Three Thousand of Years of Truth
By Robert Winkler Burke
2/9/07 Copyright 2007
www.inthatdayteachings.com
While Many Wait in Stupor Expecting Christ’s Return
Others Unrecognized in Time Actively Manifest Truth
A thousand years ago people of faith 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. 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 spirit. But God does indwell in the pure, the noble, the humble, 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. Great are the paradoxes of God and 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 chaotic 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 a millennia from now – 3,000 years from Christ’s birth – say about your life, your family that came after you and your part in God’s kingdom struggle on earth at the turn of three thousand years? Will we have created the greatest thousand years of truth the world has ever seen?
Or will we have waited, while it was knocking on our door, for truth to arrive?
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