a six pack,
No make it four,
Of Kick Me Rapture Fear Beer!
Funny thing was, the man said to me clear,
We ain’t got none of that old stuff, you hear?
No sir, We ain’t got none of that old stuff, you hear?
He says to me, We got a special:
One hundred percent off,
That means to you it’s for free!
Humble pie, cases and cases, piled to the sky,
That means it’s all you can eat!
I says to him, You got anything else?
He says, I got a box of Orthodox Soap.
You got to be kiddin’ man, that’s not for me!
Maybe it’d work on the Pope!
Nah, it ain’t for the Pope,
It’s for you, Man of the Cloth,
Now this guy’s giving me ministry!
He says, The pie and the soap,
It ain’t no joke,
Heaven hopes it’ll set you free.
I gets out of there fast,
I go to my natural food store,
I says, Gimme a big pot,
No make it two more,
Of Rainbow Prophecy Rat Stew!
Funny thing was, the man said to me clear,
We ain’t got none of that old stuff, you hear?
No sir, We ain’t got none of that old stuff, you hear?
He says to me, We got a special:
One hundred percent off,
That means to you it’s for free!
Humble pie, cases and cases, piled to the sky,
That means it’s all you can eat!
I says to him, You got anything else?
He says, I got a box of Orthodox Soap.
You got to be kiddin’ man, that’s not for me!
Maybe it’d work on the Pope!
Nah, it ain’t for the Pope,
It’s for you, Man of the Cloth,
Now this guy’s giving me ministry!
He says, The pie and the soap,
It ain’t no joke,
Heaven hopes it’ll set you free.
I gets out of there fast,
I go to my favorite bar,
I says, Gimme a glass,
No make it a jar,
Of Worship Weakness Praise Whiskey!
Funny thing was, the man said to me clear,
We ain’t got none of that old stuff, you hear?
No sir, We ain’t got none of that old stuff, you hear?
He says to me, We got a special:
One hundred percent off,
That means to you it’s for free!
Humble pie, cases and cases, piled to the sky,
That means it’s all you can eat!
I says to him, You got anything else?
He says, I got a box of Orthodox Soap.
You got to be kiddin’ man, that’s not for me!
Maybe it’d work on the Pope!
Nah, it ain’t for the Pope,
It’s for you, Man of the Cloth,
Now this guy’s giving me ministry!
He says, The pie and the soap,
It ain’t no joke,
Heaven hopes it’ll set you free.
I gets out of there fast,
I go to my pharmacy friend, Jim,
Jim lets me in,
Sees the shape I’m in,
And he says, I know,
I know what you need!
You need Jabberwocky Tizzy, or Emotional Ecstasy,
Or Mojo-Jive Talking Witchcraft Control LSD,
Or Patronizing Platitude-Laced Bubblegum Drops,
Or Intellectual Glue-Sniff, or Ego Pander Schnapps!
Funny thing was, the man said to me clear,
We ain’t got none of that old stuff, you hear?
No sir, We ain’t got none of that old stuff, you hear?
He says to me, We got a special:
One hundred percent off,
That means to you it’s for free!
Humble pie, cases and cases, piled to the sky,
That means it’s all you can eat!
I says to him, You got anything else?
He says, I got a box of Orthodox Soap.
You got to be kiddin’ man, that’s not for me!
Maybe it’d work on the Pope!
Nah, it ain’t for the Pope,
It’s for you, Man of the Cloth,
Now this guy’s giving me ministry!
He says, The pie and the soap,
It ain’t no joke,
Heaven hopes it’ll set you free.
I says,
I know what I’m immersed in,
I can’t let something else in,
No Humble Pie or Orthodox Soap.
That’s for petty dictators,
Mental abusers and sheep-rapers,
Bug off!I’m a Man of the Cloth!
With your pie and your soap,
You give me no hope,
You want me to watch what spirits I am of?
That’s never for me, it’s for you,
And for who I preach to,
Bug off!I’m a Man of the Cloth!
You eat your own Humble Pie,
Certainly not I,
And wash yourself with Orthodox Soap,
Deal with your inner demons, they are my only friends,
Hold your horses, Robert Winkler Burke, you might be saying at this time.Whoa!Stop!
Or, like Festus said, with a loud voice no less, “Paul thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.” (Acts 26:24)
Well, I’m not mad.Or at least I don’t think I am.
Here is what you are probably used to.When the typical pastor at the church of go-along gets to his highest possible level in God, he might pull out these three predictable admonitions.
Pastor Shrunken-brain usually has certain well-known memes.
(Ooh, that reminds me.Learn to somewhat distrust the bible expositor who never uses a word outside the bible.Like memes.Like hazard.Like puerility.Like nugatory building programs.Like mesmerizing.Like thousands of words that God gives us, but 800-page-bible-bound-in-rigidity leaders-with-blinders CAN’T!)
You see, since Shrunken-brain pastors can’t understand, much less teach, a) Christ-in-You-ness, b) Western Enlightenment and c) Higher Teachings… they must sadly resort to something worthyof their small faith.
And those three memes usually appear as follows.Oh congregation, please become extremely guilty because of the great a) love existing or b) persecution existing in certain non-Western church environs.Or, if that gets boring, the pastor might revert to c) spewing limitless bible-speak erudition which ISN”T!
In all three cases, the low-goal is to create tons of guilt.Hang down your head, Tom Dooley!It’s all sort of granfalloonish, referring to Kurt Vonnegut’s description of a “false karass,” that is a group of people who outwardly choose or claim to have a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is actually meaningless.
Yes, you might say… but pastors harping on Third World Christian a) love or b) persecution or c) bible-speak un-intelligentsia is what we might be used to.And we might believe it’s all harmless anyway.
Well, I want to challenge the idea that shrunken-head churchianity is harmless because it isn’t.
You see, Western Enlightenment will teach us that we just might have a duty to do what King David did in his time, which was to serve his generation.Well, he did such a good job that his work keeps serving generations of all times!
Wouldn’t that be nice if we could do that as well?After all, lots have!Abraham Lincoln’s wisdom serves us today!Edison’s light bulb and electric transmission still does!Henry Ford’s production line!Steve Jobs’ iPhone and computer devices!Guttenberg’s printing of the bible!
The list of Western Enlightenment accomplishments is endless.But you know something?The list of churchianity’s accomplishments is mighty short.Mighty short indeed.
Because practically everything in society is advancing at breakneck speeds while church isn’t.Hm.What’s up with that?Lots, actually.
It seems God has kept his restraining hand over church power because with the silly doctrines churchianity embraces… increased power would be nothing but harmful and implosive.
And isn’t that exactly what you see with the unreformed Christian Broadcasters?They experience serial implosions, never take correction and handle power and fame extremely poorly.This is all a Mark 16:20 reverse sign that truth is sorely missing in them!
But beside the hypnotically entrancing Christian Broadcasters proving they have not truth in them, why should we bother to trudge through the difficult and demanding thought-growth required to understand In That Day Teachings?
One word:Socialism.It is the plague of mankind.And it takes a mature mind, keen of state and courageous of nature to penetrate socialism’s cloud of darkness and sheer, horrid, wicked almost-immitigable, absolute evil.
With spiritual eyes to see and ears to hear, hidden enslavement seems to be just about everywhere.Why?Because churchianity has been asleep at the wheel.It has botched its job.Heck, it doesn’t even know its job.
Churchianity has allowed, nay rather, encouraged Socialism.If Socialism continues to succeed, it will kill much of Christianity.And how smart is it that we allow that?
So, yes: Church must rise up and figure out what happened that Socialism became the hope of shrunken-brain man, and how to pitch the good fight against shrunken-brain-promulgation in general and Socialism in particular.
I recommend to you modern political philosophers, who have traced the fascinating, if morbid, accomplishments of brave Socialists, from the Frankfurt School, to Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barrack Hussein Obama.A century of insanity.And it keeps multiplying!
Well then, it’s not surprising that a pulpit-puppeteer who shears his sheep has little to no interest in stopping a politician-puppeteer who sheers the same sheep!Wink, wink! They wink at each other!Wink, wink!
My guess is that when the income tax was created in the United States, thinking theologians might have objected.Until, that is, churches were offered a non-profit status.Deal done, and BINGO, churchianiy automatically became non-prophet.
What I’m saying is, why stick with 800-page-narrowly-defined-scripture-exeges when the world is being enslaved by a hundred-year-march into a socialist enslavement trap?God gave us Western Enlightenment as a work-around tool when churchianity fails the bible.It’s God’s genius work-around solution to get his sheep out of an endless loop!
Still not buying?How about this from Western Enlightenment’s economic arena:
“The ideas of economists and political philosophers… both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood… Indeed the world is ruled by little else.Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence… are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”-- John Maynard Keynes (The unfree, elite-rule proponent loved by Socialists)
Versus the following:
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” F. A. Hayek (Free individual proponent loved by freedom lovers, from Ronald Reagan to Tea Party members)
Churchianity says sheep are not to detect economic enslavement?If not, why not?Because sheep that could discern between Keynesian tax-and-spend politicians and Austrian Economics-loving politicians who cut tax and spending… could also discern if a churchianity wolf-shepherd was shearing his own!
For too long, churchianity has been involved with unchecked, circular reasoning designed to keep minds small enough that they can’t detect the miniature nature of gray matter between their leader’s ears.
So, what is the solution?
Carry on, carry on, carry on with In That Day Teachings!The Rosetta stone of a) Christ-in-You-ness, b) Western Enlightenment and c) Higher Teachings shall prove out to be a great provider of peace.
With the above triumvirate, we shall have peace and accord with all of humanity of earnest goodwill.We shall easily team up in harmony with all good humans whenever and however.
Then again, we shall have the proper discord and distance with all of humanity that is not of earnest goodwill.These teachings provide an inherent truth detector that, in the great big scheme of things, never fails to indicate who is naughty and who is nice.
What I am trying to say is this.The big problem in America in 1860 was slavery.Man dominated man.Unbelievably, the proponents of that peculiar institution made grand arguments in its defense!Yet man had to war with man to get rid of slavery.
Today we find much the same.Except the slavery is hidden.It is slavery of thought.And it is slavery coming from, unbelievably, clerical and political mystic tyranny!
So, the pulpit cannot seem to help the pulpit.Isaiah put it this way in Chapter 28:
7But even these reel from wine and stagger from strong drink: the priest and the prophet reel from strong drink; they are confused from wine, they stagger and are gone astray through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble when pronouncing judgment.
8For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, so that there is no place that is clean.
Strong words there, Isaiah.
May we be so strong.
And courageous.
And humble.
Amen.
The Ring of Truth
A Poem Shaped like a Bell
By Robert Winkler Burke
Of inthatdayteachings.com
Copyright 1/15/06
Good
Friend, did you
Know for whom the bell
Tolls?It tolls for souls so well.
Each lie that is told and told bold
Each lie that is loved and then sold
Diminishes your spirit, if truth be told.
Truly, lies cannot but sound a bad knell
But the sound of truth, it rings a clear bell.
I pray
Can you tell?
If you can tell truth resonates like a heavenly bell,
And lies crack like a twisted, conniving, broken hell.
Then you will
Do well.
To Which We Say, Hear! Hear!
By Robert Winkler Burke
Of inthatdayteachings.com
Copyright 10/3/08
Each week I go down to my local dive,
My friends gather near,
We like to celebrate each Friday night,
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
We’re all pastors, men of the cloth,
But denominations we fear,
We’re rather independent Christian leaders,
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
We shun oversight and correction,
At rebuke we leer,
We’re too mature to be imperfect,
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
One says, Hardy-har! My brothers,
I’m buying the beer,
With my widows’ mite donations!
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
Another says, I’ll top that, maties,
At the red light house near,
We shall all go on credit but not pay!
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
Another says, Is there anything, friends,
We wouldn’t do insincere?
One said, We ask the poor to make us rich!
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
Thank God for TV broadcasting, he said,
Where our eye is queer,
Behold, what uncorrected broadcast can do!
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
I bought a twenty million dollar personal jet,
Says one, Ooh that’s dear!
Another says, I got a mega-million parsonage!
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
I’m a stage show hypnotist!I’m a mind controller!
Our congregation we jeer.
I sired a son, our new pastor, by my brother’s wife!
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
Nothing stops us from spiritual and literal adultery,
We do it with whatever’s near,
Nothing on earth really stops us from doing anything!
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
We all love each other so much,
When we leave we shall shed a tear,
We really can’t brag about each other enough,
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
Now we’re drunk and stumbling unable to tell,
Just which is front or rear,
Our tables are full of our own vomit,
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
Before we pass out in heavenly depravity,
Or the police come in riot gear,
We salute all escapology doxie enabling us,
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
We love eternal security, we love the rapture,
We love Jesus to appear,
Some day in the sky to reward our good works,
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
Those escapist doxies let us do anything,
Even abomination is dear,
We’re desolate of God, truth and all honor,
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
We believe Trickster-knowledgy Dominion Theology,
With governments second tier,
So our carnal appetites will rule the world with Christ!
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
We whoop and holler when the band plays our song,
A country classic premier:
“We’re All Here ‘Cause Our Doxie’s Not All There!”
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
Yes, betcha’ didn’t know that your pastors,
Would from heaven so downward veer,
Come believe with us nothing much matters,
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
That’s why we need so much money,
For consciences to sear,
It takes much propaganda to make lies the truth,
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
Come join us, never mind doctrinal verity,
Look in the filthy bar mirror,
Be in with the in crowd, be loud and proud,
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
My God, is it really that bad, you ask,
Can you believe your ear?
We think anything and live with our thoughts,
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
An unexamined life is really not worth the living,
But such truth we smear,
We smear all truths and exalt all convenient lies,
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
This is too clever, too unseen, to hidden, you say,
For Christian believers mere,
Antichrist leaders parade as being Christ everywhere,
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
But no party lasts forever, and one day judgment,
Will come from a peer,
You might ask us, Deep in our souls, did we know?
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
You, as inquisitor, just might ask for explanation,
You’ll ask, Did for many a year,
We go along and get along with all damn things?
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
You’ll say, Then this explains much: Why there,
Often was imploding career,
You never fixed your own doxies or bad spirits,
To which we say, Hear! Hear!
Later, you will look for the likes of us in heaven,
A place that we now cheer,
You’ll ask if we’re not in heaven, are we in hell?
Ah, the story of Job.God has told me some funny things about it.Unique, even!
But first, know what most preachers say about it.Search the internet, even.Most preachers will say that Job is all about suffering, and why we’ll never know.They quote the “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.”
But you know what?That is just Job 13:15 a.Want to know what the rest of the verse says?It says, “but I will maintain mine own ways before him.”
Hm… Now that is interesting.The world is taught about Job based upon a partial scripture reference.What’s up with that?
But first, I must admit that regarding all suffering, we may indeed never know all things.Some suffering seems to be completely inexplicable.But not Job’s.No way.
My understanding that Job was a classic archetype of a rigid-righteous fellow.And that has its goods.And it also has its bads.
After all, the last page of the bible admonishes the righteous to be righteous and the holy, holy.Which makes me wonder, what’s up with that?
Well, here is what.From sinner to saint life is like the shape of an hourglass.At the bottom, sinner is free and open and wide to be able to perform any and all sin.Want to rob a bank, you ask the sinner?He says, sure!
Then sinner meets God somewhere along the line and he has to clean up his act.He learns the rules.And therein many get stuck.They become rigid-righteous.They say, What would Jesus do? Instead of, What would Jesus have me do?Big difference.
Rigid-Righteous folk live in the land of platitudes.They have God formulized!God is right there in their pocket, see?You don’t see that?Well, the Rigid-Righteous do!And they protesteth to much!(Another Mark 16:20 reverse sign!)
God loves and allows Rigid-Righteous folk.It is a necessary condition for many saints-in-the-making.Nevertheless, it also sucks.
Who wants a Rigid-Righteous boss?I tell you, no one!Who wants a Rigid-Righteous God?Well, Muslim Extremists seem to enjoy one like that.
But in the history of war, generals who are rigid lose.Who do they lose to?To flexible generals. What about soldiers?What should they prefer?Flexible generals.Why?
In war, great generals often have written great books about military doctrine.Oops.The opposing generals read those books.Clever opposing generals then think, and think and think.Then they think of a wicked box-trap to put the other general’s army into.Then, the general who has read the other fellow’s book, he knows just how that army will react.And then with luck, our happy reader has defeated the other general – using his own book as a weapon against him!
See what I’m up to?Could Satan do this to sheep taught the regime of Rigid-Righteousness?You betcha’.Hence, Rigid-Righteous sheep are easy for the enemy to slaughter.
Now hold on a minute, here Robert, you might say.Where’s God in all of this?
God is right where you might expect Him to be.Which, of course, is on the side of victory.You know, God is a man of war?Yup.Exodus 15:3.And my guess is, He’s a pretty good man of war, maybe even the best there is.
And that would make Him holy-flexible, which would make Him, err, undefeatable.
You see, in the history of war it is the flexible generals who always outwit their opponents.Even their individual soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen can join in the fun.
How, you ask, can individuals in the military enjoy flexibility?Here’s how.They learn the High Teaching of “There are no fixed rules, only guidelines.”US Marine Corps tactics manuals state this.“Leaders must remember that there are no fixed rules and no precise checklists, but there are bounds…”And, “no fixed rules that can be applied automatically, and every situation is different.”
Here is the URL: http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/service_pubs/mcdp1_3.pdf(U.S. Marine Corps “Tactics” MCDP 1-3.)The first sentence of the manual explains much:“This publication is about winning in combat.”The last sentence of this paragraph says, “Wining in combat depends upon tactical leaders who can think creatively and act decisively.”
Hm.. Is God creative?Of course!Is He decisive?Naturally.Did He breathe His Spirit into us?We hope so!
This creativity under extreme duress is address by the United State’s Federal Aviation Authority, FAA.Their rules allow for a commercial pilot to break rules during an emergency so that the plane can be safely landed and lives saved.Why is this?Because the FAA is a sharp organization and realizes it cannot possible write a book that tells what the right thing a pilot should do in an emergency would be.It takes a humble organization to do this.And one that trusts individuals, i.e. pilots, to do the right thing!
Further, consider the First Commandment.Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.What, pray tell might those gods be?How about fixed rules and rigidity?Yes, those gods must not come before the true God.Hence, the First, well, Guideline!
So how is this Holy-Flexibility proved in the Book of Job?Well, Job was a perfect archetype of a Rigid-Righteous person.Hence he was (Chapter 1:1) “perfect and upright, and one that feared God, an eschewed evil.”Right.But not so right, actually.
Apparently, God wanted Job to deliver a story through his epic life that we in modernity could learn by.And we haven’t much, so far! Perhaps In That Day Teachings can help!
Okay, so here is are some keys to unlocking the book of Job, which as you know is said to be the oldest book in the bible.So, have you noticed the book is kind of strange and different?Like it comes from another era, if not planet?
Four men gather for a week and don’t talk?Then they each blab and blab!Each man speaks three times!Twelve long soliloquies, where they each go on and on waiting for some kind of magic confirmation or something?And this Elihu kid?He speaks and then the Lord’s voice speaks in a storm.The Lord speaks of leviathan, a rather mysterious beast.Job says he gets it.The other three men don’t.Happy, happy.The three men get instructions.Job gets double what he lost.End of story.
Conclusion of majority of preachers?When bad things happen to good people, we never know why!Say what?
What if Job was, in fact, Rigid-Righteous?And God wanted him to be able to see with the eyes of the spirit and become Holy-Flexible?Ah… that makes more sense.
Then who is this Elihu and what were the three friends for?Well friends, here is what I believe:
The three friends were also great men, but Rigid-Righteous themselves.But they knew more than a thing or two about the Higher Ways of God.After each of their speeches, they hoped to have God’s confirming voice boom out of their mouths, and basically, prove who was the most Rigid-Righteous.Except it didn’t happen.Man, I would have liked to have seen the expression on their faces!
Now young Elihu, he was taking notes.And he probably knew what the others didn’t.Like all four men, he probably did some serious inquiry with God as to what was what with Job.But unlike the four men, Elihu was likely Holy-Flexible already (somehow!) and he was told by God what was up.Namely, Elihu likely knew about God’s betting program with Satan.Except God told Elihu not to mention anything, unless the other men knew as well.Which they didn’t.So Elihu just sat there taking notes and witnessing how proud the Rigid-Righteous can be.
In fact, this pride-fest the four men were having about themselves must have really grated on Elihu quite a lot.He must have said in his mind, okay, I’m going to do this job for God in the most humble way possible, as a sign (again, Mark 16:20 sign confirming!) for all the generations that ever read The Book of Job.
Okay then, what did Elihu do?Well, unlike the following prophets who included in their holy missives who was speaking for the Lord, Elihu didn’t.Likely as not, Elihu believed seekers would be smart enough to figure out what was what.
Sadly, in this one thing Elihu erred greatly.Because the Book of Job has become one gigantic cosmic enforcer of the Rigid-Righteous.Smokin’ Leviathon!Elihu must be spinning in his grave, causing earthquakes no less!
But I challenge you, dear reader, to look at all of Elihu’s inclusions and exclusions during the Lord’s voice-overs, and this theory fits perfectly.
So, ahem, where was I?Oh yes, Elihu waits until the other proud pontificators are done and then he speaks.And lo and behold, his is the voice that booms out the Lord’s understanding of the matter.And what, pray tell is that?
God, who if you remember speaks in a sort of Moses-like language above our normal full comprehension, starts talking about nature and animals.Why?Because, if he boomed out, “Job, you are a screw up royal!” then I do believe Job would have died then and there on the spot!And God didn’t want the Devil to win, now did he?
So God gentles Job in on the subject of pride.He talks about this thing, that thing (it’s best if you trace this line of reasoning yourself for confirmation) and finally, God lowers the boom.God talks about Leviathan, who ain’t no dinosaur dear reader!
Leviathan is pride, the mother of all God’s trouble on earth!Leviathan is just an allegorical thing that keeps Job alive and not burnt toast!Come on, where’s your fear of God, dear reader!
Well, if you can follow this so far, it is quite understandable that Job gets it.Pride and Rigid-Righteousness just doesn’t cut the mustard when God says it’s time to grow up!And grow up Job did.
Chapter 42, Amplified Bible:
1THEN JOB said to the Lord,
2I know that You can do all things, and that no thought or purpose of Yours can be restrained or thwarted.
3[You said to me] Who is this that darkens and obscures counsel [by words] without knowledge? Therefore [I now see] I have [rashly] uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.(A)
4[I had virtually said to You what You have said to me:] Hear, I beseech You, and I will speak; I will demand of You, and You declare to me.
5I had heard of You [only] by the hearing of the ear, but now my [spiritual] eye sees You.
6Therefore I loathe [my words] and abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes.
Ah, so!Very inscrutable yet wise, so very wise of God to do what He did how He did!
Now, the three friends don’t get it.But God wants them to get it, to also become Holy-Flexible.Then there would be five of them at least!So God speaks again through Elihu, and again Elihu doesn’t reference himself directly – mistakenly thinking seers would understand, which they haven’t so far!
In verse 7 and 8 God through Elihu tells the three friends to take seven bullocks and seven rams to Job and offer a burnt offering, and that Job will pray for them, and God says He’ll accept Job’s prayer to stop God’s anger at these knuckleheads.So everybody did what they were supposed to.
In verse 11 all Job’s brothers and sisters and all who had known him before (which presumably includes the three friends) gathered and comforted Job and gave him money and each an earring of gold.
This is interesting, indeed, because the bible elsewhere tells us if one gives a cup of cold water to either a righteous man or a holy man, the giver will not fail to get his reward.Wonder what that reward could be?Could it be the opportunity to become righteous, the opportunity to become holy?If so, Job’s friends were in line for certain upgrades!
And so, this shows the love of God’s heart.He likes to hide a thing.He likes to reveal a thing.This is what He revealed to me in the story of Job.
God wants us to be like Jesus.Jesus could see the hand of Father God moving.In real time, Jesus could do this!
Come to think of it, it was like Elihu could do and Job and his friends could not.Not until, well, how did Lonesome Dove put it?They had a sign on their ranch.It was in Latin.It said,“Uva uvam vivendo varia fit”.This cobbled saying has been interpreted to mean a grape changes color, i.e. ripens or matures, when it sees another grape that has done so.
Heady material, here.Elihu was that mature grape.And he saw his older compadres were stuck in pride and Rigid-Righteousness.So he wrote himself out of the story, as a witness to the power of humility.He must have felt if he was to boast like the four men did, he might lose maturity in the Lord and defeat God’s will in his own life.
Still and so, the point is that it takes honoring the maturity of your mentor, to get out of the muck of prideful Rigid-Righteousness.And that, by definition, is an almost impossible thing to accomplish!
God Himself comments,
Job 41:8 Lay your hand upon him! Remember your battle with him; you will not do [such an ill-advised thing] again!
It’s funny, if you think about it!God is sort of complaining back to Job, after listening to the four men bellyache for a week!God says, look at it from My perspective.In fact, once you get this thing, you’ll be the mature grape helping the prideful, Rigid-Righteous knuckleheads yourself.It’s worse than fighting an imaginary leviathan!There is no allegory strong enough to accurately describe or prepare you for heaven’s fight against earth-man’s pride, especially – get this Job – man’s pride in Rigid-Righteousness.
In fact, there I go.There, I, Robert Winkler Burke go.
Go where, you ask?
Well, the more anointed a fellow gets, the more likely he is to drift into the voice of the Lord!It is SO embarrassing.And it is not the time or the place, me thinks.
And that sort of me-thinking can get a fellow in trouble with God.
Because I do not want to offend you with utterances from on High.
I just want you to get the Higher Thought involved in the Book of Job.
And I think you do, now.Right?
Right!
Oops, except I forgot to finish the hourglass analogy.Most of churchianity is stuck in shrunken-brain Rigid Righteous territory.Which for an hourglass, is that narrow middle spot that the sand flows through.What’s above in that wide open territory?
You guessed it, the Holy-Flexible.Why, they can eat corn on the Sabbath, like Jesus!They can eat the forbidden showbread when on the run, like David!They can be like Paul and preach to the open-to-Higher-Ground, mature-of-thought Greeks, not those Rigid-Righteous circumcising early Jew-Christian combos that were so conflicted!
So, have you got it?
Holy Flexibility is key.Key to what?Key to Christ-in-You-ness, that’s what.
When you become Holy Flexible, you qualify at a much higher level to be a pleasing abode for Christ to indwell.
Who’s that knocking on your door?The door to your spirit?Christ-in-You, that’s who.
And he’s been knocking on that door for a long time, since you were born.Same for me.Same for just about everybody.Now, I’m not talking about baby Christians here.Sure, they invite Jesus in their hearts when they start out.And they need lots of milk, as Paul mentions.
Rather, I would like to talk about steak-feeding of Christians.This is when Christ-in-You really comes into play.Don’t believe me?Would you believe Paul?Here’s the Message Bible’s way of putting it:
26-29This mystery has been kept in the dark for a long time, but now it's out in the open. God wanted everyone, not just Jews, to know this rich and glorious secret inside and out, regardless of their background, regardless of their religious standing. The mystery in a nutshell is just this: Christ is in you, so therefore you can look forward to sharing in God's glory. It's that simple. That is the substance of our Message. We preach Christ, warning people not to add to the Message. We teach in a spirit of profound common sense so that we can bring each person to maturity. To be mature is to be basic. Christ! No more, no less. That's what I'm working so hard at day after day, year after year, doing my best with the energy God so generously gives me.
Notice, “this mystery” not one of many mysteries.The mystery of God, according to Paul, appears to be Christ-in-You.(Pun intended! “appears to be…” get it?)
And, blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God… in others, get it?
The subject is herein is proffered more casual than serious, because nothing kills the spirit quicker than stuck-in-bible-language talk!In fact, I don’t want to make arguments for Christ-in-You.The subject is so ethereal that a baby Christian will not get it, no matter how cogently I write.But maturing and mature Christians will see.
So, I choose to defer to the language of poetry.The following poems explains Christ-in-You-ness:
The warning: Don’t believe Darwin’s survival of fittest,
Means you can kill, eliminate or dismiss others,
The wisdom:God comes quickly in humans,
Salute, honor God in your sisters and brothers.
Say, Good on you!
I see God somehow in you living inside!
Humble yourself,
By honoring God in others, you lose pride.
You thought God was coming,
To, well, take you away?
That’s fear and the Devil,
Having his In That Day.
Choose your day,
Dark logic, escapism, fear?
Or God in you,
Reason, courage, in-spirit gear!
All spirit gear to make it,
In That Day of the Lord,
Living in God, God in you,
Have no fear, climb on board!
Earth’s calibrated,
In God’s life, liberty, and happiness,
Earth’s unbelievers,
On path to self-destruction, by themselves.
I had a dream,
I was a poem ignored,
Some eyes seeing,
By the rest: not stored.
Woe to those given hard truth,
And need it quickly forgotten,
Happy: those who love it hard,
In them: God is begotten.
Behold, I come quickly,
Thrice on the Bible’s last page,
Behold, I come quickly,
Discern this wisdom, this age.
Surely, I come quickly,
Do we have eyes to see?
What John repeated three times,
That in God we be!
Epistle on Manifesting Jesus
By Robert Winkler Burke
Of inthatdayteachings.com
Copyright 6/2709
Now that we know manifesting Christ is the premium In That Day event, what shall we say?Shall we brag if we can to it?(If we do, then we can’t.)Shall we say we are doing it at any time?(If we do, then we can’t.)Shall we say we control it?(If we do then we can’t.)
In truth, we have no more control over manifesting Jesus as a slave has control over his master.Though we are mighty, we are weak.Though we are intelligent, we are dumb.Though we are capable, we are submissive to God’s Spirit.
So, having said all this, have we lost our minds?Are we bereft of common sense?Are we unable to live with the brotherhood of man?
Yet, of all men that ever walked the earth or ever will, who but Christ has our best interests?Who loves more?Whose mind is better prepared for mankind’s good?Yeah, none but Christ.And as He comes and indwells us, we co-labor with the mind of Christ.
And each visitation imparts some measure of good; not all measure of Christ’s good, lest we be overwhelmed to our hurt, but some measure.In this we are at hazard to think too highly of our thoughts and even ourselves.
If a hammer is used by a carpenter of renown, shall the hammer boast?It is an honor for the hammer to be picked up from the tool box.But perhaps if the hammer, while in the tool box, had swelled its head boasting to the other tools, it would likely fly off the handle rather than hit the nail on the head!
And so then, using this heavenly tool box as an example, the mallet waits in patience as the whisk broom waits in patience.One large tool, the mallet, begins a demolition and remodel project even as the whisk broom waits to finish the clean up.
Which tool is more important?What about the oft-employed hammer, now on the master’s belt?Shall one tool be jealous of the other?Or shall each be well-wishing to the other?
And realize, each tool sacrifices a bit of itself to perform the larger task!The whisk broom loses some of its bristles with each clean up.The hammer abrades its face with pounding.The saw’s teeth wear down or break or need re-sharpening.
So it is with each of us employed at times by Christ to be manifesting indwelt by Him for our heavenly Father’s mysterious purposes.
And what are those purposes?Well, broadly speaking, they are to expand heaven, as the Lord’s Prayer proscribes.
But what, then is heaven?Heaven, briefly stated, is truth: nothing more, nothing less; even as God is truth.Verily, verily few can comprehend such an heaven even as few can comprehend all truth in that the most difficult to digest truths are hard, bitter and somewhat shocking to countenances accustomed to generally accepted half-truths and brazen lies of the Devil.
In heaven, no lies are received; neither are they made.Thus earnest Catholics and evangelical charismatics and even Muslims, (such as there might be in heaven!) all will share one truth and one God.And those truths will be known and agreed to be that Christ is God’s Son, that baptism of water is good, as is baptism of the Spirit; and that many doctrines of many churches (and synagogues and temples and mosques) were wrong and of Satan; and that there is but one longlist of true doctrines of the Father.
Jesus spoke of these doctrines of His Father and they shocked the religious leaders of the day.As it was then, so it is now.
Lest I lose you, I shall not list here what doctrines of the Father I have apprehended to be at odds with the doctrines of popular Christianity!Blessed are they who are not offended in Christ, which is truth!
Suffice it to say:The more truth of God we apprehend, the more Christ can indwell us.And the reverse is also true; sadly this is true.
Now then, as a tool on the master’s belt, or in His carpenter’s box, or in any other way at His employ; what can such an tool expect from his master beyond the honor of being chosen?To be manifestly employed by God for His mysterious purposes involves guarantees that are necessarily easy to grasp across the line into heaven and difficult to grasp this side of heaven.
By this I mean prosperity, riches and the easy life and carnal guarantees that riches provide are not the typical reward given to the master’s shovel, hammer and hand saw!Such tools become worn down as sacrificial testaments of the tools of the master’s trade.
Yet no good carpenter despises his tools!Rather, he loves them and cares for them!The shovel, he cleans and lets no mud or grime or concrete bespot!The hammer he also cleans and even replaces or repairs its loose or broken handle.The hand saw he sharpens, cleans and oils.
So each tool in its own way is cared for in love and even tenderness.If lost, the master finds!If stolen, the master retrieves!If used, the master puts in hand!If unready, the master makes ready.If dirty, cleaned.If too hot, cooled.If too cool, warmed.
And further, a carpenter uses tools in a surprising fashion!In a pinch, the hammer can sweep away debris!In a pinch, a shovel can be used to defend the carpenter!In a pinch, the hand saw can make music and bring joy in song!
Thus, the shovel, the hammer and the saw can help their master live and work in love.And such love is reward unto itself.Love is its own reward and none other is needed nor should be wanted.
But some might think: if I be a shovel for my LORD, then let me be an ornamental chrome shovel used for ground-breaking of great projects!Fine and so be it.Judge not lest ye be judged.
Let them who are predestined for ornamenting God’s beauty with beauty; then be beautified!Let no tool of God war with another.Let the latrine shovel neither hate (nor covet the job of) the ornamental shovel hanging on a commemorative wall!Who can say what rewards await either?
God’s love and truth encompasses and encourages us all.Whether we are a feather duster or a jack-hammer, let good will and blessings flow from one to another.
Yet even for me, who should know better, it is difficult to apprehend God’s love for me as I seem to be a tool of His that has been subject to much mistreatment.Perhaps I have been mistreated, or perhaps I have not.How can I, with carnal self-interest, judge such a thing properly?Indeed, I cannot.
However, by looking at my life with heaven’s eyes, I notice I am in good health and am at peace in the midst of tribulation.So I am well rewarded with love from my Master.Even if I was ill and had no peace, I would need to consider myself well rewarded.
If I can do this at least some of the time, I am rich.As are you, beloved and loyal tools of Christ, our manifested-in-us Savior and Lord and King.
Lest any be confused, I am not saying that I am God nor any other person who manifests Christ is God.God is God, and He is God alone; that is, He is God alone in His triune being:Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
He created us, He created time, and He can do with us what He chooses in His time, in that day which now is, the day of His visitation, not in singular spectacular fashion, but selectively, hidden from carnal eyes, in all whom He deigns to be, in what time He deigns to be, in a somewhat hidden but nevertheless most peculiar and spectacular fashion, which is: Saith the Lord,Behold, I come quickly.
What is Western Enlightenment and why do we need it?To answer that question in a round about way, consider the following parable about Earthlings landing on Mars.
In the not-too-distance future, the first manned spaceship from Earth lands on Mars.Little Green Martians crowd around the spaceship and say, “Welcome!”
Out come Chinese astronauts.The Martians ask, “What do you bring?”
“Communism!”
A month later, another spaceship lands on Mars.Out come Europeans.The Martians ask, “What do you bring?”
“Socialism!”
Next, a pan-Arabic spaceship lands.Out come Muslims.The Martians ask, “What do you bring?”
“Jihad!”
Finally, a beat-up-looking, backfiring, wobbly spaceship lands, barely.Out come some confused-looking Americans.The Martians ask, “What do you bring?”
“We don’t know!”
Whereupon the Martians insist all the spacemen from Earth go home to figure things out, before polluting the universe with muddled ideas.
Again, this subject is also ethereal, thus easily dismissed in argument.So I refer to poetry as the strongest tool to produce mental epiphany and freedom of spirit.
Like I said at the beginning of this book, In That Day Teachings are not hard to grasp.But what is almost impossible, is to have faith that there are, in fact, Higher Ways.Paul called it “the way.”Then, for two-thousand years, Pauline expositors have done their utmost to butcher the concept.Hence, the difficulty to have or find faith.
Let us begin, then, by mocking the mockers:
Have You Mocked?
By Robert Winkler Burke
Of inthatdayteachings.com
Copyright 12/18/04
Have you mocked what’s going on today?
Have you thanked God you don’t serve,
In Iraq with Allied soldiers too dumb,
To dodge their calling and swerve?
Have you mocked those students today,
Wearing those uniforms who serve,
In ROTC and Scouts – too slow,
To dodge their calling and swerve?
Have you mocked your future today,
And buried deep your desire to serve,
Because making yourself happy now is,
To dodge your calling and swerve?
Have you mocked your eyes today,
And followed blind fools who serve,
Themselves on the throne and teach,
To dodge your calling and swerve?
Have you mocked your spirit today,
And fed it dark things that serve,
Abominable lies and thoughts designed,
To dodge your calling and swerve?
Have you mocked your soul today,
With cool hate and icy nerve,
In brazen enmity and banal bliss,
To dodge your calling and swerve?
Have you mocked the truth today,
And agreed with the world that serves,
The lie that good is evil and evil good,
To dodge your calling and swerve?
Have you mocked the life God gave you,
And the things required by Him to serve?
Have you mocked the man who says to you,
“Don’t dodge your calling and swerve!”
Well then, this poem sort of bolsters the Western Enlightenment concept of self-sacrifice, as well as crying out that above the fray soars Higher Ways.
And here is another poem, this one pointing out the existence of Higher Doctrines…
Doctor, Is My Doctrine is Killing Me?
By Robert Winkler Burke
Of inthatdayteachings.com
Copyright 1/10/07
Armies run on doctrine,
but people don’t?
Armies know their doctrine,
but people do?
Armies that lose, fix their doctrine,
but people cannot?
God wants His army indoctrinated,
but it is too hard a thing to learn?
And the sheep of some shepherds know little true doctrine,
and God is well pleased?
Jesus in His day spoke His Father’s doctrine and upset the religious order,
but today’s shepherds speak doctrine upsetting no one?
Church, of course, forgot Western Enlightenment and all its correction.Hence…
Well, what has happened?Expository has turned into poetry.
I hope this is working for you.You are up to speed.Your mind is seeing and processing things in a much more spiritual manner!
Hence, the need to stretch your mind even further still!Don’t fight it.
These poems say much, much more and go far, far higher into God’s mental processes than if I kept banging away at the keyboard with pages of mere words.
How does Western Enlightenment rescue Churchianity?
John Adams said, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”Still and so, governments are not angels either, are they.
Hence the dilemma the Founding Fathers of America faced was how to construct a constitutional government that would self-correct.Their solution, of course, was to create a three-part republican government that checked against man’s tragic way.
Why was this done?Because, if a government doesn’t self-correct, it will tend to enslave its citizens.The United States, in fact, had a civil war in 1860, costing 600,000 lives to eliminate slavery.
Yet look at today’s hidden slavery of progressivism, socialism, Marxism, Communism.This is the primary unspoken goal of media, culture, education and government.Collective rights have dominated against individual rights, and our liberty and freedom suffer.
Meanwhile, what has churchianity done?Through hidden enslavement wiles of Nuero-Linguistic-Programming (NLP), and shrunken-headed half-true teachings of Christianity, this church has served up perfect dupes for political tyrants to abuse.What I am saying is that the Twenty-First Century’s challenge is to stop political and clerical mystic tyranny.
But churchianity doesn’t see this.This church refuses to correct because it thinks nothing is wrong.Revival is far away, yet nothing is wrong.Sheep and shepherds don’t see their own shrunken-headedness and therefore seek no correction.The great methods of Western Enlightenment would help them to self-correct, but they reject Western Enlightenment.
Actually, we could say the same thing about individuals who come out of churchianity!Have we out-of-churchers learned how to self-correct to obtain saint-like levels of Christ-in-You-ness?No?No, I didn’t think so.
So the question In That Day is, How does an individual self-correct at deep levels?And then, how to continue self-correction?
Okay, first thing is that I’m going to stay away from Churchianity’s gobbledygook, yet stay true.Because gobbledygook doesn’t work, but truth does.
By the way, how are the In That Day Teachings poems working for you?Love them or loath them, if you have been seriously reading them and not skipping the mental-spiritual exercise, then perhaps by now you are feeling changed already.And in feeling this change for the better, you will have discovered a fine thing, namely: confirmation that the In That Day Teachings are good and work!
If you have had faith, been open to Higher Ground, read the expository, read the unusual poems, do not take offense, and allow the Holy Spirit to teach you all things, then you are ready for this next, much more difficult step.
You see, any fishwife worth her salt will tell you what’s wrong with her man.But can that man tell you what’s wrong with himself?Or the fishwife herself?Can you, yourself?Can I, myself?Aye, there’s the rub!
How to self-correct?How to get rid of a demon?
First, all sin comes with deception.So it’s easy to see the nano-chip in another eye and miss the forest in one’s own eye.But if you have a hunch something like, oh say, anger is in you, then here’s what to do.
And, as an aside, if other Nathans have come to you to expose your sin, it seems like the more a person has preached or heard someone preach about David falling on his face and saying “I am that man!”, that person has an inverse proportional ability to ever actually say about him or her self, “I am that man (or woman)!”People get stuck, you know?
So then, when a demon like anger rises up, choke it down by verbal, embarrassing confession.Thus you feed the good dog of truth and starve the bad dog of lies.
Say, “Gee, officer, when you pulled me over for speeding, at first I started to get mad.But I said to myself, ‘Be a calm Christian and thank this patrolman for keeping me and other innocents safe from my narcissistic, self-consuming world of me, myself and I.
“Perhaps you could help me help my stupid self and double the fines I’m willing to pay to put down the worse part of me by the better part?Shall I say I forgot my license?Would that be helpful, I mean dear officer, to give you more strength against this little devil in me?”
Now, I’ve gone over the top in this example to show you, it isn’t easy!If you are lucky, you might have a god sent, mature one who helps you.He or she answers the question, “How many times do I forgive my brother?Seven?”And the answer, is about seventy times seven, 490.
It may take about 500 times of loving light more than dark (I confess I’m getting/got/am angry again!) stirrings with your friend.After that, if it continues, you’ve conned yourself, God and friend.
If your troublesome demon is not defeated with about 500 confessions (hopefully, it takes less than that!) the season should be over and quit for a while.The problem might need a deliverance.You might need to direct your energies elsewhere for a while, something less challenging.Meanwhile, stay in the allegorical cave, lest trouble ensue!
But here is how the process works when a sent one, as though a wise eagle or merciless vulture, helps you with your demon.Your mentor will show no mercy towards the character trait, i.e. anger.No quarter given, none taken.Strangely, your mentor will appear to be unforgiving at times, even never forget a slight, in the mission to get rid of the problem, i.e. demon of anger.Normal rules of Christianity don’t seem to apply in this special case.
You might have many emotional stirrings with this person, which is really embarrassing.The rule of thumb here is, “Save face, lose life.”Get that demon out in the open sun, where your eagle-vulture friend can help you pick it out, thus separating the quick from the dead in you!
Who know, years later you might be doing the same for desperate others!So try not to rip the feathers, smash the beak, or pull the legs out of your friend eagle-vulture.Otherwise, too much of that will happen to you later, when God assigns you to other brutes needing help!(Interestingly, your eagle-vulture won’t seem to forgive you for every small slight regarding the demon, but nevertheless turns the other cheek when attacked by you!You’ll have to do the same for others, later!)
A word of caution.Somewhat limit confession to only the mature, less you cast your pearls before swine and they turn and rend you.Same goes for all Higher Teachings.
Another caution:Forgiveness confessions can and will be used by police, prosecutors, judges and juries to bring the law to bear against you.So be careful.Such folk know how to trick a Christian into jail!Be careful what you say!
For example, your boyfriend calls you.Unknown to you, he’s sitting at the police’s detective office.You are being recorded.He says, “Are you sorry you slapped my hand?”You say, “Yes, honey I am.Will you forgive me?”Bingo, you go to jail for assault.Weird world we live in, heh?
Now I am going to go deep.A demon such as anger operates in a spiritual realm.And that realm operates in a strangely legalistic manner.Anger manifests in a person because that person, knowingly or not, gave that demon a right to do so.
Un-confessed anger, then, gives anger the right not only to manifest, but grow!Anger confessed in the light, or better yet: squelched upon rise up, has its right diminished.Hence success or failure against it brings exponential increase in good or bad.In other words, success or failure in combating the critter brings results of incremental manifestations for good or ill.
Still with me?Now here is a really important thing to know.The anchor by which evil, such as anger, resides with a deed-right to your soul’s residence is something called a Foundational Lie.
A Foundational Lie is typically an evil sentence of an opinion about some darkly held belief.You will discover this sentence is hard to find, much less say.Over time, the Holy Spirit might help you confess it out of your system.Try using a positive scripture verse against it.
Here are examples.A woman might say, “My relationship problems with the male race are cause by a Foundational Lie within me which says, ‘All men are pigs!’I rebuke that lie within me, because after creating man God call it and everything good.”
Another example:A man might say, “I have had an angry spirit because I bought a Foundational Lie that says, ‘I’m angry at God for being born, so I don’t care what I do to others.Screw God!Screw everybody!(Kill ‘em all, a psychopath killer might say.)I rebuke that lie within me, because the bible says God is love and that we should love one another.”
Yes, the Foundational Lies are that ugly, that horrid, that unmentionable!That’s why they work for the Devil.They anchor the demons within.Get rid of the Foundational Lies, and you can get rid of the demons within.
This whole process is rare in Churchianity because the following scenario happens when dealing with immature called out ones.When a mentor eagle-vulture begins this overcoming process with the not-dead-enough-carcass-body, the undead one runs to an immature group or pastor who rebukes and prays against the mentor.And the mentor says, “I knew that was going to happen.”
So, a good eagle-vulture-mentor should be mighty reluctant to help a young called out one for this very reason!Even if the young-one is told not to run to immature help in order to fire upon the mature helper, often the young-one does exactly that!
What?You expected this would be easy?Churchianity is easy!Overcoming is excruciating to the flesh.As eagle-vulture, you allegorically become the gambling Roman soldiers who crucified Christ.Only, you are helping to crucify the foul things in a potential saint-to-be!
All I can say, is count the cost, fear God, and enjoy the strange, long trip!
Drink deep from the well of Higher Teaching truth!
I have a warning for you.Christ-in-You-ness tends to boost one’s ego to astronomic levels.Knowledge puffeth up pride.And pride isn’t good!
The problem becomes lack of correction, persona worship, diode leaders making lesser diodes.And funny doctrines pop up from leaders who shun correction and Western Enlightenment.
Such leaders preach a limited set of Higher Teachings.Invariably, their limited set includes no respect for Western Enlightenment’s great ones nor Western Enlightenment itself.Why?Because un-correctable Christ-in-You folk focus you on themselves, which avoids comparing them to better, more humble, more correctable saints!
Such self-obsessed Christ-in-You folk do not help others to do greater works than they, themselves can do.They work for your recognition and financial support.
You might even notice slef-obsessed Christ-in-You folk might have quirky beliefs such as the following.They don’t like the Western nation of Israel.They might feel no natural love for their own Western nation.They might not vote.They might despise authority, such as police, courts or the military.
Such myopic thought is wrong and contrary to the godly advancement of humankind in the Twenty-First Century.
The hard part is to grow these baby Christ-in-You’s up!They can see baby Christians, yes!They want baby Christians to grow into greater Christ-in-You-ness.But they refuse to see they, themselves, are on the lower rung of the lower third of Christ-in-You-ness.
What?You thought this would be easy?
Christ-in-You-ness is powerful.Healing is strong!Charisma is strong!The indwelt Word is strong!The argument is strong!Everything seems strong!
But beware, beware, beware if the pride is strong, and the humility is weak!Beware if correction of the Christ-in-You leader is not an option he or she will ever abide!
Run, don’t walk, away from such an one, no matter how high the level other aspects of Chrisit-in-You-ness in this person is!
In time, such an one learns correction.Just don’t let the learning be at your expense!You might hint around at the correction they might need, but don’t yourself correct them, or fight them.
Willie Nelson described this phenomenon in his Red Headed Stranger song:
Don’t cross him, don’t boss him,
He’s wild in his sorrow,
He’s ridin’ and hidin’ his pain,
Don’t fight him, don’t spite him,
Just wait ‘til tomorrow,
Maybe he’ll ride on again!
You see, it’s true that God hides his Davids in caves for a decade or two in order that they come out at the top third of Christ-in-You-ness.Then the whole program works well for man and God.
But, too often Christ-in-You’s get lazy in the cave or come out too soon.That would be a mistake, especially if they are still in the bottom third tier.Who enjoys, much less understand, a half-baked cake?
So then, what?What about the future?What does it all mean?In That Day.Christ-in-You.Western Enlightenment.Higher Teachings.Rosetta Stone of Understanding.
For the sake of clarity, we could say Christendom comes in two flavors: milk and steak.Each category has within it newbies, learners and mature.The top third of milk Christians tend toward rigid righteousness.The top third of steak Christians tend toward holy flexibility.
Milk Christians tend to know very little about Western Enlightenment or Higher Teachings.They stick only to the bible.Their vocabulary in religion is restricted to just the words of the bible.
Milk Christians are suspicious of the world, including higher education, science beyond six-day creation, even logic, even reason and especially any kind of correction.
How does the top third of milk Christianity, which are the rigid righteous, grow to the next level, the land of steak?How do milk lovers grow to be holy and flexible?
They have to hunger for more than milk!For greater vocabulary!For Western Enlightenment’s lessons learned.For a greater love that overcomes cheap prejudices against science beyond six-day creation, for honoring higher education, for showing humble appreciation to previous generations of epic, gigantic sacrifice.
The hunger also turns to inward, to deep cleansing.This is an area the milk-fed dare never go.But the steak-fed bravely go where the religious dare not tread!And it takes higher teachings, greater strength, greater courage and greater humility to do any of this!
And even then, steak-loving Christians must know about their own tri-part realm.Steak chewers consist of newbies, learners and well done, as it were.Call them Christ-in-You folk!Newbies and learners should not teach!Newbies learn they must go into caves.Learners learn they mustn’t leave their caves too soon!The well done sometimes must be kicked out of their caves!
All Christ-in-You’s must salute the Christ they see in one another.They must honor their mentors!To be taught, they must seek teachers!
Milk Christians have little need for humility, correction or greater sight.On the other hand, these things are what steak Christians are.
Milk Christians believe no steak Christians exist.Their rigid righteousness blinds them to what’s beyond themselves in God.
Milk Christians will never believe arrival of In That Day, Higher Teachings, Western Enlightenment’s corrections, Christ-in-You or any talk about a Rosetta stone of understanding.
Dear reader, I hope this does not describe you!
Milk Christians think that when Paul talked about more mature meat of God, that it simply means doubling or tripling or quadrupling milk consumption!They can’t get enough bible, or endless repetition of known bible lessons, stories, lines and precepts.Thus they stumble into shrunken-brain territory of retarded growth.They become deluded retards, hell-bent on duplicating their brand of zombie-hood planet-wide.
Steak Christians also believe it is their duty to replicate themselves.But they go about it in a different way.They work with the called-of-God.They try to avoid being crucified by miscomprehending milk-sippers.They usually veil their greatness in God, while the milky crowd tends to exalt their own capacities in God far beyond their baby step toddling.
Steak Christians are open to Higher Ground.The milk-fed are most definitely not.Steak Christians do not need church.Milk’ers do.Steak’ers don’t need forty-five minutes of soulish praise music repeated unto stuporous-ness, nor an hour of Nuero-Linguistic-Programming (NLP) preacher-talk gobbledygook designed to bash brains unto lack of all cogency and reason.Milk’ers do.
Even so, immature Christ-in-You steak eaters can be extremely wrong about a few things and be extremely dangerous.These steak’ers are aberrations.They refuse all correction.In truth, they are in this quite rigid themselves, actually attempting to be both steak and milk.They have made themselves freaks of nature, trying to get others to see themselves as the new normal.
The new normal is going to actually be something quite different.It will be the restoration of all things, which is Christ-in-You.
Most folk push against this concept with all their religious might!It is that dread that sin in us creates.We fear precisely becoming just what we should!And what is that?In a word, good.
Jeremiah 6:16 (New American Standard Bible)
16Thus says the LORD,
"Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths,
Where the good way is, and walk in it;
And you will find rest for your souls.
But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'
Most folk say, “We will not walk…”In That Day, which is tomorrow come today.It is God’s eternal essence, His wise mind, His timelessness, which is all time, all love, all intelligence, all things come… not in the sweet by and by, not at a never-coming rapture-utopian-scheme-dream, not next millennium, not amidst armies of Armageddon, but always and ever: Now.Yes now.That’s right, now, now, NOW!
Thrice it says in our favorite book’s last page, it says in red no less, it says what now the world can someday fully come to understand!
But you, dear reader, do not have to wait!Because now you know!Yes, now you know!
You know that you know that you really, really, really do know!With spiritual eyes to see and ears to hear, you know that in you and in others whom you will honor, esteem and celebrate In That Day!You know that come in fullness and maturity and love enough to fill the Earth, the Moon, Mars and the universe beyond…
You know that this truth in you will be soon maturely and widely known at the deepest possible levels of human and heavenly understanding: that, oh rejoice, rejoice, rejoice…
Oh, hallelujah, hurray and All right forever and ever…
Behold!Behold!Behold!
I!I AM!Christ-in-You!
Come, Come, Come!
Quickly!Quickly!Quickly!
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
Once a Wise Mouse traveled abroad to visit a strange land called Public Mouse Educationland.There he saw cats (of all things!) teaching young mice to love cats!(Back in Wise Mouseland, mice teach mice to beware of cats!)But in Public Mouse Educationland, young mice were taught by old cats, who not surprisingly, ATE the mice after they grew up!
How convenient for the cats! thought the Wise Mouse.Cautiously, he asked a Very Old Cat if their cat-taught mice ever suspected something was wrong.
Why yes, Mr. Wise Mouse from Wise Mouseland!Here at Public Mouse Educationland we sometimes are pestered with questions from bothersome mice!
What do you do? asked the Wise Mouse.
That's easy!We send them to Wise Cat Church!Who do you think taught us our tricks?
Thus ends this parable about political and clerical mystic tyranny, tyranny which stops cogent thinking, stops honest questions and stops greater love and blinds all.
Except I must add that the Wise Mouse, at no small risk, kept visiting the poor, mind-enshackled mice in Public Mouse Educationland.And he'd try to talk sense to them.And, he even talked to the cats!
Why?The Wise Mouse from Wise Mouseland loved everybody and everything.He believed the poor mice and cats in Public Mouse Educationland had a cheap sort of love, a cheap love that was killing their spirits and making them blind!
So the Wise Mouse kept coming back to the land of mind-enslaved cats and mice hoping the time had come for some, if not all, to see!
See?
Tears of Late Repentance
By Robert Winkler Burke
Of inthatdayteachings.com
Copyright 8/30/08
We were first, now we’re last,
They told me in a dream.
The lives we lived so fast,
Isn’t quite what it seemed.
Now we’re dying every day in torment,
But still we yet live again.
You must believe how wrong we went,
When we lived among men.
Were you pirates, thieves or whores?
I asked in wonder.
WORSE, we were WORSE! they swore,
As loud as thunder.
We preached the gospel of the Lord,
With wiles a’plenty!
We ate our sheep who gave us board,
We had no pity!
We broadcast around the world much wrong doxie,
It served our need.
Neither God nor prophets could stop our moxie,
We had our greed.
Greed to be first in everything of God,
Skyward we grew.
And never once thought anything odd,
Little we knew.
God is pure, God is holy and won’t be mocked,
But we laughed at critique.
Now in hell, eternally we are locked,
We are last and weak.
They told me, Tell the preachers on air today,
Feed, don’t eat sheep.
Don’t outwit, out think, out maneuver God’s way,
Or you will ever weep.
They said it’s easy to sell believers rainbow stew,
"Say what you like," we shall be told, "the apocalyptic beliefs of the first Christians have been proved to be false. It is clear from the New Testament that they all expected the Second Coming in their own lifetime. And, worse still, they had a reason, and one which you will find very embarrassing. Their Master had told them so. He shared, and indeed created, their delusion. He said in so many words, ‘this generation shall not pass till all these things be done.’ And He was wrong. He clearly knew no more about the end of the world than anyone else. It is certainly the most embarrassing verse in the Bible."(Matthew 24:34)
Essay "The World's Last Night" (1960), found in The Essential C.S. Lewis, p-385.
Matthew 24:34:Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
Come now, and marinate your mind with these In That Day Teachings. I pray they feed your spirit well.
The goal is to see how often marionette minds are controlled by wrong doctrines of wayward ministries.
And those wayward ministries annually extract (and waste) hundreds of millions of dollars to boost egos.
And those wayward ministries duplicate their duplicitous messages because each leader's ego needs it.
And these In That Day Teachings are designed to help you hear and obey God, and forgo ego and sin.
And these In That Day Teachings cost you your carnal desires, but they can set your spirit free.
And when you hear and obey God, you do not need another rich man's book, or control. Just the Bible.
And when people hear and obey God on this planet, you will have peace among the peaceful.
And the peaceful will be at peace when the deaf-to-God-and-alive-to-self destroy themselves, as they must.
And the wise who understand this and other hard things about the future will weep for a season.
And those who do not understand this and other hard things about the future, will mock the wise.
So let the wise weep and let the fools mock the wise. It is time the two are separated.
Let the wise come into the Master's barn, which is truth, which is heaven come now on earth.
Let the foolish be gathered and thrown on the pile that burns, which is spiritual scourging and self-destruction.
Thus will the false posers among us eliminate themselves while the truly good among us rise and shine in God.
Robert Winkler Burke
Above all, a good heaven,
Beneath all, a good foundation,
In all, a good God
Tough Ancient Paths Explained:
In That Day Teachings
Book 2: Declaring Line
Upon Line, Precept Upon Precept
Jeremiah 6:16 – Thus says the LORD, “Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths, Where the good way is, and walk in it; And you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’”-- New American Standard Bible
By Robert Winkler Burke
Copyright 2004-2007
An outsider’s prophetic insight on modern Christianity;
wherein escapist orthodoxy is challenged to the core
Christianity seems to understand the past well enough.It is the future that is the problem.What should we do in the future?Indeed.Do we await rapture, an imminent second coming or do nothing and bank on eternal security?This body of work hopes to provide a better answer:We manifest Christ and we manifest Christ now.People so enabled, in fact, create a new heaven on earth now.And this better future is honest, real, biblical and personally attainable to each of us.
The Bible informs us that Father, Son and Spirit are transcendent.On judgment day Jesus says those who didn’t help the downtrodden didn’t help…Him, while those who did help the downtrodden actually did help…Him.Jesus identifies with us that closely.Yet common church teachings seem to distance Him from us, teaching to hope for His return to fix what we can’t.This body of work explains Jesus manifests in us to basically fix or restore all things, if we have the right faith, spirit and truth.
I Could be Wrong
In all of this I must say:I could be wrong.I am no expert.Better minds than mine have studied this more.Correct me if I am wrong.The Bible is not clear on this and we all come to different conclusions.Parts of the Bible completely baffle me.
It has not been easy assembling these truths, precepts and doctrines.Of course devils have tried to keep me from creating anything of merit.I hope you, dear reader, do not believe they have met with much success.
Nevertheless be patient with me and expect to find great things herein.I hope what you find will increase your stature, wisdom and favor with God and man.
Wrong Expectations
Two thousand years ago, Jews in Palestine expected Jesus’ appearance would mean a kingdom like David’s would come.The disciples jockeyed for position.But they were wrong, weren’t they?Almost everybody was.
They had the wrong expectations.The Jews put the burden on Jesus to help them escape the troubles of their personal and national lives.Yet their Roman governor, Pontius Pilot, was correct to post above Jesus’ cross: “King of the Jews.”Jesus was king of the Jews.But the Jews were almost completely deceived by their expectations.
Today people expect Jesus’ appearance will mean either a rapture that takes believers immediately to heaven or that Jesus will stay and make a kingdom, more or less, like David’s once again.Christian media ministers almost seem to be jockeying for position either in a future rapture of some kind or a future Jesus’ earth kingdom of some kind.But are these expectations of Christian leaders – and their followers – wrong?
Are people once again putting the burden on Jesus to help them escape the troubles of their personal and national lives?Yet they are correct to believe King Jesus will return in the clouds.For He is the triumphant returning king, king of the cloud of witnesses, who are saints.But perhaps believers today are deceived by their expectations.
Since Christians believe that more Jews should have recognized the appearance of Jesus two thousand years ago did; then is it also possible that maybe the same kind of thing is happening today?Are Christians who should recognize Jesus, missing Him when He appears?
Consider that a good general is surprising.He beats the enemy by being surprising.And our God is the general of all generals.He is a man of war.(Exodus 15:3)Thus, God is surprising.This ability to surprise us is one of the things Christians least comprehend, appreciate and love about God.But we had better start loving God for His ability to surprise us.And we had better start doing this quickly.
How, then, does surprise work on the enemy?First, the enemy must be confident about a weakness it is blind about, usually because of pride.So the good army attacks the enemy’s weak position, for example a weak position in the left flank.The enemy thought it was strong on its left, but pride and arrogance blinded the enemy; else it would have humbly reinforced its weak flank.
So this is how generals on both sides of a fight look for weakness to exploit.Even more profound, generals look for pride to exploit.And perhaps the enemy of our souls, Satan, has found much pride and arrogance to exploit in Christianity.Perhaps Satan has exploited our expectations of Jesus.And perhaps the wayward church has found several means of escape to satisfy wrong expectations about Jesus’ return.
Perhaps the wayward church has Jesus’ expectations about us completely backwards.The wayward church expects to escape the scourge of tribulation through rapture.Maybe this is backwards to the real expectations of Jesus.Maybe this escapology is bad.
The wayward church also expects to be rewarded by Jesus who returns in body to fix all things, except – of course – the wayward church!Maybe this also is backwards to the real expectations of Jesus.Maybe both these escapology beliefs are bad doctrines.
And finally, the wayward church expects heaven’s reward for being in-name-only believers:something called eternal security.Maybe this too is backwards to the real expectations of Jesus.Maybe these triune escapology beliefs are wrong doxie.
Maybe it is time to forgo the wayward church’s expectations of Jesus.And maybe it is time to discover just what Jesus expects of His believers in this day.To this proposition I have dedicated my In That Day Teachings, a series of precepts and doctrines explaining Christianity’s problems and promises of today.
With humility, know that two thousand years ago God-fearing folk like you and me – the Jews of Palestine – were so steeped in pride and tradition they were mostly blind to their savior’s coming.It may therefore not be heresy, but rather the surprising truth that now something quite similar might be happening again.
After all, history has an unfortunate way of repeating itself.Knowing this, let us change history!A handful of surprising disciples did two thousand years ago.Words, ideas and people can change the world.And God knows, we need change!
Continuous Quick Returns, One Final Return
People have argued about Jesus’ return since, well, He left.Those believing in an imminent singular return have been wrong for about two thousand years.That is a lot of years to be wrong, don’t you think?
The Bible supports two kind of returns of Jesus:First, an immediate spiritual return in indwelt vessels; a return that appears to quickly come and go generally in some, but comes and stays longer and stronger in a few.Let’s call this a quick return.
Second, at the end of time, Jesus returns in His personal body to finalize all things.This can be called the final return
Notice I did not use the rapture word.I don’t believe it.But I have found believing in a quick return in the very Spirit of Jesus, along with a final return of Jesus at the end to be very congruous to the Bible, and actually very harmonious to all I believe to be good. the enemy of good.
This proposal might first appear to blasphemous, but dear reader I invite you to discover how the myriad puzzle pieces of this doctrinal picture describes a beautiful world that God very much wants us to inhabit.
Look then, at these teachings, their lines, their precepts, their possibilities.Like a mythic knight or heroic princess let us adventure together betwixt a battlefield of lies and truth, doing always good.For the brave of heart, it is where we want to be, doing what we were born to do and dreaming of the possibilities.This is how dragons are tamed, evil is vanquished and kingdoms of good come into the land of the living.
Rosetta Stone
This work could be viewed as a Rosetta Stone, providing a more unified theory of God’s future.The first concept is that the art of escaping – or escapology – is not good when avoiding responsibility in God.Even worse is triune escapology, which is faith in escape by a) rapture, b) an imminent second coming to reward escapist slackers and c) absolution of all Christian duties through so-called eternal security.The second concept is we must obtain enough righteousness and holiness, including scourging out doxie-driven demons in our souls, such that Jesus can manifest in our spirit and truth.
Thus these teachings offer the rugged highway to manifesting Jesus and closer fellowship with God.An extra benefit is to understand ever present (but normally ignored) confirming or denying Mark 16:20 signs from God in your everyday life!
Another important benefit, by the way, would be greater world peace.If more people could hear and obey God, wouldn’t this planet be better?An orchestra needs a conductor.Our planet has one, but not enough players have been able to hear and obey Him.The wayward church has focused primarily on enlisting orchestra members.I want to help those members hear and obey the conductor.
But the wayward church seems to have lost its desire to teach its members how to play the songs of life professionally.Instead, we orchestra members are taught to expect to leave the stage, and that soon!So these teachings might enable God’s orchestra members to comprehend better the sheet music, which is the Bible; the conductor, which is God’s leading Spirit; and the resulting musical performance, which is this life we live.But meanwhile, the cacophony is deafening.
I seek neither to lead a cult nor a church.Rather I seek to heal the wayward body of Christ.Then perhaps the earnestly sought revivals can occur.
Orthodoxy Challenged
This work challenges conventional orthodoxy.Consider that sometimes orthodoxy today is something morphed into the opposite of what it might have originally been.Orthodoxy of yesteryear might have been truth, but time and traditions of men may have changed it into today’s lie.This was what Jesus said He encountered.In this, do not be outraged or offended.Our Savior said, “Blessed are they who are not offended in Me.”Offenses come to truth seekers because they discover their own lies within themselves.
Let us be mature in this.The televised church has been mostly immature regarding the pain of growth in God.Televised Christianity has been loath to point out any mordant truths about itself.The ultimate prejudice is the prejudice against self-incriminating truths.In this, the modern church is very prejudiced.In fact, it appears to be more prejudiced against self-incriminating truths than any other organization.Businesses self-correct.Governments self-correct.Armies self-correct.But the church refuses.
True growth in Christ comes at a cost of eliminating lies.This cost is similar to the inescapable pain a mountain climber handles in higher summits.The sufferings a mountain climber experiences to reach great altitude are numerous: heat, cold, hunger, pain and peril.Is it not the same in climbing spiritual MountZion?And what high mountains are without danger?Dare we approach God without fear?Yet the average Christian message typically consists of well-repeated mantras about conversion, attendance, contribution and easy doctrines.Seldom ever is there mention that higher truths in God have higher costs in life.
Consider that the antebellum American South had such hubris it could not foresee that in 150 years, the institution of slavery would be universally scorned, and that its Nineteenth Century practitioners would be harshly judged by Twenty-first Century moderns.
What is interesting about this is that we in pride of modernity seldom ask ourselves, by what criteria will we be harshly judged by others in the coming centuries?
Are we now incapable of doing of evil in God’s sight?What egregious institutions of Baal are we now worshipping?What false idols are in our midst?Who are we enslaving by the accepted false doctrines of the day?What high towers must come down?
We seem obsessed with congratulating ourselves over how much smarter, better and further along in progress we are compared to our ancestors of old.But we have stopped progressing in truth in this modern age, and are therefore perhaps more guilty than any generation of halting the progress of man towards his Maker, divine reconciliation and this earth’s much needed restoration of all things.
Perhaps in a hundred years or less, triune escapology will be universally scorned as failed doxie that earned its leaders billions of dollars, but its followers nothing much more than lessons in gullibility and the consequences of supine weakness.
If God could speak through a person freely, what would He say to us?What if God could not speak freely through His own who are of great renown and reputation?What if by necessity and lack of others so inclined, God had to speak through a man of no reputation, whose life was unmet by anybody’s standards of noteworthy success?What then, would God say?
Dear reader: Condemn me, curse me or believe me.I offer no proof, only a sincere apology for any errors which I have allowed into this work.Be assured gross errors have been culled from the work.I have tried and failed.And I have tried and succeeded, or so I believe.Like hieroglyphic marks on the ancient tomb walls in the Valley of Kings in Egypt, cross outs have been allowed.
God necessarily must work with fallible humans on earth, for that which is perfect while abundant in heaven is scarce on earth.And be assured, in all the days of my life on earth never once have I been accused of being perfect.Have you, who may be tempted to judge and condemn me, a record of perfection in God’s sight?No?Then let us proceed as brothers and sisters in humility towards the goal of perfection, towards the Divine, towards our Savior, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
Who Is Robert Winkler Burke?
In 2008 I am 54 years old, twice-divorced and live in Reno, Nevada.I own an interest in construction and trucking companies in town.I earned a degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Southern California in 1978.I hold a general contracting licenses in both California and Nevada.I worked in construction in the 1980s in Southern California.During the early 1990’s I owned a small computer consulting business in South Orange County, California.In 2001, I moved to Reno and began my construction operations.My three sons live in Southern California and are attending high school and college.My hobbies include playing the piano, hiking, bicycling, exercising and dancing to country western.I own two Golden Retrievers.I am not a member of a church.
As for the two divorces, I believe they were permitted biblically while also believing myself to be a sorry fool for being unable to keep things peaceful.Both wives ended up being strongly opposed to my desire to follow God, but it is best to recuse myself from further comment lest I say unfair things about who, after all, put up with me.
How This Book Was Written:
I made video camera recordings which teach about Christianity in general and the biblical “In That Day” in particular. Towards the end of many of these “teachings,” the voice of God came through me.I then uploaded these 30 to 60 minute recordings onto a website called www.inthatdayteachings.com, as well as Google’s video website. I then transcribed the utterances, and put them on my website and assembled them into a book.
Further, the video recordings show that as I talked about doctrines of God I became more anointed. As I became more anointed my weak voice gained authority.In the latter videos my spirit sometimes became transcendent to the point I speak as a prophet speaking the words of God.
This pattern appears to have been attempted by Job and his three friends, who were unable to attain such confirmation of their “part true” doctrines they discussed.However, young Elihu came along – with correct spirit and doctrine – and gained the voice of God.
Whereas Job and his friends displayed a fair amount of pride, Elihu was sufficiently humble for the task.He was perhaps so mindful to be humble that he may have written the book of Job and left out evidence that he was the prophet through whom God spoke.Anyway, the point is that it is perhaps normal in God’s eyes for doctrine to be discussed and true doctrine confirmed by signs.This explains the last verse of Mark, the last chapter of Revelation, and – if you think about it – why the wayward church is so spiritless, which in turn explains why the wayward church has infantile doctrines.Signs of life or not life follow everything, if you have spiritual eyes to see!
Joel 2:28-29 says:And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
These much quoted Bible verses mention that we are to expect great spiritual things in the future from ourselves and family members.Great!But what if it actually began happening?What then?Do we flush all new revelations down the toilet?Perhaps this effort of mine is just part of a continuing process of multitudes so enabled, so inclined, so empowered.So when people manifest new things of God as Joel 2:28-29 mandates, prepare to bless or reject them.But be careful becauseJesus said until you say blessed is he who comes in the name (which is the nature) of the Lord, your house (which is your person) will remain unto you desolate (which means lifeless without God’s indwelling.)
Why, When and How This Book Was Written:
I received Christian teachings from a prophet, who is now deceased, during the years 1994 through 2001.In late 2004, I felt called to make video recordings communicating these Christian teachings or doctrines.They address the popular Christian church culture of America, most especially Christian television ministries.I hope I have matured enough to communicate successfully what is true.
This book was assembled from transcribed utterances of video session teachings during 2006 and 2007.
Because the video recordings are available at the above-mentioned website, anyone can see how the utterances happened in real time, and check the accuracy of transcription.I sometimes corrected grammar during the transcription, sometimes not.Some repeated or superfluous words have been eliminated for clarity. Some words were changed.
Why so Many Different Formats in This Book?
This book presupposes that true doctrines are quite difficult to absorb – more difficult than advanced scientific study – and so therefore poetry, humor, parables, transcribed utterances and other formats are included as necessary aids to epiphany.
To believe advanced truths are easily received is to believe climbing a 20,000 foot mountain is easily done.To do either means you cannot be lazy, out of shape or unwilling to risk yourself to obtain the necessary height.In this modern world we are at risk of believing in artificial realities that require virtually nothing to inhabit.
If this work ever achieves popular distribution, I hope that good people will decide that whatever my shortcomings, I have delivered something of worth to the world.Popular distribution would mean many feathers would be ruffled.And consequently many will say, in effect, I am guilty such and such.I hope what is presented herein is of sufficient quality to overcome future objections against me.
Why so Much Discussion of Common Christian Doctrines?
This book emphasizes that wrong doctrines and beliefs in common Christianity must be abandoned to receive the truth and best survive the future here and in eternity.
At the heart of the matter are very simple things, really.At the bottom of most any issue is a truth or a lie.A collection of truths or lies make a doctrine.A collection of doctrines make a philosophy of life.A collection of like-minded lives creates a denomination, or as is just as prevalent these days – a non-denomination.A collection of denominations or non-denominations makes a movement, or just as prevalent these days – a non-movement.True movements are revivals.Since the world is experiencing very little in the way of revival, the truth seems to be that there is little movement in God.
Now the little movement in God is humankind’s problem, and not God’s fault.I am convinced that God is a very moving God.We have tarried, since for Him it is impossible.This book proposes many solutions on how to get the world, or more precisely individuals in the world, moving with God’s movements.
So my long-term goal in this book is to achieve some kind of noteworthy Christian movement, or revival.Wouldn’t that be nice!
Does This Work Contain Flaws?
Certainly.Most books do, don’t they?I confess to have made near unforgivable mistakes along the way.I have taken wrong paths and called them right.I have been corrected.I confess I am perfectly fallible and yet still believe we can obtain spiritual maturity, which is what God is looking for in the verse, “Be ye perfect as I am perfect.”
I will apologize for repetition that appears throughout this work.It is, I know, strange.Some repetition is necessary.Perhaps much is not.Maybe I’ve been consumed with a “Liar, liar, pants on fire,” childish taunting spirit.Perhaps truths long caged need flight.
Does This Work Contain Malice to Named Others?
Abraham Lincoln said:“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on…”
Mr. Lincoln was still at war with the South when he gave these “malice toward none” lines at his Second Inauguration.So, see that it is a cheap thing to regale against a small contradiction and ignore the greater teaching available at a perhaps greater position.(i.e. Don’t say Lincoln was a hypocrite to profess his kind-hearted benevolence while conducting a war costing 600,000 lives; because that war kept the states of America united.And the slaves were freed.And a United States of America beat tyranny in two world wars, the Cold War and – God willing – now in another war against terror.
Like the Bible, this work does excoriate certain named individuals who are leaders in religion.Yes, they perform good deeds – even as the religious establishment in Jesus’ time no doubt performed good deeds.However, John the Baptist and Jesus were called to point out where the doctrinal system was failing, where individuals were failing, where extortion was happening, where hypocrisy was happening and where souls were being blocked from greater fellowship with God.
Mega-ministries can take corrections offered in this work to their betterment.If they can better worship God in spirit and truth, then they can help their followers manifest Christ at greater levels.It is win-win for everybody.
What if Robert Winkler Burke is Vilified?
If what I say is true I will be vilified, that is just how the world works.If what I say is not true, then I will also be vilified, for that also is how the world works.So you can count on a fair share of vilification going on.(Just discern my accusers’ spirits!)
But how can any speaker speaking of religion be trusted if he is twice-divorced?This question speaks directly to freedom of choice in all people, even in those married to God’s seekers.All such are free to give a glass of cold water to – or break the glass against the head of – a righteous man or woman.
The point is a normal fellow achieved this work, not a saint sequestered in a monastery, not a lout condemned of heinous crimes.To the religious, perhaps I will be dismissed as a sinful lout.To the non-religious, perhaps I will be dismissed as a delusional heretic.
To those who do not dismiss me I offer encouragement that it is possible to see spiritually, hear spiritually and grow beyond what passes for normal church doctrine (i.e. the rapture, the imminent second coming to rescue an immature church, eternal security, prosperity extremism, dry bones intellectualism, mojo soulish insanity, seeker friendly love mush, etc.) and grow.
And the growth that is possible through understanding these teachings, which actually are confirmed in the Bible, while costly, points toward a bright future that is also confirmed in the Bible.It is a future without dispensational fear of being left behind or worse.Rather it is a future where every person is rewarded for the spiritual progress they have made.The result: a balanced world comes down from heaven to earth from the harmonious body parts of Christ.This makes the restoration of all things.
Is Robert Winkler Burke a Libertine?
If I am, who was John the Baptist to avoid synagogues, or Jesus a mentor, or David King Saul or Joseph a normal life or any man or woman separated by God for His mysterious purposes?Yes, I have seldom enjoyed the covering of a church or pastor; but the work I have produced necessitated my solitude as a mercy to all.
The question should be has my freedom from ecclesiastic oversight produced good?
Is This a Deeply Intelligent Work?
Maybe not.But maybe this work is a far sight more pungent, cogent and intelligent than the typical television preacher’s three point sermon or his twelfth, or twenty-fourth, or thirty-sixth “life changing” book.
Question:If you produced two to five hours of television programs per week, managed a large congregation and church grounds, preached on the weekend, held ministry conferences, traveled to conventions, operated a growing media network and raised money for your executive jet, how much brilliant revelation would be available to put in your score of books?Or would it be time to hire a ghost writer?
So please judge the copious fruit of this work.It explains much, including why so many Christians are weak characters.Why so many media preachers seem to be consumed in pride.Why so many preachers are ignorant of the spirits in which they preach.Why prosperity ministries crash and burn only to be replaced by new prosperity ministries that crash and burn.Why the church loves to rearrange deck chairs on its titanic ship of foolishness rather than to reject wrong doctrines and turn away from icebergs.Why the dispensational church is completely blind to the true church’s future.Why Christian media ministries, publishers and convention purveyors want another escapist gimmick to sell.Why the Christian preaching machine often tells everybody to get ready for things that are not clear, nor ever happen, nor seem capable of ever happening.
Is Robert Winkler Burke an antichrist?
The other day I was listening to a Calvary radio program, and some “Christian Cops” were taking phone calls. One caller asked, Aren't faith-filled arenas antichrist? Oh yes, they said that places where supposed gold dust falls, supposed feathers fall and – most onerous of all – the supposed presence of God falls, well that is antichrist. And they quoted “Take heed that ye be not deceived” from Luke 21:8.
The next caller asked, Isn’t tolerance antichrist? Oh yes, they said that colleges and ministries that allowed all things, all discussion...That is antichrist. Again they quoted how to “be not deceived.”
Of course, the Christian Cops didn't pray about any incidents mentioned. They knee-jerked their opinions. (See glossary:Have No Opinion.)And they pulled out their “book 'em Danny” scriptures indicating all others’ egregious errors while simultaneously somehow attaining an unquestionable perfection.(So saying of themselves, I am Christ.)
Except during this radio segment, the spirits that the Christian Cops were of was lousy. They, in fact, were manifesting pretty darn good antichrist spirits themselves at the time!(As discernable from their tone of voice, spirit they were of and lack of authority and truth in their beings at the time; along with complete lack of confirmation in my own spirit and, yes, God’s Spirit in me.)
It never is easy to be of the right spirit and truth. It is never easy to manifest Christ. But what is the alternative? That's right, though they may never believe it, the Christian Cops regularly choose to manifest another entity besides Jesus who can appear globally: antichrist his own rotten self.This while they pointed out other supposed antichrists!
The Christian Cops make devils seven times worse than themselves, and they don't even know it!But it is kind of hard to make this point without joining in with the Devil.
Is This Book Paramount?
Throughout my teachings I explain that truth and the kingdom of heaven is a progressive operation of revelation.So no, this book and its doctrines are not paramount, though they are somewhat higher than what is commonly available.But these teachings are not so high as to be inscrutable.
Higher teachings than these surely exist, but such mysterious things of God are only for the most mature in Christ.I am not that mature.But I loath immature Christian messages.So there you have it.I am, and my teachings are, between great Christian immaturity and maturity.Most all of us, in truth, are “betweeners” needing some gentle and sometimes not so gentle goading to move on up the maturity ladder of Christ.
Only God is paramount.We all can be corrected.We all can learn more.Common church teachings deny this, or so it would seem.
Do these teachings claim to antecede the Bible?
Of course not.Current church teachings seem to utterly ignore God’s desires for man’s transcendence with Him.If the scriptures are taken in this light, and not in utter literal fashion, much growth in truth and God is possible.See John 17 for transcendentalism.
For example you could say George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are all literally dead.But you could just as easily say that in America their spirits live on.In our coinage, every quarter and one dollar bill has the likeness of Washington, and every penny and five dollar bill has the likeness of Lincoln.
The Great Moments with Mr. (Abraham) Lincoln exhibit at Disneyland once put it this way:“We pay tribute here not to a man who lived a century ago, but to an individual who lives today in the hearts of all freedom living people.His prophetic words are as valid for our time as they were for his.”
Now you could argue that Washington’s work ceased in 1799 and Lincoln’s in 1865, but wouldn’t that be narrow minded?Broadly speaking their work, which was liberty’s imposition of dedicated self-restraint in government, still employs the faithful.
Jesus said three times: “Behold, I come quickly.”And you can say that means He will literally come in a cloud to rectify all humankind’s woes.Or you can say that spiritually means He will come in the cloud of our faces as we allow Him to manifest through us in spirit and truth.To believe the former is sort of a cop out.To believe the latter requires serious faith, work, humility, patience, cost and more!
It is easy to see why so much church doctrine has taken an effortless approach of believing Jesus did it all… and that if anything else needs doing, well, Jesus will return and do that too.Believing such doctrine tends to create passive stupor, not active virtue.
But the difficult truths of God must be met on this our battlefield of life.Then we will have a hunger for truth like US Marines in battle have for ammunition.
So praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!Current religion seems to stop at praise the Lord.Here then is more ammunition in the form of truth.Shoot not at me, dear reader.First shoot out any wrong doctrines and any wrong spirits you may have allowed into your Christian life.
Then come to truth.You, me, all of us can always receive more truth.It should be our problem.It has been said the problem with Abraham Lincoln’s life is that he kept growing.I would that that be the problem with all of God’s children!
How Is This Book’s “Revelation” Different?
Unfortunately the religious establishment tends to reject just about everything new, while accepting whatever the establishment has morphed into along the way.This book’s teachings explain what God is doing that is new, while adhering to the Bible.
God’s new things include now becoming the biblical “In That Day” as a time of spiritual scourging in preparation for great manifestation or indwelling of Christ as He returns in us individually with abundant signs following.In this fashion, I believe these teachings are superior.The teachings adhere to the Bible while also adhering to a living God who clearly does new things.
Critics might argue that these teachings simply insert a spiritual explanation for things literally expected in the Bible, such as rapture or Christ’s return.And that would be correct.Christ returns in us now, not in the rapture or otherwise.The burden is on us to perform with God, not the reverse.Jesus never tarries, we do!
Revelatory books have recently appeared such as “Conversations with God” by Neale Donald Walsch or “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne.These authors more or less say the purpose of life is to live in abundant prosperity by unleashing the good within us.
The Bible says we must take whatever is good from whatever source, and reject whatever is bad from whatever source.In this fashion, we must be humble enough to accept truth from even the Devil (this is scriptural,) while also being able to reject lies from the highest religious authorities (this too is scriptural.)
Walsch has serious departures from the Bible.He says God tells him he is on his 600th or so incarnation.I believe Arnold Murray of Shepherd’s Chapel, Gravette, Arkansas (www.shepherdschapel.com) has the correct biblical explanation with the Three Earth Ages.
Perhaps demon spirits have lived in others hundreds of times.So if we confuse an indwelt demon with our own spirit, we might feel we lived 600 times before.But Murray says we all lived but once in the First Earth Age, which was the time of Satan’s rebellion.And Murray says we all live just once again in this, the Second Earth Age.Therefore now is most everybody’s second and last chance to come to terms with God.The elect, who appear to have been approved of God because of whatever they did for Him in the First Earth Age (we don’t know why, because of memory loss,) perhaps volunteer for Second Earth Age duty as God’s useful vessels who have limited free will.
Walsch also says more or less that Jesus Christ was a “Master” along with Buddha and other saints of the ages.He says more or less that all religions get a pass.This is contrary to the Bible, which seems to insist once a person is exposed to certin truths, they are held eternally accountable.Walsch also says there is no hell, a place Jesus said repeatedly is real and must be avoided at all costs.
Walsch does raise interesting topics, including creation, the commandments and communication with God.His work is worthy of study and gleaning.No doubt some fair amount of truth is in his work.Just to understand what is not true in his work (and mine, and yours too!) would greatly expand the knowledge of what is true!
None of us is perfect, but in attempting higher goals we must risk error for the overall gain.NASA’s Apollo moon program was loaded with mistakes, but it generally succeeded above expectations.I hope my effort, despite imperfections, helps the body of Christ at least a little.
Walsch and Byrne say more or less that life is all about you becoming self-realized. Byrne says the “Law of Attraction” will bring good to you if you think good thoughts.If you want a Mercedes, then think it into your garage!(This, by the way, happened to me!)Byrne writes a lot about the power of the mind.I’m astonished how similar she sounds to the prosperity-faith gospel!Truths work, regardless the purveyor.
The problem is that the New Age Prosperity Doctrine, like the Faith Prosperity Doctrine, at times is a grossly self-centered theology.The Bible says that the purpose of life is to please our Maker and to hear “Well done thy good and faithful servant.”We are to be selfless, not greedy narcissists.
Often new age, prosperity and even seeker friendly authors have great elements of truth, but tend to omit harder truths.I probably err on the side of including too many hard truths.One of my sinful temptations is to unsheathe the sword of truth in a wrong spirit.
So as ever, you can choose which path to follow.Certainly these teachings are not the best path.But they are not the worst.They are somewhere above most, and somewhere below the best.It is up to you, dear reader, to discern.
It has been said that great minds discuss ideas while poor minds discuss people.It is my hope you enjoy this discussion of great ideas and perhaps even the greatest – and therefore the most bitter – truths. Like the muses sang in Disney’s Hercules, “It may seem impossible, but that’s the Gospel truth!”
This Anti-Rapture Book Offers Something More
How is this book different than other anti-rapture books?
1)This book has insight into a future wherein multitudes manifest Jesus and thereby bring Father God’s heaven to earth progressively.
2)This book presents truth without too many references to scripture, under the assumption Jesus did so.Truth proves itself over time anyway.Let it.
3)This book contains prophetic utterances that show sometimes immaturity of the speaker, me, andsometimes maturity.By transparently publishing the mature with the immature, the lesson to learn is that Joel 2:28 and 29 is actually happening.Will you reject your sons and daughters as me?Or will you welcome these steps to maturity in God?
4)This book, if understood, has abundant and cogent revelation.
5)This book, if understood, opens spiritual eyes and ears of readers such that revelation can increase personally in the receptive reader.
6)This book is creative with proverbs, poems, parables, pictograms, parodies and a plethora of new thought on Christian subjects:All aids to epiphany
7)This book explains Jesus never tarries.But preachers who say, Jesus tarries, themselves may be tarrying.This book explains how Jesus comes quickly.
8)This book explains a new beginning to a New Millennium.
I have written about the relationship the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit and Father God desire with you, dear reader.And what, pray tell, is the relationship God desires with humans?It is:
God wants every man, woman and child be able to hear, obey and manifest Christ in power, love, sound mind, perfect harmony with all that is good and proper discord with all that is bad.
To do that one must die to self, be humble, learn true doctrines, eliminate bad doctrines and be strong.And as it says in Isaiah 28, the learning part requires line upon line, precept upon precept.This means one must have intrepid, persevering patience and faith.And one must not quit at knowing baby truths, but going on to mature and bitter truths.
Hopefully, these efforts will accomplish much to enable every man, woman and child possible to manifest the Lord Jesus Christ – not just say the sinner’s prayer, not just know everything “about” Jesus, not just to obtain prosperity keys from the Bible, not just to be nominal believers – but to absolutely know and honor Christ managing all operations successfully in you and other overcomers among this planet’s six or seven billion otherwise selfish, self-destructive and sincerely deceived humans.
In the past the Church taught that saying a sinner’s prayer and being saved was sufficient to get a soul into heaven.Perhaps.But perhaps God desires more.Perhaps the population of mankind and the technological power available in this exponential age require that we learn to live together in peace.Perhaps no better peace is available to mankind on earth than the very real opportunity for billions of people to simultaneously have the mind and direction of Christ.
Imagine billions of people thinking, speaking and doing what God wants them individually to do!Would that not, in fact, be a new heaven on earth?Is this God’s spiritual cube-symmetry mentioned in Revelation?
That is why this work is important.Heretofore the emphasis by the Church has been salvation, this, that and the other thing.Now we can include salvation, this, that and the other things (as long as they are true doctrines of God) while also enabling the very Spirit of God to live in harmony with the spirits of humans, enabling Divine direction, Divine obedience and Divine accord amongst all so inclined who are alive.
This will create great peace among the peaceful and great strife among the conflicted, which most likely is Revelation’s new heaven on earth.There will be a universal brotherhood of veracity creating wonderful peace amongst themselves in their spiritual neighborhoods.Then concurrently of course, outside those spiritual gates will still be the hellacious howls of dogs, sorcerers, whoremongers, murderers, idolaters and those who love to hear or make lies.
These sad souls will continue their rapid self-destruction, as the Bible’s last page insists.But we in whom Christ can be, we will have peace.Even in tribulation, we will have peace.We can own it.
Behold our peace when Christ comes quickly to live in us, as the Bible’s last page insists.
Dear Father,
Please grant readers of this book spiritual eyes to see and ears to hear what Your Spirit says in truth about this day, what to do and how to manifest our Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen, and Amen and Amen.
CHURCH IMMATURITIES:
25 Theses for Christian Church Leaders!
Wherein We Must Either Laugh, Cry or Change
By Robert Winkler Burke, copyright 2005
Reno, NevadaUSA
www.inthatdayteachings.com
1)Praying for Uncorrected Revival vs. Repenting of Wrong Doctrine
John the Baptist said to repent.Jesus said to repent.And their sharpest words were directed against the religious leaders of the day.But the religious leaders of today say that they, themselves, have nothing much to repent about.Instead they call for revival for an unrepentant, uncorrected Church.American preachers now find revival chiefly in Third World countries who are hearing the mega ministry spiel for the first time.But in America, faith-movement leaders are finding very little new manna.In the modern nations, who have heard the faith message for many years, revival waits.Like Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn we “got to decide, forever, betwixt two things.”The Church either must massively repent regarding wrong doctrine or pray giddily for heavenly affirmation for an uncorrected Church’s revival.The Church tells us it is righteous, blessed and needing only our money.To believe anything else is, well, to be wrong, damnably so.But perhaps we can help this Church self-enslaved to wrong doctrine escape its shackles of deception.Perhaps we can say, with irony as did Huck when he went against his religious upbringing and helped his friend Jim escape slavery, “All right, then, I’ll go to hell.”
2)Teach How to Hear God vs. Teaching Anything Else
The Church teaches many things, but it rarely teaches the disciplines to hear God’s rhema instant-now voice.If platitudes were sufficient for tomorrow’s emergency, Confucius or Lao Tzu or preacher Tom, Dick or Harry would be fine.But some of us have a sneaking suspicion that Father God Almighty just might be able to tell us individually what we really need to do better than, well, the placebo pandering, opinions or promptings of anybody else.This ability to hear God’s rhema voice, by the way, trumps rule-based activity, which is why Jesus so often seemingly violated His own Father’s laws.If the letter of the law (any law, even the law of tithing) kills, it is the Spirit of God (for example, prompting one person to give to another, rather than tithing into the ministry bucket) which gives life!
3)Escape by Rapture vs. Survive Overflowing Scourge
One thing a person can say with certainty about the rapture is that we haven’t seen anybody raptured yet.A less certain observation is that whereas rapture books have sold in the millions, no good answer is available to the question that since rapture authors believe themselves soon gone, what need have they of rapture profits?Nevertheless, rapture makes for delightful mental escape.However rapture theology fails to prepare its believers for the Lord’s fierce and overflowing scourge which the prophets of the Bible so emphatically warned about.This makes believing in fly away fallacies a rather unsafe bet.
4)Irresponsible Eternal Security vs. Free Will Responsibility
Whereas a new citizen of the United States of America renounces his former citizenship and promises to obey the laws of the land, our dear Church of Eternal Security believes we can at once become citizens of God’s kingdom, but not be truly concerned with obeying our King’s laws; since we somehow become “eternally secure.”However, if a naturalized citizen of America would follow that same advice and rob a bank, he most likely would find himself in a federal prison and unhappily “secured” for what may seem like “eternity.”Of course, the Eternally Secure Church believes God’s gift of free will responsibility magically disappears after a salvation prayer.Why, then, doesn’t the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service also cover its new citizens with such wonderful absolution?If they did, perhaps we citizens would become foreigners just for the opportunity to become new citizens of America, free from the recompense of high crime!
“Should JEEE-ZUS tarry!” so many preachers like to say.But one might ask, how can they be so bold as to imply our Lord is late for their party?Isn’t it the reverse?Doesn’t Jesus want to manifest himself in every man, woman and child?Or is He who they believe will fix everything instantly, late with the instant fix?Yet the last page of the Bible tell us three times:“Behold, I come quickly” (to manifest Myself in all who have prepared themselves by shunning unjustness and filthiness and paying the high price to be righteous and holy.)Are we baby theologians in need of an instant-fix God who will appear independent from us to right all wrongs; or are we mature believers instructed to be prepared, ready and watch for Christ to manifest Himself in ourselves and others and rejoice in that day?So, we can choose to be either a “Tarry in me baby” or “One in whom He may be!”
6)Worshiping Worldly Profits vs. Honoring Rebuking Prophets
The five-fold ministry includes prophets, but rare is the church with a prophet operating in Biblical fullness.More common is the church with profits to grow buildings, grow staff, grow television ministry and grow sometimes huge convention meetings.If a living prophet is heralded, is it one who rebukes as did Moses?Is it is one who rebukes as did Jeremiah?Is it one who rebukes as did John, Jesus and even Paul?Or do we find prophets who prophesy rainbow stew for me and you?Sadly, we find the latter and not the former.No church serves two masters, and the master of the world is often the master of the church.And the master of the world will not be rebuked by a prophet.Perhaps this is why so few churches want correction, but so many revival; so few a prophet, so many entertainment; so few steak, so many milk.
7)Tithing Rule vs. Jesus’ Three Red-Letter Tithing Denouncements
Many ministers excitedly herald Malachi 3:10 and sing the virtues of rule-based tithing.However, few pastors just as excitedly herald the three red letter denouncements from Jesus of tithers who displeased God.Jesus taught that when you hear from God, there are no rules.He and His disciples didn’t wash before eating corn, He healed on the Sabbath, He wasn’t ordained by man and He taught rule-based tithing was not necessarily pleasing to our Father!Perhaps the reason people cannot hear Jesus’ rhema word on how much to give to whomever is because so many ministers have exalted their teaching above that of God’s Son.Martin Luther said, “To go against conscience is neither right nor safe.”Satan can indeed tempt a person to tithe wrongly.Jesus said so.But modern ministries refuse to line up with Jesus and get tithing right.They are guilty of a kind of subornation of sin, getting others to do something in a way that displeases God.Worse yet, prosperity preachers add self-service to the mix by teaching a seed harvest doxie that goes like this:Give to get!Amplified it is:Give directly to my non-profit organization which channels wealth directly to me, and believe God will nebulously channel wealth directly back to you by some less direct, less selfish, less conniving, more nebulous way.
8)What Would Jesus Do (WWJD) vs. Obeying Jesus’ Rhema Voice
Youth ministries have embraced the “What Would Jesus Do” doctrine and encouraged sales of jewelry, clothes, books and anything marked “WWJD.”However if WWJD where tried by any real organization it would fail.For example, what if every person in the US military acted upon the thought, “What Would President Do?” Chaos would follow!The US military must, in the end, do what our President, as Commander in Chief, says.Jesus said, “Blessed are they who hear my (rhema) word, and obey.”Granted, at first we may not hear from God well, and must settle for doing what we think He wants.The trick is to rapidly advance to hearing directly from God.Jesus is very much alive, contrary to what the WWJD doctrine implies, and He will tell us precisely what to do, if only we believe and pay the price of righteousness to hear!
9)The “About” Factor vs. Enough “About” Already, for Christ’s Sake!
Ministries which forever teach “about” Jesus and never involve themselves with manifesting Jesus (including love, healing, tongues, prophesy, gifts of the spirit, miracles, etc.) are like an F-15 flight school that forever teaches “about” the fighter jet but never expects anyone to be its pilot.Granted, an F-15 Eagle is an extremely complicated machine.Some could choose to blab “about” it for eternity.Likewise, an errant minister may blab on “about” Jesus eternally but never manifest much of His Spirit.God help the ministries trapped in such rotten and despicable doctrine.Such “about” preachers can be detected by the fact that their sermons are almost always boring.And finally, these curious “about” preachers have nothing of the spirit of Chuck Yeager, or an eagle, or our Lord, or anyone you must ever hope to be.
God is a Spirit.God breathed His Spirit into us.Jesus promised the Holy Spirit would teach us all things.But most preachers avoid teaching the dynamics of God’s spirit realm.So the world turns to New Age because the Church cannot explain this age.The world turns to fortune tellers because the Church turns away prophets.Christians are full of evil spirits because the Church says it cannot happen.Television preachers are proud of their ranting spirits, their money-extracting spirits and especially their uncorrectable spirits.God created a kingdom of spirits, but the modern church hides from the knowledge of it.The Church believes it has God’s truth in the form of the word, usually only the logos and seldom the rhema.God believes His Church must have His Spirit, as evidenced by signs which the Church tends to reject.The Church must stop its hide-from-spirits-but-seek-truth game. God says you cannot have His Truth without His Spirit.The Church which settles for one, has neither.
11)Unhappy Heresy Hunters vs. Happy Hear-and-See Campers
Unhappy heresy hunters want to kill the doctrine of those who say that a strictly literal interpretation of God’s word is wrong.Jesus was crucified by unhappy heresy hunters.Jesus did not interpret scripture literally.Woe to any person similarly filled with God’s Spirit, who steps outside their literal word mind-prison, and comes under their gun sights.For unhappy heresy hunters have rejected the Holy Spirit, and are spiritually blind.And it upsets them to discover others who see spiritually and help others to also see spiritually.So heresy hunters live to kill the two witnesses of life on earth:God in man and man in God.But true seekers can find happiness in God.
12)Doing Dispensational Dogma vs. Making the Crooked Paths Straight
If a gay midget who was missing a leg, an ear and half his private parts was elected President of the United States, somewhere a dispensational preacher would say, “This too is in the Bible!”For about a hundred years end-times eschatologists have distorted history, blasphemed His story and encouraged histrionics regarding their know-it-all theories about the appearance of Mr. Antichrist, the mark of the beast, the avoidance of tribulation and the fly away, false salvation promise of rapture.But what can be expected from such misguided teachers who take the Bible literally?They literally interpret it like a psychological ink blot.Instead of the Holy Spirit teaching them all things, God lets them provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces.And so, the mad dispensational teachers ignore John the Baptist’s admonition to do the hard and necessary work oftearing down mountains (of a soul’s lies), filling in the valleys (of a heart’s missing good spirits) and making the crooked paths (of a mind’s wrong doctrine) straight.But if the dispensationalists’ literal interpretation of the Bible is correct, then let us seek first a good, used bulldozer.
The truth that some Christian ministries are guilty of preaching a baby Gospel is proven by how they celebrate Jesus’ birth.The season of Christmas is often simply taught as a pageant of nativity.However, a cursory review of Luke’s telling of the story reveals that Father God arranged for eight members of Jesus’ family and friends who were extraordinarily spirit-filled, prophetically spirit-speaking, spirit-led or spirit-obedient.This spirit-led living enabled them to avoid the kill zone of infanticide.This message is lost on ministries who poorly prepare their sheep to similarly avoid modern kill zones.So, Christmases come and go without families being filled with the Holy Spirit, as this part of the story is ignored.And then for some families who subsequently experience tragedies that could have been avoided by hearing from God’s Spirit, instead of being able to laugh in rhema, they weep in Ramah.For this the Church tells them to tithe?Christmas should be merrier.
14)Beam Me Up, Scotty! vs. Give God-In-You a Chance
The word “rapture” is found in the Bible precisely as often as the phrase “Separation of Church and State” is found in the United States Constitution, Bill of Rights or Declaration of Independence.However, the American Civil Liberties Union has no problem making their anti-god agenda succeed, somehow.Likewise rapture preachers, somehow.We have been sold a pack of lies because neither America’s founding documents nor the Bible respectively bars God from America’s public arena nor promises the world a fly-away escape from tomorrow.Nevertheless, truth will prevail in these matters.And the truth of God’s end-times plan is that He really must dwell in us, or else!Stated roughly (but actually quite accurately), the saints go marching in God while the butt-heads get themselves eliminated.For God so loves the world, that in that day of judgment which now is, He will manifest Himself in us to perform His word.This is both our hope and God’s plan for tomorrow.
15)Getting Abomination of Desolation Dollar$ vs. Building Holy Abodes
The dispensational teachers’ dream is for a Third Temple to be built in Jerusalem which will some day have a Mr. Antichrist appear with a pig which he sacrifices on an altar, thereby causing all dispensational book sales to soar to astronomic levels.However, a spiritual reading of the matter reveals that we are Christ’s third temple, and we choose to be either antichrist-like or Christ-like.And in choosing to put either our own piggish selves on the throne, or Christ; we can cause either our own abomination of desolation to keep God forever banished from our soul, or we can work with repentance and truth to get and keep God dwelling in us and we in Him.God’s dream in these latter days is, well, the latter.
16)Mining for Armageddon Million$ vs. Death to Almighty Self
Ooh, ooh!Is this war or the next one the biggie of the Bible?Should we subscribe to the Jerusalem Post or support the preacher who does?When we buy a book or watch a movie on the Battle of Armageddon, should our fear of the future be small, medium or super-size?Should our attention be diverted away from dethroning self, which is the Armageddon for most every individual and family, or with imagining the mother of all wars?Saddam Hussein was wrong when he prophesied about the First Gulf War being such a mother, but why do we still support teachers who divert attention from the battle of self (which enables Christ-likeness) to some future mother of all wars (which promulgates fear.)Answer:The death-to-self Gospel doesn’t allow much self-promotion, self-exaltation or self-aggrandizement; but fear-mongering does.
17)Betting Bad News Brings Big Buck$ vs. Empowering to Overcome
EXTRA!EXTRA!Read all about it!Bad news SELLS dispensational books, tapes, conventions and television shows!What a surprise!There is bad news!Wow!!!And so go the dispensational programs under the banner of Christ.At the end of most breathless presentations of their bad news gospel, is their fear-of-the-future-without-dispensational-insight altar call.“UNHOLY BAD NEWS, Robin!” says Batman, “Where is Superman when you need him?”Comics and bad news aside, real shepherds must teach their sheep to be disciplined and hardened overcomers, who can acutely hear and obey God’s rhema voice, so that they are equal to any emergency.
18)Mining Omega Codes for Million$ vs. Who Is the Christ?
The Bible certainly contains mysterious codes.Maybe it has Adolf Hitler’s name, or Charlton Heston’s.Maybe it has your name, my name and sister Sue’s.Does any of this help us to be more like Jesus?Let us hold ministries accountable for where they put the attention of their followers.Do the shepherds fixate on factoids?Do the shepherds fixate on selling their factoids?How do these factoids help their sheep get in the right fold?Having bought and read yet another Christian book of amazing facts, real and imagined, can you hear, obey and expand God’s kingdom better than before money went from your wallet to the author’s?Is it mere knowledge, or spiritual knowledge; is it mere worshiping in truth, or worshiping in spirit and truth; is it mere logos facts or partnership with a living Holy Spirit that helps Christ in us be?Then let all taught of the Lord with eyes to see, ears to hear and hearts to obey, witness to the world who is the Christ.Let all who can, witness who is the Christ.Let all who can, see who is the Christ.Let all who can, be who is the Christ.From the east to the west, let Christ, then, return in a cloud of His sanctified vessels, at His sudden time, in His awesome power, with His conquering love and His perfectly sound mind.
19)Mining Believers for Billion$ vs. Lessons Freely Received and Given
In better times, Christian television programs had modest appeals for funds.But now programs seem to be mostly commercials.They hawk DVDs, CDs, VCR tapes, cassette tapes, books, Bibles, electronic Bibles, software, clothes, trinkets, candles, anointing oil, seminars, conventions, crusades, cruises, indulgences (oops, Martin Luther stopped that years ago, didn’t he?) and perhaps their own mothers if they could.The Gospels don’t tell us much about what was sold under Christ’s watch.However Christ did admonish his disciples who received freely to, well, give freely. To paraphrase Peter:“Silver and gold have we none, but such as we have we freely encourage you to shop on our website, or use our toll-free order line, and pay by credit card and be fulfilled by our mega-ministry warehouse center!Use VISA or MasterCard to buy my Jesus Wants You Debt Free book!Malachi 3:10, brother.Wave that check! Support me and get your one-hundred fold blessing!No, make that a thousand fold blessing with your next thousand dollar love gift!These incredible offers won’t last forever!Help me pay for my NEXT BIGGER, FASTER… (Watch this!Watch this!)EXECUTIVE JET!!! And, of course, We’ve got to buy aircraft rapture insurance!(WINK! WINK!)Call and pledge today!Sow your NEED to our GREED!(You didn’t hear that!)Act now, and sign up for our LUXURY SEA CRUISE!Attend our Jesus Wants You Skinny Seminar and then enjoy the ship’s all you can eat buffet.Or attend the Don’t Be a Gullible Christian Seminar for an additional $2,000.Or for just $10,000 more, you can attend our Means Justify the End Times Conference.To purchase this life-changing cruise all we ask is that you pay for you and your family, and MEand MINE!!!PAY-RAISE THE LORD!”
20)We Don’t Need Maturity vs. Be Ye Spiritually Mature, and Live
Current popular Church teaching discourages the very mandate God requires in this day, which is to die to self at ever increasing levels, manifest God at ever increasing levels and expand God’s kingdom at ever increasing levels.Why is this so?Because:Common Christian doctrines about the future, which typically includes the rapture, the imminent second coming as a spectacular singularity and eternal security, are delusional.Why die to self, if a “Beam-Me-Up-Scotty-God” is going to get us out of our life’s battle zones?But when a hard thing comes to the unprepared (and, by the way, unraptured) believer, that believer is unable to conquer the situation if he can’t hear and obey God’s rhema voice.Ditto for eternal security believers.Why try the rugged road of righteousness, when a simple sinner’s prayer and the belief that “Jesus did it all” is so much easier?But when a hard thing comes to the (supposed) eternal security believer who doesn’t know God’s voice, he is slaughtered by the enemy.Same goes for believers of the Imminent-Return-of-Mr.-Fix-It-All-Jesus.Why learn the disciplines to hear and obey Jesus’ rhema voice, when He “soon and very soon” will set foot on the Mount of Olives and make everything so blessedlyperfect?So when most every opportunity to manifest Christ fails to happen in the unsanctified life of a baby-doctrine-taught Christian, the purposes of heaven are massively frustrated.And it is so sad.Because today’s Church clings tenaciously to its wrong doctrines, which result in multitudes dying in ignorance and failure because they learned little more from the Church than unrighteous love mush.When God’s small quiet voice prompts believers to leave off unjustness and filthiness, and acquire righteousness and holiness; likely as not that believer’s preacher on Sunday will repeat rapture, eternal security and imminent return teachings, which is today’s lazy, hazy, crazy, give-up-gospel message saying:Why try?
21)No Pride of Life Here! vs. Prospering in Circumcised Humility
To walk in God’s abundant, overflowing prosperity without fierce warfare against pride-of-life puts us in danger of becoming world-class hypocrites.Knowledge makes us prideful.Success makes us prideful.Money makes us prideful.Luxury cars make us prideful.Executive jet travel can really make us prideful.Exclusive, isolated-from-the-plebian mega-ministry living absolutely can make us prideful.But it apparently doesn’t affect any mega-ministers of this age, according to their incessant lifestyle boasting.And when confronted, they protesteth too much.The result:Mega-ministry followers don’t fight pride-of-life as they themselves prosper.Just count the jaywalking masses as they leave the next ministry conference event.Watch them walk past the downtown needy.Watch them butt in line at the airport, with no decent concern for others already in line.Pride of life puts leaders and followers above the laws of man and God every time.And it is a shame.It hadn’t ought to be happening, but it is.The cut of our covenant needs be hidden, lest we be prideful and our boasting interfere with God’s work.
22)Give One to Another vs. Give Tithes and Offerings to Ministries
The ministries of Jesus and John are summarized quite compactly in the Gospels. Jesus said His ministry boils down to loving God and loving your neighbor.Then He modeled that by giving His life as a demonstration of that agape love.However, the taught-of-mega-ministry sheep often focus on tithing, prosperity, rapture, end-times dispensation doctrine and anything but giving one to another.John’s ministry was summarized by the question, What should we do?John said give your extra coat to another.Then he said the second thing is as the first, but with food.The emphasis is on giving one to another.This agape love of one giving to another is God’s definition of heaven on earth.But the mega-ministers’ message of tithe-to-ministry-and-prosper-until-rapture too often absolves devotees of their agape duty to give one to another.The ministries whose top-of-mind-awareness message is “tithe-and-reap-blessings,” well… their force is not right.Though their ministry coffers are full, and though ministries themselves often give to each other’s ministries, the message the sheep learn from mega-ministers is to first give to the ministry, then all will be well.These ministry sheep have been absolved from ever giving anything to anybody, person to person.Such sheep make hell, not heaven on earth.Until the mega-ministries emphasize giving (love, gifts, respect, honor, time) one to another trumps giving (love, gifts, respect, honor, time) to ministries, their Gospel remains tragically skewed, and God’s kingdom coming to earth tragically delayed, and those supposedly taught-of-the-Lord will remain tragically unable to manifest their Lord’s Behold-I-Come-Quickly return.This is the latter day abomination of desolation: God unable to indwell in abodes of wrong doctrine and deceived spirits.
Television Christian ministers sometimes present inane, bellicose banalities pretending to be profundities of the highest order: You’re NOT getting it, they say. Other ministers sometimes give manic, emotional diatribes spewed out with machine-gun furor, along with endless scripture quotes of bounce-back-and-forth-scripture-chasing confusion and misdirection of thought.Other ministers employ a staccato of claptrap clichés, background musical crescendos and witchcraft-controlling rapid fire directives:Turn to your neighbor, say this, do that, turn to a Bible verse, turn to another, go back to the first, consider this verse but don’t turn to it, rub your belly, pat your head, finish my sentence, Simon says don’t think!This allows the Lords of Lunacy to hypnotize their sheep to say B-A-A-A-A-A, and A-A-A-A-A-MEN and T-I-I-I-I-I-I-THE and do everything disconnected from God’s Spirit to convince themselves of their happiness without ever truly being fed Christ or being ever able to manifest Him.The sheep are not being fed Christ, they don’t act Christ-like but they do continue to have a craven desire to get “filled” again at the next expensive show.Deca-millionaire ministers regularly extract from followers, some in poverty, to give their ministry ten percent of their income and buy their next “life-changing” book or other must have products, conventions or cruises!It is beyond scandalous.Christ-fed sheep are wise, not suckers; quickened, not dead-looking; independent, not grotesquely obsequious. Sheep that are fed Christ are healthy.Sheep that are fed ego and deception look like some of the misshapen, beguiled troops who now attend ministry meetings.Such conference shepherds teach how to be obnoxious to the Lord and useless to man.This is the fruit of some modern ministries:Abodes of prideful desolation teaching more abodes to be proudly desolate, unable to please or manifest Christ, but nonetheless manically thrilled with ministry witchcraft mojo deception.Turn to somebody and say He’s in the house.This is Revelation’s last page warning against whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
24)Manifesting Our Devilishly-Deceived Selves vs. Manifesting Christ
Amazingly, the Bible’s main message seems to have been lost in centuries of clutter. The message is that Christ must come and manifest Himself in us now.With the Holy Spirit He can indwell in us, if – and it is a big if – we have our heads screwed on straight, meaning we have Father God’s doctrine (i.e. hard truth) and its discipline, which disallows every form of pride, vanity and self-exaltation.This despite what television preachers blithely witness to the contrary.All would be fine except the horrific fact that conventional Christian religion is seemingly opposed to that singular good thing from ever happening in its body.Many of conventional Christianity’s habits, traditions, beliefs and doctrines are perversely opposed in everlasting enmity to the ultimate realization of Christ actually indwelling in us.All of the Bible’s transcendent truths, of Christ transitioning Himself into our selves, as seen in John’s chapters 14 through 17, or Isaiah’s call-outs to this high way, or the Bible’s first page command to have dominion over the spirit realm, or the Bible’s last page’s triple iteration that Jesus comes quickly have been lost to truth.It is well understood that Christ was filled with the Holy Spirit without limit, but the Church has taught to receive Christ without His Spirit.Even those who opt to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, often stay content at an extremely miniscule portion of spirit-led life.Out of this hellish stupor believers in Christ must rise up and demand to receive full baptism of the Holy Spirit and full baptism of the fire of sin-revealing and sin-overcoming tribulation until we in humility and obedience hear, obey and manifest Christ at levels all creation groans in anticipation to see the revealing thereof.In other words, we must be in whom comes quickly our God.When we read, “Behold, I come quickly,” we must agree with Jesus that in our lives:Yes, He certainly came and was, He certainly comes and is and He certainly will come and be in us.Who we are must be who Christ is.Who Christ is must be who we are.He is the great I am.And He calls to us and says: Now, with Me be.Behold, I come.Are you ready?Behold, I come:I in you, you in Me.Behold, then, the Body of Christ rise and shine!
25)Unrighteous Capitulation vs. the Sword of Truth and Spirit
Country western singer Waylon Jennings wrote, “Lord, it’s the same old tune, fiddle and guitar.Where do we take it from here?...It’s been the same way for years.We need a change.”Many television preachers teach rule-based tithing, rapture, eternal security, dispensational dogma, the imminent return of Just-Fix-Everything-Instantly-Jesus (their own miscreant selves excluded, of course!) and that the only prophet is an entertaining one.Such prophets could not get even a dog that wet the carpet to show remorse.Yet the Church itself is neither housebroken nor repentant enough for God to indwell at sufficient levels.In truth, there is no rapture, no eternal security and Jesus comes quickly in the prepared-for-Him-inside now.Giving must be rhema-based not percentage rule-based.The Church’s end-times dispensational doctrine is a colossally wrong misdirection and poorly prepares the Church, much less the world, for tomorrow’s troubles.Tribulations come with opportunity to be sanctified because hard circumstances penetrate a soul’s stupor.Only when the Church teaches the disciplines required to worship God in spirit and truth and then hear and obey Christ’s rhema voice will the Church be equal to tomorrow’s emergencies, opportunities and potential revivals.TV preachers rake in millions of dollars in sales by pandering fear, greed and giddiness to sheep worldwide.This, despite occasional rebel critics who, to paraphrase Jennings, ask, “Are you sure Christ done it this way?”Truly, the Church has missed it by a mile.Ministries will have to massively repent of wickedly hanging on to wrong doctrines, which make them unable to manifest Christ themselves, and for their brazen audacity in hawking their worldly antichrist opinions like voracious whores.Why should God’s people buy Satan’s doctrines from the Church?Church leaders, wash the inside of the cup.Church leaders, die to self.Church leaders, stop extracting dollars unrighteously.Church leaders, stop flailing at the world with a scabbard of puerile doctrines, and pick up Christ’s two-edged sword of spirit and truth.And use that sword against your wrong beliefs and your wrong spirits.And then publicly repent of your misdeeds of proclaiming truth that was not truth and being of a spirit that was not of God.The world will see you become more and more as God’s very truth and even as God’s very spirit.And then, verily verily the Lord God Almighty says unto you, you will see true revival.
Amen, Amen and Amen.
The Parable of the Car Prophets
Prophets Rock and Roll with Good Time Prophecies
While the Unchanging Church Backfires in First Gear
(This story compares differences between 1957 Chevrolet and 2007 Audi A8 sedans.)
Back in 1957 there were four prophets to the car industry: Bob, Tom, Dick and Harry.Tom, Dick and Harry spoke breathlessly and agitatedly as follows:
In the next 50 years cars will be…
Awesome, cutting edge, significant, soaked in luxury, at a new level, in sync with the environment, shaking the old order, high technology, dread champions of mileage, taken to new levels of power, called to a higher transport and raised to higher emissions purity.And the industry leaders will be shaken to the core, there will be a new vision of how to navigate, cars will change like butterflies, the world will have incredible expectation of automobiles, people in the auto industry will find new ways to prosper, there will be a change of rhythm of manufacturing and it will be tumultuous but equations will equal.
People were really impressed with Tom, Dick and Harry.They paid them glorious accolades because what they said was nebulous and pleasing to everyone.
However, Bob spoke with authority as follows:
In the next 50 years carmakers must…
Stop using drum brakes on all wheels............ And use discs with antilock brake systems.
Stop using iron engine heads & blocks.......... And use aluminum low-emission engines.
Stop using two valves per cylinder................ And use four.
Stop using carburetors................................... And use fuel stratified injection.
Stop using regular leaded gas........................ And use premium unleaded gas.
Stop using 14” metal wheels.......................... And use 19” aluminum.
Stop using nylon bias tires............................. And use radial.
Stop using steel frames & bodies................... And use aluminum.
Stop using generators..................................... And use alternators.
Stop using tube radios................................... And use navigation/CD/satellite radios.
Stop using just one radio speaker.................. And use twelve entertainment speakers.
Stop using metal dashboards......................... And use soft materials and air bags.
Stop using solid rear axles............................. And use all wheel independent suspension.
Stop using two speed transmissions.............. And use six.
Stop using two-wheel drive........................... And use four.
But people hated listening to Bob.No one wanted to hear him or read his words.He was right, but it was not music to anyone’s itching ears since it involved hard, actual change.
In 2007 a fellow by the name of Robert Winkler Burke said the modern media church which broadcasts its message through the United States and by satellite around the world must…
Stop preaching the lie of the rapture.............. And preach God’s overwhelming scourge.
Stop waiting for God to manifest Himself.... And preach we must manifest God Himself.
Stop preaching dispensational fear................ And preach overcoming peace.
Stop dreading a governmental mark of 666.. And preach it is a mark of spirit, soul, body.
Stop preaching in outrageously evil spirits.... And worship God in spirit and truth.
Stop modeling greed and self-interest........... And be non-profit leaders of non-profits.
Stop insisting God’s rules are inviolate......... And preach God delights in breaking rules.
Stop extorting and demanding tithes............ And preach Jesus criticized tithing people.
Stop preaching eternal security...................... And preach only God guarantees absolution.
Stop preaching foreign affairs intrigue.......... And preach personal overcoming of evil.
Stop purchasing costly jets with donations... And travel with commoners and be humble.
Stop preaching fear of a Euro-antichrist........ And be sure not to be of any ungodly spirit.
Stop pandering to spirits of envy of success. And preach fear of God and His scourging.
Stop selling each other’s evil books............... And promote listening to the spoken Bible.
Stop idolizing easy-on-the-ears “prophets”... And allow rebuking prophets to speak truth.
Stop praying for an uncorrected revival........ And repent of being unworthy of revival.
Stop preaching six-day creationism............... And admit the earth is as old as science says.
Stop cursing who comes in God’s nature...... And bless those who come in God’s nature.
Stop fighting the ACLU’s efforts................. And fight the Church’s efforts to deny God.
Stop fighting the full baptism of the Spirit.... And encourage full baptism of the Spirit.
Stop fighting the full baptism of the Fire...... And encourage full baptism of the Fire.
Stop evil controlling techniques in crowds.... And repent massively of using evil control.
Stop preaching only “about” Jesus................ And manifest His essence so others learn.
Once upon a time a farmer had 100 sheep on his farm.They had eaten the grass on his north acreage down to the dirt so he needed them to move to fresh grass to the south.
But this farmer’s sheep were stubborn and hard to move.So the farmer asked Mr. Dog to speak to them.But Mr. Dog had a defeated spirit.
“Yip, yip, you sheep,” said Mr. Dog in a very weak voice.“Oh, bark, bark and growl, growl, move to the south acreage.It will be easier, I say.Everything easier.”
But the sheep did not respond to the weak spirit of Mr. Dog.They said to the dog, “If you do not care what spirit you are of, we do not care what you say.”
Next the farmer tried Mr. Owl.But Mr. Owl was so very much love with his own wisdom that he had a supercilious spirit.
“Be enraptured to the south,” said Mr. Owl in an annoyingly patronizing voice.“I am holding a seminar on south pasture enrapture enablement tonight under the big oak.”
But the sheep did not respond to the condescending spirit of Mr. Owl.They said, “Silly animal!If you do not care what spirit you are of, we do not care what you say.”
Next the farmer tried Mr. Chicken.But Mr. Chicken was preoccupied with prosperity.
“Pluck, pluck, I’ll make a buck!GO SOUTH, hear my mouth!Pluck, pluck, I’ll make a buck! I’ll get pay, if you do what I say!” screeched Mr. Chicken.
But the sheep did not respond to the greedy spirit of Mr. Chicken.They said, “Silly animal!If you do not care what spirit you are of, we do not care what you say.”
Next the farmer tried Mr. Goose.But Mr. Goose was in love with the sound of his voice.
“Honk!Honk!Hearken to my heralding!I am loud!I am great!Honk, honk, honk, honk, honk, honk!Oh yes, move south.And HONK, HONK, HONK, HONK!”
But the sheep did not respond to the narcissistic spirit of Mr. Goose.They said, “Silly animal!If you do not care what spirit you are of, we do not care what you say.”
Next the farmer tried Mr. Cow.Mr. Cow had a low opinion of himself.
“Before I am butchered, eaten and forgotten – move south, you sheep!” said Mr. Cow.
The sheep moved south immediately.They said, “Mr. Cow, you have true spirit!”
And the farmer kept the cow and his sheep, but he shot the dog, owl, chicken and goose.
Every year a circus called The Greatest Thing visited two towns located on opposite banks of a large river.The towns were called Someday and Now.
When the circus set up its tents on the outskirts of Someday, it made all things ready for its performing lions, dancing elephants, high wire acrobats, amazing magicians and funny clowns.
But a strange thing always happened to the circus at Someday.The people of that town, who considered themselves superior to the people across river, had peculiar notions about circus entertainment.The people of Someday would buy circus tickets, the circus programs (which they liked to memorize,) souvenirs and even peanuts, popcorn and candy.But whenever the circus began, the people of Someday went straight home!
The reverse happened at the town of Now.When the circus crossed the river and set up tents there, each circus member was full of delight.Because the circus, having made good money from Someday, offered everything free to the people of Now.So every able person from Now attended The Greatest Thing.
And here is what Now did when it attended The Greatest Thing:A dozen Now men would be invited into the ring to wrestle with the clowns, which made everyone roar in laughter.The town’s choir would sing songs to the circus band, sometimes making the band members cry.Children brought their kittens to receive lessons from the lion tamer.And whoever happened to be mayor of Now always let himself (or herself, as it happened on occasion,) be ridiculed by the circus clowns.
Plus the circus elephants made a triumphant arch with their trunks for the high school prom king and queen to make a celebrated entrance.And a pachyderm would on occasion spray the couple with water, which made everyone laugh.
Thus it happened that it was impossible to tell who had more jolly good fun – the people of Now or the circus!Everyone seemed to have such care one for another.
Eventually the circus employees decided it was too small a thing for them to give free tickets to the delightful people of Now.They decided to contribute to a fund to support Now veterans and their families in need.And the people of Now would not be out done in this kind of thing.So they set up two retirement funds for the circus, one for humans and another for animals.
But the town across the river did not understand the people of Now.Someday’s people were jealous of all the fun and commotion they could hear across the river that separated them.They thought, “Don’t those repulsive Nowians know how to properly enjoy a circus?”So they got a court injunction to stop the circus from appearing in Now, on the basis of unfair trade practices.
In frustration, the circus never came back to either town.
But the spirit of The Greatest Thing had so infused itself in the good people of Now, that they decided to do something.With permission from the circus, they opened an amusement park named The Second Greatest Thing and invited people throughout the state to attend.It became a huge success.
Eventually Now’s amusement park was so popular, it became a global destination resort with attendance of over 10 million people per year.Most of the people in Now became rich.
And the people of Someday?Most of them remained quite poor.So they decided to do something.With permission from the circus, they opened a museum, a publishing house, a college, a television station and internet websites – all dedicated to heralding The Greatest Thing… they completely misunderstood.
It turns out this situation was of particular interest to a certain town down the river from Someday, whose name was Not. And the people of Not thought they completely understood what the people of Someday misunderstood about the circus called The Greatest Thing.
So the people of Not decided to do something.With permission from the circus, they opened a museum, a publishing house, a college, a television station and internet websites – all dedicated to heralding the reasons why the people of Someday completely misunderstood The Greatest Thing.
But the Nots were so consumed with the certainty of their reasons why the Somedays were wrong, their zeal left them no time to ever actually attend the circus called The Greatest Thing or Now’s amusement park called The Second Greatest Thing.In fact, the people of Not spent most of their energies in proving wrong the people of Someday.
Interestingly, the when children of Someday grew up, they usually moved either to Not or Now.And when the children of Not grew up, they usually moved either to Someday or Now.But when the children of Now grew up, they almost always stayedclose to their families somewhere in Now.Because to live in Now was to live within The Second Greatest Thing, which they believed was as close as they could be to The Greatest Thing.
Once upon a time a very great robot traveled in a spaceship from galaxy to galaxy.One day he noticed a large area of cosmic dust.Having learned much in his travels, he assembled a planet out of the dust.Then out of the dust on the planet he made copies of robots much like himself.
He told the robots to call him their Maker.Further, he made an instruction book for them called the Manual.Then he told them to take care of each other and the planet.He said that he would be leaving and much later return again.Then he left.
Some of the robots read the Manual, most did not bother.And in time, the robots misbehaved to the point that life on the planet became very bad.They were also polluting their planet.
Finally things got so troublesome the robots became alarmed.They asked, “What will become of us?”
Two prophetic robots emerged who each said, “I know the future based on the Manual.”But each of them had a different vision.
The first robot said, “Our Maker will return and eliminate every bad thing, but reward the rest of us with spaceship rides to other galaxies!”
This played well to the robots, since all believed themselves to be in the group “rest of us” and none believed themselves in the group “every bad thing.”
But the second prophet said, “Our Maker built in each of us two-way radios to communicate with him instantaneously.And there is a place in each of us for his actual essence.If we really understand the Manual and talk with our Maker, he will finish the work he began in us.And we can make this planet good.The Maker is waiting for us to begin.We should not wait for the Maker to come to us!”
This played very poorly to most of the robots, who in truth had become lazy.So by majority vote the robots agreed to make the first robot prophet their leader.They also voted to turn off the second prophet, which they immediately did despite his protests.
But another robot said, “Though we have shut off the second prophet, if he was right another will surely come as he did with the same message about us all having a two-way radio to our Maker who wants to update our corrupted operating systems.”
Another robot replied, “Yes, but this kind of message is too hard on us.We like the first prophet because he says we are fine enough.But who made the mess we are in?And how is it going to get better while we wait and do nothing until the Maker arrives?
Said another, “Perhaps we are afraid to use our two-way radios because we don’t want to be rebuked and reprogrammed by the Maker!”
Said a thoughtful robot, “Maybe this was the Maker’s plan all along: that he wants us to perfect the planet his way through his two-way radio, through his indwelling in us, that we might share his glory in achieving such good.But we imperfect robots keep insisting he return to fix all immaturity but our own.So rather us being surprised by a return that would go harshly for us, he waits patiently for our maturing in humility and communication and oneness with him.”
“But stop!” cried another.“This is too much information for my computer!”
“No,” said the thoughtful robot, “Rather isn’t this why we have computers, to figure complicated matters?From dust the Maker created us in his image not to remain dumb destroyers of the planet but to be this planet’s perfection.”
To which the first prophet robot replied, “The Maker will return and make this planet perfect.We will have nothing to do with it.”
But the thoughtful robot said, “Something inside me says even now the Maker is returning in us, and you are all correct that he will make this planet perfect, but not without you all having a chance to have everything good to do with it.But you must love your autonomy less and your Maker more.”
By this time the whole group of robots were getting disturbed with the thoughtful robot, so they voted to turn off this outspoken robot as well.
This kept happening – thoughtful robots who were turned off by the majority – until the remaining the robots came to believe the Maker had been returning and communicating with them all, and inviting them to be so indwelt, improved and empowered with his superior goodness.
Eventually the planet of robots perfected their world, but not without struggle.In fact the struggle was part of the perfecting process.
And the Maker did finally return.He scolded the robots, saying to them, “Did you not see me in that second prophetic robot who spoke truly about the future?Why did you turn him off?Did you not see me in the thoughtful robots you also turned off?In truth, I have been returning in your midst the entire time.When you saw and heard them, you saw and heard me.”
The Maker also eliminated the stubborn robots, including the first prophetic robot who spoke of an easy future for all who behaved supinely.Then the Maker left once again.
The robots came to believe whether the Maker was present on their planet or away to other parts of the universe, it made little difference because with their two-way radios, the Maker was with them always.And they saw, and confirmed and honored the Maker in each other.
But the robots who had been turned off because they spoke truly about the future, they had been taken.The Maker had turned them back on and whisked them from the planet to be with him wherever he went.
So it turns out that the robots were right to be concerned about their future.Those that got it right were glad they did – for eons.Those that got it wrong were sorry… until they were no more.
While Many Wait in Stupor Expecting Christ’s Return
Others Generally Unrecognized Manifest God’s Truth
Just before 1,000 A.D. many Christians wanted to know, would the Lord return?Many said, yes, the Lord will come at any moment.They longed to see Jesus.
But a prophet came along who said that Jesus returns in our hearts, when we are prepared.He called to remembrance the saints of the past millennia, even great leaders and generals, even great commoners.He said their greatness was due to being indwelt by God.He said in such as are indwelt, you can see the face of Jesus.
Further, this prophet said that just as God indwelt saints since His resurrection, he would continue to do so in the future.He said to watch for leaders in religion, science, politics, industry, poetry, literature, music and all areas of human life.These leaders would draw the world from darkness to light as they fought against poverty, slavery, drudgery, hatred and all forms of low character.And many leaders would be unrecognized commoners.
He said that the human race had come a long way, but had further need to progress in being indwelt of God.He said the past thousand years was proof enough of mankind’s godless depravity but also angelic reach.
He said, “Jesus’ literal return is His coming in our hearts.Can’t you see?”
The people couldn’t see anything but their own anger against the prophet.They preferred a more lazy approach to Jesus’ return.So they pleaded with the authorities to do something to stop this persecution of their indolent spirits.
So the authorities decided to arrest the prophet and cut off his tongue.Before his moment of silencing came, they asked if he had any last words to say.
The prophet said, “I have a vision of one thousand years from now, in the year 2,000!People will be like they are now, again expecting the literal return of Jesus.And they will be driven by jealousy and laziness to not honor the great ones of history or of their time because of their need for an easy religion waiting only for God’s coming.
“And other prophets will come two thousand years after Christ’s birth.And they will say Christ comes in your hearts to bring life.And they will be despised, as I am despised.
“The future will be dark for those with darkened hearts, but will be light for those with God’s light in their hearts.Weep for yourselves in darkness, or rejoice if you are in God’s light!God has given you the gift of your future. Take God’s gift to you!”
And with that, the authorities took the tongue out of the prophet’s mouth.They said, “Surely this man is a fool.Jesus will come at any moment.”
And at that moment Jesus came and judged them for their deeds.But they saw nothing.And since then such who continue to see nothing steadfastly profess that Jesus will return at any moment in a manifested body… as long as it is nobody on earth.
But for two thousand years Jesus has manifested in whom the covetous, the false witnesses, the thieves, the adulterers, the murderers, the dishonorable, the blasphemers, the vain, the idolatrous and the godless pretenders say He cannot.For such as Jesus can inhabit are superior to those He cannot.
And those in whom God cannot yet inhabit sometimes are shepherds who teach what they only know themselves, which is that God does not return in their own spirit.But God does indwell in the pure, the noble, the humble and the always present remnant, which is alive to the always present God.
God even returns in those who are not aware of it, even in those who teach God has not yet returned.They do not discern when God is manifesting in themselves and when He is not.Great are the paradoxes of God and the mysteries of this life He has given us.
But God’s saints seem to live in a different field of force, an unseen aura of God, in which there are no coincidences, but rather an abundance of miracles, chastisements, rebukes, awesome tests of character, divine empowerment, wonders, signs and love.
Thus has truth manifested itself in the past.Thus does truth manifest in the present.And thus will truth manifest itself in the future.This: despite church teachings to the contrary.
And some day truth will be known in the faces of others in whom is seen God.And this cloud of witnesses, manifesting the Lord Jesus Christ, shall do our Father’s will on earth, which will result in greater like-minded peace among the peaceful, which is the restoration of all things.This: while the evil-hearted continue to eliminate themselves through their own self-destructive, chaotic ways.
Thus begins the next thousand years.Will people manifest Christ now or wait a return?
And what will the prophets ten centuries from now in 3,000 A.D. say about your life and your family that came after you?And what will have been your part in God’s kingdom struggle on earth at the turn of the next millennium?
Will we have created the greatest thousand years of truth the world has ever seen?Or will we have waited, while Jesus was knocking on our door, for truth to arrive?
No, father, some other way that would not break the record.
But now it is time to keep the record.
Yes, father.They refuse to let me come quickly in their lives.They believe the wrong things about me, about you, about our spirit.
Because they believe you did it all, they do nothing.
I used to be able to come quickly in more of them:Behold the greatest generation, when we fought the lords of evil!Behold their presidents, as when I helped in Gettysburg the one named Lincoln!Behold their founding fathers!Behold so many kings, queens, nobles and peasants of the ages!Behold in the beginning with Paul and the disciples!But now behold how so few I am in, how few fight our battles, how few love with our love…and the rest are unclean in spirit, soul and body.I cannot come quickly in them.
And they wait for you to come and fix everything, or for you to rapture them from their troubles, or to promise eternal blessings to them while they still have life yet to live.
And I cannot come quickly in their lives because of the lies in their hearts!So it is time.
Yes!It is time to release the Overwhelming Scourge of Spirits: Selfishness, Vanity, Blasphemy, Uncleanness, Ungratefulness, Murder, Lust, Theft, Lies and Desire.
Oh father, the earth is not ready.It will overwhelm them.They believe themselves clean but refuse my entry because of their filth – the scourge will stir them to madness.
But if they awaken to the lying spirits they are of, they may repent and receive you.
Yes, father, it is time to finish the prophetic record.Begin the overwhelming scourge.
Waves of unrighteousness now come.And the world is not ready.People are not ready.
Peace cannot be found, though it is available.Love cannot be found, though it is available.Joy cannot be found, though it is available.
Peace, love and joy are available in Me, the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, but not by other idols, not by other means.
Waves of unrighteousness come to expose unrighteous spirits and natures in people.Will they repent?Will they humble themselves?Will they be sorry for hurting others?
Or will they become dark, darker and darker still?Must they join in close fellowship with gross darkness covering the people?Or will they repent and come to the light, which is Me, the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth?
One can be a Christian, follow the rules of God and do quite well without ever knowing much about good or evil spirits.Such a blessed one, gifted with faith to follow our Lord’s admonitions, gets excellent results.But if one struggles in his or her Christian walk, which would include most of us, it might pay to know about good and evil spirits.
First of all, spirits operate in a legal realm of rights.Unforgiveness gives evil spirits greatly expanded rights, while forgiveness does the reverse.
Second, confession of sin gives good spirits greatly expanded rights, while denial of sins does the reverse.
Third, we need know nothing about how spirits work in us yet still do things that fill our lives with all of the spirits of either heaven or hell. When a bad spirit rises up, one must refuse it just as when dieting one refuses desert.
Most people appear to not want to know what spirit they are of, especially if it is bad.To know is to shed light on the spirit-complex in operation in a person’s soul.Bad spirits live in darkness, good in light.Humility keeps the lights on.Pride keeps the lights off.And a person’s eyes tell the story of their light switch, if it has been on or off.
The greatest leaders will tell their followers, “I could be wrong.”The worst leaders will say, “I am right.”By this they mean they are right now, and in most every instance, so there is no need to confess the remote possibility of fallibility.This, then, gives legal right for such proud leaders to be wrong, never see it and continue in deception.
Conversely, leaders that say things like, “Correct me if I am wrong,” give rights to the spirit of correction and reduce rights from spirits of deception.This makes a more mistake-free environment and record.If these leaders are ever wrong, they react quickly.
One would think television preachers would be the greatest models of humility, of begging for correction, of publicly showing a discovered error, of rejoicing in opportunities to model confessing a sin and regaling in great life-examples of such in their ministry.Regrettably, what is seen is pretty much the opposite, which bodes unavoidable ill for them one would suppose with more than a fair amount of certainty.
To demonstrate avoidance of pride might have been why Jesus could not receive the pandering title “good master.”Luke 18:18-19
People who want to be more like Jesus need to know more about spirits.He was an expert.In His ministry he cast evil spirits out of a boy, a girl, a man and a woman.But today, we are told by leaders from both secular and religious institutions, people need never concern themselves with evil spirits, because they do not exist.
However, denial in the existence of evil spirits gives right to, of course, more evil spirits.So like gas, air and spark in an engine, spirits are an explosive subject if poorly handled.If used correctly, you’ve got a great engine for good.If not understood, you’ve got a coming disaster.
How can this age be so technically proficient and spiritually unaware?
One would suppose it is possible to consider ancient times when most individuals had little power.Even if an individual or a nation of individuals had gross spiritual ignorance, what great harm could they do?
Now, however, individuals and nations with gross spiritual ignorance can do great harm.Because of technology available power is increasing exponentially.Only 19 individuals on September 11, 2001 caused over 3,000 deaths and a trillion dollar hit to the US economy.Certain rebel nations now have or will soon have nuclear arms.
It appears in the timeline of man’s history on earth, God is making it mighty expensive for humans in particular or nations in general to not worship God in truth and spirit.Humans are now too empowered to be evil at the percentages now prevalent.
Again, if all individuals or even most individuals or at least a significant percentage of individuals could hear and obey God, then there would be sufficient harmony to make the world significantly more peaceful.
The goal of true religion would not be to just make converts, but to make disciples who hear and obey God, and worship Him in spirit and truth, and stay corrected and stay heaven-on-earth making.Voila!Oh Happy Day!New Jerusalem!World Peace!
Thus, individuals would not become slaves to wrong ideology.Individuals would not be suicide bombers.Individuals also would not all become crazed evangelists either.A person who was supposed to be a doctor, would become a doctor.A person who was supposed to be an artist, would become an artist.By, with and through God people would be great, just as saints and heroes of the ages have shown us all along!
Not all people would be preachers.Not all people would become any one thing.The only universal constant would be that good people would universally get along with good people, and bad people would be allowed to suffer consequences for their choosing bad.
But more good people would be great people.Or as it says on totem poles honoring the departed at Sage Hill Clay Sports in Reno, Nevada, “He was a good Indian.We have no higher praise.”
It would be, in fact, a new heaven on earth if more people could worship God in spirit and truth and hear and obey our Creator.
How do we get rid of evil spirits in ourselves?By caring what spirit we are of.Jesus scolded his disciples, “Ye know not what spirit ye are of.”
Obviously, the disciples did not know.Most people don’t know, or care.But we must know and care.
Step one is to repent.Repent to Father God you might have been a Christian without caring or knowing what spirit you were of.So review things and repent.And begin controlling your environment so it has scriptures of light, music of light, pictures of light, moving pictures of light, friends of light, thoughts of light, words of light and deeds of light.Stop feeding the wrong “dogs.”Feed the good “dogs” in your spiritual being.Feed truth, however bitter, to your soul.For the rest of your life live for truth, die to lies.
Step two is to repent to others where appropriate.Repent to the mature in Christ who can maturely handle your coming to them in repentance.Don’t go to the immature or it will just stir up things for the worse.But shed the light of God’s truth on your evil manifestations.Agree with any enemy who says you sinned, because you probably did.
Step three is to watch out for evil spirits rising up in you, and then squelch them at the moment they appear in the forefront of your consciousness.Say to yourself, “No, you spirit of anger.I see you rising up in me!I won’t let you manifest.I will have the mind of Christ.You want me to do something sinful by manifesting anger.I refuse to let that spirit take over right now, or ever!God have mercy on me!God help me to not be angry.I apply the blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to that angry spirit and its complex of evil spirits.Spirit of God’s patience, come now.Angels of God help me.I ask now for God’s spirit of power, love and a sound mind to come to me now.I see anger as a spirit from Satan and I refuse it entrance to the forefront of my consciousness.I will be calm.I will be good.I will have the mind of Christ.My soul is now calm, praise God.I give God the glory.But for God’s grace, I’d be an angry fool in jail.But now I am in God’s holy presence.Thank you God, you are so good to me!Amen.”
Step four is to not be upset when you fail at step three.As soon as possible repent, regroup and begin again.Know, however, evil spirits want to increase power in their manifestations.Don’t let the power of their manifestations increase, not ever.Don’t ever wallow in depression.And don’t ever go on a drinking or drug binge in exasperation.And especially, don’t go on a mental tirade against God asserting life is unfair.Don’t sit in the judgment seat.You want the mercy seat.Stay humble.Stay calm.Don’t let Satan double back on you…ever.
Step five is to understand Jesus’ admonition to his disciples, who asked how many times to forgive a brother who asks for forgiveness.The answer was seven times seventy, or 490.This number means sometimes it takes around 500 attempts and failures regarding an evil spirit that manifests in a sinner trying to overcome that sin.Be patient in yourself and others facing a strong spirit that keeps manifesting some 500 times.But know there is a limit.It is not a game.After about 500 times, the person has succeeded or failed.You could succeed or fail, or they could succeed or fail.Then stop and let it go to recompense.Let God handle the recompense situation, He’s an expert at it.
Step six is to understand this is no game.It is life or death to you.Also, it is life or death to the spirits in you.It is also life or death to your family and everyone else you touch.
Step seven is to know that spirits operate in complexes.You must fight them individually and also collectively.A spirit of addiction works with a spirit of alcoholism.So if you kick out the alcoholism, you may find yourself still addicted to cigarettes.
Step eight is all prayer.Pray in humility.Pray, “Lord have mercy on me.”Take responsibility for your spirits you let in by hate, by passion, by frustration, by no seeming fault of your own.Don’t be tempted to point at others with splinters in their eyes.Get the logs out of your eyes.It is enough simply to clean your own house and fill it with good spirits.
Step nine is never give up.The evil spirits will give up if you don’t.
Step ten is succeed or die trying.All try.You must succeed.
This is a generic outline on Overcoming as I understand it.For sake of clarity, I have named the person God uses to help someone going through Overcoming as “Helper.”The person that the “Helper” helps is named “Subject.”
What Happens to Most of Us:
1)We live in a seen and unseen world.The unseen world has spirits, good and bad.
3)Bad spirits get put in us (all living human beings) by trauma, by bad and intense exposure to that bad spirit through an intensely bad situations and persons.
4)In the trauma, the victim (“Subject”) hated, resented, loathed, and was eventually overcome by the spirit or complex of spirits.
5)Then the bad spirits got in the Subject, usually without subject knowing it.
6)Then later, the Subject does the same thing to other people.(The Subject unconsciously uses bad spirits to hurt others, who don’t know how to stop it.)
7)Hell is expanded in this fashion, virtually unopposed.
8)If the Subject prays, perhaps God will send a “Helper” (imperfect tho’ they be.)
How to Recognize This Pattern:
1)Most of us can’t, but with God’s help the Subject might see what is happening.
2)The Subject must not argue with the Helper but agree to shine light on darkness.
3)Look for God’s hand of stirring (intensive experiences) and God’s timing.
4)Both the Subject and Helper must keep faith in God.(Neither person is crazy.But the bad spirits in people make them seem crazy.)
5)Sin deceives, so usually the Subject believes the Helper needs help, not Subject.
6)Subject usually loses control and is less experienced, Helper has more experience
7)Subject usually has high level of thanklessness.
8)Subject usually is unstable in the carnal realm of the world.
9)Subject usually is tossed by winds of any situation, either in world or spirit realm.
10)Subject usually has numerous “hot buttons” making them “set off.”
11)Subject is usually unhappy, blaming others and sometimes murderously violent.
How to Get Bad Spirits Out:
1)Subject must feed only good spirits in self, and stop feeding bad spirits(This is the practice of feeding the “good dog” in us, not the “bad dog.”)
2)Subject must desire God’s light on the matter (see bad spirits in charge of self.)
3)Subject must humble self and admit bad spirits are running amok!(Amok means “possessed with or motivated by a murderous or violently uncontrollable frenzy.”)
4)Work in God’s timing, not one’s own timing.
5)Don’t sink the ship with the lip, meaning don’t say anything bad between parties.
6)Eagles pick flesh off bones as disinterested Helpers.It is a painful, ugly process.
7)Beware of word-cursing, especially “always,” “never,” “hate” and “divorce.”
8)Helper must be very careful to not be penetrated in energy, sleep, finances, etc.
9)Assume a high level of self-destruction in Subject.
10)Assume a high level of irrational behavior and thinking in Subject.
11)Assume paradoxically, Subject has keen insight into bad spirits of others.
12)Subject is greatly helped by water baptism.
13)Subject is even more-greatly helped by Holy Spirit baptism.
14)Assume over 80% of Subject’s life is typically run wrong by Subject’s spirits.
15)Believe over 80% of Subject’s life will eventually be run correctly by Subject.
16)Recognize seasons when Helper must stop help or contact with Subject.
17)Subject and Helper must hear and obey God as if life depended on it.
18)Subject must refrain from enlisting aid of nominal Christians against Helper.
19)Only work with God-assigned people, never outside of God’s will.
20)Subject must not run off prematurely and try to become Helper to other Subjects.
21)Helper must respect Subject and Subject must respect Helper.
22)Both Helper and Subject must believe God honors both for working together.
23)Allow God to stay in control, don’t let Subject remove that control.
24)Remember, waves tend to make rocks smooth.The wild waves bashing spirits out-of-control against each other can achieve smoothing and balance in us.
25)The eventual goal is a balance of good spirits in an individual, even symmetry.
26)If hell is really ramped up, perhaps wrong spirits were fed.(In other words, did Subject go to places with bad spirits, or allow self to be depressed, or take drugs/alcohol, or lose energy, lose sleep, lose health, or lose other such things?)
27)In spirit stirrings, memory of Helper and Subject tends to be stolen (forgotten.)
28)Helper and Subject must go toward love-environments.(In other words, go towards groups with God in them, go toward God-blessed events, go towards God-blessed entertainment, go toward God-blessed days of nature, etc.)
29)Helper and Subject must go away from non-God environments.In other words, go away from groups without God in them, away from songs without God in them, away from entertainment without God in them, away from all un-anointed people, places and things.)((Otherwise, bad spirits get stronger.))
30)Realize every step toward God is a miracle and be extremely thankful!
31)Realize every step away from God is an altogether too real a tragedy.
32)Realize Subject and Helper can easily lose, fail and have terrible outcomes.
33)If Subject fails, eternal life may be lost, and all who depend on that Subject to succeed.This could be thousands and thousands of souls!
34)Helper and Subject can succeed or fail, each individually or together.(There are no guarantees for anybody.)
35)Stay thankful and close to God.
36)Take lots of God-remedies to stay charged-up and balanced.(In other words, stay close to God’s nature, take walks, take swims, get outside, plant things, do good things that make you happy, pray good prayers, keep faith and self HAPPY!)
37)Assume old bad spirits will be activated in Helper by Subject and vica versa.
38)Assume Subject will rail at imperfections of Helper.
39)Subject is unwise to refuse God-sent help of Helper.
40)Subject must honor the higher position-in-God of Helper, not pretend the reverse.
41)Only God makes a soul beautiful.If dogs, children and people run from Subject when Subject is out-of-control with wild-spirit-stirrings; while simultaneously dogs, children and people are drawn toward in-control Helper; then do not deny the obvious:The Subject needs help from the God-sent Helper.
42)Helper should not rescue a Subject not God-ready.It is utterly useless to do so.
43)Helper will hurt the Subject, so the Helper must model repentance to the Subject.(The Subject must maturely receive this, not use it as a weapon against the Helper.)
44)Helper must recognize release signals from God to stop helping the Subject.
45)Roles can strangely be reversed by God, to model correct things.
46)Roles can strangely be reversed by enemies of God, to great ruination of program.
47)For Helper and Subject, the process is torture for all concerned.It is excruciating.It is seemingly endless.
48)Eventual benefit to Subject is enormous.All who were waiting for Subject to become their Helper now can receive salvation.
49)Eventual benefit to Helper is enormous.Basically, by so helping the Subject, the Helper “hides a multitude of sins.”(James 5:20)
50)Both Subject and Helper may hear from Father God, “Well done thy good and faithful servants!”
What Subject Must Realize About Overcoming Process:
1)Subject needs help, for Subject’s spirits are out-of-control
2)Subject’s spirits are in a successful self-destruction course.(All will crash & die.)
3)Subject must honor Helper, God and this God-ordained path.(Fight the thoughts that the Helper is a lunatic or needs “fixing” by easily enlisted dupes.)
4)Subject must realize other options cost much more in time, pain and money.
5)Subject must realize Subjectis expendable, for even Jesus was crucified.
6)Subject must realize: It is not all about the Subject.For legions of generations will be in darkness and in death evermore unless help someday arrives from the Subject, after the Subject has success in overcoming bad spirits.
7)Subject must use all available methods to increase good spirits.This includes uplifting movies, events, scenic nature walks, uplifting animals, etc., etc.)
8)Subject must realize improvement comes line-upon-line of understanding doctrine, understanding correct thinking, understanding correct speaking, understanding correct actions, understanding life lived the best!
9)There will be God-ordained rests and recreations.Realize God is not onerous, and will never give more than anyone can bear.
10)Don’t fight the river of God, however it flows:Placid, furious, dry, raging, overflowing!Simply don’t be uptight, and go and flow with God.
12)Work hard to reject all bad spirits.(i.e. Shouting, anger, jealously, suspicion, etc.)
13)Work hard to receive all good spirits.(i.e. Happiness, faith, pleasantness, etc.)
14)When a bad spirit rises up (i.e.When Subject thinks, I hate being corrected; Subject must say, No! to hate and Yes! To being teachable and correctable.Ditto for anger.Ditto for all bad spirits.)
15)When good things appear on the horizon, chase after them!
16)When bad things appear on the horizon, run away!
17)Judge and recall past experiences to be able to chase the correct horizon.
18)Never refuse to go back in your mind to an incident that should have taught you something!Realize God went to quite and effort to show you where you needed correction.If you reject your own God-sent lessons, God will stop sending youlessons.(Pray to God he doesn’t consider you uncorrectable!)
19)Fight having an uncorrectable spirit.Otherwise, no overcoming is possible.
20)A self-destructing spirit makes for a life with little good structure.Chaos is an enemy of God.
21)An orderly spirit makes a life with good structure.God is a God of order.
22)A bad-timing spirit ruins good things with bad time.God is a God of time.Fight being deceived by a bad-timing spirit.This will convince you (wrongly) that doing the right thing does not work.You must do the right thing at the right time.
23)Consider doing a fast (stopping) on talking.This gets you closer to God, and further from fights between Helper and Subject.
24)Seek to do permanent damage to one’s own ego.Get self off the throne of your life.
25)Seek to “catch” bad spirits manifesting.Catch yourself thinking and then going into rage about something or the other.Catch the thoughts as they rise up!
26)Realize most Subjects bring death of some sort to their Helper.Just as a drowning victim tries powerfully to drown his lifesaver, the same thing happens with Subject to Helper.This is ugly, but true.
27)Realize the whole process will be ugly.(It is like cancer or gangrene:Local death in tissues must be removed from the living body.)
28)Sometimes it is better for Helper and Subject to communicate by phone, not face-to-face.(Because bad spirits get activated face-to-face easier than by phone.)
29)Realize that civil authorities are best avoided, so long as overcoming remains in the realm of God-ordained stirrings.
30)If overcoming-in-God ever gets dangerous physically or financially; this is tragic; God no-longer can help; self-destruction has won; the people have lost.God is not pleased.The kingdom of heaven is not expanded.Avoid this tragedy.
31)Keep from blabbing to friends about the process.To worldly people, the Helper looks to need help and the Subject can appear to be the helper.
32)Nevertheless, the Helper usually is greatly helped by the Subject, just as any teacher can learn more from the students.
33)It is absolutely critical for the Subject to not reject help from the Helper.
34)If nothing seems to be working, have faith, more tools are available:
a.Fasting (food, words, bad thoughts)
b.Intercession (pray and ask others to pray for you)
c.Faith (pray and ask for more…simply say, “I believe.Period.”
d.Acquit self as a “man” or as a “woman.”Simply do your best.Period.
e.Immerse self in reading, speaking, listening to words of the Bible.
f.Trips may be God-ordained to get to next higher level.(These are not escape-from-God trips but God-ordained trips to get what you need.)
g.Immerse self in anointing of God (at meetings, from people, artifacts, places, movies, from nature, whatever God deems sufficient.)
h.Deliverance ministries cast out bad spirits, but then can return easily.
i.Get a second or third opinion from another qualified-in-God Helper.(Not from sympathetic like-minded friends-of-the-world.)
j.Check, check and re-check to see what is missing in program.
k.Stop leaning on man’s help!
l.Lean harder on God’s help!
m.Lean hardest – by far—lean hardest on your inner good to do job!(God wants you – perhaps not a deliverer, perhaps not even Himself – to get credit for what you have done with your correct decisions and self control)
n.Begin small disciplines (push-ups, water dousing, praying, smiling, waking up happy, whatever works easily in small steps) and build up to big steps later.
o.Ask God for mercy.Pray, “God have mercy!”
35)Subject should have faith and draw out help from Helper.This will make Helper able to do greater things than thought possible.
36)A quiet person may have the most to say.Listen to the silence of God.
37)A talkative person usually has the least to say.Learn to shut up.
38)Usually what is happening is written large yet hidden from all who don’t have eyes to see, but discernable from those with eyes of the spirit to see, if the seer fights to not run from the ugly scene or any scene so-displayed.(For example, a filthy house is an indication of that house-owner’s soul.A hot-tempered man might have a vehicle that over-heats.Unclean spirits make bad smells.Etc., etc.)
39)Honor God’s calendar.Most people don’t, and hurt themselves.
40)Beware of days surrounding a full moon, spirits get out-of-control.
41)Beware of deadline days, such as beginning of months, school year, calendar year, Jesus’ birth, betrayal, death, resurrection.
42)Realize that drugs, alcohol wrongly used, depression, wrong-talk, wrong-actions, disobeying God, not listening to the Holy Spirit, or adopting a do-not-care attitude deals death to all.
43)Take responsibility for the spirit you are of and the mistakes you make.That is the goal of overcoming:To control one’s own spirit and receive truth.
44)Realize truth is within us all.
45)Realize consequences:Eating a cake, means you don’t have a cake.Spending money one place means it is not available another place.Spending time one place means it is not available another place.Spending energy one place means it is not available another place.Don’t blame others or the world because consequences are unavoidable.Take responsibility for lousy decisions which rob yourself and family from the good God intended.
46)Pray for wisdom to know what to do for one’s own self and family.
47)Subject and Helper must pray for each other, forgive each other, bless each other.
48)Ego, stress, anger, rage, resentment and wrong judgment all work together as bad spirits, destroying the good in life.Refuse to get stressed out over anything!
49)Love conquers all.(Rejoice you are chosen to overcome sin!)
50)Hate conquers people in sin.
51)God is love, loves us and wants us to love each other in freedom.
52)Whom the Son sets free is free indeed.
53)God wants us all free from sin, including family-destroying bad-spirits.
54)God wants our spirits to soar like eagles.
55)God says, “Be ye perfect (spiritually mature) even as I am perfect.”
56)So God commands us to be spiritually mature.
57)So, be spiritually mature.
58)Who has a right to be immature?No one, but a child.Don’t be childish.
59)Be a good man of God, be a good woman of God.Be good.
According to the New Testament Jesus wants us to die to self.This is not a popular sermon, but occasionally preachers will preach it.
Sometimes the preachers will admit the death-to-self message is a hard sell to members of the audience.Few embrace it.Few want to hear it.Fewer can believe it.When the sermon is over, the congregation likely as not gives a collective sigh of relief.
How can more people be convinced to die to self?Again, the problem is how religion of today describes the future.An easy and escapist future means few will really want to die to self.Because weak and erroneous church doctrines, including rapture, imminent second return of fix-it-all Jesus and eternal security, do two main things:First, they promote selfishness or self on the throne.And second, they discourage death to self or enthroning God.
This is why doctrines are important. Bad church doctrines make antichrists.Good doctrines make Christians, or people who can manifest Christ.This is why seeker friendly churches cannot forever stay neutral on doctrine.God is not neutral, his Church cannot be neutral, no one in heaven is neutral and in the end you and I cannot be neutral.
Conversely, the In That Day Teachings teach taking responsibility for one’s own self manifesting Jesus by dying to self and worshipping God in spirit and truth.
Still, it is hard to believe it is worth it to die to self.So here are encouraging things to look forward to dying to self.
There are, in fact, mysterious benefits to sharing the cross of death with Jesus.Mark 16:20 says, “And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following.Amen.”
Now Jesus could call up signs.So could some prophets of old and some accomplished disciples.But Mark 16:20 implies all with a sufficient percentage of God’s truth and Spirit (and we all have varying amounts of them) will have signs following them.This covers a lot of territory.
However, an humble preacher or teacher will confess, it is hard to get the mysterious benefits going in one’s own life.Harder still, is for a teacher to point out a sign currently happening that confirms the word of the teacher.So few dare to teach in this realm, where confirmation comes not from man but God.
With signs God is continually confirming or denying everything, actually.But you need to be brave.Much of what we want God to confirm He does not and vice versa.
With the eyes of God’s Spirit in us we see God’s spiritual hand moving.It is quite often “too much information” for us.As a mercy, most of us are blinded to not be able to see in the spirit realm.
But if you successfully die to self, you can start seeing spiritually more things. Any examples I have of this seem immodest, self-serving, unbelievable or delusional.So they probably have been or will be for you.
Sometimes God’s signs are so exotically creative I ponder them in my heart as awe inspiring witnesses to God’s omnipresence, omnipotence and love.Who am I that God would do such for me?Who are we that God would do such for all of us?
Your position in God, you will see, is always being confirmed or denied by God’s signs.This includes your children, spouse, boss, company, pastor, church, radio preacher and televangelist.Just watch with spiritual eyes to see what happens around people!
Sounds superstitious?Maybe.
Your life will seem like a movie if you have truth and move with God’s Spirit.Let Him direct you.It is called worshipping God in Spirit and truth.The benefits are enormous – heaven on earth and heaven in eternity!
Afterword:
Here is an example of God’s Mark 16:20 signs confirming the word, or God’s truth.
Last night at about 7:30 pm I wanted to go out to dinner.I had been thinking of going to Denny’s restaurant.However, when I got there and sat at a booth I felt I had to leave.It would cost me $20 just to have a meal from a kitchen that didn’t smell too good.So without ordering anything I told the waitress I had to leave.
I drove to a new IHOP restaurant about a mile away.Suddenly everything started feeling better.And I wrote the outline of what you have read above in a booth at the IHOP.
For only $7.99 I received a full meal with salad, drink and desert.I talked with my waitress, Tammy.She said that this marked a two-shift day for her.Between shifts she had worried about getting a birthday present for her eight-year-old son.She only had $75.He wanted an expensive Xbox game player.She went to a nearby pawn shop on her break.An Xbox was there for $75.She didn’t have enough to pay the tax.So they lowered the price to include tax.Praise God for hearing, obeying and confirming signs!
(Recently I stopped judging against things like video game players.It doesn’t pay to be insanely rigid and think God is always opposed to video games.If you have been rigidly locked into thinking without checking God’s now-rhema opinion, would you have left money in obedience for the waitress?Or would you have sermonized against Xbox?)
My meal cost about $8.60 with tax.I paid with a $20 bill and told the waitress to keep the change.Maybe she needed a little cash, since she said she spent all of hers that day on her son’s gift.I prayed that her son be blessed and have a new beginning at age eight.
When I got home I praised God for His signs and he gave me another.I took my two Golden Retrievers for a walk.The sky was clear and a half moon shined brightly.A jet’s contrail had passed directly beneath the moon.The effect gave a circular rainbow around the moon.It only lasted a few minutes, but WOW!How often do you see a nighttime circular rainbow around an unclouded moon?This event seemed targeted to me, because the rainbow effect wasn’t observable outside my block.
On January 19, 2006 I made a video taping at SandHarbor on the east side of Lake Tahoe.After the sun set behind the Sierras, the sun reflected off clouds above the ridgeline and made a round sun reflection in the lake.This seemed to be a sign Jesus (the Sun) wants us (the lake) to manifest Him in perfect wholeness or roundness.You could easily see the sun in the lake, but you saw only clouds in the sky.You can see this at the end of In That Day Teaching #80.This also seemed to be a sign.Such signs tend to follow me.
On April 8, 2007 I flew from Reno to OrangeCounty to be with my family for the holiday.After the noon time meal, I walked from my parent’s house in MonarchBay in DanaPoint to the beach.There a harbor seal had dragged itself a hundred yards to rest at the entrance to the beach club.Lifeguards were guarding it, and had placed chairs around it.The animal rested peacefully in the sun.It was another sign to me, for I beheld a representation of life and resurrection for families and their disabilities:an Easter Seal.
Maybe this is what it is like to hear and obey God and have signs follow you.Maybe it isn’t.I just pray to God it never stop happening in my life.And I pray it starts happening, or increases at greater levels in your lives.
It is hard to argue against a sign that God delivers.It is also foolish.More foolish still is to defend and argue against those that don’t believe.As a mercy to others, I have left out countless examples wherein signs were provided by God showing his position between two people.
It came as quite a shock to me that so many times God provides an incident as a “for spiritual eyes only” sign, and not huge lightning strikes and thunders all can witness.Somehow, I believe.From the signs I must either take comfort or correction.And I must thank God.
“I beg of you, Monsieur, watch yourself.Be on guard.This place is full of vultures, vultures everywhere, everywhere!” says a European as he puts his left arm compassionately around an Englishman in the movie Casablanca.Of course when the European leaves, the Englishman finds his wallet has been stolen.
This classic scene is so memorable because it strikes a truism, that people warn others…about themselves.It is a familiar theme in life.We sometimes hear it from unwitting radio and television pastors.Preacher A becomes upset by Preacher B, so Preacher A quotes Luke 21:8, “Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ: and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.”
Ipso facto – by that very word or fact – then we are to believe Rev. A and shun Rev. B as the Devil incarnate.The problem never seems to fix itself because on another day Rev. B will say in dead serious tones to not be deceived by those vultures over in Rev. A’s camp.Luke 21:8 back at you, brother!
Traditional Jewish scholars have a more enlightened approach.If Rabbi A’s teaching contradicts Rabbi B’s, Rabbi C says they are both right.If Rabbi D says they cannot both be right, Rabbi C agrees!Time will tell who is right, so why fight?This takes more maturity than the “two camps exchanging hate” crowd.
Still, a person might want to know how to discern who is telling truth.Well, truth prevails at pride’s expense and vice versa.So first ask: is the teacher humble?Has the teacher ever admitted fallibility in doctrine?
A humble teacher might say:I could be wrong.I am no expert.Better minds than mine have studied this more.Correct me if I am wrong.The Bible is not clear on this and we all come to different conclusions.Parts of the Bible completely baffle me.Such a humble preacher might be worth listening to.Being humble, he is probably watching what spirit he is of.He might be worshiping God in spirit and truth.God might give him revelation denied the proud.
A prideful teacher might concentrate only on a narrow band of truths.Since he is so focused on proclaiming how unquestioningly right is he while how unquestioningly wrong is another, he may not have a clue about what prideful, accusing and wrong spirits he might be of.He may very well be showing that pride prevails at truth’s expense!He may not be manifesting Christ at all.He even might be closer to manifesting antichrist!
Another test is the sound of a person’s voice.Does it have a ring of truth when the matter is spoken forth?Truths ring like a bell.Lies do not resonate with what is true.
Too subjective?Well, sorry to inform you, we live in a subjective world and learn to discern!The Bible tells us in Matthew 7:28-29 that when the people heard Jesus speak, they were astonished at his doctrine for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.They discerned, and you can too.It is innate in us, though oft beat down.
So listen to your teacher when talking about a debated matter.Does the teacher sound like a scribe, or a legalistic person arguing the letter of the law and not having the spirit of God?Voices that are high, wispy, cracked, faltering, strident, weak, argumentative, defensive and such may tell you that the doctrine is not supported by God’s Spirit.
With ears to hear, something like this happens.The next paragraph shows how a preacher might connect (with God’s strong resonance) or disconnect (with God’s strong dissonance) from truth as shown using the following exaggerated typestyles.
Congregation, I tell you,the Bible is Truth!It will explain the Rapture. The Bible is truth!It will prepare you for the future.The Bible is truth!It will tell you how Jesus can live in usand shine!The Bible is truth!And when the rapture comes, you will be prepared.And should Jeeeezus tarry, Wednesday night we’ll talk about the coming antichrist.This week, read the Bible!
This is how teachers flow in an out of truth.It is how we all flow in an out of truth.The closer to truth we are, the more of God’s Spirit is activated in us: the greater the activation, the greater good and actually the greater God.(Recently I heard a conservative radio preacher whose voice changed from having God’s authority to that of the whiny professor in Disney’s Honey, I Shrunk the Kids as he discussed doctrines.)
So often, our preachers and teachers focus only on arguing truth, never admitting the slightest possibility of error, and therefore they increase the cacophony of Babel.
How rare the preacher or teacher who first asks us to listen to the sound of his voice, to discern the spirit he is of and judge his doctrines, which might be in error, against scripture and God’s Spirit.Such a teacher readily admits his fear of error and desire for correction (correction, of course, from like-minded humble spirits who don’t proudly proclaim absolute inerrancy in themselves either.)
Such a teacher might very well manifest the Lord Jesus Christ, and do surprising things.God is transcendently good.He is always right and always of a right spirit.
Abraham Lincoln put it this way: “When I do good, I feel good.When I do bad, I feel bad.That is my religion.”
And dear reader, I’ll put it this way.I could be wrong, but Jesus wants to manifest in every man, woman and child on this planet.To help Him do that, we must be humble.
Introduction:These teachings may seem harsh to those unfamiliar to them.As for those who refuse a king’s reign, Jesus said in Luke 19:27 (Amplified) “[The indignant king ended by saying] But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to reign over them – bring them here and slaughter them in my presence!”When did Jesus become politically – oops I mean – religiously incorrect?Or is it the wayward church?
The following miscellaneous statements and teachings are provided not solely as criticism of others, but primarily as a spiritual set of tools for a Christian to advance from one level to another.The temptation is to merely see these as intellectual criticisms.That would be a mistake.
Use these tools to discover any dark spirits residing in your own self, attack them with confession and the blood of Jesus, disown them, agree with others you are guilty of employing them to gain unholy advantage, discern when they rise up in you to do something evil and refuse to allow them entrance into your conscious and even unconscious life.By controlling such evil thoughts, you control those evil spirits and subsequently your spirit, soul and body.That is what makes a person good, by God!Pride, especially intellectual or religious, is what makes a person bad, by Satan!Pick your master, everybody has one.But there is only one good master.
This is a lot to digest.Stick with it.If it hits you too hard with too much, take comfort that you are not alone.Paul spoke so much to King Festus in Acts 26:24 that “Festus said with a loud voice, ‘Paul, thou art beside thyself, much learning doth make thee mad.’”
I hope in the following I have not been beside myself with demons in control but beyond myself with the Holy Spirit in control.And to the people of the world, perhaps I should appear quite mad.At least so thought Festus of Paul.I know not what others may write in regards to me.I am trying to serve my generation in my time.I just hope you can feel the truth that I feel, serve the God that I serve and know the joy that I have.
$20 Million Jets –Proof that some Christian doctrines are wrong is provided by the fleet of jets that certain televangelists now justify.Recently the $20 million Citation X has been a popular purchase.If $20 Million was used for investment instead of ego exalting, a 10% annual return would be $2 million.In thirty years a 10% return could grow to $349 million.Suppose an airline ticket costs $2,000.With $20 million you could simply purchase 10,000 airline tickets.Or if you just spent the interest received on $20 million in a year, you could buy 1,000 tickets, or three per day.Or you could even buy one hundred $20,000 charter flights per year, one every fourth day.Consider that commercial flights earn awards for free trips, lowering costs.But flying one’s own executive jet creates exorbitant costs most every time.But in the galactic battle between the competitive pride of jet set preachers and humble grain-of-salt reason, the winners appear to be the high flying gospel spinners.Having done the math, dare we do the logic?Is it perhaps miscreant doctrines that create, justify and promulgate such brazen blings?
3 ½ Years– When the Bible speaks prophetically, often it is in spiritual language.So when three and a half prophetic years are seen in the Bible, it may mean the half of the number of seven, which is perfection or Christ-likeness.Therefore the half-way period may mean an indefinite period of time taking as long as it takes for the perfection of Christ-likeness to be achieved, which is seven years or more correctly, times.(Thanks to Gary Wiley of Reno, Nevada for that observation.)Thus an angry man will be tested for three and a half years, meaning as long as it takes, by God until he passes the test.
4 Horsemen (Spirits) of the Apocalypse – Now at this particular time, which perhaps the Bible identifies as “In That Day,” what does God use to accomplish greater overcoming?He uses four amazing spirits.They are otherwise known as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, which refers to Chapter Six of Revelation.
These four strong spirits, represented by horse and rider, are black for judgment scales, famine, drought and mass starvation, as in a drought of rhema teachings of truth; pale green or gray for bruising, death, hell following, sword and hunger; fiery red for anger, impatience, violence, war, removal of peace and strife unto killing one another; and white for conquering and convicting power of the Holy Spirit, with rider carrying a bow with no arrows and given a crown symbolizing a nonviolent rise to power.
So God releases these powerful, but unseen, spirits in waves upon the earth!We are stirred up in black prejudice and judgment, gray despair and death, red anger and violence and eventually white conviction and repentance.
Thus when waves of such spirits hit the earth, people are stirred up.Wild things tend to happen, as with a full moon.During such wild stirrings, often our inner demons are exposed.We can use these opportunities to then fight our inner evil spirits who have come out to play, often without our overt permission!We repent and become overcomers in Christ.In conclusion, if we knew of this spiritual process, we might have greater victory over our inner demons!(It is an old process, but becoming ever stronger.)
Behold, the Lord has a strong and mighty agent;
As a storm of hail, a tempest of destruction, Like a storm of mighty overflowing waters, He has cast it down to the earth with His hand. – Isaiah 28:2 NASB
A Cypress, California pediatrician was arrested because he became infuriated when another person cut in line while he was waiting in his car at a gas station.He grabbed a tire iron and confronted the line cutter, who called the police, who arrested the doctor.When interviewed by the local press, the doctor said he was embarrassed by his own surprising behavior.He said given the opportunity, he would never do that again.He even said, “Oh my God… We must pray… and be patient.”Thus did the White Spirit checkmate Red, one hopes.
True end times eschatology is not fearful, not fear-mongering, not something for ministry leaders with egregious spirits to profit from by selling fear-based books, TV shows and conventions to escape-hungry, fear-hungry, distraction-hungry hordes.This loving and making lies puts sheep and shepherd in desolate whoremonger camps outside God’s gates. The blind lead the blind into ditches.
666– The mark of the beast is not a computer chip under the skin mandated by a one world government.Rather it is a spiritual mark God’s angels put on a person’s spirit, soul and body if those areas of that person’s life are the number of man, which is six.If people are marked with three sixes, they cannot buy God’s greater truths.So they are stuck with small doctrines and big lies.
80/20 Percentage Change– How much does a Christian’s life change?When a person becomes a Christian, do they change their actual lives?Often, only the change is internal, in the spirit.However, when a person begins the overcoming process – or when a person receives the In That Day Teachings or other similar information – then a large change can occur in a Christian’s actual life.How much change?Say to start with, about 80 percent of a person’s life changes while 20 percent stays the same.Sometimes it will feel more like 95 percent.
90 Proof Tithing– Non-profit leaders sometimes obscure their self-service promotion of fixed-rule tithing by emphasizing their own tithes and donations exceeding ten percent.To expose the ruse, I will give the following example.Suppose I say my imaginary non-profit organization will tithe ninety percent of its income to other non-profits, if a million people will give my non-profit a regular ten percent tithe of their imagined $100,000 income.The result is I still net a billion dollars.Wow!If I get a peer buddy to do the same thing, and we give our ninety percent to each other’s non-profits (wink!) we then both net $10 billion each.Sweet Jesus!That is intoxicating.Well, tithing is so intoxicating its recipients seldom mention Jesus three times in the gospels excoriated tithing people.And Jesus accused the religious establishment of the day of gross extortion.Well, that is sobering.Now then, who says to sup which cup?
A Colossal, Inconvenient Truth from Colossians:– When a sinner is led to say the sinner’s prayer, often he is told to invite Jesus into his heart.Then the new Christian is coached along the way.He does this, he does that.He learns many good things.Then the end result is that the Christian may never again think of how Christ lives in his heart, ready to manifest unless, that is, he leads another sinner to say the same sinner’s prayer and invite Jesus into another sinner’s heart.The express purpose of In That Day Teachings are to enable mature Christians to hear, obey and manifest Christ.But that is such an unusual message!Who ever hears that preached?Televised Christianity is full of profound absurdities:$20 million jets, requests for million dollar jet garages, stories of $15,000 watches, give-to-get greedy prosperity messages, mania over motorcycle cruisers, celebrated and idolized personalities of power and persuasion, and so on infinitum.Yet here is what The Message Bible says in Colossians 1:This mystery has been kept in the dark for a long time, but now it’s out in the open.God wanted everyone, not just Jews, to know this rich and glorious secret inside and out, regardless of their background, regardless of the religious standing.The mystery in a nutshell is just this:Christ is in you, therefore you can look forward to sharing in God’s glory.It’s that simple.That is the substance of our Message… We teach in a spirit of profound common sense so that we can bring each person to maturity.To be mature is to be basic.Christ!No more, no less.Then from Chapter 2:Just go ahead with what you’ve been given.You received Christ Jesus the Master; now live Him… School’s out; quit studying the subject and start living it! …Watch out for people who try to dazzle you with big words and intellectual double-talk.…You don’t need a telescope, a microscope, or a horoscope to realize the fullness of Christ, and the emptiness of the universe without Him….So then, if with Christ you’ve put all that pretentious and infantile religion behind you, why do you let yourselves be bullied by it?...But they’re just another way of showing off, making [themselves] look important.So the truth is, we are supposed to allow Christ to live and manifest Himself in us.And we learn this from humble, broken-in-spirit teachers who do this.And preachers and teachers with pride, with wrong doctrine, with love-of-mammon prosperity spirits consuming their souls, with unbroken hubris, with witchcraft audience-controlling spirits, with self-serving doctrines of ease, error and escape, all these cannot do this.They cannot manifest Christ.They say, “Lo here, lo there is Christ!”But they cannot manifest Christ.And they cannot honor those who do.Nor can they teach others.Nor do they want to learn.Nor will they tolerate messages of this truth.They will preach, and their sons will preach and their sons’ sons will preach anything but the message of how to manifest Christ.Because they cannot honor that another – even their student – would manifest Christ.They only insist that you honor what they themselves know, and teach, and preach, and earn a living from Christ.It’s all about themselves, really.But it is too colossal, too inconvenient to challenge them.So their followers just praise the pandering and wonder, when will Christ come?And that suits the Devil fine, because his plan is working with those so set.And God lets the truly unseeking embrace all that is antichrist.It is how the tares are differentiated from the wheat.But the true seekers find God.And in them, Christ is happy to manifest.Behold, Christ does come quickly!
A Grain of Salt – Most truths can be found already expressed in stories, songs and expressions from popular culture.It is how God gets the truth out.For example, take George and Ira Gershwin’s lyrics from It Ain’t Necessarily So:“Live clean, don’t have any fault; take the gospel whenever it’s possible; But take it with a grain of salt.”Shepherds have conveniently forgotten to teach sheep how to discern the Ring of Truth in any given situation.So God relies on popular culture to proclaim His greater truths.This parabolic wisdom is widespread in the rain of popular culture (though veiled) while an interminable drought remains widespread among the dry shepherds.Is Christianity frozen in a never ending Narnian winter with the Wicked Witch enthroned?Or is the Church trapped in C. S. Lewis’ Silver Chair of enchantment?What commandment forbids skeptical Bereans from seeing the obvious?What explains Christians believing in $799.99 post-rapture mail, or weak praise music, or six day creation, or that Eve ate fruit or that Christ cannot manifest now so we must passively expect Him to do something good we won’t?Like the Muses sang in Disney’s Hercules, “It was a nasty place.There was a mess wherever you stepped.”All because doctrine has been wrong.Anyone can make a mistake.Anyone can be wrong, except all the preachers who teach otherwise.A confirmation of the prudence of taking authority’s spoken word with a grain of salt happened at the WorldTradeCenter site during September 11, 2001.After the NorthTower was hit by the first plane but before the SouthTower was hit by a second one, officials make a public address system announcement that the south building is “secure” and that people should return to their offices. Of the many whom left the building in defiance of the public announcement, a Jewish lady was supposedly heard loudly proclaiming, “My parents escaped the holocaust by ignoring such announcing.”Like Billie Holiday sang, “God bless the child that’s got his own.”And the heroes of Flight 93 proved they could discern a situation quick enough to save the UnitedState’s capitol from further harm that day.Inherent in humankind is a deep knowledge of truth.But much of teaching and even preaching makes us go along with whoever is in charge.On 9/11/01 Mohammed Atta said from the controls of American Airlines Flight 11, “We have some planes. Just stay quiet, and you'll be okay. We are returning to the airport.”Right.Did that sound like truth to anybody on the plane?If preachers were not so busy deafening our ears to truth while they ramble along about the rapture, maybe more than one plane out of four would have been stopped that day.Wrong doctrine spoken from pulpits for decades, along with all the other wrong things spoken by other media purveyors, has deadened our ears to something very simple, but also something very important:Truth.
A Parable of Perfection–Once upon a time a traveler visited a land called Perfection.He noticed the lovely homes and buildings of Perfection were peculiar.None of them had roofs.They had perfect walls, floors, plumbing, fixtures and so on; but not one house or building had a roof.When he asked a resident of Perfection why the buildings did not have roofs, the resident advised the traveler to keep his questions to himself.Then the traveler noticed other unfinished things in the land of Perfection.The vehicles of Perfection had no motors.The phones had no ear pieces.The televisions had no screens.The computers had no processors.The planes had no engines.Thus most everything in Perfection was done to a high level of perfection, except for the completion of perfection.Finally he could keep quiet no longer.He asked a large crowd to listen to him.Why, he asked, are your perfect things done only half complete?The crowd quickly became angry and threatened to kill the visitor.But the visitor kept talking, because he believed at most he would be only slightly hurt, because killing him would take the doing of something to perfect completion.However, the people of Perfection jumped upon their bothersome visitor, took his life quite completely, dug a six foot grave, buried him leaving no trace and quickly forgot the whole affair in a fashion that – if the visitor had been alive to witness it would have certainly agreed – was no less than perfection itself.(The above parable is for the masses.An explanation to disciples would be that the land of Perfection is the wayward church, unfinished.The wayward church believes it needs no correction, rebuke, chastisement or finishing.Yet is is undeniably incomplete.What is it missing?Answer: The doctrines enabling Christ to manifest Himself in each believer at high levels through humbly embracing full indwelling of the corrective Holy Spirit.What does the wayward church have completely?Answer:Full and powerful mechanisms denying all correction, preventing Php 1:6“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ” from ever happening.An explanation to top students (i.e. James, Peter, John) would be that individuals in the wayward body embrace dark spirits of pride, deception and control.Any person trying to correct these evil spirits in church leadersfaces massive denial spirits and counter-attacking spirits.Deceived leaders of wayward religion love their dark demons of rigid control, hate the fluid and true corrections of the Holy Spirit and will do their absolute damnedest to deny any prophets of true correction.In this, and only this is the wayward church whole.Let the seer beware.)
Abominably Ritzy, Desolately Empty -- Why are prosperity seekers so rich, but never full? On November 13, 2007 it was reported Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal became the first person to purchase an A380 super jumbo. Astonishingly, the news said he already owned a Boeing 747-400. Which begs the question: He wasn’t fulfilled with his 747? Prosperity seekers Kenneth Copeland and Jesse Duplantis both recently bought $20 million Citation X jets. They weren’t fulfilled with their prior jets? Prosperity seeker Creflo Dollar has a Rolls-Royce. He wasn’t fulfilled with a Mercedes? Benny Hinn lives in an oceanfront multi-million dollar home on Ritz Cove Drive near the Ritz Carlton hotel in Dana Point, California. He wasn’t fulfilled with a less ritzy location? Prosperity seeker Joyce Meyers bought a $23,000 marble-topped commode (furniture, not plumbing.) She wasn’t fulfilled with a non-ritzy commode? The pattern is clear to see. These people cannot seem to get enough riches, yet their riches do not satisfy them ever. Jesse Duplantis is asking his partners for a multi-million dollar garage for his jet. YouTube shows Kenneth Copeland saying he could use a 747. So perhaps we have got it wrong from so much immersion in prosperity doctrine. The prosperity preachers say we must all be like Jesus, but they actually are like Saudi princes! And God knows it takes a lot of paupers to support a ritzy prince! However, the money never seems to be quite enough. It appears, no one can give them enough money to obtain contented ritziness. But many are giving them their best.
About Factor – Wherein Christian leaders abrogate their responsibility to be Christian and have the essence of Christ manifested, so they talk about Christ instead.Thus, they are like F-15 Eagle flight trainers who never fly, or ever actually see their captive students fly, or let anyone else ever fly.Further the only thing they launch are diabolic hate campaigns against all true pilots and flight trainers.
Adam and Eve’s Fall – Moses wrote in a poetic, repetitive and sometimes obscure fashion.What was his reason for doing that?God wanted it that way.But now that God has allowed our minds to expand from exposure to one hundred years of science fiction plots, we might be ready for the bitter truths of it all – eventruth’s total recall.In the beginning Adam and Eve may not have gotten in trouble with just eating forbidden fruit.The Garden of Eden may have had two trees, one being Jesus the other being Satan.Satan may have already had his victories in the previous earth age.Eve may have been tempted to know Satan, and even more horrible: Adam too.Adam then knew Eve.Then Cain was born whose father was not Adam.Then Abel was born whose father was Adam.Then Cain slew Abel, and on it goes.Christ explained it in Matthew 13:24-43 in the Parable of the Tares.The truth of these bitter stories from the Bible might explain the parabolic nature and extraordinary success of movies like Star Wars.A main theme in the six movies seems to be the importance of spiritual bloodline ties, and how they may be crossed with very deep heritages of evil, good and need for revelation, redemption and restoration.(See Pastor Arnold Murray from Shepherds Chapel in Gravette, Arkansas.)As usual, popular culture has much in the way of confirmation.The Persuasions, an a cappella group, sings a song by the name of Cain’s Blood, with these lyrics: There's an angel and a devil playing tug of war with my soul.The battle rages on each and every day.And the song’s chorus is:Half of my blood is Cain’s blood, the other half is Abel’s.One eye looks to heaven, one eye looks for trouble.
Ancient Earth – The earth is, as Billye Brim says, as old as the scientists say it needs to be.That so many Christian ministries insist in the earth being young is an example of how a literal interpretation of a spiritual Bible puts a literal spirit of stupidity on their minds.The Bible says the earth is ancient, as does the earth’s own observable record.The ministry proponents of an immature earth succeed only in proclaiming their own immaturity.Learn from this.The pay for being on the wrong side of God’s word, world and mind is, to say the least, unearthly bad.
Animal, Mineral or Plant – God’s message to us is coming from what?The donkey that spoke to Baalam was an animal.The brimstone raining on Sodom and Gomorrah was mineral.The burning bush of Moses was plant.The universe is alive with God, if only we understand, see and receive His messages to us.
Antichrist – He is either a distant, some-day-in-the-future giant nemesis of a man (or God forbid, woman!)…or he/she is simply me or you when we stray from being the essence of Christ at any particular moment in time.Antichrists discussing antichrist make books that sell well, movies that do not and sermons that do.But it may not please God, who by necessity permits such odious teaching, which actually increases Satan’s kingdom, but better defines opposing camps.An antichrist teacher might drum up dispensational fear by the bucketful, hold fear-based alter calls, talk too much about international relations and one world government and then ask you for money.Antichrist people are obsessed with filling your mind space with all that keeps you from manifesting Christ.How can you when they have scared the “be-Jesus” out of you?
Antipodal Idiocy – If spirit and truth disconnect the result can be bizarre bipolarity.When a pastor does not know how to truly worship God in spirit and truth, an interesting thing sometimes happens.That person might experience a radical disconnect between the spirit they are of and the truth that they speak.You can sometimes witness it in preachers who are off.And what happens is this:The spirit they are of becomes the exact opposite of the truth they speak.This is one of Satan’s demonic devices, because the spirit trumps the carnal.So the truth of the message is lost to the antichrist spirit manifested.Satan loves this in a preacher, and God hates it.Here is a written description of Antipodal Idiocy:A pastor with a dead-flat, monotone voice loudly proclaims, “You must obey God’s word, because God’s word is life to you.”In this instance, the lifeless antichrist spirit is mocking the living Word, which is Jesus, which is rhema, which is living in God’s now-instant-moment, which this preacher is a million miles away from manifesting.Another example of Antipodal Idiocy would be the whacked out charismatic televangelist who says in a moment of frenzy, “Ja-he-e-e-e-e-z-u-s-s-s-s is mah La-ha-ha-or-d-dah Huh!”In this instance, the man is calling on a dark critter by the twisted name of lahaordahuh jaheezus, who clearly is not God’s Son.The spirit is literally mocking the true Lordship of Jesus Christ in that wayward man.(His next sermon might be on the name of God.)Another example would be a dry ever-so-intellectual pastor who says in a high, whiny, annoying voice, “The letter of the law kills the spirit of God!”Of course, his letter-of-the-law screwball voice is exactly the spirit he is of, whose name might be professor nerdlydeadwrong.That spirit is mocking God’s admonition to always be real and not high-toned. (His next sermon might be on being totally filled with the God’s Spirit.)Another certain preacher unknowingly modeled Job’s Chapters 1 through 31 religious pride by elongating the last vowel of his sentences – while preaching incorrectly about Job!For example, he said things like “Job was goo-oo-oo-ood-duh!”He was righteou-eou-eous-s-s-s-huh!”This man’s sermon on Job was hilariously bipolar, because Job finally repented in Chapter 42 of himself being a vainglorious “righteou-eou-eous-s-s-s-huh!” kind of self-congratulatory, close-to-God’s-rules but far-from-God’s-essence kind of poser.Unfortunately, such bizarre bipolar examples are commonly found in pastors who do not have a clue that they regularly mock God’s logos truth by parading it on floats inhabited with foul, stinking, lying, prideful, supercilious, mocking, putrid, filthy evil spirits.A parade of roses it is not.
Apocalypse Now for Christian Escapologists – Is this the end of escape for escape-doctrine televangelists? Dilemmas, not rapture, have come to some televangelists. And they cannot escape their doctrine-driven dilemmas. We now know what eggs hatch from escapology. We see prosperity-on-the-outside celebrities driven by moral-lapse-demons-on-the-inside. Dare we connect the dots? Could it be that to believe – and God forbid preach – escapology doctrines creates vapid inner souls, incapable of saying no to self-interest? In short, does belief in escapology make a moral-escapist soul? The general answer seems to be yes. In the end, escapology destroys its leaders and followers. If we believe the Devil’s doxy, we die. Yet escapology sells well, in the billions of dollars. And dilemmas come quickly but rapture never. Will escape ever end?
Armageddon – Armageddon is today’s epic battle against self on the throne.It is not about World Wars III, IV, V and beyond.Nor is it an answer to how-to-get-rich prayers from dispensational religionists, authors and filmmakers.For perspective, consider that Armageddon was not World Wars I or II.Rather, Armageddon is your battle, it is my battle, it is your family’s battle, it is my family’s battle against self on the throne.The band Sugarland has sung, “Yeah, Armageddoncould be knocking at my door, But I ain’t gonna answer that’s for sure.There’s gotta be something more.”The song either reiterates Satan’s Selfish Way or with double meaning the profound exact opposite.
As one might suspect, popular culture has a song that explains much about this process:From Annie Get Your Gun are the sarcastic lyrics: “Folks are dumb, where I come from, we don’t have any larnin’, Still we’re happy as can be, Doin’ what a-comes a-naturally!”
As Time Goes By– “A kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is still a sigh, as time goes by.The fundamental things apply, as time goes by.”So go the lyrics from the movie Casablanca. Fundamental doctrines are true.But then along come alternative doctrines.At first they are difficult to discern.Wrong doctrines are juicy and enticing.Then they are believed, as for example prosperity extremism.Its first generation progenitors died with accolades and no correction came to the doctrines.But its second and third generation leaders are manifesting bigger problems from wrong doctrines gone on too long.Witness their Rolls-Royces, jets and mammoth egos.Now some televangelist operations have annual donation of hundreds of millions of dollars.With that kind of money and power, problems will inevitably manifest if doctrines are in error.Without fear these enterprises continue to grow, though other money handlers appear in the financial news regularly who have grossly erred.Billions of dollars have been lost by business leaders in every area.This witness is lost on some ego-driven preachers proclaiming their desire to be the first faith billionaires.It is not hard to predict financial crises and great doctrinal corrections will certainly come to them some day.It is just hard to believe before seeing it.But the fundamental things apply, as time goes by.
Ask the Askers of Money for Money– For a chance to grow in counter-intuitive thinking, next time you receive a dunning letter, or phone request or personal encounter with a non-profit organization with budgets exceeding yours by a factor of thousands, consider simply asking them for money.(Of course, only do such actions with God’s leading.)Sometimes turn about is fair play.They will surely rid themselves of you quickly.What love have they of you but your lovely money?Most such relationships are entirely one way:You send them money, they do whatever they want so long as they call themselves good.But ask yourself this question:Need they increase their budget of perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars per year while need you decrease your budget by the donation they say they desperately need?Does God really want them to have your money?Are they promulgating God’s manifested kingdom in maturity?If so, send it.If not, keep it.
Assuaging Woes of Prosperity High Flyers:– According to the 8/24/07 Wall Street Journal, private jets burn 15 times as much fuel per passenger as commercial planes.This is a cause of woe to the elite aviation crowd, which now includes so many jet set preachers.The Journal says private jets can make huge carbon footprints, with a simple cross-country $20,000 round trip flight making 13 metric tons of carbon dioxide.But it can be offset with a mere $74 carbon offset purchase.It’s a “feel good” solution, reports the Journal.The offsets help fund alternate-energy technologies such as windmills or carbon-dioxide-eating greenery. All this may be quite far afield from the subject of God, but it is important to know how prosperity preachers can carry on in their lofty skies without guilt.Especially since the Journal reports a Gulfstream G400 uses 100 gallons of fuel per passenger hour compared to just six for a commercial jet, such as a Boeing 777.So be prepared for new requests and dunning letters from the brotherhood of preachers with planes:Supporters may now face not only requests from preachers to fund their prosperity jets and their prosperity jet park facilities, but now also guilt-assuaging prosperity jet carbon offsets.Thankfully, our prosperity preachers will pioneer for us the ways of living large in the world – without guilt!So let’s just praise the carbon offset!
At the Top Can be Found God– At the top levels of most any profession, passion or person can be found God.Our Creator never has limited Himself to only Christianity or Judaism.Sometimes exquisite goodness can be found in people at paramount levels in ballet, martial arts, composing, politics, theater, film-making, business, science, astronomy, art, literature and even just simple life.Though we insist God be narrow-minded, He cannot.Certainly the Bible does show us His preferred way.And that way seems to be so challenging, it would be egregious to suggest any other path than through the Bible.Nevertheless, we should not turn away, but rather congratulate all who have drawn neigh unto God by whatever means.The more the merrier.God’s recruitment plan exceeds ours and, in fact, every plan of ours.God’s plan is a river.Our plans tend to be canal locks.Stiff-necked rebellion is as witchcraft to God.But if we relax and enjoy heaven’s flowing joy ride of ever-wonderful, ever-changing opportunities to increase God’s kingdom of truth, that is quite simply loving life, which is our Creator.
Behold I Come Quickly – Wherein Jesus desires to manifest in every man, woman and child possible on earth in this day – and does so, in those He can, in ways hidden from those who haven’t paid a price to see, but clearly to those who have.
Beware the Reason Behind– Christian leaders in America tend to ignore deeper reasons behind things.Why was prayer and the Ten Commandments removed from US public schools?Maybe Christians in America had already removed them from their lives, and God let the secular crowd confirm it.Outraged over Islamic Jihadists?Maybe God allowed this as a witness necessarily drawn forth by the vapid, inane and extremely laid back, casual Christians.They seem so convinced of Eternal Security, God shows us suicide bombers who believe they will meet 72 virgins in Allah’s heaven.(Thanks to radio personality Dr. Michael Savage for that observation.)Both beliefs are extreme nonsense.Ever notice rapture-believing televangelists are amassing extraordinary wealth for themselves from their supporters?If such leaders truly believe themselves soon taken, their wealth is for what?God permits just about anything, if it sheds light on wrong doctrines of the wayward Church.
Blind Right Eye– The coming antichrist is thought to have a blind right eye and weak or missing right arm.This comes from Zechariah 11:17.“Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock!The sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.”So the King James Version says this errant soul might look like a pirate with an eye-patch and hook for a right hand, or then again we might not take such a literal interpretation from a spiritual Bible.Perhaps when shepherds err, they create a situation in which God allows them to be weak with their supposed strengths and somewhat blind to their own spiritual impotence.Is this not the case with television ministries promoting the self-service doctrines of (beam us out of here) rapture, imminent return (of a super Jesus who fixes all but us) and eternal (do nothing and be rewarded everything) security?It seems that the easy-out escapology doctrines proceed with sort of a crazy logic (from left side of brain?) that overpowers a more holistic, spiritual approach (from right side of brain?)In other words, the logic is in a non-productive endless loop and must be reprogrammed.In the movie Zathura a robot designed to protect humans malfunctions and announces: “Alien life form!Must destroy!” and then proceeds to attack the humans.It is stopped when the humans show it a card that says “Reprogram.”After reading the card, the robot fixes itself and valiantly defends the humans against alien enemies.So in effect, these weak-in-God’s-power, wrong-program-logic shepherds have wed themselves to easy escapology doctrines that then make them preach about the coming antichrist eye-patched, hook-handed pirate!When in truth, they might be talking about their own spiritually blinded, weak in spirit selves!It seems like God’s colossal cosmic joke that stupid people get to play on themselves.Such shepherds seem like Job Chapters 1-31 endless loop, got-it-wrong motor-mouths.Then Elihu comes with the voice of truth and, not incidentally, the voice of God to give opportunity for one out of the four theological wizards to finally get real, which is to be able to get real close to God.In other words, Job and his three friends were rigid religionists (logically overly proud of their religious thinking, which was rigid and self-congratulatory on having a fix on God’s rules that they didn’t realize He breaks.)They completely missed the point of God, which is to spiritually see beyond the beyond, which is where you see what God’s hand is doing, and then you join in fellowship with Him as His friend!And you know, when you are in fellowship with a friend, he will feel comfortable enough to let you in on some of his jokes.Perhaps we should print some cards that say, “Reprogram.”
Burning Bushes – The Bible instructs us to proclaim the mighty works of the Lord.But where are God’s mighty works?If we have spiritual eyes to see, there are burning bushes everywhere.If we have no spiritual eyes, we see nothing of God.Moses walked the wilderness desert and then one day he encountered God by seeing a burning bush and deciding to turn aside.The key is to honor the barely noticeable (at first) thing you see of God’s hand moving, by pausing to turn aside and inquire of God.This quickens you to God’s quickness.Is not God the fastest thing in the universe?Are we not sometimes the slowest?God wants to know, can He get your attention?Or are you too involved in self-righteous pride-of-religion to stop for a moment and truly see what He is doing?As Shakespeare said, Ay, there’s the rub!If self is on the throne of our lives, we see no burning bushes, we see no God.If we allow God on the throne of our lives, then we can be interrupted by anything and inquire of God.It sounds simple, but it is actually quite hard to be that unselfish.It is a lot easier to dismiss the whole idea that God is actually doing many things each day to get our minds off ourselves and our pride-of-religion ways.To put it another way, a common proverb is that good things happen to good people.So really, God things happen to God people.But some people proclaiming themselves to be God people prima facie show themselves to be the contrary.That is why this teaching is hard to find, hard to model to others and hard believe in.But this is just where Jesus lived.With a twinkle in His eye He told Peter the next fish he caught would have a coin to pay the tax.Now that is a burning bush.To provide non-biblical examples is to provide debate for argument.Nevertheless, here are examples from history and my personal life:John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826, fifty years after signing the Declaration of Independence.A recent pair of horror movies crashed at the box office after being released on Resurrection Sunday of 2007.When I once told the famous dispensational preacher Chuck Missler I had avidly studied his end-times doctrines, Missler said to me in mocking fashion, “Then I’ll pray for you, brother.”A few months after praying to God to help me with a 30-year-old lower back pain, I found myself in Toronto, Canada at a martial arts school pinned underneath a large Russian named Igor.Igor locked his lower legs around mine, wrapped his burly arms around my upper body and pulled so hard that four or five lower vertebrae popped into a place they had not been in 30 years.I had been going to chiropractors for three years with no results.It took Igor only seconds.As people were paying their last respects to the deceased Ronald Reagan in a ceremony at his library in Simi Valley in 2004, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher deeply bowed toward the casket in a display of profound respect for her departed friend.At that precise moment, the sun set beyond the horizon.A praise band at a church I attended once had a real problem with bringing God’s anointing because its digital instruments sounded terrible.Then the power went out, they sang a cappella and God’s presence came!The ushers, equipped with secret service sleeve microphones and ear lobe radio devices, quickly ran new electric cords.In no time at all the power was back on at this high tech church, the band’s terrible digital instruments were once again playing and God’s presence left.This too, was a burning bush for all who had eyes to see or ears to hear God’s confirming or denying Spirit.Either God is alive in your life or not, it is really up to you.He continually does what He does, and you continually do what you do.It is up to you to honor His burning bushes.You can live your whole life ignoring them.But be like Moses!Turn aside!Come alive to God!
Buzzing Flies– The In That Day Teachings, in general, and its claim that escapist rapture doctrines are wrong, in particular, cannot be proved.The teachings are simply self-evident truths for all who have spiritual eyes and ears.For others the In That Day Teachings appear to be heresy, were it not for the sound of buzzing flies.Flies buzz around the prosperity preachers who fly in $20 million ministry jets.Flies buzz around the left behind authors and film makers whose work works on the gullible to empty their wallets and fill their souls with useless dispensational fear.Flies buzz around the weak praise, weak voices, weak preachers and weak believers who worship some strange god of weakness instead of Joshua’s be-strong-and-of-a-good-courage God.Flies buzz around self-interested non-profit organizations with astonishing distance from Christ’s essence, yet which demand tithes to themselves using the unsymmetrical ploy that if you give cash to their rotten-doctrine establishment, God will give back more to you nebulously.Of course, Christ’s three passages where He was derisive of tithing wrongly are ignored.Flies buzz around huge Christian media enterprises which have hundred million dollar incomes, yet escape from disclosing financials, submitting to any responsible oversight or answering any question from anybody anytime; as they preach doctrines of escapology.Flies buzz around go-along-get-along prophets who entertain multitudes with descriptions of an amazing future void of any church correction, bug spray or refuse removal.In fact with such a truth-deafening cacophony of buzzing flies, the above-mentioned ministry archetypes have to compensate by revving up their impressive reality distortion fields.They must make bigger their own personal importance, the importance of their hectic escape-from-reflection travel schedules, their quid-pro-quo peer ministry exalting, their persona-exalting television operations, their buildings, their birthday celebrations, their family, their lordly estates, their amazing book sales, their motorbikes, their horses, even their trophy spouses.In short, they must ever magnify their successful worldliness and pandering its dream to their generous supporters.That is the buzz, friends, of so many modern ministries in all their glory.Just do not ever tell them that the buzzing comes from Beelzebub’s flies delighted to drool on so much doctrinal dung.Because despite the rotten fruit, despite the buzzing flies, such ministries and their followers will always have Bible verses to defend themselves.And it is useless to engage in scripture wars with them.None are so blind as those who refuse to see.And until they smell it themselves, no mortal can convince them of what their wrong doctrines cause to stink.
Caution: Jabberwocky is Extremely Dangerous! – Persons referring to God’s prophetic future in the following terms may be extremely dangerous to your finances.Watch out for the following nebulous terms:Life changing – a shift in the atmosphere – invade systems – tip the balance – head not the tail – taking territory – template for warfare – mobilize the generation – pierce the heavenlies– a vision kind of experience – transformation issue – accelerating legitimacy – outpouring harvest – new levels –dread champion warriors – apostles of the new age – birthing anything – radical anything – extreme anything – etcetera.This gibberish is nebulous because the speakers actually do not know much about the future.They simply know that prophetic jabberwocky succeeds wonderfully in jacking up their income by depleting yours.Such gobblers of gibberish are extremely dangerous to your savings.Their extraction spirits are powerful, especially compared to weak lie-detection spirits in sheep who are not taught how to detect lies.These gobblers of gibberish are too stupid or afraid to go against rapture dogma because they love accolades of men.Since they agree with the lie of a future rapture, they have no clue whatsoever about the future.This even though the In That Day of the Lord’s wrathful scourging is foretold throughout the Bible’s old and new testaments, while rapture cannot be found in the Bible except by invention.
Caution: Jesus Returns Ungelded! – In the apocalyptic cowboy movies of Clint Eastwood, his no name character represents a kind of Lord Jesus avenging angel.The tall avenger coolly achieves extreme justice against powerful evil foes while being watched by cowardly, small minded and very gelded townsmen. What is the meaning of this outrageous parabolic story telling?Just look at the huge popularity of the worshippers of weakness found in the casual, West Coast, flip flop, Calvary kind of non-denominational, very abominable, rapture-loving, logos loving, spirit infill hating churches.Their praise is weak.Their prayers are weak (i.e. Oh Lord, just fix everything.)Their preaching is weak (Should Jesus tarry, let’s study the twisted word that says He’s coming to rapture us out of our weakness problems.)Their everything is weak, because the actual god they worship is…weakness.And they have very much become as their very god, which is very weak.Basically, this gelded group will not recognize Jesus as He continues to return spiritually on earth in humans, because such saints will have courage they lack.So God allows parabolic stories and movies to be told to us to hold us all responsible for truth – truth that cannot be heard from gelded pulpits, but is generally known from movies.In these stories God breaks rules (because He is above all rules) in the telling about Himself to make critical points.The church of the gelded will never get the point, which is that God of all things alive is the most non-gelded entity.
Compulsive Giving – Stop compulsive giving.It is a technique of Satan.Even tithing is subject to the fact that There Are No Rules.Christ three times criticized tithers who gave out of a wrong spirit.Also Pedro Principle #1 tells us that groups tend to fall into the three categories of good, middle and bad.Therefore not all people asking for a tithe consist of whom God wants to receive tithes.(For [it is] not [the man] who praises and commends himself who is approved and accepted, but [it is the person] whom the Lord accredits and commends.II Corinthians 10: 18 Amplified)You must hear from God’s two-way radio in the matter.Further, the In That Day Teachings imply that God wants you to voluntarily give virtually all control of yourself to Himself.This then, is a tithe times ten, or one hundred percent.Viewed in this fashion, the tithe is more an Old Testament “righteous-rigid-servant-of-God” requirement versus the New Testament’s “holy-flexible-friend-of-God” higher spiritual requirement.In other (harsher) words, a tithe-based mentality is a cop-out-on-God giving device for called-to-higher-standards sheep, and an easy extraction device for called-to-higher-standards shepherds.Also John the Baptist and Jesus told people to give to one another, and not necessarily give tithes to organizations claiming God’s entitlement to receive.A holy person might pass the tithing bucket but turn to a needy person and give them whatever God says to give.A holy person might tithe to nobody.A holy person might give more than a tithe to an organization serving the poor.A stuck-in-righteousness person might give nothing of himself to God that God requires while also giving a tithe to a church God hates and has been working to shut down for years.Anything goes.And giving is not always good.
Coolers–A Cooler is something of an urban legend, reinforced by a movie called The Cooler made in 2003.A Cooler is supposedly someone with such bad luck, it rubs off on people.So casinos supposedly hire them to break the winning streak of lucky gamblers.Coolers can be described as people who pack really atrocious spirits with a covering of what appears to be benign spirits.Religion is where they can live without fear of detection.Coolers are not just unlucky, or accident prone, or clumsy, or contagious, or killjoy, or insatiable or hellacious-bothersome to your talent.They can be assigned by God’s enemies to hinder God’s champions.What enables a Cooler to operate freely is their strange combination of strong evil spirits hidden by stronger covering spirits broadcasting benign qualities.No one dares call them out, since they appear to be operating unconsciously, innocently and with well wishes toward whom they destroy.And many pessimistic, gloomy stuffed-donkey Eyores of the world do live their entire lives unconscious of the miserable mayhem they cause to those to whom they draw neigh.Why?Because few care what spirit they are of.Now, Jesus cared.But Coolers won’t, don’t or can’t.But you must.And often, we have to first admit we have been Coolers against the righteous.And then we must repent.And then we must forgive all those Coolers who later hammer us down with their unconscious evil spirits, which they deny aggressively deploying as an effective arsenal against God bearers:Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake…by the Coolers, who know not what they do, because they choose darkness rather than light, rather than face the ugly truth of what spirits they allow themselves to be, and so they deny Christ coming to them all of their desolate and abominable lives while they fervently deny Christ has come in you, whom they perceive to be the most dangerous and true enemy of their ghoulish, barren souls.
Curse Upon “How to Be” Media & Ministries, Part 1– Miscreant philosophers, preachers, teachers or gurus have a cursed solution for you.It starts with their bait, then hook.The bait is:“I can help you.”The hook is: “Buy my carnal platitude advice.”Few seem approved of God to so sell their wisdom.Nevertheless the needy deplete their meager resources to add abundance to the self-proclaimed wise; because the wise say so.How long, oh Lord, must this continue?The expensive pabulum has this sort of structure to it:A) I am above you in greatness.B) Here is the problem.C) Buy my advice.D) Here is my advice.However, in the end only God’s rhema wisdom will work for you.No formulas will work.No platitudes will work.Nothing will work but being able to hear and obey God’s rhema voice.Few know this.Fewer still do this.Fewer still teach this.This wisdom, by its nature, profits its promulgators less directly than the easy “how to” (be great like myself say the self-exalting) promulgators.So if you want to truly get rich carnally, make another how-to-succeed-carnally industry based on your persona.And since platitude advice never quite satisfies, you can sell your soul, or successful persona, without limit.You could (tee hee!) write fifty self-help (ho ho!) books.(People needing help cannot figure that if one self-help book doesn’t quite work, maybe 49 more from the same author would?)However, if you want to please God, learn how to hear His rhema words and obey them.From that God’s truth and kingdom comes.
Curse Upon “How to Be” Media & Ministries, Part 2– An example of cursed advice on how to do or be something is as follows:A certain radio preacher says for a month he will preach on “Understanding Biblical Manliness.”After much talk the advice boils down to 1) Read what the Bible says about manhood, leadership and being a servant.2) Find in the Bible those models of manhood, leadership and being a servant.And 3) Follow those models “all the days of our life.”Wow!Such profundity!Such platitudes!Actually, such are the problems with miscreant teachers. The truth is this advice is egregiously immature.It may be a horrific catastrophe if we do what Moses did, or David did, or Paul did or Jesus did in a particular case, when God wants us to do something perfect, surprising and different.For we must choose: Either God is dead and we do what our paid gurus tell us generically to do…or do what an alive Creator of the universe instructs us to do now.
Curse Upon “How to Be” Media & Ministries, Part 3– God’s goal with Job and his story of 42 chapters is for Job to be able to say, “With my spiritual eye, now I see!”This is the sum of the Bible:How to be Christ-like, how to be indwelt of God, how to manifest God, how to hear and obey God’s rhema voice, creatively expand God’s kingdom and hear “Well done thy good and faithful servant!”God wants everyone to be able to say, “With my spiritual eye, now I see!”But platitude shills say, “Now I sell!”
Deceiving Spirits Use Veils, Part 1 – Unfortunately, the wayward church is overflowing with examples of how a sincere person can use deceiving veils of spirits to hide the truth.A leading rapture proponent, who will remain unnamed, continually promotes his vast business and military experience.Why?Because people espousing the rapture sound really, really dumb; if you have ears to hear spiritually.So this man must use a counter-veil.His ministry boasts of his high-security-military/board of directors/entrepreneurial-acumen self.Even Presidential contenders would wish to God they had his perfect resume.Only it is a ruse.If his escapology doxie was true, he would have no need for the egregious, aggrandizing self-promotion.Similarly, prosperity preacher use their regal gold watches, oversize jewelry, big hair, exquisite suits and magnificent stage sets and such as a counter-veil to their self-serving non-profit-laundry-back-their-lifestyle machines.By pandering to a donor’s envy, they extract the donor’s money!It is illogical, but veils make it work.Veils are reality distortion or logic distortion devices.And wolves use these devices to prey on the sheep.Another example are preachers who have nothing really to say about God except that they enjoy glorifying and enriching themselves.Here is the counter-veil ruse:They ask the “how many of you” question in regards to having had painful experiences in life – followed by the mantra, “I am here to tell you…God is good!”Well, duh.But if you repeat the litany sixty times with every terrible woe known to mankind, you can get people standing, heads wagging and contributions overflowing.The trick is to get an un-pained audience to reflect on past horrific pains, manically rejoice over a god-mantra and subsequently feel good and guilty enough to contribute to the grand poobah hypnotist’s organization.Which if properly structured is a veiled self-enrichment laundering device.Here is how to do it.Make the organization a non-profit.Then use the above mentioned veiling techniques to obtain funds to promote the enterprise.Since the business is non-profit, the promoter can appear to work “selflessly” (smile) to continue the enterprise’s goodly message (which might be veiled self-promotion tagged on to a good thing, like God.)Then, the promoter uses the non-profit organization to heavily pitch his or her for-profit books, movies and other royalty items.Add quid pro quo guests for the broadcasting non-profits to shill each other’s for profit items, and bingo, you are well on your way to becoming a faith billionaire.God is good, but He doesn’t like us employing such veiling spirits to deceive psyches.(Is it too much to ask pastors who collect royalties for books promoted through their non-profits to return those royalties to the non-profits?)
Deceiving Spirits Use Veils, Part 2 –To sell lies, some wolves use the veiling spirits of fear. Eschatologists employ lots of juicy, fearful, high-brow international relations intrigue.What international relations have to do with universal truths of God is not clear. But drumming up fear through international relations gossip makes sense if you need to have a fear-based veil to hide the unholy writ of dispensational doctrine.Then, you hold a no-prophet “prophecy” seminar...or you have an over-intellectual kind of ministry (pardon if this sounds harsh) and somewhere along the line, yup, somebody has got to sell books!(Or survival food, gold coins, etc.)So you have another non-profit run by self-sacrificing saints (grin) whose leaders, oh by the way, just happen to have a few books lying around...Want to buy one from our booth just outside the seminar? Or if you are hearing this on radio, ahem, our non-profit will send it to you for a bargain-value donation.Our volunteers or non-profit staffers can take your money and launder it my way.Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.It is a pattern that groups we know are in error use, i.e. the prosperity message group.But it is also a pattern used by charismatic, Pentecostal, immature earth believers, apologists, Christian critics and other groups.It is just not a pattern you see in the Bible. Ever wonder why?
Deceiving Spirits Use Veils, Part 3 –Once a practitioner succeeds at a certain level it is time for more refined means of travel; to keep up with other non-profit (hee-hee!) Jones and away from suspicious donors.But rather than rely on personal funds from media royalties, the goal is to dip back into the non-profit donorsto fund the (drool, drool) executive jet and five-star expense account lifestyle.Never mind the cost.Never mind the justification.Everyone is doing it, so it must be OK!It also seems fine to use the non-profit to fund home number two or three at, of course, posh working locations.However, by the time complaints are lodged by watch groups, it is easy enough to take royalty revenues and buy properties for the family trust anyway.And it is fun to fly one’s own jet (with the family on the non-profit payroll) to exotic international destinations, which may have more sophist partners to cull than in the saturated US market!The beauty of it all is that the royalty work is really low caliber and easy to create stuff (sometimes ghost written) because anything, just about, sells to the dupes supporting the non-profit’s effort.Once momentum builds, the vapid pabulum (but it always must be called “life-changing”) sells amazingly well even on the open market!Indeed, how can such guru wares be much more than junk food for the soul, considering that the authors’ doctrines include personally choosing lower means over higher morals?At the end of a successful career, the invested royalty money creates a comfy cash flow and there is no need to continue to work, worry or pay back the vehicle that enabled it all – the non-profit.After all, it is non-profit, right?Caveat emptor, bruddah!
Deceiving Spirits Use Veils, Part 4 –Every human being is part good, part evil.Unfortunately, this means we all do variations on the above.Robert Winkler Burke admits it.I do not always get victory over the spirit of greed.Maybe someday others might enjoy doing a me culpa.What are we going to do?We are by nature sinful.We want to serve God.Then we serve ourselves.Some of us do a better job at limiting the self service.(Alas, as of this writing I am executive jet/mega-income/lifestyle-of-the-rich-and-foolish challenged.)Jesus seems to have done a pretty good job of unselfish ministry.Maybe I’ll write a book about it… that will sell well.Oops, there I go again.And think:If I, a sinner, see this little of what is going on, Holy God sees how much?
De Nile is a River in Egypt– If God grants you the grace (Divine enablement) to have eyes to see spiritually and ears to hear spiritually here is what you will find:Denial.You will find it here, there and everywhere.And here is what you will bring here, there and everywhere:Truth, which is the kingdom of heaven.And people without truth will be rather uncomfortable around you.And people with truth will greet you like a long lost brother or sister.And they will usually be in humble situations.They typically will not be leading large institutions because by definition, large institutions tend to have enough compromise required of its leaders as to make them sufficiently corrupt to no longer hearken unto truth.Truth just bothers them, and if you’ve got truth in you – you are to them the greatest bother.That’s why characters like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are so beloved.Apparently, they rose in authority without compromising their souls.Then there are the greats of the Bible which we hear preached to us by so many compromised souls.And having truth in you, or more specifically, the life of God’s Spirit in you is to the world, called Egypt by the Bible, very subjective.But to brothers and sisters in Christ, it is not subjective at all really.The beloved of God love the beloved of God.God’s indwelt operate on a certain harmonic frequency with the universe such that they are generally in sync with all that is good and God.The rest simply are not.So the rest like to kill the God-bearers, because they are such a hellacious bother to their pride.And the killers are, if true to type, the religious order of the day.Except nowadays it is extraordinary difficult to crucify God’s messengers, so the only option is to ignore a certain prophetic truth.And what is this prophetic truth?It is Christ’s life in you witnessing the absence of Christ’s life in much of modern Christianity.Modern Christianity’s praise is weak because its doctrine worships weakness.Christ has a hard time coming and indwelling in modern Christians because their theology is so escapist with belief in the false doctrines of beam-us-out-of-here rapture, Christ’s return to fix all things but escapist believers and eternal do-nothing security.Behold, Christ cannot come in them because their spiritual abodes have too many demons.They have too many demons because of the rights granted to the demons to indwell the Christ-in-name-only vapid abodes.The demons have a right to stay indwelt in vapid abodes because of the so-called Christian doctrines they believe.They will not change their ghoulish antichrist dogma because it is taught and preached throughout the earth as being the norm.This is why much of what is broadcast around the world as being Christianity is often just a huge reality distortion field, requiring huge sums of money to propagate.And it results in strangeness denied – like the fraud of $20 million must-have jets, the bizarre focus on international relations intrigue, the baby-milk gospel repeated incessantly while mature sections of God’s word are eternally ignored.And more than anything, it takes a lot of denial.It takes tons of denial.To have millions and millions of vapid Christians in life-long ignorance of huge quantities of scripture regarding the end-times goal of Christ living and being in holy vessels, well that takes a lot of denial.To have so many people live and believe and support a vapid form of in-name-only Christianity that never understands or lives the Bible’s last page – now that takes a lot of denial.To never be spirit indwelt, and live life in God’s unpredictably wonderful river of there-are-no-rules-only-guidelines life; to never praise and bless another for manifesting Christ in maturity; to never have Christ come quickly in your life; and most especially to never have Christ come quickly in your Christian leader’s life – well now that takes a lot of denial.It takes a river of denial to believe in the Father, Son and Holy Spirit distant and far from indwelling most believers.Now, that takes denial.It takes the biggest river in Egypt to do that.And Satan delivers every time: It’s de Nile.
Dispensational Dingdongs – Preachers who know more about one-world global intrigue than most of hell’s angels are perhaps doing the work of hell’s angels.Dispensational dingdong doctrines change over time to continue to appear true.The main thing they promulgate is fear.Most of their doctrine will never prove to be true, because God refuses to cooperate.Therefore, most of their predicted events must keep shifting to a further point in the future.(i.e. fear the WWII Nazis; no, fear the Cold War Soviets; no, fear Y2K; no, fear the Chinese; no, fear the Muslim terrorists; no, fear technology; no, fear the coming antichrist; no, fear the Russians again; no, fear a date again… perhaps 2033; no, fear the Chinese again; etc.)The main thing they accomplish is filling the minds of their followers with thoughts designed to prevent Christians from hearing, obeying, manifesting and pleasing God.Their so-called “prophecy conferences” usually contain no prophets, but usually do contain some method of extracting your money.Why does everything always come back to extracting money?Jesus blasted extortion in his red letters of the Bible.He overturned the money tables at the temple.The zeal of the Lord ate Him up.Alas.Alack.But meantime, back in modern times some of us sheep are making great meals for some hungry shepherds.
Doctrine-Driven Difficulties– The egregious self-interest we see in modern television ministries is driven by its self-interest doctrines.In other words, doctrines are the horse that delivers the ministry cart into either heaven or a ditch.You become as you believe.To borrow a line from Casablanca, the In That Day Teachings keep rounding up the usual suspects:They are the keep-self-on-the-throne, cop-out-on-future-character-growth, God-does-it-all-we-do-nothing, big easy three:The Rapture escapology guaranteeing a beam-us-out-of-here-sky-ride-to-heaven, the Immanent Second Return of Christ to fix all ills but our own problems making it impossible for Him to indwell us now, and Eternal Security guaranteeing a reward from God for doing nothing for God but agreeing with the demons that God is, well, God.The consuming self-interest of modern television ministries is proof that their self-interested doctrines are wrong.Their sinful doctrine makes them totally deceived as to their errors, and they boldly go about their brazen sinful ways.The remedy is disavowal of the dumb doctrines.But now it is a Christian catastrophe, self-inflicted and self-denied, of epic proportions.These three deadly doctrines make up the table of vomit mentioned in Isaiah 28:8.The chapter’s previous verses state the error first comes through wine, which stands for pride and self exaltation, and strong drink, which stands for deification of self.This is what those television lights have done to its ministers, who have not been able to check the sin of self glorification throughout the years.So they must remain infantile theological Lilliputians, only able to preach babyish milked-down Christian pabulum.Why has God allowed broadcast ministries to do this?Why has He shown gross self-interest ministries preaching gross self-interest doctrines?Because God is showing the world the result of what a fool believes.God has allowed the grossly excessive self-interest to make everyone dead certain what is so dead wrong.Selah.From all of this much can be learned about Satan.The above-mentioned ministries may be in great deception.Yet tell-tale signs abound.The ministries expend huge amounts of time, money and life-force to project their false reality distortion fields with elaborate media productions, stage sets and controlled convention environs.Its leaders sequester themselves from the reality of the public.Its leaders deal primarily in peer groups with virtual no corrections in decades.Its followers are blind to watch-group common-sense criticisms of glaringly obvious financial shenanigans.Its leaders answer no questions from the public.Its leaders disclose few financial reports.Its leaders claim to be insiders with God such that no outsider, not any news organization, no government entity and especially no prophet can correct their excessive self-interest operations.They say all correction is not correction but friction from the enemy, meaning Satan.And like any self-interest lobbying concern, enough money is never enough money.They have a craven spirit such that they never ask themselves, “Why is more money never enough money?”They never say to themselves, “Gee, maybe our rapacious self-interest is driven by our questionable self-interest doctrines!”That would be one great selah, but it may not come without a colossal amount of self-inflicted pain.First the ministries will blame Satan.But finally, they will blame themselves.Some might even repent and fix their doctrine.Then they can let God help fix themselves.This will include receiving much more of the Holy Spirit, who has been spurned for intellectual idiocy.And the leaders will discern and control their heretofore at times bizarre spirits.Then they can have that revival they always have been praying for.Because then, they will be worthy!Hallelujah!No longer selling dung-pile doctrines, they will have God’s truth and spirit to feed to God’s sheep.
Dog Chow – Whether Christ or antichrist manifests in us is up to two things.Either we feed our mind good or we feed it evil.(Technically, we feed our inner spirit truthful and good spirits or we feed it lying and evil spirits.)You could almost say that in all of us live two fighting dogs, one good and the other evil.The mean dog fights the good dog all the time.Which one wins?When asked this question in the movie The Missing, Tommy Lee Jones said, “I don’t know.Whichever one I feed the most.”
Don’t Touch God’s Anointed – Used by practitioners of Love Mush, Rapture, WOF, et al to keep God’s rebuke and correction away during their lives on earth. They believe themselves lacking nothing but greater tithes, extra love offerings and more pride.Yes, we must not hurt God’s anointed.But it doesn’t mean God’s anointed must forever escape correction.Friends say, “Correct me!”Fiends say, “Don’t!”
Don’t Worry, Truth Prevails– If you have eyes to see spiritually, then you see truth prevails in the universe.Truth cannot but manifest itself around truthful things, and lies cannot but manifest around lying things.For example, a self-interested ministry cannot but have a self-interested website.(i.e. It will have few links to the rest of the universe of good, but it will have dozens of ways to send money their way.Such a ministry website might plead for your estate when you die.It will have no qualms with setting up an automatic debit from your checking account.It will be happy to charge your credit card to send you a book on getting out of debt.)For example, a preacher with little true doctrine or connection with God will have great compensated mannerisms and “announcer voice” false affections.For example, Hitler’s troops marched a “goose step” on parade.The goose step looked just like what a dictator’s troops would do.They cannot do but otherwise.For example, a mostly-for-show safety award meeting might have its safety award recipients stand on an elevated stage, crowded to the edge with no guard rails… and witness to everyone in the room the safety ceremony is a self-congratulating ruse.Truth is everywhere to behold, if it is not edited out by careful program directors of a media ministry, an organization or – most importantly – one’s own mind.The beginning of wisdom is the fear of God.If God wants to make a fool out of you, me or anybody in public; then he can easily let the truth be shown in public regarding whatever foolishness is actually in us.Truth cannot be hidden.Rapture doctrine can be shouted from the mountaintop, but it will always sound like a lie.Any lie sounds like a lie.Any ruse sounds like a ruse.Any truth sounds like a truth.Any truthful person appears to have truth in him.Any beguiled person appears to be beguiled.And it matters not whether the person received four higher degrees from the most prestigious Bible schools or not.If those schools had wrong doctrine, the person is tragically the worse for it.If those schools had good doctrine, the person is made the better.But a non-schooled person is still capable, in fact more likely, to have a chance at manifesting more of God’s truthful essence than anybody.And we should honor such.
Double Redemption Pleases God – If a person says or does a good thing, which is a God thing, which might even be a manifestation of Christ, then Satan sometimes presents a nullifier in the form of a wrong response spirit.Christ met such temptation by saying none are good but God, or he told people not to mention their healing, or he left the territory or used other non-aggrandizing methods.Christ played down his own goodness.This is only possible with humility.Thus when a person who is healed says to his healer, “You are a great healer!” the healer must somehow respond, “Give God the glory, not me.”When a stubborn husband finally takes his wife’s good advice, she must not lord her triumph over him.She must say, “I sometimes am just as stubborn as my husband and his good advice helps me too!”Thus the Lord looks for double redemption in most situations.Regrettably, preachers often see themselves as lords of all that is right-smart preaching to all that is dumb-wrong; and as the song says, “It ain’t necessarily so.”Thus single redemption becomes a one step forward process – for the sinner redeemed – while two steps back are taken – by the “good” mentor now in hell-bound pride.This kind of single redemption does not expand God’s kingdom because it is hypocrisy in a repeating loop.The newly saved soon become as their deceived mentors – prideful hypocrites vainly trying to save others by modeling upended truth. Christ modeled double redemption: wherein the lost and found can each stay humble, please God, expand truth and grow God’s kingdom.To help others with the hypocrisy of supercilious morality, just puts those helped in double trouble because eventually they will do likewise.
Elect – We are not all the elect.Nor is none of us the elect.The elect appear to be predestined and the non-elect not predestined.In other words, everybody, generally speaking, needs to make a salvation decision save the elect, who appear to have already done that.Most everybody appears to have free will as God’s gift, but the elect do not appear to have that gift.The elect are God’s servants who must perform under heavenly deadlines, such as the greats of the Bible.Non-elect have few divine deadlines save before they die, to believe entirely in God.Those mistaken who believe all saved are the elect tend to also have the mistaken belief that all saved have eternal security while alive.
Elihu – In the Book of Job, Elihu is a prophet God speaks through in the storm.He probably wrote the book.(In Job 33:8-11 he reads back his notes on what Job had said.)His humility in not giving himself credit as prophet has made it difficult to see his contribution.Job and his three friends each spoke at length to find confirmation in God’s voice, which never came because they were stuck in righteousness, or rigid religiousness.Young Elihu came along and his soliloquy, being closer to God’s holiness and truth, resulted in God’s confirmation and speech happening through him.(See Job.)
Enough!–ABC News Radio offered three one-hour specials over the 2007 Labor Day Holiday Weekend. The programs included “Enough!” -- A John Stossel Special,” which looked at situations where people draw a line and try to change the world around them.ABC News Correspondent and “20/20” co-host John Stossel looked at what Americans are doing when they’re simply fed up with a situation in “Enough!”A segment included Rusty Leonard’s www.ministrywatch.com website heralding the tragic, brazen and unaccountable spending going on in the televangelism business.Go to the website and see the ABC video.You can see Kenneth Copeland’s mansion, $20 million jet, Trinity Broadcasting Network’s mansions and other TBN non-profits with little to no financial accountability.See Leonard’s Donor Alerts, or…Let’s just praise the non-disclosure, non-correctable, non-accountable non-profits!
Epiphany in Paradise– The moment will be great when the average preacher who preaches the triune escapology doctrines – the escape of rapture, the imminent return of God to fix all but the escapists and escape from eternal responsibility to do anything –realizes why his congregation is so characterized by strong torpor and weak character.To preach escapology is to make the lords of escape rich, the plebs of escape trapped and themselves guilty of heinous abrogation of duty.What need have the authors of escape books, the owners of escape Christian networks, the operators of stunningly huge escape Christian ministries of more monies?They will just continue to sell fear, sell their answer of escape and continue to profit by pandering to their audience’s wishful thinking and idolization of all things weak.Perhaps it is time for preachers to gird their loins.
Erudite End-times Oxymorons – Once I witnessed a preacher, who believed in the imminent rapture, perform a baby girl’s dedication.Suddenly the Spirit of the Lord came upon him and he prophesied to the parents a blessing upon the girl’s husband-to-be and the future couple’s life in Christ!Wow!Immediately upon giving this revelatory blessing, the embarrassed pastor qualified his prognostication by saying that what he had just said might happen, “As long as Jesus doesn’t come first!”Apparently, the preacher had thought Jesus was coming within, say the next twenty years (when the girl might marry) or before the next eighty years (when the blessed couple would enjoy their life in Christ.)So think about it:If a prophet told us how we could double our money every day, we would probably be disinclined to want Jesus to return until, say, a month after a dollar invested could become a billion!Now consider a preacher of prosperity and rapture.He probably believes less in a literal rapture than more in a doctrine that allows him to focus on money making…until, say, abundance!It is a way to occupy…until Jesus comes and absolves us from responsibility.Nevertheless, many prosperity/rapture preachers want some prophetic news about how to prosper tomorrow without disbelieving Jesus is not coming tomorrow.If the prophetic can give prosperity news about next year, good!Five years would be better.Fifty years even better.What about a hundred, five hundred or a thousand?But wait a minute!Those who believe Jesus might return any minute (moment) might be conflicted the further out the years go in prophetic insight.It would bump into their conflicted inner foundational lie: Prosperity now trumps rapture tomorrow.Thus the wayward church disdains intelligent cogency in preference for puerile repetition of known, inane gospel pabulum.To this church with anti-prophetic, Jezebel conundrums of hidden foundational lies needing no discovery or repentance, they say, we must tithe.Thus prophetic insight is tolerated as long as it isn’t much insight.Because: long prophetic insight discomforts those with short expectations of escape.If escape is coming quickly, long prophetic insight must be disbelieved even more quickly.There goes the Millennium!
Escape This: The Crossbar Hotel– Escapism is the beloved doctrine of televangelists.That is the root.Allegations of moral escapism often follow these televangelists.That is the branch.Do the math:Lofty escapist doctrine plus success in its promulgation equals character crises.Does this cause correction in the wayward body of escapist Christianity?Not that anyone could notice!When a leader takes a hit for team escape, the rest of the players often continue in blind allegiance to erroneous root doctrines.For a current example, simply do an internet search on televangelist scandal, to observe the bitter fruit of escapology.Again, the triune doctrines of escapology are 1) the false belief in rapture and escape from the purity required for Christ’s indwelling and return in our souls 2) the false belief in an imminent second coming rescuing escapists from Christian maturity and 3) the false belief in eternal security absolving its adherents from all Christian responsibility now or ever.In truth, escape doctrines always work... until the end of escape.Then they always fail.Get ready for escape’s end.
Escapologists are Like the Boy Crying, “Wolf!” – Have you noticed?Preachers who preach escape-maturity-in-Christ doctrines are excellent at escaping culpability for what they teach, what it does to people, how little God confirms it and how grandly God denies it in Mark 16:20 reverse signs following.For example:Chuck Missler is one of the greatest dispensational dogma promulgators, whose Koinoina (meaning communion) House Ministry has led astray and continues to lead astray millions of believers through Calvary media broadcasting.Missler’s ministry website says that his house was demolished by an earthquake in 1992.(A Mark 16:20 reverse sign?)As noted elsewhere, dispensationalists primarily sell fear, not truth.They believe in a communion of fear.Then they sell the solution: Escape through wishful thinking.Escape in a rapture of escapists, escape in a fix-all-but-the-escapists’ second coming, and escape from responsibility through eternal do-nothing security.But to sell the escape, they first create all-consuming fear.The subject of fear changes when the lie of it goes away over time.Nevertheless, the dispensational dingdongs never lack for producing a new fear, like a magician draws attention to one hand, so the misleaders of religion hope you never see you have nothing to fear but fear-mongers themselves, while the magician performs the real trick with the unseen hand, while the listeners’ funds support the wayward ministry.So Monsieur Missler’s fear-of-the-day specialty has in the past been Soviet Communism – oops, that’s old; then Y2K – oops, that was a bust; then terrorism, but that’s kind of old too; so now it is – trumpets and fanfare please: A “Vortex Strategy” in two parts no less, wherein “the Plot Thickens” with the “increasingly difficult predicament we face” in positioning our poor, pitiful, weakness-doctrine-loving selves “in addition to terrorists threats, geopolitical tensions” the super-size fear of the moment has got to be “another tremor” of “sub-prime mortgage mess metastasized into a full-blown global credit crisis” which crushes stocks in Europe and the U.S. with “the meltdown” beginning in… actually, Missler is right on this.Like an analogue clock stopped that is right twice a day.Like the boy who cried wolf as a continual scheme, who listens when the wolf comes?
Eternal Security – This is the mistaken belief that once saved one is always saved.The consequence of this terribly self-serving belief is the supine form of Christianity now in widespread practice.To become a believer is to become a citizen of a country.If a citizen robs a bank, his country’s authorities will endeavor to catch him, judge him and make him pay his debt to society.Believers in eternal security think there is no such parallel in God’s kingdom.Most eternal security believers also believe in love mush and worshipping idols of weakness, as witnesses in so many casual Christian churches.They can do no wrong, so they think.This is why much wrong is usually in evidence at the “Church of We Can Do No Wrong.”Deceiving spirits make it hard to see the forest for the trees.
Every Man Meets His Superior in Every Man– “Every man I meet is in some way superior.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.“A great man is always willing to be little.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.“The highest revelation is that God is in every man.”-- Ralph Waldo Emerson.Mat 23:38Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. Mat 23:39For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.Robert’s Amplified:Unless you humble yourselves, you proud preachers and religious people, and say blessed is every man, woman and child who comes in the nature of the Lord, your soul will remain desolate of the indwelling of God.Behold your houses of desolation, you who preach and believe in much about God but not that He insists you honor those He indwells.Because your witness of God’s indwelling is lacking, you ignore and blaspheme God’s Spirit others.And so you must believe something else – that you are heralds of God’s imminent return, so long as it is not in anybody you might have to honor; God’s rapture, so long as it includes you and your easy-way-out followers; and God’s eternal security, so long as you never humble yourself to others in whom is more Christ because in them is more mature doctrine.And God’s greater doctrine disavows puerile escapology.Your religious pride keeps you blind and in perdition as you wait for God to manifest Himself in some other way than in yourself or those you teach, which you think absolves you from dealing with your self-exalting and God-denying religious pride. Have you noticed? God refuses to manifest Himself in a way that exalts your pride and confirms your escapist doctrines. That is why the doctrine of the rapture and other escapology dogma exists. It is to identify you in religious pride who will not cleanse your souls for sufficient God indwelling. Instead you wait, and you encourage others to wait as Jesus supposedly “tarries,” while in reality you just mark yourselves as being incapable of participating in the Millennium’s restoration of all things, which is God's return in man in peace, power and productivity through excellence governed by humility and submission to God's Spirit.
Every Strike is a Healing Strike – God wounds.God heals.Let Him.Satan also wounds.You also wound yourself and others.Let God heal.Who has so little pride that no blow can be used for humility’s advantage?Let what comes help God in you and not Satan in you.Be always prepared for pain and never surprised.Avoiding pain usually guarantees its increase.Accepting pain honestly usually obtains its decrease.
Evocative or Immature?–The In That Day Teachings of Robert Winkler Burke are either 1) Evocative, eloquent, multilayered, sophisticated, intelligent, grave, mordant, staid, timely, weighty, somber, solemn, earnest, ironic, tragic, humorous, pithy, rich or 2) Immature.The answer is:both.Why?Rick Joyner’s “Word for the Week” of 9/3/07 explains much.http://www.morningstarministries.org/feature/wftw/2007/3607.htmAs mentioned before, Joyner says there are three levels to ChristianMinistry:The masses, the disciples and the elect; or Rescue, Stabilization and Restoration.He humbly tells a self-effacing story that in his early Christian days, as a hippie kind of spirit-filled, healing-believing, prophetic-called person, he told a “prince with God” Baptist pastor, that the pastor may not be saved because he had not experienced spirit filling or healing.The great pastor listened humbly to the young upstart Joyner, and tried to understand where he was coming from.Joyner said the man’s humility “profoundly jolted my pride.”In the course of creating In That Day Teachings, I confess that I, Robert Winkler Burke. have had moments of great immaturity.I made about 25 videos wherein I cussed and used the Lord’s name in vain in my frustration with uncorrected televangelism.But the Lord did not strike me dead, though I damaged my usefulness to Him.It is immature to rail against those who cannot see.An old proverb says:None are so blind as those who refuse to see.God set up His three-level system of belief.Who am I to rail against it?Nevertheless, the time for restoration is at hand.Let all who are thirsty, come.I just pray my waters are worthy of a long draught.Because: Truly, it is drought and famine in broadcast Christianity.And it is so fantastically ironic how the dispensational dingdongs are preaching about antichrist in a self-incriminating way that is beyond laughable.And sometimes good preachers become quite God-indwelt while steadfastly 1) denying it and 2) preaching all that would keep it from happening to another.And doctrine is at the heart of it.The best preachers among us must deny wrong church doctrine themselves personally to advance Christ’s manifestation in their lives, while keeping the wrong doctrine affirmed publicly so they can continue to preach.It’s exotically mind-bending because it is exotically truth-bending.But there you have it.No use to immaturely rail against such.That’s life, for now anyway.
Existential Enemies of Indwelling – Why did Jesus die on the cross?Answer:For many reasons, but one is now moving to the top of the list.Jesus died on the cross so that He can live indwelt in every man, woman and child on the planet.That would be over six billion souls living in harmony and bringing God’s heaven to earth.The world’s population, technology and sin have the potential to make more hell on earth than ever.The solution is Jesus indwelling us, something Buddha or Mohammad cannot do.But this is not the argument of televangelists.They tend to say Jesus died to save us from our sins – meaning we get to go to heaven if we believe.Believe what?Well, the television preachers have their triune doctrines of escapology:Believe in the rapture so you don’t have to bother with Jesus indwelling now in you; believe in an imminent second coming so you don’t have to bother with Jesus indwelling now in you; believe in an eternal security once-saved-always-saved so you don’t have to bother with Jesus indwelling now in you.Not for no reason are such televangelists known for self-serving shenanigans, because they cannot but be madly driven by their dodge God doctrines.Bottom line:Such escapology preachers are in existential enmity to God’s indwelling since their focus on tomorrow – including today – is escape!
Faith Errors – Faith preachers err when they say one must proclaim positive outcomes to the extent it removes God’s volition.The problem with the extreme faith doctrine is that God insists on being God, and insists on having His own will, plan and purpose.God’s plan doesn’t line up with the extreme faith doctrine that says God has automatic blessings hard-wired to prosperity mantras stinking of greed and avarice.We must rather believe that God will get what He wants out of us, not the brazen, craven reverse.
Fallible Masters– In our journey to become a God bearer we find we must sometimes learn from Masters of Overcoming, using the ancient path of mentoring.And we find our masters, all of them, are fallible.And sometimes our pride, jealous rage and hidden vengefulness make us unable to submit to mentorship from an imperfect human.We would rather just read the Bible and do whatever we have to do with God, and not man.To Jesus, who is a perfect master, we pretend submission.To a master in the flesh, who might pack a significant portion of Jesus in his spirit, we tend to refuse submission.That is, until our pain gets unbearable and increases above the cost of keeping foolish pride.How, then, do knowledgeable Christians learn from imperfect masters?I recently learned from a teacher who modeled how to manage imperfection.I was attending a martial arts seminar.The teacher was asked:“You have taught us that when an unavoidable sock on the jaw comes from the left, we simply breathe, relax and turn the head to the right and lessen the blow.Then when a punch comes from the other direction we do the opposite.But what do we do if a punch comes straight up the middle?”The teacher shook his head and said, “Yes, I sometimes have that same problem!”Everybody laughed.Later, I thought about what he said.The teacher actually gave a solid answer to a tough question.We must freely admit that no matter how expert we become at something, we can always be bested by something else.It does not mean we lose the war.Some battles, yes, we might lose.This is life.We must lose because otherwise we might think we are God.In loss do not lose your humility and character in God.The trick is to be relaxed in the confidence you have in the goodness of good, which is God.The same instructor was asked, “What do you do if another big martial arts man comes and wants to challenge you in a fight?”He said, “I never say I am the best.I say, ‘Here is what I know.That is all.’Maybe the new fellow has some things to teach me.Maybe my class has been too dull, so I will fight him.Maybe if he is crazy, I do not fight.It depends.Do not be afraid to be tested.”In all things, relax and let God direct.The best teachers and students communicate, demonstrate and master excellence while always manifesting something greater than even excellence itself: humility.
Fixed Word Rules vs. Spiritual Guidelines– A parable:Once three brothers, who were near retirement age, decided to get together on the twentieth anniversary of their father’s death.When they met they recalled their father’s sage advice in his last words to them.The words were, “My sons, in life God has given us no fixed rules, only guidelines.”The oldest brother was a famous general in the US Marines.He said following their father’s advice helped him immensely in war.He said, “We surprised the enemy every time we operated unconventionally.They had our playbook, but we had surprise.I later had Pop’s doctrine put in the US Marine Corp. Tactics Manual.It says, ‘There are no fixed rules that can be applied automatically, and every situation is different…Leaders must remember that there are no fixed rules and no precise checklists, but there are bounds.’This has saved many lives in combat.Thank God for Poppa’s advice!”The middle brother was a famous businessman who owned a global hotel chain.He said, “I also used Pop’s advice.Our hotels lost business to local competition until I told our managers, ‘There are no rules, only guidelines.’Since then we please our customers, our business has grown and our employees have prospered.In our company mission statement we state there are no rules, only guidelines.Thank God for Poppa’s advice!”The youngest son was a famous preacher.He said, “After Poppa gave us his last words, I looked in the Bible.Sure enough, Jesus broke rules and defended it by citing that David and the temple priests broke rules.But I used Pop’s advice differently.He didn’t want others taking advantage of us with fixed rules.But Poppa never said I couldn’t.My ministry has grown because I preach about a fixed rule of tithing.I put it in our statement of beliefs.That rule has been good to me.I have a $20 million jet, a multi-million dollar personal income, my ministry takes in over $100 million per year, my face is broadcast to 200 million people around the planet, my ministry sells my best-seller books and my children will inherit a billion dollar ministry.I just pushed the envelope on Pop’s advice!If there are no rules, I decided to take care of myself and make a fixed rule work on others to work for me.Thank God for Poppa’s advice!”
Fly Away Fallacies Make Fly Away Phalluses – Is your rapture preacher enraptured with a jet?Wayward doctrines of the wayward church make it perform strange “help me, I’m becoming an obscenity” messages.And the biggest message of the biggest wayward ministries is their ever-increasing in size, mine-is-bigger-than-yours status symbol: the sleek, proboscis-shaped, beam-me-up-Scotty machine called a “private” jet.The self-service rapture doctrine so emasculates its adherents they must compensate.And they are compensating for their self-gelding of good doctrine with $20 million get-thyself-away-from-public-contact flying phallic symbols.Their doctrinal fallacies of escapology are directly linked in the spirit realm to their flying phalluses of escape from common sense and common contact.Only God could arrange such perfect mockery of what is wrong with the wayward church.
Friends in Low Places– ‘Cause I got (and we all have) friends in low places, as the country western song by Garth Brooks says:“Where the whisky drowns and the beer chases my blues away.But I’ll be okay.”Not really.If we search for higher spiritual meaning in this song from popular culture, here is what we find:Beer (and wine) are self-exaltation, which can sometimes appear as self pity.Whisky (and strong drink) go to extreme levels of, believe it or not, self-deification.Self-deification is really ugly, because it means glorifying as of supreme worth and commanding worship of one’s own ungodly self.(Isaiah 28: 1, 7)The Bible calls such “woe,” this song “the blues.”But in the end the truth is shown, because the deified sorrowful self concludes this cry-in-my-beer-song with “you can kiss my ___.”If you have troubles, you probably have demons in you who worked with demons in others to cause the troubles.Instead of feeling sorry with your friend demons in low places, refuse their fellowship!They will only deify a rotten demon-filled soul!Instead do what Peter finally did, after Christ predicted Peter would in tribulation finally see the holdout pride-of-religion demons screwing up Peter’s call.Jesus said he had prayed for Simon (the former name of Peter, because Simon was unconverted) that “when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.”The conversion, which was nothing less than removing stronghold demons in Peter’s soul, was for Peter to realize he had three times denied Christ.This bitter truth of demons not only residing in his soul, but controlling his soul in critical moments, left Peter with two choices:He could drown his sorrows in self-denial, or he could face the truth.Peter chose truth.Luke 22:62 tells us, “And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.”A constant in television ministry is, believe it or not, derision of Peter.Immature televangelists mock Peter’s so-called dumb questions, actions and arguments with Christ.Yet it appears such televangelists are little Simons, not yet converted in depth of soul, begging God for revival and more nominal converts.Some day, perhaps, such leaders will see their self-interest doctrines have been wrong, their souls need more overcoming, and before they can shepherd any great revivals, they and their peers must publicly and privately weep and weep bitterly.
Generals are Surprising – The best generals are surprising.That is how they win.The enemy cannot figure them out.The enemy learns to be afraid of a surprising enemy.Well, God is a Man of War, as we are told in Exodus 15:3.God is surprising, especially to sin in our life, especially regarding wrong doctrine (i.e. Rapture, Love Mush, etc.) in our life. The more perfect in alignment we are with God, the less surprising He is to us.Jesus told Nicodemus that any person not born again of water and of the Spirit cannot enter truth.Those not born again will always be surprised by the actions of those born again and moving with God.
God Can – God can what?God can do whatever He wants to do.God can move/bless/prosper/grow any ministry teaching anything, including rapture, prosperity, weakness, dry bones, mojo witchcraft or any such thing.God’s ways are mysterious.
God is Nice Until… – God, like any good authority, is nice until it is time to not be nice (to us.)In other words, God’s mercy (forgiveness, blessings) is not limitless to an individual.Each person reaps what he sows and gets the God-treatment he deserves (or is entitled to by election.)Love mush people do not believe this.They think nothing puts them on the outs with God, unlike real life with the IRS or unpaid creditors.
God Sees and Wonders – Those who preach egregiously, who teach in error, who prophecy wrongly, who pretend inerrancy in all doctrines they espouse see little carnal correction in the Christian world, not to themselves or others.They can stay in position and pride almost indefinitely.But to eyes that see, nothing is anointed and with signs nothing is confirmed but rather opposed.These are God’s ever present wonders.God wonders when more people will notice His wonders which always confirm truth and deny lies.The spiritually blind on earth believe only and perceive only God sees and waits.To the spiritually perceptive on earth, revelation is always abundant because God sees and actively creates stunningly explicit explanations of His power, position and judgment seat opinion (thumbs up or down) through His amazing wonders.If an “invisible” white elephant is present, so are its unmistakable signs.God’s wonders are ever-present burning bushes, if you have eyes to see and ears to hear.These are the signs of Mark 16:20 and if wise, we must fear God’s opposition and thank His confirmation.
God’s Voice Sounds Like You– Jesus said, Blessed are they who hear My words and obey.So, how does God’s voice sound to you?Just like you.But be careful.People may stigmatize you for hearing God’s voice.For example, journalists will mock any candidate running for President of the United Sates who says, “God told me to run.”However, the same journalists might agree that most candidates running for President usually believe God wants them to.Such bipolar reactions are common.People can be both relieved and alarmed that others hear from God.For this reason even preachers tend to refrain from telling you what God’s voice sounds like.So for hard truth, we find popular movies once again have the answer.In the 1956 production of The Ten Commandments, Charlton Heston performed the voice of God speaking to Charlton Heston playing Moses at the burning bush.Then in the 1998 production of The Prince of Egypt, Val Kilmer performed the voice of God speaking to Val Kilmer playing Moses at the burning bush.Anything is possible, really, if we could hear and obey God’s instant-now words, which will to you sound like God in you using your voice.As tagline from The Prince of Egypt states, “The power is real.The story is forever.The time is now.”
Grace– Love mush churches believe grace means God grants infinite forgiveness to our infinite stupidity, or sin.This is a lie.God may grant a season of forgiveness to our sin, but such a season is not eternal.In any person’s life, a person can step across a certain line and go where God says, “Do not step.”Love mush preachers seem to delight in stepping just there, and encouraging everyone else to do the same.The correct definition of grace is Divine enablement.As in, “God give me the grace to do good for you.”Not: “God give me the grace to be a weak, do-nothing, be-nothing Christian.”In sum, may God grant you His grace to be a God bearer!
Have Dominion – God says right up front in Genesis 1:28 to have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.If this was to be taken literally then fishermen, cowboys, lion tamers and animal husbandry experts would be the automatic heroes of eternity.But we know this is not the case.So what was Moses doing quoting God like that? The language of Moses is, quite naturally, the language of the spirit.God commands us to have dominion over our spirit and the spirit realm.This includes the thoughts of our mind, the “creepy” thoughts of evil spirit-induced ideas, our emotions, our bodies and – in parallel fashion –those things of the carnal realm that are sort of a mirror image.All of this spirit realm is represented by the “countenance” in Cain that God was concerned had fallen by Genesis 4:6.Then Cain slew Abel.When Cain lost his dominion in the spirit realm, he lost it in the carnal realm.Regrettably, many preachers preach mainly in the carnal realm, and brazenly ignore God’s spiritual realm.One would suspect such preachers primarily live in the carnal realm of thought only; with little regard to their spirit, their congregation’s spirits or God’s Spirit.Hence, they are bereft of dominion.
Have No Opinion – The prophet Bob Jones teaches the doctrine of Have No Opinion.We must adhere to God’s opinion on everything.We may be offended by Joe and what Joe is doing, but then be surprised to learn God loves Joe and what Joe is doing.We may love Sue and what Sue is doing, but then be surprised to learn God hates Sue and what Sue is doing.It is best to have no opinion but God’s.
He Who is in You is Greater– He, meaning Jesus, who is in you is greater than he (the Devil) who is in the world.However, it does not mean you always will beat the enemy.How so?The In That Day Teachings continually emphasize your godliness (God infilling) is normally a fraction, or percentage of the whole.So, if He (Jesus) who is in you is at a small fraction, and he (the Devil) who is in the world is in you at a large fraction, then you will probably not fare well.Reverse the percentages and you will do better.The fractions being discussed are in reality spirits – good and evil.For example a prideful preacher (consumed by spirits of pride-of-religion, pride-of-life, pride-of-position, pride-of-power, pride-of-televised-ego, idolizer-of-jets, idolizer-of-self would have those high percentage devils versus his admittedly large amount of godly spirits of ministry to contend with.Who wins is anybody’s guess.Another preacher in another arena might have fought off most all of those prideful spirits, built up humility spirits and added those good things to his easy-to-come-by godly ministry spirits.That second preacher might have an easier time getting the advantage over the enemy.
He’s Got a Point– If God gives us a truth then we are held responsible for it.This is no small thing.Truth is a pearl, a sword, our God.And we had better learn to revere, honor and become truth.Let us now consider a movie that Tim Dirks has reviewed with great insight.In the 1971 movie Dirty Harry Clint Eastwood plays Harry Callahan, a hard-edged (avenging angel) detective whose first word in the movie is a crime scene expletive: “Jesus.”John Vernon plays the mayor of San Francisco, a jaded politician who cares less about justice and more about giving in to all parties – even extorting criminals – in order to keep power.The movie plays under the area’s famous “Jesus Saves” sign.At one point the mayor says, “Callahan… I don’t want any more trouble like we had last year down in the Fillmore District.That’s my policy.”Harry:“Yeah?Well, if I see a guy about to rape a woman I shoot the bastard, that’s my policy.”Mayor:“Intent?How did you establish that?”Harry:“If I see a naked (i.e. nakedly greedy) man chase a woman (the vulnerable Church/bride of Christ) down an alley, with a butcher’s knife (i.e. tithe extortion/give-to-me-to-get-from-God) and a hard-on, ($20 million jets, Rolls Royce luxury, international travel/royalty-book-income) I figure he ain’t out collectin’ for the Red Cross.” (i.e. God’s true sheep.)[Walks out, slams door behind him.]Mayor:[After a while staring at the closed door.]“I think he’s got a point.”Perhaps these In That Day Teachings have a point, have provided long-avoided truth and are unwanted answers to God-make-it-easy-for-us prayers.In the above-mentioned movie, when the District Attorney tells Callahan that the murder suspect Scorpio will be released from jail on a technicality, Callahan protests.The D.A. says, “It’s the law.”Callahan replies, “Well then, the law is crazy.”Currently the self-interested religionists teaching escapology are the law-of-the-land in televangelism.Perhaps their accepted, self-interested, easy-doctrine Christianity also is crazy.And its leaders, after perusing this material that challenges them to the core might want to say of this author as Scorpio did of Harry: “Jesus, what the hell is he doing?”The rapture is unscriptural.Religious give-to-get, self-interested, non-profit laundry self-aggrandizement is unscriptural.Selling the concept of automatic indulgence, eternal do-nothing security is unscriptural.Saying “should Jesus tarry” is unscriptural.Forever preaching baby doctrines is unscriptural.Preaching only about Jesus and seldom manifesting His essence is unscriptural.Ignoring hard truths, even truths presented by the Devil himself, is unscriptural.The faddish “huzzah” preachers of today promulgate a near-insane kind of manic joy with little regard for hard disciplines needed for heroic overcoming of future difficulties and opportunities.But perhaps this author is just unlucky to believe these things.Clearly the teach-only-easy-doctrine leaders of televised Christianity believe themselves, under the sight of our holy God Almighty, to be lucky.God has an In That Day of His mighty wrath coming, delivered via overwhelming scourges of spiritual whirlwinds that no in-name-only Christian can escape.This scourge will mysteriously avoid all who are in nature good while causing horrific self-destruction to all who are not.God’s In That Day scourging is a more powerful weapon than the Smith and Wesson which Harry described as being “ a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and it’ll blow your head clean off.”So escapolgy-prosperity-huzzah Christian leaders, who should know the fear of God better than most, might recall what Harry finally said to Scorpio: “You could ask yourself a question.Do I feel lucky?Well, do ya, punk?”[Lest anyone misinterpret, Robert Winkler Burke poses this question purely in rhetorical fashion, and threatens no one with physical harm, and in no way encourages anyone else to do physical harm.This rhetorical question simply implies that God has a vastly superior “magnum” weapon of spiritual scourging in His heavenly arsenal, a weapon all but God’s true saints need to fear.It is God’s last resort method of creating a few more saints while letting the remaining rebels be surprised to discover they are the unworthy, self-deluded, self-serving, self-destructing damned.]
Head Swimming Exercise– Pick a spiritual topic important to you.Study five media ministries and see what they say on the subject.Break each down to five points.Compare these five ministries’ 25 points.Compare that to five points you glean from In That Day Teachings.Compare that to five points you believe the logos Bible says.Compare that to five points that you believe God’s rhema words give you personally.Compare these eight outlines of five points each, or 40 points.It will open your spiritual eyes and ears.Why do not other ministries encourage you to do this?Answer:They fear loss of control, loss of money and freedom of you in God.
Heads God Wins, Tails You (in Religious Pride) Lose– If you have not noticed by now, the In That Day Teachings seem to find fault with almost everything connected with modern Christianity.This way seems not unlike a zealous martial arts master or any demanding teacher archetype – from master Buddhist to Bavarian brewmaster – who might delight in finding Catch-22 situations where the students are found to be in the wrong.Did Jesus do this to his disciples?Must other teachers of God bearing do likewise?Is this then God’s mysterious way of eliminating pride?Is not pride the biggest yet hardest to see plague in mankind’s religious efforts?Yes, yes, yes and yes.Amen!To the unenlightened, it just looks like a cruel game of “Smash the Gopher,” wherein God seams to enjoy outwitting and massively frustrating His seekers.(See Job Chapters 1-31.)But God and His master teachers know when to let up and encourage the distraught.(Isaiah 28:23-29; Matthew 7:11.)The master parries thrusts of his students by deftly changing position to show greater perspective and purpose.At first sight, the master appears to contradict himself when in actual reality he is counteracting sophist escapology from students who often nurse covert jealousy, damaged pride and even revenge.The goal of the master is to somehow inflict permanent damage to the student’s ego (soulish pride and pride of skill learned so far) without damaging the student’s spirit.Often the ego damage must come not from the master, but from missteps of the student, or in reality: Satan.This explains the experience of Job, Peter, you and me.Hitherto, broadcast Christianity has often stuck with pabulum and not bothered to explain God’s higher, mysterious and yet holistic ways: ways explored in depth by other cultures and endeavors of excellence seeking good.But now is time, by God.These advanced lessons in Christ are necessary, in fact, for multitudes to survive in God in this day.If broadcast Christianity fails to repent of puerility, grow, learn and teach these doctrines, blood will be on their hands.Lies beget death, truth begets life.We must say, Let there be life!And we must pray it is not too late.
Heart of God or…Will of God –Sometimes preachers will proffer a certain aspect of God’s heart, say kindness, then preach that that aspect trumps just about everything.So whereas God is against abortion, his heart is for pro-abortion people.What does such preaching leave us with?Answer:It leaves an over-reaching message to chuck yesterday’s sermons about God’s other aspects and now simply do always today’s emphasized aspect:in this case, kindness.What is wrong with this preaching?Here is a parable to explain:In the eighteenth century Lord Admiral Godson was noted for his considerable ability to inspire and bring out the best in his men.Yet he had troubles with his fleet operations.He said, “How is my blockade doing against the French port?”“Not well,” said his advisors.“How so?”“Well, my Lord, the fleet in charge of the blockade has somehow become convinced that you regard kindness above all traits and they have been supplying the French with food and wine.”Frowning, he said, “Then, how is my operation in North Africa?”“Not well,” said his advisors.“How so?”“Well, my Lord, the fleet in charge of North Africa has somehow become convinced that you regard severity above all traits and they have executed most anyone not an Englishmen, simply because they are not English-born.”Lord Admiral Godson replied, “How can such absurdity be going on in the Royal Navy?”His advisor replied, “They are only doing what they think best will incur your favor.Rather than obey your orders they have chosen to gain your good graces by emphasizing one of your famous characteristics.”Lord Godson said, “I will send my understudies, who know better than to exaggerate a good trait than obey a good order, and they will correct the leaders of my fleets.”But the advisor said, “Last time you sent out your understudies to the fleets, they were all hung.Then we received requisitions for more rope.”
Her Beautiful Humbleness– The bride of Christ is beautiful in her humbleness, her ability to be corrected, her deferring always to what is right, her self-awareness, her lack of extravagance, her efficiency, her inability to boast, her lack of arrogance, her inner loveliness, her amazing ability to see and hear spiritually, her obedience even at the cost of pride, her recognition of God in all other things, her lack of stridency, her ability to flow with God’s Spirit, her inability to extort, her revulsion of all things vain, her utter lack of pretension, her harmony, her lovely voice, her surprising ability to be in conformity with God’s surprises and her effortless ability to stay in touch with God as she manifests her love’s glorified truth.All in Christ must seek this beautiful humbleness.
Her Power of Humility– The bride of Christ is powerful in her humility.She is curious about her faults.The wayward church is proud and strangely incurious about its faults.Wayward doctrine controls what the wayward church thinks, speaks and does.Escapist doctrine makes it think of escape, speak escape and practice escape.The true church expects Christ to live inside our souls.Our souls must be pure to do this, and it takes humility to be pure.The pose of prosperity is contrary to humility.The belief that evil spirits cannot be in a Christian is contrary to humility.In fact, all that is wrong with the wayward church is contrary to humility.The wayward church is caught up in its own cheap success.It would rather believe lies about itself than repent that parts of itself have been dedicated to doctrines of hideous evil.The wayward church has very little power but compensates with pride.And it is proud of just what Satan wants the wayward church to be proud of, which is self on the throne.God wants His true church to be humble and have Christ on the throne of each soul.Satan loves pride, God loves humility.God’s church is humble, antichrist’s church is proud.God’s church knows it is not perfect and seeks correction.Antichrist’s church believes it has perfect doctrine, of which it is perfectly proud, which makes it almost perfectly unable to manifest Christ.
Hold ’em or Fold ’em –Can we or can’t we hear from God?Some orthodox preachers say no. Some charismatic preachers say yes.The orthodox crowd ignores tons of scriptures stating God wants you to hear His voice.So they ignore the Bible’s four admonitions to “Hearken unto the voice of the Lord,”the half dozen “hear my words,” Jesus’ admonition that“blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it,” and the three Bible references that “man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”Jesus also taught us to pray “Thy (Father God’s) will be done” and then later prayed “if this cup may not pass away from me…thy will be done.”How can we do God’s will without hearing from Father God?No army operates on the assumed will of its general.It operates on the communicated will of the general. No wonder Christianity is screwed up!Jesus continually admonished us to have spiritual eyes to see and ears to hear.Job proclaimed at the end of his trials, “But now mine eye seeth thee!”Recently a radio preacher railed against his congregation for sleeping, and said he himself was so diligent in Sunday attendance that early in his marriage while traveling, he awoke one Sunday morning to find his van had two flat tires.He had only one spare.So he went to a neighbor and borrowed a car.On the way to church, the pastor says, he and his wife argued.He says he got so angry, he could not listen to the Sunday sermon.So the pastor told his congregation to not argue with the spouse while going to church.Now, wait a minute!Is God alive, or not?Is God sovereign over the affairs of man, or not?If God is alive, as I suspect He is…then could it be that two flats on Sunday morning might be a message from a very quickened and alive God to a very rigid, strident and dead-to-the-spirit preacher?The Bible continually reiterates that God’s spirit flows like a river to those who can receive it.Either you rip out the last page of the Bible and disbelieve there is “a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God…in the midst of the street of it…the tree of life…which bare fruits…and there shall be no more curse” etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.Or you go with God’s unpredictable flow of life, in which God delights in showing His mature believers that there are no rules, only guidelines.That way God shows us how to beat the enemy, which can have too much success if we are rigid with God’s rules.That is why God must be a little unpredictable.If the enemy knows we stick to a rigid rule book, the enemy wins.Jesus, of course, modeled this unpredictability.When aggressive crowds wanted to confront him, He took the cards of life he was playing with and folded them.It was not time.When it was finally time to go to the cross, He held them.He held his cards four days for Lazarus.With the rich young ruler, He folded them and let him walk away.All of us have operations that need to continue, or stop.God is the general of our life.And some day, pedantic and strident preachers who brag on their brutal examples of keeping rigid rules… will get a dose of God’s reality and flow with His – gasp, dare we believe – rule-breaking Spirit!Hallelujah!And amen!And once this happens to a preacher, maybe his sermons will stop putting people to sleep…and start putting people back on the path of God’s wonderfully unpredictable river of life!
Hot Hand with God – Part of practicing humility as a Christian is to acknowledge when another person really has the Hot Hand (referring to a poker player who is having a run of high-value cards) with God.Standard practice in church is to assume the head pastor always has the hot hand, because he basically says so.But this is not scriptural.Jesus saw John the Baptist had the Hot Hand and allowed Himself to be baptized by him.Sometimes God shifts the Hot Hand around just to keep us humble.A child may suddenly speak heavenly words from the throne room to the parent.Will the parent be humble and say, “Child, you were speaking God’s words to me just now.I will take them to heart.Thank you and don’t ever lose that precious gift!”Or will the parent remain proud and say, “That’s cute, you speaking to me like I need to listen to you, a child?”God prefers the former response, but if you insist in the latter then you have chosen to shut your ears to God’s good.God will reverse roles just to allow correct modeling.The master will become the student, and both have an opportunity to model humility to each other.But we seldom hear this from preachers because apparently their mentors did not model this Divine attribute to them.
How Can It Be? – How can it be that the modern wayward church teaches the very things keeping Christ from manifesting?If believing lies about rapture/imminent second coming/eternal security allows devils to be embedded and unrestrained in us, then Christ cannot return and live as full in our abodes compared to if we believed in true doctrines that eliminated indwelt demons in us.So, how can this be?Well, two thousand years ago Christ absolutely blasted the Pharisees and scribes of the day.They were the religious establishment, and they crucified Christ, stopping His singular life from being manifested.Is not this now also happening such that Christ is stopped in his ability to live His life fully manifested in individuals on earth?Only two things stop Christ from manifesting in individuals – their lack of being of a right truth and their lack of being of a right spirit.Modern Christian leaders on television appear to have a crass disregard for both what spirit they are of and what small and questionable doctrines they espouse.One wonders, are the sins of pride and avarice confining them to short puppy-dogma leashes?Is it any wonder that until better enlightenment, humility and repentance arrive, in not enough worshippers of Our Lord is Christ happy to be seen!
How Evil Spirits in One’s Self Can be Stopped– At all times ask the question:Am I of a right spirit and truth?When you feel a wrong spirit, an untruthful spirit, rise up in you…do not let it.Consciously fight against letting that wrong spirit have dominion, or have control over you.Evil spirits gain control over you by increasing time and power while they have forward control.So, the moment you feel the wrong spirit rising up in you, do not allow it.Refuse it admission and control of your consciousness.Each time it takes control, it gains time and power.Each time it fails in its effort to take control, it loses time and power.If you let it take you over in a large fit or explosive episode of any kind, it has accomplished a major victory.If external conditions become very large for its normal taking control of your soul and you then refuse its entrance, it has suffered a major defeat.Treat each battle as a battle for life or death.This is no small game.It is a real battlefield for your good soul versus your Adamic sin-nature.It is as if there are two dogs inside you fighting all the time.One is a good dog, the other evil.The one who wins is the one you feed, exercise and love.The loser you starve, cage and hate.
How Evil Spirits in Others Can be Stopped – It is very difficult to stop evil spirits in others.Evil spirits control people by two things:The amount of time and power they have over their host’s consciousness.However, you can predict a person’s future behavior based upon the spirits and truths – or lies – they are of.If they continually dwell on wrong thoughts – lies, in other words – and wrong emotions – evil spirits – then they may overtly pledge their goodness to you but in the end if they do anything around you it will probably be evil.So, to stop evil spirits in others from hurting you, notice the signs of telltale spiritual bipolarity.These signs always accompany the conflicted.The conflicted will be blind to their evil.The evil in them succeeds only if their victims are blind to the reality deception field being promulgated by the conflicted.Thus a wife, for example, was once arrested for shooting her husband with a .357 magnum.She is reported to have told the deputy, “Why did he make me do that?”(This is an actual comment published by a newspaper regarding a shooting near Virginia City, Nevada.)The husband might have ignored every sign that his wife may have let her wrong spirits and lying thoughts obsessively consume her soul, until they became so strong in her consciousness that she shot him.Then she wondered why he made her do that.Such is the deception of Satan.If you are good at hearing and obeying God, God will warn you to cut ties with people who have decided to let evil thoughts and spirits consume their conscious ability to be anything but your enemy.Thus God will help you to have a correct list of who are your allies and who are your enemies.This is how you survive, because few can survive a friend who really is an enemy.Dealt with properly, your friends and even enemies make you stronger.But a friend who is an enemy destroys himself and yourself.Jesus deals with the hot and the cold, but the lukewarm he spews out of His mouth.
How Much Love – How much love do we need?Since God is love, it would be unwise to limit it in our lives.Why do we need so much love?To paraphrase “Climb Every Mountain” by Rogers & Hammerstein, your life and dream “will need all the love you can give, every day of your life for as long as you live.”Only God and to whom He gives it have that much love.
I Could be Wrong – I Could Be Wrong.This is something no critic wants to say… about himself.Nor a preacher.Nor a president.But let us learn from Abraham Lincoln who said, “with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right…”Let God be God, and let Him prove us wrong often enough to beat down our pride in ourselves.So many Bible answer man/Christian Cop programs are run by folk who do a very good job impersonating Luke 18:9 (Amplified) “people who trusted in themselves and were confident that they were righteous [that they were upright and in right standing with God] and scorned and made nothing of all the rest of men.”Often one or more of the hosts of such programs have a spirit that is really out of whack, while they drone on in lifeless high-handed monotone.
Imminent Return of Jesus – The Bible says Jesus will return.On the last page it says three times, “Behold, I come quickly.”So what gives?It has been two thousand years and Jesus hasn’t come?Or perhaps does Jesus actually come and manifest in our lives.Either we wait in stupor or we keep on pressing and worshipping God in spirit and truth until perhaps we become proof that Jesus does come quickly to manifest in our lives.And aid in this process is to bless those who come in God’s nature, and then our abode will not remain desolate.(Matt. 23:39)In other words, the test is pride.So many teachers and preachers of God’s word won’t honor anybody (other than themselves) doing anything good (or God) so they themselves remain desolate.Their abominable desolation convinces themselves ever more that their logos knowledge is the ultimate thing.And God goes ahead anyway and manifests Himself in all others who please Him.Note:Jesus may certainly still come any way He wants to.After all, he is God isn’t He?It is just as bad to burn those at the stake in whom Jesus comes as those who wait.
In Good, Out Bad – In Good, Out Bad.Wherein we learn good and reject bad from all sources.No preacher, prophet or evangelist is perfect.Yet we must learn good from them and reject whatever bad they espouse.This is something Christian apologists/cops are too immature and hypocritical to accept.They, themselves, say they are perfect in slamming whomever.(So saying, I am Christ.)But Jesus said be careful how you hear.No apologist is perfect in all his renouncements of others.Even with them, let what they say that is true in, and what they say that is based in jealousy, ignorance or competition out as bad.
In That Day – “In That Day” is a certain time spoken of in the Old and New Testaments by the prophets, including Jesus.It speaks of the time we are living in now, when a spiritual scourging (appearing dark, wrathful and merciless) shakes things up epically, reveals sin in the surprised feigners and rewards righteous and holy people.The phrase In That Day occurs 112 times in the King James Bible, according to the free e-Sword software program. The phrase Day of Wrath: 4. The phrase Day of the Lord: 29. The phrase Day of Vengeance: 4. The phrase Overflowing Scourge: 2. The word overflowing: 11. These words and phrases generally but not always refer to a time beyond Christ's resurrection when a spiritual scourging sifts good from evil and enables God to be in us more globally. Now, most importantly, the question must be asked: How many times does the word rapture occur? Exactly zero.
In the Beginning was a Story – God is a story teller.He really loves stories.His Son told lots of parables.For most of us the greater truths are so indigestible we must have stories.It is how we digest truth.Hence, popular culture is fascinated with movies.Movies are simply moving pictures.Pictures are mental images.So movies are moving mental images.It is one way God gets the public’s attention.So in truth, we are in the midst of a rain, flood and ocean of rhema stories from God in popular culture while simultaneously experiencing an unacknowledged drought from pulpits, religious authors and purveyors of most things ecclesiastic.Here is a small list of God’s parabolic messages provided in popular movies:Want to see antipodal spirits in action?See Inspector Jacques Clouseau unconsciously fight his evil boss in The Pink Panther.Interested in the prior earth age and memory loss?See Total Recall.Interested in observing the power of self-destructive spirits of fraternal jealousy?See Zathura.For self-destructive familial spirits see Jumanji.Interested in apocalyptic foreboding regarding the self-destruction (at times assisted-with-extreme-prejudice) of evil people?See Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven or his man-with-no-name series; or Tombstone.Interested in men of war?See Shane, Braveheart, Patriot, Gladiator, Master and Commander, The Shootist, 300.Interested in the Three Earth Ages?See Disney’s Hercules.Interested in the elect?See any spy movie, The Ten Commandments, The Prince of Egypt, Dumbo, Casablanca, the X-Men Movies and other comic strip movies.Interested in joyful spirits and their interplay with humans?See Fiddler on the Roof, The Sound of Music.Interested in the effect of dark spirits on good spirits?See Oklahoma.Interested in inherited spirits and the invisible powers of spirits?See the Star Wars sagas.Interested in waiting for the Rapture’s ride out of here?Watch Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry when he is offered a helicopter ride in the last scene of The Enforcer.Interested in the pandemic gelding and worshipping of weakness in Christian churches?See The Magnificent Seven, The Seven Samurai, The Cowboys.Interested in the power of a pure spirit against an environment of sadistic, controlling and rigid spirits?See the black and white Billy Budd.Interested in learning about crossing the river of eternity, prophets, judgment and judgment seat angels?See Hang ‘em High.Want to know about angelic help for people suffering at the hands of deceived egomaniacs?See Mary Poppins.Want to know about love, truth-seeking and kingship?See The King and I.For examples of expedient androgyny as a method of balancing individuals see Mulan, Angel & the Badman (wherein John Wayne grows beyond one dimension,) Stagecoach (where a whore becomes a wife, an outlaw a husband, a card shark an agape benefactor, a drunk a doctor and a sheriff a friend) and any action movie where the tough guys have to tone down to take care of babies or a nurturing woman has to toughen up to eliminate bad guys.To witness the extreme cruelty, viciousness and spawning ways of evil spirits, see the Alien series.Alien’s hero Ellen Ripley (played by Sigourney Weaver) is a manly woman who must androgynously become a nurturing mother to a girl at one point in the series (she out-mothers the alien mother.)Want to know more about God’s extreme end-times jealousy for His Church?See Red Headed Stranger.Interested in the dystopia of modern secular beliefs clashing with God’s end-times restoration and resolution of all things?See The Fifth Element, the Harry Potter movies, The Lord of the Rings series, The Chronicles of Narnia series and The Wizard of Oz.As you can see, God can easily work in the movie industry to speak freely about subjects His pastors cannot.Perhaps this is as it should be.But perhaps it is not.Someday, people must learn the hard and fascinating truths behind what they have been drawn to watch, listen and absorb over and over.Tellingly, overt so-called Christian movies like Omega Code, Left Behind and such tend to flop.Why?They contain very little truth.
iPod – Small portable device made by Apple that can play the Bible.(See iTunes)
Is Your Doxic Toxic?– Look at your religious establishment’s creed, or “What We Believe” statements.Moxie and doxie do not really mix.Do the statements imply the readers of such are sinful in nature, but the authors of such are not; and neither is the creed they produced?Again, does it say that generally speaking, man is by nature sinful, but not this creed’s creators?And does it generally also imply that you, the creed reader, are presumed to be needing God’s improvements; but the creed you are reading so perfect its perfection exists to identify heretics who question it?If so, perhaps some religious doctrines have become adulterated along the way by, of course, unmitigated hubris.It is interesting that Webster’s unabridged dictionary says “doxie” describes either a loose wench, trollop, prostitute, mistress, girl friend; or a religious opinion or doctrine. Proverbs 6: 24-27 says, Keep thee from the evil woman (i.e. wrong, easy, supposedly-perfect doctrine.) It is also interesting that the Bible does not really include doctrinal statements.God lets us do that from what we read in the Bible, and show Him what pride or humility we take from His word.(One secular company’s philosophy states:We are fallible, encourage oversight, learn from mistakes, and stay teachable.We train to eliminate self-interest, ego and dishonesty from our profession.We always ask, “Are we doing the right thing?” and take due responsibility.)If the creeds of Christianity cannot include humility, then neither can they fully include God.Where can we go for God’s deeper truths?No wonder there are so many apocalyptic movies.For crying out loud!
iTunes – Free download software provided by Apple for Windows or Macintosh computers which enables you to load CDs of the spoken Bible.Once you do that, you can listen to the Bible every day or night.Compare the number of times in a year you can read vs. listen to the New Testament.Say you can read the NT 10 times in a year, at best.You can easily listen 200 times.Just in one night, you can hear the four gospels.In a year, you could possibly listen 300 times to the red letter words of Christ.
Jesus Died so That:– Jesus died so that preachers could harangue you, me and everyone that Jesus died for our sins.Or perhaps He died for our sins so that He could live in you and live in me.The first belief puts no onus on the preacher but to proclaim the good news as a half-truth diatribe giving him a right to harangue whomever.The second belief, well now that puts the name of a Christian good news messenger to the test!Maybe it is a test too few preachers will own up to.So they keep haranguing and apparently do not care that Jesus does not care to come in haranguers – not even haranguers of His own coming!So until strident preachers learn to watch what spirit they are of, Jesus will have to continue to come in simple folk who harbor less religious pride.If we are such, He lives in you and He lives in me.
Jesus Died to do What?– Jesus died to put proud pontificators in the pulpit…or perhaps Himself in the pews.If it is the former, all is well.If the latter, those in the pulpit would do well to humble themselves to be polite to parishioners.Why?Some parishioners may have what they, the preachers themselves lack, but preach about in insufferable sermons; sermons only the devil himself could inhabit.And what might the parishioners have that some preachers do not?Why, Jesus living inside, of course!
JOB – Lesser teachings conclude the Book of Job says that we will never understand God.Therefore, lesser teachers say, the sum is Job 13:15, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him…”And they leave off the telltale idiocy of “…but I will maintain mine own ways before him.”And so the errant church maintains its own ways before God!After more scourging of pride (which is leviathan, not some dinosaur,) Job finally gets it and sees with spiritual eyes how wrong he was to be rigidly righteous, in effect, enthroning self to be God because of pride in knowledge in God.The scourging finally worked to demolish pride of position and God-knowledge which finally made Job close to the true God.Job said, “Now mine (spiritual) eye seeth thee.”And he repented.So far, we have not seen the popular church or so-called body of Christ do this yet.Therefore we see that with amazing strategy, God tricked Satan into pushing Job out of his comfortable yet disconnected-from-God righteousness and into the excruciating pride-removing overcoming into holy fellowship and friendship with God!By the way, preachers stuck in righteousness cannot see this or teach this because they are not yet in holiness and cannot and do not believe in it…yet!So they are stuck in the loop of Job 13:15a.See?
JOG – Judgment of God.If the world’s current population exceeds 6.5 billion, then God has a lot of people to judge.A certain prophet, named Bob Jones, said God once told him 2% currently make it to heaven.If true, then over 6.3 billion people will perish.Taking this to heart, is it any wonder prophets appear mad to such as face God’s wrath?
Just Look and Listen – To find confirmation in these In That Day Teachings, simply look and listen to what ministries say about themselves.These teachings say televangelists have become so uncorrectable, so greedy and so out of control, some have ventured into believing whatever means justify whatever ends.This is gross darkness, because as soon as questionable means are used, the godly ends are compromised.For an example of this see Benny Hinn Ministry’s November 2007 website banner: “Winning the lost at any cost!”Appropriate for a famously extravagant spender, no?The In That Day Teachings excoriate media ministries for promoting blood relatives.For an example, see Kenneth Copeland Ministry’s November 2007 website promoting a Strand of Pearls CD from the Copeland clan women.“I am really thrilled at this…a dynamite ministry tool,” says Kenneth Copeland.The In That Day Teachings say that dispensational preachers concentrate on worldly news as a means of promoting fear and encouraging sales of their distorted dispensational spin-works.For an example, see Chuck Missler’s Koinonia House Online website banner:“Bringing the world into focus through the lens of scripture.”I thought Paul said rather we struggle through the lens of the world to discern scriptural truth!The In That Day Teachings say too many ministries teach only baby doctrines.Yet there are churches who boast themselves as teachers of the “pure milk of the word.”The In That Day Teachings say dispensational preachers are myopic in their sales efforts.Witness Grant Jeffrey’s November 2007 website homepage with the top headline:“Products.”The In That Day Teachings say ministries disbelieve true doctrine and create their own.For an example, see Back to the Bible’s website which prominently features three top of page “donate” buttons, but nowhere in sight are references to free online bibles, free actual bibles, links to Gideons International, links to free online bible software for Windows and Macintosh or links to spoken word bible recordings.Back to the Bible, in(not)deed!The In That Day Teachings say modern media ministries are so embedded by escapist spirits – from their crazy escapist doctrines – that they escape fiscal responsibility.See Ministry Watch’s website: www.ministrywatch.com.Jesus said to be careful how you hear.
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.
Keep It Stupidly Simple – Satan’s KISS is to Keep It Stupidly Simple in regards to Christian doctrine. Yet God is not so simple, nor is the Bible.God’s manual has sixty-six books and eight hundred or so pages, depending on the printing.Is that simple?Imagine if in the 1950’s the Soviets wanted to beat the United States to the moon.One method might have been to dumb down the math taught in schools of the United States.No higher math would mean no higher science, which would mean no higher space rockets.The Americans would have been grounded or lost in space.Thankfully, the Soviets did not do this to the Americans.But has Satan done this to Christians?
Kingdom of God – The Kingdom of God equals Truth.The Kingdom of Heaven equals Truth.Heaven is a place where no lies are told and no lies are believed.It is the opposite of earth, where there are too many whosovers who loveth and maketh a lie.All doctrinal conflicts will disappear in heaven.Multitudes will be forced to agree that the dispensational doctrine, including the rapture, is either God’s truth or Satan’s lie.Only truth exists in heaven.And we are supposed to bring heaven to earth by discerning what exactly is true…now.
Know Thy Self-Interest– Observe the plague of our times:Self-interest.Note the painting contractor with an oversized, raised-to-the-sky, off-road four-by-four recreation vehicle, thinly disguised as a tax deductible work truck with company signs on the doors.You might need a chiropractor after lifting five gallon paint buckets into the shoulder-high truck bed.You might need a ladder to reach the ladders on the lumber rack.His overt message: My profession is painting contractor.His covert message:My profession is goofing off.Then there is the prosperity preacher with jet, jet park and jet carbon offsets.His overt message:My profession is preacher.His covert message:My profession is poacher.And there is also the conservative logos Bible preacher, who is somewhat dead to God’s living Spirit.He is dead enough to God’s universal living presence in others that he rails with an ungodly spirit of high-pitched whining against his sleepy congregation for sleeping (a Mark 16:20 reverse sign he ignores,) warns against listening to talk radio host Michael Savage (who delivers more truth in 60 seconds than this preacher might in 60 sermons,) and says all must “have a moral obligation to pay attention to where the word of God is proclaimed” (a cheap mantra substituted for “hear me”) though he, himself, proclaims ghastly dead-logos mantras instead of God’s lively rhema words of revelation.His overt message:My profession is delivering God’s living word.His covert message:My profession is killing God’s living word.Why all this idiocy in self-interest?Because of fear:The contractor or preacher types given in these examples fear that they are not true to the code of their own profession, which is excellence.(An excellent preacher doesn’t put his congregation to sleep or doesn’t extract a $20 million jet from partners, while an excellent painting contractor doesn’t need a shiny truck to sell his work.)Deep within they fear they are not excellent preachers or contractors, which is a reward unto itself with blessings following naturally.And so they fear having lack.So with self-interest and fear they find a way to get a trick truck, a jazzy jet or a controlled congregation.And they have done it the wrong way.This is clear to see by all who have eyes clear to see.And one thing imposters fear above all fears:That all would have eyes to see who they really are, how much trouble they are in and what it would take for them to turn their unholy situations around.All it would take is humility, repentance and faith in truth for truth’s sake.This puts their faith to the test.Luke 18:8 says, “When the Son of man cometh (manifesting through God-bearers this kind of deep truth,) shall he find faith on the earth?”
Kosher Diet– If you can, eat kosher.Obey the owner’s manual.Put premium in your tank, not sludge.Stay away from trouble and swine’s flesh.There is nothing wrong with pig’s flesh, shell fish, rats or a full vacuum bag; you just should not eat them.God made scavengers and man has made vacuum cleaners.The In That Day Teachings encourage you not to be shocked that the common Christian culture disbelieves the Bible and eats everything to cause every kind of health trouble.It is a clear indication that common Christian culture also has huge errors in doctrines as well.What about common culture?A recent snooty advertisement for a luxury diving watch boasts their timepiece is “For men who prefer to dive for their oyster and lobster.”God lets rich people (rich carnally, which is enmity to God) be stupid people (stupid spiritually, which is death.)God allows us to believe whatever we want and eat whatever we want: as you eat physically, so spiritually.Eat kosher food for your body, truth for your soul and God for your spirit.
Left Behind– No greater advertising slogan has been invented to loosen wallets of those whose minds are occluded with herd-mentality fear.Who wants to be left behind a supposed rapture?No one.What does it have to do with biblical truth?Nothing, except God allows lies for lie lovers.What does it do for bank accounts of managers of fear mongering?Everything.But what is the biblical truth of being either end-times taken or left behind?The passage has to do with deep overcoming of entrenched, Adamic sin.Honestly, most believers are closer to being unregenerate sinners than sanctified saints.As such – surfaced-washed-only sinners – they wishfully think the taken are themselves in supposed rapture.And the sole criteria for themselves being taken in rapture seems to be their faith in the rapture.Voila!Life is a dream!But judge their fruit.Such escapist dreamers have no less obnoxious overt and covert sin in themselves than before they believed themselves worth of the honor of rapture.But the truly taken are those whom God decides it time, time to go through excruciating overcoming.It is a process that might include spiritual eagles or vultures who pick away carnal flesh from living souls.Itis an onerous process for the blessed taken, who by the way sometimes bail out of the program.Others who are not yet ready, or may never be ready because of their choices in life, are not called.And the calling is continuous, not one time, but always happening selectively.Otherwise the disruption would be too noticeable or endemically to great for the world to endure.But those who undergo overcoming, which seems at times to be an experience too wildly tumultuous yet ethereally inexplicable to ever convince skeptics, have splendid fruit.They become the saints of God.That is who the taken are.And if you do not want to become the left behind in sin – those whom God deems unworthy to bring heaven to earth – then pray to God that when you are ready, He takes you through the crucible of fire: the agony and ecstasy of overcoming sin. Pray you become worthy of the full indwelling of the Holy Spirit.Pray you might manifest God’s Son in fellowship with Father God Almighty Himself.Pray that this is how you may bring heaven to earth and someday hear, “Well done my good and faithful servant.”
Let Yea be Yea and Nay be Nay– Jesus said let your yea be yea and nay be nay.(Matthew 5:37)From this we can take two lessons.The first is to not be double minded.So we should not talk backwards.For example we should not imitate popular culture that approves something by saying it is “bad,” or “wicked” or “incredible.”Secondly, we must align our spirits with our minds such that we never say “yea” in our mind while saying “nay” in our spirit nor should we say “yea” in our spirit while saying “nay” in our minds.This is difficult to actually do consistently.Here are examples from movies:In the 10 Commandments, Sethi says on his deathbed he only regrets leaving one person: Nefretiri.While true in Sethi’s mind, Nefretiri reminds him there was another (Moses.)Sethi realizes his spirit still loves Moses and says, “I know.I love him too.With my last breath I’ll break my own law and speak the name of Moses, Moses.”In Robin Williams’ black comedy movie The Big White, Holly Hunter plays his wife who is held hostage by two hit men.In the course of the movie the hit men treat Hunter with great agape love (with their spirits) despite being hit men (with their minds.)Likewise Hunter portrays Tourette’s syndrome by acting as a feisty and loving woman (with her spirit) while having a terrible potty mouth (with her mind.)In The Comancheros John Wayne’s mind treats Suart Whitman tough by arresting him for murder while his spirit loves him by trying to arrange a woman for him to marry.Whitman says, “You’ve got a lot of cupid in you.But I must admit, cupid picked a strange place to hide!”Sometimes television ministers will quote a Bible verse while using habitual braggadocios and high-handed mannerisms (with their spirit) and then quote the true Bible verse (with their mind.) Their spirit seems to say, “I am so very great to have found this verse!” while their mind then reads the verse.A car mechanic who had such pomp and pride at grabbing the correct wrench for a job would be fired because his lousy spirit annoyed everyone else in the shop.But this error, like so many others, seems to get a pass when it comes to church leadership.Such pride-of-religion preachers seem to not have the slightest clue of their horrid example of rotten hypocrisy on display for everyone to learn and deny wrong.In the above examples, the mind is part of the soul.But we also live in bodies.They also must be in alignment.Who would pay a personal trainer, or diet consultant or martial artist for help if that person was grossly out of physical shape?In fact, any personal consultant had better be decent in body, soul and spirit before offering others guidance.So to be a true God bearer, you must line up your spirit, soul and body such that you have not only your triune self completely in alignment but also the universe of good (which is God and all things godly) completely in alignment when you say, yea or nay.This is how and why Jesus spoke as one having authority, and not as the scribes.(Matthew 7:29)And the common people knew it, and loved it.It was then, and is now refreshing to our spirits which are normally assaulted by others who might be blind to their conflicted triune selves and who might also be conflicted with much that is good.It has never been enough to proclaim truth alone.Truth must be proclaimed in a right spirit and in conjunction with all else that is true, which is God’s universe of truth.Let that truth be proclaimed and none other, saith the Lord.
Levels and Stairways – Christianity consists of levels and stairways.Miscreant Christians believe there is just one level for everybody.These miscreants are the ones you might see standing at a raised pulpit, just above the level of their small assembly.And they rarely encourage you to visit any other assembly, even if the second greatest evangelist, or healer or preacher God ever created is coming to a nearby facility.But even such miscreants almost always preach as though they were a level in Christianity above the crowd they speak to.So they are hypocrites to think Christianity is all one level, else they would have no better ability to preach than the next fellow who walks in the door.Then what is the truth?A Christian has opportunity to go from one level to a higher level.The opposite is called backsliding, something universally understood.Prideful teachers cannot accept the idea that anyone is above them, so they preach from a step above to the perceived level below.But Jesus said that unless you say blessed is the one who comes in the nature of the Lord, your house will remain unto you desolate.(Matthew 23:39)So the test is humility.Can the prideful teacher discern when another comes at a higher level (a greater nature in Christ) and say, “Bless you, man!Maybe we could all learn from you!How did you get to a level in God so much higher above me?”Then again, sometimes God will switch who has His strong anointing, and the student suddenly is above the teacher.All teachers must stay humble and jump at the chance to honor when God does such a surprising turn-around.(Psalm 119: 99-100)Amazingly, the parallel here is in sports, particularly martial arts.After one student learns all he can from his master, the best masters will tell the student to go learn from other great masters.When have you ever heard that preached?Why in God’s name is pride so prevalent, teaching so puerile and advancement in God so rare?
Life, Death & Resurrection – We are all given the gift of life.With it comes also the gift of aging and death.Therefore, all who live need renewal in the temporal and the eternal.Jesus is the resurrection.He enables us to live, and not die and declare the mighty works of the Lord.This means we can have encouraging victories against the dying process while on earth and total victory against death in heaven.
Line Upon Line– Line Upon Line, Precept Upon Precept:To be fully mature in worship of God in truth and spirit today, one must understand greater, deeper doctrines of Father God.This, in fact, was one of Christ’s focus points in His ministry.Much needs to be re-learned in this day, beginning with understanding how to recognize one’s own doctrines, ferret out the wrong, wrench in the good and prosper.Baby Christians, no matter how long they have been, are not able to comprehend the greater doctrines of Christianity.Their mind must first be renewed.Isaiah 28:10 explains this difficult process of incorporating greater truths into one’s soul.The Amplified Bible provides a good translation.In verse 13 you have the unworthy having to endure “merely monotonous repeatings” inane baby doctrines – which are the stultified and stagnated churches teaching the “same-old-same-old” baby precepts, rules and lines.To grow, you need the verse 10 prophet who can provide true precepts, rules and lines; “here a little, there a little.”But the modern, crazed, fad-based religious culture seems to have neither the attention nor desire for such discipline.Perhaps this body of work will strike a harmonious chord in some seeking souls who can receive the In That Day Teachings as a mighty river of God flowing with new rhema and true doctrines for a drought-parched land versus the same old package of sermons endlessly repeated like mantras whose only power is unrighteous recapitulation that dry is wet, old is new and such death is such life.
Logos Madmen – If you want to see a manifestation of a spirit of frustration, simply listen to a logos preacher.Logos means word, as in word of God.Logos preachers tend to rail bitterly against the problems with spirit-filled churches.But the logos preacher does not comprehend worshiping God in spirit and truth.With only truth, the logos man conducts his life as best he can without God’s spirit – all the while denying he is missing anything.Worst of all the logos man denies scripture that says, don’t be a logos man only!The logos man tends to disbelieve anybody can truly hear the spirit of God.The logos man ignores the scriptures indicating Jesus was filled with unlimited spirit.The logos man hates talking in tongues.The logos man wants you to be miserable like him and run away from the spirit of God and anyone filled with the spirit of God.
Lions, Tigers and Escape Doctrines – To believe that the triune escapology of broadcast Christianity (i.e. TBN, Calvary and Baptist doctrines of rapture, an imminent coming without correction and lazy daisy eternal security) will enable sufficient Christ indwelling for this day is to believe a box of corn flakes spread on a table will make a picture puzzle of Tony the Tiger.A few gifted souls can do it, but the majority finds comfort in escape from creating anything lion-like.
Love Mush – Wherein weak Christians believe in an emasculated, effeminate god.And they work furiously to present to this gelded god a church bereft of strength, courage and truth.Love Mush churches, generally speaking, are run by men with emasculated voices incapable of awakening a sleepy dog, or their congregation or themselves.
Madness of the Prophet –Wherein a person is lucky enough to receive divine revelations, but has not the maturity or intelligence to present it cogently to the world.A perfect example of such foolish, abhorrent, repulsive behavior is that of Robert Winkler Burke of Reno, Nevada.God help him and those who try to understand him.
Mantras – Wherein “About Factor” Christians incessantly say things like, “It’s all about Christ and Him crucified!” Or.. “We’ll know in heaven (not here on earth.)” Or… “You never know…” and all such anti-biblical espousals used to keep the light of truth far away from their darkened-by-wrong-doctrine lives.
Mature Investors and Mature Preachers– Mature investors know that financial markets include long buyer and short sellers.The long buyer wants to buy low and sell high.The short seller wants to sell (short) high and buy (later) low.The long investor is called a bull, the short investor a bear.Amazingly, bulls and bears can make profits while general markets are going up and while general markets are going down.This is because in a dynamic financial market, there are always things going up and always things going down.Dispensational preachers, as has been noted elsewhere, sell geopolitical fear in the form of bad news on the horizon.Then they sell a solution: escape by rapture of escapologists, a second return to fix all but the escapists and eternal-do-nothing escape from doing anything eternally.Just as a bearish investor can make money when the market generally rises by focusing on poor-performing sectors, so can the dispensational preacher always find bad geopolitical news to over-emphasize while general goodness increases on the planet.Conversely, when financial trends turn bad the bearish investor makes more money.It is the same with dispensational preachers when global politics turn bearish.At that point, the dispensational dingdongs are in tall cotton!What is good for God’s planet, in general, is bad for dispensational preachers and vice versa.Truly, dispensational preaching is strangely antichrist.But that is a mature truth perhaps best kept hidden in a field, as our Lord told us in Matthew 13:44.
Ministry Travel– It can good for people to travel.And it can be good for preachers to travel.And it is good to know who pays for what.A convention in the travel industry is for leaders of people to arrange groups of people for travel.The travel industry then gives the leaders a free ride, usually at the ratio of one free traveler to twenty people in the group.But as one travel website says, if the group is only ten people the preacher can still travel free because the travel agency will just raise the price on the others.Or if a big time preacher can get hundreds of people to go on a trip, then his family, extended family and others in the ministry can go free.Many media ministries advertise trips to Alaska, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and – lest we forget – the Holy Land.But they do not say if the payees pay for others, and if so – how many others?Observe now if you can, who transparently announces who is paying for what.Why should a regular family pay a multi-millionaire media preacher for his ticket and his family’s ticket to the Holy Land?As one travel website posits for would-be-spiritual leaders:“Does everyone know I am traveling for free?No.The terms of your arrangement…are strictly confidential.”One wonders why.Why can’t millionaire preachers tell us if we pay their way?
Misogyny, Misandry and Androgyny – Emotions between genders can be difficult as shown in the song lyrics: “When I hate you, it is because I love you.”But a man with a misogyny spirit hates women.And a woman with a misandry spirit hates men.Yet God is love.And God is whole.Ergo if a man is to be complete, he must manifest some of the spirits of a woman.Likewise if a woman is to be complete, she must manifest some of the spirits of a man.(But God forbid taking this to homosexual or lesbian behavior.)To manifest the holistic spirits, then, of humankind makes oneself somewhat androgynous.Perhaps this was what Jesus was trying to communicate to Martha when Mary chose to ignore the household (female) duties and assume the discipleship (male) duties of hearkening to the Master.Martha protested to Jesus that Mary was failing her female role.Perhaps Jesus said a higher position is somewhat androgynous.Women say men do not “get it.”Men say women do not “get it.”Maybe Jesus says neither gender will get it until they stop the warfare and meet in the middle.A totally macho, narcissistic, he-male man is rather absurd, no? A totally spike-heeled femme fatale, or Amazonian-I-am-woman woman is also rather absurd, no?The ultimate man washed his disciples’ feet, which seems more androgynous than macho.Life is a balancing act, so perhaps it is time for all of us to get it together, and not be such abominably desolate icons of antagonistic pride-of-gender individuals.In other words, being a good man or being a good woman may not be the ultimate.Perhaps the ultimate is to be God’s good and whole person.Popular culture has made fine commentary on this.See Annie Get Your Gun and “Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better” for vain gender competition.Then there is the song “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” by George and Ira Gershwin which says “Things have come to a pretty pass…It looks as if we two will never be one, Something must be done:You like potato and I like patahto, You like tomato and I like tomahto, Potato, patahto; tomato, tomahto; Let’s call the whole thing off…for we know we need each other so we, Better call the calling off off, Let’s call the whole thing off!”
Mojo Witchcraft Control – Evil techniques used by preachers to bring a Soulish Anointing.Such preachers control the audience by various techniques including fast speech, mispronouncing God’s name (calling on demons to appear, really,) physical control, rapid fire directions, demanding vocal responses, etc.It sounds like this: “Pay-raise the L-A-W-D!Ah, you can do better than that!Say ‘JE-E-E-Z-U-S!’Say, ‘This is the day!’Turn to your right and say, ‘Tonight is the night!’Turn to your left and say, ‘Uh-Huh!’Turn to Psalm 91.Look at John 3:16…Now Genesis chapter 4.Everybody say, ‘Hallelujah! God is here!’You can do better than that.LOUDER!HUH!HUH!HUH!”Though insolent, puerile and prideful, it is unquestioned gospel to many.
My Top is Top – The strange thing about religion is its leaders often seem convinced that their understanding is the top understanding.At the heart of it is unexamined pride and the ugly truth that such leaders are more or less falsely saying, “I am Christ.”Yet since religious leaders all seem to conflict one way or another, they cannot all be correct saying, “My top is top.” So what is the truth?The truth is we worship or understand God in partial percentages.The greater the percentage we know of God, the closer to the top.Only Jesus got it 100%, the rest of us – all of us – understand at some lesser percentage.An easy example is the sprinkle baptism believer has a percentage of who is God less than an immersion baptism believer.An immersion baptism believer who disbelieves healing has a percentage of truth of who is God less than an immersion baptism believer who believes in both.This continues etcetera, etcetera to infinity or to God.But the immature “My top is top” crowd really hates and denies this concept.Sometimes they have a sagacious moment, rise to the next level and then forget their hypocrisy once more and then earnestly again repeat, “My top is top!”An example of this is a certain television preacher shown on a Christian network who after years of ignoring health advice from that same network became dangerously sick until meeting a doctor at a television station.Suddenly our televangelist said this doctor’s advice was top and hallelujah!We never heard how blind he was to that advice on his network for so many years, or the obvious conclusion he – and we – are blind to many things in front of our noses.The way to stay blind is always proclaim proudly, “My top is top!” as is this preacher’s habit.The way to perhaps see more is to humbly say, “Here is a greater perspective, but surely superior ones exist which I am not entitled to see or teach yet.I hope I am not the blind leading the blind into the ditch!”Jesus said, “The disciple is not above his master…It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master…”Matthew 10:24-25.One wonders then, which master?All of us actually worship a part true/part false God.Then we become as that master – part true God, part false god.If we believe God does not heal, we have a non-healing god as master.And we sure as hell are not going to heal or be like Jesus in that area.If we believe God stopped making prophets, we have a no-prophet god.Then we sure as hell are going to have the future dead wrong and probably believe in rapture escapology.We can recite a Christian creed and still worship a part true God and part false god.This universal truth is far too bitter for most, especially the Christian cop program crazies who belittle all others but their dry, envious selves.Lest any reader think I boast, “My top is top” I say no, “My top is not.”
Mysteries of God – What about the future?When and does Christ return?How old is the earth?What about earth ages, the election, the fall of mankind and antichrist?These are a few of God’s mysteries.On purpose He left them to be mysteries not fully explained in the Bible.Probably the truth about these matters takes more maturity in us than commonly expected by God.So He left them to be mysteries that some might solve if mature enough to eat what is powerfully bitter.In other words, bitter truth is just that, something we can’t reject just because we don’t like its bitterness, what it means, where it takes us, where it says we come from or who it says we really are.
Name is the Nature – An old country saying says, “Don’t give a dog a bad name.”Why?Because the name is the nature.Rex, if so named, might be a kingly dog.Wiggles, if so named, might be a wimpy dog.In John 16:24 Jesus says, In my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.So much of televangelism has it dead wrong, because they say: ask for that pink Cadillac, or any selfish desire and God will deliver automatically; but God doesn’t reward selfishness.Ask for My nature and in My nature, and Our Father will give whatever you ask of My nature.In other words ask Our Father for you to be more like Me and He will give your nature more of My nature – but not more than you can handle in maturity – until your joy overflows.Solomon asked for My wisdom – part of My nature – and not selfish things that are not part of My nature, nor should ever be yours.This is how a prayer in My name is received by Our Father.And this is also how I, and My nature, return quickly in you, in that day, which is now.– Jesus Christ of Nazareth
Never-ending Wisdom – God is never-ending wisdom.As stupid as things (and we) are in the world, you would think we would all be feverously tapping into – or trying to tap into – God’s wisdom.God’s wisdom is so deep and so profound that it is hard to fathom its richness, power and bitter-truth reality.John wrote that the whole earth could be filled with books about Jesus’ wisdom.(John 21:25)Perhaps John was saying that what he and others wrote about Jesus was just the elementary beginning.Perhaps the much maligned Gnostic Gospels attempted to communicate the higher, more difficult, yet easy-to-reject wisdom of God.So here is a parable:Tradition Japanese carpenters tell an old story of two competing carpenter clans.To decide which group was better, they agreed to each build a beautiful pagoda for the community.The best built would win.The first group carefully shaped and cut the beams so that on erection day, everything would fit perfectly.The second groups did the same.The erection day events would be closely watched by the community.However, on the night before the erections of both pagodas, the leader of the second group snuck over to the construction yard of the first group and cut its main pagoda pole short by an arm’s length.The dirty deed went undetected until moments before the first group erected the main pagoda pole.The leader of the first group of carpenters said, “Look!An enemy has cut this pole short by one arm’s length!But never mind, install it!”To everyone’s surprise, the pole fit perfectly and the first team won the contest.The master carpenter in the first group had wisely predicted someone from the enemy camp would cut the pole short, so they had kept it perfectly long!To which we say, Ah so… and so what?So Father God is the master.Two thousand years ago the enemy cut down short Jesus on Calvary.Resurrected, He now carries on as our wisdom of the ages.However, time grows short for us to advance from apprenticeship, become masters in our trade, outsmart the enemy and carry on wisdom.(Or do you suppose we are to continue to be passive townsfolk, in wonder and awe at the spectacle of other people’s battles, and think it is sufficient to know when to clap and nod heads in entertainment-value agreement?)
No Discernable Anointing – This is found at dead churches teaching dead doctrine wherein Christ cannot come quickly in them because they are too far from worshipping God in truth and spirit.What they do is prima fascie, on the face of it, not God-approved.If you look carefully with eyes to see, you might discover God’s signs of harmonic discord throughout such an operation (see GSAW.)Are the church’s doctrine’s infantile?Perhaps there is scribbling desecrating its walls.Is the church abusing scripture?Perhaps there is a misquoted or misprinted scripture on its walls.Is the church dishonoring God’s glory?Perhaps the United States flag (Old Glory) is being dishonored by violating flag display etiquette.Are the church men very immature?Perhaps they meet for Bible study in the children’s second grade classroom.A church I visited manifested all this and much more!
No Hypocrisy Left Behind– Many media ministries have no fear of hypocrisy because…well, just because.For example they promote financial freedom by encouraging donations and purchases by credit card, which is to increase one’s liabilities.Witness Grant Jeffreys who sells a book “Finding Financial Freedom” from his website by credit card.Choose Mastercard, Visa or Discover to add to your credit card debt.Then you can “avoid financial frauds and schemes.”You can “shift your thinking from ‘more income’ to ‘keeping more of your income.’” Finally, you can “escape the spiritual bondage created by a lifestyle of debt.”If it puts money in their pockets, they feel free to break the very guidelines they sell warning you against all pick pocket schemes but – of course – theirs.The compromises they do in the name of promoting their self-exalting, self-interested ministries will, they apparently believe, create uncompromised Christians.But they are wrong.Compromised masters create compromised students.A soul that is sold cannot save others but by example.Granted Grant must sell, but it is silly, no?
No Man is Perfect– This we know.It is how God does His part in keeping us humble.However, we must do our part and take the lesson.For example: no preacher, president, party or person is perfect – but how they claim to the contrary!No denomination is perfect; yet look at their statement of doctrines.Likely as not there might be mention that “man is by nature sinful” but that their doxy is not.It is, they imply, perfect with no room for improvement.If someone dares think so, there is room only to be burned at the stake.Any person’s or any institution’s distance from perfection can be measured by the proximity to perfection the former professes or the latter by lack of checks and balances.For example the U.S. Constitution is a model of perfection, because of its checks and balances.But today’s televangelist?Today’s non-denominations?Today’s Christian media doctrines?There appears to be no checks or balances or possibility of correction; other than if donations dwindle. (Ironies abound:Witness the non-check-and-balance televangelist pledge his undying love for the US Constitution while railing against its enemies, all the while loathing anything that would check or balance his escapism.)None of our doxies are perfect because none of us can do all the things Jesus did.It is time Christians got off their high horses of pride.Few of us, if any, are walking on water.It takes humility to write for publication, as columnist Peggy Noonan has stated for the record, “Sometimes if they’d listened to me they’d have been wrong.”Robert Winkler Burke says, “If all agree with me, who corrects me?”Why is it hard for preachers – or the top theologians at the schools they come from – to say that?Answer:Pride.
None/One/Some/All – What every single person believes about their God or gods:Atheists say there are none.Monotheists (Descendents of Abraham – Muslims, Jews, Christians) say there is One.Polytheists say there are many.Pantheists say it is the all.Those of us of a Christian persuasion must stop pointing fingers at the misled None/Some/All crowd, and repent massively for every wrong thought and spirit that in truth, puts so much nominal Christianity into the wayward camps of None/Some/All.When we err, we all become pagans.It is the easiest thing on earth to do despite our denials.We who should know best, often do worst.Or should we keep on playing the pride game?What is easier to do:Pray for the lost or stop being lost?Christ is unhappy to be seen in us when we try to ram Him down some other person’s poor throat.Fisher-fools making fisher-fools please only Satan.How many so-called Christians say what an atheist says, You never know (because there is no God to tell us anything,) or what a polytheist says, It doesn’t matter (because the gods don’t care,) or what a pantheist says, I resent that (Because I am god and I have right to judge.)For pagans, it is easy to be a pagan.But for ourselves, we think: never?The bitter truth is that it is extremely difficult to continuously discern God’s presence, moving hand, rhema words and instant will and then flow in heaven’s harmonic obedience.It is much more common to be a pagan almost continually except with irregularly punctuated odd moments of genuine now-I-am-believing-in-God faith.Such brief sparks of light punctuating weeks of consuming darkness is commonly accepted as just what it is to be a Christian.Maybe it is not.
Non-Elect – Non-elect preachers can be great preachers to the non-elect whom they understand.But non-elect preachers have a very hard time understanding the elect.The non-elect religious at best would rather preach to than be served by the elect and at worst would rather kill the elect than let the elect save them from their stupidity and distance from God.(See the lives of Joseph, Moses, Jesus, Paul, Peter, etc.)
Non-Profit Laundry Machines – You cannot buy them at Home Depot.They are only available to select heads of non-profit organizations (and their families) who use their organization’s staff, volunteers, broadcasting abilities and quid pro quo arrangements with other non-profit leaders to sell guru religion wares in order to earn royalties going to their persons.The non-profit organizations are used to strangely promote and legitimize their religious guide’s work, even though such actions besmirch the character of same. There is no apparent end to such self-interest-driven productions of pabulum, which is often advertised as “life changing.”This is no doubt true, for authors who find no hypocrisy in selling moral advice through their own self-directed non-profit establishments.The doctrines of these self-serving religious titulars appear to be simplistic, similar to each other and ipso facto (by its fact) suspect.
Old Tricks are the Best Tricks– Sometimes the best covert ploy is an overt ploy.In the futurist movie The Fifth Element Korben is a retired special forces soldier working as a cabbie.His former boss, Munro, needs him to go on a secret mission to a far-away planet.Korben visits Munro at his apartment, picks up Munro’s mail, opens it and reads, “You have won the annual Gemini contest and trip to Phloston Paradise…Congratulations.”Korben asks, “You rigged the (public) contest?...You couldn’t come up with something a little more discreet?”Monro replies, “Old tricks are the best tricks, eh?”This is how tithing and non-profit laundry organizations are used by some televangelists to obtain gross personal riches through their “selfless” dedication to their own non-profit religious organization run by themselves to create significant payroll checks, expense accounts, executive jet travel, television productions, conventions and royalties for financial benefit to themselves, their family and quid pro quo peers – all in the name of spreading the Gospel.It is so obvious, but who sees it?Pray and ask God to reveal any incidences of this kind of ploy being used in your life.And learn from it.And do not do it yourself.And do not support those who do.And repent if you have done this.[These teachings are not so much to point the finger at others, as to learn of Satan’s wiles in the so-called religious (who worship strange doctrines like the rapture which promotes such egregious sin) and work ever harder to actually be good one’s own self.]
Only a Sith Deals in Absolutes– In the Star Wars Episode 3 Movie: Revenge of the Sith, Obi-Wan Kenobi has a pivotal moment with Anakin Skywalker, who has turned to the dark side.Obi-Wan says, “Anakin, my allegiance is to the Republic ... to democracy.”Anakin replies, “If you're not with me, you're my enemy.”Obi-Wan answers, “Only a Sith deals in absolutes.”Siths, of course, are dark lords.What does this parable help us to see about Christianity?Well, an elementary mind sometimes first comprehends God using a rule-based sort of righteousness.This is fine insofar as it goes, but it is short-sighted and problematical.Faithless people have applied their minds to the problems of rule-based absolutes, and have created moral relativism, or human secularism.The debate whether there are or are no absolutes can appear to be endless.God’s ultimate solution has always been something the Bible calls holiness.It is a mysterious blend of flexibility and absolutes.It is the mind of God.And with God’s help it is also the mind of a prophet.And it can also be the mind of anyone who can manifest Jesus Christ at a high level in this day.With the mind of Christ, the world is saved.(Hurrah for the Jedi!)Without the mind of Christ, the world is lost.(Boo to the rigid Siths!) The new millennium of the Lord’s reign is all about this absolute flexibility called holiness.Few preachers understand this.Many are stuck in absolutes, many are breaking the wrong absolute rules, many are fighting against God’s introduction to holiness flexibility.But thank God for internet, blogs and science fiction!May the truth of God’s absolutely flexibility be with you!Surely, I come quickly.Even so, come, Lord Jesus.The divine enablement of our Lord Jesus be with you all.May the force be with you. Amen.
Only God Makes a Soul Beautiful– And such beautiful souls know each other.When you discover this pleasant fact, be prepared for unpleasant discord if you ever meet a famous, hard-to-meet, so-called Christian personage who is not.“Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God.”(1 John 4:2)Immature religionists say the above verse is an automatic question to ask a suspect possessed of demons:“Do you believe Christ came in the flesh 2,000 years ago?”And supposedly, a demonic person would deny this mantra.This is a fool’s question, or it is a question asked by a religious leader who wants to fool others that he has Christ in him when he might be just another poser.When a person filled with God’s spirit meets another person filled with God’s spirit, they both positively affirm each other, often in totally silent confession, which is really just being.This is the meaning of 1 John 4:2.Likewise, if a God bearer meets an in-name-only Christian, it is discernable by the nominal person’s lack of God’s good indwelling.Such is our impossible-to-hide-from-each-other confessions.Interestingly, God bearers are not normally detected by non-God bearers, except for the strange way the indwelt of God have of bothering the consciences of the non-indwelt of God.Even so, truth stands alone and can be verified by non-Christians who are nonetheless close to God.Such others can discern truth or lies being broadcast by religious purveyors just by the sound, strength and spirit.This should put the fear of God in us all.In other words, God seems to always let some people outside Christianity be able to clearly discern if our doctrines, spirits or programs are evil or good.Christians also do not own exclusive rights to healing or other powers of God.God lets His healing flow, His powers flow and His truth flow in wide varieties of peoples and groups.(Example from history:William Lewis of Lewis and Clark fame supposedly had healing powers he obtained from his mother and used to great benefit in the 1803 Corps of Discovery expedition.)It is not always clear why God allows his powers to flow to select people throughout the planet, but it is clear that pride, jealousy and fear of inferiority make some Christian people ignore, dismiss, dishonor and despise all whom have tapped into God’s abundant nature outside Christian enclaves.‘Tis a pity.Jesus tells us to bless all who come in His nature, so that we can be likewise indwelt with His nature.(Matthew 13:3)God is God, and we had better let Him be.And we had better learn to love all souls God has made beautiful.
Opprobrium, Equivocation and Masquerades – Is there any mechanism by which Christian ministry broadcasters can be corrected?Obviously they have liberty to be licentious with their escapist doctrines which make funds flow toward them so freely.But apparently there is no manner, method or means of correcting their wrong escapist doctrines.There is no opprobrium for what escapist doctrines do, which is to nurture spirits of weakness and torpor while occupying and polluting minds with endless prognostications of anticipated non-events.This is why the modern church is so damnably weak.Escapology is the yin.Its yang is equivocation.Who speaks against escapology?There is little opprobrium for the great evil being foisted upon believers of the escapist masquerade.This dark force is met with ersatz answers and eloquent equivocation.No challenge is offered.No rebuke is given.No chastisement comes.No real alternatives are given to explain God comes quickly in the prepared for Him now!The debate, if there is any debate, is whether an imagined event happens before, during or after another imagined event.No one bothers to point out it is vain to argue about non-events.Jeremiah 48:10 says, Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his (spiritual) sword from blood. Where is this sword of truth?Who will unsheathe it?Who will remove its rust?Who will burnish it bright?And who will use this sword for the Lord in this day?
Our Doctrines Should Make Us – Our doctrines should make us good.Everyone has their own doctrines on how to live.Not all are good.If a televangelist is more than a little egomaniacal, then beware his doctrine.If a church is ridiculously weak, beware its doctrine.If an evangelist begs for a $20 million jet, beware his doctrine.If you or I are doing something wrong, we must reject our doctrine that allows it.The doctrine of eternal security makes extraordinarily weak followers.The pity is in the United States, weak Christians are becoming the definition of a Christian.The doctrine of Jesus-did-it-all-and-He’s-returning-to-do-what-we-are-too-weak-to-consider also makes weak Christians.The escapology doctrine of the rapture, alas, also makes weak believers.Then its leaders manifest that fly-away weakness by, well, flying away in outrageously expensive jets.The sister of weakness is cowardice.Cowards cannot find the bravery to realize they might be weak, and that the weakness is from core doctrinal beliefs.So the wayward church is in a satanic endless loop.Easy on self doctrine has made them selfish, easy and weak.With the big three selfish doctrines of eternal security, Jesus-returns-to-reward-us-not-rebuke-us and rapture escapology come other monster doctrines.The selfish wayward church must disbelieve there are no rules, only guidelines – so they put selfish, self-interested rules above God, who is above rules.And the main rule for them, don’t you know, is – surprise, surprise – tithing.And they cannot be satiated with that, so they add to tithes: love gifts and offerings.Then when a prophet (or a fool) comes along and says this wayward church is abominable and has made itself almost impossible for Christ to return indwelling, the weak and wayward church does… nothing.
Overwhelming Scourge, Part 1– (Isaiah 28:15-18) We in modernity sometimes have a difficult time imagining what God might be able to do in the spirit realm.Imagine if there were six thousand spirits in each of us.We would hope that most of our spirits are good and few evil.Now imagine that bad people might have a high percentage of their spirits being evil.Likewise good people would mostly have good spirits.We could even imagine that two thousand years ago when Jesus walked the earth, one hundred percent of His spirits were good.Now, imagine if Father God could turn a switch, and send a strong scourge of evil spirits flowing – or overflowing – through the planet.And imagine if these scourging spirits, say rage and anger, passed through the planet and while they could not be seen by the naked eye, they did affect humans powerfully.Imagine that anybody who was harboring empowered spirits of rage and anger in their souls on the planet; imagine that their rage and anger became activated and increased by the scourging spirits of rage and anger.So what would happen would be that people with spirits of rage and anger would find themselves suddenly activated in rage and anger.They would powerfully manifest those ugly spirits, and know not why.There would be no place to hide, no relief and no solution for them other than to find God’s biblical path of repentance, forgiveness, faith and fellowship with God.This removes the demons in a person’s soul.Little else has much success.Then God lets loose another scourge of overflowing spirits, this time perhaps greed and self-exaltation.Those people of the earth with unexamined greed and self-exaltation might find themselves doing very large and very stupid greedy and self-exalting things.And they would not know why.They would not see the Overwhelming Scourge.They would not know what it does to them.They would only know that suddenly they were not able to control their evil spirits.So God uses this as a self-discovery tool.He knows what spirits we are of.Most of us do not.The Overwhelming Scourge makes the worst of us self-destruct.It makes the better of us repent.The best of us, which does not include this author, are not affected by Overwhelming Scourges because so little evil is in such souls.In movies we can witness evil spirits being stirred up by others.A scene from True Grit shows a classic stirring of evil spirits.Rooster Cogburn, played by John Wayne, interrogates two brothers, one who has a good soul and one who does not.The bad brother is plucking feathers from a turkey in a most disturbing and agitated way.Cogburn keeps up with his hard interrogation (plucking truth from lies) until the bad man suddenly kills his good brother.The bad man’s spirits came out suddenly and manifested.That is what happens in an Overwhelming Scourge.It catches all who have like spirits.Sometimes God will pour out beneficial spirits, such as love, compassion or peace. Those who have these spirits strongly residing in themselves will then have opportunity to strengthen and magnify those good spirits in their souls.But evil people cannot receive increased portions of good spirits, because they harbor so few and so disempowered good spirits within themselves.This then, is the Old Testament’s Day of the Lord, or Day of Wrath or In That Day.
Overwhelming Scourge, Part 2 – The skeptics are right that this doctrine cannot ever be proved.But if you can believe the Bible, if you can believe Jesus and if you can believe the witness of your own spirits, you might be able to believe that In That Day has come and with it God’s Overwhelming Scourge.Like Amos says, it is a dark time for most (because their dark spirits will be activated) while it is a bright time for few (because their stellar spirits will be activated.)Escapologists have misinterpreted events and disbelieved any spiritually scourging process.They have made lies their refuge, they have hid under falsehoods and made covenants with death.The story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde comes to mind.Those believing themselves to be good Christians citizens may find themselves suddenly becoming horrible monsters during spiritual scourges.True Christians will be stirred to lesser extents.But all who are stirred have opportunity to repent and remove evil spirits activated.Law enforcers and prison keepers have observed that criminal activities come in waves.This is one explanation.God is revealing through His mysterious scourging just who is who.The tares are being sifted from the wheat.God is in control of this strange sieve work.And God can select when and to whom the scourging is applied.This keeps the process hidden from carnal eyes but simultaneously seen by spiritual eyes.
Overwhelming Scourge, Part 3 – It is a time to prepare for the Lord’s coming indwelling.We must repent of harboring evil spirits, confess our not-so-hidden sins, witness a strong enough character to disallow evil manifestations, pray for God’s mercy and ask for God’s grace, which is His Divine enablement in you.This is described in Revelation 12:11.“And they overcame him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb (obeying Christ by repenting and receiving His forgiveness from the Cross) and by the word of the testimony (by being a witness of overcoming of evil spirits in one’s own soul) and they loved not their lives unto the death.”Ever notice the greatest movies sometimes have magnificent portrayals of Divine self-sacrifice?While some preachers preach prosperity, they model insatiable avarice.While some preach rapture escapology, they acquire significant assets for benefit of retirement and heirs.While some ministers preach the value of a sinless and open life, their ministry finances and expense-paid extravagant lifestyle costs are hidden from sight.While some ministers preach God rebukes whom He loves, they will not take corrections from independent ministry watch groups, the media or anybody else God might send their way.Meanwhile, our movies often preach the way of self-sacrifice.“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man layeth down his life for his friends.”(John 15:13)We know the future, but we pretend we do not.The future will be good for the self-sacrificing and bad for the self-serving.Most good movies tell us this.The Good Book tells us this.Some mega-star televangelists preach the way of self sacrifice, but personally demonstrate gross self interest.As Jesus said:Do what they say, not what they do.
Pardon Me All to Hell– We can be wrong three ways:We are wrong when we are 1) wrong in the carnal but of a right spirit, or 2) right in the carnal but of a wrong spirit, or 3) wrong in the carnal and of a wrong spirit.But there is only one way to be right, or right-standing with God:Be right in the carnal and right in the spirit.In the 1976 movie The Shootist, John Wayne rides his horse into Carson City, Nevada and buys a newspaper.The date is January 21, 1901.The headline of the paper states “Queen Victoria is Dead.”While reading this, Wayne inadvertently blocks the road of a milk delivery man.“Hey you!” yells the milkman, “Hey Methuselah!Move that hack out of the way… you dumb bastard… or I’ll deliver you something to remember me by.”John Wayne makes a grand apology.He doffs his cowboy hat, waves the milkman past and says, “Now, pardon me all to hell!”It is code language saying, “Yes, I was wrong in the carnal; but I’m right in the spirit.The reverse you employ bodes ill in eternity.”Of course, by movie’s end the milkman dies in perdition, while Wayne’s character dies redeemed.(In deeper code language, the milkman’s oratory was perhaps a stern warning from God to Wayne’s character to make more than death out of the last days of his life.)Note:This all has a lot do with worshipping God in (a right) spirit and truth.John 4:23-24.But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.Or it comes from watching a lot of cowboy movies, the best of which are profound character studies exploring the deeper attributes of manifesting Christ.But little of this comes from preachers, who often seem too busy proclaiming “the word” than concerning themselves with matters of character, which is where spirit and truth combine.Why else do preachers insist – by their oft dismal witness – they have a supposed right to proclaim truth in a spirit that isn’t?But you cannot blame preachers.Their profession apparently decided a long time ago to major in truth and minor in spirit.The cowboy movie business however, decided to focus on character, which – again – is how spirit and truth are combined.Which outfit gets both right is a matter of record.This question may seem an unfair test of character, but which would you rather watch: the last sermon from John preacher or the last movie of John Wayne?
Pedro Principle #1 – Learned from1880s US government scout and interpreter Tom Horn, whose mentor, an Apache Indian chief named Pedro, desired to join himself and his braves with Union soldiers to kill some bad Indians of his tribe.In other words, most all groups have good, middle and bad.Only proud individuals or groups proclaim their universal goodness.With pride it is impossible to proclaim anything but infallibility.
Pedro Principle #2 – Pedro told Tom Horn that as far as bad Indians go, they never get good, they are wherever trouble is and they never die.Chief Pedro was speaking about how evil spirits are in bad people preventing them from goodness, making them trouble makers and then passing themselves on to successive generations.
Planting Truth– The Lord’s prayer admonishes us to bring Father God’s kingdom, which is truth, to earth.In this way, our lives are to be campaigns of truth.Words, ideas and our spirits do matter.And when truth is promulgated in a right spirit, the sponsors reap great rewards.Perhaps the saints of heaven worship God in a way more profound than we might imagine.Perhaps not only do saints in heaven praise God, but they work furiously on our behalf to continue to promulgate truth, which is Father God’s kingdom, on earth.Practically speaking, this might mean Moses works in heaven to proffer angelic help towards those doing his kind of work on earth now.Did not Moses and Elijah meet with Jesus?Were not angels sent to help Jesus several times?If this process is continued forward one wonders if a George Washington in heaven perhaps helped an Abraham Lincoln in office.And are they both helping the President of the United States now?Are the departed kings and queens of countries who made heaven, now mindless of their beloved countries?Are the saints of the ages mindless of the body of Christ?Have saints in heaven who were inventors on earth, ceased inventing?Have the story tellers in heaven ceased telling stories?Did a John Ford help a George Lucas?Does Roy Rogers help those God takes a liking to today?Is Smith Wigglesworth’s work finished, or continuing on?Has Beethoven produced music with new ears to hear?Is C. S. Lewis helping authors write truth?And what about your family?Do your blood fathers and mothers in heaven help you?If you died and went to heaven, could God stop you from helping your children in any heavenly way?Though our lives at times seem so depressingly impoverished compared to the greats of history, today and the Bible; we perhaps under appreciate the fullness of what seeds of truth we have planted, what growth we can nurture later with the full arsenal of heaven at our disposal and what joy we might share some day with God expanding His kingdom.
Platitude Preachers– A Platitude Preacher will say if something number one (i.e. anything, really) happens, then his platitude number two (i.e. anything, really) will take care of it.If something number three happens, he will say his platitude number four is the answer.Then when somethings five through five hundred happen to you, he says, then buy his 50 books on platitudes.Somewhere in them, perhaps, you will discover what to do.This is designed to keep platitude ministry coffers full, one supposes.But Jesus said blessed are they who hear my (rhema) words and obey.Jesus wants your life to be blessed.Platitude preachers cannot but curse your life and their own.How many do they lead astray and into ditches of never-expect-to-hear-God-or-be-indwelt-by-Him abomination?
Poker Principle – In dealing with evil spirits, consider yourself in a poker game with the Devil.If you lose, the evil opponent takes your chips, but being not satisfied he’ll continue until taking your life.Thus, an evil spirit is never satisfied, satiated or stopped by weakness in dealings from you.You win by winning, never by giving up.
Priceless Information– This week (10/29/07) Rick Joyner of MorningStar Ministries writes the following blurb in his Word for the Week: “…accurate information about the future and the wisdom to know what to do with it will soon be many times more valuable than all other forms of information combined.”This is curious.Why?Consider two kinds of information about the future of God’s church.First is the information high on lies, low on incrimination.Second is information exactly reverse.People usually will pay big money, attention and fame to those providing a non-incriminating Christian future.1)I say the Rapture is evil insanity, but the church will not deal with this truth’s huge ramifications.(This includes billions of dollars extracted from gullible believers of escapology and also bizarre escapes from morality by escapist leaders driven by their core get away beliefs.)2)I say those in the future who increase good and decrease evil spirits in themselves will be blessed.Those doing nothing or the opposite will be cursed.Why?God is directing the strength of certain spirits to increase as a type of hidden-from-carnal-eyes scourging process heralded by the Bible as something called “in that day.”But the wayward church denies good and evil spirits exist in Christians, denies any “day of the Lord’s wrath” and believes rapture from all maturity is imminent.3)I say the popular church has a vast array of self-serving, God-denying, anti-biblical doctrines.But the wayward church is strangely incurious about its dogma-driven dilemmas.4)I say true seekers can learn to detect lies spoken in any mouth, learn to avoid kill zones and survive disasters by hearing and obeying God.But the wayward church believes it is too radical to follow Jesus, who avoided kill zones until the cross and who insisted blessings would come to all who hear and obey Him.Thus information about the future of God’s church appears to be valuable to the Christian establishment only if it generally avoids all self-incriminating truth.
Pride and Truth – Pride prevails at truth’s expense and vice versa.Witness the pride in modern television preachers.In such, greater truths cannot dwell.With pride comes always deception.An historic example is the Civil War of the United States of America.In 1860 it was madness of the highest order to justify the doctrine of slavery, yet Southerners did so.Why?To admit one’s own err in thought and deed would diminish pride in self.This destruction in pride in one’s own self and ways was unthinkable to most free (so-called, for they were prisoners of thought) Southerners.Not until the South was almost destroyed by the Union Army did the South reject its pride in its thoughts about slavery.So it is for the modern church with rapture, imminent second coming and eternal security doctrines.The wayward church’s pride in wrong doctrine cannot currently be overcome, and since it cannot be overcome, devil spirits are having a great time in Christ’s so-called body, making the body uninhabitable by Christ.So until a better understanding of truth arrives, Christ waits for more of us while coming in less of us.But when truth prevails greater on this planet, Christ will come in more of us and wait for less of us.In this fashion, when pride and its ever-attendant companion lies prevail antichrist prevails, and when truth and its ever-attendant companion humility prevail so does Christ. Who will win?And why is the South so escapist in religion?
Pride of Religion– Prosperity preachers sometimes get carried away in pride with their overcoming message.Yes, we must overcome Satan.But the greatest challenge when having victory with God is to never be prideful about it.Otherwise we will need to take the advice given in the movie The 10 Commandments when Sethi, played by Cedric Hardwicke, says to Ramses, played by Yul Brynner, “No doubt you can overcome anything, but your own arrogance.”
Prosperous Thoughts – Here is a fine experiment.Write to a famous prosperity preacher and ask him or her to tithe his or her income to you.The multi-millionaire will probably think, who are you to get such an income?You will have made the preacher think, however briefly.
Puerile Telvangelism Hegemony vs. Internet Wisdom Aggregation – What is really going on in this new millennium of Christianity?These In That Day Teachings have excoriated media televangelists for their babyish, infantile, pre-kindergarten, limited Gospel messages that are trumpeted as being the height of Christian being by reason of the fact of their broadcast hegemony.In short, they have owned the airways, so therefore they believe they must be right!But like the song says, “It ain’t necessarily so.”The internet provides virtually free aggregation of truth.Therefore the immature ministries that refuse to be transparent with finances, such as Trinity Broadcasting Network, Benny Hinn’s or Kenneth Copeland’s, will in the end lose more than the money they manage under so much suspicion.In the end, their failed and antichrist doctrines that drive their soulsfrom God’s light will be thoroughly exposed by internet wisdom aggregators.Jesus really does want to manifest in every man, woman and child on earth – over six billion souls!In some really terrible ways, this is being prevented by current puerile doctrines being broadcast by ministries who believe it is 1970 and they own the Christian media message machine. But their baby-doctrine hegemony is gone, baby, gone.Now many aggregator sites on the internet critique the horrific doctrinal sins of media ministries.These In That Day Teachings do that, and hopefully much more.These teachings provide a solution: which is to embrace overcoming sin (to remove embedded evil spirits in our souls) through understanding of correct doctrine (to deny much wrong doctrine preached as gospel truth in the lazy, crazy world of broadcast religion) without being an immature rebel, but with the power of the Holy Spirit (that many Christian religions really hate and detest with utmost enmity) and understand holy flexibility is much better than rigid righteousness (a fact confirmed throughout the Bible) and finally allow Jesus to manifest in ourselves after honoring all other persons who do so.Inevitably, the internet Davids will slay the off-track, mad ministry Goliaths.Bottom (who can Jesus manifest in) line:Truth-seeking humility wins, razzmatazz hubris loses.
Purpose of Life – The Purpose of Life may be to hear from our Creator, “Well done thy good and faithful servant.”We must hear and obey God while we live on earth.We must clean up our spirits and receive truth in our soul.We must die to self.When we die to self we kick self off the throne of our existence.Then we can put Christ on the throne of our existence.Then we might get power, love and a sound mind from Jesus.Then we see the goal of religion is not to just have religion, but to support Jesus living in our souls, so that He and we together can love Father God and fellow man.Like Luke 2:52, we then grow in stature and favor with God and man.The screenplay of Ride the High Country puts it this way:Gill:“Partner, you know what’s on a poor man’s back when he dies?The clothes of pride – And they’re not a bit warmer to him dead than they were when he was alive…What do you want, Steve?”Steve:“To enter my house justified.”
Rapture– The Rapture Doctrine is a delusion of ease and self-interest.Escapologists defend their selfish doctrine with 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17:“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first.Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”Verse 16 is the answer to the question, “What happens to dead believers?”Well, duh.Verse 17’s we which are alive are we who are alive to God’s instant-now presence, hear His words, obey quickly and do not join in with somnambulant stupor of religious posers.Remain means we keep a steadfast faith, even when it is mighty tempting to join in with everybody else in somnambulant stupor towards God.Being caught up together with them in the clouds means acknowledging the saints in heaven who work mightily for our good, if again we are not in somnambulant stupor.Clouds (or saints in God) are moved entirely by wind (the Holy Spirit), are above the earth (above carnal enmities), uncontrollable by man (or man’s wrong doctrine), deliver shade for comfort (truth), rain for growth (spiritual fruit), hail for destruction (judgment), and snow for beauty (purity), and lightning and thunder in power (spiritual dynamic power).So in truth, Paul’s verses here are a strong admonition to perform with God and his saints, and an even more powerful incrimination of those religious fakers who prefer an easier out.Old tricks are the best tricks, and Satan has brazenly twisted this overt call for spiritual fortitude and action into a covert call for do-nothing-escapology.After all, the word rapture appears nowhere in the Bible.And despite the millions made in selling this escapology, nobody has been “taken” yet.Except, that is, for all that money taken from buyers and going to sellers who remain earthbound.If you still believe in the rapture, perhaps you would like to give $799.99 to the self-proclaimed atheists at www.postrapturepost.com to leave “I told you so” messages for the misinformed after the big escapology event occurs.They guarantee delivery with the same assurance rapture believers guarantee the big beam up.
Red Headed Stranger– In 1975 outlaw country music singer Willie Nelson came out with an ethereal ballad about an avenging angel kind of preacher.The unusual story – wherein a preacher kills his unfaithful wife, her lover and a woman who tries to steal his wife’s horse, while the preacher ends up happily in love with another woman with a young son – was made into a movie starring Nelson in 1986.He sang, “It was the time of the preacher, when the story began, of the choice of a lady and the love of a man.”But the woman “left him for someone she’d left behind.”His loss was so keenly felt, “he screamed like a panther in the middle of the night.”So he goes riding.“It was the time of the preacher in the year of 01, now the preachin’ is over and the lesson’s begun.”The story gets darker, as the preacher cannot forgive.“Now the lesson is over and the killin’s begun.”He kills three people, not just his ex-lover.“An’ just when you think it’s all over, it’s only begun.”The production is reported to have only cost $30,000 but sold over two million copies.What is the spiritual story behind this amazing poetic production?Answer:Red Headed Stranger is another of God’s many apocalyptic productions explaining His future through bold parabolic stories, because His nominal preachers have not the eyes, ears nor spirit to promulgate such a message.Jesus, we know from the last page of the Bible, returns spiritually to reward every man according to his work.If our work is truly good, then we recognize Jesus as good when our rewards manifest in goodness.If our work is truly evil – and we are deceived and do not see our own evil spirits within us – then we do not recognize stranger Jesus, as our death-dealings result in death-dealings and our rewards manifest in horror.The Red Headed Stranger, then, is a jealous Christ – jealous of his bride “who left Him for someone she’d left behind.”Like all apocalyptic messages, the swath of the Lord’s vengeance runs wide, seemingly wild and fearfully beyond man’s control.“Don’t cross him, don’t boss him, he’s wild in his sorrow, ridin’ and hidin’ his pain…Don’t fight him, don’t spite him, just wait ‘til tomorrow, maybe he’ll ride on again.”At Nelson’s concerts crowds roar with delight when he sings “The yellow-haired lady was buried at sunset, the stranger went free, of course, ‘For you can’t hang a man for killing a woman, who’s trying to steal your horse.”Revelation 6: 1-8 speaks of avenging horses of God, their colors being whitefor conquering, red or bay for (self-)destruction, black for judgment and pale for death.“This is the (pale, deathly)taleof the red-headed stranger, and if he should pass your way, stay out of the path of the raging black stallion, and don’t lay a hand on the bay.”Indeed.In the future the saints will go marching in God while the butt-heads get eliminated by self-destruction – at times mysteriously quickened.If this were not true prophetic insight backed by God’s Bible and His mysterious parabolic messages in popular culture, the world would not know Willie Nelson’s strange, haunting and unforgettable tale.But Nelson’s work is known by the world.And God’s mysterious stories of end-times winnowing continues to be told, if not always overtly understood, they are nonetheless delivering a covert message to our psyches.The movie also has a parallel plot in which the unconventional preacher enlists a recalcitrant sheriff to fight a wolfish clan denying a town its free and natural water.Wolves, of course, represent false shepherds and water represents God’s rhema river of life-giving instruction.For similar themes see The Who’s “Tommy,” George Lucas’ “Star Wars” and even J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series.“An’ just when you think it’s all over, it’s only begun.”
Remembrance of Me– When we take communion, we do it in remembrance of Jesus.Remembrance must really mean more, much more.This do in fervent desire to immediately and ever-after have My company, My accompaniment with you, My fellowship in suffering, sorrow and joy in your life, that we identify so closely with you and you with Us that Our spirits commingle, Our lives commingle, that we have in each other constant, unbroken, unashamed and unyielding companionship.By such holy communion, the yearning desires of both God in eternity and man in this age are properly and powerfully fulfilled in fitting perfection. – Jesus
Repenting and Forgiving – If each man or woman on earth only did two things – toactually repent for being evil (allowing evil spirits to operate in their lives) and forgiving others for also being evil (allowing evil spirits to operate in their lives,) then all would be well.All of the bible, all of Christianity, all of Christ, all of the Holy Spirit, all of Father God would come together in glorious manifested heaven on earth – if people could repent and forgive.For then blind eyes would see.Heathens would inexorably convert to truth.Mankind’s wastage could stop.So much has been lost by ignoring these precepts, so much could be gained – if we could but repent and forgive.Evil spirits embedded in us could be our vanquished and expelled foes, but instead modern Christianity marches on in ignorance of evil spirits because those same spirits have us by our throats; throats that will not repent, neither will they forgive.
Respect– A noble goal of preaching is that perchance the members of the congregation might manifest Christ.What does the preacher do if he or she succeeds?The preacher must humble him or herself and respect that Christ is manifesting in whoever it may be!The preacher must show respect, honor, interest; and speak blessings upon such saints!Without this respect, honor, interest or blessing nothing works.The preacher simply keeps preaching and snuffs out the light of God in those with light of God.This is vanity.
Revival:Stopped by Stubborn Leadership– God wants revival.Church leaders want revival.Believers want revival.But revival does not come.Why?God wants to indwell the revived.He will be able to when He can indwell Church leaders and believers.But what if God cannot now in sufficient numbers inhabit Church leaders and believers?What if God doesn’t want new believers that are seven times the devils of current leadership?Then God’s hand might stay revival, until his true leaders and believers can usher in a proper revival.If current leaders and believers can’t be indwelt of God sufficiently, it might be because Church leaders and believers are too full of themselves.They might be too full of themselves if their core doctrines make it so.Core doctrines that are easy on self and escapist might create self-on-the-throne Church leaders and believers.Three core doctrines that ooze with the greasy pitch of slimy self-interest are 1) rapture escapology and its mind-entrapping eschatology, 2) the imminent return of fix-everything-but-me Jesus who rewards us for opiate somnolence and3) eternal do-nothing-now-or-in-eternity security, just believe God gives a pass to heaven for believing what demons confess: that God is.Add a few more immaturities of the modern televised Church such as mojo-witchcraft get-ready-get-read-get-ready-for-nothing-but-jive, or witchcraft audience control, or tithe and offering extraction or fund-me-and-everybody-else-with-the-same-repitious-inane-self-on-throne-doctrines-of-soul-wastage – and you have a hellacious countermand to God’s will for true revival.Truth can sometimes hurt, but ignoring it hurts far worse.It is certainly true that the lost wait for revival.However, it may also be true that legions of stubborn Church leaders have blood on their hands for causing true revival to be so long delayed.These same leaders want revival, but without the cost God is asking.God wants the televised church leadership to repent massively for believing and promoting stupid and erroneous doctrines that are outside the truths of the Bible.The triumvirate of desolation doctrines are 1) Rapture escapology, 2) God’s fix-all-return and 3) eternal security.Ifbelieved, these doctrines make its owners so lazy, escapist and demon-infested that God cannot abide them.So, it is time for Church leaders who have espoused these lousy doctrines to first repent and repent massively.After repentance and God’s subsequent greater indwelling in His believers, true revival will come.It will even come quickly and – dare I say – quite epically.You might even say it will come on a scale that could only be described as, well, biblical.That has been the problem with revival and the solution to revival all along!Repent of holding on to non-biblical hogwash and succeed!Or be stubborn and fail.God is letting His Church decide.And so far, televised Church leaders are happy with their own stubbornness and attendant failure in revival.They appear to be the last who could admit they are stubborn and failing God.So God lets revival wait.And it has waited a very, very long time.Question:Does blood wait to go on the hands of self-on-the-throne Church leadership espousing a triumvirate of desolation doctrines?
Rhema Madmen – If you want to see a manifestation of trouble, listen to a rhema only preacher.Rhema means instant-now-word-from-God.In the charismatic arena sometimes you can find churches filled with the spirit but disconnected from truth.The problem is people can be part-filled with God’s spirit, but also filled with other soulish spirits – and they can’t always discern between the two!Logos men have a solution:Run away from God’s Spirit!But Jesus, who had an unlimited filling of God’s Spirit, said we must worship God in spirit and truth.Rhema Madmen only concern themselves with things of the spirit, which is really problematical.Worshipping God in spirit and truth is the balancing act of life we must learn, and learn well.
Righteousness and Holiness – Righteousness is good and so is holiness.But there is a big difference between the two.When we begin with God we must learn righteousness, which is learning, loving and obeying God’s rules.A lot of people get stuck there in major pride-of-religion.And they really, really like it.They are the Christian Cops!They believe what they have achieved is it.Period!However, the saints break the rules of righteousness. So what gives?Well, holiness is that relaxed, close fellowship with God.It let Jesus pick corn and heal on the Sabbath.It let David eat the forbidden temple show bread.Righteous people are God’s servants; holy people are His friends.Righteous people can’t hear God’s voice very well.Holy people hearken unto the voice of the Lord, which really upsets righteous people.Righteous people are rigid, holy people flexible.Righteous people might do a wrong thing in an emergency, holy people might do the perfect and creative thing because God might tell them and they might hear instantly.Righteous people have an extremely hard time understanding how to break the chains of rigidity and become flexible with God, who may be the most flexible entity in the universe.After all, God has to deal with six or so billion of us poor creatures, right?He is of course flexible, and our stiff-necked rigidity problem is pride.Righteously proud teachers say the book of Job says we must endure trials because we can never really know God.Holy teachers say the book of Job tells us we must endure great tribulation to get rid of our rigidity and pride-of-religion so we can hear, obey and really know God.
Ring of Truth – Matthew 7:28-29.“…the people were astonished at his doctrine:For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.”This innate ability to discern truth spoken in a right spirit compared to other things spoken in a wrong spirit is still available to us today.Truth rings like a bell while lies sound cracked.If so, all teachings from here or anywhere are subject to this independent test.Truth, like God, is not prejudiced to any sect.We therefore must be as God, no respecter of persons, but great respecters of worshipping and being of a right spirit in truth.Here is a confirmation from popular literature:In “The Horse and His Boy,” C. S. Lewis’ third book of The Chronicles of Narnia, a boy warns his king of an enemy attack under way.The king’s attendants question the boy, wasting precious time.“Question him no more…” said King Lune.“I see truth in his face.”
Root and Branch Assault– The In That Day Teachings of Robert Winkler Burke of Reno, Nevada are a root and branch assault on the world of televised Christianity, particularly its escapists doctrines that enable so much egregious excess.Burke’s views appear radical.Yet there may be a number of subjects on which Burke is right.Foremost is that the false belief in escapology has enabled a legion of leaders to escape God’s true Spirit, correction and preparation for this time.Burke attempts to expose embedded false doctrines in the modern church.He explains how wayward church leadership gains evil control of people via fixed rules, while true church leadership would teach there are no rules, only guidelines.Burke happily encourages the higher path of selflessness and God indwelling to a worldwide audience of Christians raised on cheap doctrines of television ministries who promote selfish prosperity dogmas and ignore the mandate of humility and purity of God indwelling.The wayward church obfuscates the critical discernment of truth by repeating mantras of lies with doctrines of truth such that the cacophony blends together. Thus darkness covers the land and gross darkness covers the people: but thank God, not all people.
Rule-based Tithing– Jesus is quoted three times in the Gospels denouncing those who tithed.(Mat. 23:23, Luke 11:42, Luke 18:12)Were these poor-in-spirit individuals guilty of trying to give money to get penance from God?Were they “waving that check” while waving off God?Was the money ill-gotten?Were they giving extorted money to money extorters?We do not know the details, but Jesus was adamant that you can tithe incorrectly.Not all groups have God’s mandate to receive tithes.Not all people are mandated to tithe.Whatever happened to giving to another?(Luke 3:11)There are no rules.Yet the modern televised church insists in rule-based tithing to itself based on Malachi 3:10’s storehouse, which not all who claim themselves to be actually are. The concept is most often justified by a doctrine of prosperity, which goes like this:Preacher B says he was poor.Preacher B gave to Preacher A’s non-profit organization.Now Preacher B is rich, praise God.Ergo, if you give to Preacher B’s non-profit then you can be rich Mr. C (with luxury jet, trophy wife, rich husband and so forth.)The line is: Give-to-my-non-profit-laundry-machine-which-returns-royalties-and-salary-and-expenses-to-me and then you will receive from God nebulously somehow.A truer correlation is that if Mr. C becomes Preacher C, then he can later say to other Mr. Ds give-to-my-non-profit-laundry-machine-which-returns-royalties-and-salary-and-expenses-to-me and then you will receive from God nebulously somehow.In the future audience of Mr. D’s, some will get the not-so-hidden message and become avarice Preacher Ds extorting from gullible Mr. Es.And so goes the prosperity message.At a typical prosperity convention you might observe secondary and tertiary hangers-on who lust for their day of rising to the top of the tithe pyramid.The self-interest is so thick you could cut it only with the sword of Christ’s mouth.(Rev. 2:16)Yet consider the simple proverb:Good things happen to good people, meaning God things happen to God people.Giving must be rhema-based, as directed by God.Does prosperity really happen to those who give to non-profit organizations with self-interested leaders who channel from their non-profit enterprises significant amounts of salary, royalties, high-life-expense-account-living, executive jet travel, glamorous television production and creative extravagances on themselves, their relatives and quid pro quo peers?Is the emphasis on being good (and disciplining one’s own spirit to be aware of insidious self-interest) or on doing good for ones own self and lounging around in la-la land doctrines of rapture, winning new souls to become the next prosperity pyramid base, and vain braggadocio of prosperity mantras memorized?If so, then join in, wave that check and hide that soul!Jesus tithed to…whom?On the cross He waived his soul as a sacrifice and had no self-interest to hide.That is the Malachi 3:10 tithe, and the ultimate storehouse is Father God’s in heaven.For so many self-interested non-profit laundry leaders to claim theirs is God’s storehouse is gross darkness, for they say they are God’s “untouchable” (meaning uncorrectable) anointed.It is also human secular madness, a New Age Eupraxsophy less logic, ethics and morals.It is also morally relativist, for they believe that with evangelism, goes any unblessed thing.In sum, the whole prosperity-tithe-to-my-religious-non-profit/self-serve-laundry-and-get-from-God-doctrine is perhaps best described in Isaiah 66:3 and 17 as being simply just hog wash.That’s all.
SAPP –Sorry Affluent Piker Preacher:Try as they might, certain television preachers are losing ground daily in their “Mine is Bigger Than Yours” struggle to compete with the truly rich.Despite their desire to be billion dollar preachers with luxury cars, corporate jets, prime real estate holdings and top-flight pay for themselves and family – the Gospel truth is that certain oligarchs of Russia, oil-rich sheiks of Arabia and capitalists of the West remain the undisputed kings of carnal excess.
SAPP – GEN2 – A Sorry Affluent Piker Preacher, Generation Two is a former SAPP who has seen the error of his small-minded ways and now believes to receive a luxury yacht longer than 500 feet, or a working spaceship of any size or the ability to sell his or her own soul more than once.Shall we pray these mere rich have greater angelic help and more widow and orphan partners to help them surmount the obscenely rich?
Satan Steals – Satan steals memories, especially greater Christian teachings.God’s angels help preserve them.It is your choice.If you want to grow to the next level in Christianity, fight to recall good teachings on a regular basis.And use them.If you do not bother to think a teaching is important, Satan will eventually steal it from you.Also, anytime you allow yourself to become highly agitated in a wrong emotional state (whether it is drugs, alcohol, anger, jealousy, rage, revenge, screaming, etc.) then Satan’s hordes have full right to steal virtuous capabilities from your soul without you usually discerning a thing.But after such pandering to evil, you are not the same, you have less good in you.You may not recognize yourself.This is a dangerous dynamic to play with.
Save Face, Lose Life – A doctrine of In That Day Teachings is “Save Face, Lose Life.”It means when a sin is pointed out in one’s life, admit it!Confess it!Agree with the enemy that pointed it out!Get the devil out of you!Then ask forgiveness to those in maturity who can receive it.Repent!Repent, because it is the first word of Christ preached!(Matthew4:17)Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.The In That Day Teachings say that the kingdom of heaven is truth.Truth is at hand.So, if the world’s news organizations and a US Senator suspect some prosperity ministries might have greed, avarice and self-interested leaders, then those leaders who dare call themselves Christians can either “save face” or repent of greed.Let’s expand heaven.
Scorpions – Patronizing Love Mush practitioners penetrate their victims with immobilizing platitudes (“You never know,” which is their tail stinger,) hold them in place with more weakening platitudes (“Jesus did it all,” – meaning don’t move, which are their claws) while they vomit their bile on the victim with “Should Jesus Tarry” (i.e. be rapture somnambulant vs. strong and of a good courage) and suck up their money, time and life with “God is faithful” while being unfaithful to the true good of believers.You can tell a Scorpion church by its weak praise, weak preaching, weak members, baby talk, condescending attitudes and hopeless prisoners of the mind who avoid all rebuke.
Sea Change Before Revival– “If you see something, say something.”This popular anti-terrorist bromide has kept cities like New York safe.But consider the uncorrectable environment of modern escapist Christianity.For at least fifty years, Christian media leaders receive funds but not correction.This creates huge ministries with predictable character crises.Blogs and the internet appear to be God’s answer to these unanswerable institutions of darkness.Escapist networks such as TBN or Calvary variants are magnets for escapist miscreants – much like the Iraq War has been a magnet for jihad terrorists.These appear to be zones of containment and recompense.When one comrade falls, a new recruit of error appears as a replacement.These failed persons martyr themselves by adherence to failed dogma.But eventually, truth will win and beguiled enlistees will dwindle.This appears to be God’s wasteland management system.Today’s internet allows free exchange of truth which not only conquers communism, but also escapist Christianity doctrines as practiced for fifty years by televangelists.Their invisible statues, heretofore unassailable, will come down just like Saddam’s.If not by this blog, this video collection, or this author then surely others somewhere, somehow, someday will have the high honor of delivering a dread champion’s death blow to antichrist escapist doctrines (spiritual, not literal mind you) and thereby usher in God’s indwelling revelation of Himself in us in that day.Minds will no longer be occupied with fearful dispensational untruths, or escapist distractions and excuses for error, but with the desire to manifest Christ now in power, love and the soundness that is God’s very own truth.
Searching for Truth or a Pipe Dream– What if you were searching for truth in Christianity and found its leaders lacking in something you couldn’t put your finger on?They just seemed so focused on things other than, well, being Christian.Suppose a website blog, this one, pointed out a myriad of reasons for this.Suppose these In That Day Teachings said much of broadcast Christianity absolves itself from higher Christian responsibility through miscreant escapology doctrines.And these three escapology doctrines are 1) escaping by rapture, 2) an imminent return fixing all but the escapists and 3) escaping from eternal responsibility through eternal security.Well, now, if taken seriously these claims would put many leaders of high Christian rank in the category of skank.But Christian responsibility is to manifest Christ.And in televangelism, greed and self-glory abound.Why is this?Bad doctrine creates evil that evil inhabits and expands, while good doctrine creates good that God inhabits and expands.To bring heaven to earth we must have good doctrine first, as a foundation.Second, we must have clean spiritual abodes.Third, we must allow our spiritual two-way radios to communicate with God.Fourth, we must have faith when God comes in others or ourselves.Fifth, we must honor those in whom God inhabits, however briefly.Sixth, we must not be proud.Seventh, we must admit the truth of good fruit and the evil of bad fruit.Inspect, if you will, the fruit of spiritual insight in these In That Day Teachings.Admittedly, you will find much bitterness, but also much insight.Now then, turn to a popular Christian ministry and discern the message.Is it anything new?Is it creating better spiritual insight in you?Judge then, the fruit.And ask yourself, why is there a cornucopia of insight with these In That Day Teachings?Could the God of truth be bringing truth to a barren Christian media wasteland?And why are the Christian media moguls so filthy rich?Why are they so happy to brag about their insatiable greed?And why are their broadcast messages so wastefully repeated, almost like propaganda or product advertising, hammering on the same few things?Why are they bereft of the truths available in the non-escapology doctrines of In That Day Teachings?Why are the escapists’ Christian doxic so toxic?The escapists ministries boldly assert that the Christian convoy needs a good pipe dream, a trinity of escapology.If ever a pipe dream was invented to take the relief of responsibility off a Christian, what beats escapology?It is the perfect pipe dream.And the Christian media broadcasters believe the world needs a good pipe dream.Maybe not.
Seeing Beyond the Beyond– To see with the spiritual eye means to be able to see beyond the carnal realm by two measures.First, you discern things in the immediate spirit realm, including angels, devils, demons, spirits, visions, unearthly feelings, gut-level hunches and so forth.Second, you discern what Father God’s hand is doing and His will in the matter for you and others.This is seeing beyond the beyond.Surprisingly, much of what passes for Christian preaching simply involves platitudes for the carnal realm:Do this and do that, thus saith the wise, glorious, broadcast-round-the-world televangelist.Just as surprisingly, little in modern Christian preaching broadcast around the world involves wisdom in the two spiritual realms:local spiritual discernment of all things not carnal and Jesus’ spiritual, immediate, rhema wisdom on whatever is happening.However, the Bible repeatedly admonishes “Hearken unto the voice of the Lord” as well as Jesus’ admonition:“Blessed are they who hear my (rhema) words and obey.”The goal here is to get as much of humanity hearing and obeying God’s rhema voice…while extracting as little money as possible from the same members of humanity.Why is it that much of Christian media ministry seems to have the opposite agenda?
Self-service Promoted – Watch out for prosperity leaders who believe to receive for themselves at day’s end… from you!They teach you to believe to receive from God, but they themselves believe to receive from their sheep.Rather believe God will receive what He wants from you and do not worry about receiving from God.That is His job.Whatever you do, do not believe to receive from God by extorting from gullible underlings you say will somehow receive from God nebulously.
Sheep and Wolves – To observe the very real gullibility of rapture believing Christians, consider a website called www.postrapturepost.com.When rapture sheep are fleeced it is expected to be politely covert and not openly overt.This rapture website was created by two self-confessed atheists who need to support their “sinful lifestyles.”They decided to offer a service of delivering messages after the so-called rapture.For $4.99 to $799.99 a person’s message can be delivered by these “rapture proof” atheists to loved ones who don’t believe in the so-called rapture.As one person writes in the website’s Guest Book:“I hope you are making LOTS of money.It just warms my heart to think about (it.)Just remember, (rapture believers) are not all there upstairs, so it’s not fair to take TOO much advantage of them.”Tell that to televangelists.
Snakes – Oh so charming preachers must have a mesmerizing onslaught of designer suits (or gorgeous dresses,) coifed to perfection hair, gaudy watches, gold jewelry, opulent stage sets and glossy ministry magazines because without pandering the spirit of envy there would be no way to squeeze enough donations to top the tanks of their $20 million must-have jets.
Some, All and Never – “You may fool all of the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”This quote from Abraham Lincoln also applies to the escape from God’s spirit and truth. The sophists of escapology sell rapture, prosperity, supine security, cheap cerebral intellectualism, worshipping weakness, dry bones factoids, mojo get-ready-get-ready witchcraft or the next amazing sells-books-by-the-millions-it-must-be-great, new fad.
Sons of Thunder– This remarkable title was given by Jesus to James and John because of their supposed fervid and impetuous tempers.Yet these two brothers – along with Peter – were Jesus’ highest taught, inner sanctum disciples.So what gives?Jesus might have been congratulating these two for their godly fervor while simultaneously mocking their ungodly rigidity.These siblings had burned with rigid desire to call fire down from heaven and consume the Samaritans as Elijah did.But Jesus corrected them by saying they knew not what spirit they were of.Thunder is a sound.It is not power.A rigid stance is a pose.It is not power.Stridency evidences weakness.It is not power.Force against force is destructive.It is not power.Where is God’s power?It is in the absolute flexibility to obey – which is to properly worship – God in truth and spirit.This is a way that is neither yin nor yang; neither conservative nor liberal; neither rule-based nor libertine.Some preachers seem to be proud of keeping a lifelong rigidness.But Jesus was lightning-like in ability to easily change His daily actions.This enabled Him to be absolutely flexible in his perfect spiritual maturity.That is who Jesus is.And it is who we must be:Sons of light; penetrating darkness whether it is in the hard or soft of a situation; the left or right of two sides; the traditional or radical; the new or old; the this, that or the all in all.We must be sons of light, brothers and sisters of Jesus, full of His Spirit guiding us above the bipolar perplexities of mortal thinking and enabling us to confidently manifest God’s essence to do always good.The world seems to suffer from chronic bipolar disorder.Small-mindedness in the Christian church seems unable to recognize God’s solutions above the inane bipolar fray.Proud participants in the bipolar wars simply increase rigidity and power in either the left or right sides of a situation.Only the humble and truly God-seeking individuals are enabled by divine Spirit power to become absolutely flexible, and thereby turn either right, left, up, down or around as the Spirit leads in mature and creative perfection.This confounds the rigid members of the bipolar fray.Their way is self-destruction.But the sons of light, who have become absolutely flexible, have the noble task of restoring all things.
Soulish Anointing –Wherein preachers want their audience to feel good, if not God.So they practice whatever is acceptable to the audience to bring a false anointing not of Christ.In truth, they bring antichrist spirits neigh and say, “God is in the house!”For techniques, see Mojo Witchcraft Control.God’s presence is not predictable or always repeatable, but Soulish Anointing is something some preachers can and do bank on.
Soulless Ghouls vs. the God-indwelt– One of the most common parables of modern culture is the story of soulless ghouls vs. the God-indwelt.The myriad of movies include the Resident Evil series, the Dracula series, the Living Dead series, etc.It is a very common parable of this age.And for good reason, too.One must wonder, why so many similar parables and why are they so popular?Answer:Man’s eternal problem is that he is mighty tempted to be a soulless ghoul.The answer is Christianity which offers God-indwelling.But, since much of modern Christianity does not want true God-indwelling in its doctrines, practice or preaching (as In That Day Teachings explain repeatedly) then there is not enough true salvation.Therefore a huge fear is created by the lack of true understandable redemption, and this huge failure in Christianity to actually provide God-indwelt doctrine, practice and preaching creates a huge need for the repetitive parabolic warning messages:Soulless ghouls are devouring remnant good souls, who are turned into more soulless ghouls who devour the remaining good souls.It sounds terrible, no?But what happens to the new Christian believer who wants to learn God’s true doctrines, manifest Christ and bring heaven to earth? Well, sadly the chances are the new convert will be devoured by the soulless dogma of escapology, with all its vapid end-times eschatology, dispensational insanity, international relations fear mongering, and much more hog wash, until the new believer becomes just another escapology ghoul.Oh well, that’s Christianity today, brother!But where is the balance?Are there not popular culture parables providing the answers?Yes, because God works both warnings and answers into popular culture themes.Look at Disney’s Lion King, particularly the Broadway play.The veiled story is more like Christ the King is Coming Quickly in Me and You!One of the song’s lyrics are, “He lives in you, he lives in me.”The Broadway play begins with an anointed African rhythms and a Zulu choir heralding God’s arrival in you and me:“Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba!” (Here comes a lion, Father) “Sithi uhm ingonyama,” (Oh yes, it’s a lion!)If you have much of Christ in you, when you watch the play and hear the music you will hear deep calling unto deep.Then watch the escapists Timon and Pumbaa sing “Hakuna Matata,” which like escape via rapture is a “problem-free philosophy” that “means no worries all the rest of your days.”Just be Hakuna Matata’d – oops, rather – just be raptured!But eventually the grown lion has to abandon infantile philosophy.And one must do as the Circle of Life song covertly hints about in its story of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah coming in you and me:“Step into the sun.”
Spirits Pack a Punch – The spirit of a person is not unlike the punch of a martial artist.Just a punch alone – or a person’s spirit alone – can make another person angry or submssive, sick or healed, energized or de-energized.Sometimes a spirit can pack much more power than a punch.Jesus’ spirit knocked down an armed posse.(John 18:6)Yet some people do not seem to care what spirit they are of.Just being close to a person might rob you of all energy, or it might make you feel wonderful or even heal you.Spirits, both good and evil, transfer to other people.A person who cannot keep good thoughts in his head may have troublesome spirits.And such a person will be troublesome to be with.On the other hand, an upbeat person has upbeat spirits.This person will be fun to be near.Good spirits work for God’s good; evil spirits help Satan’s agenda.People must deal victoriously with their inner demons.Success in this is what makes a good person good.You can trust good people because they are of good spirits.You cannot trust people who cannot controltheir own troublesome spirits.When people of opposing spirits associate the spirits themselves sometimes fight each other without the hosts themselves necessarily discerning the warfare.As ever, stories in popular culture provide the parabolic example.In the Pink Panther movie, Inspector Jacques Clouseau overtly expresses proper respect to his boss, Chief Inspector Dreyfus.Yet simultaneously Clouseau’s spirits manage to attack and destroy Dreyfus’ office, possessions and person.Dreyfus is a dishonest boss who assigns his supposedly worst inspector on a case to purposely bungle it.In the spirit realm, however, the spirits of the good man Clouseau actually bungle with Dreyfus since Dreyfus is bad.You can fool people but you cannot fool spirits in the spirit realm.This humor accentuates the truth to 2 Corinthians 6:14:What fellowship can light have with darkness?
Spiritual Trigger Switches – To believe God is alive in heaven and among us in life on earth is one thing.To understand just how God manages to work with us is another.It would be good to know more about the precise interface between us and God.Specifically, what is the nature of the point of contact between us and God that makes a God-event happen?Is there something to know more precise than the action of prayer?Well, perhaps there are spiritual trigger switches wherein a small thing on our part creates a God thing happening.First, look at how a fast draw cowboy revolver works, say an 1873 Colt .45 Peacekeeper.Follow the sequence:1) A hand begins to draw the gun from its holster and aim 2) The opposite hand is used to cock the hammer.3) A finger from the drawing hand is used to pull the trigger.4)The hammer hits a primer on a cartridge.5)The primer makes a small explosion in the cartridge.6)The powder in the cartridge explodes.7)The bullet is propelled through the barrel.8)The rifling in the barrel spins the bullet.9)The bullet flies through the air.10)The bullet hits the target.It is reported that fast-draw artists Bob Munden, of ButteMontana, could “draw and hit a man-sized silhouette at 21 feet in a record 0.0175 seconds.”Likewise, the turn of a key of a 2007 Ford Shelby GT500 begins this chain reaction:1) A battery turns a starter motor which turns the engine.2) Gas and air enter the engine’s combustion chamber.3) Sparks from eight spark plugs ignite the gas and air.4) The 500 horsepower engine comes to life.Thus, small actions can create big actions.It is the same in dealing with the spiritual.This is why Jesus’ first beatitude was “Blessed are the poor in spirit” because we must walk gently amongst such invisible power.The trigger is pulled when our spirit touches the spiritual realm by a decision of our spirit – for good or evil, for blessings or cursings, for obedience or rebellion.Recall when Moses turned aside and explored God’s burning bush.This spiritual trigger switch changed the history of the world.To finger such God go-buttons you must be qualified, in the right place, in the right time, able to notice God’s hand moving, receive God’s mysterious instructions, willingly obey those instructions and not doubt you are crazy.Amazingly, the whole operation is delicate – like a hair trigger.We do not exchange lightning bolts with God when we communicate.The next person you meet could be received by you as a God-sent angel to change your life for the better, or one you give only your back.We worship God in truth and spirit.His truth and Spirit are all around us, if we would but honor God’s mysterious being.Is His next message to us in animal, mineral or plant?It is whatever God wants Himself.And hardest for us to accept, is when God chooses to manifest Himself in a person He sends our way.We really hate that, unless we grow and mature and find ourselves someday being sent to others who often despise the God that is sent in you to them.And then you watch in horror as they pull that spiritual trigger switch saying nay to what God can show of Himself to their selves.For God is a God of reward, recompense and requiting.His power of good or Satan’s power of evil cannot but be in our lives.We continually pull spiritual trigger switches causing one thing or the other to spark, explode and manifest.
Stridency 24/7 – That monotone stridency so often heard from preachers is not exactly a good thing.Stridency practiced twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week is not good.Our non-strident Lord was led of the Spirit and could hear Our Father’s voice.Jesus said, Agree with your enemy.Ever thought about that?Maybe the American Civil Liberties Union has points worth considering.Maybe even the Devil.Maybe you, maybe me.Cards cannot always be kept close to the vest.Let them play out.Once they are on the table, everyone will be able to see them.
Subtle Subtexts of Extraction– One non-profit ministry website has a proliferation of donation buttons.Selecting one of the “donate” buttons gives you these radio button choices:$30.00, $75.00 or $100.00.Below that is a field for entering a different amount.By that box is the message:“No commas please (Ex: 1050.00)”.This not-so subtle arrangement seems to discourage donations under $30, and suggests amounts above $1,000.This seems to be rather wily, or is it wrong to point out sly tricks of extractors?
Sweet Laziness–Sweet laziness results in bitter rewards, while bitter discipline results in sweet rewards.God’s prophets of the Bible had to eat bitter truths, but no doubt their rewards in eternity have been sweet.If you listen to too many saccharin soliloquies from easy-on-the-ears preachers, don’t be surprised if you get spiritually lazy and have bitter rewards from God.The Bible says learn from the ant.On the last page of the Bible, Jesus says He comes quickly with a reward to give every man according to his work.So be prepared to say to Jesus, “Here is my work” instead of “Work?What work?”
Sword Play Closes Ears – Before going to the cross, Jesus ordered his disciples to be armed and Peter wielded a sword.Then another lesson began.Peter cut off the ear of the servant of the high priest.The use of truth (represented by the sword) to deafen (remove the ear of) a religious man (a priest’s helper) by mistake (Jesus healed the ear) and a wrong spirit (in pride Peter first raised his hand) only to be rebuked (Live by an over aggressive sword, and die by it.)Peter may have been the greatest disciple because he alone was brave enough to engage physically with Jesus while the others merely engaged in word or silent thought.Like the best student in a martial arts class, Peter is the exemplar one challenging and being bested by the master, while simultaneously suffering hopefully permanent ego damage.Through such bruising episodes, brave hearts obtain the most of their master’s essence.Peter learned that great truths are to be delivered in kindness (a right spirit) only to prepared ears that can hear spiritually, lest they become so deaf to God, only divine healing can remedy.And just as in martial arts, a master must heal whom he (or his miscreant assistant) has hurt in class.Jesus modeled for Peter how to recover from both carnal and spiritual mistakes in ministry and life.
The Answer– The answer my friend, as Bob Dylan wrote, is blowing in the wind, which is the Holy Spirit.In other words, the answer to everything is the Holy Spirit, who Jesus said will teach you all things.(John 14:26)All things covers a lot of territory.Albert Einstein might have failed to discover the universal equation of the universe.But Jesus did not fail to provide the universe’s elocutionist.But pride keeps the Holy Spirit away from those who need him most because they think of Him least.
The Leader’s List – How are leaders different?Each has a list of important items to do.Leaders can be differentiated by their prioritized list.Let’s take an imaginary look at leaders’ lists from media ministries.Here might be the healing evangelist’s list:1) Grow me and my ministry to 2) heal and save you to 3) heal and save others to 4) loop back to item 1 or until Jesus comes (ha, ha!) with 5) no change or correction thereby 6) leaving true spiritual cleansing often undone.The prosperity preacher’s list:1) Give cash to me and my ministry to 2) prosper you (by God somehow) to 3) prosper others (by God somehow) to 4) loop back to item 1 or until Jesus comes (ha, ha!) with 5) no change or correction thereby 6) embedding selfish and greedy spirits into such “believers.”The intellectual preacher’s list:1) Grow me and my ministry to 2) make you intellectually religious to 3) make others intellectually religious to 4) loop back to item 1 or until Jesus comes (ha, ha!) with 5) no change or correction thereby 6) embeddingintellectually religious spirits into such “believers.”The rapture preacher’s list: 1) Grow me and my ministry to 2) teach you rapture to 3) increase raptured souls to 4) loop back to item 1 or until Jesus comes (ha, ha!) with 5) no change or correction thereby 6) embedding escapism spirits into such “believers.”A true millennium preacher’s list:1) Be indwelt of God 2) by learning true doctrines 3) that remove evil spirits in self 4) by humbly embracing correction to 5) bring Jesus in us and heaven through us to earth now thereby 6) restoring all things despite difficulties with wayward and deceived “believers.”
The Man Behind the Curtain– “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain,” say posers in religion, which includes most of us.“Pay attention to that man behind the curtain,” says the Spirit to us. “Behold, there is no curtain before the man in whom I am,” says Jesus.
The Men Who Knew too Much– Despite the seeming indifference the Christian broadcast media machines have to the Rosetta Stone message found in this website, (www.inthatdayteachings,) its creator, Robert Winkler Burke, of Reno, Nevada believes multitudes know what it means to global escapist Christianity. The In That Day Teachings excoriate the triune escapology doctrines (escape by rapture, the imminent return fixing all things but escapists, and escape from responsibility eternally via eternal security) as antichrist, unbiblical imaginings and introduce (or re-introduce) scourging, overcoming and God-indwelling as the paramount doctrinal position supported by the Bible.Further, Burke says escapology – by definition – has no truth in its dispensational future scenarios, but that In That Day Teachings’ doctrines provide great insight into God’s future for this planet.Lastly, Burke says the escapology doctrine ministries employ fear, greed and extortion to receive monies by false dictate while he maintains the in That Day Teachings enable believers to hear and obey God, including how much and to whom to give to – with greater emphasis on person-to-person giving, as supported by the Bible.In sum, bad doctrine creates evil that evil inhabits and expands; while good doctrine creates good that God inhabits and expands.This has no less potential to shake today’s religious order than what happened 500 years ago.Martin Luther excoriated Catholic indulgences and reintroduced truth with Protestant Reformation.Consider also Rusty Leonard with his www.ministrywatch.com website and organization.Through perspectives both see the root of media ministry problems.And that is money.A guesstimate of the annual income of escapology-based Christian networks, media ministries and media publishers (books, movies, music, ministry materials, websites, etc.) it might be $4 billion annually.Maybe ten times that.If escapologists keep expanding into less sophisticated (i.e. gullible) less developed nations they could increase income astronomically.A 25-year income stream of $4 billion annually is $1 trillion.Suppose the hard-charging recipients of that income stream do not take a liking to the truths of Mr. Burke, Mr. Leonard or others just as irritating.It all will be putting the name Christian to the test for some ultra rich ministry family dynasties.But if any whistle-blowers or modern-day-Luthers end up dead via suspicious events, just follow the money.Money is the root of all evil, and we are talking about riches beyond human understanding combined with wrong doctrines that give right for demons to indwell.Nevertheless, God might be raising detectives with a nose for what doesn’t smell right.And now, there is a lot that doesn’t.So it easy to predict the future for escapology non-profits:Before the air freshens in the realm of escapist mega-ministries, it’s going to stink to high heaven.
The Next Goal for the Bride of Christ– The next goal for the bride of Christ is not perfection but that she has a humble spirit seeking perfection.Stated amplified:The goal for the bride of Christ as ushered by the groomsmen (preachers/televangelists/leaders) and the best men (the elect/apostles/prophets) is not perfection (spiritual maturity) but that she has a humble (self-correcting) spirit seeking perfection (spiritual maturity.)Now the televangelists of the day are perfect examples of pride on parade.They seek no corrective prophets, nor will they receive them.They say their shiny gold watches, multi-thousand dollar suits, elaborate stage sets, big hair, big egos and other devices of strange reality distortion and envy pandering (i.e. worshipping the manipulated-to-exalt-self Word and loathing the ego-damaging Spirit of correction) are the living end of Christianity.So they are in a ditch of abomination, calling good evil and evil good.What are the sheep to do but say, “Bah!Bah!Here are our tithes and ministry jet love offerings!”So, leaders of wayward Christianity must first repent, that all followers of what is wayward may repent.Then all can journey towards more maturity in Christ.For an example in popular culture, see the 1953 movie The Naked Spur. The hero, James Stewart, is haunted by betrayal and unwilling to trust or love.He is a bounty-hunter, joined by two strangers he meets on the trail, attempting to bring bad-guy Robert Ryan in for reward.The kicker of the story is Janet Leigh, who is admired for her duty to Ryan, while misplaced, and her ability to transcend her love of bad for good – even to the point of convincing Stewart to abandon the ill-gotten gain of bounty hunting.Do you think the Bride of Christ could do that for its money-hungry televangelists?
The Question is:– How to shepherd the next move of God…and drop the truth on the church…and help it repent of wrong escapology doctrines of the rapture, waiting for Jesus to return and fix all but the passive yet intellectual waiters, and eternal security do nothing ever but escape from Jesus-indwelling maturity…and cleanse itself of doctrine-driven demons of ease, self-interest, fear-based abuses in the false mandates of give-to-get prosperity, extraction of huge sums of money for jets, broadcast air time and book sales to pander to ego idolization; and evil control of congregations to force them to tithe to self-interested non-profit entities with much false doctrine and fear of the future…and help multitudes of cleaned-up-to-maturity Christians to manifest Jesus, which is the Colossians Chapter 1 mystery of God for these end time days…and enable a post-correction revival so new Christian converts don’t become seven times the devils the current full-of-wrong-doctrines-and-demons so many current believers are: How to do all that… without being immature, a radical or out of God’s will?The Answer is:Wait.Wait until God’s church is ready to massively repent of loving lying doctrines and wants to believe true and hard doctrines.It is not ready to do this.It seems stuck in an eternal evangelism, baby-doctrine, la-la land.The immature church is a happy toddler sucking on a baby-doctrine teething ring.It only throws tantrums if any remark is made about its puerility.Meanwhile, it is happy to have the blood of multitudes of souls on its hands – souls that cannot turn to Christ because they see that so many evangelists themselves are consumed by demons of self-interest, self-ease and selfish escape from greater responsibilities in Christ.And at this time the believer’s main responsibility is to manifest Christ, which so many Christians cannot because they proudly love the mad doctrines in their heads and the mad familiar demons in their souls more than they love God’s hard truths that would begin a cleansing scourge enabling their lovely Savior to live in them fully.So all we can do is pray… and wait… and prepare ourselves… and endeavor to somehow be humble yet excellent groomsmen and bridesmaids full of God’s wit, wisdom, wealth, health, happiness and surprisingly powerful, all-present and unpredictable Spirit.
The Restoration of All Things– Rick Joyner’s “Word for the Week” for 8/20/07 -- http://www.morningstarministries.org/feature/wftw/2007/3407.htm -- is worth a look.He says there were three kind of operations to be done when Katrina hit the South:Rescue, Stabilization and Restoration.And these take three different archetypes of people.And they do not do each other’s jobs too well.From this I conclude perhaps the televangelist, the preacher/teacher and apostolic/prophet seem to be ignoring each other.And God is not happy with this situation.Because perhaps God is keenly interested in the restoration of all things.And that is complicated.And that is not infantile.And that takes some intelligent introspection.And it takes, perhaps, an intelligent salvation plan.And all of this is perhaps too much to ask of present day broadcast Christianity.Isn’t it just easier to send money to the televangelists?Now today’s Wall Street Journal has an editorial pointing out that “research is increasingly questioning the benefits of foreign aid.”In other words, throwing money at an under-developed situation guarantees nothing.Only when recipients of aid are required to receive and maintain a working, intelligent infrastructure of hard and soft assets, can the needy put received monies to good affect.Otherwise, it is a waste of time and money.Could the same also be true regarding the needy media ministry machine?Heaven forbid the thought?Or perhaps heaven encourages the thought.Have the rescuers of souls, i.e. televangelists, hogged the stage of what occupies the mind of a Christian, and left no room for maturity in Christ?Is Christ Himself intelligent, mature and multi-dimensional?Of course.Then let His Church be likewise, even what is shown of Himself on broadcast media.From this perspective, media Christianity appears to be quite adolescent, displaying the bifurcated teenage personality of insisting on all the honor and respect of adulthood while desperately clinging to every conceivable immaturity.Let’s just praise the milk!
The Sound of Escapism – In the movie “The Sound of Music” the Mother Abbess of Maria’s convent asks Maria:And what is the most important lesson you have learned here, my child?Maria answers:To find out what is the will of God… and to do it whole heartedly.However, if these Catholic characters had been “immersed” by Christian Broadcast Media Ministries and “enlightened” by their doctrines of Eternal Security, then Maria would answer:To find out we are all saved, so what I do next really doesn’t matter.Then if she believed in the doctrine of Faith Only, Not Works, then Maria would answer:To find out faith is all I need, so what I do next really doesn’t matter.Then if she believed in the doctrine of Jesus-is-coming-to-fix-all-but-us-escapists, then Maria would answer:To tell everyone to be ready for Jesus to fix everything, so what I do next really doesn’t matter.Then if she believed in the doctrines of Rapture Escapism, Maria would answer:To believe we must be rapture ready, so what I do next really doesn’t matter.Then if all the immersion in escapism had penetrated Maria’s soul, she would sing in a high, nasal, wispy, tramp-kind of weak voice proclaiming, “The hills are alive with the sound of me singing about me, It’s a sound they have heard a thousand times before!”And Mother Abbess would have had at least a quarter million dollars worth of liposuction, tummy tuck, face lift, nose job, breast augmentation, flashy jewelry, designer outfits and a big enough hairdo to make her look no less phony and escaped-from-reality than any other proud televangelist who preaches what’s right, what’s wrong and how to tithe.In short, the movie would be different – whole heartedly.
The Spirit Realm Provides Leading Indicators– Above the carnal realm is the spiritual realm.Things happen first in the spirit realm and then later manifest in the carnal realm.If you can discern what is happening in the spirit realm, you can have a good clue about certain future outcomes.For example, consider a logging operation in a forest.It is a dangerous occupation to fell large trees.Everyone on the crew must be safe.A new hire comes along who might be unsafe.He trips a lot just walking in the forest.Does he have a mindless spirit?This would be dangerous to the crew.Does he have a forgetful spirit?Does he have a careless spirit, especially in regards to others’ safety?These things would also be dangerous to the crew.But our new hire promises the crew that he will be safe.The boss must decide if the new hire can be safe.But the new hire forgot to bring his lunch.The new hire continually says, “Whatever.”The new hire seems to look down a lot, preoccupied in thought.And he walked through the company’s entry door and let it close without holding it open for the next person.These things proclaim a spiritual message that the man is better kept away from dangerous jobs.Some might say this is being carnally judgmental.But the new hire’s spirits are announcing to all who have eyes to see and ears to hear, “I am incapable of being safe in a dangerous environment.I have little regard for myself and others.”Further, inside this new hire are probably foundational lies.One might be:“Who cares, so what, nothing matters.”Maybe the person said this mantra ten thousand times while growing up as a child.This implanted a “nothing matters” spirit deep within the poor man’s soul.Before he ever works with people in a dangerous environment, he must realize what spirits he is of, and if they are bad, shine the light of confession and repentance on them, get them completely removed from his soul and replaced by godly spirits of care, compassion and esteem of his fellow man.Only after all that could this poor fellow be safe to himself and others in a dangerous environment.As Jesus said, “Ye know not what spirit ye are of.”These teachings agree with Jesus:Spirits matter.Regrettably the world – and much of Christianity – is in carnal enmity toward such spiritual wisdom, teaching and practice.Jesus had a name for living in complete awareness of the carnal, spiritual and will-of-God world we live in.He said you must worship God in spirit and truth.So...now ask yourself this: What spirits would drive a faith and prosperity ministry to break IRS rules and get the ministry's leader in prison for a year? Answer: The greedy spirits inhabiting the rotten prosperity doctrine ministries -- the same love of mammon spirits the faith televangelists display without shame.
The Trouble with Hearing from God– Hearing from God is not a panacea.It is infinitely better than being clueless about God’s will for you.But it is not a cure-all.Why?Because to hear from God takes great maturity, which might be why so few are members of God’s two-way radio club.Why does it take maturity?Because as soon as you begin hearing from God, people who know you will think you are crazy.Even family members who agree to let you try to hear from God may turn and rend you…just like the Bible warns about casting pearls before swine.Lest I sound too harsh consider this simple example:Suppose a husband and wife need to buy a vehicle.God tells the husband to buy a Ford sedan.The wife wants a Dodge pickup, but she is not hearing from God on this.Whoo, what a fight!But it gets deeper.Suppose the husband prays and God says, Let her buy the Dodge pickup.Then the husband has to really hear from God to be able to switch gears and stay in obedience.This can take a lot of maturity.It takes a lot of maturity to hear from God and not fight those who do not.Situations in life are often in a kind of dynamic river.And God is the river of life instructor.So one season He might say the previously mentioned couple needs a Ford sedan.Another season it might be a Dodge pickup.Later it might be an SUV luxury car.Then it might be sell every vehicle and move to a city where they do not need a car.But the biggest problem often seems to be the resistance – if not outright warfare – a God bearer receives from people used to having their unquestioned way.As has been mentioned elsewhere, the great battle of Armageddon seems to be the battle against self-on-the throne of people and families.As soon as a person in a family begins hearing and obeying God, it is sure to upset, challenge and even elicit violent reactions from people used to having their “large-and-in-charge” and “to-heck-with-God” way.If they find out you believe you’re hearing from God and it runs contrary to their hugely selfish agendas, then you will be despised.You will despised for a good long time by them, if they survive a good long time.Until they finally see that season after season, time after time, again and again they remain in spiritual ditches and you remain in God’s good graces.Over time your inner character keeps being blessed, growing and becoming more pure while those out of touch with God may have characters in steady decline.The cursed just cannot forgive the blessed for so being.This kind of trouble takes some getting used to.It takes maturity.
The Trouble with Media Ministry Conventions– As practiced by the wayward media ministries, their convention meetings have many doctrine-driven difficulties.Imagine a hopeful attendee traveling half way across the country or planet to discover the following:1) Attendees are not fed true food or true food (material or spiritual.)2) Very Important Persons are treated royally different than our poor attendee.3)Donations are requested thrice daily, for which our attendee has no budget.The leaders request donations toward their non-profits (which directly enrich themselves) while promising indirect returns to the attendee by nebulous means of God.In other words, they state that money coming directly their way will somehow result in money nebulously coming back to the giver.The leaders, themselves, never trust such a nebulous income stream.They directly ask attendees to directly give to their organization, which cannot but financially benefit the leaders directly.The leaders never comment on their self-serving prosperity program.4)After several days of self-promotion, the ministry asks for money for its jet program, or jet park program – at a time our poor attendee’s financial defenses are down.He is told to, “Wave that check!”5)The speakers play to the cameras rather than the audience, because the audience participates only passively to somehow legitimize the background ambiance for later broadcast.In other words, the attendee is used to enrich the video recording while the attendee’s needs are poorly met.6)No attendees are allowed to ask questions of the leaders.7)Attendees cannot receive personal ministry from any leaders.8)Meanwhile, the speakers may jokingly complain about the high cost of repairing their ministry jet’s air conditioning system.9)A ministry speaker might explain how ministry jet travel is vastly superior to the commercial travel that the attendees used to get to the meeting.10)If something anointed happens by chance, it is quickly dishonored and dismissed by rigidly sticking to the video camera schedule, since the real purpose of the meeting is not ministry to the people in attendance, but creating copious amounts of video for later broadcast.11)Our attendee is supposed to applaud when a media minister says he will become the first billionaire preacher.This and any other revelatory events will be edited out of all videos broadcast later.12)The attendee discovers the leaders have booths selling most every conceivable item under the banner of Christ.13)The attendee senses that any attempt by him to state to the meeting managers the obvious – that the meeting appears to be largely antichrist in nature – will be interpreted by the managers that the attendee has surely confessed that he, himself, is Mr. Antichrist the Abominable and will, naturally, be removed with great dispatch, complete disregard and infinite disgust.
There Are No Rules – Don’t make rules your God.Putting rules, even God’s rules, above God is to break the First Commandment:Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.It takes maturity to grasp, but understand God is above the rules we set about Him.If He wants to write a new testament, do miracles today, stop doing miracles, manifest His Son in people, not do such and such, do such and such…well, let Him.He is God.We either make our rules subject to God’s obedience or we are obedient to God our ruler.Sound unfamiliar?It shouldn’t.The enemy of good must fear good’s unpredictable good.The enemy of good wants good to believe good has only fixed rules, rules that the enemy of good therefore can easily exploit.But God, or good, is not that stupid.Only some of the wayward churches are that stupid, by their enforcing supposedly fixed rules of tithing that appear to be helpful to weak, self-interested, disconnected-from-God leaders.Exodus 15:3 says, “The Lord is a man of war…” The U.S. Marine Corp. Tactics manual puts it this way:“There are no fixed rules that can be applied automatically, and every situation is different…Leaders must remember that there are no fixed rules and no precise checklists, but there are bounds.”Gene Autry put it another way in his song Back in the Saddle Again: “And the only law is right.”
There Are Spirits – God the Father is a Spirit.Jesus is a Spirit.The Holy Spirit is a Spirit.God’s angels are spirits.The Devil is a spirit.The Devil’s angels are spirits.Each person has a spirit.Our spirits contain spirits that are good and evil.But the Church tells us not to concern ourselves with spirits.It is like telling a lineman who works on high voltage power lines for the power company, “Don’t concern yourself with that unseen electricity some people believe exists in the power lines.Just be careful.”
Think What You Want– “Think what you want, live with your thoughts.”These lines were spoken by Charlton Heston in the movie Arrowhead.His character was loosely drawn from Al Seiber, a famous 1880s Chief of Scouts for the US Army.Heston quoted this proverb from the Apaches.So the question is:Are these In That Day Teachings a Rosetta Stone of sorts, a holistic guidebook to help selfless Christians manifest Christ at high levels for the coming age?Or perhaps some might prefer to discard all this rebuke, chastisement and higher calling as simply unprofitable, non-prophet rubbish.People can think what they want.If self-serving doctrines like the rapture, Jesus’ return to fix all ills but our own and eternal do-nothing security appeal to some as being the height of Christianity, so be it.But time has shown ministries with these doctrines tend to stray into dispensational insanity (maybe the intrigue and fear of international mayhem occupies guilty minds avoiding light in dark places of the soul) or prosperity extremism (since if we think we have little self-sacrificing duty to God, perhaps God has a duty to give everything and more to us) or huzzah excitement (since if we think we have no power, calling or duty in God, perhaps we must get excited about not much and call it much.)By this we see that adhering to the above-mentioned self-serving doctrines, its leaders at some point tend to become surprisingly greedy, or silly, or deceived, or rapacious, or mojo-controlling, or intellectually dishonest, or ungodly religious, or superciliously vain or laughably unscientific, or historically inaccurate, or strangely weak, et cetera ad infinitum.So to believe in the Three Big Easies:Rapture, the imminent return of fix-all-but-me Jesus so I do not ever have to ever manifest the essence of goodness on earth and eternal do-nothing-whatsoever security create basically two problems.If you believe such self-serving doctrines, you may live with wrong thoughts that create distance from God; and with distance: trouble.And secondly, with those wrong thoughts you may die.
Three Earth Ages– 2 Peter 3:5-11 says a lot about the three earth ages.In fact, the whole Bible does.The knowledge of the Three Earth Ages explain much, if you are brave enough to believe it, along with Ezekiel Chapter 5.Starting with the first verse of the Bible, God creates the ancient heaven and earth.This would be Earth Age One.Verse two tells us the earth then was without form, darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.This would be the end of that age.Verse three starts the beginning of Earth Age Two.What happened there?Well other places throughout the Bible fill in the details.In the first earth age Satan took a third of the spirits to his evil side.Another third were middling toward him.Another third were middling toward God.A few brave souls elected to fight strongly on God’s side.Perhaps a few brave souls elected to fight strongly on Satan’s side.Though God is furious with all but His precious elect, He decided to give everybody a second chance.Instead of obliterating the souls who blew their first chance at decision-making, He obliterated the ancient earth to satisfy Devine justice.Then He started over with Earth Age Two in Genesis 1:3.Now Satan was already there in the Garden ready to mess things up.But God had some chosen trusted souls like Joseph, Moses, David and Paul who had elected to give up their free wills in the Second Earth Age.They get God’s job done and serve their generation.So every soul perhaps lived once in some spirit form in the previous earth age, and gets to live just once in a body (if not aborted) in this earth age.That is why this is most everybody’s second chance to get right with God.It is also why God’s elect have little free will.It is also why Satan’s elect are so troublesome.It is also why God has to resort to movies like Total Recall to get his parable stories out in the public, because so many Christian leaders are extremely closed-minded to God’s greater truths.Such Lilliputian intellectuals rail against the very movies of common culture God uses to tell parabolic truth, because God’s shepherds do not know those greater truths.And for those who have eyes to see, God also used Total Recall to help Arnold Schwarzenegger become governor of California in a 1993 recall vote.All of this draws attention to God’s timetable of revelation, which His timing for truth’s total recall, which is the beginning of Earth Age Three.(See Pastor Arnold Murray from Shepherds Chapel in Gravette, Arkansas.)
Time is Slow Motion Truth – In the end truth always wins, just like God.Sometimes it is vain to argue against lies.These teachings along with all other teachings, these doctrines along with all other doctrines, this book along with all other books will be judged by time.And will we not also on judgment day be judged by time, which is truth, which is God?So our goal should be to get as many lies out of and truth into our lives.We have got to take a look at our doctrines, remove bad ones and install good ones.Then we will look better to ourselves and others.Perhaps this is the rising and shining of Isaiah 60:1.Like Humphrey Bogart said, “Here’s looking at you, kid.”
Tithing Makes You Smarter– Tithing is a fixed-in-eternity unbreakable rule to force others to pay a lifetime of ten percent of their income to you if you call yourself a leader of religion, or if you have a seminary degree, or if you have an honorary degree or if perhaps your dog might have a pedigree.Christ three times criticized people who tithed.Let us then forget Christ’s warning against financial absolutions and instead, wave that check…goodbye!All mw, if you will, to wave it…hello!May I promise you will go to heaven if you make my life heavenly now?Will you then be my pay pal?Just sew your need to my greed, amen?Just remember, it is a fixed rule that does a lot for me!Remember, it is a fixed rule…a fixed rule.Right?So here is the honest-to-God deal:Send ten percent of your income to me, Robert Winkler Burke.(Make checks payable to Robert Winkler Burke, 16155 Cedar Springs Way, Reno, NV, 89511USA.)I guarantee you will be smarter when you stop!I promise to make a copy of your check or cash, deposit it in my personal account, and report it to the IRS as part of my income of gifts received.I promise I will spend the money on personal needs.I will not return monies sent.I have always wanted to go hunting in Alaska.Perhaps some day I will buy an executive jet.And with every single dollar you send my way, you will be smarter…when you stop sending it.I also promise that any money you send to me will deliver to you absolutely no absolution from the necessary character growth God desires in your spirit, soul and body.I actually prefer not to increase the ranks of tithing people.Jesus criticized tithing individuals three times in the Gospels, but I am flexible and will break this rule of mine if it makes me richer and a few people smarter.Tithing people may then they figure out how some organizations have used guilt to twist the scriptures into saying tithing is a rule any supposed non-profit organization can use to its founder’s advantage.Just do an internet search on tithing, and you will see many cogent pieces on why tithing is being abused by non-profit organizations.That being said, tithe your income to me, Robert Winkler Burke, and when you stop you will be smarter!Guaranteed!Your money will definitely not come back to you, but you may come back to yourself (Luke 15:11.)And that, by God, is priceless!Maybe ministries could return to themselves!The above paragraph is a ruse to help with epiphany.Do not send tithes to me. – rwb
Tithing Rules Seldom Told– Most things can be put in three groups: Best, middle and worst (including this book!)But in regards to tithing, consider: 1) Do not give to the worst groups.Further, God may not want you to give to even the top group, if He so wills.Knowing this, 2) Give only to whom God, not man, directs.In addition, God is not an automatic-response God.He is not a robot judge or gift-giver.You cannot give-to-get with God.Knowing this, 3) Do not be beguiled by leaders who say you can give-to-get by giving to them.Further, understand that often non-profit leaders ask you to give cash to them, while more or less promising God will give back more to you nebulously.As proof, they will say they gave to their non-profit mentor back in the day, and now they, themselves, are prospering.Well, what happened there is one man on top of a give-to-me pyramid spawned another man to leave that pyramid and create another give-to-me pyramid.Such leaders would be more honest if they said this was their method.Knowing this, 4) Do not give to a non-profit that elicits funds by comparing apples to orange through implying God will nebulously make your apple shine since cash from their give-to-me pyramid has made their orange blossom.
Tools, Parity and Advantage–The fundamental tool of an evil person is the lie.The fundamental tool of a good person is the truth.A personal tool of an evil person to project an extreme lie (i.e. murder) is a gun.A personal tool of a good person to defend truth against its worst attacks (i.e. murder) is a gun.Good governments should allow good people to be armed, because with surprise attacks, evil takes every advantage, and it is typically stopped only when equal or greater force overwhelms and deters them.A tool of evil government lie-projecting is the bomb, or mass murder.A tool of good government truth-defending is the retaliatory bomb, or mass casualty.Good governments should allow their militaries to be armed, because with surprise attacks evil takes every advantage, and it is typically stopped only when equal or greater force overwhelms and deters them.In this it is seen that the only advantage good has is in always being potentially more vicious in its defense than evil in its offense.In other words, evil always tries to win by being brazenly vicious.Good wins when it finally resorts to being even more vicious in its own defense.This is how the Allies won World War II.It is how the War on Terror will be won.It is how we win in our internal war against demons.It is how to handle extreme confrontations with evil.But in the modern world, it seems Satan has gelded almost everyone, so his blitzkriegs often meet no resistance from victims.But Satan loses when people finally believe in the absolute goodness of good and become its extreme defenders.Evil people just cannot believe how vicious good people can be without themselves becoming evil.When evil is vicious, it just becomes more evil.But if evil experiences the pain of unconquerable viciousness against itself from good; evil quits and surrenders.The evil loses faith in itself, while the good gains an absolute faith in itself.This is why absolute faith in good will defeat secular humanism.The start of the ultimate defeat of secular humanism began with the wakeup call of September 9, 2001.
Total Recall – Our loss of memory from before birth is a universal experience.Yet God knew us, and we Him prior to our births.(Jeremiah 1:5; 1 Timothy 1:9)In the movie Total Recall, Douglas Quaid, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, is asked by Kuato, “What do you want, Mr. Quaid?”He replies, “The same as you, to remember.” Kuato asks, “But why?”The answer:“To be myself again.”Perhaps all of us would like to remember, and be ourselves again.Jesus remembered.John 17:5 Amplified:“And now, Father,…restore Me to such majesty and honor in Your presence as I had with You before the world existed.”But perhaps it is a mercy in this Second Earth Age we cannot recall our actions in the First Earth Age.In Total Recall Douglas Quaid’s character chooses to find redemption by refusing to go back to is apparent evil former self, Hauser.In a sense, everybody gets a second chance: this life in the Second Earth Age.If partial recall is allowed, then it would explain childhood prodigies like Akaine Kramaric, Beethoven or Mozart.A reporter said of young artist Kramaric, “You can justifiably call her an old soul in a young person’s body.”For souls like Kramaric, they “Must have done something good” as Julie Andrews sang in The Sound of Music: “Somewhere in my wicked, miserable past (i.e. First Earth Age life,) There must have been a moment of truth…(because) Nothing comes from nothing, Nothing ever could, Somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good.”On the other hand in Total Recall Quaid learns that his former self – Hauser – was actually wicked, so he chooses to win back his soul by keeping his second chance in life as the planet-saving Quaid.For Biblical reference see how God hated Esau before he was born.Perhaps he had been a Hauser type also.Later Esau redeemed himself, didn’t he?(See Pastor Arnold Murray from Shepherds Chapel in Gravette, Arkansas.)
Triune Harmonic Balance vs. Discord – Triune harmony is when you have your spirit, soul and body in balance with universal good, or God.Discord is when any part of your triune being (spirit, soul or body) is not in alignment with universal good, or God.Likewise, an evil person can achieve a powerful position by aligning his evil triune self with universal evil, or Satan.But most of the people of the world seem to believe themselves somewhat good, while providing the conflicted witness that their trinity of spirit, soul and body lack the greater parts of good.A common proverb says, “Beauty is skin deep.”Indeed.True beauty goes past the skin, through the mind and emotions of the soul, deep into the heart of the spirit and connects in loving harmony with God Almighty Himself.
Truth is a Hot Potato – Swords in ancient times represented truth defended in the hands of a good person, or lies promulgated in the hands of a bad person.Swords have been replaced in modern times with guns.Guns are a hot topic as well.Truth, according to the Bible, is a bitter pill to swallow.So also are guns rights in immature regions.There is a subtle yet discernable ratio observable:Where a man (or woman) can legally carry a gun, a knife and a Bible the hope for truth persists.Where you cannot, it is harder to possess that brave spirit of defiance against all that is wrong and therefore a lie.For lies and swords or guns in the hands of bad people can always pop up anywhere and do damage if unopposed by those gelded of truth and truth’s tools of defense. In other words, disarmed people have a harder time possessing that spirit which enables them to be the greatest evil slayer, which is truth.
Truth is Free, Amusement is Not– Without carnal cost you can buy truth.It only takes maturity and desire.But it can be amusing to pay for entertainment.It can be amusing to support an amusing church.It can be amusing to support an amusing televangelist and family.But with amusement comes a cost.Proper amusement veils truth – hard truths – in parabolic forms of duality.You pay for such creativity and intelligence.Because it takes a lot of genius to veil hard truth sufficiently for easy consumption, while simultaneously proffering tantalizing shadows of truths.The amusers earn their money.But beware.An amuser’s audience, by definition, does not want or may not be able to discern raw truth.So amusers tend to stray widely from truth.It is safer money for the amuser.But it is wasted money spent by the amused.This is equally true for Hollywood as it is for the Church.Truth is free, amusement is not.
Truth Surrounds Us– Luke 17: 21 Amplified says: …For behold, the kingdom of God is within you [in your hearts ] and among you [surrounding you].The kingdom of God is truth.So truth surrounds us, if we have spiritual eyes to see.Truth is actually universally present confirming or denying the truth of whatever is going on.This explains what otherwise seem to be mysterious events.See the In That Day Video #106 – Pranks God Plays on Posers.God created a universe in which the carnal is separate from the spirit.Conflicted people sometimes have their material and spiritual realms in harmonic discord.Thus, an overly proud man cannot deliver a speech of truth without notable evidence of his antipodal ways.Thus a puerile Christian prosperity convention in Fort Worth in 2005 began with the praise team leader singing Amazing Grace in a cartoon-like duck voice.The kingdom of truth is within you and among you.Truth always manifests in affirmation or denial.The beginning of wisdom is the fear of God, because in whatever we do – from pauper to prince – we cannot control how truth will be overtly and covertly confirmed or denied amongst ourselves.Prideful people, by definition, cannot see, understand or believe this.Humble people, by right, should be able to see, understand and believe this.But such knowledge cannot be used for much self-exaltation, self-aggrandizement or selfish benefit.Such knowledge, for the most part, can only be used to promote the kingdom of heaven, which is truth.Truth and its way exist independently of humankind.God and truth and two things no man can control.
Two Camps Exchanging Hate – God is love, not hate.When conservatives and liberals, or gun grabbers and gun owners, or preachers and the American Civil Liberties Union, or you and your opponent or me and mine rage against each other, God witnesses only two camps exchanging hate.Each party is guilty of being either dead right, dead wrong or both.Prideful people only accomplish being dead to God’s spirit and truth.
Two Sorrows– There are two kinds of sorrows: godly repentance that leads to life and worldly grief.According to II Corinthians 10:18 Amplified, The hopeless sorrow that is characteristic of the pagan world) is deadly [breeding and ending in death.]The wayward Church, appears so lifeless.Because:It often broadcasts its ministers preaching the lies of rapture, dispensational dogma, the imminent return of Jesus to fix what we will not, that Jesus “tarries”, that every believer has eternal security, that weak worship is strong, that truth can be proclaimed my ministers in whack-out ridiculously opposite spirits, that such death is such life.And the wayward Church has not repented of promulgating those lies.Without repentance these ministries will never have God’s lively Spirit in them.They will remain deathly so long as they remain dead wrong.No great revivals are possible, unless its shepherds are shepherds of God’s life and life-giving doctrines, and not unwitting wolves-in-sheep’s-clothing devouring the sheep with lies, extraction and hypocrisy.First the wayward Church must repent, and repent massively.It must not believe the cheap sorrow of pagan hopelessness.It must truly, truly repent to God Almighty.The repentance must be private, public and most especially broadcast strongly to make up for decades of broadcasting the devil’s doctrines. The wayward Church has called itself Christian but has been far too antichrist itself.It seems not to care about its own rapacious self-interest, for its ministers have morphed God’s give to one another message (Luke 3:10-11) into first give to God’s organizations, and not all proclaimed as such are.And second they have made many such organizations appear to be legitimate non-profit charities when in fact they are veiled laundries directing too much of the proceeds back to personages in salary, benefits, housing, travel, vehicles, jets and especially royalties from today’s “newest-is-truest” fad-based sales of downright wrong books and other vapid media productions.When they finally awaken to the horror of their ways, God will forgive if they publicly repent.If they want to continue to call themselves Christians, God will put their names to the test!
Two Swords in Twelve – The minimum ratio of defenders in a group is two in twelve as recorded in Luke 22:36-38.The role of defender is often ego enlarging and consequently mishandled, as shown in Luke 22:49-51.Nevertheless, no innocent group need suffer harm without an adequate, vigorous and hopefully successful defense.In this gelded age, the ratio of defenders in a group now seems at times to be Zero in Twelve, but Jesus approved of Two in Twelve as a minimum.Truth, swords (ancient times) and guns (modern times) are tools, often mishandled and more often misunderstood.Jesus did not misunderstand anything about anything. First he admonished his disciples to have swords, but when shown two He said, “It is enough.”If some states or countries want to geld all groups – then massacres and individual violence are the result.Those states and countries which refuse to geld themselves and allow the sword of defense (i.e. concealed carry permits) obtain happy results of less massacres and violence to those who have tools to defend themselves.Ignore Jesus’ wisdom at your peril.Groups breaking His precepts end up only breaking themselves.Governments disallowing the public from tools of self defense tend to also disallow expression of self-incriminating truths.Words, swords, guns and armies are simply tools of either truth and truth’s defense or lies and lies’ offense.
Ultimate Prejudice – The ultimate prejudice is not race against race.The ultimate prejudice is the prejudice against self-incriminating truths.In the entire world, the biggest examples of this prejudice can be found in the leaders of Christianity.In the world of Christian leaders, the biggest examples of this are in television ministries.
Unconscious Preaching– Once there was a running coach whose coaching style was to tell his runners, “Run!”Every practice he would tell them, “Run!”Every track meet he would say, “Run!”Sometimes they won.Mostly they lost.And the coach did not know why.Then one night the coach had a strange dream.His right running shoe jumped on his bed and started talking to him.It told him his coaching was too unconscious.It said he must try to think and communicate.The dream ended, but the coach began thinking.The next day he told his runners, “Lift weights, get strong.”This they did.Later he said to his team, “Run long, get endurance.”This they did.Later he told them, “Swim fast, get lungs.”This they did.The team told him they liked his new style.They said, “If you don’t tell us, ‘Run!’ at the next track meet, we will win!”This the coach could only do by putting his running shoe – his right one – in his mouth.And the team won.
Watch What They Say, Watch What They Do– Recently one radio minister began his program with a description of how many of people in New York City face home invasions where thieves dress as policemen, knock on doors of people’s residences and are allowed in – only to rob the people.Not long after this remarkable story, the ministry asked for donations.Apparently, this ministry fails to see God’s irony in their actions.God is a God of irony, and keep watch over your spirit that you not be made an example.
We Need Baby Examples – We Need Baby Examples from which we may indulge in immaturity and then progress to maturity.We neither throw out nor crucify the baby with the bath water.Errant paths are necessary offenses.Leave them be, they have enough woe as it is.(Matt. 24:19; Mark 13:17; Luke 21:23)
We Should Be Nice Until… – Like God, We should be nice…until is it time to not be nice.Hear from God and you will know when to stop being ready to make nice, but err on the side of nice, for the sake of Christ, who on earth seldom was not nice to others.
What Big Ministries Teach– Besides teaching the doctrines big ministries have, they also show that doctrine’s fruit.This is why it is good to study televangelism’s fruit, because the fruit is becoming amazingly huge.Small churches can teach their doctrines without it really being so clear.But when a ministry has an income in the hundreds of millions of dollars, then you will see its doctrines’ gargantuan fruit.Look at the doctrines of The Gideons International, which appears to be blessedly selfless and non-aggrandizing.Their website says:“In the association’s fiscal year ending May 31, 2006 it received $115 million in total income of which $105.7 million was directly contributed for the purchase and placement of Scriptures…”That is ninety-two percent going straight to Bible distribution, which seems most exemplar.Now look for financial reports at ministries promoting escapology doctrines, and if you can find them (many disclose nothing) they might be less than fiscally or morally understandable.(Ministry Watch www.ministrywatch.com gives Trinity Broadcasting Network and Benny Hinn Ministries poor grades because of their supposed lack of financial transparency and gross personal/family expenditures.)The point of the In That Day teachings is not to be a hateful critic of television ministries, but rather to discover why they are in error and how it applies to every church and every believer.Because God does not necessarily live in an executive jet, or a luxury hotel, a euro-luxury car or a lavish stage set.God must live in people.And people must have good spirits and good truths in themselves for God to indwell them.We must worship God in spirit and truth.And God must indwell us, or so is our hope.That is the fruit that counts.
What Eggs Hatch from Escapology?– Pretend for a moment that Jesus wants to manifest Himself and His goodness in every man, woman and child on this planet.If true, this is a process.An unbeliever has to repent and believe John 3:16.But what if next the new believer learns rapture from a Calvary radio program?Or he learns eternal do-nothing-or-ever eternal security from a conservative church?Or he learns Jesus is coming to fix everything escapist believers cannot?Whoa the horses!Our new believer now has much competing for what occupies his mind, which Christ wants to renew.But now He is being taught by radical escapists.Their radical immersion program works.Soon he becomes a radical escapists himself.What has happened to this beautiful new beginner, in whom Christ had such a good chance to manifest?Answer:He became full of fear of an end-times future fraught with never-ending foreign intrigue.And he is full of final release solutions he can debate endlessly – the release and absolution from all Christian duty comes either before, during or after a singular point in history – meaning rapture and tribulation. The man never argues about chucking the whole ridiculous dogma, but whether an illusionary wish happens before, during or after another.The man who once had a chance to be one in whom Christ comes quickly is now abominably desolate, convinced his crazy ideas are Christian and eager to make converts seven times the devil he is himself.His spirit, soul and body are dedicated not to manifesting Christ, but promulgating escapology radicalism.He claims he is an elect of God, and were it not for the mercy of God, he would also have been deceived.Oh, brother!
What is Christian Escapology? – Christian escapology is defined as erroneous doxy employed by those professing faith in the teachings of Jesus Christ; doxy which nonetheless enables its believers escape from being themselves the essence of this same Christ.It is a curious doxy which oft includes a trinity of beliefs involving 1) an escape by rapture, or 2) an imminent return of Jesus giving them escape from correction, or 3) an eternal security providing escape from being generally godly of spirit now and ever.Christian escapology usually evidences itself in 1) weakness-worshipping believers gelded in thought, word and deed, 2) believers caught up in charismatic, intellectual, emotional, controlling, rigid or other excessive religious mannerisms generally foreign to the brotherhood of humanity or 3) prosperity promoters who promise riches to others who enrich themselves.Christian escapology leaders are noted for four main qualities:1) They brazenly self-exalt themselves until idol worship is gained.2) They loathe rebuke, chastisement or correction by anyone, especially a prophet.3) They are strangely incurious about their faults, loathe self-critique and love being praised.4)They repeat steps one to three until their doctrine drives them into difficulties resulting in their abject humiliation, whereupon new leaders fill the gap and repeat steps one through three until four happens again.Christian escapology, despite its obvious flaws, is currently the prevailing doxy promoted by televangelists.There are three reasons for this: 1) Manifesting the essence of Jesus Christ is hard, unpopular and dependant upon one’s relationship with God.2)Believing in Christian escapology is easy, popular and is dependant only on one’s self.3) Christian escapology is entertaining for the sheep of the flock while providing myriads of ways for shepherds, or wolves, to profit immensely with imaginative information about mythic raptures, end-times, numerology, eschatology or anything sufficiently disconnected from Christ’s essence to provide an adequate escape from Christ’s essence.
What Have You Done for Me Lately?– This is God’s question for us each day.We had better have a good answer.We might wish otherwise, but God simply is a God who continually asks, “What have you done for Me lately?”We are on earth to serve Him, and we keep thinking God has got it backwards.
What is Best: Yin or Yang?What is best: hard or soft?What is best: absolute rigidness or relative flexibility?What is best: living by the letter of the law or the spirit of the law?What is best: orthodox or unorthodox religion?What is best: conservatism or liberalism?What is best: a republic or a democracy?What is best: totalitarianism or anarchy?What is best: logic or intuition?Who is best: male or female?What is best:Toilet seat up or down?Thus it is vanity to argue such things.Mankind cannot really decide.What, dare we venture, might be God’s point of view?Perhaps it is that the very bipolar nature of the world presents at once mankind’s dilemma and yet also its salvation.And what might mankind’s salvation be?It is that we must not only recognize God as our creator, but as our co-creator, through the indwelling of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and the Holy Spirit, which gives us God’s mind, will and opportunity to obey for the best.In other words, the answer to what is best is whatever God says.Sometimes God says the best is the yin thing, other times it may be the yang thing.God knows best, we do not.All else is vanity, failure and hell on earth.The price to receive such wisdom is to give up selfish pride, which manifests in rigid strength (yang) or weak relativity (yin.)So far, pride seems to be winning without much of a fight.We do yin when God wants us to do yang; and we do yang when God wants us to do yin.So what is best: yin, yang or God?
When the Well-Wishing Stops– Christians should by nature be well-wishing.They are certainly well-wishing to lost souls.And most Christians are well-wishing to new believers.But the well-wishing may stop when a new believer has the calling to grow in maturity.A sprinkle baptizer finds it hard to wish well an immersion Baptist (whom they believe wrong!)A believer who cannot believe in healing finds it hard to wish well the healing believer (or be healed by him!)And many shepherds fail to well-wish any sheep who overpass them in God.The believer waiting to be raptured finds it hard to wish well the believer in whom Jesus has returned now and is manifesting in His strength, glory and anointing.(The rapture waiter thinks, this God-bearing fellow’s light and love of Christ sure bothers me because he isn’t waiting for Jesus to return!)The rainbow-stew-for-me-and-you prophet finds it hard to wish well the rebuking prophet chastising the dollar-driven, self-interested, buy-my-prophetic-goodies church.And especially, the dead-logos, non-spirit-filled preacher find it most difficult to well-wish the spirit-filled preacher who obeys not the opinions of man, but the unpredictable God of John 3:5-8.Often the first believes the second is his nemesis.What is going on here?Pray tell do we smell fear, loathing, competition, resentment and religious pride?Yes, sadly and more.In each example the former is at a level below the latter.Thus the one tier denies the tier above it, often by denying the existence of any tier above their own and thus concluding their protagonist being ipso facto insane.Interestingly, those in an upper tier – by its nature closer to God’s heart – actually tend to be well-wishing towards those blind to truth’s next tier.But in the military a mature private can well-wish the captains, who, if mature, can well-wish the generals.This is how to make rank.It is a pity that so many Lilliputian Christian warriors fight the advance of any believer beyond their own tier, believing it paramount.Anything beyond is repulsive insanity or damned heresy, right?To welcome unbelievers into God’s family of faith while also loathing, cursing and stopping the advance of other believers is to posses either the lazy mind of a hypocrite or the busy mind of a quisling.
Where are the Taken?– If the rapture is a self-serving doctrine of lies, then what about Luke 17:34-36?“I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.Two women grinding...” ditto.And two men in the field…ditto.Always one taken, the other left…dare I admit…behind.In verse 37 the disciples ask “Where (are the ones taken,) Lord?”And He said, “Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.”This is not the rapture.The taken are the ones called to higher overcoming who undergo the excruciating process of brutal soul inspection, ugly demon discovery that cannot be denied, difficult confession of culpability, final removal of deeply embedded demons and resultant purity, purpose, vision and power in God.The eagles are also referred to as vultures.It is the ugly business of picking dead flesh, which is sin, from a living body so that it can be later indwelt with Christ at higher levels.The scriptures are eagles.The hosts in heaven are eagles.(1 Thessalonians 4:17’s “them in the clouds”)If you are lucky, God will send you some persons who are eagles.Even you yourself can act as an eagle.(See Glossary Teaching:Heads God Wins, Tails You in Religious Pride Lose.)Only those deemed mature enough to not be jealous and vengeful against their eagle superiors will qualify for overcoming.(Which makes one wonder how many Christian leaders would submit to such brutal soul inspection?) What about the ones remaining who are not taken?These people either never will be called to higher overcoming or they will be called later.It simply is not their turn.God’s considerable mercy means some people go through these amazing things with Him while most everybody else in the world neither knows nor cares.But for those going through it, the individual tribulation is so excruciatingly tortuous, it is no wonder that lazy theologians invented the rapture to hide out in deceived satanic hope that darkness wins over light.(Ezekiel 13 slams the rapture concept of souls flying away in false deliverance.)Spiritual darkness is death to sight.Most men prefer darkness over light.(John 3:19)But thank God, not all men.
Where to Park Your Car?– Either God tells you what to do on little things and you obey or you find a preacher who says he, you and God don’t care.Which do you prefer?God has angels that can kill 180,000 people in one night.Do you think they can protect your car, person or family?Answer:Not if you don’t.God gives you what you believe about Himself and His universe.Practice on little decisions and build up to big decisions.All of them are best decided by God.
Whether a Doctrine Works… – A doctrine’s proof is not whether it works for you.A doctrine’s proof is the fact that it is true, as evidenced in scripture and aligned with God’s Spirit.God does not defend His doctrines.God’s truths simply are.This is difficult to fully comprehend in maturity.Here is the mistake we make:We learn of an advanced doctrine and believe it to be a wonderful tool.Then we misapply the tool to a situation not of God’s choice or timing.An example would be the discovery of the laser, which is a good tool.Then a foolish man tries to use a powerful laser to cook an egg and ruins it.Jesus said John the Baptist was the best prophet, but he was beheaded.Then Jesus was crucified.Truth and results do not always meet our expectations, because God is God and we are not.
Who Are You Going to Believe? – “Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?”This is the punch line to a joke about what a woman says to her husband who finds her in bed with another man.Or is it the reply prosperity preachers give their donors who see news spotlighting hidden ministry avarice?This archetype reply is funny because it works.But one wonders how long.
Who is the Burning Man? – This week (8/29/07) Reno residents note another celebration of Burning Man in the desert playa to the north. This desiderata of drugs, nudity and let-it-all-hang-out happiness always draws crowds of like-minded hedonists. But God continually asks: Who are you now? Are you a Burning Man for whatever goes? Or are you a Burning Man for whatever is God? We can burn bright in God's glory, or burn dark in man's folly. Many are drawn to the playa this week like moths to the flame. Many are likewise drawn to God's light, which also consumes. Is it petulant to state the obvious? We are given a choice, then, on how we are to burn... today and all the days of tomorrow.
Why Eternal Security Preachers are Strident– A parable:Once the President of the United States wanted to veto a huge appropriations bill for research to cure laryngitis.His advisors recommended he sign it because the bill benefited the US Marines.How so? he asked.Well, an advisor said, for two decades the Marines sergeants have yelled themselves horse.Why? asked the President.The advisor said, they can’t get their troops motivated without yelling.Why must they yell? asked the President.Well, answered the advisor, twenty years ago the Marines wanted more recruits.So they adopted a program guaranteeing full retirement benefits to all enlistees, regardless of performance.Wouldn’t such a guarantee result in non-performance? asked the President.That’s exactly what happened.The Marines call the program MESS – Marine Eternal Security System.And that is the mess that is causing laryngitis?Yes, Mr. President – It’s from all the yelling.So as President I could order the Marines to cancel their eternal security program – their MESS – and the sergeants would re-learn to motivate their people, they wouldn’t have to yell, and there would be no more laryngitis and no need to fundresearch to find a cure for laryngitis?Yes, Mr. President.Or you could choose to not rock the boat and sign the bill.It will make you look good, you know, helping the Marines.Right, get my pen, said the President.
Why Jesus– Why must we believe in Jesus?So that He lives in our heart.So that we hear and obey Him.So that Father God’s kingdom comes down from heaven to earth in symmetrical wholeness, which is Revelation’s cube description.In the past, Christian institutions focused other things than Jesus directly indwelling in us to bring salvation’s heaven right now down into this corrupted earth.Why?Because the leaders of Christian institutions were so far removed themselves from Christ’s indwelling that it became something of a foreign concept.But now is the time of the restoration of all things.So we must believe in Jesus, not any other god.Any other god simply cannot live inside us in instant-now indwelling.A lot of evangelists miss this point, a lot of preachers miss this point, a lot of televangelists miss this point…all because the concept of Jesus living in and especially correcting themselves is to them an utterly foreign and abominable concept.For many, the concept of Christianity is simply to tell an unsaved person to invite Jesus in his or her heart and then forget that fact.They then encourage that “believer” to pursue all religion so long as it excludes manifestations in themselves of Christ’s coming!It is something religionists cannot abide and cannot honor. For shame!
Why Media Evangelists are Uncorrectable, Part 1 – Media evangelists are uncorrectable because they believe their reason for being, their raison d’etre, is to preach the gospel.That calling – that reason—is irreproachable, they believe.Yes, but no.Yes, if their media gospel is true.No, if their media gospel is not.And in this day, often much of their media gospel – what they preach and teach – is simply not true.The rapture is not true.Escapology doctrines are not true.The fixed rule demanding and extracting tithes to the self-appointed is not true.Sometimes their very witness of pride of position and pride of life are not true.Their mojo jive talk and witchcraft control (i.e. Stand up and say “Praise my mantra!”Look up a verse.Turn to your left, now right, now Simon says, “Raise your hands in surrender” while I take control of your body, soul and spirit!) is not true.Even prophets, whom they parade for entertainment value, are not true or corrective.In fact, so much of their media gospel is not true that media evangelists’ original reason for existence – to preach a true gospel – is virtually gone.The result seems to be multitudes of misguided followers supporting royal gospel personages of ego, ease and error with funds to live in prosperous, regal abundance.This kind of bizarre media evangelist message sells well because in our souls are little devils who whisper in our ear:You can be that big fish in your own small pond of life; full of ego, ease and irreproachable error.If those media evangelists are the best of Christianity, say the devils within us, then you can do the same – and without shame!And as Christ said, The blind lead the blind into the ditch.
Why Media Evangelists are Uncorrectable, Part 2– A recent dunning letter from a faith ministry (here unnamed) comes from the founder’s son.The son informs us his father is in prison.So the letter continues, send money.The father is in jail for not reporting to the IRS monies received from donors like me, so send money.Finally, the last page of the letter includes a form to fill in my credit card billing information, check box for automatic debit, choice of which Thursday of the month to make the transaction indicated to “until I inform you otherwise” send money.It does not, apparently, cross such ministry minds that perhaps their wayward faith doctrines drove them into ditches.Nor does the message of John the Baptist come into play.John said, “Repent!”Because: repenting eliminates the roots of evil spirits that cause sin.Repenting, asking forgiveness, apologies and mea culpa’s are mandatory to drive out the evil spirits.It sheds Christ’s light upon the dark recesses of ministry pride and – in this case – subornation of faith into avarice and entitlement.But don’t count on this corrective teaching to come from the lords of lunacy in the faith media ministries.They are part and parcel of the same uncorrectable problem.For them, there is no problem (even, grin – a messy mishandling of mammon problem) that more money won’t fix.Ronald Reagan said, “Government is not a solution to our problem; it is the problem.”Perhaps insofar as the wayward faith name-it-and-claim-it ministry message, money is not a solution to its problem; it is the problem.Heaven help us… if we send money.
Why Media Evangelists are Uncorrectable, Part 3– The Faith/Prosperity/Give-to-Get doctrines promoted by media ministries in this day cause problems.But apparently, people do not think those wayward doctrines matter.Preachers show egregious pride in their celebrated personas, while their big hair, luxury suits, expensive sets, high-class jets and even more expensive air time are just “imperfect executions” of a good idea:Which is the name-it-and-claim-it doctrine.It sells really, really well.But in truth, the name-it-and-claim-it doctrine works only if you say, “I am God and I name-it-and-claim-it.”Because God, remember, is inviolate.He can choose to hate Esau unborn.He can busy Himself with getting His kingdom in heaven on earth.Meanwhile, name-it-and-claim-it ministries continue to court their date with the ditch.When one of them succumbs to a ditch, as apparently happened to a ministry leader now in jail for troubles with the IRS, it is apparently no cause for name-it-and-claim-it trouble shooting.
Why Such Rebuke? – How can I rebuke a dunning letter from a son of a faith ministry man who is in prison because of breaking IRS rules about ministry money handling? Perhaps the father or son would like to punch me in the nose. They might want no criticism, chastisement or rebuke. But I might want them to see: God is alive. The IRS perhaps gave them a “behold the severity of the Lord” moment. I might wish them a breakthrough epiphany: Gee! The name-it-claim-it ministry crowd is penetrated massively with spirits of greed, avarice and entitlement. Media ministries often ignore what spirits they are of, while bragging about the limited gospel they preach. These spirits of greed and entitlement are what hit the imprisoned man's ministry. Those distorted faith teachings claiming prosperity while ignoring spirits of mammon worship have resulted in the man being in prison. The faith/prosperity media televangelists run mammoth reality distortion energy fields to captivate blind-in-the-spirit contributors. These distortion fields are mighty expensive in air time and air time (broadcast and private jet.) God has had enough. It is time to wake up, learn greater doctrines, be of a right spirit, repent massively, manifest Christ and expand Father God's Kingdom, which is truth. So, take the hurt lesson and stop defending the ditch of abomination of the self-serving faith ministries. It is time to move out of baby gospel land of Lilliputian theology. Who has greater love? The In That Day Teachings wanting you to see spiritually the mess media Christianity is in, then repent and grow? Or do the self-serving faith ministries, who want you to contribute endlessly, have the greater love? Johnny Cash sang, “Love is a burning thing.” Or maybe love is a smarmy thing. Who has greater love? Is it the gardener who sleeps or the gardener who pulls the weeds, trims the limbs and kills the pests? Who has greater love? It depends on if you are a wheat or a tare. If you are a tare, you want a tare gardener who will fence out those nasty wheat gardeners, who seam to be quite mad.
Words God Hates – One of God’s names is the Word.Not surprisingly, there are certain words in the English language that He detests.“Cute” is one of them.It has been abused and has become an upside-down opposite word.Jesus said let your yea be yea and nay be nay.(Matthew 5:37)The reason?Words are so absolutely powerful, they must not be used to mean opposite things, else the soul becomes bi-polar damaged.Thus, a mocking “That’s cute” really means a foul epitaph.Often instead of encouraging a manly thing the word is used to disparage it, to geld whatever righteous and valiant spirit appeared.(This is not to disallow the double entendre.Rather, it is to disallow the use of the word “cute” in mocking God or godly spirits in others.)Another word is “stuff.”When used nebulously, the not-so-hidden meaning is excrement.“Rapture” is best not mentioned because it is the Isaiah 28:8 vomit on the table doctrine.If you need to refer to it, just say “fly away escapology doctrine.”(It was used in this book for clarity and I did break this rule in using it.)The word “scary” is often breathed with a spineless, whispered spirit that is the exact opposite of “…God has given us a spirit of power, love and sound mind.”(2 Timothy 1:7)Nothing is “scary” to a person of God; we fear only Him and nothing else.Newspaper editorialists use the word to disparage things that might be righteous, such that an anti-abortion ruling, they would say, is “scary.”Another word to avoid is “ghost” when prefaced by Holy.The King James mistranslated it, and the reference to the Third Deity is Holy Spirit.To confirm this, just listen to a wrong spirited preacher harp and gleefully repeat the “HG” word as a sort of devilish mantra.If you have ears to hear, you will be convinced that the Father and Son don’t want to hear it anymore.However, I’ll venture a guess that the Holy Spirit is so humble (since he promotes Jesus and not Himself) He allows the HG word in songs because it rhymes with so many other things.Still, if you have ears to hear, it doesn’t sound right in songs either.Use the words “Holy Spirit.”Recall that Jesus warned that He would allow Himself to be blasphemed, but there would be no forgiveness for intentionally blaspheming the Holy Spirit.(Luke 12:10)Another word to avoid is “incredible.”Often it is used in televangelism to advertise their “incredible” wares.Would God that was not the truth!Another bad word is “whatever.”Used with a sarcastic spirit in reference to anything good, it means, basically, an epitaph against all things godly.The above-mentioned words are not extent.If you are careful to obtain and keep ears to hear in the spirit, you will be taught what words God hates in any language.
Worshipping in Spirit and Truth– Jesus told us to worship God in spirit and in truth.This means when we do the right thing, we do it in a right spirit.This is very difficult to do all the time.When we work, play, rest or even are sick – we must do it in truth and in a right spirit.Nothing makes an out-of-sorts person madder than being told they are of a wrong spirit: Not a preacher who preaches in a falsetto voice, not a preacher who preaches in a big-radio-announcer voice, not a preacher who preaches in an impatient high-speed manner, not anyone who cops out and simply communicates truth while being brazenly lax with all things of the opposite spirit.In today’s modern world, media preachers enjoy railing against all things evil – except their own bipolar spirits.They give themselves a free pass to heaven, ask that you pattern your life after them and then demand tithes and offerings towards their non-profit organization.Yet Jesus was somewhat different.He said to his disciples, “Ye know not what spirit ye are of.”Understanding this at a high level enables one to discern what is true simply by the sound of it, and how it resonates with the Spirit of God in you.This is why almost all talk about the rapture sounds terrible.It simply is not truth when it is spoken.When you have ears to hear in the spirit realm, then you can listen to a preacher preaching (who might not, indeed probably does not understand this process) and that preacher will go in and out of synchronicity with truth.While the preacher preaches, his truth will ramp up like a sine wave, his voice will ring with authority; then he will speak a doctrine of the devil, his voice will crack like a frog (or screech like chalk on a board, or go into falsetto whine, or growl in false authority, or get radio-announcer-big to compensate for the charade, or drum up a mispronounced name of God – JAHEEEZUS, GUHAWD, LAHAHAORD, etc. because the demon now in voice must parade who is in control) and the sine wave dips into the Devil’s territory.This sine wave happens in a matter of seconds, more or less continuously in a standard sermon.So if you have eyes to see and ears to hear, a lot is going on in the spirit realm.And you must never be tempted to pray that God remove from you the gift of spiritual hearing and seeing.Most preachers apparently hate the gift of seeing that wrong doctrines they might have had to kiss in Bible college make them manifest the devil in the pulpit.Hard truths are just that.Who will believe a devilish doctrine if it does not line up with God’s instant-now voice of confirmation?This is why preachers are famous for having affected voices.If they preach in error, their voice cannot but be affected because God refuses to cooperate and give them a spiritual voice of authority.He lets the Devil give them a weird, crazy voice only fools would follow.Many preachers choose to speak wrong doctrines that leave them bereft of God, because they really do not believe they are bereft of God.So mi amigo, their voices sound muy loco.
Worshipping Weakness – That wispy, high-pitched, weak-sounding, hard-to-follow praise music found at so many casual Christian churches sounds that way for a reason.They have spirits of weakness which manifests in weakness widely.Their weak praise follows their weak doctrines.They prefer to worship a very weak god.And God lets them do that, but He will not give them strength in voice, character or being.Weakness is their reward for their work.To be rewarded strength in spirit one must believe that our God is a strong God.But weak worshipping churches get the god that serves them perfectly well, which is a god of consuming weakness.
X-Men, Cross-Men – Consider, if you will, the three X-Men movies.Mutants have greater powers, ditto TV taught Christians.Magneto panders to the mutant's selfish desires: “You are gods among men!”Christian TV viewers are pandered to with fear (rapture/dispensation), greed (prosperity give-to-get) and giddiness (rainbow prophecy or huzzah self-improvement.)Xavier bolsters each mutant's inner best to have victory over their inner worst.Magneto does the opposite, pandering to pride.Each leader vies for the coming mutants, whose powers are above regular humans.Ditto for Christianity.Magneto believes his plan is best, but he is clearly self-seeking (self on the throne.)Magneto's followers are deluded.Xavier's X-men (actually, men of the cross, Christians) wear leather (showing sacrifice) and then perform selflessly (Wolverine usually sacrifices himself but is resurrected.)The battle is ongoing.Xavier welcomes friendship with the misguided Magneto (who has a false, magnetic personality.His is a personality cult, actually.)Burke, in his blogosphere writings, is like Xavier: Trying to understand his higher consciousness, as he is watching the multitudes of higher conscience (TV taught) Christians now deceived by the Elmer Gantry/Magneto/televangelists who pander nothing so much but self-on-the-throne.Into this crazy mess we bravely try to sort out deception (always doctrine-based) and truth (always doctrine-based.)But the Magneto/Elmer Gantry/televangelists have a trump card.It is: Don't discuss or fix the root problem: DOCTRINE!But Xavier, being the leader, thoroughly knows doctrine.His school for the gifted is entirely about doctrine and teaching the gifted the REAL lay of the land, not the Elmer Gantry gospiel.Mystique has tremendous but misguided loyalty to Magneto.She is a shape shifter with technological powers.But she walks around naked, with a blue reptilian skin.Like the wayward bride of Christ, she is beautiful, shamefully naked and following the charisma of magnetic feel-good leaders espousing selfish solutions of fear, greed or giddiness.Later when she realizes she has been duped, she goes to the Feds and tells all. “Hell hath no fury as a scorned woman.”One hopes![Think RICO suits against fraud.RICO could thoroughly destroy financial empires of culpable pulpit pimps.Smile, Stan Lee!]Something called the X-Factor mutates humans into beings capable of greater works.Does this refer to a Cross or Christianity Factor?But when this factor first appears, there is a titanic struggle to sort out how to best be and do.Is it to put self on the throne and become a micro captain of Lilliputians, or to serve the throne of the King of all hosts?As it stands, the “me-men,” fear/greed/giddy mongers appear to be excellent at putting selves on thrones of pride.Those heralding God’s greater truths for this day are the outmatched underdogs.What a chess game!What a fight between love of self and love of greater good!Who will win?
You Can See God – Jesus said, Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.Matthew 5:8.Yet few have seen visions of God.Then what is the truth?Look at verse three:Blessed are the poor [humble] in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven [truth.]Now look at Matthew 23:38-39: Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.For I say unto you, Ye shall not see Me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name [nature] of the Lord.The lesson seems to be humility, humility, humility.Because: We can see God in others, if we are humble!But, if a full-of-self preacher pontificates on high, tells people to look up… and therefore away from each other…but to look up for the return of God, then here is what can happen:Neither the preacher nor his congregation is held accountable to manifest Christ.Yet Christ wants to live and manifest in every man, woman and child on earth today.He died that He can manifest in humanity in goodness and peace so that people’s souls would not be desolate or empty.With humility, anything is possible; with pride, virtually nothing.It’s either: “Wow!I see God in you, and I am so thankful and I would also like to shine like that with God’s truth and love!”(Matthew 5:16) Or it is: “You are really weird.You know nothing about God.I refuse to listen to you or anyone like you.My pastor says to beware of false prophets like you!”And God set things up this way.The godly can see Christ in each other.The ungodly cannot.The problem is that for ages, many of those who cannot see are those who preach, teach, lead and keep their sheep in ditches where God cannot with them be.
