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Wally Brewster

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Wally Brewster
United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic
In office
December 9, 2013 – January 20, 2017
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byRaul Yzaguirre
Succeeded byRobin Bernstein
Personal details
Born1960 (age 63–64)
Lindale, Texas, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseBob Satawake
Alma materTyler Junior College
Texas A&M University

James Walter Brewster Jr. (born 1960), commonly known as Wally Brewster, served as the United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate of the United States on November 14, 2013. Brewster was the first person in a same-sex marriage to represent the United States at the ambassadorial level in the Americas. He left office on January 20, 2017.[1] Ambassador Brewster currently serves as a Principal for Insignias Global, an international political and brand advisory firm. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the Atlantic Council, Parliamentarians for Global Action and the National Democratic institute.

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(♪♪ Music ♪♪) (♪♪ Music ♪♪) (♪♪ Music ♪♪) (♪♪ Music ♪♪) (♪♪ Music ♪♪) Hello Folks, this is Pastor Mike Hoggard coming to you from Studio 2012 with another Watchman Video Broadcast I have verse in mind, it goes sort of like this "He that soweth to the Wind shall reap the whirlwind" we have used this expression who soweth to the wind shall reap the whirlwind, or we talk about in our country jargon or country vernacular, yeah you reap what you sow, and that is true between people and and that's true according to scripture You will always reap what it is that you sow and I was thinking about that verse "he that soweth to the wind shall reap" "a whirlwind." I believe the bible, I believe what it says because I can see the reaping taking affect. Always, where ever there is a cause there is always an effect We have that principle, cause and effect, sowing and reaping. So I want you to think about that. I was thinking about this in Revelation Chapter 13 Verse 16.. here is what the bible says concerning the false prophet who comes in the last days! The bible says it and I had this misconception all my life about people getting the Mark of the Beast and that they are going to hold us at gunpoint and this is why we should have more guns and things like that and they are going to drag us all kicking and tattoo our hand or forehead with the Mark and screaming I GOT THE MARK OF THE BEAST AND DIDN'T WANT IT. I kind of thought that how it would be. I am just looking at the scriptures and lookin around at what is happening in the world today, I think there going to be a lot of people that will say "Mark of the Beast, yeah sure" "put that right there..put that inside my hand there." I think what going to happen in Revelation 13 Verse 16, the bible says he causeth all both, we are going to count, small and great, rich and poor, free and bond. That is six, six different types of groups of people, small and great, rich and poor, free and bond.... to receive, there is a cause and an effect. The false prophet, I think his job is to generate the cause ...what they are going to do is they are going to reap what it is that has been sown. They are going to get what it is that they deserve. They are going to have the effect of the cause. Cause and effect. You cause us all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond to receive a mark in the right hand or in their forehead, so that no man might buy or sell. Say he had the mark of the beast or the number of his name. And here is wisdom, Let him that understanding, count the number of the beast, for it is a number of a man, that number of 6 hundred, three score and six. I know I paraphrased that a little bit, but I want you to get that idea. That there is a cause and the effect of that falls upon six group of people and they are all going to receive a mark and it is associated with the number six hundred, three score and six. Now I want you to keep that in mind. As we go through, some news items that came across to me this week, that people like you have sent me and I just saw a lot of things coming at once... and I am saying, "I think I see something a little bit more clearly now". I want us to examine some of the weekly news that has happened... in light of the scriptures so that we see the cause and the effect of it and I am telling you, there is going to be a mark... and I don't see anybody that is going to be fighting against it! I see people fighting against it now and I think you should, but I think when it comes that time, those who are going to get the mark are going to gladly "yeah, I want that. I want that. That is what I want." I want you to think about that. Let's look at some stories here. "Gay Couples and Gay Marriage are the Democratic Party" "Many long-time voters support the democratic party because of family ties, union affillation, and the belief that their party made America a better nation. The elderly have fond memories of how FDR supposedly saved the nation from the Great Depression, blacks contend that it was the democrats that gave them equal rights. In reality, it was the Republicans who supported Civil Rights Act of 1964. The great percentage over Democrats. Union members believe the Democrat Party is America's party, when in reality, unions have nearly bankrupted companies and sent them packing. These same Democrat voters are also socially conservative. They are generally against abortion and homosexual marriage and they still vote democrat. Ronald Regan was able to get a lot of democrats to vote for him in 1980 and '84 because voters were beginning to see the light. Jimmy Carter" (Now I want you to remember that we brought him up.) "Jimmy Carter had been a huge disappointment to the conservative element in the democrat party. A lot of democrats saw that their "once-beloved party" had been co-opted by radical elements and they wanted. The radicalism is beginning to fester. Publically, President Obama has stated that he is not in favor of homosexual marriage. That is beginning to change. First he is opposing a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in North Carolina." Now we stop right here. So in other words, the gist of this commentary is there are all of these people voting democrat. Most of them are probably what we would call "Blue-dog democrats", in other words, conservative democrats. They are for some principles of the Democratic Party, but they are against abortion, they are against homosexuality and especially, homosexual marriage. So Barrack Obama, it says he is against a Rick Warren's church, when he is running for president. "Ah, I am against homosexual marriage". Not so fast. First of all he is against the Amendment in North Carolina. Now let's look at what the article says and you will see that the people that are surrounding Barrack Obama and let me, just out of fairness, say this, George Bush, from 2000-2008 also surrounded by radical homosexuals in the Republican Party. You see, there is liberal republicans and liberal democrats. So look at this. The second tipoff that the President Obama is going after the homosexual vote is the number of visible, hand-holding homosexual couples who attend the State Dinner, honoring, British Prime Minister, David Cameron.... Tim Graham of Newsbusters Reports, "The gay magazine, 'The Advocate', was delighted to list 15 prominent gays, including Obama bundlers and several journalists. Here is the list for you to ponder if you are still a democrat and you want to know someone is. We have Andrew Sullivan, a columnist for News Week. Sally Susman, Executive Vice-president of Policy, External Affairs and Communications at Phizer. That is a pharmacutical company. Chad Griffith, incoming President of the Human Rights Campaign. Randy Weingarden, President of the American Federation of Teachers. Stop right here! The president of the American Federation of Teachers, school teachers, school teachers, teaching little kids. He is a homosexual. Don't think for a second that he doesn't have an agenda. Don't think for one second that he does not have an agenda. He does. That is why he is in that position. Bradley....ah let's see here...John Berry Director of the Office of Personnel Management government politician... and administration. Johnathon K. Park, columnist for the Washington Post ...Wally Brewster, Chicago real estate executive and major fund raiser for the Obama campaign ....Barry Kerris, former HRC board member and an Obama campaign, major fund raiser. Tim Gill, founder of the Gill Foundation... Hillary Rosen, partner in the political communications firm, SKD Knickerbocker and the list goes on and on and on. So I want you to understand this. Follow me on this. The homosexual element in America has gone from being in the closet, underground. I mean way, way, way down. You would have to know somebody for a long time and you would have to really, really, really know them well... to ever know that maybe your next-door neighbor or your uncle or somebody in politics or somebody in business was a closet homosexual. Not anymore! As more Americans come out of the basement, come out of the closet... they are now being open with homosexuality, hand holding and now we have it thrust in our face that there are high-ranking government officials, high-ranking businessmen, high-ranking people in places that should have never been...that are a part of this homosexual element. So we have taken what God said, along with other things, I am going to be fair, along with other things such as shacking up, fornication without marriage and other things. We have taken the base elements of our society and yes, they have always been around. But we have taken the base elements of our society and we have exalted them to the highest places. So now, now, they show up at a White House dinner, holding hands, probably making out in the lobby... I mean who knows what is going on. But now they are in the forefront... Hollywood actors and actresses, now they are just no bones about it, "yes, I am gay, yes I am gay". "Yes I am a homosexual." It is cool now. It is cool to be gay, it is cool to be a lesbian. It is like uncool (said sarcastically) if you are somebody like me. I have been married to a woman, almost 25 years and don't really plan on dating a guy anytime soon, or ever for that matter. Let's go to the scriptures. I am going to show you what happens. I am going to show you that there is always cause and effect. When you take a bowling ball and you roll it down the bowling alley that bowling ball, unless you bowl like me, that bowling ball is going to have an effect down the road. You see what I am getting at. Pins are going to topple. Unless you are me. So now the ball is rolling down the alley of America... Let's look at the effect. Let's go to the Bible. 1 Kings 14:21 (reading scripture) 1 Kings 14:21 (reading scripture) "above all that their fathers had done". Now stop right here. Just out of fairness. I said this earlier. There have always been people who have fornicated... There have always been people who have had lustful thoughs. There has always been people who are sodomites, always, but every now and then we get a generation where they just have it in their mind that they are going to outdo every other generation that has ever lived. That was the time in Rehoboam's day. That is the time that we are in right now. There will come a day, the Bible says, "such has never been... on the earth". So let's follow it up. Verse 23... (reading scripture) ..."and under every green tree" Stop right there because at one time at one time, America was founded on the Bible. ...was centered on the Bible. The people, just believed the Bible, Bible Christianity was THE religion, even though it was not state sanctioned and state recognized, Bible Christianity was THE religion of America. But we have forsaken that and now we are tree worshippers and ecologists and we worship pagan gods and we are bringing in new age and hindu practices into our church services...building up idols, people, is what we are doing. Cause and effect. The bowling ball is going down the lane. There is going to be an effect. Now look at verse 24. (reading scripture) In other words, they were doing, there were sodomites in the land and they were doing just like sodomites did. They were exactly like the people of Sodom. They were exactly like all the lands, all the people of the land, God cast out before he brought Israel in. I want you to think about that. There is a cause, all the pagan worship and I am always going to bring the Bible in, because when we abandon the Bible, when we walk away from the God of our fathers (indicating KJB), this is what shows up.... So, it is no wonder that we are the way we are, in this country. Here is the cause. They have turned to idol worship. They went away from God... They quit reading the Bible. They quit praying. They quit following after the scripture... and God's laws. They said, "We don't want anything to do with it. Don't you dare post The Ten Commandments on the school wall." The federal whatever...Federation of Teachers is a sodomite. I guarantee you he does not want The Ten Commandments in the schools. So that is the cause. Let me show you what the effect is. We move on down to verse 26. 1 Kings 14:25 (reading scripture) Fifth...that number five always the fifth angel sounds...the beast comes up...Revelations chapter 9. (reading scripture) And I want you to look at what happened (verse 26). So number one, all the gold the financial ruin. Number two, he took away all the treasures... of the House of the Lord. I am going to show you exactly....Everybody says, "Oh yeah!".... "Oh yeah, the gold stuff that was in the House of the Lord." Eh, if you think that way, we are losing our shirt in this country...we are losing all of our money in this country. That is the sinfulness of America is definitely having an effect on the finances of America. But let me show you what the Bible means when it talks about the treasures of the House of the Lord. Watch this. Proverbs 2:2 (reading scripture) You know what the real treasures of the Lord is? (indicating King James Bible) Biblical wisdom, Biblical knowledge, Biblical understanding... Go out in the street and ask anybody a Bible question and they will say, "I don't know". We don't know what the Bible is anymore. Go out and ask the average church member... to quote John 3:16. They can't do it. They don't remember. We have had our treasures taken away in this country. By that, I mean this Bible. We have had the treasures taken away out of the House of the Lord. Right out of the church. So now they are using all of these (other books). All these other Bibles...there is not really a lot of treasure. I am going to show you something here in a minute. There are not really a lot of treasures left in the House of God. There is not really a lot of knowledge and understanding and wisdom. We call it the "dumbing down" of America. They have dumbed down our school systems. They have dumbed down the American person. They have now dumbed down the churches. Why? Because they took all the treasures of understanding and wisdom and knowledge, right out of the House of the Lord and people they couldn't quote you scriptures. You know why those are so important. The Bible says study to show themself approved of the God. The workman that neededeth not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. You see I believe that God wants us to know what is in this Bible, because when we have knowledge of what is in this Bible we can look around and say, "wow! That is exactly what is going on in the Bible!" But you get ignorant people in the church because of their soft-stand on sin, and I want you to follow me here, here we have all these church people, that are probably having adulterous affairs... we have people who are shacking up, living together in fornicating affairs... fornication, in sin, without the benefit of marriage and they are attending these churches by the thousands. So do you think that they are going to take a hard stand against sodomy or do you think they are just going to kind of ease it in. Well.... "We can't condemn us, because we are obviously living in sin, so we can't condemn them any more, either." So God has allowed Pharaoh to come into America and take away all of our treasures... This country, we are so deep in debt now, we are going to lose everything one of these days. He has taken away the treasures out of the House of the Lord. That is cause and effect. You see, Obama and a lot of the liberals, even in the conservative, excuse me, even the Republican party... the Republican liberals...They are trying to sell this idea they are going around the country, selling this idea, that if we just recognize everybody's equality...if we just recognize everybody's lifestyle...our diversity...."let's celebrate our diversity!" "How we are all split up. How we are all different! Let's celebrate that!" So they are trying to sell this idea that if you are immoral... you should be like a hero to people. They are going around, trying to sell that idea. They are causing Americans to believe them. The effect is, we have a generation of people, who know not God... We have an entire civilization that is now basing itself upon immorality, including sodomy and we have lost our treasures. This article mentions Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter came up in the news this week. He is like the typical, he is the exact thing that I am talking about. I want you to look at this. They interviewed him. He has a new book. It is actually a bible study. You see, Jimmy Carter... was a Southern Baptist, who was going to a Southern Baptist church... in Georgia and he was a member down, still is...and since he has been out of the presidency, I saw a news article on him a while back...he teaches Sunday School, every Sunday....stands before his class and holds this little Bible study. So he has a new book coming out. Let's see what is on Jimmy Carter's mind. "Former President, Jimmy Carter is a controversial figure here in America. But beyond being known in more conservative circles for his intriguing, sometimes troubling, depending on with whom one is speaking, positions, he is also distinguished himself with his out-spoken Christianity." Stop right here! "Out-spoken Christianity", Let me just say that it is a different Christianity than the one that I am out speaking about... It is a different one and I will show you how. "His new book" (Here we go.) "NIV lessons from Life Bible, Personal Reflections With Jimmy Carter". Stop right here. This is my former friend. The New International Version of the Bible, we used to be friends. We're not friends anymore. "I don't miss you." By the way, I have a better friend. (indicating King James Bible) So he stands up in front of a Southern Baptist who, at one time, you could count on those guys. Hmmm.... Southern Baptist with his NIV Bible and he teaches Sunday school and he has written a book, "The Jimmy Carter NIV Lessons From the Bible". Let's see what kind of lessons he has. "Some of the former president's own lessons" "that he taught over the years during Sunday school at Merinatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia." "These lessons are meshed together with text from the New International Version" "of the Bible. The Huffington Post, Senior Religion Editor, Paul "Brandies-Rashenbush started a conversation by asking “Carter if God wrote the Bible." Stop. Here we go. Here we go. The first thing a Bible Christian has got to get settled is, Did God write the Bible? Okay, here we go. Here is Jimmy Carter, the Sunday school teacher’s answer. Quote: “God inspired “the Bible but didn’t write every word in the Bible.” Stop right here! He inspired the Bible, but he didn’t write every word in the Bible? That is not..... Where did he get that? He didn’t get that from the Bible.... because if I go to Isaiah 6 I see something. If I go to Jeremiah 1 I see the same thing. I see God opening Jeremiah’s mouth, Isaiah’s mouth.... God opening their mouths and God said I am going to take my words, not my (whooooo), not my breath.... “I am going to take my words and put them in your mouth”.... “so that when your mouth opens, my words are going to come out of your mouth”.... Jimmy Carter didn’t get his Where did he get that from? (incredulous voice) Where did Carter get the idea that the Bible was God’s thoughts but it wasn’t God’s words? Well, number one, he got it from the NIV committee... because that is what they believe. They got it from all the Bible scholars that if thou infiltrated the Southern Baptist, the Nazarene, the Free-will Baptist, the Independent Baptist... the Pentecostal, the Charismatic, the Presbyterian, the United Methodist. They have penetrated into every single denomination and quote, unquote, Christian movement in the world with the idea that the Bible is God’s thoughts, but it is not necessarily God’s words. Let’s see what he says after that. “God inspired the Bible but did not" “write every word in the Bible. We know for instance that stars can’t" "fall on the earth. Starts are much larger than the earth. That was" "a limitation of knowledge of the universe or physics or astronomy at that time but that doesn't bother me at all." Because you don't care, JIMMY CARTER!...And you don't study the Bible enough to know that is exactly what that is. If the Bible says the stars fall from Heaven to the Earth. That is exactly what it is. You just have to know what stars are, President Carter, instead of listening to the evolution- pollutionists and the evolutionary astronomists telling you what the Bible really should say. You should just go to the Bible and find out that these stars are angels. That is what you should have done. So, here is a guy. He claims to be a born again Christian... claims...and that is how he got to be President... because we had Tricky Dicky, crooked Richard Nixon in the White House who flaunted all of his weirdness and all of his shady dealings in the White House and the America said, "You know what, this guy, he is a born again, Southern Baptist. Let's go vote for him". They thought they were getting a Christian. That is what they thought. Boy were they wrong. Then they asked the billion-dollar question here. "When it came to addressing homosexuality," "a contentious issue in many Christian circles, Carter talked about his historical nature" and delved into his views on how civil ceremonies should be treated." Now, let me just give you some scripture here, before I get to that point. Carter should have read... 2 Timothy 3:16 (reading scripture) "by inspiraton of God"....Let me explain what this means. Scripture, you know what that is? Words. So you know what this verse is saying? It is saying all the words are inspired by God. Carter said, "oh they are not! The Bible is inspired (southern accent)... "by God, but it is not the words of God". Boy is he wrong! (reading scripture) Boy I think he needs some correction for ...Stop! Stop! Stop! Instruction in righteousness! See, we don't know how to live righteously, because see, let's be honest... We all of us, ALL of us, me, you.... all ya'll...We all have something in us we don't like. It is wickedness. We all like to have a little fornication. We all wouldn't mind committing adultery and probably some of you wouldn't mind being a homosexual. See it is all there. (tapping pen) We have wickedness in us. Lot's of other things, stealing, murders and (tapping pen) debaseness in us...I mean all of the things the Bible says we already have in us.... We don't know how to live right. But the Bible will instruct us on how to live right and what is right? And so what is right? The roles of a husband and wife, together, joined together, ordained by God.... Marriage is from God and that is the confinements of a union between a man and a woman.... That is how we live righteously. We don't know how, but we allow the Bible to teach us.... how to live righteously. You will see where I am going here in a minute. (reading scripture verse 17) Now Carter is going to answer this question about homosexuality. He is going to sound real scriptural and real religious. Listen to him. "Homosexuality was well known in the ancient world, well before Christ was born and Jesus" Listen to this now" Listen to his apology. "Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things, he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies." The born again, Southern Baptist Sunday school teacher writing a Life Bible Study From the NIV Bible, says well, wftttt, if Jesus never said it was wrong, then it must be okay. Where did he get that idea from? See, I have been reading the King James and in fact here is what I am going to do .....okay, this is my former friend (indicating other book).... We're not friends anymore. This is my old AND my new friend (indicating KJB)... and I am going to show you what this says (KJB), the Bible that Carter apparently doesn't remember. Then I am going to show you what this says. (indicating NIV) We'll see where maybe Carter got his ideas...where Rick Warren is probably going to get his ideas...he is probably already there...he is just not ready to admit it yet.... Where all these new preachers now, they are going to start endorsing homosexuality and gay couples. It is already happening, by the way. Let's see where they get their ideas from. Let's compare. Deuteronomy 23:17 in the King James says "There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel". Sodomite ....it is a guy that sodomizes somebody...I don't have to describe the act. You get it. The NIV.... You know, Jimmy Carter's Bible says, "No Israelite, man or woman is to become a shrine prostitute". That...see I guess in their mind, as long as you don't sell it, it is okay. So naturally, if you are not selling it, then you should give yourself in marriage to another man, if you are a man. (sarcastic tone) That is Carter's mentality. That is what he just said. Let me read to you what he said. "I think it is very fine for gay people to be married" "in civil ceremonies". He doesn't have a problem. He teaches Sunday school and doesn't have a problem in the world with it. He is not alone, people. How about 1 King 14:24? (KJB) (reading scripture) Sodomites! Sodomites are people who sodomize. NIV 1 King 14:24 (reading scripture) Again, according to the NIV, it is not the sodomizing that is bad, it is that they took money for it... That is bad. (rifling paper) Anyway, moving right along with what Carter said, Following this question, let me go back to that, let me just make my point again. Why is Carter the way he is? Why does he believe the way he does? Because he has a watered down Bible and a philosophy about this book that says even if it says it verbatim....I don't have to believe it. And of course now, he is endorsing and probably has taught for years out of a bible that doesn't even say it. And even if it did, you don't have to believe it in order to be a the kind of Christian he is. Okay. So let's move on. Following this question, rauschenbush asked, What about passages saying slaves obey your masters (Colossians 3:22) Oh, we are going to look at that in a minute. Slaves obey your masters. Do you think there is ever a time to say, Okay, we know that we don't agree with that passel, so let's get rid of it. This question was particularly timely concerning the controversy over atheist billboards in Pennsylvania that utilizes verse to rail against Christianity. Well, the principles that are still applicable, it wasn't a matter that the Bible endorses slavery...it was that..he goes on to give all this stuff. The NIV Bible and this was actually used by atheists, they were quoting I like it. They were quoting from the NIV that says slaves obey your masters and the atheists were saying see Christianity is a slavery religion. What was that again? Colossians 3:22? I have some other verses that go along with this, but I am going to look Colossians 3:22. Let's see what my friend, The King James says. Now we know what (indicating other bible) my former friend, the NIV says. Colossians 3:22 I guarantee you, it doesn't say slaves. Because we know what slaves are. We know that. Colossians 3:22 in my friend, The King James, servants. Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh. Servants. Servants. Did you know that a guy that works at Burger King is a servant. Did you know that somebody that works in a car factory is a servant? Did you know that somebody that works as a secretary is a servant? Did you know that middle management, those guys are servants? Did you know that a nurse is a servant? Did you know that a doctor, if he works for a hospital, he is a servant? So you know what the word, "servant" means? It is somebody that is working. It is an employee. That is what it is. You can be paid to be a servant. "Servants obey in all things your masters, according to the flesh" You know what this bible is just full of good management. That is what it is. If you work for somebody and it is their money, then work for them. Don't try to be the boss. You are not the boss. You are not the one taking all the risk. They are. So it is just good management advice, is what the King James Bible is. It is not endorsing slavery. Not for a second. NIV says "Slaves, obey your earthly masters." Ephesians, here again, here is my new friend, here is my former friend. according to the flesh. Here is is Ephesians 6:5 NIV, "Slaves, obey your earthly masters". (Pretending to crack whip) Do what they say, boy! It is NIV. So this is Carter says...it is just so wrong. Even though it is in there I don't have to believe it. Romans 6:17 "But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. (18) Being then made free from sin", (Oh I like this) the servants of righteousness." See, I am free. Free from sin and I serve righteousness. I am not a slave to God. God doesn't say, "Mike do this!". (pretending to crack whip) He doesn't do that to me. He says, "Mike, will you do this?" And I say, "Lord I love you. Of course I will." “I will do it the best I can. I may fail. So I am going to need your help. But I will do it. I will do anything for you, Lord. You are my master.” I am a free servant of the Lord, Jesus Christ. Not in the NIV! Romans 6:18 “You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.” Some people look at that and say, “I am going from one slavery to another. Why do I want to serve God?” (riffles papers) And all throughout the NIV, Paul says, “I am a slave of Jesus Christ. Jesus whips me on the back and he makes me do what I don’t want to do”. Listen folks. It is not slavery. Paul was a servant. I am a servant. When I used to work for a guy in construction, you know what I was? I was a servant. If he said, “Hoggard, climb that ladder and paint that up there!” I would climb the ladder and paint that. I did it. He paid me took care of my family. I was a servant. It was my job to listen to what he said. That is what the real bible says. Cause and effect. So the cause...We have the Jimmy Carters of the world, who not only represent the political structures of the world and their faulty philosophies, but in the same man, representing the religious ideas and their flawed philosophies. Number one in the bible (indicating NIV). Yeah, we call it the Word of God. We don’t really mean that. Except for those nutty, King James people believe the Bible the whole thing is without error. I know it says it in our doctrinal statement. But we are probably going to have that changed before too long. And then we have this one. Feminist theologian claims we can’t be sure Jesus was a male. Well, I can. Because I believe that all the Bible is the Word of God. It is the very Words of God and it was translated right and He is The Son of God. Let’s look at this. A feminist thologian is claiming that Jesus may have been, and now, get this... Not a guy...Not a girl either. But here we are back again Jesus could very well have been a hermaphrodite. Dr. Susana Cornwall a professor at Manchester University Lincoln Theological Institute, wrote in a recent paper that the idea that Jesus was male is simply a best guess. She made the comment in response to an ongoing debate in the UK over having women bishops in The Church of England. In a paper titled, “Intersex and Entology, a Response to the Church, Women Bishops and Provision”, she states that it was impossible to know with any certainty that Jesus did not have both male and female organs. Are you kidding me? Ugh! On her blog, Corwall notes that about one in every 2,500 people is born with Intersex Condition, which means that their body varies from the typical male or female pattern... It is therefore possible, that Jesus, in common with many other people, who’s sex is never called into question, had a hidden or invisible Intersex Condition. He was a he-she! He was a dude, a guy with, you know girl stuff. That is what she said! See, I know who that is. I know who that is. Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Yeah, that is the theologians and the scholars and the people who write the dissertations. They profess. They are professors. They profess themselves to be wise, but they are fools! “Change.... “....the glory of the uncorruptible God” Stop right here! A nutty professor says that Jesus was a guy in drag or he had both organs or ...it does not change the uncorruptible God. He still is who he is and Jesus was his son. "into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things." (24) "Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleaness" See right here! Here it is Here it is. Right here! Cause and effect. Cause and effect. You pursue this course, you roll this ball down this alley, there is going to be an effect. (reading scripture) "God gave them" "up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between" "themselves: (25) Who changed the truth of God into a lie," Here it is! Who changed the truth of God (indicating KJB) Sodomites! Do not have any sodomites ...into a lie, oh it is just male prostitutes...as long as you are not... selling it. It is okay. "(25) Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped" "and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen." "(26) For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections:" See the word cause. Cause. And he caused all those small and great, rich and poor, free and bond to receive a mark. (reading scripture) "26 For this cause" "God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use" "into that which is against nature." See, it is specifically mentioning sodomy here, or lesbianism, homosexuality. Woman with woman, man with man, performing that which is unseemly. And it is just not natural and it is NOT right! If you just want to look at nature, itself, the procreation of the species determines that those of opposite sexes come together, not those of the same sex. We all know. We get it. Those of you who study Bible prophecy, those of you who know a little bit about what is going on you know. You know, lets see, have the female theologian Doctor Corwall, you know what God she is trying to get everybody to believe in, don't you? Baphomet! The god who is the fusion of man and beast, male and female together, heavens and earth and all of that spirits with humans. It is that. That is what it is all about, people. That is the god with.. ...and by the way...here we have Rick Warren. Rick Warren writes in a tweet, we dealt with this a few weeks ago. Rick Warren writes in the tweet, of course men are natural, perfectly natural for men to act like women and women to act like men. After all God is both. So it is not just the esteemed theologians. It is the Rick Warren crowds and all of the other, the Jimmy Carter people that are going around telling....listen, homosexuality is the effect. It is the effect. It is what caused that effect, what it caused, all these people to rise up in high places and power It is the liberalization of the churches, the liberalization of America, the liberalization of the Bibles, and the teachers and everything else. It is the idea that God's word is really not God's word and we are going to try to dumb it down as best we can. But where we really can't get away with it, we know we can't, we are just going to tell you, well, even if it says it, you don't have to believe that. I mean... nobody believes the Bible anymore, except the King James people. Ah listen, if you just stick with the King James Bible, and you just decide, hey, this is the Word of God right here. Number one, let God tell you. Don't let me tell you. Let God tell you whether or not this is the right Bible or not. And number two, once you are convinced, stick with it. Stick with it. Don't walk away. Please, don't walk away. Here is something else. (reading) "Episcopal Church” “Releases Draft of Same Sex Union Rights" Ah! Now they are getting ready! Getting ready. You see what is coming, don’t you. When you see the bowling ball rolling down the lane, everybody in their right mind assumes then that pins are going to come crashing down. Unless of course they are watching me bowl. Nobody assumes that anything is falling. (joking) When I roll a bowling ball down the lane. I promise you. So here, we see it coming. Barrack Obama said I am not really for homosexual marriage, as a candidate. Now he is president and he is saying, yeah. Let’s get them. Let’s marry them. We have Jimmy Carter saying, yeah, it is okay. God said...Jesus didn’t say it was wrong so therefore it must be okay. And then you have this professor, female theologian, oh yeah, maybe Jesus, himself, was part man, part woman. Maybe he married himself. Okay? Then we have, "The Episcopal Church Releases Draft of Same Sex Union" "Rights. The standing commission on liturgy and music of the Episcopal Church has released a" "first draft of the rights for consecrating same-sex unions, although the final draft probably "won't be completed for many years." You know what they are doing. They are working on a marriage ceremony, how to word it, for men to marry men in the church. Okay. That is what they are working on. Okay. So it just, you know what. The ball is rolling down the lane Guess what is going to happen in who knows how long. Okay. Not only is same-sex marriage going to be endorsed in the halls of government. It is going to be endorsed in churches, in churches like the Episcopal Church, Church of England. Probably all these other liberal, what they call mainstream churches, different denominations, the Disciples of Christ and things like that. Here is what is going to happen. Since they already endorsing it there is going to be a mandate at some point from government agencies saying, well, pfft, these churches don't have a problem with it. So they are going to say to Bethel Church, two guys walk in the door and want you to perform the ceremony. Do the ceremony. Or we will fine you $50,000 or we will put you in jail. Cause you have a $50,000 fine to pay, that is what is going to happen. Cause...that is the cause, now that is the cause. All this stuff creeping up. The sodomites in the land and nobody is doing anything about it. And sodomy just represents all of the immorality, together. So if you are watching this and you are living in sin, either with somebody else or yourself, your sin is going to have an effect on what is going on in this nation. Okay. Cruel authority. So now we take...go from here to this right here (indicating news story). This came out this week. (reading) "President Obama signs executive order allowing for control" "over all US resources." I mean this one hit, it came out. Everybody sending me emails. Pastor Mike, Obama signed an executive order and oh my goodness! And some are going, come on you conspiracy people, you are giving me a headache. This is nothing. This stuff has been on the books for years. He just kind of changed some of the wording a little bit. Remember what I said last week, the breach of contract. He is changing. Remember what the anti-christ does, he doesn't do away with the law. He just changes them. So this new executive order comes out and everybody says it has been on the books. Would you guys knock it off, you bunch of little conspiracy whiners! Why is it there to begin with. But it is this idea that if we look at here, the graphics, we have the secretary of agriculture mentioned, the secretary of energy, secretary of health, secretary of transportation, secretary of defense, secretary of commerce and food resources. Wow! That just about covers everything! It is a good thing we don't have like a Department of Air. Well, maybe do. Maybe we do. Maybe we do. But anyway, it covers everything, so that they are just tidying up the language is what they are doing. What they are saying is with this new executive order, what they are saying is that the president, now, the president whether there is really an emergency or not, if there is a POTENTIAL for emergency, the ball, if somebody is standing up at the bowling alley, with the ball in their hand then there is the potential that pins are going to fall. So the government is saying, you know what, even if we just say something really bad could happen, we are going to take over now. They are issuing orders for the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Energy, Health and Human Services, Transportation, Defense, Commerce and every, all these other departments to kick into high gear, putting things in place so that when the president, whoever it is says, go, all of a sudden now the government takes over everything...all commerce, your backyard garden with your five tomato plants in it, the government owns it. It is right there. (pointing to article) It is right there. Okay. Cause and effect. Cruel authority. You say well, you know what. I am growing stuff in my basement. They can't find it there. I'll get away with it. Let me just help you with this. Okay. If you are one of these and I try to reach out to you because I think you are my kind of people. I am a conspiracy nut. I believe in conspiracy theories, but I try to prove them as factual, according to the word of God. If I can prove them according to the word of God, they are real and I am with you. (Sigh) You are the one I am talking to. Because, if you are thinking, I bought me some guns and ammo. It costs me a fortune but I've got it and I am ready. I've got a gun sticking out of every window in my house. If they come after me they are not going to get me. Or if you say, well I am going to hide out. They are not going to get me. We have us a place, we are going to hide out and nobody is going to find us. We are going to be... or if you are depending on your self sufficiency, to save you in that day. I am here to tell you. It will not work. Do you know what the Bible says, when this, when it all comes crashing down? You know what the Bible says? None shall escape. None. How is that working, Pastor Mike? New details. We talked about this. I don't know. What was it? Two years ago? Something like that. Early on in Watchman Video Broadcast. I told you they were building some big mega spy center in where is it, Utah? They are building it! Funneling billions of dollars into it. Well now they are telling you what is going on there. New details on (reading) "NSA spy center and secrets from domestic eavesdropping" "operations, Stellar Wind." You know that is interesting. You know what stellars are? Stellars are stars. Spirits is wind. That is what the wind is. It means wind, breath, spirits. He that soweth to the wind shall reap the whirlwind. Operation Stellar Wind is the NSA's eavesdropping. You know what the term eavesdropping is. You sneak up to somebody's house and you are standing in covered by the eaves of their windows and you are listening to a conversation they are having inside of their house. They think it is private. But you are listening without them knowing about it. That is what eavesdropping is and so we have had to come up with a lot of more creative ways to eavesdrop on people so here we have Operation Stellar Wind, we've sowed to the whirlwind, here is this NSA. Now this is the National Security Agency. The National one. The CIA is supposed to only operate outside of the United States. The NSA says, pfft, okay, if you want to go to Saudia Arabia, that is fine. We are going to listen to everything that everybody is doing here in America. (reading) "Here is some of the data center's purpose." "Flowing through it servers and routers and stored in near bottomless databases" A near bottomless pit. (reading) "will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails," "cell phone calls, Google searches as well as" "all sorts of personal data trails- parking receipts, travel itineraries," "book store purchases and other digital" pocket litter", it says. "Wired reports that the data center will store trillions of words and thoughts and whispers swirling on the" You know what a swirl is. It is a (s)whirwind. "swirling on the web. It states" "that to those on the inside, the old adage that NSA stands for" Never Say Anything applies more than ever. In addition to public" "website data storage. Wired reports that it will seek out and house information" "on the deep web". Here is the deep web. "The deep web contains government reports, data bases and other" "sources of information of high value to Department of Defense” “and the intelligence community according to a 2010 defense science board report.” “Alternative tools are needed to find an index data on the deep web. Stealing the” “classified secrets of a potential adversary is where the intelligence community is most comfortable.” “Even with data storage as it publicized purpose” “Wire reports that an official involved with the program has said, quote ‘ this is more than just a data center. It hopes to be the ultimate code cracking’ “ ‘facility.’ According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA” “made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptonolize” “or break unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only” “governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US.” “The upshot, according to this official, everybody is a target. Everybody with” communications is a target.” EVERYBODY! YOU! Okay. So you bought this software to put on your computer, or you are using a Linux system that has programming for it and you want your home folder encrypted, so you put this encryption on your home folder, so that nobody can steal your private data and with some of you, we all know what that is. Don’t we. That is all your little dirty pictures you do not want anybody to find out. That is why you have it encrypted on there. And you think nobody knows what you have going. Well, the NSA knows, because they now are telling you they have the ability to crack that encryption. They have it. Somebody else does too. I will show you who it is in a minute. Let’s see here. “Inside the facility will consist of" "four, twenty-five thousand square foot halls filled with servers, complete with raised floor space for" “cables and storage. In addition there will be more than 900,000 square feet for" "technical support and administration. The entire site will be self-sustaining with fuel tanks large enough to power the backup generators" "for three days in an emergency. Water storage" Oh my goodness! Electricity! All of this stuff going on! And then the article says this, "Barney "says Stellar Wind was far larger than has been publically disclosed and included" "not just eavesdropping on domestic phone calls but the inspection of" "domestic email. At the outset the program recorded 320 million calls" "a day, he says, which represented about 73 to 83 percent" " of the total volume of the agencies worldwide" "interpreters." You know what they are basically saying. We are going to listen to every cell phone convo....and by the way, practically everybody is using their cell phones now. Text messages, data sent to and from, GPS ...your cells phones locator. They not only know what you said, they know what you texted and where you were when you said it. When you took a picture they knew it. What you surf, what you buy on the internet. Everything about you. You say, "well, I am going to get rid of my cell phone and I am going to unplug my computer and I will be safe then." Not so fast. Here is another one. It came out this week. CIA chief, we will spy on you through your dishwasher. It came out this week. CIA chief, we will spy on you through your dishwasher. (reading) "More and more personal and household devices are connecting to the" "internet, from your television, to your car navigation systems to your light switches." "CIA director, David Paetrus, cannot wait to spy on you through" "there." Let me stop right here. Let me tell you what little bit I know about the computer world. I just learned this, picked up little bits of information over the years. Java. Have you ever heard of Java? No, I am not talking about a cup of coffee. Java Script, it is a little programming language that is in practically every web browser and most web sites will use, what is called Java scripts to get content onto your computer from another computer. That is how the internet works. You know what Java was originally written for? The programming language of Java was originally written for Toasters and microwave ovens and refrigerators and televisions. Televisions. It was originally written for the time when personal, household appliances would be able to perform more than just toasting, would be able to talk to one another. You have seen them market these new refrigerators... You close the door. A little panel comes up and says, "you will be out of milk" "tomorrow. Let us fill out a list for you. You probably need" ."..you know what...do not worry about it. I, the refrigerator, have already called the" "market. They will be delivering some milk out here before breakfast tomorrow morning." Every, and okay, to all you conspiracy theorists out there you remember when they changed over from analog television to HD TV and the conspiracy theorists were saying, "it is a way to spy on everybody". I was not sure, because a guy had a You Tube video and this was the first year I did Watchman Broadcasts. Guy had a You Tube video and he opened up one of those converter boxes because not everybody had the new TV and he said, "look here". "I found a spy camera in my box that "is how they are spying on everybody." Well, I looked in mine and there was no camera so I am saying "This is a hoax." That was then. This is now. We could not have realized two years ago just how right the conspiracy people were. In imagining a scenario where every appliance in our house. It is like How 9000. Go back and watch 2001 Space Odyssey. Hal 9000 cooks their meals, controls their air, controls everything about the little spaceship that is trying to get into the monolith and Jupiter. It is controlling everything about it. The two astronauts who are figuring out that something is not right. They try to hide in one of the little external space capsules. You have seen the movie. They are having a conversation where How can hear them. But Hal has eyes everywhere and he is reading your lips. So he knows that there is a conspiracy against the computer because Hal knows everything. That was Arthur C. Clarke, 1968. 1968. And here we are. We have appliances in our homes, carrying around cell phones with us, whatever, that have the ability to spy on everything that we are doing. Everything that we are doing. My lands I put a network security camera in my house last night and I told my wife, I said, "You know if we go away. I would like to be able to check in every now and then." Not a bad idea. I woke up this morning and I thought, you know, I am 90 percent sure that a government computer probably, and I do not know how to tap into it yet, I am about 90 percent sure that a government computer already knows, it has a microphone on it, too. Proverbs 28:1 "The wicked flee when no man pursueth:" hmm...Stop right here. Cause and effect. Our wickedness drives us to paranoia. And our government is the most paranoid institution in the history of mankind because the government thinks that everybody is talking about them. Wicked. Cause and effect. (reading. "The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous" "are bold as a lion." You know what? As I am recording the Watchman Video Broadcast right now, it could very well be that from the time that I record this to the time that it actually comes out on the internet on Sunday the entire conversation that I am having probably has already been stored somewhere else. The righteous are as bold as a lion. You know what, I do not care. I am going to say it anyway. (reading) "For the transgressions of a land many are the princes thereof:" Did you get that? "For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof:." You did not think that your refrigerator and your TV and your cell phone and your I pod and your computer and your toaster and all of your heater device, you did not think that all of that stuff would be lording over you. But it is. (reading) "but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged." Look at 2 Chronicles 16:9. This is God's ability, stop here. Remember that encrypted folder that you have on your computer....you do not want anybody to see. Okay. God knows what is on there. You can not hide it. God knows. He knows. You are not hiding it from him. And of course now, you are not going to hide it from the devil, either. (reading) "For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth," "to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him." So what this verse is saying is that God's eyes can see everything. God sees everything that is going on in the earth. Now remember what Lucifer wants. Isaiah 14... He says in verse 14, I will be like the most high that is what he says. Lucifer wants to be like God. Okay. Ezekiel 28:2 Lucifer says I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of seas; He says he is...Lucifer wants to be like God. He wants to be able to see everything. But he is not omnificent and omnipresent and all seeing the way God is. God can just say, I see everything all at once. He does not need help! The devil needs help. So he has a place there in Utah where he is getting help. All the appliances running these little computer programs and all these monitoring stations, in your home. He is getting help! his help! People. The Defense Agency something, DARPA. Okay. You know what DARPA is. It is the Office of Information Awareness. A DARPA program, a Defense Agency Program, that believes that knowledge is power. So if we just notice their logo. The all seeing eye, watching the whole planet...seeing everything that is going on. How can they do that? Security cameras and cell phones and refrigerators and microwave ovens that we are going to use and your TV set that we are going to use to spy on you. You are watching us, well we are watching you back! Okay. Because the devil wants to be like God. So here is a story that comes up. DARPA director bolts pentagon for Google. DARPA director, Regina Dugan, will soon be stepping down from her position of the pentagon's premier research shop to take a job with Google. You know, the search engine. When asked what she would be doing for Google she replied. Spying on everybody, you nitwit. What do you think I am going to be doing. No, she did not really say that, I just made that up. But think about it, the people who want to know everything about everybody in the world, the lady who runs that program, now is going to go work for Google. The people who want to know everything that there is to know about you. And they say there is no conspiracy. I want you to think of the beast for a minute. We talked about cause and effect, the beast is simply the effect of all the wickedness that is going on and remember when there is wickedness in the land, there is many princes over everybody. Revelation 13 The Bible says the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion; and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and...What? GREAT AUTHORITY. See he is going to run the show. You know what, knowledge is power. He is going to have a system in place where he is going to know everything that needs to be known, about everybody. And he will have great authority. Then we get to verse 16, He causeth all, one, two, three, four, five, six, small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads; (17) And that no man might buy (think of buying and selling), save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (18) Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. So think about buying and selling. Okay, now they are going to control buying and selling, which means that they have to be able to control all the commerce in the world. Cause and effect. Okay. The effect is to have everybody's financial dealings controlled. The cause is well, we have to get rid of paper money. Everybody for years has been saying that. Go all the way back 50 years ago. Got to get rid of paper money. Because paper money can just be traded everywhere, and nobody knows about it. See we do not mind doing something for somebody and getting paid in cash, do we? We get paid in cash and that way we do not have to pay taxes on it. And the government says We will fix that. We will just take over all the financial stuff. We will do away with cash and uh, so, anyway, it is being done in Sweden. Sweden could be the first country to go cashless even as churches are taking cards for offerings. Sweden was the first European country to introduce bank notes in 1661. The article that, see this guy here. You know who that is? That is what his name...Bjorn That is the guy from Abba. And he is saying, well, yeah, I think we ought to just go cashless. You know what, that will solve the bank robbing problem. That will solve the drug problem. People will not be selling drugs anymore, because they will not have any money. See how it works. They are going to, cause and effect. Oh, we have a big drug problem and millions of dollars and people with cash, oh they arrest all these drug dealers. What do they got? Big wads of cash! Get rid of the cash. Go to electronic banking. They will not be able to do that. Yeah they will! Cause and effect. Okay, so now, think of commerce and the number 6. Or the number 666. Somebody sent me this, Pastor Mike I got it! I got it! Ellen Degeneres...sodomite. Open about it. Has a TV show where she came out, comedienne, and everybody thinks she funny. Now she is a lesbian. And everybody knows she is a lesbian and nobody is going, eww that just, eww that makes me...nobody is doing that. Everybody is watching her show, saying, oh she is so funny. She is so cool. I love Ellen. Oh look! She has her girlfriend with her! See, that is how we are. That is what we have turned into in this country. So Ellen does, she did commercials now for J. C. Penny, commercial, merchandising and a guy sent me this. He said, Pastor Mike watch the first 4 seconds of this commercial and you will get it. So I looked at the first 4 minutes of this first 4 seconds of this commercial and that is what you see. 666 See, it is getting it here. Got to get it subconsciously. See you would watch this commercial and go oh, she is funny, she is a lesbian. You did not know that subliminally, you were having something planted inside of your mind. That was, we dealt with this. I mean this works. Subliminal persuasion. Ah, planting ideas in your mind, perception without awareness. You perceive the numbers in your mind and now a seed has been sown inside of your mind, of this number. Look at this. Here is an HP laptop commercial, featuring Doctor Dray. See the numbers! And it is only up there for like a few seconds. Okay. But it is there. Ah, a guy down in Florida one of our followers for a long time was sending me stuff before I started doing The Watchman Broadcast and I had all this stuff and I did not know what to do with it! Now I got it! Look at this. You see it. This big package...you go to these, what they call these big box stores and you buy Pringles potato chips. You do not just buy a can, man. You buy the whole crate of it, because you are going to get hungry one of these days. 6 flavors, 6 flavors, 6 flavors. Look at this one. A tie-down ratchet. It will hold exactly 666 pounds! Vodaphone They are marking it all over the world. Three sixes in a row. That is what that is! People, that is exactly what that is. So planting ideas of 666 in people's minds, getting them to market things, it all has to do with our sins and our transgression. Remember that the beast in Revelation 13 is referred to in 2 Thessalonians, and here we go, think about it! Because my former friend, the NIV says he is a man of lawlessness. No he is not! Because my old friend the King James says he is the man of sin. You know how sin was characterized in the Bible. In different ways, different types. One of them was leaven. A little leaven, leaveneth the whole lump. It does not take much, but boy I will tell you what, when the ball starts rolling down, it builds up speed. It is also characterized as leprosy. Leprosy... It is uncleanness....It...and leprosy starts out in just a little place. But after a while it just spreads and it will kill...it is a slow death, is what it is. It just consumes the entire body. And you know that. You know that is how sin works, don't you? Okay. I found this in the Old Testament. I believe in typology. I think God is showing us the future by showing us these stories in the past. 2 Chronicles 26 Notice this. But when he was strong his heart was lifted up to his destruction. For he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense. By the way that was talking about the king. He was not supposed to do that. Only the priest was supposed to do that. And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men: And they withstood Uzziah, the king and said unto him, it appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; You know what trespass is? You cross the line, buddy. You cross the line. You broke the law. Cause and effect. Every sin has an effect and the abundance of sinfulness will have an abundance of effect. Look at what happened. Neither shall it be from thine honor from the LORD, now verse 19. Then Isaiah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense; and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up....Look at here. ...in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar. And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous...where?...in his forehead... and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him. He had the mark of the man of sin on his forehead. Leprosy. Cause and effect. He got this because of his own sinfulness and those of you sitting out there, you watch and yeah, I am against conspiracies and I am against the New World Order and I am against yeah...You are also against living right, too. And you are against the Bible and you are against Salvation. Yeah, all the religions are corrupt. I got my own religion. That is your problem. You see, you even believe the lie that some have told that the King James Bible was written by the Rosicrucians. Francis Bacon wrote the King James Bible. No he did not. You just like to believe it because then you can keep doing all your little sins and hiding stuff in your little encrypted folder. Ah, you need to be, you need to be....the very thing that you are not wanting, which a New World Order is exactly what you are going to get. And while you have this scenario that the government is going to come in and force everybody at gunpoint to get the microchip implant, that is what it is. God says it is a lot deeper than that. I will never go! I think you will. I think you will. I think because you reject this Bible, then you reject Bible Christianity and you reject the Salvation that God is offering you right now and you would just much rather keep your sin and your dirty little secrets. I think because of that, when it is time, when it is time, when the cause works, it will have an effect on you. And nobody will drag you kicking and screaming anywhere. God, himself, God himself will smite you with the results of your sin, right here. Read Romans 10. If you call our church, you will probably get Gary. Gary is a good saint. He is very bold about his faith. (music starts playing in background) And he will be checking out at the grocery store and the clerk is standing there and he is real nice about it. He says, will you do me a favor? And the clerk will say, what is it? When you get home, get a King James Bible out and read Romans 10... and believe it, exactly what it says. And that is all he will tell them. So that is what I am going to tell you. Read Romans 10. Believe what it says. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved. I encourage you to do that because we are running out of time. This is Pastor Mike. I love you. Thank you for your prayers. Thank you for your support. Thank you for helping me. All this stuff came from you! Keep sending it. I get a lot of emails, 150 a day. I try to read every one of them. I may not be able to respond to every one of them, but I am looking at them and I appreciate them. Thank you very much. God Bless you! We will see you next time. Bye bye!

Early life and education

Brewster was born in 1960.[2] A native of Lindale, Texas, Brewster earned an A.A. in marketing at Tyler Junior College in Texas in 1980 and completed his education in business administration at Texas A&M University in 1983.

Career

Brewster is an internationally recognized diplomat and business leader. He is CEO of Insignias Global and managing partner of Patino, Brewster & Partners advising and representing top political and business leaders across the globe. His career began with marketing and management positions in the Dallas area. In 1996, he moved to Chicago to work for a real estate investment trust, General Growth Properties, where he eventually became senior vice president for marketing and communications. In 2010, Brewster started his own company, SB&K Global, also based in Chicago.[3]

In addition to his business career, Brewster served as the National Co-Chair of the LGBT Leadership Council for the Democratic National Committee and held the same role in the Obama 2012 campaign and the Biden 2020 campaign. As a fundraiser for President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, Brewster and Satawake raised over $1,000,000 in donations.[4] Brewster was also involved with the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) for more than 30 years and served on its National Board of Directors.[3]

President Obama nominated Brewster for the post of Ambassador to the Dominican Republic on June 21, 2013,[5] to replace Raul Humberto Yzaguirre, who resigned in May citing health reasons. The U.S. embassy in Santo Domingo noted the nomination on its website: "This nomination, given the close relationship between Mr. Brewster and President Obama, points to the importance of the Dominican Republic to the United States."[6] When asked how the government of the Dominican Republic viewed the nomination in light of Brewster's sexual orientation, César Pina Toribio, legal advisor to Dominican President Danilo Medina said the nomination demonstrated that the government had been consulted and not objected.[7]

On October 31, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee cleared the nominated and sent it to the full Senate for consideration.[8] The Senate unanimously confirmed his appointment as Ambassador to the Dominican Republic on November 14 and he was sworn in by Vice-President Joe Biden at the White House on November 22.[9][10] On the evening of that day, Brewster married his partner of 25 years, luxury real estate executive, author and social activist, Bob J. Satawake. The ceremony and reception were held at the Hay-Adams Hotel, near the White House.[11]

Upon arriving in the Dominican Republic, Brewster posted a video introducing himself and his husband on the embassy's web page.[12]

Ambassador to the Dominican Republic

The nomination of an openly gay U.S. ambassador aroused controversy in the Dominican Republic. During a July 2013 press conference, Cardinal Jesús López, referred to Brewster as a maricón, equivalent to "faggot" in American English.[a]

U.S. Embassy spokesman Daniel Lewis Foote told reporters that Brewster was nominated "because of his skills as an international businessman and his ideas on democracy and human rights," adding, "Brewster arrives as an ambassador, he's not coming here as an activist for the gay community."[13] The Vatican's ambassador to the Dominican Republic welcomed Brewster to the country and told him: "If you keep your private life behind the walls of your embassy, you'll be O.K. here".[14]

On March 24, 2015, Brewster appeared on a panel of six gay U.S. ambassadors and was the only one to report a problematic reception in his host country. He said: "We knew that that's not who the Dominican people were as a whole, and I think that was important to us. Bob and I will celebrate 27 years together this year and from that perspective we both have a very strong Christian belief and so nobody is going to ever tell me that God doesn't love me."[15]

On November 25, 2015, speaking during a Thanksgiving Day luncheon at the American Chamber of Commerce in the Dominican Republic, Brewster discussed joint efforts at improving education and public safety and in supporting investments in small business. He also said the business community needed to pressure the government to make progress in protecting the rights of women and minorities. He praised the efforts of the American Chamber and the DR business community in fighting corruption and said: "Every entrepreneur I know, either American or Dominican, mentions corruption as the biggest problem in this country. Corruption is a cancer; it retards growth, adversely affects trade and prevents the fair application of the law." He said it inhibited American investment and urged business leaders to make it an issue at the highest levels of government. He underlined the case of contributions to political campaigns: "there is no clean money from dirty people". Brewster noted that he had been criticized by some for interfering in Dominican affairs: "They say that when I speak, when I call for some action, when I speak in favor of some reform, I am violating the sovereignty of the Dominican Republic". He said his comments were essential to his role: "My job is to represent President Obama to the Dominican Republic with full authority to protect and defend the interests of the United States, its businesses and its people, while protecting human rights, enforcing international law, and promoting our bilateral relations". In words that do not appear in the transcript of the remarks, he was quoted as inviting his critics to match their rhetoric by cutting off their own ties to the U.S., saying they could "go to the [U.S.] embassy and turn in their visas".[16]

Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, called Brewster's statements about corruption meddlesome (injerencistas) and accused him of promoting "the agenda of the gays, transsexuals, transvestites, and bisexuals (la agenda de los gays, transexuales, travestis y bisexuales). The Cardinal later called Brewster a "wife" who should stay in the embassy and "take care of the house",[17] Brewster replied that the Cardinal's comments fostered hatred and marginalization and said that he would concentrate on the embassy's initiatives to promote democracy and ignore the "noise" (ruido) of his critics.[18]

In December 2015, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin sent a letter to Pope Francis that said: "In a recent interview Cardinal Rodriguez again described the ambassador as a 'faggot' and falsely claimed the ambassador was setting out to promote 'faggotry' in the Dominican Republic." He asked the pope to prevent further attacks on Brewster by church officials.[19]

On March 2, 2016, Brewster announced a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to support a newly formed LGBT Chamber of Commerce of the Dominican Republic to support LGBT business owners.[20] After the announcement, USAID director Alexandria L. Panehal appeared to reference LGBT candidates for public office when discussing her agency's grants.[b][22] After some objections from a candidate and an election official,[23] the embassy denied the existence any such funding program in the Dominican Republic or any other country.[24]

Later in March, the Dominican Council of Evangelical Unity held a press conference where they denounced Brewster and launched a campaign for Brewster's removal using the petition mechanism provided by the White House. The petition asked President Obama to remove Brewster as ambassador "for primarily promoting in his official duties an LGBT agenda inconsistent with the Christian cultural values and tradition of the Dominican Republic." The cited his promotion of LGBT tourism and bringing his husband on visits to public schools. They said he was using USAID funds to support LGBT activities. Ambassador Susan Rice commented: "He has the full support of this President, this White House and the entire U.S. government and I know he will continue to advocate tirelessly for the interests of the United States in the Dominican Republic. Bigotry in any form is against the universal values that we promote and does not support the social inclusion that we believe is important for a free society to succeed. We will continue to support Ambassador Brewster as he advances universal human rights."[25]

President Danilo Medina, who was re-elected for a second term in May 2016, has not commented on Brewster or the charges made by his critics, nor has anyone in his administration.[14]

A lawsuit seeking a court order to prevent Brewster and other embassy staff from visiting schools along with the ambassador's husband was dismissed on 5 April 2016. The judge called the suit "completely inadmissible".[26] In late April, Auxiliary Bishop Victor Masalles said that Brewster's support of LGBT rights in the DR was an instance of "ideological colonization", a term used by Pope Francis, and that he suspected the U.S. government was pressuring Santo Domingo to modify its constitution. He said Brewster showed "an inability to distinguish his activism with his role as an ambassador" and that: "...we're suffering [from] him as a nation, as a culture, as a country that has its own uses and customs, and its own laws. He's trying to take [away] our right to national self-determination."[27]

LGBT activists in the Dominican Republic have credited Brewster with helping to raise their visibility and remove the stigma attached to homosexuality there. A spokesperson for Human Rights First, a U.S.-based advocacy organization that reported on the status of LGBT rights in the country at the end of 2015, said: "Everyone seemed to think, even if they had mixed feelings about it, that overall it was a net positive. The presence of Ambassador Brewster has really spurred a larger conversation."[28][29] One advocate for transgender rights said: "The arrival of this ambassador is the biggest thing that could have happened to us".[14] Dominican LGBT rights activist Rosanna Marzan, executive director of Diversidad Dominicana, condemned the government's failure to respond to attacks on Brewster and wrote: "The attacks on Brewster are also attacks on us". She continued:[30]

Those using hateful rhetoric against the ambassador have specific objectives. Among them, to quash the efforts that we as Dominican LGBT civil society activists have undertaken to defend ourselves against the hateful, violent and stigmatizing discourse orchestrated by hierarchies within the Catholic and Evangelical churches and the conservative individuals who support them.

For his work against corruption and defending Human Rights, Ambassador Brewster received numerous awards including 2016 Foreign Policy Magazines 100 Global Thinkers, 2016 OUT 100 and finalist for the Susan Cobb Award presented to top diplomats by the US State Department.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ In April 2016, Bishop Victor Masalles, an auxiliary bishop of Santo Domingo, defended the Cardinal's language. An auxiliary Bishop of Santo Domingo, Pablo Cedano, issued a statement: "I hope he does not arrive in the country because I know if he comes he is going to suffer and will have to leave." Evangelical Christian leaders also denounced the appointment.
  2. ^ Panehal was quoted as saying: "Ustedes saben que estamos en una campaña electoral y hay algunos candidatos-como ustedes saben-que representan la ciudadanía dominicana, incluidos los miembros de la comunidad LGBT, y también el fortalecimiento de organizaciones dominicanas que representan los intereses de la comunidad LGBT en la República Dominicana".[21] (English: "You know that we're in an election campaign and, as you all know there are some candidates representing Dominican citizenship, including members of the LGBT community, and also the strengthening of Dominican organizations representing the interests of the LGBT community in the Dominican Republic".)[22]

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