2007 Year End Review #1 – The In That Day Teachings excoriate the three common escapology doctrines of so-called Christianity. Escapology is the art of escaping. In reference to Christianity, escapology is escape from God’s indwelling. To keep God away from religion in perpetuity, simply believe in the escape of eternal security, the escape of rapture and its attendant eschatology insanity and believe in an imminent return of Jesus rewarding you for successful escape from Him and His responsible nature. Normally in people such escapist beliefs result in overt catastrophes no greater than the standard accepted Christian outcomes: Divorce, rebellious progeny, wispy voices and universal gelding. But grant escapist individuals much power, prestige and money and the fruit of wayward doctrines becomes glaringly apparent. Witness prosperity televangelists now as God exposes their short comings, craven selfishness and deceiving wiles. As God exposes all, we see the painful end of escape.
2007 Year End Review #2 – As if it were not enough, the In That Day Teachings go beyond excoriating the triune escapology doctrines of eternal security, the rapture, and the imminent return of Jesus to reward slackers. The teachings also include a plethora of Isaiah 28 line upon line higher maxims of God. These include: There are no rules, only guidelines. Save face, lose life. The future is humility. The ultimate prejudice is the prejudice against self-incriminating truths. Ye know not what spirit ye are of. Leaders must stop witchcraft control of audiences by refraining from knee-jerk commands and scripture-chasing confusion. Get real or get out of here. Tithing is not a fixed rule, less extraction occur. Truth and lies evidence themselves in all things, if you see and hear spiritually; which should make all fear God. Take everything with a grain of salt because, “It ain’t necessarily so.” Sheep are by nature vulnerable and easily fleeced, and shepherds must be loath to take advantage. The sound of truth is discernable and so are lies. In Christianity, much evil is called good and good called evil, such that many are confused. The Lord’s In That Day of the bible is a spiritual scourging process designed to mirror sin back to ourselves through excruciating (crucifying our flesh, if we let it) circumstances.
2007 Year End Review #3 – The In That Day Teachings of Robert Winkler Burke have included several controversial teachings ancillary to its basic precepts. These subordinate teachings can generally be sourced from Arnold Murray of Shepherds Chapel, Gravette, Arkansas. Murray’s teachings attempt to comprehend parts of Christianity that seem to poorly explain themselves. (In Job 33:13, God seems to say some things He won’t explain directly.) God’s baffling mysteries include the six day creation, the sin of Adam and Eve, Cain’s rebellion, the story of the elect, God’s hatred of pre-born Essau, the dominion of certain races and not others, the question of free will, even the meaning of life and our purposes vs. God’s purposes. First, an honest observer would say these thorny issues have been poorly answered by widely taught Christian dogmas. Second, any alternatives are met with unchristian hostility to truth seekers. I am not saying Murray’s explanations are perfect. I am just saying that Murray’s teachings, as ancillary to the In That Day Teachings, help me see a whole picture of a whole plan being accomplished by a whole God. I see in Murray’s doctrines not racial prejudice, but love of humankind; not prejudice against self-incriminating truth, but love of God; not rebellion against the infuriated religious status quo, but a chance to break through obfuscation and in oneness with the Godhead, manifest Christ now. The teachings help bring the new millennium heaven to earth now. This despite Murray’s insistence prophets exist only in the bible, not now. Though he has been something of a prophet himself, he denies it himself and for all others. Alas, we work to see through such blindness!
2007 Year End Review #4 – Let us look at four things: The first page of the bible, the Old Testament, the New Testament and the last page of the bible. Arnold Murray et al help explain this earth age’s beginning, and the one prior to that. The Old Testament prophets pointed to a time when the Son of God would walk the planet and then to a time after that, called In That Day, a day of the Lord’s wrath and subsequent revealing of wonderful truth. The New Testament deals with when Jesus walked the planet and also a time in the future when Jesus would mysteriously return to help us make things right. This is the same In That Day. Finally, the last page of the bible has Jesus saying, “Behold, I come quickly” three times. And that was written almost two thousand years ago. All this ushers in a third earth age, a time of truth so great it is heaven come to earth now. Jesus is then freely able to come and be seen manifesting in man, woman and child. As this occurs, others say to Jesus-manifesters: Blessed are you who come in the name and nature of the Lord! From the east to the west, these little Christs usher in a restoration of all things truthful.
2007 Year End Review #5 – All is not well on earth as Jesus returns in humble vessels this millennium to restore His divine order. First off, the fakers – the pretending to be good but having rotten cores – are surprised by unstoppable, self-incriminating truths. So God lets them do what they do best, which is self-destruct. To use a crude saying, the butt-heads get eliminated. So, one must be very careful to be a humble-head, which best keeps one out of self-destruction. Truly the saints of In That day, which this day is, must navigate God’s way through an astonishingly bipolar world. The self-destructive God-haters and fake God-lovers are involved in vain and never-ending wars of death and attrition. The soul-true of God are simultaneously involved in a never-ending scourge of refining away the dross of their sin, creating more of Christ’s indwelling and multiplication in them. Thus the good get better. And the bad self-destruct and are no more. And the good get God in them now, and God gets the good in eternity. Truly, everything the losers lose and everything the winners win.
2007 Year End Review #6 – If what Robert Winkler Burke says about the In That Day Teachings are true, then they are perhaps a Rosetta Stone of sorts, giving proper emphasis to all things Christian. The teachings point the way for the global Christian ministries to mend their sometimes hellacious ways and get back to God’s purposes for this planet. But stopping this forward progress of man in his reconciliation with his Maker is one primary thing: Pride. Not only that, it is pride of religion. Those who now bring a confusing and contradictory message of Christian escapism to the world through global media ministries have no idea of the harm they are doing in the name of good. Without fear they promulgate two things: the lies of escapology and the lies of their sometimes indecent spirits, spirits which are indecent because escapology doctrines permit them to be so. Much of the time these wayward ministries fail to worship God in spirit and truth. They succeed in the opposite, which is horrible. Then rather than self-critique, the ministries deny all corrective truth and eventually implode; only to be replaced by other like-minded losers who remain far from God. These so-called Christian media messengers are quite Christian enough to ever correct themselves. This remains for perhaps fifty years of broadcasting, an impasse.
2007 Year End Review #7 – Consider now a savior by the unlikely name of Bill Gates. Yes, the man of Microsoft fame. He and others like him have provided God a way to circumvent the vested interests of the escapology cabal now blocking Christ’s new millennium. What is this escapology cabal? It would be the so-called Christian book publishers, the so-called Christian media ministries and the so-called Christian education mills that produce so much escapology rubbish. (From the 1870’s Jesus is Coming tomes to the latest Left Behind vomit to Moody graduate escapologists seven-times the devils of their lifeless professors; it is all salt-less, truth-less dung creating higher dung heaps.) But thanks to Bill Gates and other geniuses we now have more or less universal access to truth aggregation. This would be individuals and groups that present truth without barriers to publishing via technology. This truth is on websites in print, in audio, in video and other creative outlets, such as podcasts, rss feeds, internet radio, etc. So the vested interests of so-called Christianity, who have done such a rotten job of correcting themselves, can publicly now repent and become champions of truth. Or they can implode and let the underdogs of truth have their day. Either way, truth will win because God happens to be permanently prejudiced towards truth, which is Himself – and not insignificantly, should also be ourselves.
2007 Year End Review #8 -- So what will our new beginning look like? Answer: A lot more humble. First off, these In That Day Teachings are crude, rude and begging for certain refinement. I can always do better; on this you will agree. Will you allow me to agree with you, then, that you (and any ministry) can do better too? Thus mutual humility and respect must be the order of the day. This is certainly not the case with televangelism now. It is sadly dysfunctional because money and worship go to televangelists while escapist, self-interested, self-exalting, puerile, controlling doctrines go to the followers. There is no mutuality. All suffer. In fact, it is Eloi and Morlocks all over again, to refer to H. G. Wells’ classic book The Time Machine. Now, consider talk radio hosts and their non-servile, non-gelded callers. Think of modern network television news with attention to bloggers, contrarians and talk radio counter viewpoints. Current televangelists are back in the 60’s with Walter Cronkite’s ending missive, “And that’s the way it is.” This was sometimes not true, we now know. It was his view. And since he wasn’t God, it wasn’t always true. But televangelists are guilty of playing God. They seem incapable of humbling themselves to the reality that truth comes from enemies, friends and always surprising places. It is God’s nature, actually that televangelists deny in this regard. New ministry must be reciprocal in honor, trust, admiration for humble manifesting of good. It must encourage self-rebuke, chastisement and correction. If the leaders don’t model this, followers won’t learn. In fact, the followers can do some fair-minded rebuking of their leaders! In all Christ must increase; and in all selves must decrease. It will take maturity. It is self-evident that after fifty years of Christian television, mature viewers have heard a standard “hundred sermons” thousands of times. To continue to repeat them endlessly, as the plan now stands, is an unforgivable tragedy in the making. As Isaiah 28 says, line upon line of God’s higher maxims must be taught to the mature. The mature must understand God’s In That Day universal spiritual scourging. And behold, Jesus comes to manifest Himself in every truth-taught, ready-as-possible man, woman and child! It will be a happy manifestation of Jeremiah 6:16’s ancient path. And it will also be new. And it will be very, very good. It will be, according to plan: God and man together again.
2007 Year End Review #9 – An essential part of the In That Day Teachings is grounding in reality. A televangelist with an affected voice is hiding something with that affected voice, no matter how great the televangelist is. Get real. The affected voice may indicate a monster demon has grown inside, and the televangelist is too chicken to deal with it. So the demon comes out and plays and takes over the televangelist’s voice by mocking God and all truth. So the In That Day Teachings must call a spade a spade. Its herald, Robert Winkler Burke, must therefore encourage criticism and never allow anyone to receive from him baloney. The blind need more sight, not more blindness. To bring the highfaluting concepts of In That Day Teachings to reality, here is today’s tale: It is Christmas Day, 2007. I drove to my local grocery mall to have lunch. Most everything was closed except the Shell Station mini-mart. My friend, C. T. Tillotson, manages it. When I walked into his store, we greeted each other warmly. C.T. mocks himself as a curmudgeon while being the definition of good will. (If I say, “Have a good day!” He replies, “You have a better one!”) His shirt badge identifies him as being “Mean and Hateful,” which describes only his opposite. To add to the ruse, today he wore a Grinch t-shirt. Self-depreciation is a common devise in Northern Nevada, so C.T.’s behavior is understood by most. His customers usually cheer up with his pleasant, self-depreciating banter. As I bought my Christmas lunch from C.T., I asked, “Are people treating you nice today?” To my surprise he said, “No, Robert.” I asked him, “Why not?” He said with a smile, “Because that would be heaven on earth.” Precisely.
2007 Year End Review #10 – So ask yourself, are the great worldwide televangelists convicting us of lack of humility, of lack of good will, of inability to manifest God now? Certainly some do this. Certainly some greats of the past, such as Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) did. Sheen said in one program that his angel rebuked him strongly by stating that he could have done much better. But the current televangelists seem convinced of their own let-them-watch-us-eat-cake mind set. They do not model humility. They refuse to be corrected. They are anything but self-effacing. Christianity is in a heap of trouble when its worst lessons come to me from its most exalted, global leaders and its best lessons come to me from a self-confessed chain-smoking, beer drinking, “mean and hateful” local convenience store manager. Selah. Blessings and honor on C.T. Tillotson for manifesting Christ’s nature and truth on the day of His birth. I pray may we be all so enabled, ennobled and honored. To God be the glory. Amen!
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