tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38263725846067906262024-02-08T07:50:59.693-08:00BRIAN BOWEN MINISTRIESThe Bed Keeper: A Biblical Case for Gay MarriageBrotherBrianBowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14857373000625848606noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3826372584606790626.post-25712569443796494092013-04-01T20:49:00.002-07:002013-11-21T06:08:31.947-08:00Sister Clara Grace Vision, Narrated by Terri Copeland Pearsons<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this video, Brian Anthony Bowen reveals Scriptures the Church never talks about which prove that Jesus taught that LGBT people are born this way...and that prove the Apostle Paul ordained Gay Marriage...IN THE BIBLE!<br /><br />This changes EVERYTHING!<br />More info: </span><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://brianbowenministries.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://BrianBowenMinistries.com"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://BrianBowenMinistries.com</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In September 2011, Pastor Terri Copeland Pearsons of Eagle Mountain International Church was speaking at the Toronto Prayer Conference, and relayed a prophecy from Sister Clara Grace, a respected prophetess who was an active member of Reverend Kenneth E. Hagin's ministry. Video of the Toronto Prayer conference is available <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5XHLs1pqA8" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>here</strong></span></a><span style="color: blue;"><strong>.</strong> </span><span style="color: black;">(Time stamp: 00:48:55 - 1:06:00)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">In this post, I transcribed the prophecy as narrated by Pastor Terri, and offer my interpretations of it (along with links to related chapters of The Bed Keeper) that I believe shine a Scripturally based light on these things. What I believe we will see is that the Church has been receiving prophecies through modern day prophets and prophetesses for the last 50 years that speak to the full affirmation of LGBT people in the spiritual life of the Christian Church...but didn't realize it at the time they were uttered. See what you think!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Sister Clara Grace:</strong> Brother Hagin was talking on prayer. I don't remember what Scripture he used. When he was somewhere near the close, he suddenly veered off and began talking about science in relationship to the advance of the Church, and to the fact that God would not allow one phase of His Program to outstrip the other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Brother Brian Commentary:</strong> I find it interesting that both Sister Clara Grace and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5XHLs1pqA8" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Brother Justus Du Plessis</span></strong></a> both begin their prophetic utterances with an emphasis on prayer (and that the centerpiece Scripture of The Bed Keeper is Isaiah 55:11-56:12 where God promises His House will be a House of Prayer for ALL people). I also find it interesting the prophetic utterance God gave Brother Justus Du Plessis on these things was delivered to Eagle Mountain International Church, and that Terri Copeland Pearsons (who narrates this utterance from Sister Grace) just happens to be one of the pastors of Eagle Mountain International Church. What I find <strong>truly</strong> remarkable is that just as seamlessly as God helped us connect the dots about eunuchs (LGBT people) throughout the Scriptures, the various modern prophetic utterances speaking of these things likewise connect with each other at a variety of points....and ALL of them have a spiritual connection to Eagle Mountain International Church! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When considering that these prophecies span a time frame of 50 years (received through at least 5 different modern prophets), I conclude there are simply too many of these connections to chalk them up to mere coincidence. Considering how many points of these modern day prophecies seamlessly tie back to Scriptures about LGBT people as explored in The Bed Keeper, I am fully persuaded that we have been given an even more sure word of prophecy about these matters...directly from Heaven's Throne Room...long before The Bed Keeper was even written!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Pastor Terri Pearsons Commentary:</strong> In other words, he [Brother Hagin] was saying science was moving along. God planned it that way. They [scientists] are not going to get out beyond things He's planned for them to know. You can't. It's in His [God's] heart for us to know it all, but right now you have to be careful who knows it because of what they might do with it. But there's this part of the revealing of God and science but he said, <strong>"There is a relationship to this and the advancement of the Church, because no part of God's plan will get out in front of the other."</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's what we were talking about yesterday when the Lord said, <strong>"Move things along!"</strong> And I saw that cross country skier.<strong> </strong>Brother Hagin said, <strong>"You know science has entered the realm of the Spirit when they discovered the place of timelessness up there." </strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Brother Brian Commentary:</strong> In my spirit I believe this could be a reference to not revealing to the Church about the role of LGBT people in the Church until such time we had developed a parallel to God and Science that atheist LGBT people could relate to in order to bring them into this new move of God as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I believe </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-11-big-bang-theory.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 11: Big Bang Theory</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> does this by providing a side-by-side comparison (and timeline) of Science and Creation that would allow any carnally thinking person to see (at least the possibility) that they do not have to be antagonistic, and that perhaps God indeed used evolution to create! For example; God did not make the vegetation magically appear, but instead says, "Let the <strong>earth</strong> bring forth vegetation." I believe this would be necessary in order to bring along all LGBT atheist and agnostic people, especially those who have been pushed away from the Church by those who not only did not fully understand the Word concerning same gender expressions, but who often times also do not understand the Creation account in light of scientific discovery. In other words, Brother Hagin could have very well been speaking prophetically and saying (in essence): <strong>"The Church cannot advance into the ingathering of LGBT people until there was a connecting point established for atheist LGBT people--(as well as LGBT people from other religions)--to latch on to. Only then would the <u>complete</u> ingathering of the Gentiles be possible, as the Apostle Paul revealed would be a prophetically necessary step in preparing the Jews to receive the Gospel in order to prepare for the coming Messiah, which would also be manifest in the return of Jesus Christ." (</strong>See Romans 11:25 and Isaiah 56:8, as well as </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2013/01/its-not-about-gay-its-abou-day.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's Not About The Gay! It's About The DAY!</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/chapter-22-jesus-jews-and-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 22: Jesus, Jews, and Gays</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To my mind, it stands to reason the Holy Spirit would know that LGBT atheists and agnostics would need to realize that God and Scriptures are authentic, true, and reliable in a way that they can relate to: through scientific knowledge, and our modern understanding of human sexuality, orientation and identity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I believe <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-11-big-bang-theory.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Chapter 11: Big Bang Theory</span></strong></a> provides such evidence, and opens the door to the Church's advance toward preparing herself for the return of Jesus Christ (and not necessarily for the sole purpose of converting LGBT atheists), although I hope and believe both will happen. While Chapter 11 focuses on taking a spiritual truth and making it naturally relevant, </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-12-my-brothers-keeper.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 12: My Brother's Keeper</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> then takes a natural truth and makes it spiritually relevant. I believe these two chapters will stimulate both the natural and supernatural dimensions of even the most hardened of hearts (whether they admit it right away or not). While these two chapters may indeed provide a door, they do not have the power to actually make a person walk through it. I believe that power is reserved for God alone, working through Pastors who "break down" the information to their congregations, and makes it applicable to the hearers, gives an invitation to accept Christ, and then opens the door to the hearers receiving Christ, and taking their rightful place as natural born members of His Kingdom's Created Order.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Brother Brian Commentary:</strong> Is He ever! I believe we all see now that He is preparing the Church for the Second Coming of Christ (just as He has been since the Day of Pentecost), but now with more urgency than ever before. I believe this is evidenced by the revelation contained in </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> that demonstrates the prophetic purpose of the inclusion of LGBT people in God's House of Prayer (in order to gather others in with those already gathered), but also to then act as agents of change that help the Church correct course and align herself with Scripture, in order that the Church becomes all adorned for Her Bridegroom. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/02/022612-prophetic-utterance-from-pastor.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Pastor George Pearsons</span></strong></a> prophetic utterance....(who also just happens to be Pastor of Eagle Mountain International Church, along with his wife, Pastor Terri).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Brother Brian Commentary:</strong> I'm with you on this! I don't mean to "force" an interpretation of Sister Clara Grace's vision, but merely to share with you what parts of it speak to me, and how parts of The Bed Keeper <strong><em><u>may</u></em></strong> be a beginning point for "grabbing the Spirit" of what Sister Clara saw, and "bringing some Light!" I believe the power to bring ALL light is again reserved for God working through his Pastors, who (as the messages are prepared, prayed over, and preached) will come to more fully understand the meaning of not only Sister Clara's vision, but also the parts of The Bed Keeper that I believe are applicable (and/or interpretative), and goes on to refine our understanding of these nuggets of coal into shining, crystal clear diamonds that can reflect light and bring the entire Church into a laser-focused understanding of these things...by FAITH!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While The Bed Keeper shares a lot about the <strong>mystery of the eunuchs</strong> in the Bible, I also know that all revelation, understanding, and prophecy is fragmented, and imperfect. (See <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+13%3A9&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">1 Corinthians 13:9</span></strong></a>). As I hear parts of the message preached out, I too learn more and more, and I deeply appreciate the Pastor's and Prophet's anointing helping to make sense of these things as we move along. That's one reason why I'm sharing with Pastors in the first place! I don't know it all! Nobody does! And I am not yet equipped (nor have the desire) to preach. While it appears I may indeed enjoy the spiritual grace of God to study these things out and submit them to Church leadership for their consideration and revelation to the Congregation at large, I do not enjoy the anointing necessary to share with a congregation myself...at least not yet! Though it may come later. My greatest hope in that regard is to share the message from the Word with Pastors, and send it into the pipeline of five-fold ministers to preach it, so I can understand it even better for myself! The way I see it, my job is to study the Word regarding eunuchs (LGBT people), pull these things out by the power of the Holy Spirit, and then submit those findings to Pastors for their consideration, evaluation (and hopefully), implementation through their corresponding congregations. After all, that's <strong>their</strong> job...not mine...and <strong>nobody</strong> knows a Pastor's flock like they do!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The second main reason I share my interpretations of these prophecies is to help provide a pathway that demonstrates the <strong>fulfillment</strong> of them. We have quite a few modern prophecies concerning these things that seem to have (thus far) gone nowhere. I believe that being able to point to <strong>possible </strong>concrete examples of their fulfillment and/or interpretation lends credibility to not only the prophetic words received throughout the decades following Azusa (which spawned the modern Christian Charismatic movement), but onward then to the entire Body of Christ as well! I believe in doing so, it will not only bring more new people into the Word of Faith Community of Believers, but also bring a lot of folks back into the Charismatic movement who had written off our modern prophets as frauds, because they didn't see the fulfillment of their utterances any sooner than this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While many Christians will find it hard and strange (and even impossible) to believe LGBT people could have anything to do with the fulfillment of modern (or ancient) prophecies, I believe being able to systematically demonstrate the culmination and intersection of these modern prophecies will lend credibility to the movement itself, which I believe will ultimately lead to not only a fuller understanding of LGBT people's role in the spiritual life of the Church throughout the Body of Christ, but also will reinvigorate the expectation of Christ's return among the faithful, which seems to have greatly diminished and waned over the years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Sister Clara Grace:</strong> When Brother Hagin said this, all I know to say to you is that I left there. I never knew one thing that was going on around me for I was in the Spirit. I was in the Spirit. I was not conscious of anybody. I have no idea in the world how I might look when those things happened, but I do know this: He opened the heavens to me! He rolled them back like great curtains; like great scrolls, and there was only a thin veil. There was only a thin veil between me and the Glory. I could see the Glory, but it was behind the veil. Then suddenly, I saw the indentation of many heads. </span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9 When the Lamb broke open the fifth seal, I saw at the foot of the altar the souls of those whose lives had been sacrificed for [adhering to] the Word of God and for the testimony they had borne.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Throughout my life, I have interpreted this to mean martyrs of the faith. If (and I realize this entire interpretation is a big <strong>"IF"</strong>), but if The Bed Keeper proves to be an accurate interpretation of Scripture regarding LGBT people, it could very well be that these souls include those in the LGBT community who have been killed in the name of God in countries such as Iran, Uganda, and other nations whose governments remain hostile to LGBT people. It could also include all the LGBT teens who committed suicide right here in the United States when they were no longer able to endure life separated from God and the Church, because of so many Christians (or paid spokespersons for anti-gay, "so-called" pro-family organizations), with a limited understanding of the eunuch Scriptures, who have not recognized that LGBT people ARE part of the family--EVERY family, in fact...including God's! If so, what this tells me is that these <strong>"just men made perfect"</strong> could have very well been LGBT people who (upon their death), were indeed <strong>"justified"</strong> (or in right standing with God), but not yet <strong>"perfected."</strong> Their perfection seems to have happened on the other side of death, behind the veil to which Sister Clara Grace referred...and whose blood may now be crying <strong>down</strong> from heaven to earth, just as Abel's blood cried <strong>up</strong> from earth to heaven in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%204:10&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Genesis 4:10</span></strong></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Regarding those things of which some people <strong>"misinterpreted Paul's writings and it wrested them to their own destruction,"</strong> I believe this is a reference to the traditional understanding of Romans 1, 1 Corinthians 6, and 1 Timothy 1, as well as what Paul based those teachings on from Leviticus 18 and 20. I address these in <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-18-romans.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Chapter 18: Romans</span></strong></a>, (where married women engaged in adultery to engage in sexual relations with animals--and married men engaged in adultery to engage in sexual relations with each other--as acts of worship to ancient Roman gods), <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-16-leviticus.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Chapter 16: Leviticus</span></strong></a> (where God clarifies that men married to women who engage in adultery with other men is just as much adultery as when it's with another woman), and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-17-forbid-to-marry.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Chapter 17: Forbid to Marry</strong></span></a> (where men married to women would engage in adultery to hire "gay-for-pay" temple prostitutes with which to worship the goddess Diana), as well as <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Chapter 2: God Sanctioned Gay Marriage</span></strong></a> (where the Apostle Paul first rebukes a preacher who was molesting boys in his own congregation in 1 Corinthians 6, and then went on to ordain same sex marriage in 1 Corinthians 7...in the very same letter), and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-14-men-of-sodom.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Chapter 14: Men of Sodom</span></strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-15-entertaining-angels.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Chapter 15: Entertaining Angels</span></strong></a> (where we see the destruction of Sodom was to purge fallen angels who mated with human women). I proffer alternate interpretations that capture the context in which I believe each of these passages are written (and is most often missed by most Christians). Indeed, I believe Sister Clara was saying that the traditional misapplication of these Scriptures has not only led to the death of many LGBT people in the name of God, but has cost the Church her moral authority in the earth, (as well as her slow, agonizing death) as membership continues to wane throughout the world because of it....that is...at least until now!</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 True, there is nothing to be gained by it, but [as I am obliged] to boast, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago--whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows--was caught up to the third heaven.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It would seem to me that as our modern understanding of human sexuality, orientation and identity has been more fully explored through natural sciences, that perhaps it is now permissible to share with the Christian Church these spiritual things being revealed through God's Word, and explained in The Bed Keeper. I also believe they were spiritually confirmed beforehand by prophetic utterances such as this one through Sister Clara Grace, but also through <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/02/more-sure-word-of-prophecy.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Brother Kenneth E. Hagin</span></strong></a> (from the 2003 Rhema Bible Seminar), <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/eagle-mountain-justus-du-plessis.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Brother Justus Du Plessis</span></strong></a> (from Eagle Mountain International Church in August 1996), <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/111111-prophetic-utterance-from-brother.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Brother Kenneth Copeland</span></strong></a> (from the 2011 Washington DC Victory Campaign), <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/02/022612-prophetic-utterance-from-pastor.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Pastor George Pearsons</span></strong></a> (from Eagle Mountain International Church in February 26, 2012), and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/12/billye-brim-prayer-mountain-in-ozarks.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Sister Billye Brim</span></strong></a> (from Prayer Mountain in the Ozarks December 14, 2011 Prayer Meeting). I believe each of these prophecies not only confirm and foreshadowed in spiritual terms what has been revealed in more natural and present day terms throughout The Bed Keeper, but also demonstrates the Holy Spirit confirming each of these modern prophecies <strong>with each other!</strong> In doing so, I believe we have the Scriptural process of discerning prophecy as true or false by "letting each word be confirmed by two or three witnesses." (See<strong> </strong><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/?search=three+witnesses&version1=AMP&searchtype=all" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>various Scriptures</strong></span></a><strong>).</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I further believe it is quite possible that until the Holy Spirit chose to reveal these things from Scripture to eunuchs (LGBT people) <strong>themselves</strong>, God could not fully release this revelation to man. In other words, no matter how many prophets may have previously foretold of these revelations in spiritual terms, until LGBT people <strong>themselves</strong> began to see it, hear it, believe it, and declare it in the natural realm through faith (such as through The Bed Keeper), God simply could not release the full revelation to the Church in terms that natural man could comprehend with his mind, hence God's reference to "shepherds who cannot understand" in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2056:10-12&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Isaiah 56:10-12</span></strong></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Though I hesitate to admit it, there is also the possibility that just as God kept secret certain portions of what Paul saw in his vision of heaven, so too He may have kept secret the <strong>mystery of the eunuchs</strong> until such a time as the Church could receive it...and implement it. This would certainly explain (to me) why Sister Clara Grace could see this was a great number of people who were part of the Church, and were a particular, separate group of people sent to minister to the Church, yet Sister Clara <strong>"had not the words"</strong> to describe us. Perhaps what Sister Clara was saying through that particular phrase was the Holy Spirit constrained her from sharing her revelation of these things in the starker details expressed throughout The Bed Keeper. We have to remember, this came through her in the 1960's, long before we had words to describe LGBT people with the words we do in 2013. Indeed the words we use today were not something Sister Clara (or the Christian hearers in her midst that day) would have had access to or understood, because many of the words had not yet even been developed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Sister Clara Grace:</strong> Suddenly I saw the group come back from the third heaven. (The ones that had come from earth and gone into the third heaven)--I saw them come back. And I saw those others come into Resurrection and I saw a mystery that <strong>I haven't the words. I don't know the words to say.</strong> The only way I can put it (and it always takes away from it) but the only way I know to say it is that I saw the unseen realm swallow up the seen. I saw that which is eternal take charge completely of that which is only external and temporary. And I saw these two groups of people; the ones that had been taken beyond the veil and the ones from the other side that had pressed through the veil to this side. And I saw these two groups of people amalgamate and become one. And the ones from over there and the ones down here who had been up and gotten the Word; are you listening? It's the Word! And I saw them go and I saw them come back. and He [the Holy Spirit] said to me, <strong>"These are my full grown sons! </strong><strong>I want you to know that there are women in the bunch too! These are my full grown sons (and daughters). My full grown children!"</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Brother Brian Commentary:</strong> One of the most shocking revelations for me in studying out the eunuch Scriptures was to learn God refers to us as "sons" and "daughters" in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2056:5&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Isaiah 56:5</span></strong></a>. I believe what Sister Grace saw here is basically outlined between </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 1: Born This Way</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-3-for-sake-of-kingdom-of-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 3: For the Sake of the Kingdom of Heaven</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> where we see how Scripture leads to the conclusion that born eunuchs is an euphemism for LGBT people, and that Jesus taught we are born so "for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven" in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2019:11-12&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Matthew 19:11-12</span></strong></a>. Further, we see the account of the Ethiopian Eunuch being turned away from the Jewish Congregation under Moses' ban on eunuchs in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2023:1&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Deuteronomy 23:1</span></strong></a> and then baptized under the New Covenant as the beginning fulfillment of <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2055:11-56:12&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Isaiah 55:11-56:12</span></strong></a>, through that account in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%208:25-40&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Acts 8:25-40</span></strong></a> when the Holy Spirit led Philip to read to the eunuch from <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2053-56&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Isaiah 53-Isaiah 56</span></strong></a>, which ties the Messianic prophecies about Jesus <strong>directly</strong> to the eunuch prophecies in Isaiah 56, bringing God's prophecy to female eunuchs along with it through Isaiah 54, and coming right through Isaiah 55 where God describes a series of reversals of fortune, as He affirms that His Word shall go forth and accomplish that for which He pleased and purposed, promising it would prosper in the thing for which He sent it. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Talk about your "amalgamations!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We see Jesus, female eunuchs, male eunuchs, and the baptism of the Ethiopian eunuch all tied together by Isaiah 53-56, and like a scarlet thread, they then tie into Jesus' proclamation that his House will be a House of Prayer as He quotes from the eunuch prophecy when He cleared the temple in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2021:13&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Matthew 21:13</span></strong></a>, as well as to Paul's inclusion of "unmarried people" (male eunuchs) and "widows" (female eunuchs) in his ordination of Same Sex Marriage in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%207:8-9&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">1 Corinthians 7:8-9</span></strong></a> as detailed in <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Chapter 2: God Sanctioned Gay Marriage</span></strong></a>, which itself then ties back again to not only Isaiah 54 through 56, but also then back to Jesus' Own teaching on eunuchs in Matthew 19:12, where Jesus not only exempts LGBT people from heterosexual marriage, but confirms that we are BORN so from our mothers' womb....<strong>for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven!</strong> WHEW!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I believe that scarlet thread then indeed leads us to now see the prophetic importance and applicability of all LGBT people being included in the spiritual life of the Christian Church, (as well the Return of Jesus Christ and the Great Resurrection), and that Sister Clara saw us "go behind the veil" of the <strong>mystery of the eunuchs</strong> contained throughout God's Word, as explained (to the best of my ability) throughout The Bed Keeper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Another point to make about <strong>"I want you to know there are women in the bunch too"</strong> comes to us from <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Chapter 2: God Sanctioned Gay Marriage</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color: blue;">,</span></strong> where the Apostle Paul not only ordained same sex marriage for the <strong>male</strong> eunuchs Jesus had exempted from heterosexual marriage in Matthew 19:12 (whom Paul referred to as "unmarried people"), but then goes on to include <strong>women</strong> in his ordination of same sex marriage as well, by referencing "widows" (which we discovered is <strong>not</strong> a reference to women whose husbands had passed away as we define the term "widows" today, and whom he addressed separately in 1 Corinthians 7:39-40), but is instead</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> an intertextual echo of <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2054:1-4&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Isaiah 54:1-4</span></strong></a> where God prophesies to single, never married, childless women, and refers to their condition as a "widowhood"). Paul did this when ordaining same sex marriage in order to include <strong>women</strong> specifically, because Jesus only referred to <strong>males</strong> in Matthew 19:11-12. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Brother Brian Commentary:</strong> I truly believe ALL believers have this same access through God's Word and prayer, but that what Sister Clara Grace was seeing was a time wherein eunuchs (LGBT people) actually began to access this privilege for ourselves, as shared throughout The Bed Keeper. I believe the Holy Spirit was confirming long before its printing that The Bed Keeper was indeed "on the right track," even as we all recognize that none of us have a corner on all God's truth, except Him. I believe Sister Clara now goes beyond telling us "who" she saw, but now "why" she saw us, revealing the purpose for LGBT people in relation to the spiritual life of the Christian Church.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Brother Brian Commentary:</strong> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This seems to me to be the first verse of God's prophecy to eunuchs from Isaiah 56:1 which reads, <strong>"</strong></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thus says the Lord: Keep justice, do and use righteousness (conformity to the will of God which brings salvation), for My salvation is soon to come and My righteousness (My rightness and justice) to be revealed."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I believe that as we see the first thing God tells eunuchs is to "Keep Justice" that explains the LGBT community is not out to "gain <strong>special</strong> rights..." but simply "<strong>equal</strong> rights" (aka "justice"). The fact God just happened to use a man named "Justus" to deliver yet </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/eagle-mountain-justus-du-plessis.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">another related prophecy</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is just one more of those things that add up to a mountain of "coincidences" that are hard (for me) to ignore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Brother Brian Commentary:</strong> Indeed I believe God has given the Church a spirit of wisdom and revelation, and The Bed Keeper simply puts it in words our natural minds can understand. I believe the <strong>mystery of the eunuchs</strong> is readily available throughout God's Word for anyone willing to go in and draw water from that well. But it's very possible it takes a eunuch's bucket to dip into it and draw it out one bucket (or chapter) at a time, as the Holy Spirit leads us into all truth, just as Jesus said He would. In other words, I think the only difference between what Sister Clara saw and what The Bed Keeper reveals is the modern words being used, and the perspective of a eunuch to draw it out. We see this with the Book of James, who is the one who taught the Church about our words. We see this with the Apostle Paul who taught the Church about the Holy Spirit and His Gifts. We see this when Jesus recognized Himself in the Scriptures as well. While that makes each of them "unique" and "special," I believe it's no different with The Bed Keeper and these modern day prophets like Sister Grace; there is One Holy Spirit that worketh all in all, distributing gifts (not indiscriminately, but individually)...through GRACE...and that <strong>God gives to it the body that He plans and sees fit, and to <u>each kind of seed a body of its own</u>. </strong>(1 Corinthians 15:38). LGBT people just happen to have a born eunuch's body, sired by our fathers' seed, and born so from our mothers' wombs. It really IS a family affair, and we really ARE part of the family, both naturally, and spiritually!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Brother Brian Commentary:</strong> I think this can easily speak of all Christians, but I think if we include what we now know about eunuchs from Scripture, this speaks to a confirmation of LGBT people fulfilling prophecies that must come to pass before Jesus can return. In Luke 24:44 we see Jesus declare, <strong>"This is what I told you while I was still with you: everything which is written concerning Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled."</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Romans 11:25, Paul declares,<strong> "</strong><strong>Lest you be self-opinionated (wise in your own conceits), I do not want you to miss this hidden truth <i>and</i> mystery, brethren: a hardening (insensibility) has [temporarily] befallen a part of Israel [to last] <u>until the full number of the ingathering of the Gentiles has come in</u>..."</strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And in Isaiah 56:4-8 we see God declare the full ingathering of Gentiles must include eunuchs (LGBT people): <strong>"For thus says the Lord: To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths and choose the things which please Me and hold firmly My covenant—</strong><span class="text Isa-56-5" id="en-AMP-18759"><strong>to them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial and a name better [and more enduring] than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off. </strong></span><span class="text Isa-56-6" id="en-AMP-18760"><strong>Also the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord to minister to Him and to love the name of the Lord and to be His servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath so as not to profane it and who holds fast My covenant [by conscientious obedience]—</strong></span><span class="text Isa-56-7" id="en-AMP-18761"><strong>All these I will bring to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on My altar; for My house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples. </strong></span><span class="text Isa-56-8" id="en-AMP-18762"><strong>Thus says the Lord God, Who gathers the outcasts of Israel: <u>I will gather yet others to [Israel] besides those already gathered</u>.</strong></span></span><br />
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<span class="text Isa-56-8" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As discussed throughout The Bed Keeper, Jesus cannot return until all prophecies are fulfilled, including Isaiah 56:8 (when the full ingathering of Gentiles is complete with the inclusion of LGBT people/eunuchs), and Roman 11:25, which cannot come to pass until Isaiah 56:8 has come to pass. Until both prophecies have come to pass, according to Luke 24:44, Jesus cannot return to the earth. Until Jesus does return, nobody gets resurrected, as we see verified in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 saying:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Sister Clara Grace:</strong> There are going to be people in this life before this thing is over who shall walk out of time into eternity and never face death. They belong to that group who are going to set up the visible coming of the Lord; the kingdom here that will be visible. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So then here is the Church. This great multitude, and they're struggling through the darkness. They're struggling in this dark valley, and they're struggling toward the Light. And then that's when the mystery came that I haven't words to explain. I saw these two groups of people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And they were ministering to the Body of Christ. He speaks (she says) of deliverers out of Zion. He speaks of saviors out of Zion. Rescuers. Read your Word. Look into these things. These marvelous things that await us. He [the Holy Spirit] said to me, <strong>"They are preparing the rest of the Body for my visible appearance. He's coming again, and we are going to bring Him back!"</strong> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Brother Brian Commentary:</strong> I believe Sister Grace's reference to those <strong>"who received a double portion of the Father's inheritance"</strong> is explained further in <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-10-no-dry-trees.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Chapter 10: No Dry Trees!</strong></span></a> I believe <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></span></a> confirms Sister Grace's phrase, "<strong>it's a part of their duty to supply the needs of the rest of the family of God"</strong> as it illustrates that part of the eunuch prophecy includes a spiritual mandate to bring our offerings to God's altar. <strong>Brother Brian Commentary:</strong> I believe <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</span></strong></a> confirms Sister Grace's phrase, "<strong>it's a part of their duty to supply the needs of the rest of the family of God"</strong> as it illustrates that part of the eunuch prophecy includes a spiritual mandate to bring our offerings to God's altar. I also believe <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/chapter-22-jesus-jews-and-gays.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Chapter 22: Jesus, Jews and Gays</strong></span></a> is one place to look to for light on God's Word as to the purpose of our offerings, as is <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Chapter 21: GAZA: Holy Land for Gays</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color: blue;">.</span></strong> What they demonstrate (to me) is that eunuchs first being excluded from the promises of God under the Old Covenant by Moses in Deuteronomy 23:1, God prophesying of a day eunuchs would be included in His Congregation under the New Covenant in Isaiah 55:11-56:12, Jesus revealing to us in Matthew 19:11-12 that eunuchs include more than just the castrated males Moses speaks of, and includes born eunuchs as well (LGBT people) as discussed in <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Chapter 1: Born This Way</span></strong></a>, that the baptism of the Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts 8:25-40 was a demonstration of a Jewish castrated foreigner being denied entrance into the Jewish congregation under the Old Covenant, but being baptized into the New Covenant in accordance with God's eunuch prophecy in <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-3-for-sake-of-kingdom-of-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Chapter 3: For the Kingdom of Heaven</span></strong></a>, and that God's promise to eunuchs in Isaiah 55:11-56:12 would now also include LGBT people (born eunuchs) as well, who would then come back around as <strong>'deliverers out of Zion'</strong> to bring Jews into the New Covenant as prophesied by Apostle Paul in Romans 11:25 and as discussed in <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/chapter-22-jesus-jews-and-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Chapter 22: Jesus, Jews and Gays</span></strong></a>, and in the meantime, a "rebuilding" would occur through the efforts of LGBT Christians as a fulfillment of Isaiah 61:4-11, as discussed in <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Chapter 21: Gaza: Holy Land for Gays</span></strong></a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I believe Sister Clara Grace may not have necessarily (or literally) seen LGBT people going into heaven and coming back again, but instead that perhaps it was a metaphor representing the prayers for the Awakening that had made it to the heaven side of the veil where God's glory resides, and that the faces pressing through were the pray-ers here on earth taking on "spiritual flesh" in the spiritual realm (for lack of a better term), and it was perhaps those prayers that were pressing against the veil from the heaven side until God's glory could be released back to the earth, as also explored in <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</span></strong></a>. I believe the people on this side of the veil were LGBT people who were/are now being Awakened to our place in God's plan and Kingdom....as well as those already in the Church who are likewise being awakened to these revelations from Scripture, and that through our offerings on God's altar in the natural realm, we provide "kindling" that brings the glory of the Lord back to the earth from time to time as He sees fit to send it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Another metaphorical way to view it is that it was Jews who have passed on from the living being the faces on the heaven side of the veil, and LGBT people being on this side of the veil, and that it was LGBT people being "caught up to the third heaven" (but only in a spiritual sense) through prayer and revelation about Jews and LGBT people from Scripture. If so, then the "amalgamation" of the two which Sister Grace mentioned could be the bringing of LGBT people into an awareness of our prophetic role not only in the return of Christ (by fulfilling Isaiah 55:11-56:12), but also our role as "deliverers out of Zion" wherein we bring Jews into the New Covenant to "amalgamate" with Christians into the spiritual life of the Christian Church. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Finally, I believe the veil could also metaphorically represent the current dividing wall between Gentiles and Jews, but just as easily could represent the current dividing wall between Christians and LGBT people. I believe that whatever the veil represents, the current Awakening now spreading throughout the Christian Church will tear down that dividing wall if we stay at it, and this veil Sister Grace saw will be rent in twain in the heavenly sphere, just as the physical veil dividing off the Holy of Holies in the Temple was rent in twain in the earthly sphere when Jesus died on the Cross...and in doing so, provides us ALL access to BOTH the spiritual and physical realms of God's creation!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And if we are going to REALLY step out of the boat, I would add that I also believe the veil in the heavenly sphere could metaphorically represent the controlling and dividing influence of the Spirit of Jezebel, which I believe Scripture illustrates as being responsible for not only oppressing women in the Church, but is also the root source of homophobia (a type of fear), as discussed in <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</span></strong></a>, and anti-Semitism (another type of fear) as discussed in <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/chapter-22-jesus-jews-and-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Chapter 22: Jesus, Jews and Gays.</span></strong></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Brother Brian Commentary:</strong> THANK YOU to everyone who took the time to explore this possible interpretation of Sister Clara Grace's remarkable prophetic vision! I hope I have done it justice deemed worthy of Sister Grace's gifting, and that it proves to be a blessing to all who read it! Since there is so much commentary splitting up Sister Grace's prophecy, the following will show it in its entirety, without comments. ENJOY!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Brother Hagin said this, all I know to say to you is that I left there. I never knew one thing that was going on around me for I was in the Spirit. I was in the Spirit. I was not conscious of anybody. I have no idea in the world how I might look when those things happened, but I do know this: He opened the heavens to me! He rolled them back like great curtains; like great scrolls, and there was only a thin veil. There was only a thin veil between me and the Glory. I could see the Glory, but it was behind the veil. Then suddenly, I saw the indentation of many heads. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I saw these heads in the upper right hand corner (which she said, when it's on the right hand, it's heaven). He [the Holy Spirit] said, <strong>"These are the spirits of just men made perfect pressing their way into the Resurrection."</strong> There they were! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then down here on my left side on the earth, (the left side is earthly things), I saw a great group of people. I didn't know any of them. But I knew that they were part of the Church. And I saw them caught away and they were taken behind the veil, and I knew it wasn't the Rapture of the Church. But these were a group of people! They were taken behind the veil and the Spirit said <strong>"I'm taking them to the same place I took the Apostle Paul wherein he saw and heard things that he was never allowed to fully express."</strong> That's the reason Peter said that he had preached some things that were hard to be understood, because it was hard to find expression for them. Some people misinterpreted those things that he said, and it wrested them to their own destruction.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Suddenly I saw the group come back from the third heaven. (The ones that had come from earth and gone into the third heaven)--I saw them come back. And I saw those others come into Resurrection and I saw a mystery that <strong>I haven't the words. I don't know the words to say.</strong> The only way I can put it (and it always takes away from it) but the only way I know to say it is that I saw the unseen realm swallow up the seen. I saw that which is eternal take charge completely of that which is only external and temporary. And I saw these two groups of people; the ones that had been taken beyond the veil and the ones from the other side that had pressed through the veil to this side. And I saw these two groups of people amalgamate and become one. And the ones from over there and the ones down here who had been up and gotten the Word; are you listening? It's the Word! And I saw them go and I saw them come back. and He [the Holy Spirit] said to me, <strong>"These are my full grown sons! </strong><strong>I want you to know that there are women in the bunch too! These are my full grown sons (and daughters). My full grown children."</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had no consciousness that they saw each other. But I did have this consciousness: That they had come to a place in God, to where they had entrance into either realm; the seen or the unseen. They had access to either realm. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then I saw a great picture. I saw a great, great immeasurable valley; dark and black with only light enough to barely see them. It was reamed about by impassable mountains. And way in the distance, in the East, I saw a great gap suddenly appear in that mountain, and I saw a great light rising and the Holy Spirit (my Interpreter) said to me, <strong>"This is the Son of Righteousness rising with healing in His wings."</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then I saw another mystery. You know the first chapter of Ephesians in the Amplified version where the Apostle Paul prayed for the Church at Ephesus that they might have the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, that they might come to understand the marvelous experience of being the inheritance of God, and to understand the mystery that was in them, being Christ Himself. And knowing the fullness of the power which God demonstrated when He raised Christ from the dead and seated Him at His Own Right Hand.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So then here is the Church. This great multitude, and they're struggling through the darkness. They're struggling in this dark valley, and they're struggling toward the Light. And then that's when the mystery came that I haven't words to explain. I saw these two groups of people.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And when they came together, something like a cloud and a mist...they became this cloud. And this cloud then began to move over the Church. They were moving through this great army of people. They surrounded them. They lifted up their hands that were hanging down. They strengthened the feeble knees. They lifted up their heads. They were lifting up their bodies that were too weary to go another step. And again He [the Holy Spirit] said, <strong>"These are my full grown sons, who have received a double portion of the Father's inheritance, and it's a part of their duty to supply the needs of the rest of the family of God."</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And they were ministering to the Body of Christ. He speaks of deliverers out of Zion. He speaks of saviors out of Zion. Rescuers. Read your Word! Look into these things! These marvelous things that await us! He [the Holy Spirit] said to me, <strong>"They are preparing the rest of the Body for my visible appearance. He's coming again, and we are going to bring Him back!"</strong> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span></div>
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BrotherBrianBowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14857373000625848606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3826372584606790626.post-67905562699251514452013-04-01T20:48:00.001-07:002013-11-21T06:08:54.537-08:00A More Sure Word Of Prophecy<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On February 25, 2012 I received a strong unction in my spirit to begin exploring the prophecy delivered by Brother Kenneth E. Hagin in 2003 during the Rhema Winter Bible Seminar. The prophecy is available online in its entirety </span><a href="http://anointedword.com/anointedword/wbsfriendly.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>here.</strong></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Holy Spirit began prompting my spirit to interpret certain small portions of it over the past several years since first learning of it through Sister Billye Brim, as she shared on it during a televised teaching on the Believer's Voice of Victory, with Sister Gloria Copeland on the Monday, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/7tzae8c" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">April 24, 2006 broadcast.</span></strong></a> Though I remained cautiously skeptical at first, during the subsequent years of studying Brother Hagin's ministry, I grew more and more reliant upon his anointed utterances and teachings for my own spiritual growth and giftings. It was exciting to imagine that there were still modern prophets alive on the earth and still being used and set in the Church by God Himself! Over the past 7 years of studying the Eunuch Scriptures throughout God's Word and publishing them in <a href="http://bookstore.authorhouse.com/Products/SKU-000529654/The-Bed-Keeper.aspx" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">The Bed Keeper</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color: blue;">,</span></strong> I now find myself drawn once again to this prophecy (among others) and share now a possible interpretation of major portions of Brother Hagin's prophecy, that seem to have heretofore gone unfulfilled.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">One important note is that I have learned to ignore specific years when given in prophecy, other than to use as a line of demarcation in time, or the beginning of a prophecy emerging into reality. I have learned that although a prophesied event may indeed begin to take root in a particular year, more often than not they are simply the beginning markers, and their impact continues to be felt for years to come. Indeed some of God's Own prophecies from His Word have yet to come to pass, even though Jesus had declared the acceptable year of the Lord more than 2,000 years ago. In her own prophecy from December 14, 2011, Sister Billye Brim explains:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And you’re going into it now, and things are changing, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and I am the "How" of Rearranging...</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">EVERYTHING! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> For My Purpose</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and My Plan shall not be abated, aborted—</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but it shall stand! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With this background in mind, let us now attempt to shed a greater light on Brother Hagin's prophecy in view of the revelations God shared throughout His Word concerning born eunuchs, and our prophetic purpose in God's plan for mankind, and the return of Jesus Christ (not only for the Church, but for the Jews as well). Throughout this exploration, I will share a portion of Brother Hagin's prophecy, and then offer my interpretation immediately afterward, largely represented by a link to a specific chapter of The Bed Keeper, or by links to product resources from trusted ministries that explain how some of the aspects Brother Hagin mentions regarding the Holy Spirit can be more fully explored by believers of all walks of life for cultivating their own understanding and spiritual gifts for the benefit of the entire Body of Christ, the Church.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I believe what we'll end up with is a rather specific blueprint (or model) for bringing the revelations examined in The Bed Keeper into a practical application for the Church at this time in human history, and find ourselves building on very solid ground as Eunuch Ministries begin sprouting up in ministries and churches all over the planet. I believe these Eunuch Ministries will be rooted deeply upon God's Word, and stand to be greatly enhanced by the pointed directives and encouragement contained throughout this prophetic crown jewel of God's handiwork, within the Word of Faith Charismatic movement in these last days!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As these ministries take shape within their unique congregational settings, and become framed with their unique purposes, I believe the revelation knowledge we can glean from this utterance (combined with the illumination of the Eunuch Scriptures contained within God's Word) will also allow Pastors to further utilize these Kingdom messages and teachings into a curriculum that can be easily modified with various teachings from a wide range of ministries, giving Pastors wide ranging flexibility in establishing Eunuch Ministries that suit the particular needs of their congregations and local communities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Well say it out loud, "For the Lord is good and His mercy endureth </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">forever." Say it again. One more time. Aren't you glad? Lift your hands and </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">thank God for His goodness! Thank God for His mercy. For the Lord is good </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">[repeats] and His mercy endureth for ever!</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many are concerned about the future and they wonder what will happen? <span style="font-family: Arial;">Will darkness overtake, or will the light shine bright? </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Yea, saith the Lord of hosts, remember that you're in My hands. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">And remember that I know the future better than you know the past. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">And all is well!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will alert you concerning that which will affect you! <span style="font-family: Arial;">I will show you the way to go and you'll walk in it and be BLESSED </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">above all the people of the world, upon the earth you shall be BLESSED! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">For thou art My people and My people shall rule and reign! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">And the BLESSING of God will fall upon them! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-10-no-dry-trees.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 10: No Dry Trees</span></strong></a></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The latter rain shall be poured out! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Yea, upon nations that are now barren and void! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">But the rain will be poured out! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 21: GAZA: Holy Land for Gays</span></strong></a> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The seed <strong>will</strong> be planted! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The harvest <strong>will</strong> come! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The glory of God <strong>will</strong> shine upon the earth! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/chapter-22-jesus-jews-and-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 22: Jesus, Jews, and Gays</span></strong> </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And they of the world will walk on in the way in which they've walked! <span style="font-family: Arial;">And the darkness shall overtake them. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">But ye shall walk in the light! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The entrance of His Words giveth light! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/12/billye-brim-prayer-mountain-in-ozarks.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See 12.14.11 Prophetic Utterance from Sister Billye Brim.</span></strong></a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walk according to the Word! <span style="font-family: Arial;">Walk IN the Word! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Walk IN the Spirit! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>See Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</strong></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the power shall rest upon you! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-7-baptism-by-fire.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 7: Baptized With Fire</span></strong></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the glory of God shall be seen upon your face! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</span></strong></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many shall turn to the Lord! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-3-for-sake-of-kingdom-of-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 3: For The Kingdom of Heaven</span></strong></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Great days, great times, great blessings are ahead! <span style="font-family: Arial;">So rejoice and be glad! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/111111-prophetic-utterance-from-brother.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See What About 2012? 11.11.11 Prophetic Utterance from Brother Kenneth Copeland </span></strong></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Many are concerned about things that have happened. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The terror that has taken hold of the hearts of many. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Many are concerned about war! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Many are concerned about the future! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Darkness seems to be developing. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dark clouds are on the horizon of time. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">But yea, saith the Lord of hosts, <strong>"Walk not by what you see with the </strong></span><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">physical eye. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Walk not by what you feel with the physical feeling. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Walk not according to what your physical senses tell you!"</strong> <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/02/eunuch-offerings.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>See Eunuch Offerings, Eagle Mountain International Church</strong></span></a> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But walk according to what My Word says! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 19: Go, and Sin No More</span></strong></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walk according to what the Holy Ghost is saying unto you! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/12/billye-brim-prayer-mountain-in-ozarks.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See 12.14.11 Prophetic Utterance from Sister Billye Brim </span></strong></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For He's speaking unto many hearts! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-3-for-sake-of-kingdom-of-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 3: For The Kingdom of Heaven </span></strong></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And they walk on in the natural and pay no attention to their heart. <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-alan-chambers-exodus.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Open Letter to Alan Chambers, Exodus International</span></strong></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He's speaking to many spirits! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-bartholomew-i-eastern.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Open Letter to Bartholomew I, Eastern Orthodox Church</span></strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-her-majesty-queen-church.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Open Letter to Her Majesty The Queen, Church of England</span></strong></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">They walk on in the realm of the mental... <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/12/open-letter-to-faith2com.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Open Letter to Homosexuality Panelists, Agape Fellowship</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">...thinking their own thoughts. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Planning their own way. <strong><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/12/open-letter-to-jim-daly-focus-on-family.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">See Open Letter to Jim Daly, Focus on The Family</span></a></strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But yea, saith the Lord of hosts, <strong>"Listen to what the Spirit is saying to <span style="font-family: Arial;">your heart! </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>To your spirit!"</strong> <a href="http://www.rhema.org/store/authors/kenneth-e-hagin/plans-purposes-and-pursuits.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Review 6 CD Teaching Series: "Plans, Pursuits and Purposes" by Kenneth E. Hagin $42.00</span></strong></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And what He said to you act upon it! <span style="font-family: Arial;">Act upon it! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Act like it's so! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/eagle-mountain-justus-du-plessis.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Eagle Mountain: Justus Du Plessis Prophecy FULFILLED!</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rejoice and be glad i<span style="font-family: Arial;">n the face of adversity! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">In the face of seemingly natural defeat! </span>Because you have inside information! <a href="http://bookstore.authorhouse.com/Products/SKU-000529654/The-Bed-Keeper.aspx" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Review Book: The Bed Keeper by Brian Anthony Bowen $23.95</span></strong></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Information inside the Word. <span style="font-family: Arial;">Information given by the Spirit! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>See Chapter 1: Born This Way</strong></span></a> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Glory to God! Glory to God! <span style="font-family: Arial;">And-it-shall-all-come-to-pass! Amen! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Praise God! That's what the Spirit of God's saying! Thank You, Lord </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Jesus! <strong><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isaiah%2055:11-56:12&version=AMP" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">See Isaiah 55:11-56:8</span></a></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We pride ourselves in being a Word church and Word people. <span style="font-family: Arial;">And right and good for it is true, saith the Lord, you are a Word people. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">But do not forget that you're also a Holy Ghost people--spiritual! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Yes the Word goes forth. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">But again and again the Spirit has endeavored to move in your midst... <a href="https://www.lakewood.cc/pages/store-messages.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Review 2 CD Teaching Series: "The Baptism of the Holy Spirit" by Lisa Osteen Comes $10.00</strong></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...and you've ignored Him and you've kept quiet. <a href="http://www.joycemeyer.org/ProductDetail.aspx?id=003829#ProductOverview" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Review 4 CD Teaching Series: "Overcoming Fear with Faith" by Joyce Meyer $26.00</span></strong></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some have yielded temporarily to the Spirit. <a href="http://www.rhema.org/store/authors/kenneth-e-hagin/holy-spirit-series.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Review 6 CD Teaching Series: "Holy Spirit Series (1967)" by Kenneth E. Hagin $42.00</span></strong></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the Spirit seeketh to manifest Himself. <a href="http://www.rhema.org/store/authors/kenneth-e-hagin/how-you-can-be-led-by-spir-vol-1-cd.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Review 6 CD Teaching Series: "How You Can Be Led by The Spirit of God" by Kenneth E. Hagin $42.00</span></strong></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He'll manifest Himself in revelation, revealing unto you <span style="font-family: Arial;">through the word of knowledge... <a href="https://my.kcm.org/node/9239" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Review 6 CD Teaching Series: "Gifts of The Spirit" by Kenneth Copeland $30.00</span></strong></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...the word of wisdom, the discerning of <span style="font-family: Arial;">spirits. <strong><a href="https://my.kcm.org/products/authors/terri-copeland-pearsons/ministry-of-the-prophet" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Review 4 CD Teachings Series: "Ministry of The Prophet" by Terri Copeland Pearsons $20.00</span></a></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And He's endeavored to speak! <span style="font-family: Arial;">For He does speak unto His people by the Holy Spirit! <a href="https://secure.billyebrim.org/products/eschatology_school_iv_book_daniel_dvd_set" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Review 16 DVD Teaching Series: "Eschatology School IV - The Book of Daniel" by Billye Brim $150.00</span></strong></a></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By tongues and interpretation! <span style="font-family: Arial;">By prophecy! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/eagle-mountain-justus-du-plessis.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Eagle Mountain: Justus Du Plessis Prophecy FULFILLED!</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And many have held back and would not speak out! <span style="font-family: Arial;">And by so doing have quenched the Spirit... <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/12/open-letter-to-pat-robertson-700-club.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Open Letter to Pat Robertson, 700 Club</span></strong></a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...and have not only quenched the <span style="font-family: Arial;">Spirit </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">but have grieved the Spirit! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-pope-benedict-xvi.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Open Letter to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic Church</span></strong></a> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yea, listen to what the Spirit is saying! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/111111-prophetic-utterance-from-brother.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See What About 2012 11.11.11 Prophetic Utterance from Brother Kenneth Copeland</span></strong></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For if there is to be, and there will be, an outpouring of the Holy Ghost <span style="font-family: Arial;">in these latter days! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-7-baptism-by-fire.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 7: Baptized With Fire</span></strong></a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The latter rain--the early rain and the latter rain to gather in the fruit <span style="font-family: Arial;">of the earth... <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 21: GAZA: Holy Land for Gays</span></strong></a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...for which He is waiting to receive before He comes again! Yea, it's coming! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/chapter-22-jesus-jews-and-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 22: Jesus, Jews, and Gays</span></strong></a><strong> </strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And this year, the year of 2003, is a year of preparation! It's a year of separation! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-testimony.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See My Testimony (I rededicated in 2004)</span></strong></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There'll be those that'll separate themselves from you... <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/12/open-letter-to-faith2com.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Open Letter to Homosexuality Panelists, Agape Fellowship </span></strong></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...and walk in <span style="font-family: Arial;">their own way, carry out their own plan... <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/12/open-letter-to-tony-perkins-family.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Open Letter to Tony Perkins, Family Research Council</span></strong></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...and have no power, and no glory, and <span style="font-family: Arial;">no Spirit. <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-all-christians.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Open Letter to All Christians</span></strong></a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">But a deadness shall overtake them. <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-alan-chambers-exodus.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Open Letter to Alan Chambers, Exodus International</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But there shall be those that will respond in fullness and will say; <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/frequently-asked-questions.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Frequently Asked Questions</span></strong></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Yes Lord, yes Lord, I've missed it in times past. <span style="font-family: Arial;">I've even been disobedient, forgive me." <a href="http://www.joycemeyer.org/ProductDetail.aspx?id=O0008405#ProductOverview" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Review DVD Teaching Series: "<span id="ctl00_ctl00_cpMainContent_cpMainContent_UCResourceContext_lblTitle">Receiving and Giving Grace" by Joyce Meyer $20.00</span></span></strong></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And remember that He forgives! <span style="font-family: Arial;">Remember that there is mercy! <a href="https://secure.billyebrim.org/products/the-blood-and-the-glory-book" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Review Book: "The Blood and The Glory" by Billye Brim $13.00</span></strong></a></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remember that it stated, <strong>"Let us come boldly to the Throne of grace </strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>that we may obtain mercy...</strong> <a href="https://my.kcm.org/products/authors/terri-copeland-pearsons/a-deeper-understanding-of-praying-in-the-spirit" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Review 6 CD Teaching Series: "A Deeper Understanding of Praying in The Spirit" by Terri Copeland Pearsons $30.00</span></strong></a></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>...and find grace to help in the time of need!"</strong> <a href="http://www.kcm.org/media/webcast/jeremy-pearsons/120220-the-conversation-between-grace-and-faith" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Review 10 Part Teaching Series: "A Conversation Between Grace and Faith" by Jeremy Pearsons via Believer's Voice of Victory Broadcast</span></strong></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And so there's mercy and there's grace! <a href="https://my.kcm.org/node/9847" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Review Teaching Series: "Grace- Your Place for Opportunity, Ability and Success" by Kenneth Copeland and Keith Moore $24.95</span></strong></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And so pick up and go forward and learn, learn the ways of the Spirit! <span style="font-family: Arial;">Study! Meditate! <a href="https://my.kcm.org/products/authors/terri-copeland-pearsons/ways-of-the-spirit" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Review 3 CD Teaching Series: "Ways of The Spirit" by Terri Copeland Pearsons</span></strong></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There shall be a restoration! <span style="font-family: Arial;">There is a restoration in progress at the moment! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-pastors.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Open Letter To Pastors</span></strong></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A restoration! <span style="font-family: Arial;">A restoration spiritually speaking. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">When there shall be restored a full manifestation of the Spirit! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/12/billye-brim-prayer-mountain-in-ozarks.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See 12.14.11 Prophetic Utterance from Sister Billye Brim</span></strong></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How does the Spirit manifest Himself? <span style="font-family: Arial;">For to one is given a word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">by the same Spirit." </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">And we might add, "To another discerning of spirits by the same spirit. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">To another special faith, to another working of miracles, to another gifts </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">of healings; to another prophecy, to another divers kinds of tongues; to </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">another interpretation of tongues." </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">That's the way He manifests Himself. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">All of these worketh that one and selfsame Spirit dividing to every man </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">severally as He wills. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">And He's endeavored to divide the manifestation of that gift unto many </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">who sit here... <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-5-covenant-promises.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 5: Covenant Promises</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">...and you have not responded! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Be not afraid! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/eagle-mountain-justus-du-plessis.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Eagle Mountain: Justus Du Plessis Prophecy FULFILLED!</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, man is human and very often man misses it! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/2012-dont-give-up-now.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See 2012: "Don't Give Up Now!"</span></strong></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Misinterpreted, missed just what He's saying. <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-14-men-of-sodom.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 14: Men of Sodom</span></strong></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But do not let those things deter you but let it be a learning experience! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-15-entertaining-angels.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>See Chapter 15: Entertaining Angels</strong></span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes! Yes! This is the time of restoration! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-17-forbid-to-marry.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 17: Forbid To Marry</span></strong></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And there is coming a restoration in the world, in the natural <span style="font-family: Arial;">[that's a better way to say it] in the natural, the natural realm! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-18-romans.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 18: Romans</span></strong></a> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Restoration of marriages! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-16-leviticus.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 16: Leviticus</span></strong></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Restoration of those who have been out of fellowship one with another! <a href="http://kcm.org/partner" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See KCM Partnership Invitation Video</span></strong></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For some reason or another, selfishly, selfishly walking in their own way. <span style="font-family: Arial;">Refusing to fellowship with others. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">But there's a restoration! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">It's working even now and you cannot see it and you do not know it! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">But it is! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">And shall shortly come to pass! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">You'll be glad! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Many will be glad! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">BLESSINGS of God will flow! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Because you know it's written, again and again, in the Word of God, </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">particularly </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">in the Acts in the days of the Early</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Church. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">They were in one accord in one place when suddenly there came a sound from </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Heaven like as a rushing mighty wind! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">And so it is today w</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">hen you get in one accord!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many are out of fellowship! <span style="font-family: Arial;">But get into fellowship! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Get into fellowship one with another! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/introduction.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See The Bed Keeper: Introduction</span></strong></a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And get into one accord in praising and worshipping God! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/well-recall-from-chapter-5-of-bed_4258.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 9: Gotta Have Faith</span></strong></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the glory shall come in a way that you've never seen it before! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-10-no-dry-trees.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 10: No Dry Trees!</span></strong></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, this year 2003 is a year of preparation. <span style="font-family: Arial;">It's a year of not only preparation but it's a year of </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">restoration! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-6-lord-of-sabbath.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 6: Lord of The Sabbath</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And 2003 will be glorious, it'll build and build one upon another, so to <span style="font-family: Arial;">speak. See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/chapter-22-jesus-jews-and-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Chapter 22: Jesus, Jews, and Gays</span></strong></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">B<span style="font-family: Arial;">ut it will not all be glorious. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Yes, God's blessings is always glorious. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">But remember Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">And that wilderness experience was not all glorious until the end. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">And so there will come to many who sit here [better word] some who sit here </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">not so many, but some who sit here a time that'll not seem so glorious. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Grief shall be endured. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">But joy cometh in the morning! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And so in many ways 2003, a year of opportunity, a year of restoration! <span style="font-family: Arial;">A year of rebuilding, so to speak in some areas! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Open Letter to the LGBT Community (aka Endorsement of Eagle Mountain International Church as a House of Prayer for All People)</span></strong></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But! 2004, what about 2004? (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-testimony.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">My Testimony</span></strong></a> where I share how I rededicated my life to Jesus Christ at Lakewood Church in September 2004, and received Baptism of The Holy Spirit on Christmas Day 2004) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">200<span style="font-family: Arial;">4 will be a year for more. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">More power, more glory, more manifestation... <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-8-spiritual-leadership.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 8: Spiritual Leadership</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...more saved, <span style="font-family: Arial;">more filled with the Spirit, more healed!!! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">2004 will be a year for more! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-7-baptism-by-fire.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 7: Baptized With Fire</span></strong></a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What about 2005? <span style="color: black;"><strong>(I was water baptized in 2005 by Pastor Joel Osteen's brother, Dr. Paul Osteen)</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Will time last or will it cease? <span style="font-family: Arial;">2005 is a y</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">ear of judgment. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Judgment. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">If we judge ourselves we'll not be judged! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 19: Go, and Sin No More</span></strong></a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But when we are judged we're turned over to Satan for the destruction <span style="font-family: Arial;">of the flesh so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There'll be judgment in the <strong>individual</strong> realm. <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 1: Born This Way</span></strong></a> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There'll be judgment in the <strong>family</strong> realm. <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-17-forbid-to-marry.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>See Chapter 17: Forbid To Marry</strong></span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There'll be judgment on the <strong>national</strong> level. <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 2: God Sanctioned Gay Marriage</span></strong></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A day of sternness. <span style="font-family: Arial;">A day of discipline. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">A day of correction. <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/111111-prophetic-utterance-from-brother.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See What About 2012? 11.11.11 Prophetic Utterance from Brother Kenneth Copeland</span></strong></a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the end of the year will be glorious! <span style="font-family: Arial;">Amends shall be made! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/lakewood-church-endorsed-as-safe-space.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Lakewood Church Endorsed as SAFE SPACE!</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many shall judge themselves! <span style="font-family: Arial;">Nations will turn to God! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 21: GAZA: Holy Land for Gays</span></strong></a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now what about 2006? <span style="font-family: Arial;">There's no way to tell it! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">There is no way to tell it! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">How could you explain to an Eskimo what a tree looked like </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">they've never seen a tree in their life. Y</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">ou just can't tell it! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">And then besides that there's some things that should not be told now! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">At the moment. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">And there's some things that must not be told. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Paul, himself declared, "I knew a man above fourteen years ago, whether in </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">the </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">body, out of the body I cannot tell. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Such as one caught up into the third heaven. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">And I knew such a man whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tell. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">God knoweth. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Such as one caught up into Paradise and heard unspeakable words." </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Or Words which is not lawful to utter. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">And so that fits--that fits! That fits this! </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But those words fit the <strong>situation</strong>--not words that are not permitted to utter. <span style="font-family: Arial;">Permissible to utter. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Oh Lord, oh my! How do you describe it? </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Oh! Yeah! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">And that's just the beginning! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Yeah, when I say "beginning" I'm talking about what happens just at the </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">beginning of the year! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">And it'll grow in intensity! It </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">will be--I could say this that it will be a glorious year! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">It will be a year of heaven on earth! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">But the end will be more glorious than the beginning! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">So rejoice and be glad! Amen!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The enemy is a defeated foe! <span style="font-family: Arial;">Jesus has triumphed! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Victory belongs to <strong>EVERYONE!</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">No one should come up empty-handed! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">But <strong>EVERYONE</strong> should walk in full victory! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Commanding and demanding their rights and privileges in Christ Jesus! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Demanding nothing of the Father He's the One that made the provision! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">But it'll all come to pass! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">It'll all come to pass at last! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">And the Holy Spirit has spoken unto a number of ministers here tonight. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">And He's spoken to you in times past. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Told you exactly what to do. <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</span></strong></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You never have done it yet! <span style="font-family: Arial;">And you wonder why He withholds certain things. <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/02/eunuch-offerings.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Eunuch Offerings, Eagle Mountain International Church</span></strong></a> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You wonder why it's tough. <span style="font-family: Arial;">Or the way seems rough. <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-3-for-sake-of-kingdom-of-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 3: For The Kingdom of Heaven</span></strong></a><strong> </strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Go ahead, listen to what the Holy Ghost is saying! <span style="font-family: Arial;">Make your church not only a Word church but a Holy Ghost church! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Put the Word first always! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Move in the Holy Ghost in line with the Word. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">And the glory shall be made manifest! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The glory shall even be seen by many! </span>And the blessings of the Lord will flow like a mighty river! <span style="font-family: Arial;">Thank You Lord Jesus! <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">See Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It shall come to pass! <span style="font-family: Arial;">It shall all come to pass! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">It shall come to pass at last! Glory to God! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Hallelujah, thank You Lord! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Amen! Amen! Praise God! Hallelujah! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But! There's another little story there. People need to learn. You <span style="font-family: Arial;">can learn by your own experience, but you can learn from other people's </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">experience. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">God began to use him in some things of the Spirit! But he was fearful </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">of people and drew back and it came back on him! But then God dealt with him </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">and he decided he'd just obey God and it changed again didn't it? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Somebody said, "Yeah, but what if?" <span style="font-family: Arial;">Well you know what the Bible said? You remember what James said </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">talking about Elijah. "He's a man subject to like passion as we are." </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Yet he prayed earnestly and the heaven was shut up, didn't rain. Prayed </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">again and prayed the rain down. Just a man subject to like passions. That </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">means just like you and me! Amen! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eagle Mountain International Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Be the agent of change that I have called you to be in this earth t</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o change the lives of people! To lift them up to a <strong>NEW PLACE,</strong> a <strong>NEW REALM,</strong> a <strong>NEW THING of GLORY!</strong> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this video, Brian Anthony Bowen reveals Scriptures the Church never talks about which prove that Jesus taught that LGBT people are born this way...and that prove the Apostle Paul ordained Gay Marriage...IN THE BIBLE!<br /><br />This changes EVERYTHING!<br />More info: </span><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://brianbowenministries.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://BrianBowenMinistries.com"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://BrianBowenMinistries.com</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I have engaged in hundreds of discussions about what the Bible does (and doesn't) say about LGBT people and homosexuality in general, the usual routine involves a thorough discussion on the clobber passages like <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-16-leviticus.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Leviticus 18:22, Leviticus 20:13</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color: blue;">,</span></strong> (where married men were engaged in adultery against their wives with men), <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-18-romans.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Romans 1:26-27,</span></strong></a> (where married women engaged in adultery to have sexual relations with animals, and married men engaged in adultery to have sexual relations with each other as acts of worship to ancient Romans gods), <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">1 Corinthians 6:9-10</span></strong></a> (where the Apostle Paul addressed the Christian Church's first clergy sexual abuse of boys), <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-17-forbid-to-marry.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">1 Timothy 1:10</span></strong></a> (where married men would hire "gay-for-pay" temple prostitutes with which to worship the goddess Diana), and of course a thorough discussion on how the destruction of Sodom in <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-14-men-of-sodom.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Genesis 19</span></strong></a> and the <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-15-entertaining-angels.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Book of Jude</span></strong></a> was to purge fallen angels who mated with women, and not LGBT people. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As each of these examples shows they have nothing to do with LGBT people and everything to do with married people violating two of the Ten Commandments (against adultery, and worship of other gods), we find that is really only half the discussion. The other half lies elsewhere in Scripture, and calls upon us to examine passages most Christians have never heard of, such as Isaiah 55:11-56:8, 1 Corinthians 7:8-9, Matthew 19:12, Luke 24:44, and Romans 11:25. Taken together, I find these Scriptures go beyond telling us that God has not condemned LGBT people (even though He clearly condemned homosexual expressions among men who were married to women as acts of adultery and worship of other gods). But beyond the dust of the clobber passages lies the purpose for which God created LGBT people in the first place, in order to fulfill prophecies that must come to pass before Jesus can return.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also see eunuchs mentioned again by Jesus Himself in Matthew 19:12, as He expands the definition of eunuch beyond "castrated males" and goes on to identify three different types of eunuchs; Born Eunuchs, Castrated Eunuchs, and Celibate Eunuchs, and He exempts all 3 types from heterosexual marriage saying:</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-19-12"><span class="text 1Tim-4-3" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These revelations from Scripture then lead to a series of questions I think ALL Christians are wise to ask themselves (and their pastors). I have included links to the corresponding chapter of The Bed Keeper which I believe provides these answers for the entire Christian Church, and for everyone who still believes Jesus is going to return, and who still believes we will be resurrected from the dead at that time. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Who are the unmarried non-heterosexual people the Apostle Paul said should marry in 1 Corinthians 7:8-9, after ordaining marriage for heterosexual couples in 1 Corinthians 7:1-7? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Who are the faux Christians that forbid people to marry in 1 Timothy 4:1-3?</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><strong></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Why did Jesus exempt <strong>BORN</strong> eunuchs from heterosexual marriage Matthew 19:12? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Why does God promise to make eunuchs joyful in Church in Isaiah 56?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Why does God refer to eunuchs as "sons" and "daughters" in Isaiah 56?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Where is the memorial in Church that God promised to give eunuchs in Isaiah 56? </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who are the eunuchs of Isaiah 56? Why doesn't the Church talk about them?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Why doesn't the Church ever seek the eunuch offerings that God already promised to accept on His altar in Isaiah 56? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we have already seen from Jesus' Own proclamation about the necessity for all prophecies about Him to be fulfilled prior to His return in Luke 24:44, I think all Christians would agree that these questions certainly should receive an answer from Church leadership, as well as an explanation for why they have neglected and ignored these teachings from God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. If the entirety of the Holy Trinity is in on God's plan for eunuchs, why are Church Shepherds resistant to informing the flock? Regardless of whom anyone believes the eunuchs mentioned are, they are clearly a prophetically vital part of Jesus' return, and without their presence and affirmation in Church <strong>and</strong> single gender holy matrimony, Jesus is bound by His Own Word to not return to the earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lakewood Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/lakewood-church-endorsed-as-safe-space.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the last 10 years, I have embarked on a journey through the Scriptures, determined to better understand the common interpretations many anti-gay people use to discriminate against LGBT people. In doing so, I have found they are always set within the context of married men who cheated on wives with other men, and not LGBT people. This blog is an attempt to make these distinctions clear for Christians who resort to common Bible passages to bash LGBT people, but I have come to learn that it's just as important for LGBT people to understand them better as well...perhaps more so!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the past 10 years, I have participated in hundreds of discussions about these passages, and time and again I stumble across LGBT people whose arguments against religious homophobia are actually just as dangerous sometimes as those who mean us harm, even though we are all on the same side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For instance, I often see LGBT people say things like "Your Bible says gay people should be put to death, and that's why I reject God and your religion!" But if we stop to think about that, what we see is these LGBT people are actually promulgating the lies the anti-gay bigots have been telling us all along. These LGBT people have inadvertently agreed that the Bible in fact does say gay people should be put to death...even though the Bible never says any such thing. Instead, it speaks only of men married to women who cheat on their wives with men, as illustrated in <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-16-leviticus.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Chapter 16: Leviticus</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color: blue;">,</span></strong> of The Bed Keeper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have often seen anti-gay bigots say "Leviticus tells us a man shall not lie with a man as with a woman, because it's an abomination!" And I have seen many LGBT people respond by saying something like, "Well, Leviticus also says you shouldn't eat shell fish, or wear mixed fabrics!" Again, if we really stop to think about that, the LGBT people are once again agreeing that Leviticus is addressing LGBT people, when in fact it's addressing men married to women who engage in adultery with other men, and not LGBT people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recall watching a famous episode of The West Wing when President Bartlett does pretty much the same thing when addressing a talk show "doctor." In the episode, President Bartlett rattles off a long list of things from Leviticus that of course nobody actually adheres to nowadays, and we see the doctor frozen in disbelief at the absurdity of her own arguments. But in real life, that's not the same way anti-gay bigots react. Instead, they remind us that in the New Testament, many of the Levitical guidelines are suspended, overruled or otherwise dispensed with, but that there are still passages in the New Testament that continue to say "homosexuality is a sin."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In real life, we don't get to write the script for anti-gay bigots. We don't get to direct them to recognize the absurdity of their misapplication of Scriptures like the producers of The West Wing got to do. But that doesn't mean there aren't ways we can indeed illicit the same response....we simply have to do so in a smarter way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the New Testament, we find "homosexuality" indeed continues to be condemned, but we also see it continues to be confined to a very narrow context and audience. As illustrated in <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-18-romans.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Chapter 18: Romans</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color: blue;">,</span></strong> of The Bed Keeper, the context is men who are married to women who commit adultery in order to have sex with other men, in order to worship ancient Roman mythological gods. This violates two of the Ten Commandments: "Thou shall not commit adultery," and "Thou shall have no other gods before Me." Most Christians obviously miss this context, but once it's pointed out to them, just as the talk show radio doctor from The West Wing, they begin to recognize the error of their understanding....although most never admit it. They simply shuffle off and go away as if they never heard you explain it to them....but that's okay! They can't unlearn something they just learned, and as long as that is true, there is hope that one day they will come to at least stop using Romans 1 as a proof text against all gay people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, I have found that many Christians and LGBT people alike will say simply "homosexuality is a sin" or "homosexuality is not a sin." Once again, I think it's important to consider there are different forms of homosexual expressions. Heterosexual men rape other heterosexual men in prison all the time. It's homosexuality. It is sinful by anyone's definition of sin. But it doesn't involve any LGBT people. Another example are pedophile priests who rape boys in their own congregations as a means to avoid pregnancy. Once again, it's homosexuality. Once again, it's sinful by anyone's definition. But once again, it doesn't involve LGBT people. Saying "homosexuality is a sin" is like saying "heterosexuality is a sin." Indeed there are many forms of heterosexuality that are sinful, such as adultery, rape, incest, etc. But that doesn't mean all heterosexuals are sinful just because they identify as heterosexual.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In closing, I just want to encourage anyone who engages in debate with religious homophobes to be very specific in your discussions. I hope to have illustrated how many common arguments from LGBT people actually only serve to reinforce anti-gay beliefs in regards to the Scriptures. And I hope to have illustrated why it's important to distinguish "being gay" from "homosexuality."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Doing so allows those who adhere to Scriptures to continue to believe "homosexuality is a sin" (at least within the very narrow context delineated by Scripture), while also recognizing that "being gay" doesn't necessarily mean a person is sinful, simply by virtue of identifying as homosexual. I cover these differences using the account of the woman caught in the act of adultery in <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Chapter 19: Go, And Sin No More.</span></strong></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I encourage all LGBT people to keep up the good fight, and hope these insights help you sharpen your debating skills in a way that will truly leave anti-gay bigots just as slack jawed as the radio doctor from The West Wing....but we'll have to be a bit more specific than President Bartlett.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/frequently-asked-questions.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Frequently Asked Questions</span></strong></a> quick reference guide responds to the most common anti-gay Bible based arguments that may help even further. Not only does it refute the common passages used against LGBT people, but goes on to point out Scriptures indicating LGBT people are born so, and that same sex marriage is ordained by the Bible itself! You can either use it to help improve your debate points, or even better, you can simply send the link to the anti-gay bigots you encounter and get back to more important things, like enjoying your life! I hope these tips help!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lakewood Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/lakewood-church-endorsed-as-safe-space.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eagle Mountain International Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this video, Brian Anthony Bowen reveals Scriptures the Church never talks about which prove that Jesus taught that LGBT people are born this way...and that prove the Apostle Paul ordained Gay Marriage...IN THE BIBLE!<br /><br />This changes EVERYTHING!<br />More info: </span><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://brianbowenministries.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://BrianBowenMinistries.com"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://BrianBowenMinistries.com</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">whose consciences are seared (cauterized),</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Remember then from what heights you have fallen. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> or else I will visit you and remove your lampstand from its place,</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>unless you change your mind <i>and</i> repent.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you've been keeping up with The Bed Keeper, you know that the Biblical truths shared therein prove that Jesus taught we're born gay in </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Matthew 19:12</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, that the Apostle Paul ordained single gender holy matrimony in </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 Corinthians 7:8-9</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, that the Holy Spirit warned that Christians would fall away from the faith and forbid people to marry in <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/05/god-ordains-gay-marriage-at-glance.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">1 Timothy 4:1-3</span></strong></a>, that God demands full affirmation of LGBT people in the spiritual life of the Christian Church in </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isaiah 55:11-56:12</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, that Paul taught that Isaiah 56:8 must come to pass before Jews are reinstated into covenant with God under the New Covenant in </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/chapter-22-jesus-jews-and-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Romans 11:25</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and that Jesus taught that He cannot return until all these things have first come to pass in Luke 24:44.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While I recognize most Pastors feel confined to preach only what's been on the cue cards for the past 2,000 years in regards to these things, I also recognize something you may have not considered: <strong>what happens after gay marriage becomes law of the land.</strong> </span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also recognize that many Pastors receive their largest church funding from politically motivated individuals who are basically paying you to advertise against gay marriage for them. You are convinced this is "God's Way" and are reluctant to share the truths that are revealed from Scripture as detailed in The Bed Keeper with these large donors, because you know as soon as you do they'll stop contributing to you, or worse yet, run you out of the pastorate altogether. We know how these things work behind the scenes of Sunday morning sermons.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But something you may not recognize is that once gay marriage is the law of the land (and your advertising services are no longer needed), these same large donors will immediately cease to fund your church for said purposes. Aside from abortion, there really are no voter animating social issues for which to pay you to promote for them. Christian opposition to adultery, divorce, drinking, slavery, women's rights, and anti-Semitism have all been tossed upon the dustbin of history when it comes to motivating Christians to vote one way or the other. We both know that if you hammer as hard on any of these issues as you are paid to hammer on gay rights, you would be run out of town on a rail just as quickly as if you stopped preaching against "teh gay."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what are you going to do once gay marriage becomes law of the land? How will your church survive? What will you do for a living? Who will pay your salary? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, fortunately, God has a plan! It's revealed most clearly in The Bed Keeper in </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. I hope you have already read it, and I encourage you to re-read it even if you have already. But there's a catch: It depends on you! And it's going to require some courage and a decision on your part.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think I speak for the entire gay community when I share with you that changing your tune <strong>after</strong> gay marriage is law of the land, (in hopes of attracting gay people to your congregation as you suddenly "evolve" on the issue as you see the last shreds of political money dry up) just simply isn't good enough. No, you're going to have to have <strong>already</strong> made that decision <strong>before</strong> gay marriage becomes the law of the land. (Otherwise, how else will we know that you aren't just trying to appear gay affirming just for our money?)</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You're going to have to build some trust before that. You're going to have to be on board and ready to hit the ground running to roll this message out to your congregation <strong>*prior*</strong> to gay marriage becoming law of the land. And you're going to have to make your decision publicly known at least loudly enough that the gay community can hear you, or you're going to have to face financial bankruptcy. There really are no other choices, because those churches who stand with the LGBT community <strong>prior</strong> to gay marriage becoming the law of the land will be the ones we continue to gradually embrace, and advertise, and recommend to our friends and family <strong>afterwards.</strong> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh sure, there will be <strong>some</strong> churches that remain unaffected after gay marriage becomes the law of the land, even if their large anti gay donors pull their funding....at least at first. But they too will slowly (or not so slowly) dry up as strife and division caused by old underlying issues re-emerge as the issue of the day, and are no longer kicked down the road by changing the subject to gay marriage. You may not see it yet. But that doesn't mean you can't imagine it.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This letter is not a "demand" that you respond or make your position known. It is an invitation for you to begin meeting with your boards to "talk turkey" and decide amongst yourselves how your church will respond when your large donors pull out. On one hand, it will come as a sigh of relief to many of your board members to have such folks out of your hair. On the other hand, if you have not made plans to usher in God's plan for LGBT people being affirmed in your church, you're going to have to go through some financially dry months, or years, or how ever long it is you think you can survive without your large donors until your church does affirm LGBT people. It's just a matter of time.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Speaking of time, I would probably word this notice with a bit more grace and less urgency, but as we quickly approach the inevitable, I find that I don't have quite enough time for the formalities any more....and neither do you....whether you realize it or not. While this notice may come off sounding smug, I hope you realize what a favor from God this truly is for you. After all, part of me is so frustrated and angry at the church that I'm tempted in my flesh to just let you all disappear from the face of the earth and let us start over....but God seems to have other plans....and I admit it's much better not only for you, but for all the congregants who depend on the Church for their spiritual well being as well. </span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The needs of the many clearly outweigh the needs of the few in this case. I hope to assure you that it is not my intent to bring damage to your church, but to warn you of impending financial hardships that will see thousands of churches go bankrupt inside the first year of gay marriage becoming the law of the land, and offering a life line...just as God seemed to have planned all along.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As illustrated in </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 20 of The Bed Keeper</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, God not only requires your church to affirm LGBT people in the spiritual life of the Body of Christ, He also prophetically mandates our offerings to be brought to His altar. He has seen this coming for a long time. The question is, <strong>Do you</strong>?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We need to know you're on board. I am more than willing to announce to the LGBT community when you decide to become an affirming congregation, and have demonstrated an awareness of the truths revealed in Scripture as outlined in The Bed Keeper. But we need to establish communication now. As you'll see, I had gone so far as to endorse my former church as a safe space for LGBT people, and then they very publicly and voluntarily decided to maintain the status quo instead...<strong>after</strong> they had already received thousands of dollars of contributions from LGBT people that I had personally recommended begin giving to them. I won't repeat that mistake. With the resources </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/lakewood-church-endorsed-as-safe-space.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lakewood Church</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> currently enjoys, they will last whether gay folks are there or not. But not all churches are created equal. </span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you'll also see, one other church has been endorsed by me prior to that, but they have a prophetic mandate to be so, even as they have not yet confirmed nor denied their position on LGBT people being affirmed in their church. While in seven years of following their ministry, I have never heard an anti-gay word out of them, I have likewise never received from them what I am seeking from you. But </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eagle Mountain International Church</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> has been clearly and uniquely </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/eagle-mountain-justus-du-plessis.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">chosen by God</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to spearhead this transition in the Body of Christ, whether they know it or not. I know they will get there one day. But can we say the same about your church?</span></div>
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<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 1: Born This Way</span></strong></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Explores Scriptures that the Church has been reluctant to talk about, and even less enthusiastic to teach. It demonstrates Jesus taught LGBTQIQ people are born so from our mothers' wombs to fulfill a prophetically vital purpose not only in the spiritual life of the Christian Church, but also in the return of Jesus Christ.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Explores a variety of Scriptures that appear to demonstrate that the Apostle Paul ordained single gender holy matrimony for people whom Jesus exempted from heterosexual marriage in 1 Corinthians 7:8-9, (even while addressing one of the famous clobber passages from 1 Corinthians 6:9-10), and the implications it would have on the Christian Church if true.</span><br />
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</span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-3-for-sake-of-kingdom-of-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 3: For the Kingdom of Heaven</span></strong></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Examines the only account of personal evangelism in all of Scripture through the baptism of the Ethiopian Eunuch, including a thorough examination of why it serves as an important evidence of the New Covenant being ratified through Jesus' earthly ministry, how it relates to the Old Covenant, and debunks the notion that LGBTQIQ people cannot also be Christians.</span><br />
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</span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</span></strong></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Explores allegorical examinations of Scripture that reveal the apparent prophetic and eschatalogical roles of LGBTQIQ Christians in preparing the Bride of Christ for the return of Jesus.</span><br />
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</span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-5-covenant-promises.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 5: Covenant Promises</span></strong></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Explores the promises made available to all Christians through the New Covenant as compared to the Old Covenant, and how they apply to LGBTQIQ Believers.</span><br />
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</span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-6-lord-of-sabbath.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 6: Lord of The Sabbath</span></strong></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Explores Scripture that helps define what Keeping the Sabbath means for Christians, and the unique importance to LGBTQIQ people.</span><br />
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</span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-7-baptism-by-fire.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 7: Baptized With Fire</span></strong></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Explores the Scriptural account of the Day of Pentecost, the spiritual empowerment that comes with the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and the unique focus God seems to place on LGBTQIQ people receiving this heavenly gift as well.</span><br />
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<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-8-spiritual-leadership.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 8: Spiritual Leadership</span></strong></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Explores Scriptural definitions of being led by the Holy Spirit into a spiritually empowered and fruitful life as a Christian.</span><br />
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</span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/well-recall-from-chapter-5-of-bed_4258.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 9: Gotta Have Faith!</span></strong></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Examines the Scriptural accounts of Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, as well as Ebed-Melech (the other Ethiopian Eunuch), who rescued the prophet Jeremiah from impending doom and ensured God's Word survived against all odds. Encourages LGBTQIQ people to develop the same kind of faith that landed some of these folks in the Great Hall of Faith of Hebrews 11.</span><br />
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</span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-10-no-dry-trees.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 10: No Dry Trees!</span></strong></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Explores Scriptural truths illustrating God's command to "be fruitful and multiply" does not always mean having biological children.</span><br />
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</span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-11-big-bang-theory.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 11: Big Bang Theory</span></strong></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Especially for our atheist, agnostic, and antitheist LGBTQIQ Brothers and Sisters, embark on a journey through time and space and discover how God seems to have used evolution in order to create. Includes a scientific time stamp that shows it took a bit longer than six 24-hour days for God to create the universe.</span><br />
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<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-12-my-brothers-keeper.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 12: My Brother's Keeper</span></strong></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Explores the spiritual import of the early chapters of Genesis examining the first Messianic prophecy, the origins of animal sacrifice under the Old Covenant, and reveals that perhaps Cain didn't marry his sister after all.</span><br />
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</span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-13-rainbow-covenant.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 13: The Rainbow Covenant</span></strong></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Long before the rainbow was a symbol of dignity, diversity and destiny for the LGBTQIQ community, it was also an early symbol of God's promises and covenant with mankind.</span><br />
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</span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-14-men-of-sodom.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 14: Men of Sodom</span></strong></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Re-examines long held traditional understandings of the destruction of Sodom, and reveals that not only were the men of Sodom *not* homosexual...they weren't even human.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Building off conclusions reached in Chapter 14: Men of Sodom, explores additional details of the great rebellion of Satan and his angels against God, and even reveals their individual names.</span><br />
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</span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-16-leviticus.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 16: Leviticus</span></strong></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Explores another famous clobber passage in forensic detail, revealing that Scripture does not even speak of LGBTQIQ people in Leviticus, but of opposite gender married men who were having their cake and eating it too.</span><br />
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</span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-17-forbid-to-marry.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 17: Forbid To Marry</span></strong></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A unique examination of the words <em>arsenokoitai</em> and <em>malakoi</em> and their relevance to the 1 Timothy 1:10 clobber passage, revealing them to define early "gay-for-pay" cult temple prostitution, and not LGBTQIQ people.</span><br />
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</span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-18-romans.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 18: Romans</span></strong></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Long held assumptions about Romans 1 in regards to LGBTQIQ people are debunked, while illustrating the idolatry and adultery being engaged in by opposite gender married people, which many Christians seem to ignore even though it violates 2 of the 10 Commandments.</span><br />
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</span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 19: Go, And Sin No More</span></strong></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Examines the differences between "being gay" and "homosexuality" in light of the woman who was accused of adultery, and why Jesus said, "let him without sin cast the first stone." We see that just as many Christians do today, Scripture was selectively applied by the Pharisees of Jesus' Day to condemn the innocent, while protecting the guilty.</span><br />
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</span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Explores the importance of LGBTQIQ people in regards to our full affirmation and inclusion in the spiritual life of the Church as full and equal participants in the prophetic destiny of Christ's return.</span><br />
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</span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 21: GAZA: Holy Land for Gays</span></strong></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Explores the apparent role of LGBTQIQ Christians as ministers of the Gospel to LGBTQIQ people of other religions and nations, as religious dividing walls are abolished and all faiths come together as one.</span><br />
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</span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/chapter-22-jesus-jews-and-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 22: Jesus, Jews and Gays</span></strong></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Explores the role of LGBTQIQ Christians as prophetically vital agents of destiny in not only preparing Christians for the Second Coming of Christ, but also ushering in the First Coming of the Messiah that the Jews will recognize, thus fulfilling Isaiah 56:8, Isaiah 61:4-11, and Romans 11:25. Discover Scriptures that reveal Jesus will return to the earth as a Jew living under the New Covenant, in order to have authority to rule both Jew and Gentile. Also explores how this realization explains why Adolph Hitler targeted both LGBTQIQ people and Jews during the Holocaust, and demonstrates that it was much more than mere coincidence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>This blog continues to be a work in progress. As recent revelations and events throughout Christendom have created an increasingly fluid situation, updates will no longer be published at the end of each post, but rather only at the beginning of the corresponding posts so impacted. As of August 1, 2013, the only updates to appear at the end of each post will be churches that are personally endorsed by The Bed Keeper as a "SAFE SPACE."</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lakewood Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/lakewood-church-endorsed-as-safe-space.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eagle Mountain International Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">some will turn away from the faith, </span></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">giving attention to deluding and seducing spirits</span></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and doctrines that demons teach,</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG804t0WG-c" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>video debate</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> between </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brian Brown, President of the National Organization for Marriage, and Dan Savage, writer of the Savage Love column, met at Savage's home in Seattle for dinner and a debate over same sex marriage and the Bible, and the question of polygamy came up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The question of polygamy has been one that so far the LGBT community and other same sex marriage advocates have been unable to address in a way that eliminates the expressed fears of same sex marriage leading to polygamy. The reasoning our opponents often use is that since our argument for same sex marriage is based on non-discrimination and marriage equality, then what would prevent polygamists (even heterosexual ones) from arguing for polygamy on the same basis? ... and how is it not hypocritical of marriage equality advocates for opposing polygamy?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the main, the response from marriage equality advocates has been something along the lines of "well, the gay community is not seeking to enter into plural single gender marriages," and "we don't know of any polygamists who are advocating for polygamy on the same basis, and if there are any, they should be the ones who make that case in the public square."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, these do not address the real world example Brian Brown refers to in Canada, where heterosexual polygamists (largely of the Muslim and Mormon faiths) have indeed approached the courts for an answer regarding the apparent hypocrisy on the part of marriage equality advocates who support (2 spouse only) same sex marriages, but not plural spouse marriages. The concern expressed by Brian Brown's question during the debate is that the same thing could happen in America (and other countries) when same sex marriage becomes law of the land.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While Brian makes the point that if its discrimination to deny same sex couples full legal recognition, then why is it not also discriminatory to deny polygamous marriages, whether heterosexual or homosexual?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The question poses ways to frame the debate in a way I think most advocates of single gender marriage miss, and that is that all things considered, I think Brian is right; discriminating against polygamy <strong>is</strong> the same as discriminating against same sex marriage...<strong>except</strong> for two important distinctions:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1). </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Anti-Bigamy_Act" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act of 1862</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, signed by President Lincoln, bans marriage to more than one spouse at a time. This provides legal precedence for denying polygamous marriage recognition by the state, but cannot alone justify discrimination against same sex marriage on the same basis, because it deals with a totally different issue: plural spouses. But there is nothing that says this law can't be deemed unconstitutional in the future if single gender marriages are legally recognized, except for:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think it's important to remember that same sex marriage is not about "granting" a right to be obtained by our Constitution. It is a right to be "identified" and "secured," and it is a right that must not be <strong><em>denied</em></strong> without<strong> a compelling state interest.</strong> The Prop 8 trial underscores this point really well; it's not so much a matter of same sex marriage being a Constitutional right, but more so, the question courts must answer is whether or not the state has any compelling reason for <strong>denying</strong> them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the overall marriage debate has been explored, I think it's clear that there <strong>is</strong> a compelling state interest in denying legal recognition of polygamous marriages, but no such compelling state interest exists that justifies the state denying legal recognition of same sex marriages. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most marriage equality advocates respond by saying something along the lines of "traditionally speaking, polygamous marriage in the context of the Bible were comprised of one man and multiple women" or "I don't know of any example of polygamy that's been one woman and multiple men, or multiple same sex partners."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But with Brian's question, he specifically asked "what about 3 women" or "what about 3 men?" While polygamy has historically been between one man and multiple women, so too has monogamous marriage been traditionally heterosexual in nature. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I think Brian Brown gets at is the converse of the point he makes: <strong>arguing against polygamy based on its traditionally defined nature is the same as arguing against same sex marriages based on traditionally defined heterosexual marriages. </strong>In other words, Brian was implying that if we are going to discriminate against polygamy based on "it's just wrong," then he should be free to discriminate against same sex marriage based on "it's just wrong" as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's why I think it's a stronger argument to make the distinctions based on the state's responsibility for regulating what happens when either marriage paradigm doesn't work out (i.e. divorce, child custody, palimony payments, division of marital assets, etc.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Either way, Dan didn't take the bait, and brought up a great observation in that polygamy also denies equality to (even opposite gender couples), by presenting an impediment to men having an equal shot at heterosexual marriage as the few men who can afford to support multiple wives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But as we can see this has clearly been a concern since same sex marriage first came up for discussion in the public square, and I think it's important for marriage equality advocates to be prepared with a stronger basis that can assure concerned parties that same sex marriage will not lead to polygamous marriages, as well as why. Doing so frames the debate <strong>not</strong> based on <strong>"I'm gay and have a Constitutional right to marry a man,"</strong> but rather, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course this brings us to <strong>why</strong> marriage equality opponents oppose polygamy, which in America is deeply rooted in the Mormon church's ability to outpace the growth of other Christian denominations vis-a-vis accelerated rates of procreation that polygamous marriages lend themselves to. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While I absolutely agree that the polygamy argument (as well as all other arguments from our opponents) have proven to be red herrings, to those who share the concern, I believe it still needs to be addressed in a way that shows the concern is unwarranted. Just declaring it to be a red herring doesn't really do that, I don't think.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I believe that leaving the question of polygamy unanswered (whether gay or straight) means it isn't going away, as evidenced by the fact it has been presented as a concern by our opponents since the early public discourse on marriage equality first began. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just because we or they may not know of anyone who is currently seeking multiple spouse same sex marriages, doesn't demonstrate how polygamy should be discriminated against because of the compelling state interests articulated earlier, while at the same time demonstrating why same sex marriage should <strong>not</strong> be prohibited on the <strong>same</strong> basis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While I understand it can be frustrating to even have to dignify the point with a response, if we want to overcome the objection successfully, I believe we must do more than just point out how remote the possibility seems to us currently and personally, by demonstrating how and why the law already prevents polygamy, (whether same sex marriage becomes law of the land or not), and how marriage equality for same sex marriages will <strong>not</strong> lead to (even heterosexual) polygamous marriages...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...and more importantly, why we think it is *not* hypocritical for same sex marriageadvocates to continue to oppose polygamy, even while advocating under the banner of "marriage equality."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again, the polygamy comparison is an original debate point that has not been adequately addressed by our side to the point that folks like Dan Savage are able to rattle it off the top of his head. I think developing a sound response drives one more nail in the coffin of the bigotry that stands against us, and again, I believe it frames the debate to answer the questions the courts are actually going to ask: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The example Brian Brown gave pertaining to heterosexuals in Canada seeking to grant legal recognition to polygamous <strong>heterosexual</strong> marriages is in fact true. (Largely the argument in Canada stems from religious based plural marriages pertaining to people of the Muslim and Mormon faiths who believe in heterosexual polygamy. They argue that since Canada recognizes same sex marriage based on non-discrimination, that they must also recognize polygamous heterosexual marriages on the same basis). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our opponents fear the same can happen in America, not only in regards to Muslims, but the Mormons as well....and not necessarily in the context of single gender polygamous marriages, but even heterosexual ones. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My point is we can't make events in Canada untrue -- (nor can we allay fears of the same events transpiring in America) -- just by saying that we <strong>don't</strong> know of any LGBT people seeking single gender polygamous marriages, and that we <strong>do</strong> know of LGBT people seeking single gender monogamous marriages. I believe the legal considerations I articulated are a step toward that goal, and I hope other equally strong arguments emerge as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While <strong>asking</strong> some hypothetical <strong>"what will gays marrying lead to?"</strong> does nothing constructive to real life same sex couples who are in need of the state and federal benefits of marriage that most heterosexuals take for granted, I believe all will agree that upon further consideration, <strong>answering</strong> the question does!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...and we need all the help we can get!</span><br />
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I received this in response to the blog, with permission from the author to include here. It provides a detailed examination of polgyamy vs. single gender marriage in Canada, where <span style="color: black;">same sex marriages </span>are legal, and polygamy remains illegal, and why:</span><br />
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<em><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>I'm surprised that Americans don't seem to realize that Canada has already ruled that polygamy is illegal. The question arose because of Muslim immigrants who wanted to marry more than one wife, and the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints of Bountiful, British Columbia. The argument of both these groups was that Section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms grants freedom of religion, and that their religion happens to embrace polygamy. They ignored the fact that the Supreme Court of Canada had already ruled on several occasions that religious rights cannot trump Canadian law.</strong></span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Polygamy comes from the cruel dark ages when women had no rights whatsoever and were treated as chattels. There is no place in the modern world for women being collected as concubines in harems. The year is 2012 AD, not 2012 BC.</strong></span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Regarding same sex marriage, which is legal in Canada. Same sex marriage still involves only two people, both of whom have equal rights and equal responsibilities. This is not the case with polygamy, where one man lords it over many women, all of whom are in competition with one another for his attention to them and their children. As well, only the first, legal wife and her children are entitled to share in the man's health insurances, pensions and tax benefits. The remaining women and their children are on their own and face poverty. Judge Bauman took all this into consideration when he brought down his decision.</strong></span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>I hope this information is of use to you, and that you will publish it in your newsletter. Americans need to learn that polygamy in Canada is regarded as a contravention of women's equality rights. </strong></span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Sincerely,</strong></span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Jancis M. Andrews</strong></span></em></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial;"><strong><em>PS: <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I've just realized I didn't add the name of the group I work with. It's called "Stop Polygamy in Canada," and was founded by Nancy Mereska of Two Hills, Alberta, herself an escapee from a strict Mormon marriage. I'd be grateful if you'd add the group's name to the bottom of my email to you. </span></em></strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial;"><strong><em><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The group has waged a fierce battle for many years to get the BC government to lay charges against those male elders in the polygamous cult of Bountiful (the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) who have threatened underage girls that if they didn't agree to polygamy and become "celestial wives" i.e., concubines in Bountiful's harems, their immortal souls would burn for ever in Hell. This is an evil cult where a corrupt and twisted version of the Christian religion provides middle-aged men with an excuse for a sex fest. The hearing before Chief Justice Bauman was the result of our group's work, allied with hundreds of thousands of Canadians who were outraged that the BC government would abandon very young girls to be raped and impregnated in the name of Jehovah God. </span></em></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lakewood Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/lakewood-church-endorsed-as-safe-space.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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BrotherBrianBowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14857373000625848606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3826372584606790626.post-14458007402480814812012-11-27T03:06:00.002-08:002013-11-21T06:20:23.838-08:00How Christians Can Save the GOP<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this video, Brian Anthony Bowen reveals Scriptures the Church never talks about which prove that Jesus taught that LGBT people are born this way...and that prove the Apostle Paul ordained Gay Marriage...IN THE BIBLE!<br /><br />This changes EVERYTHING!<br />More info: </span><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://brianbowenministries.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://BrianBowenMinistries.com"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://BrianBowenMinistries.com</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">As many Christians watched the election results on November 6th, a sinking feeling overcame many in the GOP as reality sunk in and folks began to realize they had been hoodwinked into believing Mitt Romney was going to win. Even though I have been a lifelong Democrat, I've been a Christian even longer, (and I've been gay even longer than that). I was very proud of our country as Americans wholeheartedly rejected the unChristian lies coming from the Romney camp itself, but also from what has been dubbed the Conservative Entertainment Media Complex. I believe President Obama has more than earned his 2nd term as the leader of the free world, and I look forward to the next 4 years with an eager anticipation filled with great hopes for this administration, and the future of our great nation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I know the election was a disappointment to many people. Every election leaves someone disappointed. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">But continuing to ignore the missteps of Governor Romney and the nonfactual reporting of the Right Wing Entertainment Media will only result in continuing to isolate the GOP from the mainstream of the majority of Americans...and many leaders in the GOP are beginning to say so. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">As a democracy, we are governed by majority vote. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">As long as the GOP alienates folks who may otherwise vote for them, they will continue to lose elections. As long as the GOP refuses to establish themselves as trustworthy messengers of a path forward for our country, refuses to provide the level of transparency Americans have come to expect from our leaders, and refuses to come clean with their own personal finances, America will continue to be skittish about voting for anyone representing the GOP party...at least anyone vying for the the highest offices in the land.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">But all is not lost. There are ways for the GOP to regain a majority by first coming up with superior ideas that move Americans forward, not backward. The American democratic process is based on a 2 party system. We expect both parties to present ideas to Americans for us to choose between. In this election cycle, (and the former one with McCain/Palin), the GOP failed to develop ideas that appealed to the majority of Americans. They shed vast amounts of their professionalism and credibility by pandering to the most extreme (aka "crazy") voters, with the most extreme (aka "say anything to get elected") candidates they could find to run. And they lost. Big time! This has left many individual conservative voters disappointed and disillusioned. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Right Wing Conservative Entertainment Media does not care about individual conservative voters. They make money based on advertising and viewers, not votes. The same goes for activist Christian pastors. While statements based in a false reality created by these two powerhouses of conservative communicators may indeed draw an audience, garner advertisers, and generate "AMENS" in Church, (and even though they may even generate a large swath of agreement amongst individual conservative voters who want to portray themselves as "team members"), these <strong>created</strong> realities are useless in a very real election where non-conservative voters become part of the electoral equation as well.<br />
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As many conservatives are beginning to see, folks like Rush Limbaugh make all kinds of money for themselves, but that doesn't necessarily create votes at the ballot box, and clearly doesn't do conservative voters any favors in terms of how they are perceived by the majority of Americans. Right Wing commentators like Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity brand conservatives (just as many Christians brand Jesus) in ways that do not reflect the reality of the vast majority of conservatives, and they do it by branding liberals in ways that do not reflect the reality of the vast majority of liberals. It gets them on TV, but in reality, it doesn't generate votes for the GOP. If anything, this election proves that it actually costs votes. These Right Wing pundits give both conservatives (and Christians) a bad name...but what do they care? They (like Karl Rove), are being paid millions of dollars, whether you ever vote Republican...or not.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">While some individual conservatives may be entertained by that, (or made to feel an inflated sense of their own self importance), until they begin operating in a fact-based world, conservatives will continue to lose voters, and Churches will continue to lose members. But there are ways Christians themselves can save the GOP, and each of these ideas are actually listed in the Bible. Knowing how few Christians actually read the Bible, I thought it may be helpful to bring some of them to light for your consideration as a Conservative, as a Christian, and as a voter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">These ideas include embracing LGBT people and affirming us as full participants in the spiritual life of the Christian Church per God's Own commands (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isaiah%2055:11-56:12&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong>Isaiah 55:11 - Isaiah 56:12</strong></a>), as described in detail in <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4: Messengers of The King.</strong></a></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This one simple step will lead to increased membership in the Christian Church. God prophesies we will bring offerings to His altar. This one simple step will lead to increased finances for the Christian Church. These two steps alone will open the door for conservatives to begin speaking into the lives of LGBT people with messages other than "you're going to hell!" </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Such messages may garner "AMENS" from the pews, and help pastors fleece the flock to fund a false (and failing) war on same sex marriage, but they do nothing to increase church membership or church finances, and do nothing to bring LGBT people into the Conservative flock.... instead, they have the exact opposite effect of pushing us away from both conservatism and Christianity....and our money (and votes) along with us, as illustrated in <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></a>. And it doesn't stop there!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">While it may take years for LGBT people (and Americans in general) to ever trust the GOP again, we are a forgiving people. We all want to see the GOP get its act together, and once again begin providing Americans with viable plans for the future to go head to head with the Democrats' ideas. Most LGBT people I know feel confined to vote Democrat because the GOP has seemingly rejected us (and our votes) with their opposition to same sex marriage even though the Apostle Paul himself ordained it, as <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 2: God Sanctioned Gay Marriage</strong></a> illustrates. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Christians have traditionally misapplied passages from Scripture that were actually addressing heterosexual men married to women who engaged in adultery with other men--and not LGBT people--as illustrated in <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-16-leviticus.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 16: Leviticus</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-18-romans.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 18: Romans</strong></a>, and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19: Go, and Sin No More.</strong></a> Instead, God's Word demonstrates that there is but one proper way to begin speaking to LGBT people about Jesus, as revealed through the account of the Ethiopian Eunuch in <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-3-for-sake-of-kingdom-of-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 3: For the Kingdom of Heaven.</strong></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this video, Brian Anthony Bowen reveals Scriptures the Church never talks about which prove that Jesus taught that LGBT people are born this way...and that prove the Apostle Paul ordained Gay Marriage...IN THE BIBLE!<br /><br />This changes EVERYTHING!<br />More info: </span><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://brianbowenministries.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://BrianBowenMinistries.com"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://BrianBowenMinistries.com</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we explored in Chapter 21 of The Bed Keeper, it seems very possible that as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are gathered into God's House of Prayer of ALL people, we will be in a position to share the message of the Gospel with LGBT people of other faiths and nations, and perhaps even bringing peace to the Middle East in the process. This will be a somewhat challenging chapter of The Bed Keeper, but let's take a look at a few passages of Scripture, and see how they connect to each other to form what I believe is yet another powerful revelation pertaining to LGBT believers which seems to transpire <strong>after</strong> we have converted to Christianity, and <strong>after</strong> we have brought a message of correction to the Church, and <strong>after</strong> we become part of God's House of Prayer, and even <strong>after</strong> we begin to fulfill prophecy by bringing our offerings to God's altar. As we've already shared in Chapter 4 of The Bed Keeper, until these things come to pass, Jesus cannot return, as He is Scripturally bound by His Own Words in Luke 24:44 which reads:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It's important to note that as Jews did not recognize Jesus was the prophesied Messiah while He was on the earth, they continue to await their Messiah. As Christians believe Jesus is the Messiah and is returning to the earth, this means that from a Christian's perspective, the Second Coming of Christ will also prove to be the First Coming of the Messiah for the Jews. As we have already examined in numerous chapters of The Bed Keeper, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people begin fulfilling the eunuch prophecy as we become part of God's House of Prayer through the Christian faith. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">If we look further into the prophecies of Isaiah following God's eunuch prophecy to us, we'll find another prophecy that partially came to pass while Jesus was on the earth, specifically Isaiah 61:1-3. If we then look past Jesus' ministry and into the teachings of the Apostle Paul regarding the Jews, we'll see three aspects of prophecy tie together. In doing so, I believe Scripture will further explain the role LGBT people play not only in preparing the Church for the Second Coming of Jesus for Christians, but also preparing the Jews for the First Coming of the Messiah for them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>1 Meanwhile Saul, still drawing his breath hard from threatening and murderous desire against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest</strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">3 Now as he traveled on, he came near to Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">4 And he fell to the ground. Then he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me [harassing, troubling, and molesting Me]?</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">5 And Saul said, Who are You, Lord? And He said, I am Jesus, Whom you are persecuting. It is dangerous and it will turn out badly for you to keep kicking against the goad [to offer vain and perilous resistance].</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">11 And the Lord said to him, Get up and go to the street called Straight and ask at the house of Judas for a man of Tarsus named Saul, for behold, he is praying [there].</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">13 But Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard many people tell about this man, especially how much evil and what great suffering he has brought on Your saints at Jerusalem;</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">15 But the Lord said to him, Go, for this man is a chosen instrument of Mine to bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and the descendants of Israel;</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">17 So Ananias left and went into the house. And he laid his hands on Saul and said, Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, Who appeared to you along the way by which you came here, has sent me that you may recover your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">21 And all who heard him were amazed and said, Is not this the very man who harassed and overthrew and destroyed in Jerusalem those who called upon this Name? And he has come here for the express purpose of arresting them and bringing them in chains before the chief priests.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 I am speaking the truth in Christ. I am not lying; my conscience [enlightened and prompted] by the Holy Spirit bearing witness with me</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>3 For I </strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off and banished from Christ for the sake of <u>my brethren</u> and instead of them, <u>my natural kinsmen</u> and <u>my fellow countrymen</u>.</strong> Romans 9:1-3</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>NOTE:</strong> It's important to recall that the Apostle Paul was at one time a Jewish Pharisee who persecuted Christians until Jesus revealed Himself to him on the road to Damascus, and infused Him with the Holy Spirit and revelation knowledge of Christ, the Messiah. Paul shares these revelations with the Christian Church and they comprise nearly 2/3 of the New Testament. When Paul says, <strong>"my brethren"</strong> and <strong>"my natural kinsmen,"</strong> he is speaking of the Jewish people. When he says, <strong>"my fellow countrymen"</strong> he is speaking specifically of the Jews in Rome, although I believe we'll see in the next verse, he is speaking of Jews in general throughout this writing, and not just to the Jews in Rome. Throughout these passages, Paul will refer to many other Scriptures, which I will notate as we progress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>4 <u>For they are Israelites, and to them belong God's adoption [as a nation] and the glorious Presence (Shekinah). With them were the special covenants made, to them was the Law given. To them [the temple] worship was revealed and [God's own] promises announced</u>.</strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">5 <u>To them belong the patriarchs, and as far as His natural descent was concerned, from them is the Christ</u>, Who is exalted and supreme over all, God, blessed forever! Amen (so let it be).</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">6 However, <u>it is not as though God's Word had failed [coming to nothing]. For it is not everybody who is a descendant of Jacob (Israel) who belongs to [the true] Israel</u>.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>8 <u>That is to say, it is not the children of the body [of Abraham] who are made God's children, but it is the offspring to whom the promise applies that shall be counted [as Abraham's true] descendants</u>. </strong>Romans 9:4-8</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>13 <u>As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated (held in relative disregard in comparison with My feeling for Jacob</u>). </strong>Romans 9:9-13</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">14 <u>What shall we conclude then? Is there injustice upon God's part? Certainly not</u>!</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">16 <u>So then [God's gift] is not a question of human will and human effort, but of God's mercy</u>. [It depends not on one's own willingness nor on his strenuous exertion as in running a race, but on God's having mercy on him.]</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">19 You will say to me, Why then does He still find fault and blame us [for sinning]? For who can resist and withstand His will?</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">27 <u>And Isaiah calls out (solemnly cries aloud) over Israel: Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sand of the sea, only the remnant (a small part of them) will be saved [from perdition, condemnation, judgment</u>]!</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>28 For the Lord will execute His sentence upon the earth [He will conclude and close His account with men completely and without delay], rigorously cutting it short in His justice. </strong>Romans 9:27-28</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>29 <u>It is as Isaiah predicted</u>, If the Lord of hosts had not left us a seed [from which to propagate descendants], we [Israel] would have fared like Sodom and have been made like Gomorrah. </strong>Romans 9:29</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">30 What shall we say then? That <u>Gentiles who did not follow after righteousness [who did not seek salvation by right relationship to God] have attained it by faith [a righteousness imputed by God, based on and produced by faith</u>],</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">31 <u>Whereas Israel, though ever in pursuit of a law [for the securing] of righteousness (right standing with God), actually did not succeed in fulfilling the Law</u>.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">32 For what reason? <u>Because [they pursued it] not through faith, relying [instead] on the merit of their works [they did not depend on faith but on what they could do</u>]. They have stumbled over the Stumbling Stone.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>33 </strong><strong>As it is written, Behold I am laying in Zion a Stone that will make men stumble, a Rock that will make them fall; but <u>he who believes in Him [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Him] shall not be put to shame nor be disappointed in his expectations</u>. </strong>Romans 9:1-33</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1 Brethren, [with all] my heart's desire and goodwill for [Israel], I long and pray to God that they may be saved.</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">2 <span style="font-size: small;">I bear them witness that <u>they have a [certain] zeal and enthusiasm for God, but it is not enlightened and according to [correct and vital] knowledge</u>.</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">3 <span style="font-size: small;">For being ignorant of the righteousness that God ascribes [which makes one acceptable to Him in word, thought, and deed] and seeking to establish a righteousness (a means of salvation) of their own, they did not obey or submit themselves to God's righteousness.</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">4 <span style="font-size: small;"><u>For Christ is the end of the Law</u> [the limit at which it ceases to be, for the Law leads up to Him Who is the fulfillment of its types, and <u>in Him the purpose which it was designed to accomplish is fulfilled</u>. That is, <u>the purpose of the Law is fulfilled in Him] as the means of righteousness (right relationship to God) for everyone who trusts in and adheres to and relies on Him</u>.</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">5 <span style="font-size: small;">For Moses writes that the man who [can] practice the righteousness (perfect conformity to God's will) which is based on the Law [with all its intricate demands] shall live by it.</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">6 B<span style="font-size: small;">ut the righteousness based on faith [imputed by God and bringing right relationship with Him] says, Do not say in your heart, Who will ascend into Heaven? that is, to bring Christ down;</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">7 <span style="font-size: small;">Or who will descend into the abyss? that is, to bring Christ up from the dead [as if we could be saved by our own efforts].</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">8 <span style="font-size: small;">But what does it say? The Word (God's message in Christ) is near you, on your lips and in your heart; that is, the Word (the message, the basis and object) of faith which we preach,</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">9 <span style="font-size: small;">Because <u>if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved</u>.</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">10 <span style="font-size: small;">For <u>with the heart a person believes</u> (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and <u>with the mouth he confesses</u> (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation.</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">11 <span style="font-size: small;">The Scripture says, No man who believes in Him [who adheres to, relies on, and trusts in Him] will [ever] be put to shame or be disappointed.</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">12 <span style="font-size: small;">[<u>No one] for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek. The same Lord is Lord over all [of us] and He generously bestows His riches upon all who call upon Him [in faith</u>].</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">13 <span style="font-size: small;"><u>For everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord [invoking Him as Lord] will be saved</u>.</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">14 <span style="font-size: small;"><u>But how are people to call upon Him Whom they have not believed [in Whom they have no faith, on Whom they have no reliance]? And how are they to believe in Him [adhere to, trust in, and rely upon Him] of Whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher</u>?</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">15 <span style="font-size: small;"><u>And how can men [be expected to] preach unless they are sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who bring glad tidings! [How welcome is the coming of those who preach the good news of His good things!]</u></span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">16 <span style="font-size: small;"><u>But they have not all heeded the Gospel; for Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed (had faith in) what he has heard from us</u>?</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">17 <span style="font-size: small;"><u>So faith comes by hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the preaching [of the message that came from the lips] of Christ (the Messiah Himself</u>).</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">18 B<span style="font-size: small;">ut I ask, Have they not heard? Indeed they have; [for the Scripture says] Their voice [that of nature bearing God's message] has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the far bounds of the world.</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">19 <span style="font-size: small;">Again I ask, Did Israel not understand? [Did the Jews have no warning that the Gospel was to go forth to the Gentiles, to all the earth?] First, there is Moses who says, I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry.</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">20 <span style="font-size: small;">Then Isaiah is so bold as to say, I have been found by those who did not seek Me; I have shown (revealed) Myself to those who did not [consciously] ask for Me.</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 <u>I ask then: Has God totally rejected and disowned His people? Of course not</u>! Why, I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin! [I Sam. 12:22; Jer. 31:37; 33:24-26; Phil. 3:5.]</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">5 So too at the present time there is a remnant (a small believing minority), selected (chosen) by grace (by God's unmerited favor and graciousness).</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">6 But if it is by grace (His unmerited favor and graciousness), it is no longer conditioned on works or anything men have done. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace [it would be meaningless].</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">11 <u>So I ask, Have they stumbled so as to fall [to their utter spiritual ruin, irretrievably]? By no means</u>! But through their false step and transgression salvation [has come] to the Gentiles, so as to arouse Israel [to see and feel what they forfeited] and so to make them jealous.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">13 <u>But now I am speaking to you who are Gentiles</u>. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I lay great stress on my ministry and magnify my office,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">15 <u>For if their rejection and exclusion from the benefits of salvation were [overruled] for the reconciliation of a world to God, what will their acceptance and admission mean? [It will be nothing short of] life from the dead</u>!</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">21 For if God did not spare the natural branches [because of unbelief], neither will He spare you [if you are guilty of the same offense].</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">22 Then note and appreciate the gracious kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's gracious kindness to you--<u>provided you continue in His grace and abide in His kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off (pruned away</u>).</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">24 For if you have been cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and against nature grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much easier will it be to graft these natural [branches] back on [the original parent stock of] their own olive tree.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>25 </strong><strong>Lest you be self-opinionated (wise in your own conceits), <u>I do not want you to miss this hidden truth and mystery</u>, brethren: a hardening (insensibility) has [<u>temporarily</u>] befallen a part of Israel [to last] <u>until the full number of the ingathering of the Gentiles has come in</u>, </strong>Romans 11:13-25</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>NOTE:</strong> As we've previously examined in Chapters 1 and 3 of The Bed Keeper, we learned that eunuchs were cut off from the promises of God through Moses' ban on them entering into the Congregation of the Lord, yet God prophesied of a time we would be included in His House of Prayer through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and the New Covenant which He ratified. We recall from the account of the Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts 8 that he was prevented from baptism when he went to Jerusalem to worship, because of the ban Moses had put in place in Deuteronomy 23:1, but found his place in God's Kingdom and was baptized into the New Covenant instead. Likewise, Paul teaches that since the Jews rejected Jesus and did not enter into the New Covenant but clung to the Old, they are now (temporarily) prevented from entering into salvation without a belief in Jesus Christ as the Son of God (though they still have a Covenant with God if they faithfully follow the Law of Moses). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What I believe we will see are both eunuchs (LGBT Christians) and Jews sharing much of the same ultimate destiny in God's plan for Mankind, but in reverse order of each other; first eunuchs were excluded under the Old Covenant, and now it's the Jews themselves excluded from many promises of God by the very Covenant Jesus came to fulfill. What I believe we will find as we continue through the remainder of this chapter of The Bed Keeper is that indeed it will be the eunuchs (previously cut off from the Jewish Congregation of the Lord) who will be the very ones God uses to reinstate the Jews into the promises of God they are currently cut off from without faith in Jesus, (such as gay marriage, permanent forgiveness of sins, and ultimately eternal life). I also believe we will see that it will be the eunuchs (LGBT Christians) who preach the Word (from whence faith comes), and will be the very people God uses to now invite Jews into the New Covenant, and open the door to some of the promises of God that are attainable only by faith (as opposed to following the Law of Moses). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Why do I believe this? Because as Paul said, in Romans 11:25: <strong>"I do not want you to miss this hidden truth and mystery, brethren: a hardening (insensibility) has [temporarily] befallen a part of Israel [to last] <u>until the full number of the ingathering of the Gentiles has come in</u>"</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Let's </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">again review what God gave as the entire basis for prophesying of the inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in God's House of Prayer: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>4 For thus says the Lord: To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths and choose the things which please Me and hold firmly My covenant--</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>5</strong> <strong>To them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial and a name better [and more enduring] than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.</strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">6 Also the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord to minister to Him and to love the name of the Lord and to be His servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath so as not to profane it and who holds fast My covenant [by conscientious obedience]--</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">7 All these I will bring to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on My altar; for My house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>8 </strong><strong>Thus says the Lord God, Who gathers the outcasts of Israel: <u>I will gather yet others to [Israel] besides those already gathered</u>.</strong> Isaiah 56:4-8</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What this tells me is that the <strong>"full number of the ingathering of the Gentiles cannot come in"</strong> until eunuchs (LGBT people) are included as full participants in God's House of Prayer for all people. We have already examined in Chapters 1 and 4 of The Bed Keeper that Jesus told us He cannot return until all prophecies have been fulfilled, and we have determined that Isaiah 56:4-8 has yet to be fulfilled. As it becomes fulfilled, not only does it pave the way for Jesus to return for Christians, but simultaneously paves the way for the Jews' long awaited Messiah to come as well (since they are One and the Same). As long as the Christian Church remains blind to this prophecy concerning LGBT people, not only does She prevent the return of Jesus Christ for Christians, but also the revelation of the Messiah for the Jews. It not only prevents the bodily resurrection promised to every Christian who has ever lived and died already, but also prevents the revelation of the Messiah for the Jews. I believe the revelations shared in The Bed Keeper will help the Church become aware of this oversight,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">26 And so <u>all Israel will be saved</u>. As it is written, <u>The Deliverer will come from Zion</u>, He will banish ungodliness from Jacob.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">27 And this will be My covenant (My agreement) with them when I shall take away their sins.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">28 <u>From the point of view of the Gospel (good news), they [the Jews, at present] are enemies [of God], which is for your advantage and benefit. But from the point of view of God's choice (of election, of divine selection), they are still the beloved (dear to Him) for the sake of their forefathers</u>.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">29 <u>For God's gifts and His call are irrevocable</u>. [He never withdraws them when once they are given, and He does not change His mind about those to whom He gives His grace or to whom He sends His call.]</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">30 <u>Just as you were once disobedient and rebellious toward God but now have obtained [His] mercy, through their disobedience</u>,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">31 So they also now are being disobedient [when you are receiving mercy], <u>that they in turn may one day, through the mercy you are enjoying</u>, also receive mercy [that they may share the mercy which has been shown to you--<u>through you as messengers of the Gospel to them</u>].</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">32 For God has consigned (penned up) all men to disobedience, only that He may have mercy on them all [alike].</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unfathomable (inscrutable, unsearchable) are His judgments (His decisions)! And how untraceable (mysterious, undiscoverable) are His ways (His methods, His paths)!</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">34 For who has known the mind of the Lord and who has understood His thoughts, or who has [ever] been His counselor?</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">35 Or who has first given God anything that he might be paid back or that he could claim a recompense?</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>36 </strong><strong>For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. [For all things originate with Him and come from Him; all things live through Him, and all things center in and tend to consummate and to end in Him.] To Him be glory forever! Amen (so be it).</strong> Romans 11:1-36</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In short, I believe we will now see gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people not only bringing LGBT people of other faiths and nations into the Christian fold as they realize Christianity is the only religion that Scripture illustrates our inclusion, but as these prophecies begin to be fulfilled, we will take the entire Christian Church one step closer to the Return of Jesus Christ. But I also believe that as we do, we will simultaneously usher those of the Jewish faith into an awareness of (what will be to them) the First Coming of The Messiah. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">With all that in mind, let us now examine some portions of Scripture that seem to confirm these assertions. By way of review, let us first once again recall God’s eunuch prophecy to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people from Isaiah 55:11-56:8:</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">12 For you shall go out [from the spiritual exile caused by sin and evil into the homeland] with joy and be led forth [by your Leader, the Lord Himself, and His word] with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree; and it shall be to the Lord for a name of renown, for an everlasting sign [of jubilant exaltation] and memorial [to His praise], which shall not be cut off.</strong> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isaiah 55:11-13</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>1 Thus says the Lord: Keep justice, do and use righteousness (conformity to the will of God which brings salvation), for My salvation is soon to come and My righteousness (My rightness and justice) to be revealed.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>8 Thus says the Lord God, Who gathers the outcasts of Israel: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will gather yet others to [Israel] besides those already gathered.</strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isaiah 55:11-56:8</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">18 The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon Me, because He has anointed Me [the Anointed One, the Messiah] to preach the good news (the Gospel) to the poor; He has sent Me to announce release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send forth as delivered those who are oppressed [who are downtrodden, bruised, crushed, and broken down by calamity],</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>1 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed and qualified me to preach the Gospel of good tidings to the meek, the poor, and afflicted; He has sent me to bind up and heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the [physical and spiritual] captives and the opening of the prison and of the eyes to those who are bound,</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>3 To grant [consolation and joy] to those who mourn in Zion--to give them an ornament (a garland or diadem) of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment [expressive] of praise instead of a heavy, burdened, and failing spirit--that they may be called oaks of righteousness [lofty, strong, and magnificent, distinguished for uprightness, justice, and right standing with God], the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.</strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isaiah 61:1-3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here we see yet another reference to “taking firm hold of My covenant" that God said gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people must do in order to lay claim to the promises of God outlined in His eunuch prophecy from Isaiah 55:11-56:8, as well as once again seeing yet another reversal of the status quo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The parallels conveyed in these nearby sections of the same Book of Isaiah are hard to ignore, and leads one to conclude they are still speaking of the same people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While some commentaries remark this is about the return of the Jewish people, it seems to me that overlooks the possibility (especially in light of the eunuch prophesies) that it is instead speaking of LGBT Christians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We recall Paul taught that the Jews were the root of the olive branch, and the Gentiles were but a wild offshoot grafted into Covenant with God through faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He reminds us Christians to not boast about now being in Covenant with God ourselves because it is the root (the Jews) that supports the branches (the Christians), not the other way around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While I would be the first to admit it could be that God never intended LGBT people to be involved in this event, it would take someone with a firm alternate understanding of Isaiah 61 to convince me otherwise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Clearly as He is using us to prepare the Church for the return of Jesus Christ, He would have someone planned to inform the Jews of His coming. </span>While it won’t affect the salvation of any Christian one way or the other, it most certainly may have a vital impact on the salvation of Jews, and their reinstatement into God’s grace which Paul (and Isaiah) speak to, not to mention the face to face meeting of the Jews with their Messiah, Our Lord, Jesus Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So while Jesus did not read the entire passage of Isaiah 61:1-11 during His Own teaching in the synagogue, it’s important to notice so many references herein that seem to not only tie back into the Lord telling eunuchs not to complain we are dry trees, but once again, the adorning of the Church, the end of homophobia, and the ordination of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender clergy. All of these events are then tied into bearing fruit for God in the form of us planting seeds which the Lord God then will cause to bring forth rightness, justice, and praise before ALL the nations. We learned that all of these things are the result of faith, and that together they bring about a little talked about event leading up to the return of Jesus Christ of Christians; the distinct possibly that it will be LGBT Christians preaching the Gospel to the Jews, explaining to them that as the Christian Church prepares herself for the Second Coming of Christ, the Jews do well to begin preparing themselves for (what will be to them) the first coming of the Messiah.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I too stand in awe of God’s marvelous plans for mankind, the Church, the Jews, Israel, and the Nations, as well as His apparent intent on using LGBT Christians as instruments of bringing major points of those plans to fruition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether I am right or wrong about Isaiah 61, one thing is for certain;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the fact that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bed Keeper</i> is even being written is one more sign that whether Jew or Gentile, (or gay or straight), it will affect all of us in one way or the other, and that indeed Jesus is Returning to the earth….and soon!</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For me, life began with a violent and abusive childhood, which then devolved into a self-destructive adulthood, and then one day the tide turned as my walk with God resumed, and continues to become the fruitful, purposeful, and victorious lifestyle I enjoy today!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like many people, I am not proud of much of my past, but I can tell you that I am infinitely joyful to be walking out of the mess that I was in, and moving towards the message that I now share with you!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, I’m not going to share with you how I changed from being gay to being straight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I am hoping to take some time to share with you how I went from being lost to being found.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After more than 20 years of living without God, I didn’t know how God could ever use me to help anyone else, especially Christians! I had always attended churches that placed more importance on the appearance of righteousness, and less on teaching us that the righteousness of Christ was given to us the moment we accepted Him into our hearts. I didn’t know how I could ever show my face in church again. I didn’t know that millions of people have had to face down these same lonely, self-loathing attitudes, and are now serving God in mighty ways that impact His Kingdom in a positive manner that can only be explained by knowing that God IS!</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I first received salvation from the Lord at the age of 9 in 1975. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was raised on a farm in rural Midwest Missouri and was brought up in a violent and abusive environment. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Days began at 4:30am with my father turning on my bedroom light and then rapping his fist on the wall 3 or 4 times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span> Some way to wake up!</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the very next things God led me to do in September 2004 was to check into a hotel for 3 days and do nothing but feed on His Word, completely isolated from the stress and distractions of my everyday life, so He could bring me back into His Love, His Presence, and His Divine Destiny which He had already foreordained for my life before the foundations of the world. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span> It was another glorious 3 days spent in His Presence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t even own a bible yet, but the Gideon’s had left one in the hotel room before my arrival. (God bless the Gideons!) I opened and turned to read Jeremiah 29:11 which says:</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, I don’t blame God. I don’t blame the government for taking so long to say the word “AIDS.” I don’t even blame myself, though I admit I certainly did blame all of the above for a time. Now, I simply take responsibility for the fact that I had the information that would have prevented me from contracting HIV, and I simply ignored it. Because of deception from the enemy, because of the moral looseness of the world, and because of the deep wounds of my past, I was in “self-destruct” mode. I wasn’t out to intentionally contract HIV, but I didn’t do everything I could to make sure I wouldn’t. The sad but simple truth is that I didn’t care if I lived or died. To me, life wasn’t worth living without God, and certainly not worth living if I was going to hell anyway for being gay. I truly felt “damned if I do, and damned if I don’t”…so I did.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What an awesome comfort and privilege it is to have the Holy Spirit explaining to my spirit what it is I’m reading, and how it will impact my future, and those whom He leads me to minster to. I found that if I simply hear and obey His Word, life can be much more enjoyable and purposeful. Because the Word of God is His voice speaking to us about His will for our lives, and how to walk as worthy representatives of the Lord Jesus Christ, I found that we can find our place in the Body of Christ to be of service to God. By being in service to God, I find true happiness comes as His Light shines through us, bringing more souls into the Kingdom for His glory! This is the fruit we bear for God. Beyond this great privilege and responsibility is the promise that Jesus gives us regarding the Holy Spirit in Acts 1:8:</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had always enjoyed writing as a boy. It continues to be a gift that grows within me, and I find that as I yield to the Holy Spirit, that gift has taken on a new purpose. The words are sharper, clearer and infinitely more powerful as I defer to the Holy Spirit’s leadership and ask Him to make the words I scribe to be God’s words instead of my own. Now, seven years after receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, I believe God is attempting to take me to the next level in my walk with Him, by giving me the promptings to fulfill that same longing for progress in my walk with God and my service to Him. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">I</span> believe that Believers everywhere share that same longing to fulfill their own destiny.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found that God’s answer is simple: To have more of God’s love, power, and favor, we must allow ourselves to be submitted to and led by the Spirit of God! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By being led by the Spirit of God, we are truly sons (and daughters) of God! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Romans 8:14)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lakewood Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/lakewood-church-endorsed-as-safe-space.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<strong>UPDATE 11.22.11:</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eagle Mountain International Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this video, Brian Anthony Bowen reveals Scriptures the Church never talks about which prove that Jesus taught that LGBT people are born this way...and that prove the Apostle Paul ordained Gay Marriage...IN THE BIBLE!<br /><br />This changes EVERYTHING!<br />More info: </span><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://brianbowenministries.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://BrianBowenMinistries.com"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://BrianBowenMinistries.com</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I knew in my spirit this day would come! I am writing today to share that I am proud to officially give my full support to Lakewood Church as a<strong> safe space</strong> for LGBT people to worship! I am writing today to share my reasons for doing so with the World Wide LGBT Community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As you may know, on November 6, 2011, Ms. Oprah Winfrey and Mr. Tyler Perry attended Worship Services as guests of Lakewood Church. You can review a video of Pastor Joel Osteen introducing and welcoming them <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziZyNkwe6Wg&feature=endscreen&NR=1" target="_blank"><strong>here.</strong></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Ms. Winfrey:</strong> Does that mean that all people, all races (obviously, in your church we see all people, all races). I can't imagine that you would have 60,000 people in there and none of them would be gay. So are gay people also included?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Pastor Joel:</strong> ABSOLUTELY! Anybody is! You know, Oprah, we (the Christian community) sometimes make a bigger deal out of being gay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Pastor Joel:</strong> I believe that being...I believe that homosexuality is shown as a sin in the Scriptures, I do. I do. That's just the way...you know, Oprah it's a hard thing in a sense because I'm for everybody. I'm not against anybody. I don't think anybody's second class, but when I read the Scripture I just with good faith, I can't see that it doesn't show that it is a sin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Because of two things. One is because I've been a member of Lakewood Church for 7 years now, and I know who Pastor Joel is as a person and as a minister of the Gospel. I know him to be a man of integrity and honesty. I also know that this interview was conducted prior to the Open Letter I sent him November 24, 2011 in response to the re-airing of the Piers Morgan interview he did back in January 2011, which can be reviewed <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-joel-osteen-and-lakewood.html" target="_blank"><strong>here.</strong></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Notice that Pastor reframes the question in order to answer in a Scripturally sound manner. At no time does he say, "being gay is a sin." He only says that "homosexuality is shown as sin in the Scriptures." I believe this is true, and that Scripture backs it up. Please review, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19: Go, And Sin No More</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for a detailed explanation of the differences between <strong>"being gay"</strong> and <strong>"homosexuality."</strong> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we see, in each case homosexuality is shown to be sin because they are couched in the context of <strong><u>heterosexual married men</u></strong> engaged in various forms of <u><strong>adultery</strong></u>, (Leviticus 18 and Romans 1), <u><strong>idol worship</strong></u> (Romans 1), <u><strong>gay-for-pay prostitution</strong></u> (1 Timothy 1:10), or <strong><u>heterosexual married preachers</u></strong> whoring the Church for money, keeping boys on the side, and metaphorically <strong><u>sodomizing Jesus Christ Himself</u></strong> (1 Corinthians 6:9-10). However, these passages are not set within the context (nor addressed to) anyone as <strong>being gay.</strong> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My point is that not only has Pastor Joel been honest and Scripturally truthful in the Oprah interview (even if lacking the specificity discussed in The Bed Keeper), it remains possible for even gay people to see the difference between <strong>"gay people going to heaven,"</strong> and clearly <strong>sinful homosexual acts</strong> being committed by <strong>heterosexual</strong> people (the same acts being condemned in Scripture).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the meantime, just as I cautioned in my <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong>previous open letter to the World Wide LGBT Community</strong></a>, since<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> November 1, 2011, God has been opening the door to His House of Prayer for All People wide enough to include ALL people, as the Church becomes aware of additional information from the Word of God regarding LGBT people that has simply not been recognized before. As they do, obviously there is going to be a period of exploration and examination of these findings from Scripture as shared throughout The Bed Keeper. As you know, there's a LOT of Scriptural territory to cover, and this process will not happen overnight.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since this is something new for all of us, it is important to recognize that missteps from the Church AND the LGBT community will most likely continue to be a part of life as we move toward each other on this journey, but that should never be a reason for us to lose ground, retreat from the challenge, and give up hope of mainstream Christianity at long last embracing the LGBT community as full participants in God's Kingdom as Brothers and Sisters. If we don't do it for ourselves, we must at least do it for generations of LGBT youth who come after us. Having found another Church willing to begin the process, it would be a great travesty for us to fail to respond.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recognize many in the LGBT community have been Christians all their lives, and have felt sentenced to politely knocking outside the Church door instead of being welcomed with open arms, just as we are. As the Church begins to recognize that Jesus taught we are born this way from our mother's wombs, and have a significant, and prophetically critical role to play in God's House of Prayer, the walls are indeed coming down, eyes are being opened, and hearts are being filled with the love of God and His people; all of His people. That is not however a reason to expect that every Christian has fully embraced these findings from Scripture, but it instead presents an opportunity for all LGBT people and our families to help facilitate their understanding. I believe The Bed Keeper will help.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some may be asking, "Well, Brother Brian, in your <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong>last letter</strong></a><strong>,</strong> you said Eagle Mountain International Church was supposed to be some kind of 'world headquarters' for the LGBT community because of <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/eagle-mountain-justus-du-plessis.html" target="_blank"><strong>Brother Justus DuPlessis' prophecy from 1996</strong></a> designating EMIC as the 'home base' for this new move of God." </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would share with folks that although Pastor Joel is at the helm of Lakewood Church right now, it was his father, John Osteen, who originally founded and pastored there, and he was a long time friend and associate minister of Brother Kenneth Copeland. Not only is Eagle Mountain International Church part of Kenneth Copeland Ministries, but is also pastored by his daughter, Pastor Terri Copeland Pearsons, and her husband, Pastor George Pearsons. And we recall Pastor George's sermon (also from November 6, 2011--the same day Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry visited Lakewood Church), entitled:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While I continue to recognize EMIC as the epicenter of the world wide awakening for LGBT people to the renewed call of the Good Shepherd into His Kingdom, Lakewood Church is a ministry that is vitally connected and deeply rooted in the EMIC family as well, even as each ministry continues to maintain complete and independent autonomy. In short, what this means to the LGBT community is we have now doubled the number of churches on the <strong>"Safe Space"</strong> list currently being compiled. While they may not be considered by all LGBT people as the only <strong>"Safe Spaces,"</strong> they are indeed the only two I've personally endorsed (so far!), as they have demonstrated both an unswerving stand on the Word of God, and an undying compassion for reaching ALL God's people as they strive to do their part in ensuring the fulfillment of God's prophecy to LGBT people found in Isaiah 55:11-56:12, promising to include us in His House of Prayer, to give us a memorial (Holy Communion), and to accept our offerings on His altar as already blessed! (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>See Chapter 1: Born This Way</strong></a> for a more detailed understanding).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nobody is perfect, and that's just as true of individual Christians as it is of each Christian ministry (and each LGBT person). While we will not remain silent if issues arise, I am encouraging us all to handle each instance with sincerity, respect, truthfulness, and professionalism. It is also important to recognize November 11, 2011 as the "line of demarcation" between the Old days in the Church and this new Day in Church, marked distinctively through a prophecy led by Brother Kenneth Copeland himself which you can read </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/111111-prophetic-utterance-from-brother.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></span></strong></a>, or listen to<span style="color: blue;"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kkb94XRFhc&feature=share" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">here.</span></strong></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What matters most is that you fully understand it is much more than "giving money." For LGBT people, it's about <strong><u>fulfilling prophecy</u></strong>. Isaiah 55:11-56:8 doesn't simply depend on the Church including LGBT people for fulfillment. It also prophetically mandates LGBT people to bring our offerings to His altar. <strong> <u>Without both, the prophecy is still not fulfilled, and Jesus cannot return!</u></strong> (see Luke 24:44). You can read more about that </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">here,</span></span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and you can participate in this most holy calling from God toward LGBT people </span><a href="http://www.lakewood.cc/pages/give/index.aspx" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">here.</span></span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, if you are a pastor (or anybody else), and are shaking your head asking, <strong>"what in the world is going on at Lakewood Church and Eagle Mountain?"</strong> you can learn more by reading the Open Letter To Pastors </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-pastors.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">here.</span></span></strong></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In closing, let me once again encourage everyone to remain patient, and to more closely explore Lakewood Church for yourselves! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me at </span><a href="mailto:thebedkeeper@gmail.com"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:thebedkeeper@gmail.com"></a><a href="mailto:thebedkeeper@gmail.com"></a><a href="mailto:thebedkeeper@gmail.com"><span style="color: blue;">thebedkeeper@gmail.com</span></a></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lakewood Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/lakewood-church-endorsed-as-safe-space.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Dear Brothers and Sisters of the World Wide LGBT Community,</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Greetings in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the residual excitement of the breakthroughs in 2011 for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community become tempered by the realization of all the work that continues to lie ahead of us, I write today to encourage all of us to <strong>"DON'T GIVE UP NOW!"</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we have made great strides around the globe in being recognized as legitimate children of Almighty God--born of natural means from our mother's wombs for such a time as this--it's important that each of us ask what part in the march toward equality (both in society and in the Church) God would have each of us play. At this time in history we awaken to the possibilities 2012 has in store for us, and we recognize a massive, world-wide social and spiritual shift that has left us all in a world we sometimes can scarcely recognize. We find ourselves seemingly transported through space and time upon the wings of the very angels themselves, and find that at the same time the world begins to more fully recognize our rights to exist as free and equal citizens under the Laws of the Land, so too does the Church begin to more fully recognize our birthright under God's Law of Liberty as fellow workmen and equal partakers in the Kingdom of Heaven as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While written off as prodigals by the world's religions many centuries ago, we find ourselves in a new Day where the Hand of Providence has turned a page in time and revealed to all mankind, the secret and divine mystery of His prophetic plan for our divine destiny, masterfully embedded within Holy Writ by God Himself. Since the beginning of time, we have endeavored to ask ourselves who we are and why God created us, and in 2011 it was revealed to the Christian Church that God's denial of our entrance into the Jewish Congregation of the Lord 4,000 years ago through His Prophet Moses was indeed not the last word He would have to say about it. It was however a necessary step to ensure this mystery would not be revealed to mankind until a time of God's Own choosing, through His Own Bride, The Worldwide Christian Church.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2011, we finally heard His small, still voice speaking of us once again through prophetic utterances of the Prophet Isaiah nearly 2,700 years ago, as He prophesied of a day where we would be included in His House of Prayer for all people by means of the sacrifice of His Son Jesus Christ. We then overheard the Good Shepherd Himself whispering to His Disciple Matthew about our divinely created natural births as He exempted us from heterosexual marriage nearly 2,000 years ago. As He fulfilled the Old Covenant under which we were excluded from the promises of God, He was then resurrected to new life under the New Covenant--ratified with His Own shed blood--wherein we become seated with Him in Heavenly places, including His House of Prayer for ALL People, through faith.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2011, we learned He had granted us the authority to now partake in the Sacrament of Holy Communion with Him and all the saints in His House of Prayer, and we watched as the Holy Spirit confirmed the beginning fulfillment of God's utterance through the Prophet Isaiah, as He led Philip to share the same prophecies with the Ethiopian Eunuch who had been turned away from Church under the Old Covenant, and instead became water baptized into the New Covenant. We listened in as His Apostle Peter then taught all who were Baptized by the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, that God's Promise to Abraham of the Holy Spirit was granted to "even His menservants and maidservants" through his Prophet Joel. Finally, we then intercepted the Apostle Paul's letter to early Church leaders in Corinth wherein he ordered single gender marriages in all the Christian churches for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people as equal participants in the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As these revelations were shared with the world's highest placed government and Church leaders near the end of 2011, we waited as anxiously outside the Church doors as a father waits for his newborn baby's first cry. As these Church leaders peered into divine things that even the angels long to look, we began to hear the first responses as their recognitions of truth were confirmed through the new life of their own divine utterances, especially throughout the Thanksgiving and Christmas season. We now know they busy themselves in one accord to exact the necessary preparations for these revelations to be shared with the masses under their pastoral oversight and care. These leaders include His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, Her Majesty The Queen, Defender of the Faith and Supreme Governor of the Church of England, and His All Holiness Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, as well as at least one brave Shepherd here in America. As we recognized the voice of reconciliation rising among international Christian leaders, God revealed Eagle Mountain International Church to be a Scripturally sound House of Prayer for ALL People, as previously confirmed with modern prophecies dating back nearly 20 years, designating Eagle Mountain as the epicenter of this new move of God in the earth, and indeed throughout the entire Christian Church.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we now stand in awe of God's mighty hand at work in the earth on our behalf as a community, I encourage each of us to press in to learn more of God's unique plans, pursuits and purposes He desires for each of us to fulfill as we begin to take the first steps into the prophetic purpose and divine destiny he has called each of us to; not only in our Holy Spirit confirmed capacity as sons and daughters of God, but also in our God ordained place within the World Wide Christian Congregation as Brothers and Sisters of Jesus Christ, and each other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In closing, I encourage us to all pause and reflect on the contributions and sacrifices that so many young LGBT teens have made heretofore, as they joined us in spirit to advance the cause of Freedom as they sacrificed their own lives, and (perhaps unknowingly) awakened the Church to these important revelations from Scripture. Rightly revering them even as martyrs in their own right, I know we all honor their lives, as we add our prayers for comfort for their families and friends, as they continue to mourn those they held so dear and miss so much. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As LGBT people are now free to serve in many of the world's armed forces, it is equally important to pause to honor their sacrifices, and those of the many brave men and women who long ago purchased with their own blood, the freedoms of religion and speech that have ensured the avenues of communication necessary to share the revelation of these mysteries from Scripture throughout the world. Let us also especially honor and pray for the protection and safety of those who continue to serve at their posts as guardian angels of those liberties, as they endeavor to ensure they remain available to freedom loving people everywhere, throughout all generations of humanity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, let us honor those who came before us, who through great courage and sacrifice fought and died to secure the promises of liberty, as we find ourselves within arms' length of the inheritance of our founding fathers who held these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And let us pray for the Shepherds everywhere who will be sharing these revelations and mysteries of God's plan for mankind throughout 2012, through the Good News of the Gospel that continues to be revealed by God to include spiritual blessings and promises for ALL His children, including those of us who were naturally born from our mothers' wombs as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, for such a time as this...</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DON'T GIVE UP NOW!</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">May God bless you and yours richly and always,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eagle Mountain International Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And you shall be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And you shall go</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Into the heavens, and into the depths of the earth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And you are the purpose of My plan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You, incarnate, before Me now do stand,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>And these things are being revealed to you </strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>for they’re too much for your head to understand.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But even in your mind you’ll see more and more </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and know who you are, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and that I am at the door of your heart, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">willing to impart to you as we sup together:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">great and glorious and wondrous things to come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And you shall see in your very own nation </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">what it means when the Incarnation, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the Church, the Body of the Living Head takes Her place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And instead of those who know not My plan, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">you will bring into being One Who is the Son at My right hand, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I will show you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will show <strong>YOU.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It won’t be of great length, but there will be a time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">when the head of this nation will know the plans that are Mine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Stand in faith, and believe to see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">what I the Lord have implanted in thee, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to My glory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look not around you and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">give voice to the darkness that is there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh it’s there, that’s true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, but in that darkness I shine a great Light;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Light of My Countenance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walk in <strong><u>that</u></strong> Light!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learn to see, speak, hear and obey</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In another place above the fray.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keep your mind on things above, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and know that things will move </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">according to the Plan of the God of Love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You’ll say things you didn’t intend to say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You will intend to make a statement and it will come out another way, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and that’s because you have given Me your vessel to occupy, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and your tongue to say, what I want said, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and it will be something completely apart from your head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bless the Lord!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh Lord, we just give ourselves to You afresh and anew,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do with us what You want to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Jesus’ Name we thank You.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Praise You, Lord!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are points in time of the Plan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though I’m eternal, points in time matter to man, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and there came in the fullness of the times the Incarnate Babe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>But now, there’s another marker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s another time.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>And you’re going into it now, and things are changing, </strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>and I am the "How" of Rearranging...</strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>EVERYTHING!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For My Purpose, and My Plan shall not be abated, aborted—</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but it shall stand! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bless the Lord, Hallelujah, thank You, Lord!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes! You’ve grown!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And you know it too! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is My plan for you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And you’ve been faithful to pray, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You have no idea how many things were avoided </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">because you prayed, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">because you stayed, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>And I’ll use you more!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>You have come through another door!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>You’re there now!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, Praise You Father!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We do believe it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because we do receive it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We do believe it, and teach us how to fulfill the ministry,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this heavenly ministry You’ve called us to. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Jesus Name we praise you and give you glory forever and ever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">THANK YOU, Sister Billye, for yielding to the Holy Spirit's direction! I pray this utterance blesses all who learn of it, receive it, and believe it! In Jesus' mighty Name! Amen!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sincerely,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Brian Anthony Bowen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Author, The Bed Keeper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>* * *</strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now about the spiritual gifts (the special endowments of supernatural energy), brethren, I do not want you to be misinformed.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You know that when you were heathen, you were led off after idols that could not speak [habitually] as impulse directed and whenever the occasion might arise.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking under the power and influence of the [Holy] Spirit of God can [ever] say, Jesus be cursed! And no one can [really] say, Jesus is [my] Lord, except by and under the power and influence of the Holy Spirit.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now there are distinctive varieties and distributions of endowments (gifts, extraordinary powers distinguishing certain Christians, due to the power of divine grace operating in their souls by the Holy Spirit) and they vary, but the [Holy] Spirit remains the same.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And there are distinctive varieties of service and ministration, but it is the same Lord [Who is served].</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And there are distinctive varieties of operation [of working to accomplish things], but it is the same God Who inspires and energizes them all in all.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But to each one is given the manifestation of the [Holy] Spirit [the evidence, the spiritual illumination of the Spirit] for good and profit.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To one is given in and through the [Holy] Spirit [the power to speak] a message of wisdom, and to another [the power to express] a word of knowledge and understanding according to the same [Holy] Spirit;</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To another [wonder-working] faith by the same [Holy] Spirit, to another the extraordinary powers of healing by the one Spirit;</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To another the working of miracles, to another prophetic insight (the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose); to another the ability to discern and distinguish between [the utterances of true] spirits [and false ones], to another various kinds of [unknown] tongues, to another the ability to interpret [such] tongues.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All these [gifts, achievements, abilities] are inspired and brought to pass by one and the same [Holy] Spirit, Who apportions to each person individually [exactly] as He chooses.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For just as the body is a unity and yet has many parts, and all the parts, though many, form [only] one body, so it is with Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For by [means of the personal agency of] one [Holy] Spirit we were all, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free, baptized [and by baptism united together] into one body, and all made to drink of one [Holy] Spirit.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the body does not consist of one limb or organ but of many.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If the foot should say, Because I am not the hand, I do not belong to the body, would it be therefore not [a part] of the body?</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If the ear should say, Because I am not the eye, I do not belong to the body, would it be therefore not [a part] of the body?</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If the whole body were an eye, where [would be the sense of] hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where [would be the sense of] smell?</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But as it is, God has placed and arranged the limbs and organs in the body, each [particular one] of them, just as He wished and saw fit and with the best adaptation.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But if [the whole] were all a single organ, where would the body be?</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And now there are [certainly] many limbs and organs, but a single body.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the eye is not able to say to the hand, I have no need of you, nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But instead, there is [absolute] necessity for the parts of the body that are considered the more weak.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And those [parts] of the body which we consider rather ignoble are [the very parts] which we invest with additional honor, and our unseemly parts and those unsuitable for exposure are treated with seemliness (modesty and decorum),</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so adjusted (mingled, harmonized, and subtly proportioned the parts of) the whole body, giving the greater honor and richer endowment to the inferior parts which lack [apparent importance],</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So that there should be no division or discord or lack of adaptation [of the parts of the body to each other], but the members all alike should have a mutual interest in and care for one another.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And if one member suffers, all the parts [share] the suffering; if one member is honored, all the members [share in] the enjoyment of it.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now you [collectively] are Christ's body and [individually] you are members of it, each part severally and distinct [each with his own place and function].</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>So God has appointed some in the church [for His own use]: first apostles (special messengers); second prophets (inspired preachers and expounders); third teachers; then wonder-workers; then those with ability to heal the sick; helpers; administrators; [speakers in] different (unknown) tongues. </strong>1 Corinthians 12:1-28</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He Who descended is the [very] same as He Who also has ascended high above all the heavens, that He [His presence] might fill all things (the whole universe, from the lowest to the highest).</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And His gifts were [varied; He Himself appointed and gave men to us] some to be apostles (special messengers), some prophets (inspired preachers and expounders), some evangelists (preachers of the Gospel, traveling missionaries), some pastors (shepherds of His flock) and teachers.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints (His consecrated people), [that they should do] the work of ministering toward building up Christ's body (the church),</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[That it might develop] until we all attain oneness in the faith and in the comprehension of the [full and accurate] knowledge of the Son of God, that [we might arrive] at really mature manhood (the completeness of personality which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ's own perfection), the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found in Him.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So then, we may no longer be children, tossed [like ships] to and fro between chance gusts of teaching and wavering with every changing wind of doctrine, [the prey of] the cunning and cleverness of unscrupulous men, [gamblers engaged] in every shifting form of trickery in inventing errors to mislead.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rather, let our lives lovingly express truth [in all things, speaking truly, dealing truly, living truly]. Enfolded in love, let us grow up in every way and in all things into Him Who is the Head, [even] Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>For because of Him the whole body (the church, in all its various parts), closely joined and firmly knit together by the joints and ligaments with which it is supplied, when each part [with power adapted to its need] is working properly [in all its functions], grows to full maturity, building itself up in love.</strong> Ephesians 4:10-16</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Dear Valued Readers,</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lakewood Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/lakewood-church-endorsed-as-safe-space.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eagle Mountain International Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this video, Brian Anthony Bowen reveals Scriptures the Church never talks about which prove that Jesus taught that LGBT people are born this way...and that prove the Apostle Paul ordained Gay Marriage...IN THE BIBLE!<br /><br />This changes EVERYTHING!<br />More info: </span><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://brianbowenministries.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://BrianBowenMinistries.com"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://BrianBowenMinistries.com</span></a><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">giving attention to deluding and seducing spirits</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and doctrines that demons teach,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through the hypocrisy and pretensions of liars</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> whose consciences are seared (cauterized),</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Who forbid people to marry</span> </strong> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear Bishop Jakes,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Greetings in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I am living in faith that you have already heard the good news I'm about to share with you herein, but I'm writing to you directly because I believe the undertaking that is about to take place in the Body of Christ can use a <strong>Potter's</strong> touch. While I realize you may decline to personally lead this move in an active or public role, I believe it would be a travesty if the Body of Christ were denied access and power to your ability to communicate God's Word in a practical and relevant way to the masses at this critical niche in Church (and human) history.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My name is Brian Anthony Bowen, and I am the author of a forthcoming book entitled, “The Bed Keeper,” which I believe will launch your ministry into a new phase, and the Body of Christ into a new day! I write today to refer you to the message Pastor George Pearsons shared with his congregation at Eagle Mountain International Church on November 6, 2011, entitled: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.emic.org/media/index.php?id=909" target="_blank">Hearts Wide Open: The Touch of Compassion, Part 5</a></strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Also, please consider Brother Kenneth Copeland's prophetic utterance regarding our place in the Kingdom of God from November 11, 2011, (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kkb94XRFhc&feature=share" target="_blank"><strong>available from YouTube</strong></a>) which seems to confirm by the Power of the Holy Spirit, what I am about to share with you in this letter. Y</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ou can review the transcript to Brother Copeland's prophetic utterance <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/111111-prophetic-utterance-from-brother.html" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>.</strong> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Please consider also Sister Billye Brim's teaching from her series, <a href="http://www.billyebrim.org/products/daniel-cd-set" target="_blank"><strong>"Daniel"</strong></a> wherein she (along with Pastors George and Terri Pearsons) reveal to Eagle Mountain International Church a prophecy uttered by God through Brother Justus Du Plessis regarding this new move of God way back in August 1996, and my interpretation of its meaning <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/eagle-mountain-justus-du-plessis.html" target="_blank"><strong>here.</strong></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Please review the responses I shared with a debate panel from leaders of Agape Fellowship regarding the Bible's position on homosexuality, that reveals the unScriptural stance "ex-gay" theology manifests itself as </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/12/open-letter-to-faith2com.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Please also then review other pertinent open letters to:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong>The World Wide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-eagle-mountain-intl.html" target="_blank"><strong>Eagle Mountain International Church</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-kenneth-copeland.html" target="_blank"><strong>Kenneth Copeland Ministries</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-joel-osteen-and-lakewood.html" target="_blank"><strong>Joel Osteen and Lakewood Church</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-all-christians.html" target="_blank"><strong>Open Letter to All Christians</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you may know by now, on November 1, 2011, I was invited by Brother Tim Clinton</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( @zoneradiolive on Twitter ), to participate in a discussion on TheZoneRadioShow.org (Cleveland, Ohio) with Pastor Dr. Darrell Scott, Senior Pastor of New Spirit Revival Center </span><a href="http://www.nsrcministries.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>www.nsrcministries.org</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and Pastor Jathan K. Austin ( @PastorJKA on Twitter ),<cite><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></cite>regarding new revelation from God’s Word on the issue that has most divided the church over the centuries, and how we can at last bridge the gap between the sides and come into a new understanding of what God’s Word does (and doesn’t say) about homosexuality and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people (yes, there is a difference)….and at long last, give them incentive to come to church, and give the church incentive to invite us….all based strictly on God’s Word….but in a way none of us most likely expected to happen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please explore this final draft of <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>The Bed Keeper</strong></a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What you will find is a collection of revelations from Scripture pertaining not only to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, but also how we interact prophetically in cooperation with the Body of Christ to prepare the Bride of Christ for His return, and how God has assigned us specific tasks within the church; most notably, the task of bringing our offerings to His altar, and how the traditional teachings of Christianity on this subject has inadvertently prevented our offerings from reaching God's altar. In the process of reading this material, you'll learn how Shepherds have inadvertently "robbed the tithes from God," by preventing LGBT people from coming to Church to include ours on His altar as well. Further, this has also prevented the manifestation of the Glory of the Lord to the extent witnessed and testified to in 2 Chronicles 7, when the fire fell from heaven and consumed the offerings on the altar, and the Glory of the Lord filled the temple. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since first beginning to receive this revelation from Scripture nearly 7 years ago, this message has continued to grow and mature to the point it is today, as Scripture has testified to Scripture, and 2 or 3 witnesses from Scripture have been revealed that verify each word I share in The Bed Keeper. This has resulted in the book being rather wordy, but at least it doesn’t leave any room for doubt, though there will always be room for some amount of disagreement, especially when first examining the evidence, even though it comes directly from Scripture itself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I watched <a href="http://www.emic.org/media/index.php?id=909" target="_blank"><strong>Pastor George’s sermon</strong></a>, I couldn’t help but feel that (whether in the Spirit or in the natural), he already knew that on November 1, 2011, something new had happened in the Church, and that the Body of Christ will never be the same. Perhaps I’m mistaken, but as he spoke of his Church’s outreach to people in the community whom most had not come in contact with or fellowshipped with much before, I couldn’t help but sense that he was speaking of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community; many of whom are already Christians in search of a church to call home, where Scripture means what it says…and doesn’t mean what it doesn’t say. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pastor George seemed to indicate that not only would folks like us be coming to Eagle Mountain International Church, but that they would be training up ministers to assist in this new ingathering as the prayers for the Great Awakening appear to have awakened even those people that most members of the Body of Christ had written off as prodigals many centuries ago. I hope your ministry is part of this process as well, and encourage you to contact Pastor George to confirm your support of this new endeavor!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is also my sincere hope that your ministry team will stand in prayer for this work of God in the Church today. I am praying that The Bed Keeper helps you and your ministry team to have as complete a revelation from God’s Word as is humanly possible, in order to dispel the myths traditional Christianity has held as truth in times past, but also in order to help the Church position herself in a place where she is at last the Glorious Church, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. It just so happens as you’ll see from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank">Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</a></b>, that until LGBT people are affirmed in faith bodies all over the world, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>also contributing our offerings on His altar</u></b>, Jesus is prophetically prevented from returning to the earth until all prophecies are fulfilled (in accordance with Luke 24:44), including God’s Own prophecy to eunuchs in Isaiah 55:11-56:12 (whom Jesus teaches includes eunuchs born so from our mother’s womb in Matthew 19:11-12), whom you and I today refer to as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: Arial;">t is my hope that as you address the question in public venues or in your congregation, that you will first take the time to study these findings from The Bed Keeper, and become more intimately acquainted with what the differences are between <strong>"homosexuality"</strong> and <strong>"homosexual people"</strong> and <strong>"homosexual acts engaged in by heterosexual married men,"</strong> so that you can provide more thorough and Scripturally accurate responses that not only avoids condemning all gay people out of hand, but at the same time, address all the <strong><u>heterosexual men engaged in cheating on their wives with other men</u></strong>, who currently get off scott free as the Church has traditionally only scapegoated gay people, without ever considering that both Scripture (and life itself) portray a very different reality; a reality that once confronted, may indeed prove to be the <strong><u>cure for HIV/AIDS</u></strong> as homosexual and heterosexual mixing comes to an end. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19: Go and Sin No More</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Currently, new infection rates of HIV/AIDS occur in the World Health Organization's <strong>MSM</strong> category (men who have sex with men, <u><strong>regardless of their identified sexuality</strong></u>). The second highest new infection rate is among women (particularly women of color) who contract the disease from <strong><u>heterosexual</u></strong> partners. As the Church focuses its energy (and blame) on gay men, it would seem that these types of transmissions are impossible without the <u><strong>intermingling of</strong> </u><strong><u>heterosexual men having relations with both women AND gay men</u>. </strong> Ignoring this not only fails to address the situation as honestly as Scripture itself does, but also provides these heterosexual men with immunity from scrutiny (and correction) from the Church, and prevents LGBT people from coming to your congregation as the safe space for worship it claims to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>"Safe Space"</strong> can no longer mean "you're welcome to come to church if you're gay and bring your offerings." No, from this day forward, <strong>"Safe Space" can only be truly defined as "you're welcome to come to church if you're gay and bring your offerings because we see that Scripture does not condemn gay people themselves, but rather <u>heterosexual married men engaging in adultery</u>."</strong> After all Bishop, that's what the Bible actually says, and your unawareness of that fact will no longer provide you immunity from criticism and correction from the LGBT community, nor from judgment upon your entire congregation from God Himself:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>My people are destroyed for <u>lack of knowledge;</u> because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you that <u>you shall be no priest to Me</u>; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.</strong> Hosea 4:6</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Ignorance</strong> to God's Word never <strong>changes</strong> God's Word, and He will hold blind shepherds to account, just as He said He would in Isaiah 56:10-12, 1 Corinthians 5-7, Malachi 2-3, and various other passages of Scripture. The Body of Christ can no longer afford to keep its head buried in the sand on this issue if we truly want to prepare the Church for the return of Jesus Christ! Every Christian who ever lived and died before us and our own personal resurrections are on the line! God didn't just send Jesus to save us from eternal torment, but to raise us to eternal life. That will not happen without the Return of Christ, and He cannot return until all prophecies are fulfilled (Luke 24:44), and that includes Isaiah 55:11-56:12. See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Simply saying "homosexuality is sin" condemns all gay people (many of whom do not even have sexual relations of any kind), while <strong><u>at the same time ignoring the heterosexual married men who are actually engaged in the exact form of adultery that is actually being addressed specifically throughout Scripture</u>.</strong> Of course they are also the ones who bring the tithes to the church (since most gay people have felt excluded by such public messages from the Church), and so it can take a brave Shepherd like Pastor George to shed light on this fact, and I hope you'll follow his leadership at The Potter's House. In short, homosexuality has been elevated to an 11th Commandment status, and has replaced God's Own Commandment against <strong>heterosexual adultery.</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Doing so is to judge God's Own Law. But of course, I understand that is what traditional Christianity has always taught, and that traditions of men have long ago blind sided many shepherds to the distinctions I hope to convey to you--and indeed the entire Body of Christ--throughout The Bed Keeper. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Of equally disturbing concern is that each Sunday most Church leadership quotes <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=malachi%203:8-10&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong>Malachi 3:8-10</strong></a> to remind the congregation that <strong><em>"robbing the tithe from God prevents the windows from heaven opening and prevents God from being able to pour out a blessing over our lives"</em></strong> in an effort to unScripturally goad them into giving 10% of their income, rather than the amount they have purposed in their hearts as Paul directs Christians in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20corinthians%209:6-10&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong>2 Corinthians 9:6-10.</strong></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">However, if we more closely examine the Scripture referred to from Malachi, we see it actually begins in Malachi 2, not Malachi 3, and is addressed to priests themselves who are the ones robbing God of the tithes by preventing all the tithes from even reaching God's altar, because of messages from the Church that discourage LGBT people from coming to His House of Prayer for ALL people to include ours as well....as well as our parents, friends and families who have felt as equally shunned by the Church as we have been. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation of that aspect.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the other hand, we have LGBT people who have not only been Christians all their lives, but at the same time have felt sentenced to politely knock outside the Church door, instead of being affirmed according to God's Own Prophecy from Isaiah 55:11-56:12. Until that prophecy becomes fulfilled, according to Jesus in Luke 24:44, He is prophetically prevented from returning to the earth. It occurs to me that we can be as saved, sanctified and filled with the Holy Spirit as we want, but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>without the</u></b><u> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">return of Jesus Christ</b></u>, and our subsequent bodily resurrection, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>we will never attain the eternal life</u> </b>that He died to give us all. If we look carefully at John 3:16, we see that not only does Jesus save us from hell, but also raises us to eternal life with Him. As a Christian, I want both. There! I admit I’m a Christian for a rather selfish reason…but then again, aren’t we all?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> have already begun sharing this message on Twitter, and through the blog version of the book, more than 27,000 people in 83 countries have already taken a glimpse into the future of the Body of Christ, and seen that it is indeed good! I hope you’ll follow me on Twitter where I am known as @TheBedKeeper so that you can see how I envision parts of this message can best be communicated to the LGBT community, and in the meantime, that you will begin the process of praying with your partners (and prayer ministers the world over) on the best practices for revealing this message to the congregation at The Potter's House as well as all your associate Shepherds and ministries in the Body of Christ, and come to lead them in the best way to reveal this message to members of their own flocks, and LGBT people in their own communities.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know this is a lot to take in, and I don’t expect that it will happen overnight. However, I will be sending this information to other leading ministries as well, with the expectation that God will eventually appoint me to work under a ministry that has demonstrated not only an understanding of the material, but also a commitment to continue to now share it with the rest of the Body of Christ. Pastor George’s sermon on November 6, 2011, the prophetic utterance God ministered through Brother Copeland on November 11, 2011, and Justus Du Plessis's prophetic utterance from August 1996, are so far the surest <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>signs</u></b> I have received from God that the preaching of the word I participated in on November 1, 2011 has already taken effect!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, I’m left only to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>wonder</u> </b>if your ministry is one that stands in prayer for this new revelation from God's Word and its successful implementation at The Potter's House and throughout the Body of Christ, and provide us all with an opportunity for this message to be revealed from within the Church outward, rather than be forced to reveal this message to the masses and hope the church catches up, and thereby sacrifice the last remaining shreds of Scriptural and moral authority the Church seems to have in the earth today, (and quite possibly push LGBT people even further away as their suspicions of the church’s errors are proven correct). Their reaction to the message will be dependant solely on the way the Church handles this; either as an “Angels and Demons” type expose’ from someone outside the Church, or as a responsible Body of Believers who are open enough to correction to right the ship ourselves, just as we did concerning the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, women, slavery, prosperity, health, and indeed the Protestant Reformation itself. Throughout the process, prayer will be the power that binds us in united purpose as we see prophecy begin to unfold in front of our very eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is my intent to publish this book on February 1, 2012 unless a strong ministry steps forward that is willing to lead this message from within the Church instead, because this isn’t just about the American Christian Church. God has placed LGBT people in every nation, every city, every race, every family, and every RELIGION (and denominations therein)! I sincerely believe as Christianity opens the path to God for Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Pagan, Wiccan, Universalist, Mormon, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Black Israelite, and even Atheist and Agnostic gay people, He will use LGBT people themselves to spread the Word amongst ourselves, cross every religious dividing line, and invite them into the Christian fold. See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 21: GAZA: Holy Land for Gays</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation of this vision.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s a big job, and we need a big ministry to pull it off. But no ministry can do it alone, and no ministry can succeed without a powerful force of intercessory prayers pleading on God's behalf for His Will to be done in the earth, and for His Word to go forth and accomplish that which He pleases and purposes, so it will indeed PROSPER in the thing for which He sent it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew 19:11-12 </b>Jesus proves we are born gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 1</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Isaiah 55:11-56:12 </b>God demands LGBT people be included and affirmed in church (and demands our offerings be included on His altar) before Jesus can return. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 1</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-3-for-sake-of-kingdom-of-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 3</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 Timothy 4:1-3 </b>The Holy Spirit warns that in the latter times, some Christians would fall away from the faith, having been seduced by doctrines demons teach, through the hypocrisy and pretense of liars whose consciences have been seared, who “forbid people to marry.” At no other time in human history has all elements contained in this particular prophecy been fulfilled as we see today right before our very eyes. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 2</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-17-forbid-to-marry.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 17</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2 Kings 9:29-37 </b>and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Esther 1:1-22</b> Read as analogies of LGBT people delivering a message from the King to the Bride of Christ, urging her to come to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and what happens if She refuses (Queen Jezebel and Queen Vashti), and what happens if She accepts. (Queen Esther) (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Romans 1</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Leviticus 18</b> both condemn heterosexual married men who cheated on their wives and/or worshipped idols, both of which are violations of the 10 Commandments. These passages also help us see the importance of not mixing heterosexual and homosexual interactions, and could quite possibly be the cure for HIV/AIDS. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-16-leviticus.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 16</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-18-romans.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 18</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 Corinthians 6:9-12 </b>condemns preachers whoring the church for money (and for keeping boys on the side) in part of a lengthy letter that begins in 1 Corinthians 5:1 and goes all the way through till 1 Corinthians 7:40, even as Paul ordains single gender matrimony in the very same letter in 1 Corinthians 7:8-9 (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 2</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other various chapters of The Bed Keeper are geared toward helping LGBT people understand Christian principles such as the New Covenant (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-5-covenant-promises.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 5</strong></a>), Keeping the Sabbath and Understanding the Significance of Pentecost (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-6-lord-of-sabbath.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 6</strong></a>), Baptism of the Holy Spirit (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-7-baptism-by-fire.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 7</strong></a>), Bearing Fruit for God (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-8-spiritual-leadership.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 8</strong></a>), FAITH (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/well-recall-from-chapter-5-of-bed_4258.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 9</strong></a>), Creation and Evolution (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-11-big-bang-theory.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 11</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-12-my-brothers-keeper.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 12</strong></a>) the Significance of the Rainbow Flag and God’s Rainbow Covenant (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-13-rainbow-covenant.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 13</strong></a>), the Destruction of Sodom (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-14-men-of-sodom.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 14</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-15-entertaining-angels.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 15</strong></a>), and understanding the difference between homosexual expressions committed by heterosexual men, and being homosexual, and the importance of keeping the marriage bed (even a gay marriage bed) undefiled (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19</strong></a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been my intent to not only reveal the message from God’s Word to the churches regarding LGBT people being affirmed in every church and bringing their offerings to God’s altar in order for Jesus to return, but also to train up LGBT believers in the very basic principles of the faith as I have learned from Pastor Joel and Victoria Osteen, Brother Kenneth and Sister Gloria Copeland, Pastors George and Terri Pearsons, Sister Billye Brim, Joyce Meyer, as well as many others in the Charismatic move of God. I pray you will especially lift these leaders up in prayer as they take those first brave steps into the future of the Body of Christ.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also wanted to help you understand my motivation. I do not see myself becoming a preacher. I think my time is better spent staying at home, staying in the Word, praying, and simply sharing my findings as the Holy Spirit continues to lead me through Scripture. I believe I am called to teach, not preach. I am at a point where I believe the message is mature enough to be iron clad (Scripturally speaking) and I know in my spirit there is much more that will “hook up” to it as I move forward. My hope for now is that you can simply begin helping the church get prayed up, and that I can hopefully be assigned a contact within your ministry that provides a conduit from me to you without having to go public with everything just to get the Church’s attention, or without having to disturb your own anointing every time I get something new. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know that I can’t be in all places and all churches at one time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not able to do a lot of travel or speaking engagements or book signings, although I am willing to make myself available for occasional person-to-person visits here in Houston to discuss various points, if absolutely necessary. Hopefully most questions, comments and concerns can be addressed via email, where nobody can interrupt each other, and a written train of thought can be assembled and referred back to for all to consider as time moves on and the message continues to “gel.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am open to correction, and alternate interpretations of the findings I’ve shared herein, and hope to (if nothing else) at least catch any serious doctrinal errors PRIOR to publishing. But in 7 years of study and sharing aspects of this message with other pastors and lay people in online venues, I have yet to come across any that either don’t ignore certain passages of Scripture, or contradict others. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many have proven that it’s easy to simply disagree with the message. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None thus far have been able to provide Scripturally sound alternate interpretations. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps you can put your best in-house theologians on this and begin a respectful dialogue between as many parties as are necessary in an online private venue, such as an intranet or private message board, where people can contribute as time permits</span>, and encourage your pray-ers to keep these revelations and this new move of God mentioned in their prayers. I don’t really know how God is going to reveal this message to the masses. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only can share how I<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> prefer</b> He does so, and what I am willing to do to make it happen in a way that keeps it (to a large extent) “private church business” until such time all parties are comfortable with rolling it out to pastors’ conferences, and eventually the world wide Christian church. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One can put 1,000 to flight, 2 can put 10,000 to flight….and we NEED thousands of pastors sharing the message at about the same time, in order to foil Satan’s plot to keep these findings shrouded in misguided fear and homophobia to prevent the fulfillment of Isaiah 55:11-56:12, and prevent the return of Jesus Christ for as long as he can. Overcoming the enemy's plots against these revelations is of utmost importance, and as a partner of Prayer Mountain, I hope you share their mission to "pray in the plans of God, and to thwart the plans of the enemy against them."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This isn’t just another book about how the church is wrong, or what Scriptures LGBT people can feel free to ignore. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, this is a forensic look at Scripture <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">AS IS</b>, as we allow it to help us all come to a more nuanced and detailed understanding of the insights, ideas and concepts contained therein as pertains to the return of Jesus Christ, and the role LGBT people play in that Great Day. What I have found time and again is that the church has indeed not been “inaccurate” about many of Her traditional teachings on the subject, but she has been “incomplete,” and has suffered from a lack of specificity (and honestly from the lack of perspective from serious students of God’s Word, who just happen to be gay as well). As I always tell my LGBT friends: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If there is anything I can do to help you reach an affirmative decision, or anything I can unite with you in prayer over, please feel free to contact me via Twitter @TheBedKeeper, or through email at </span><a href="mailto:thebedkeeper@gmail.com"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>thebedkeeper@gmail.com</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>.</strong> Thank you so much for your time and consideration. I pray the material you are about to explore will prove to be a blessing to you personally as a member of the Body of Christ, but also as a ministry to a world full of lost, hurting, and rejected people. LGBT people have a God ordained place in the Body of Christ. Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit have all confirmed it is so. But tradition has set the Word of God aside, deprived it of authority, and made the Word of God inoperable…at least until now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The writing of the "Book of Remembrance" has begun, Bishop</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, and I just know by the Spirit that The Potter's House will be included in it! The only question is when. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to make sure it's sooner, rather than later!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God bless you, Bishop! I hope to hear from you or a contact in your ministry soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">God loves you! I love you! And remember: <strong>JESUS IS LORD!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>PS:</strong> I encourage Church leaders and ministers to read this manuscript in reverse order, beginning with the last chapter first (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 21</strong></a>). It will provide incentive to continue studying, take readers back through to undo the traditional understandings of the subject, and end up where LGBT people are as defined by Scripture. For LGBT people, I encourage them to read it in the order in which it appears, beginning with our birth, and moving forward to the culmination of the Church Age as Jesus Christ cracks open the sky and catches away the Church!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See ya there! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>PPS:</strong> The easiest way to get started exploring may be to review <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/frequently-asked-questions.html" target="_blank"><strong>Frequently Asked Questions</strong></a> which addresses the most common traditional teachings regarding the issue of homosexuality, with convenient links that take you directly to the pertinent chapters of The Bed Keeper for complete and Scripture based responses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lakewood Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/lakewood-church-endorsed-as-safe-space.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eagle Mountain International Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Holy Spirit distinctly and expressly declares </span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>that</strong><strong> in latter times </strong></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">some will turn away from the faith, </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">giving attention to deluding and seducing spirits</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and doctrines that demons teach,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through the hypocrisy and pretensions of liars</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> whose consciences are seared (cauterized),</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Who forbid people to marry</span> </strong> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear Brother Joe,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Greetings in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My name is Brian Anthony Bowen, and I am the author of a forthcoming book entitled, “The Bed Keeper,” which I believe will launch your ministry into a new phase, and the Body of Christ into a new day! I write today to in response to your recent interview on The Janet Mefferd Show, and to address a particular comment you shared,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Satan’s strategy is leading humans astray, whether the arena is doctrinal or moral, is to deceive an individual into thinking that what God has forbidden is not really wrong or destructive, but is, in fact, life enhancing. So it was in the garden when Satan tempted Eve; so it may well be with your loved one. The sin of homosexuality is human nature, but the belief that sin is not really sin comes not from human nature alone but from an ancient and evil messenger."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">While I agree this is a spiritual reality all Christians face, I also believe that is is important to understand the Scriptures you base your assertion that being gay is "forbidden by God." I realize that's been the traditional Christian teaching on homosexuality, it is also important to realize it is not directed toward homosexual people, but to heterosexual married men engaged in acts of adultery, idolatry, and/or rape or prostitution. I know that's a fine point, but it's an important distinction to make if we are to avoid sinning against Christ as we endeavor to bring the cause of Christ to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I would like to refer you to a broadcast of Faith Today, wherein leaders of Agape Fellowship (near Birmingham, Alabama) discuss the Bible's position on homosexuality, and the responses I shared with them in this open letter, which really fleshes out a lot of details on the topic that are most recently just coming to light from the Word of God:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><a href="http://faith2.com/home/2011/12/14/faith-today-11-the-radical-message-of-the-bible-on-homosexua.html" target="_blank">Faith Today #11 - The Radical Message of the Bible on Homosexuality and Sexuality</a></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The panelists share the same thrust and understanding as you yourself seem to, and so I think it may be encouraging to you to explore as it is based on a position you can already related to, and that my responses will encourage you to examine that position in light of the new revelations emerging from God's Word for your prayerful consideration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would also hope to refer you to the message Pastor George Pearsons shared with his congregation at Eagle Mountain International Church on November 6, 2011, entitled: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.emic.org/media/index.php?id=909" target="_blank">Hearts Wide Open: The Touch of Compassion, Part 5</a></strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Also, please consider Brother Kenneth Copeland's prophetic utterance regarding our place in the Kingdom of God from November 11, 2011, (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kkb94XRFhc&feature=share" target="_blank"><strong>available from YouTube</strong></a>) which seems to confirm by the Power of the Holy Spirit, what I am about to share with you in this letter. Y</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ou can review the transcript to Brother Copeland's prophetic utterance <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/111111-prophetic-utterance-from-brother.html" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>.</strong> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Please consider also Sister Billye Brim's teaching from her series, <a href="http://www.billyebrim.org/products/daniel-cd-set" target="_blank"><strong>"Daniel"</strong></a> wherein she (along with Pastors George and Terri Pearsons) reveal to Eagle Mountain International Church a prophecy uttered by God through Brother Justus Du Plessis regarding this new move of God way back in August 1996, and my interpretation of its meaning <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/eagle-mountain-justus-du-plessis.html" target="_blank"><strong>here.</strong></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Please also review other pertinent open letters to:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong>The World Wide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-eagle-mountain-intl.html" target="_blank"><strong>Eagle Mountain International Church</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-kenneth-copeland.html" target="_blank"><strong>Kenneth Copeland Ministries</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-joel-osteen-and-lakewood.html" target="_blank"><strong>Joel Osteen and Lakewood Church</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-all-christians.html" target="_blank"><strong>Open Letter to All Christians</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you may know by now, on November 1, 2011, I was invited by Brother Tim Clinton</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">@zoneradiolive on Twitter ), to participate in a discussion on TheZoneRadioShow.org (Cleveland, Ohio) with Pastor Dr. Darrell Scott, Senior Pastor of New Spirit Revival Center </span><a href="http://www.nsrcministries.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>www.nsrcministries.org</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and Pastor Jathan K. Austin ( @PastorJKA on Twitter ),<cite><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></cite>regarding new revelation from God’s Word on the issue that has most divided the church over the centuries, and how we can at last bridge the gap between the sides and come into a new understanding of what God’s Word does (and doesn’t say) about homosexuality and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people (yes, there is a difference)….and at long last, give them incentive to come to church, and give the church incentive to invite us….all based strictly on God’s Word….but in a way none of us most likely expected to happen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please explore this final draft of <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>The Bed Keeper</strong></a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What you will find is a collection of revelations from Scripture pertaining not only to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, but also how we interact prophetically in cooperation with the Body of Christ to prepare the Bride of Christ for His return, and how God has assigned us specific tasks within the church; most notably, the task of bringing our offerings to His altar, and how the traditional teachings of Christianity on this subject has inadvertently prevented our offerings from reaching God's altar. In the process of reading this material, you'll learn how Shepherds have inadvertently "robbed the tithes from God," by preventing LGBT people from coming to Church to include ours on His altar as well. Further, this has also prevented the manifestation of the Glory of the Lord to the extent witnessed and testified to in 2 Chronicles 7, when the fire fell from heaven and consumed the offerings on the altar, and the Glory of the Lord filled the temple. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since first beginning to receive this revelation from Scripture nearly 7 years ago, this message has continued to grow and mature to the point it is today, as Scripture has testified to Scripture, and 2 or 3 witnesses from Scripture have been revealed that verify each word I share in The Bed Keeper. This has resulted in the book being rather wordy, but at least it doesn’t leave any room for doubt, though there will always be room for some amount of disagreement, especially when first examining the evidence, even though it comes directly from Scripture itself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I watched <a href="http://www.emic.org/media/index.php?id=909" target="_blank"><strong>Pastor George’s sermon</strong></a>, I couldn’t help but feel that (whether in the Spirit or in the natural), he already knew that on November 1, 2011, something new had happened in the Church, and that the Body of Christ will never be the same. Perhaps I’m mistaken, but as he spoke of his Church’s outreach to people in the community whom most had not come in contact with or fellowshipped with much before, I couldn’t help but sense that he was speaking of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community; many of whom are already Christians in search of a church to call home, where Scripture means what it says…and doesn’t mean what it doesn’t say. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pastor George seemed to indicate that not only would folks like us be coming to Eagle Mountain International Church, but that they would be training up ministers to assist in this new ingathering as the prayers for the Great Awakening appear to have awakened even those people that most members of the Body of Christ had written off as prodigals many centuries ago. I hope your ministry is part of this process as well, and encourage you to contact Pastor George to confirm your support of this new endeavor! I especially hope that you will come to see how Scripture reveals that God created LGBT people for a prophetic purpose, and has given us a divine destiny in His Kingdom.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is also my sincere hope that your ministry team will stand in prayer for this work of God in the Church today. I am praying that The Bed Keeper helps you and your ministry team to have as complete a revelation from God’s Word as is humanly possible, in order to dispel the myths traditional Christianity has held as truth in times past, but also in order to help the Church position herself in a place where she is at last the Glorious Church, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. It just so happens as you’ll see from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank">Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</a></b>, that until LGBT people are affirmed in faith bodies all over the world, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>also contributing our offerings on His altar</u></b>, Jesus is prophetically prevented from returning to the earth until all prophecies are fulfilled (in accordance with Luke 24:44), including God’s Own prophecy to eunuchs in Isaiah 55:11-56:12 (whom Jesus teaches includes eunuchs born so from our mother’s womb in Matthew 19:11-12), whom you and I today refer to as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: Arial;">t is my hope that as you address the question in public venues, that you will first take the time to study these findings from The Bed Keeper, and become more intimately acquainted with what the differences are between <strong>"homosexuality"</strong> and <strong>"homosexual people"</strong> and <strong>"homosexual acts engaged in by heterosexual married men,"</strong> so that you can provide more thorough and Scripturally accurate responses that not only avoids condemning all gay people out of hand, but at the same time, address all the <strong><u>heterosexual men engaged in cheating on their wives with other men</u></strong>, who currently get off scott free as the Church has traditionally only scapegoated gay people, without ever considering that both Scripture (and life itself) portray a very different reality; a reality that once confronted, may indeed prove to be the <strong><u>cure for HIV/AIDS</u></strong> as homosexual and heterosexual mixing comes to an end. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19: Go and Sin No More</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Currently, new infection rates of HIV/AIDS occur in the World Health Organization's <strong>MSM</strong> category (men who have sex with men, <u><strong>regardless of their identified sexuality</strong></u>). The second highest new infection rate is among women (particularly women of color) who contract the disease from <strong><u>heterosexual</u></strong> partners. As the Church focuses its energy (and blame) on gay men, it would seem that these types of transmissions are impossible without the <u><strong>intermingling of</strong> </u><strong><u>heterosexual men having relations with both women AND gay men</u>.</strong> Ignoring this not only fails to address the situation as honestly as Scripture itself does, but also provides these heterosexual men with immunity from scrutiny (and correction) from the Church, and prevents LGBT people from coming to congregations all around the world as the safe spaces for worship they claim to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>"Safe Space"</strong> can no longer mean "you're welcome to come to church if you're gay and bring your offerings." No, from this day forward, <strong>"Safe Space" can only be truly defined as "you're welcome to come to church if you're gay and bring your offerings because we see that Scripture does not condemn gay people themselves, but rather <u>heterosexual married men engaging in adultery</u>." </strong> After all Brother, that's what the Bible actually says, and your unawareness of that fact will no longer provide you immunity from criticism and correction from the LGBT community, nor from judgment upon your entire organization from God Himself:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>My people are destroyed for <u>lack of knowledge;</u> because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you that <u>you shall be no priest to Me</u>; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.</strong> Hosea 4:6</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Ignorance</strong> to God's Word never <strong>changes</strong> God's Word, and He will hold blind shepherds to account, just as He said He would in Isaiah 56:10-12, 1 Corinthians 5-7, Malachi 2-3, and various other passages of Scripture. The Body of Christ can no longer afford to keep its head buried in the sand on this issue if we truly want to prepare the Church for the return of Jesus Christ! Every Christian who ever lived and died before us and our own personal resurrections are on the line! God didn't just send Jesus to save us from eternal torment, but to raise us to eternal life. That will not happen without the Return of Christ, and He cannot return until all prophecies are fulfilled (Luke 24:44), and that includes Isaiah 55:11-56:12. See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Simply saying "homosexuality is sin" condemns all gay people (many of whom do not even have sexual relations of any kind), while <strong><u>at the same time ignoring the heterosexual married men who are actually engaged in the exact form of adultery that is actually being addressed specifically throughout Scripture.</u></strong> Of course they are also the ones who bring the tithes to the church (since most gay people have felt excluded by such public messages from the Church), and so it can take a brave Shepherd like Pastor George to shed light on this fact, and I hope you'll follow his leadership at Genesis Counseling. In short, homosexuality has been elevated to an 11th Commandment status, and has replaced God's Own Commandment against <strong>heterosexual adultery.</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Doing so is to judge God's Own Law. But of course, I understand that is what traditional Christianity has always taught, and that traditions of men have long ago blind sided many shepherds to the distinctions I hope to convey to you--and indeed the entire Body of Christ--throughout The Bed Keeper. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Of equally disturbing concern is that each Sunday most Church leadership quotes <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=malachi%203:8-10&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong>Malachi 3:8-10</strong></a> to remind the congregation that <strong><em>"robbing the tithe from God prevents the windows from heaven opening and prevents God from being able to pour out a blessing over our lives"</em></strong> in an effort to unScripturally goad them into giving 10% of their income, rather than the amount they have purposed in their hearts as Paul directs Christians in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20corinthians%209:6-10&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong>2 Corinthians 9:6-10.</strong></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">However, if we more closely examine the Scripture referred to from Malachi, we see it actually begins in Malachi 2, not Malachi 3, and is addressed to priests themselves who are the ones robbing God of the tithes by preventing all the tithes from even reaching God's altar, because of messages from the Church that discourage LGBT people from coming to His House of Prayer for ALL people to include ours as well....as well as our parents, friends and families who have felt as equally shunned by the Church as we have been. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation of that aspect.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the other hand, we have LGBT people who have not only been Christians all their lives, but at the same time have felt sentenced to politely knock outside the Church door, instead of being affirmed according to God's Own Prophecy from Isaiah 55:11-56:12. Until that prophecy becomes fulfilled, according to Jesus in Luke 24:44, He is prophetically prevented from returning to the earth. It occurs to me that we can be as saved, sanctified and filled with the Holy Spirit as we want, but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>without the</u></b><u> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">return of Jesus Christ</b></u>, and our subsequent bodily resurrection, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>we will never attain the eternal life</u> </b>that He died to give us all. If we look carefully at John 3:16, we see that not only does Jesus save us from hell, but also raises us to eternal life with Him. As a Christian, I want both. There! I admit I’m a Christian for a rather selfish reason…but then again, aren’t we all?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> have already begun sharing this message on Twitter, and through the blog version of the book, more than 27,000 people in 83 countries have already taken a glimpse into the future of the Body of Christ, and seen that it is indeed good! I hope you’ll follow me on Twitter where I am known as @TheBedKeeper so that you can see how I envision parts of this message can best be communicated to the LGBT community, and in the meantime, that you will begin the process of praying with your partners (and prayer ministers the world over) on the best practices for revealing this message to the organization at Genesis Counseling as well as all your associate Shepherds and ministries in the Body of Christ, and come to lead them in the best way to reveal this message to members of their own flocks, and LGBT people in their own communities.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know this is a lot to take in, and I don’t expect that it will happen overnight. However, I will be sending this information to other leading ministries as well, with the expectation that God will eventually appoint me to work under a ministry that has demonstrated not only an understanding of the material, but also a commitment to continue to now share it with the rest of the Body of Christ. Pastor George’s sermon on November 6, 2011, the prophetic utterance God ministered through Brother Copeland on November 11, 2011, and Justus Du Plessis's prophetic utterance from August 1996, are so far the surest <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>signs</u></b> I have received from God that the preaching of the word I participated in on November 1, 2011 has already taken effect!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, I’m left only to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>wonder</u> </b>if your ministry is one that stands in prayer for this new revelation from God's Word and its successful implementation at Genesis Counseling and throughout the Body of Christ, and provide us all with an opportunity for this message to be revealed from within the Church outward, rather than be forced to reveal this message to the masses and hope the church catches up, and thereby sacrifice the last remaining shreds of Scriptural and moral authority the Church seems to have in the earth today, (and quite possibly push LGBT people even further away as their suspicions of the church’s errors are proven correct). Their reaction to the message will be dependant solely on the way the Church handles this; either as an “Angels and Demons” type expose’ from someone outside the Church, or as a responsible Body of Believers who are open enough to correction to right the ship ourselves, just as we did concerning the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, women, slavery, prosperity, and healing. Throughout the process, prayer will be the power that binds us in united purpose as we see prophecy begin to unfold in front of our very eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is my intent to publish this book on February 1, 2012 unless a strong ministry steps forward that is willing to lead this message from within the Church instead, because this isn’t just about the American Christian Church. God has placed LGBT people in every nation, every city, every race, every family, and every RELIGION (and denominations therein)! I sincerely believe as Christianity opens the path to God for Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Pagan, Wiccan, Universalist, Mormon, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Black Israelite, and even Atheist and Agnostic gay people, He will use LGBT people themselves to spread the Word amongst ourselves, cross every religious dividing line, and invite them into the Christian fold. See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 21: GAZA: Holy Land for Gays</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation of this vision.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s a big job, and we need a big ministry to pull it off. But no ministry can do it alone, and no ministry can succeed without a powerful force of intercessory prayers pleading on God's behalf for His Will to be done in the earth, and for His Word to go forth and accomplish that which He pleases and purposes, so it will indeed PROSPER in the thing for which He sent it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew 19:11-12 </b>Jesus proves we are born gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 1</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Isaiah 55:11-56:12 </b>God demands LGBT people be included and affirmed in church (and demands our offerings be included on His altar) before Jesus can return. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 1</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-3-for-sake-of-kingdom-of-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 3</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2 Chronicles 7:1-3 </b>reads like a prophecy of what happens after our offerings get to God’s altar; the fire from heaven consumes the offerings, and the glory of the Lord fills the house (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Luke 24:44</b> Jesus confirms all prophecies must be fulfilled before He can return to the earth (See<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 Timothy 4:1-3 </b>The Holy Spirit warns that in the latter times, some Christians would fall away from the faith, having been seduced by doctrines demons teach, through the hypocrisy and pretense of liars whose consciences have been seared, who <strong>“forbid people to marry.”</strong> At no other time in human history has all elements contained in this particular prophecy been fulfilled as we see today right before our very eyes. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 2</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-17-forbid-to-marry.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 17</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 Corinthians 6:9-12 </b>condemns preachers whoring the church for money (and for keeping boys on the side) in part of a lengthy letter that begins in 1 Corinthians 5:1 and goes all the way through till 1 Corinthians 7:40, even as Paul ordains single gender matrimony in the very same letter in 1 Corinthians 7:8-9 (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 2</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been my intent to not only reveal the message from God’s Word to the churches regarding LGBT people being affirmed in every church and bringing their offerings to God’s altar in order for Jesus to return, but also to train up LGBT believers in the very basic principles of the faith as I have learned from Pastor Joel and Victoria Osteen, Brother Kenneth and Sister Gloria Copeland, Pastors George and Terri Pearsons, Sister Billye Brim, Joyce Meyer, as well as many others in the Charismatic move of God. I pray you will especially lift these leaders up in prayer as they take those first brave steps into the future of the Body of Christ.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also wanted to help you understand my motivation. I do not see myself becoming a preacher. I think my time is better spent staying at home, staying in the Word, praying, and simply sharing my findings as the Holy Spirit continues to lead me through Scripture. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I believe I am called to teach, not preach. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I am at a point where I believe the message is mature enough to be iron clad (Scripturally speaking) and I know in my spirit there is much more that will “hook up” to it as I move forward. My hope for now is that you can simply begin helping the church get prayed up, and that I can hopefully be assigned a contact within your ministry that provides a conduit from me to you without having to go public with everything just to get the Church’s attention, or without having to disturb your own anointing every time I get something new. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know that I can’t be in all places and all churches at one time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not able to do a lot of travel or speaking engagements or book signings, although I am willing to make myself available for occasional person-to-person visits here in Houston to discuss various points, if absolutely necessary. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully most questions, comments and concerns can be addressed via email, where nobody can interrupt each other, and a written train of thought can be assembled and referred back to for all to consider as time moves on and the message continues to “gel.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am open to correction, and alternate interpretations of the findings I’ve shared herein, and hope to (if nothing else) at least catch any serious doctrinal errors PRIOR to publishing. But in 7 years of study and sharing aspects of this message with other pastors and lay people in online venues, I have yet to come across any that either don’t ignore certain passages of Scripture, or contradict others. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many have proven that it’s easy to simply disagree with the message. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None thus far have been able to provide Scripturally sound alternate interpretations. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps you can put your best in-house theologians on this and begin a respectful dialogue between as many parties as are necessary in an online private venue, such as an intranet or private message board, where people can contribute as time permits</span>, and encourage your pray-ers to keep these revelations and this new move of God mentioned in their prayers. I don’t really know how God is going to reveal this message to the masses. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only can share how I<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> prefer</b> He does so, and what I am willing to do to make it happen in a way that keeps it (to a large extent) “private church business” until such time all parties are comfortable with rolling it out to pastors’ conferences, and eventually the world wide Christian church. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One can put 1,000 to flight, 2 can put 10,000 to flight….and we NEED thousands of pastors sharing the message at about the same time, in order to foil Satan’s plot to keep these findings shrouded in misguided fear and homophobia to prevent the fulfillment of Isaiah 55:11-56:12, and prevent the return of Jesus Christ for as long as he can. Overcoming the enemy's plots against these revelations is of utmost importance, and as a partner of Prayer Mountain, I hope you share their mission to "pray in the plans of God, and to thwart the plans of the enemy against them."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This isn’t just another book about how the church is wrong, or what Scriptures LGBT people can feel free to ignore. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, this is a forensic look at Scripture <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">AS IS</b>, as we allow it to help us all come to a more nuanced and detailed understanding of the insights, ideas and concepts contained therein as pertains to the return of Jesus Christ, and the role LGBT people play in that Great Day. What I have found time and again is that the church has indeed not been “inaccurate” about many of Her traditional teachings on the subject, but she has been “incomplete,” and has suffered from a lack of specificity (and honestly from the lack of perspective from serious students of God’s Word, who just happen to be gay as well). As I always tell my LGBT friends: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If there is anything I can do to help you reach an affirmative decision, or anything I can unite with you in prayer over, please feel free to contact me via Twitter @TheBedKeeper, or through email at </span><a href="mailto:thebedkeeper@gmail.com"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>thebedkeeper@gmail.com</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>.</strong> Thank you so much for your time and consideration. I pray the material you are about to explore will prove to be a blessing to you personally as a member of the Body of Christ, but also as a ministry to a world full of lost, hurting, and rejected people. LGBT people have a God ordained place in the Body of Christ. Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit have all confirmed it is so. But tradition has set the Word of God aside, deprived it of authority, and made the Word of God inoperable…at least until now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The writing of the "Book of Remembrance" has begun, Brother</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, and I just know by the Spirit that Genesis Counseling will be included in it (and that your ministry name will eventually be changed to Revelation Counseling)! The only question is when. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to make sure it's sooner, rather than later!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God bless you, Brother! I hope to hear from you or a contact in your ministry soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">God loves you! I love you! And remember: <strong>JESUS IS LORD!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>PS: </strong> I encourage Church leaders and ministers to read this manuscript in reverse order, beginning with the last chapter first (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 21</strong></a>). It will provide incentive to continue studying, take readers back through to undo the traditional understandings of the subject, and end up where LGBT people are as defined by Scripture. For LGBT people, I encourage them to read it in the order in which it appears, beginning with our birth, and moving forward to the culmination of the Church Age as Jesus Christ cracks open the sky and catches away the Church!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>PPS:</strong> The easiest way to get started exploring may be to review <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/frequently-asked-questions.html" target="_blank"><strong>Frequently Asked Questions</strong></a> which addresses the most common traditional teachings regarding the issue of homosexuality, with convenient links that take you directly to the pertinent chapters of The Bed Keeper for complete and Scripture based responses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lakewood Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/lakewood-church-endorsed-as-safe-space.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eagle Mountain International Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am writing today in response to your December 14, 2011 program entitled </span><a href="http://faith2.com/home/2011/12/14/faith-today-11-the-radical-message-of-the-bible-on-homosexua.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Faith Today #11 - The Radical Message of the Bible on Homosexuality and Sexuality</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to offer some considered comments that I believe will enhance the understanding of viewers on this topic.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My name is Brian Anthony Bowen, and I am the author of an upcoming book, The Bed Keeper, which is a forensic Scriptural study that sheds additional light on the topic while relying on Scripture as sole authority. I write today to take some of the comments made on your broadcast and offer a response in light of what Scripture actually says and doesn't say--and to whom--in regards to this subject, and bring out some of the details I have found during the course of writing The Bed Keeper over the past 7 years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is part of a lengthy letter from Paul that actually begins in 1 Corinthians 5:1 and runs on through until 1 Corinthians 7:40. Please see </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Chapter 2 God Sanctioned Gay Marriage</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of The Bed Keeper for a detailed examination of that passage, as well as </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Chapter 19 Go, And Sin No More</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> that discusses the differences between "homosexual people," "homosexuality," and "heterosexual married men engaged in same gender expressions as acts of idolatry, adultery and/or violent rape as reflected in these examinations of Leviticus </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-16-leviticus.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>here</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, Romans </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-18-romans.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>here</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, 1 Corinthians </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>here</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, 1 Timothy </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-17-forbid-to-marry.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>here</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and Sodom </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-14-men-of-sodom.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>here</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-15-entertaining-angels.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>here</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This will take some time to review, but I think it's imperative if we want to truly present an accurate view of the Bible's actual position on homosexuality. Many people have heard certain Scriptures so often, they believe they know what they say by heart, but many times folks are actually just repeating what they have "heard" the Bible says, instead of quoting it verbatim. While this may seem a technicality, it's an absolutely vital component to presenting an accurate view of what the Bible truly says (and doesn't say)--and to whom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To be certain, The Bed Keeper is <strong>not</strong> another book about what Scriptures no longer apply today. I believe God's Word is eternal, inerrant and accurate, and is the complete revelation of God's will in relationship to man, Jesus and the eternal life He died to give us all, and that Scriptures stand on their own authority for any Believer. However, I also see that the context of Scriptures addressing same gender expressions are exclusively and consistently couched within the context of heterosexual married men engaged in acts of adultery, idolatry or rape/prostitution. I hope that after examining the material I present here that you will also watch this sermon from Pastor George Pearsons of Eagle Mountain International Church from November 6, 2011, entitled: </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.emic.org/media/index.php?id=909" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Hearts Wide Open: The Touch of Compassion, Part 5</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, please consider Brother Kenneth Copeland's prophetic utterance regarding our place in the Kingdom of God from November 11, 2011, (</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kkb94XRFhc&feature=share" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>available from YouTube</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) which seems to confirm by the Power of the Holy Spirit, what I am about to share with you in this letter. You can review the transcript to Brother Copeland's prophetic utterance </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/111111-prophetic-utterance-from-brother.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>here</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please consider also Sister Billye Brim's teaching from her series, </span><a href="http://www.billyebrim.org/products/daniel-cd-set" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>"Daniel"</strong></span></a> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">wherein she (along with Pastors George and Terri Pearsons) reveal to Eagle Mountain International Church a prophecy uttered by God through Brother Justus Du Plessis regarding this new move of God way back in August 1996, and my interpretation of its meaning </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/eagle-mountain-justus-du-plessis.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: purple;">here</span></strong>.</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please also review other pertinent open letters to:</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The World Wide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community</strong></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-eagle-mountain-intl.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Eagle Mountain International Church</strong></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-kenneth-copeland.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Kenneth Copeland Ministries</strong></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-joel-osteen-and-lakewood.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Joel Osteen and Lakewood Church</strong></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-her-majesty-queen-church.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Her Majesty The Queen, Church Of England</strong></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-pope-benedict-xvi.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic Church</strong></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-bartholomew-i-eastern.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>His All Holiness Bartholomew I, Eastern Orthodox Church</strong></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/12/open-letter-to-barrack-obama-president.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States of America</strong></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-all-christians.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Open Letter to All Christians</strong></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you explore </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The Bed Keeper</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> you will find a collection of revelations from Scripture pertaining not only to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, but also how we interact prophetically in cooperation with the Body of Christ to prepare the Bride of Christ for His return, and how God has assigned us specific tasks within the church; most notably, the task of bringing our offerings to His altar, and how the traditional teachings of Christianity on this subject has inadvertently prevented our offerings from reaching God's altar. In the process of reading this material, you'll learn how Shepherds have inadvertently "robbed the tithes from God," by preventing LGBT people from coming to Church to include ours on His altar as well. Further, this has also prevented the manifestation of the Glory of the Lord to the extent witnessed and testified to in 2 Chronicles 7, when the fire fell from heaven and consumed the offerings on the altar, and the Glory of the Lord filled the temple. Please see </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for a more detailed explanation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">S</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">ince first beginning to receive this revelation from Scripture nearly 7 years ago, this message has continued to grow and mature to the point it is today, as Scripture has testified to Scripture, and 2 or 3 witnesses from Scripture have been revealed that verify each word I share in The Bed Keeper. This has resulted in the book being rather wordy, but at least it doesn’t leave any room for doubt, though there will always be room for some amount of disagreement, especially when first examining the evidence, even though it comes directly from Scripture itself. </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is also my sincere hope that your ministry team will stand in prayer for this work of God in the Church today. I am praying that The Bed Keeper helps you and your ministry team to have as complete a revelation from God’s Word as is humanly possible, in order to dispel the myths traditional Christianity has held as truth in times past, but also in order to help the Church position herself in a place where she is at last the Glorious Church, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. It just so happens as you’ll see from </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, that until LGBT people are affirmed in faith bodies all over the world, and also contributing our offerings on His altar, Jesus is prophetically prevented from returning to the earth until all prophecies are fulfilled (in accordance with Luke 24:44), including God’s Own prophecy to eunuchs in Isaiah 55:11-56:12 (whom Jesus teaches includes eunuchs born so from our mother’s womb in Matthew 19:11-12), whom you and I today refer to as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Please see </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for a more detailed explanation. </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is my hope that if you continue to address the question in public venues, that you will first take the time to study these findings from The Bed Keeper, and become more intimately acquainted with what the differences are between <strong>"homosexuality"</strong> and <strong>"homosexual people"</strong> and <strong>"homosexual acts engaged in by heterosexual married men,"</strong> so that you can provide more thorough and Scripturally accurate responses that not only avoids condemning all gay people out of hand, but at the same time, address all the heterosexual men engaged in cheating on their wives with other men, who currently get off Scott free as the Church has traditionally only scapegoated gay people, without ever considering that both Scripture (and life itself) portray a very different reality; a reality that once confronted, may indeed prove to be the <strong><u>cure for HIV/AIDS</u></strong> as homosexual and heterosexual mixing comes to an end.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And now I'd like to address some of the specific points raised during your own broadcast as Nick, (acting as moderator) asks some of the same questions posed to "a Christian Pastor on the Piers Morgan show." I don't know if you're talking about him or not, but my Pastor's name is Joel Osteen, and he was recently asked some of these same questions on the Piers Morgan show himself. Please see the open letter I wrote to him in response </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-joel-osteen-and-lakewood.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>here</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If however, the people you were referring to as <strong>"struggling with homosexuality"</strong> are indeed gay themselves (and not heterosexual like the previous 2 examples I gave), then there is no <strong>"lifestyle"</strong> to <strong>"come out of." </strong>I realize it was most likely your intent to convey that someone confided in you that they are gay and no longer wish to be gay. That is perfectly fine to say, (and is very true of many gay people), but that is indeed what should be said if indeed the person you're referring to is gay. There is no <strong>"gay lifestyle"</strong> per se' unless you are referring to a lifestyle of picking people up at bars, in which case that would be equally applicable to the <strong>"heterosexual lifestyle." </strong>Further, a close examination of </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Chapter 2: God Sanctioned Gay Marriage</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-3-for-sake-of-kingdom-of-heaven.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Chapter 3: For The Kingdom of Heaven</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of The Bed Keeper will reveal that a person is either gay or not, and according to Scripture there is no mandate from God to "come out of being gay," though a gay person may indeed choose to marry a person of the opposite gender to conceal that fact.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Further, </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Chapter 1: Born This Way</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of The Bed Keeper provides conclusive Biblical evidence that Jesus Himself confirmed we are born gay, and that God Himself demands gay people be included in His Congregation, and that we bring our offerings to His altar....even as we remain gay. I know that isn't what the Church teaches, but I think after examining the evidence presented more closely, you'll reach the same conclusion, even as I remain open to other interpretations if you'd care to discuss further. <strong>Key Scriptures: Matthew 19:11-12</strong> Jesus proves we are born gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (See </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Chapter 1: Born This Way</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of The Bed Keeper for more details) <strong>Isaiah 55:11-56:12</strong> God demands LGBT people be included and affirmed in church (and demands our offerings be included on His altar) before Jesus can return. (See </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Chapter 1: Born This Way</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-3-for-sake-of-kingdom-of-heaven.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Chapter 3: For the Kingdom of Heaven</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of The Bed Keeper for more details) <strong>2 Chronicles 7:1-3</strong> reads like a prophecy of what happens after our offerings get to God’s altar; the fire from heaven consumes the offerings, and the glory of the Lord fills the house (See </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of The Bed Keeper for more details) <strong>Luke 24:44</strong> Jesus confirms all prophecies must be fulfilled before He can return to the earth (See </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This insistence by many Churches to strive to become heterosexual is not only in direct contradiction of God's Word and His purpose for LGBT people in His Kingdom, but also is why so many gay kids commit suicide. It seems the Church just isn't going to be happy with LGBT people until they've all become heterosexual, even as Jesus (Matthew 19:11-12), God (Isaiah 55:11-56:12) and the Holy Spirit (Acts 8:26-40 and 1 Timothy 4:1-3) all confirm we are to remain who God created us to be. If the entirety of the Holy Trinity is in on God's plan for LGBT people, it would seem the Church is the only one who hasn't yet received that good news from the Gospel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This practice of giving LGBT people no choice to be who God created us to be and to fulfill the purposes His Word clearly has in store and outlined for us in His Kingdom leads to the hopelessness and despair that leads to so many gay teen suicides (again, before they have sex, so they don't go to hell for expressing the sexuality God Himself granted unto each of us). And again, to even assume anyone could change their sexual orientation (or should have to) would be to say that every heterosexual person who received Jesus as the Author of their salvation would have to then strive to become homosexual. God is no respecter of persons.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fact that a person has homosexual desires means they are gay by definition. </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again, if we clarify what "a person with homosexual desires" means and conclude that we are discussing a heterosexual married man who desires to seek gay men for the specific sexual favors he cannot obtain from his wife, then we aren't really talking about "a person with homosexual desires," but rather a "heterosexual man who seeks gay men for fellatio." That doesn't mean the heterosexual man has "homosexual desires," or even "desires to be with a homosexual man," but simply that he "desires fellatio." I apologize for the blunt language, but let's call a spade a spade and stop acting like it doesn't happen, or that it doesn't affect any heterosexual men in your congregation. With the easy access bathhouses and other venues where gay men seek each other provide them, it has become common place for heterosexual men to infiltrate them for personal pleasure seeking of their own that has nothing to do with "homosexual desires" per se' but rather desires of a much more specific nature that they actually desire to receive from their own wife (or are single and have no woman to turn to for any sort of pleasure at all, such as happens in prisons every day of the week).</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is my intent to publish this book on February 1, 2012 unless a strong ministry steps forward that is willing to lead this message from within the Church instead, because this isn’t just about the American Christian Church. God has placed LGBT people in every nation, every city, every race, every family, and every RELIGION (and denominations therein)! I sincerely believe as Christianity opens the path to God for Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Pagan, Wiccan, Universalist, Mormon, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Black Israelite, and even Atheist and Agnostic gay people, He will use LGBT people themselves to spread the Word amongst ourselves, cross every religious dividing line, and invite them into the Christian fold. (Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Chapter 21: GAZA: Holy Land for Gays</strong></span></a> for a more detailed explanation). It’s a big job, and we need a big ministry to pull it off. But no ministry can do it alone, and no ministry can succeed without a powerful force of intercessory prayers pleading on God's behalf for His Will to be done in the earth, and for His Word to go forth and accomplish that which He pleases and purposes, so it will indeed PROSPER in the thing for which He sent it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If there is anything I can do to help you reach an affirmative decision, or anything I can unite with you in prayer over, please feel free to contact me via Twitter <strong>@TheBedKeeper</strong>, or through email at </span><a href="mailto:thebedkeeper@gmail.com"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>thebedkeeper@gmail.com</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Thank you so much for your time and consideration. I pray the material you are about to explore will prove to be a blessing to you personally as a member of the Body of Christ, but also as a ministry to a world full of lost, hurting, and rejected people. LGBT people have a God ordained place in the Body of Christ. Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit have all confirmed it is so. But tradition has set the Word of God aside, deprived it of authority, and made the Word of God inoperable…at least until now.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lakewood Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/lakewood-church-endorsed-as-safe-space.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eagle Mountain International Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I write today to inform you of a new discovery. One hour after submitting The Bed Keeper: A Biblical Case for Gay Marriage to the publishers, I was greatly encouraged and filled with hope as I learned you and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had issued new directives concerning equality for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people as a central premise of America's foreign policy. I cannot thank you and her enough for your leadership in this regard to bring peace, security and safety to my people around the globe!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">On November 1, 2011, I was invited by Brother Tim Clinton ( @zoneradiolive on Twitter ), to participate in a discussion on TheZoneRadioShow.org (Cleveland, Ohio) with Pastor Dr. Darrell Scott, Senior Pastor of New Spirit Revival Center </span><a href="http://www.nsrcministries.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial;"><strong>www.nsrcministries.org</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">, and Pastor Jathan K. Austin ( @PastorJKA on Twitter ),<cite><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></cite>regarding new revelation from God’s Word on the issue that has most divided the Church over the centuries, and how we can at last bridge the gap between the sides and come into a new understanding of what God’s Word does (and doesn’t say) about homosexuality and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people (yes, there is a difference)….and at long last, give them incentive to come to Church, and give the Church incentive to invite us….all based strictly on God’s Word….but in a way none of us most likely expected to happen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You will find therein a collection of revelations from Scripture pertaining not only to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, but also how we interact prophetically in cooperation with the Body of Christ to prepare the Bride of Christ for His return, and how God has assigned us specific tasks within the Church; most notably, the task of bringing our offerings to His altar, and how the traditional teachings of Christianity on this subject have inadvertently prevented our offerings from reaching God's altar. In the process of reading this material, you will learn how both Catholic and Protestant Shepherds have inadvertently "robbed the tithes from God," by preventing LGBT people from coming to Church to include ours on His altar as well. Further, this has also prevented the manifestation of the Glory of the Lord to the extent witnessed and testified to in 2 Chronicles 7, when the fire fell from heaven and consumed the offerings on the altar, and the Glory of the Lord filled the temple. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since first beginning to receive these revelations from Scripture nearly 7 years ago, this message has continued to grow and mature to the point it is today, as Scripture has testified to Scripture, and 2 or 3 witnesses from Scripture have been revealed that verify each word I share in The Bed Keeper. This has resulted in the book being rather wordy, but at least it doesn’t leave any room for doubt, though there will always be room for some amount of disagreement, especially when first examining the evidence, even though it comes directly from Scripture itself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I watched <a href="http://www.emic.org/media/index.php?id=909" target="_blank"><strong>Pastor George’s sermon</strong></a>, I couldn’t help but feel that (whether in the Spirit or in the natural), he already knew that on November 1, 2011, something new had happened in the Church, and that the Body of Christ will never be the same. Perhaps I’m mistaken, but as he spoke of his Church’s outreach to people in the community whom most had not come in contact with or fellowshipped with much before, I couldn’t help but sense that he was speaking of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community; many of whom are already Christians in search of a Church to call home, where Scripture means what it says…and doesn’t mean what it doesn’t say. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you and Secretary <span style="background-color: yellow;">Kerry</span> are part of this process as well, and encourage you both to contact Pastor George to confirm your support of this new endeavor, including any financial faith based initiative grants the United States government may be able to provide Eagle Mountain International Church. They face an enormous task of training their network ministry partners to ensure the equality for LGBT people we all seek becomes available to us from within the sanctuaries of houses of worship around the world--as well as from within the political realm!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is also my sincere hope that you and Secretary <span style="background-color: yellow;">Kerry</span> will stand in prayer for this work of God in the Church today. I am praying that The Bed Keeper helps you both to have as complete a revelation from God’s Word as is humanly possible, in order to dispel the myths traditional Christianity has held as truth in times past, but also in order to help the Church position herself in a place where she is at last the Glorious Church, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. It just so happens as you will see from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank">Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</a></b>, until LGBT people are affirmed in faith bodies all over the world, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>also contributing our offerings on His altar</u></b>, Jesus is prophetically prevented from returning to the earth until all prophecies are fulfilled (in accordance with Luke 24:44), including God’s Own prophecy to eunuchs in Isaiah 55:11-56:12 (whom Jesus teaches includes eunuchs born so from our mother’s womb in Matthew 19:11-12), whom you and I today refer to as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">While I recognize you may not share the same interpretation of these particular passages of Scripture, it is my hope that you and Secretary <span style="background-color: yellow;">Kerry</span> will consider including a discussion on them as an additional tool that will help bring faith bodies and ministers to reconsider long held beliefs regarding LGBT people, and that it will become a part of the "constellation of conversations" former Secretary Clinton <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MudnsExyV78" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>mentioned in her address</strong></span></a> that are necessary in order for the successful advance for equality, peace and security for LGBT people the world over. As traditional (dare I say erroneous) religious beliefs seem to be the biggest stumbling block to this equality, it seems to me the revelations I share within the pages of The Bed Keeper may provide a unique perspective that may prove to bring many religious leaders to the "tipping point" that helps them become active agents of equality, while at the same time encouraging them to do so based on Scripturally sound theological insights and beliefs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: Arial;">t is further my sincere hope that you will encourage all religious leaders you and Secretary <span style="background-color: yellow;">Kerry</span> may come in contact with who address the question in public venues, to take the time necessary to first study these findings from The Bed Keeper, in order to become more intimately acquainted with what the differences are between <strong>"homosexuality"</strong> and <strong>"homosexual people"</strong> and <strong>"homosexual acts engaged in by heterosexual married men,"</strong> so that they become empowered to provide the public with thorough and Scripturally accurate responses that not only avoids condemning all gay people out of hand, but at the same time, address all the <strong><u>heterosexual men engaged in cheating on their wives with other men</u></strong>, who currently get off scott free as the Church has traditionally only scapegoated gay people, without ever considering that both Scripture (and life itself) portray a very different reality; a reality that once confronted, may indeed prove to be the <strong><u>cure for HIV/AIDS</u></strong> as homosexual and heterosexual mixing comes to an end. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19: Go and Sin No More</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you and Secretary Clinton are fully aware, c<span style="font-family: Arial;">urrently the highest rates of new infections of HIV/AIDS occur in the World Health Organization's <strong>MSM</strong> category (men who have sex with men, <u><strong>regardless of their identified sexuality</strong></u>). The second highest new infection rate is among women (particularly women of color) who contract the disease from <strong><u>heterosexual</u></strong> partners. As the Church focuses its energy (and blame) on gay men, it would seem that these types of transmissions are impossible without the <u><strong>intermingling of</strong> </u><strong><u>heterosexual men having relations with both women AND gay men</u>. </strong>Ignoring this not only fails to address the situation as honestly as Scripture itself does, but also provides these heterosexual men with immunity from scrutiny (and correction) from the Church, and prevents LGBT people from coming to many congregations as the safe spaces for worship they claim to be. It also provides the basis for entire governments to condemn all LGBT people, without recognizing that many homosexual acts are engaged in by HETEROsexual people instead.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Simply saying "homosexuality is sinful" (or criminal) condemns all gay people (many of whom do not even have sexual relations of any kind), while <strong><u>at the same time ignoring the heterosexual married men who are actually engaged in the exact form of adultery that is actually being addressed specifically throughout Scripture</u>. </strong> Of course they are also the ones who bring the tithes to the Church (since most gay people have felt excluded by such public messages from the Church), and so it can take a brave Shepherd like Pastor George to shed light on this fact, and I hope you and Secretary <span style="background-color: yellow;">Kerry</span> will conjoin his leadership with that of the United States government to the fullest extent possible without violating the US Constitution. I think we can all agree that between the criminalization of LGBT people based solely on their sexual identity and this new information on causes of HIV/AIDS transmissions (especially among heterosexuals), that these are humanitarian issues, before they can be considered religious issues.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> have already begun sharing aspects of The Bed Keeper on Twitter, and through the blog version of the book, more than <span style="background-color: yellow;">87,000</span> people in <span style="background-color: yellow;">144</span> countries have already taken a glimpse into the future of LGBT people around the world, and seen that it is indeed good! I hope you and Secretary Kerry's staff members will follow me on Twitter where I am known as @TheBedKeeper so that you both can see how I envision parts of this message can best be communicated to the LGBT community. In the meantime, I hope that you both begin the process of considering the best practices for revealing this message to members of the public, and come to help lead the world and the Body of Christ in the best way to reveal this message to members of their own flocks, and LGBT people in their own communities.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Regardless of your religious beliefs personally, I hope you and Secretary <span style="background-color: yellow;">Kerry </span>will make available any and all resources necessary that will provide faith bodies the world over </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with an opportunity for this message to be revealed from within the Church outward, rather than be forced to reveal this message to the masses and hope the Church catches up, and thereby sacrifice the last remaining shreds of Scriptural and moral authority the Church seems to have in the earth today, (and quite possibly push LGBT people even further away as their suspicions of the Church’s errors are proven correct). Their reaction to the message will be dependant solely on the way the Church handles this; either as an “Angels and Demons” type expose’ from someone outside the Church, or as a responsible Body of Believers who are open enough to correction to right the ship ourselves, just as we did concerning the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, women, slavery, prosperity, and health.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Final publication of The Bed Keeper is now on schedule to release on February 15, 2012. It is my hopes that a strong ministry steps forward that is willing to lead this message from within the Church, because this isn’t just about the American Christian Church. God has placed LGBT people in every nation, every city, every race, every family, and every RELIGION (and denominations therein)! I sincerely believe as Christianity opens the path to God for Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Pagan, Wiccan, Universalist, Mormon, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Black Israelite, and even Atheist and Agnostic gay people, He will use LGBT people themselves to spread the Word amongst ourselves, cross every religious dividing line, and invite them into the Christian fold. See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 21: GAZA: Holy Land for Gays</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation of this vision.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew 19:11-12 </b>Jesus proves we are born gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 1</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Isaiah 55:11-56:12 </b>God demands LGBT people be included and affirmed in Church (and demands our offerings be included on His altar) before Jesus can return. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 1</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-3-for-sake-of-kingdom-of-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 3</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other various chapters of The Bed Keeper are geared toward helping LGBT people understand Christian principles such as the New Covenant (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-5-covenant-promises.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 5</strong></a>), Keeping the Sabbath and Understanding the Significance of Pentecost (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-6-lord-of-sabbath.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 6</strong></a>), Baptism of the Holy Spirit (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-7-baptism-by-fire.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 7</strong></a>), Bearing Fruit for God (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-8-spiritual-leadership.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 8</strong></a>), FAITH (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/well-recall-from-chapter-5-of-bed_4258.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 9</strong></a>), Creation and Evolution (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-11-big-bang-theory.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 11</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-12-my-brothers-keeper.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 12</strong></a>) the Significance of the Rainbow Flag and God’s Rainbow Covenant (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-13-rainbow-covenant.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 13</strong></a>), the Destruction of Sodom (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-14-men-of-sodom.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 14</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-15-entertaining-angels.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 15</strong></a>), and understanding the difference between homosexual expressions committed by heterosexual men, and being homosexual, and the importance of keeping the marriage bed (even a gay marriage bed) undefiled (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19</strong></a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been my intent to not only reveal the message from God’s Word to the churches regarding LGBT people being affirmed in every church and bringing their offerings to God’s altar in order for Jesus to return, but also to train up LGBT believers in the very basic principles of the faith as I have learned from Pastors Joel and Victoria Osteen of Lakewood Church (Houston, Texas), Brother Kenneth and Sister Gloria Copeland of Kenneth Copeland Ministries (Ft. Worth, Texas), Pastors George and Terri Pearsons of Eagle Mountain International Church (Ft. Worth, Texas), Sister Billye Brim of Prayer Mountain in the Ozarks (Branson, Missouri), Joyce Meyer Ministries (St. Louis, Missouri), as well as many others in the Charismatic move of God. I pray you and Secretary <span style="background-color: yellow;">Kerry</span> will especially lift these leaders up in prayer as they take those first brave steps into the future of the Body of Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also wanted to help you and Secretary <span style="background-color: yellow;">Kerry</span> to understand my motivation. I do not see myself becoming a preacher or minister. I think my time is better spent staying at home, studying God's Word, praying, and simply sharing my findings as the Holy Spirit continues to lead me through Scripture. I believe I am called to teach, not preach. I am at a point where I believe the message is mature enough to be iron clad (Scripturally speaking) and I know in my spirit there is much more that will “hook up” to it as I move forward. My hope for now is that you can simply begin helping faith bodies get geared up to release this message, and that I can hopefully be assigned a contact within your and Secretary <span style="background-color: yellow;">Kerry's</span> administrative staffs that provides a conduit from me to you both without having to go public with everything just to get the Church’s (or government's) attention, or without having to disturb either of you every time I get something new. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know that I can’t be in all places and all churches at one time. I am not able to do a lot of travel or speaking engagements or book signings, although I am willing to make myself available for occasional person-to-person visits here in Houston, Texas to discuss various points, if absolutely necessary. Hopefully most questions, comments and concerns can be addressed via email, where nobody can interrupt each other, and a written train of thought can be assembled and referred back to for all to consider as time moves on and the message continues to “gel.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you so much for your leadership of this cause, and of our great nation! I sincerely appreciate your time and consideration. I pray the material you are about to explore will prove to be a blessing to you both personally as members of the Body of Christ, but also as American government leaders reaching out to bring hope and freedom to a world full of lost, hurting, and rejected people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The writing of the "Book of Remembrance" has begun, </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">and I just know by the Spirit that you and Secretary Clinton <span style="background-color: yellow;">and Kerry</span> will be included in it! The only question is when. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to make sure it's sooner, rather than later!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God bless you, Mr. President and Secretary Clinton <span style="background-color: yellow;">and Kerry!</span> I hope to hear from a contact from your offices soon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>PPS:</strong> The easiest way to get started exploring may be to review <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/frequently-asked-questions.html" target="_blank"><strong>Frequently Asked Questions</strong></a> which addresses the most common traditional teachings regarding the issue of homosexuality, with convenient links that take you directly to the pertinent chapters of The Bed Keeper for complete and Scripture based responses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lakewood Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/lakewood-church-endorsed-as-safe-space.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<strong>UPDATE 11.22.11:</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eagle Mountain International Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Holy Spirit distinctly and expressly declares </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">giving attention to deluding and seducing spirits</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and doctrines that demons teach,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through the hypocrisy and pretensions of liars</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> whose consciences are seared (cauterized),</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear President Monson,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Greetings in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My name is Brian Anthony Bowen, and I am the author of a forthcoming book entitled, “The Bed Keeper,” which I believe will launch your ministry into a new phase, and the Body of Christ into a new day! I write today to refer you to the message Pastor George Pearsons shared with his congregation at Eagle Mountain International Church on November 6, 2011, entitled: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.emic.org/media/index.php?id=909" target="_blank">Hearts Wide Open: The Touch of Compassion, Part 5</a></strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Also, please consider Brother Kenneth Copeland's prophetic utterance regarding our place in the Kingdom of God from November 11, 2011, (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kkb94XRFhc&feature=share" target="_blank"><strong>available from YouTube</strong></a>) which seems to confirm by the Power of the Holy Spirit, what I am about to share with you in this letter. Y</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ou can review the transcript to Brother Copeland's prophetic utterance <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/111111-prophetic-utterance-from-brother.html" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>.</strong> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Please consider also Sister Billye Brim's teaching from her series, <a href="http://www.billyebrim.org/products/daniel-cd-set" target="_blank"><strong>"Daniel"</strong></a> wherein she (along with Pastors George and Terri Pearsons) reveal to Eagle Mountain International Church a prophecy uttered by God through Brother Justus Du Plessis regarding this new move of God way back in August 1996, and my interpretation of its meaning <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/eagle-mountain-justus-du-plessis.html" target="_blank"><strong>here.</strong></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Please also review other pertinent open letters to:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-eagle-mountain-intl.html" target="_blank"><strong>Eagle Mountain International Church</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-kenneth-copeland.html" target="_blank"><strong>Kenneth Copeland Ministries</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-joel-osteen-and-lakewood.html" target="_blank"><strong>Joel Osteen and Lakewood Church</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you may know by now, on November 1, 2011, I was invited by Brother Tim Clinton</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( @zoneradiolive on Twitter ), to participate in a discussion on TheZoneRadioShow.org (Cleveland, Ohio) with Pastor Dr. Darrell Scott, Senior Pastor of New Spirit Revival Center </span><a href="http://www.nsrcministries.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>www.nsrcministries.org</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and Pastor Jathan K. Austin ( @PastorJKA on Twitter ),<cite><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></cite>regarding new revelation from God’s Word on the issue that has most divided the church over the centuries, and how we can at last bridge the gap between the sides and come into a new understanding of what God’s Word does (and doesn’t say) about homosexuality and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people (yes, there is a difference)….and at long last, give them incentive to come to church, and give the church incentive to invite us….all based strictly on God’s Word….but in a way none of us most likely expected to happen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please explore this final draft of <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>The Bed Keeper</strong></a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What you will find is a collection of revelations from Scripture pertaining not only to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, but also how we interact prophetically in cooperation with the Body of Christ to prepare the Bride of Christ for His return, and how God has assigned us specific tasks within the church; most notably, the task of bringing our offerings to His altar, and how the traditional teachings of Christianity on this subject has inadvertently prevented our offerings from reaching God's altar. In the process of reading this material, you'll learn how Shepherds have inadvertently "robbed the tithes from God," by preventing LGBT people from coming to Church to include ours on His altar as well. Further, this has also prevented the manifestation of the Glory of the Lord to the extent witnessed and testified to in 2 Chronicles 7, when the fire fell from heaven and consumed the offerings on the altar, and the Glory of the Lord filled the temple. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since first beginning to receive this revelation from Scripture nearly 7 years ago, this message has continued to grow and mature to the point it is today, as Scripture has testified to Scripture, and 2 or 3 witnesses from Scripture have been revealed that verify each word I share in The Bed Keeper. This has resulted in the book being rather wordy, but at least it doesn’t leave any room for doubt, though there will always be room for some amount of disagreement, especially when first examining the evidence, even though it comes directly from Scripture itself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: Arial;">t is my hope that if you continue to address the question in public venues, that you will first take the time to study these findings from The Bed Keeper, and become more intimately acquainted with what the differences are between <strong>"homosexuality"</strong> and <strong>"homosexual people"</strong> and <strong>"homosexual acts engaged in by heterosexual married men,"</strong> so that you can provide more thorough and Scripturally accurate responses that not only avoids condemning all gay people out of hand, but at the same time, address all the <strong><u>heterosexual men engaged in cheating on their wives with other men</u></strong>, who currently get off scott free as the Church has traditionally only scapegoated gay people, without ever considering that both Scripture (and life itself) portray a very different reality; a reality that once confronted, may indeed prove to be the <strong><u>cure for HIV/AIDS</u></strong> as homosexual and heterosexual mixing comes to an end. <strong>(Edit: 11.29.11 to add):</strong> Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19: Go and Sin No More</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">C<span style="font-family: Arial;">urrently, new infection rates of HIV/AIDS occur in the World Health Organization's <strong>MSM</strong> category (men who have sex with men, <u><strong>regardless of their identified sexuality</strong></u>). The second highest new infection rate is among women (particularly women of color) who contract the disease from <strong><u>heterosexual</u></strong> partners. As the Church focuses its energy (and blame) on gay men, it would seem that these types of transmissions are impossible without the <u><strong>intermingling of</strong> </u><strong><u>heterosexual men having relations with both women AND gay men</u>.</strong> Ignoring this not only fails to address the situation as honestly as Scripture itself does, but also provides these heterosexual men with immunity from scrutiny (and correction) from the Church, and prevents LGBT people from coming to your wards, stakes and temples as the safe spaces for worship and ordinances they claim to be. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>"Safe Space"</strong> can no longer mean "you're welcome to come to church if you're gay and bring your offerings." No, from this day forward, <strong>"Safe Space" can only be truly defined as "you're welcome to come to church if you're gay and bring your offerings because we see that Scripture does not condemn gay people themselves, but rather <u>heterosexual married men engaging in adultery</u>."</strong> After all Pastor, that's what the Bible actually says, and your unawareness of that fact will no longer provide you immunity from criticism and correction from the LGBT community, nor from judgment upon entire stakes, wards, and temples from God Himself:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Ignorance</strong> to God's Word never <strong>changes</strong> God's Word, and He will hold blind shepherds to account, just as He said He would in Isaiah 56:10-12, 1 Corinthians 5-7, Malachi 2-3, and various other passages of Scripture. The Body of Christ can no longer afford to keep its head buried in the sand on this issue if we truly want to prepare the Church for the return of Jesus Christ! Every Christian who ever lived and died before us and our own personal resurrections are on the line! God didn't just send Jesus to save us from eternal torment, but to raise us to eternal life. That will not happen without the Return of Christ, and He cannot return until all prophecies are fulfilled (Luke 24:44), and that includes Isaiah 55:11-56:12. See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Simply saying "homosexuality is sin" condemns all gay people (many of whom do not even have sexual relations of any kind), while <strong><u>at the same time ignoring the heterosexual married men who are actually engaged in the exact form of adultery that is actually being addressed specifically throughout Scripture.</u></strong> Of course they are also the ones who bring the tithes to the church (since most gay people have felt excluded by such public messages from the Church), and so it can take a brave Shepherd like Pastor George to shed light on this fact, and I hope you will conjoin your leadership to his throughout the First Presidency, the Quorum of the Twelve, and your bishops throughout the temples, stakes, and wards within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In short, homosexuality has been elevated to an 11th Commandment status, and has replaced God's Own Commandment against <strong>heterosexual adultery.</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Doing so is to judge God's Own Law. But of course, I understand that is what traditional Christianity has always taught, and that traditions of men have long ago blind sided many shepherds to the distinctions I hope to convey to you--and indeed the entire Body of Christ--throughout The Bed Keeper. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Of equally disturbing concern is that each Sunday most Church leadership quotes <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=malachi%203:8-10&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong>Malachi 3:8-10</strong></a> to remind the congregation that <strong><em>"robbing the tithe from God prevents the windows from heaven opening and prevents God from being able to pour out a blessing over our lives"</em></strong> in an effort to unScripturally goad them into giving 10% of their income, rather than the amount they have purposed in their hearts as Paul directs Christians in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20corinthians%209:6-10&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong>2 Corinthians 9:6-10.</strong></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">However, if we more closely examine the Scripture referred to from Malachi, we see it actually begins in Malachi 2, not Malachi 3, and is addressed to priests themselves who are the ones robbing God of the tithes by preventing all the tithes from even reaching God's altar, because of messages from the Church that discourage LGBT people from coming to His House of Prayer for ALL people to include ours as well....as well as our parents, friends and families who have felt as equally shunned by the Church as we have been. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation of that aspect.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the other hand, we have LGBT people who have not only been Christians all their lives, but at the same time have felt sentenced to politely knock outside the Church door, instead of being affirmed according to God's Own Prophecy from Isaiah 55:11-56:12. Until that prophecy becomes fulfilled, according to Jesus in Luke 24:44, He is prophetically prevented from returning to the earth. It occurs to me that we can be as saved, sanctified and filled with the Holy Spirit as we want, but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>without the</u></b><u> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">return of Jesus Christ</b></u>, and our subsequent bodily resurrection, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>we will never attain the eternal life</u> </b>that He died to give us all. If we look carefully at John 3:16, we see that not only does Jesus save us from hell, but also raises us to eternal life with Him. As a Christian, I want both. There! I admit I’m a Christian for a rather selfish reason…but then again, aren’t we all?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> have already begun sharing this message on Twitter, and through the blog version of the book, more than 24,000 people in 81 countries have already taken a glimpse into the future of the Body of Christ, and seen that it is indeed good! I hope you’ll follow me on Twitter where I am known as @TheBedKeeper so that you can see how I envision parts of this message can best be communicated to the LGBT community, and in the meantime, that you will begin the process of praying with your partners (and prayer ministers the world over) on the best practices for revealing this message to the First Presidency, the Quorum of the Twelve, and your bishops throughout the temples, stakes, and wards within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, as well as all your associate Shepherds and ministries in the Body of Christ, and come to lead them in the best way to reveal this message to members of their own flocks, and LGBT people in their own communities.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know this is a lot to take in, and I don’t expect that it will happen overnight. However, I will be sending this information to other leading ministries as well, with the expectation that God will eventually appoint me to work under a ministry that has demonstrated not only an understanding of the material, but also a commitment to continue to now share it with the rest of the Body of Christ. Pastor George’s sermon on November 6, 2011, the prophetic utterance God ministered through Brother Copeland on November 11, 2011, and Justus Du Plessis's prophetic utterance from August 1996, are so far the surest <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>signs</u></b> I have received from God that the preaching of the word I participated in on November 1, 2011 has already taken effect!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, I’m left only to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>wonder</u> </b>if your ministry is one that stands in prayer for this new revelation from God's Word and its successful implementation throughout The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and throughout the Body of Christ, and provide us all with an opportunity for this message to be revealed from within the Church outward, rather than be forced to reveal this message to the masses and hope the church catches up, and thereby sacrifice the last remaining shreds of Scriptural and moral authority the Church seems to have in the earth today, (and quite possibly push LGBT people even further away as their suspicions of the church’s errors are proven correct). Their reaction to the message will be dependant solely on the way the Church handles this; either as an “Angels and Demons” type expose’ from someone outside the Church, or as a responsible Body of Believers who are open enough to correction to right the ship ourselves, just as we did concerning the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, women, slavery, prosperity, health, and indeed the Protestant Reformation itself. Throughout the process, prayer will be the power that binds us in united purpose as we see prophecy begin to unfold in front of our very eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is my intent to publish this book on February 1, 2012 unless a strong ministry steps forward that is willing to lead this message from within the Church instead, because this isn’t just about the American Christian Church. God has placed LGBT people in every nation, every city, every race, every family, and every RELIGION (and denominations therein)! I sincerely believe as Christianity opens the path to God for Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Pagan, Wiccan, Universalist, Mormon, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Black Israelite, and even Atheist and Agnostic gay people, He will use LGBT people themselves to spread the Word amongst ourselves, cross every religious dividing line, and invite them into the Christian fold. See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 21: GAZA: Holy Land for Gays</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation of this vision.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s a big job, and we need a big ministry to pull it off. But no ministry can do it alone, and no ministry can succeed without a powerful force of intercessory prayers pleading on God's behalf for His Will to be done in the earth, and for His Word to go forth and accomplish that which He pleases and purposes, so it will indeed PROSPER in the thing for which He sent it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew 19:11-12 </b>Jesus proves we are born gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 1</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Isaiah 55:11-56:12 </b>God demands LGBT people be included and affirmed in church (and demands our offerings be included on His altar) before Jesus can return. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 1</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-3-for-sake-of-kingdom-of-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 3</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2 Chronicles 7:1-3 </b>reads like a prophecy of what happens after our offerings get to God’s altar; the fire from heaven consumes the offerings, and the glory of the Lord fills the house (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Luke 24:44</b> Jesus confirms all prophecies must be fulfilled before He can return to the earth (See<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 Timothy 4:1-3 </b>The Holy Spirit warns that in the latter times, some Christians would fall away from the faith, having been seduced by doctrines demons teach, through the hypocrisy and pretense of liars whose consciences have been seared, who “forbid people to marry.” At no other time in human history has all elements contained in this particular prophecy been fulfilled as we see today right before our very eyes. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 2</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-17-forbid-to-marry.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 17</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2 Kings 9:29-37 </b>and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Esther 1:1-22</b> Read as analogies of LGBT people delivering a message from the King to the Bride of Christ, urging her to come to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and what happens if She refuses (Queen Jezebel and Queen Vashti), and what happens if She accepts. (Queen Esther) (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Romans 1</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Leviticus 18</b> both condemn heterosexual married men who cheated on their wives and/or worshipped idols, both of which are violations of the 10 Commandments. These passages also help us see the importance of not mixing heterosexual and homosexual interactions, and could quite possibly be the cure for HIV/AIDS. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-16-leviticus.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 16</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-18-romans.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 18</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 Corinthians 6:9-12 </b>condemns preachers whoring the church for money (and for keeping boys on the side) in part of a lengthy letter that begins in 1 Corinthians 5:1 and goes all the way through till 1 Corinthians 7:40, even as Paul ordains single gender matrimony in the very same letter in 1 Corinthians 7:8-9 (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 2</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other various chapters of The Bed Keeper are geared toward helping LGBT people understand Christian principles such as the New Covenant (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-5-covenant-promises.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 5</strong></a>), Keeping the Sabbath and Understanding the Significance of Pentecost (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-6-lord-of-sabbath.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 6</strong></a>), Baptism of the Holy Spirit (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-7-baptism-by-fire.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 7</strong></a>), Bearing Fruit for God (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-8-spiritual-leadership.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 8</strong></a>), FAITH (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/well-recall-from-chapter-5-of-bed_4258.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 9</strong></a>), Creation and Evolution (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-11-big-bang-theory.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 11</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-12-my-brothers-keeper.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 12</strong></a>) the Significance of the Rainbow Flag and God’s Rainbow Covenant (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-13-rainbow-covenant.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 13</strong></a>), the Destruction of Sodom (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-14-men-of-sodom.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 14</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-15-entertaining-angels.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 15</strong></a>), and understanding the difference between homosexual expressions committed by heterosexual men, and being homosexual, and the importance of keeping the marriage bed (even a gay marriage bed) undefiled (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19</strong></a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been my intent to not only reveal the message from God’s Word to the churches regarding LGBT people being affirmed in every church and bringing their offerings to God’s altar in order for Jesus to return, but also to train up LGBT believers in the very basic principles of the faith as I have learned from Pastor Joel and Victoria Osteen, Brother Kenneth and Sister Gloria Copeland, Pastors George and Terri Pearsons, Sister Billye Brim, Joyce Meyer, as well as many others in the Charismatic move of God. I pray you will especially lift these leaders up in prayer as they take those first brave steps into the future of the Body of Christ.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also wanted to help you understand my motivation. I do not see myself becoming a preacher. I think my time is better spent staying at home, staying in the Word, praying, and simply sharing my findings as the Holy Spirit continues to lead me through Scripture. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I believe I am called to teach, not preach. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I am at a point where I believe the message is mature enough to be iron clad (Scripturally speaking) and I know in my spirit there is much more that will “hook up” to it as I move forward. My hope for now is that you can simply begin helping the church get prayed up, and that I can hopefully be assigned a contact within your ministry that provides a conduit from me to you without having to go public with everything just to get the Church’s attention, or without having to disturb your own anointing every time I get something new. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know that I can’t be in all places and all churches at one time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not able to do a lot of travel or speaking engagements or book signings, although I am willing to make myself available for occasional person-to-person visits here in Houston to discuss various points, if absolutely necessary. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully most questions, comments and concerns can be addressed via email, where nobody can interrupt each other, and a written train of thought can be assembled and referred back to for all to consider as time moves on and the message continues to “gel.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am open to correction, and alternate interpretations of the findings I’ve shared herein, and hope to (if nothing else) at least catch any serious doctrinal errors PRIOR to publishing. But in 7 years of study and sharing aspects of this message with other pastors and lay people in online venues, I have yet to come across any that either don’t ignore certain passages of Scripture, or contradict others. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many have proven that it’s easy to simply disagree with the message. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None thus far have been able to provide Scripturally sound alternate interpretations. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps you can put your best in-house theologians on this and begin a respectful dialogue between as many parties as are necessary in an online private venue, such as an intranet or private message board, where people can contribute as time permits</span>, and encourage your pray-ers to keep these revelations and this new move of God mentioned in their prayers. I don’t really know how God is going to reveal this message to the masses. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only can share how I<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> prefer</b> He does so, and what I am willing to do to make it happen in a way that keeps it (to a large extent) “private church business” until such time all parties are comfortable with rolling it out to pastors’ conferences, and eventually the world wide Christian church. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One can put 1,000 to flight, 2 can put 10,000 to flight….and we NEED thousands of pastors sharing the message at about the same time, in order to foil Satan’s plot to keep these findings shrouded in misguided fear and homophobia to prevent the fulfillment of Isaiah 55:11-56:12, and prevent the return of Jesus Christ for as long as he can. Overcoming the enemy's plots against these revelations is of utmost importance, and as a partner of Prayer Mountain, I hope you share their mission to "pray in the plans of God, and to thwart the plans of the enemy against them."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This isn’t just another book about how the church is wrong, or what Scriptures LGBT people can feel free to ignore. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, this is a forensic look at Scripture <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">AS IS</b>, as we allow it to help us all come to a more nuanced and detailed understanding of the insights, ideas and concepts contained therein as pertains to the return of Jesus Christ, and the role LGBT people play in that Great Day. What I have found time and again is that the church has indeed not been “inaccurate” about many of Her traditional teachings on the subject, but she has been “incomplete,” and has suffered from a lack of specificity (and honestly from the lack of perspective from serious students of God’s Word, who just happen to be gay as well). As I always tell my LGBT friends: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If there is anything I can do to help you reach an affirmative decision, or anything I can unite with you in prayer over, please feel free to contact me via Twitter @TheBedKeeper, or through email at </span><a href="mailto:thebedkeeper@gmail.com"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>thebedkeeper@gmail.com</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>.</strong> Thank you so much for your time and consideration. I pray the material you are about to explore will prove to be a blessing to you personally as a member of the Body of Christ, but also as a ministry to a world full of lost, hurting, and rejected people. LGBT people have a God ordained place in the Body of Christ. Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit have all confirmed it is so. But tradition has set the Word of God aside, deprived it of authority, and made the Word of God inoperable…at least until now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Then those who feared the Lord talked often one to another; and the Lord listened and heard it, and a <u>book of remembrance</u> was written before Him of those who reverenced and worshipfully feared the Lord and who thought on His name. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><u>And they shall be Mine, says the Lord of hosts, in that day when I publicly recognize and openly declare them to be My jewels (My special possession, My peculiar treasure). And I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.</u></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The writing of the "Book of Remembrance" has begun, President Monson</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, and I just know by the Spirit that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints will be included in it! The only question is when. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to make sure it's sooner, rather than later!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God bless you, Pastor! I hope to hear from you or a contact in your ministry soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">God loves you! I love you! And remember: <strong>JESUS IS LORD!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sincerely,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brian Anthony Bowen</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>PPS:</strong> The easiest way to get started exploring may be to review <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/frequently-asked-questions.html" target="_blank"><strong>Frequently Asked Questions</strong></a> which addresses the most common traditional teachings regarding the issue of homosexuality, with convenient links that take you directly to the pertinent chapters of The Bed Keeper for complete and Scripture based responses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lakewood Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/lakewood-church-endorsed-as-safe-space.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eagle Mountain International Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this video, Brian Anthony Bowen reveals Scriptures the Church never talks about which prove that Jesus taught that LGBT people are born this way...and that prove the Apostle Paul ordained Gay Marriage...IN THE BIBLE!<br /><br />This changes EVERYTHING!<br />More info: </span><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://brianbowenministries.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://BrianBowenMinistries.com"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://BrianBowenMinistries.com</span></a><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Holy Spirit distinctly and expressly declares </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">some will turn away from the faith, </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">giving attention to deluding and seducing spirits</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and doctrines that demons teach,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through the hypocrisy and pretensions of liars</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> whose consciences are seared (cauterized),</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Who forbid people to marry</span> </strong> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear Brother Perkins,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Greetings in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My name is Brian Anthony Bowen, and I am the author of a forthcoming book entitled, “The Bed Keeper,” which I believe will launch your ministry into a new phase, and the Body of Christ into a new day! I write today to refer you to the message Pastor George Pearsons shared with his congregation at Eagle Mountain International Church on November 6, 2011, entitled: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.emic.org/media/index.php?id=909" target="_blank">Hearts Wide Open: The Touch of Compassion, Part 5</a></strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Also, please consider Brother Kenneth Copeland's prophetic utterance regarding our place in the Kingdom of God from November 11, 2011, (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kkb94XRFhc&feature=share" target="_blank"><strong>available from YouTube</strong></a>) which seems to confirm by the Power of the Holy Spirit, what I am about to share with you in this letter. Y</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ou can review the transcript to Brother Copeland's prophetic utterance <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/111111-prophetic-utterance-from-brother.html" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>.</strong> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Please consider also Sister Billye Brim's teaching from her series, <a href="http://www.billyebrim.org/products/daniel-cd-set" target="_blank"><strong>"Daniel"</strong></a> wherein she (along with Pastors George and Terri Pearsons) reveal to Eagle Mountain International Church a prophecy uttered by God through Brother Justus Du Plessis regarding this new move of God way back in August 1996, and my interpretation of its meaning <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/eagle-mountain-justus-du-plessis.html" target="_blank"><strong>here.</strong></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Please also review other pertinent open letters to:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong>The World Wide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-eagle-mountain-intl.html" target="_blank"><strong>Eagle Mountain International Church</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-kenneth-copeland.html" target="_blank"><strong>Kenneth Copeland Ministries</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-joel-osteen-and-lakewood.html" target="_blank"><strong>Joel Osteen and Lakewood Church</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-all-christians.html" target="_blank"><strong>Open Letter to All Christians</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you may know by now, on November 1, 2011, I was invited by Brother Tim Clinton</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">@zoneradiolive on Twitter ), to participate in a discussion on TheZoneRadioShow.org (Cleveland, Ohio) with Pastor Dr. Darrell Scott, Senior Pastor of New Spirit Revival Center </span><a href="http://www.nsrcministries.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>www.nsrcministries.org</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and Pastor Jathan K. Austin ( @PastorJKA on Twitter ),<cite><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></cite>regarding new revelation from God’s Word on the issue that has most divided the church over the centuries, and how we can at last bridge the gap between the sides and come into a new understanding of what God’s Word does (and doesn’t say) about homosexuality and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people (yes, there is a difference)….and at long last, give them incentive to come to church, and give the church incentive to invite us….all based strictly on God’s Word….but in a way none of us most likely expected to happen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please explore this final draft of <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>The Bed Keeper</strong></a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What you will find is a collection of revelations from Scripture pertaining not only to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, but also how we interact prophetically in cooperation with the Body of Christ to prepare the Bride of Christ for His return, and how God has assigned us specific tasks within the church; most notably, the task of bringing our offerings to His altar, and how the traditional teachings of Christianity on this subject has inadvertently prevented our offerings from reaching God's altar. In the process of reading this material, you'll learn how Shepherds have inadvertently "robbed the tithes from God," by preventing LGBT people from coming to Church to include ours on His altar as well. Further, this has also prevented the manifestation of the Glory of the Lord to the extent witnessed and testified to in 2 Chronicles 7, when the fire fell from heaven and consumed the offerings on the altar, and the Glory of the Lord filled the temple. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since first beginning to receive this revelation from Scripture nearly 7 years ago, this message has continued to grow and mature to the point it is today, as Scripture has testified to Scripture, and 2 or 3 witnesses from Scripture have been revealed that verify each word I share in The Bed Keeper. This has resulted in the book being rather wordy, but at least it doesn’t leave any room for doubt, though there will always be room for some amount of disagreement, especially when first examining the evidence, even though it comes directly from Scripture itself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I watched <a href="http://www.emic.org/media/index.php?id=909" target="_blank"><strong>Pastor George’s sermon</strong></a>, I couldn’t help but feel that (whether in the Spirit or in the natural), he already knew that on November 1, 2011, something new had happened in the Church, and that the Body of Christ will never be the same. Perhaps I’m mistaken, but as he spoke of his Church’s outreach to people in the community whom most had not come in contact with or fellowshipped with much before, I couldn’t help but sense that he was speaking of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community; many of whom are already Christians in search of a church to call home, where Scripture means what it says…and doesn’t mean what it doesn’t say. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pastor George seemed to indicate that not only would folks like us be coming to Eagle Mountain International Church, but that they would be training up ministers to assist in this new ingathering as the prayers for the Great Awakening appear to have awakened even those people that most members of the Body of Christ had written off as prodigals many centuries ago. I hope your ministry is part of this process as well, and encourage you to contact Pastor George to confirm your support of this new endeavor! I especially hope that you will come to see how Scripture reveals that God created LGBT people for a prophetic purpose, and has given us a divine destiny in His Kingdom.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is also my sincere hope that your ministry team will stand in prayer for this work of God in the Church today. I am praying that The Bed Keeper helps you and your ministry team to have as complete a revelation from God’s Word as is humanly possible, in order to dispel the myths traditional Christianity has held as truth in times past, but also in order to help the Church position herself in a place where she is at last the Glorious Church, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. It just so happens as you’ll see from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank">Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</a></b>, that until LGBT people are affirmed in faith bodies all over the world, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>also contributing our offerings on His altar</u></b>, Jesus is prophetically prevented from returning to the earth until all prophecies are fulfilled (in accordance with Luke 24:44), including God’s Own prophecy to eunuchs in Isaiah 55:11-56:12 (whom Jesus teaches includes eunuchs born so from our mother’s womb in Matthew 19:11-12), whom you and I today refer to as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: Arial;">t is my hope that as you address the question in public venues, that you will first take the time to study these findings from The Bed Keeper, and become more intimately acquainted with what the differences are between <strong>"homosexuality"</strong> and <strong>"homosexual people"</strong> and <strong>"homosexual acts engaged in by heterosexual married men,"</strong> so that you can provide more thorough and Scripturally accurate responses that not only avoids condemning all gay people out of hand, but at the same time, address all the <strong><u>heterosexual men engaged in cheating on their wives with other men</u></strong>, who currently get off scott free as the Church has traditionally only scapegoated gay people, without ever considering that both Scripture (and life itself) portray a very different reality; a reality that once confronted, may indeed prove to be the <strong><u>cure for HIV/AIDS</u></strong> as homosexual and heterosexual mixing comes to an end. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19: Go and Sin No More</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Currently, new infection rates of HIV/AIDS occur in the World Health Organization's <strong>MSM</strong> category (men who have sex with men, <u><strong>regardless of their identified sexuality</strong></u>). The second highest new infection rate is among women (particularly women of color) who contract the disease from <strong><u>heterosexual</u></strong> partners. As the Church focuses its energy (and blame) on gay men, it would seem that these types of transmissions are impossible without the <u><strong>intermingling of</strong> </u><strong><u>heterosexual men having relations with both women AND gay men</u>.</strong> Ignoring this not only fails to address the situation as honestly as Scripture itself does, but also provides these heterosexual men with immunity from scrutiny (and correction) from the Church, and prevents LGBT people from coming to congregations all around the world as the safe spaces for worship they claim to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>"Safe Space"</strong> can no longer mean "you're welcome to come to church if you're gay and bring your offerings." No, from this day forward, <strong>"Safe Space" can only be truly defined as "you're welcome to come to church if you're gay and bring your offerings because we see that Scripture does not condemn gay people themselves, but rather <u>heterosexual married men engaging in adultery</u>."</strong> After all Brother, that's what the Bible actually says, and your unawareness of that fact will no longer provide you immunity from criticism and correction from the LGBT community, nor from judgment upon your entire organization from God Himself:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Ignorance</strong> to God's Word never <strong>changes</strong> God's Word, and He will hold blind shepherds to account, just as He said He would in Isaiah 56:10-12, 1 Corinthians 5-7, Malachi 2-3, and various other passages of Scripture. The Body of Christ can no longer afford to keep its head buried in the sand on this issue if we truly want to prepare the Church for the return of Jesus Christ! Every Christian who ever lived and died before us and our own personal resurrections are on the line! God didn't just send Jesus to save us from eternal torment, but to raise us to eternal life. That will not happen without the Return of Christ, and He cannot return until all prophecies are fulfilled (Luke 24:44), and that includes Isaiah 55:11-56:12. See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Simply saying "homosexuality is sin" condemns all gay people (many of whom do not even have sexual relations of any kind), while <strong><u>at the same time ignoring the heterosexual married men who are actually engaged in the exact form of adultery that is actually being addressed specifically throughout Scripture.</u></strong> Of course they are also the ones who bring the tithes to the church (since most gay people have felt excluded by such public messages from the Church), and so it can take a brave Shepherd like Pastor George to shed light on this fact, and I hope you'll follow his leadership at Family Research Council. In short, homosexuality has been elevated to an 11th Commandment status, and has replaced God's Own Commandment against <strong>heterosexual adultery.</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Doing so is to judge God's Own Law. But of course, I understand that is what traditional Christianity has always taught, and that traditions of men have long ago blind sided many shepherds to the distinctions I hope to convey to you--and indeed the entire Body of Christ--throughout The Bed Keeper. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Of equally disturbing concern is that each Sunday most Church leadership quotes <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=malachi%203:8-10&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong>Malachi 3:8-10</strong></a> to remind the congregation that <strong><em>"robbing the tithe from God prevents the windows from heaven opening and prevents God from being able to pour out a blessing over our lives"</em></strong> in an effort to unScripturally goad them into giving 10% of their income, rather than the amount they have purposed in their hearts as Paul directs Christians in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20corinthians%209:6-10&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong>2 Corinthians 9:6-10.</strong></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">However, if we more closely examine the Scripture referred to from Malachi, we see it actually begins in Malachi 2, not Malachi 3, and is addressed to priests themselves who are the ones robbing God of the tithes by preventing all the tithes from even reaching God's altar, because of messages from the Church that discourage LGBT people from coming to His House of Prayer for ALL people to include ours as well....as well as our parents, friends and families who have felt as equally shunned by the Church as we have been. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation of that aspect.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the other hand, we have LGBT people who have not only been Christians all their lives, but at the same time have felt sentenced to politely knock outside the Church door, instead of being affirmed according to God's Own Prophecy from Isaiah 55:11-56:12. Until that prophecy becomes fulfilled, according to Jesus in Luke 24:44, He is prophetically prevented from returning to the earth. It occurs to me that we can be as saved, sanctified and filled with the Holy Spirit as we want, but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>without the</u></b><u> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">return of Jesus Christ</b></u>, and our subsequent bodily resurrection, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>we will never attain the eternal life</u> </b>that He died to give us all. If we look carefully at John 3:16, we see that not only does Jesus save us from hell, but also raises us to eternal life with Him. As a Christian, I want both. There! I admit I’m a Christian for a rather selfish reason…but then again, aren’t we all?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> have already begun sharing this message on Twitter, and through the blog version of the book, more than 25,000 people in 82 countries have already taken a glimpse into the future of the Body of Christ, and seen that it is indeed good! I hope you’ll follow me on Twitter where I am known as @TheBedKeeper so that you can see how I envision parts of this message can best be communicated to the LGBT community, and in the meantime, that you will begin the process of praying with your partners (and prayer ministers the world over) on the best practices for revealing this message to the organization at Family Research Council as well as all your associate Shepherds and ministries in the Body of Christ, and come to lead them in the best way to reveal this message to members of their own flocks, and LGBT people in their own communities.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know this is a lot to take in, and I don’t expect that it will happen overnight. However, I will be sending this information to other leading ministries as well, with the expectation that God will eventually appoint me to work under a ministry that has demonstrated not only an understanding of the material, but also a commitment to continue to now share it with the rest of the Body of Christ. Pastor George’s sermon on November 6, 2011, the prophetic utterance God ministered through Brother Copeland on November 11, 2011, and Justus Du Plessis's prophetic utterance from August 1996, are so far the surest <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>signs</u></b> I have received from God that the preaching of the word I participated in on November 1, 2011 has already taken effect!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, I’m left only to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>wonder</u> </b>if your ministry is one that stands in prayer for this new revelation from God's Word and its successful implementation at Family Research Council and throughout the Body of Christ, and provide us all with an opportunity for this message to be revealed from within the Church outward, rather than be forced to reveal this message to the masses and hope the church catches up, and thereby sacrifice the last remaining shreds of Scriptural and moral authority the Church seems to have in the earth today, (and quite possibly push LGBT people even further away as their suspicions of the church’s errors are proven correct). Their reaction to the message will be dependant solely on the way the Church handles this; either as an “Angels and Demons” type expose’ from someone outside the Church, or as a responsible Body of Believers who are open enough to correction to right the ship ourselves, just as we did concerning the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, women, slavery, prosperity, health, and indeed the Protestant Reformation itself. Throughout the process, prayer will be the power that binds us in united purpose as we see prophecy begin to unfold in front of our very eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is my intent to publish this book on February 1, 2012 unless a strong ministry steps forward that is willing to lead this message from within the Church instead, because this isn’t just about the American Christian Church. God has placed LGBT people in every nation, every city, every race, every family, and every RELIGION (and denominations therein)! I sincerely believe as Christianity opens the path to God for Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Pagan, Wiccan, Universalist, Mormon, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Black Israelite, and even Atheist and Agnostic gay people, He will use LGBT people themselves to spread the Word amongst ourselves, cross every religious dividing line, and invite them into the Christian fold. See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 21: GAZA: Holy Land for Gays</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation of this vision.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s a big job, and we need a big ministry to pull it off. But no ministry can do it alone, and no ministry can succeed without a powerful force of intercessory prayers pleading on God's behalf for His Will to be done in the earth, and for His Word to go forth and accomplish that which He pleases and purposes, so it will indeed PROSPER in the thing for which He sent it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew 19:11-12 </b>Jesus proves we are born gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 1</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Isaiah 55:11-56:12 </b>God demands LGBT people be included and affirmed in church (and demands our offerings be included on His altar) before Jesus can return. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 1</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-3-for-sake-of-kingdom-of-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 3</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2 Chronicles 7:1-3 </b>reads like a prophecy of what happens after our offerings get to God’s altar; the fire from heaven consumes the offerings, and the glory of the Lord fills the house (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 Timothy 4:1-3 </b>The Holy Spirit warns that in the latter times, some Christians would fall away from the faith, having been seduced by doctrines demons teach, through the hypocrisy and pretense of liars whose consciences have been seared, who “forbid people to marry.” At no other time in human history has all elements contained in this particular prophecy been fulfilled as we see today right before our very eyes. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 2</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-17-forbid-to-marry.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 17</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2 Kings 9:29-37 </b>and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Esther 1:1-22</b> Read as analogies of LGBT people delivering a message from the King to the Bride of Christ, urging her to come to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and what happens if She refuses (Queen Jezebel and Queen Vashti), and what happens if She accepts. (Queen Esther) (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Romans 1</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Leviticus 18</b> both condemn heterosexual married men who cheated on their wives and/or worshipped idols, both of which are violations of the 10 Commandments. These passages also help us see the importance of not mixing heterosexual and homosexual interactions, and could quite possibly be the cure for HIV/AIDS. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-16-leviticus.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 16</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-18-romans.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 18</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 Corinthians 6:9-12 </b>condemns preachers whoring the church for money (and for keeping boys on the side) in part of a lengthy letter that begins in 1 Corinthians 5:1 and goes all the way through till 1 Corinthians 7:40, even as Paul ordains single gender matrimony in the very same letter in 1 Corinthians 7:8-9 (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 2</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>1 Corinthians 7:24 </strong>and<strong> Acts 8:29-40</strong> both prove that exgay is unScriptural. The Apostle Paul admonishes us to remain in our station in life close to God, and the eunuch is still referred to as a eunuch even after his baptism. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 2</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-3-for-sake-of-kingdom-of-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 3</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other various chapters of The Bed Keeper are geared toward helping LGBT people understand Christian principles such as the New Covenant (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-5-covenant-promises.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 5</strong></a>), Keeping the Sabbath and Understanding the Significance of Pentecost (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-6-lord-of-sabbath.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 6</strong></a>), Baptism of the Holy Spirit (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-7-baptism-by-fire.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 7</strong></a>), Bearing Fruit for God (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-8-spiritual-leadership.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 8</strong></a>), FAITH (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/well-recall-from-chapter-5-of-bed_4258.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 9</strong></a>), Creation and Evolution (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-11-big-bang-theory.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 11</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-12-my-brothers-keeper.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 12</strong></a>) the Significance of the Rainbow Flag and God’s Rainbow Covenant (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-13-rainbow-covenant.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 13</strong></a>), the Destruction of Sodom (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-14-men-of-sodom.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 14</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-15-entertaining-angels.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 15</strong></a>), and understanding the difference between homosexual expressions committed by heterosexual men, and being homosexual, and the importance of keeping the marriage bed (even a gay marriage bed) undefiled (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19</strong></a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been my intent to not only reveal the message from God’s Word to the churches regarding LGBT people being affirmed in every church and bringing their offerings to God’s altar in order for Jesus to return, but also to train up LGBT believers in the very basic principles of the faith as I have learned from Pastor Joel and Victoria Osteen, Brother Kenneth and Sister Gloria Copeland, Pastors George and Terri Pearsons, Sister Billye Brim, Joyce Meyer, as well as many others in the Charismatic move of God. I pray you will especially lift these leaders up in prayer as they take those first brave steps into the future of the Body of Christ.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also wanted to help you understand my motivation. I do not see myself becoming a preacher. I think my time is better spent staying at home, staying in the Word, praying, and simply sharing my findings as the Holy Spirit continues to lead me through Scripture. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I believe I am called to teach, not preach. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I am at a point where I believe the message is mature enough to be iron clad (Scripturally speaking) and I know in my spirit there is much more that will “hook up” to it as I move forward. My hope for now is that you can simply begin helping the church get prayed up, and that I can hopefully be assigned a contact within your ministry that provides a conduit from me to you without having to go public with everything just to get the Church’s attention, or without having to disturb your own anointing every time I get something new. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know that I can’t be in all places and all churches at one time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not able to do a lot of travel or speaking engagements or book signings, although I am willing to make myself available for occasional person-to-person visits here in Houston to discuss various points, if absolutely necessary. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully most questions, comments and concerns can be addressed via email, where nobody can interrupt each other, and a written train of thought can be assembled and referred back to for all to consider as time moves on and the message continues to “gel.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am open to correction, and alternate interpretations of the findings I’ve shared herein, and hope to (if nothing else) at least catch any serious doctrinal errors PRIOR to publishing. But in 7 years of study and sharing aspects of this message with other pastors and lay people in online venues, I have yet to come across any that either don’t ignore certain passages of Scripture, or contradict others. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many have proven that it’s easy to simply disagree with the message. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None thus far have been able to provide Scripturally sound alternate interpretations. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps you can put your best in-house theologians on this and begin a respectful dialogue between as many parties as are necessary in an online private venue, such as an intranet or private message board, where people can contribute as time permits</span>, and encourage your pray-ers to keep these revelations and this new move of God mentioned in their prayers. I don’t really know how God is going to reveal this message to the masses. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only can share how I<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> prefer</b> He does so, and what I am willing to do to make it happen in a way that keeps it (to a large extent) “private church business” until such time all parties are comfortable with rolling it out to pastors’ conferences, and eventually the world wide Christian church. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One can put 1,000 to flight, 2 can put 10,000 to flight….and we NEED thousands of pastors sharing the message at about the same time, in order to foil Satan’s plot to keep these findings shrouded in misguided fear and homophobia to prevent the fulfillment of Isaiah 55:11-56:12, and prevent the return of Jesus Christ for as long as he can. Overcoming the enemy's plots against these revelations is of utmost importance, and as a partner of Prayer Mountain, I hope you share their mission to "pray in the plans of God, and to thwart the plans of the enemy against them."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This isn’t just another book about how the church is wrong, or what Scriptures LGBT people can feel free to ignore. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, this is a forensic look at Scripture <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">AS IS</b>, as we allow it to help us all come to a more nuanced and detailed understanding of the insights, ideas and concepts contained therein as pertains to the return of Jesus Christ, and the role LGBT people play in that Great Day. What I have found time and again is that the church has indeed not been “inaccurate” about many of Her traditional teachings on the subject, but she has been “incomplete,” and has suffered from a lack of specificity (and honestly from the lack of perspective from serious students of God’s Word, who just happen to be gay as well). As I always tell my LGBT friends: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If there is anything I can do to help you reach an affirmative decision, or anything I can unite with you in prayer over, please feel free to contact me via Twitter @TheBedKeeper, or through email at </span><a href="mailto:thebedkeeper@gmail.com"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>thebedkeeper@gmail.com</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>.</strong> Thank you so much for your time and consideration. I pray the material you are about to explore will prove to be a blessing to you personally as a member of the Body of Christ, but also as a ministry to a world full of lost, hurting, and rejected people. LGBT people have a God ordained place in the Body of Christ. Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit have all confirmed it is so. But tradition has set the Word of God aside, deprived it of authority, and made the Word of God inoperable…at least until now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The writing of the "Book of Remembrance" has begun, Brother</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, and I just know by the Spirit that you and Family Research Council begin to research the materials presented here and that you come to include members of the family of faith who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, and who are members of every family--in every nation--and in every religion; family members whom God Himself declares to be His sons and daughters (Isaiah 55:11-56:12), and whom Jesus Himself taught are part of God's Divinely Created Order, and declared as being in full compliance with the Natural Law set up by Him, not orthodox traditions within the Christian faith (Matthew 19:11-12). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God bless you, Brother! I hope to hear from you or a contact in your ministry soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">God loves you! I love you! And remember: <strong>JESUS IS LORD!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>PS:</strong> I encourage Church leaders and ministers to read this manuscript in reverse order, beginning with the last chapter first (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 21</strong></a>). It will provide incentive to continue studying, take readers back through to undo the traditional understandings of the subject, and end up where LGBT people are as defined by Scripture. For LGBT people, I encourage them to read it in the order in which it appears, beginning with our birth, and moving forward to the culmination of the Church Age as Jesus Christ cracks open the sky and catches away the Church!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See ya there! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>PPS:</strong> The easiest way to get started exploring may be to review <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/frequently-asked-questions.html" target="_blank"><strong>Frequently Asked Questions</strong></a> which addresses the most common traditional teachings regarding the issue of homosexuality, with convenient links that take you directly to the pertinent chapters of The Bed Keeper for complete and Scripture based responses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>This blog continues to be a work in progress. As recent revelations and events throughout Christendom have created an increasingly fluid situation, updates will no longer be published at the end of each post, but rather only at the beginning of the corresponding posts so impacted. As of August 1, 2013, the only updates to appear at the end of each post will be churches that are personally endorsed by The Bed Keeper as a "SAFE SPACE."</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lakewood Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/lakewood-church-endorsed-as-safe-space.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eagle Mountain International Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Holy Spirit distinctly and expressly declares </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">giving attention to deluding and seducing spirits</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and doctrines that demons teach,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through the hypocrisy and pretensions of liars</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> whose consciences are seared (cauterized),</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Who forbid people to marry</span> </strong> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear Brother Jim,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Greetings in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">After reviewing the Focus on the Family website regarding the topic of homosexuality, I find that even as your organization shares the "orthodox" view of the subject, it fails to include any detailed examination of the Scriptures that you claim supports this view. I believe that I may be of some assistance in this regard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My name is Brian Anthony Bowen, and I am the author of a forthcoming book entitled, “The Bed Keeper,” which I believe will launch your ministry into a new phase, and the Body of Christ into a new day! I write today to refer you to the message Pastor George Pearsons shared with his congregation at Eagle Mountain International Church on November 6, 2011, entitled: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.emic.org/media/index.php?id=909" target="_blank">Hearts Wide Open: The Touch of Compassion, Part 5</a></strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Also, please consider Brother Kenneth Copeland's prophetic utterance regarding our place in the Kingdom of God from November 11, 2011, (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kkb94XRFhc&feature=share" target="_blank"><strong>available from YouTube</strong></a>) which seems to confirm by the Power of the Holy Spirit, what I am about to share with you in this letter. Y</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ou can review the transcript to Brother Copeland's prophetic utterance <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/111111-prophetic-utterance-from-brother.html" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>.</strong> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Please consider also Sister Billye Brim's teaching from her series, <a href="http://www.billyebrim.org/products/daniel-cd-set" target="_blank"><strong>"Daniel"</strong></a> wherein she (along with Pastors George and Terri Pearsons) reveal to Eagle Mountain International Church a prophecy uttered by God through Brother Justus Du Plessis regarding this new move of God way back in August 1996, and my interpretation of its meaning <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/eagle-mountain-justus-du-plessis.html" target="_blank"><strong>here.</strong></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Please also review other pertinent open letters to:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong>The World Wide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-eagle-mountain-intl.html" target="_blank"><strong>Eagle Mountain International Church</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-kenneth-copeland.html" target="_blank"><strong>Kenneth Copeland Ministries</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-joel-osteen-and-lakewood.html" target="_blank"><strong>Joel Osteen and Lakewood Church</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-all-christians.html" target="_blank"><strong>Open Letter to All Christians</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you may know by now, on November 1, 2011, I was invited by Brother Tim Clinton</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">@zoneradiolive on Twitter ), to participate in a discussion on TheZoneRadioShow.org (Cleveland, Ohio) with Pastor Dr. Darrell Scott, Senior Pastor of New Spirit Revival Center </span><a href="http://www.nsrcministries.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>www.nsrcministries.org</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and Pastor Jathan K. Austin ( @PastorJKA on Twitter ),<cite><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></cite>regarding new revelation from God’s Word on the issue that has most divided the church over the centuries, and how we can at last bridge the gap between the sides and come into a new understanding of what God’s Word does (and doesn’t say) about homosexuality and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people (yes, there is a difference)….and at long last, give them incentive to come to church, and give the church incentive to invite us….all based strictly on God’s Word….but in a way none of us most likely expected to happen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please explore this final draft of <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>The Bed Keeper</strong></a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What you will find is a collection of revelations from Scripture pertaining not only to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, but also how we interact prophetically in cooperation with the Body of Christ to prepare the Bride of Christ for His return, and how God has assigned us specific tasks within the church; most notably, the task of bringing our offerings to His altar, and how the traditional teachings of Christianity on this subject has inadvertently prevented our offerings from reaching God's altar. In the process of reading this material, you'll learn how Shepherds have inadvertently "robbed the tithes from God," by preventing LGBT people from coming to Church to include ours on His altar as well. Further, this has also prevented the manifestation of the Glory of the Lord to the extent witnessed and testified to in 2 Chronicles 7, when the fire fell from heaven and consumed the offerings on the altar, and the Glory of the Lord filled the temple. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since first beginning to receive this revelation from Scripture nearly 7 years ago, this message has continued to grow and mature to the point it is today, as Scripture has testified to Scripture, and 2 or 3 witnesses from Scripture have been revealed that verify each word I share in The Bed Keeper. This has resulted in the book being rather wordy, but at least it doesn’t leave any room for doubt, though there will always be room for some amount of disagreement, especially when first examining the evidence, even though it comes directly from Scripture itself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I watched <a href="http://www.emic.org/media/index.php?id=909" target="_blank"><strong>Pastor George’s sermon</strong></a>, I couldn’t help but feel that (whether in the Spirit or in the natural), he already knew that on November 1, 2011, something new had happened in the Church, and that the Body of Christ will never be the same. Perhaps I’m mistaken, but as he spoke of his Church’s outreach to people in the community whom most had not come in contact with or fellowshipped with much before, I couldn’t help but sense that he was speaking of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community; many of whom are already Christians in search of a church to call home, where Scripture means what it says…and doesn’t mean what it doesn’t say. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pastor George seemed to indicate that not only would folks like us be coming to Eagle Mountain International Church, but that they would be training up ministers to assist in this new ingathering as the prayers for the Great Awakening appear to have awakened even those people that most members of the Body of Christ had written off as prodigals many centuries ago. I hope your ministry is part of this process as well, and encourage you to contact Pastor George to confirm your support of this new endeavor! I especially hope that you will come to see how Scripture reveals that God created LGBT people for a prophetic purpose, and has given us a divine destiny in His Kingdom.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is also my sincere hope that your ministry team will stand in prayer for this work of God in the Church today. I am praying that The Bed Keeper helps you and your ministry team to have as complete a revelation from God’s Word as is humanly possible, in order to dispel the myths traditional Christianity has held as truth in times past, but also in order to help the Church position herself in a place where she is at last the Glorious Church, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. It just so happens as you’ll see from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank">Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</a></b>, that until LGBT people are affirmed in faith bodies all over the world, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>also contributing our offerings on His altar</u></b>, Jesus is prophetically prevented from returning to the earth until all prophecies are fulfilled (in accordance with Luke 24:44), including God’s Own prophecy to eunuchs in Isaiah 55:11-56:12 (whom Jesus teaches includes eunuchs born so from our mother’s womb in Matthew 19:11-12), whom you and I today refer to as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: Arial;">t is my hope that as you address the question in public venues, that you will first take the time to study these findings from The Bed Keeper, and become more intimately acquainted with what the differences are between <strong>"homosexuality"</strong> and <strong>"homosexual people"</strong> and <strong>"homosexual acts engaged in by heterosexual married men,"</strong> so that you can provide more thorough and Scripturally accurate responses that not only avoids condemning all gay people out of hand, but at the same time, address all the <strong><u>heterosexual men engaged in cheating on their wives with other men</u></strong>, who currently get off scott free as the Church has traditionally only scapegoated gay people, without ever considering that both Scripture (and life itself) portray a very different reality; a reality that once confronted, may indeed prove to be the <strong><u>cure for HIV/AIDS</u></strong> as homosexual and heterosexual mixing comes to an end. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19: Go and Sin No More</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Currently, new infection rates of HIV/AIDS occur in the World Health Organization's <strong>MSM</strong> category (men who have sex with men, <u><strong>regardless of their identified sexuality</strong></u>). The second highest new infection rate is among women (particularly women of color) who contract the disease from <strong><u>heterosexual</u></strong> partners. As the Church focuses its energy (and blame) on gay men, it would seem that these types of transmissions are impossible without the <u><strong>intermingling of</strong> </u><strong><u>heterosexual men having relations with both women AND gay men</u>.</strong> Ignoring this not only fails to address the situation as honestly as Scripture itself does, but also provides these heterosexual men with immunity from scrutiny (and correction) from the Church, and prevents LGBT people from coming to congregations all around the world as the safe spaces for worship they claim to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>"Safe Space"</strong> can no longer mean "you're welcome to come to church if you're gay and bring your offerings." No, from this day forward, <strong>"Safe Space" can only be truly defined as "you're welcome to come to church if you're gay and bring your offerings because we see that Scripture does not condemn gay people themselves, but rather <u>heterosexual married men engaging in adultery</u>."</strong> After all Brother, that's what the Bible actually says, and your unawareness of that fact will no longer provide you immunity from criticism and correction from the LGBT community, nor from judgment upon your entire organization from God Himself:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>My people are destroyed for <u>lack of knowledge;</u> because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you that <u>you shall be no priest to Me</u>; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.</strong> Hosea 4:6</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Ignorance</strong> to God's Word never <strong>changes</strong> God's Word, and He will hold blind shepherds to account, just as He said He would in Isaiah 56:10-12, 1 Corinthians 5-7, Malachi 2-3, and various other passages of Scripture. The Body of Christ can no longer afford to keep its head buried in the sand on this issue if we truly want to prepare the Church for the return of Jesus Christ! Every Christian who ever lived and died before us and our own personal resurrections are on the line! God didn't just send Jesus to save us from eternal torment, but to raise us to eternal life. That will not happen without the Return of Christ, and He cannot return until all prophecies are fulfilled (Luke 24:44), and that includes Isaiah 55:11-56:12. See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Simply saying "homosexuality is sin" condemns all gay people (many of whom do not even have sexual relations of any kind), while <strong><u>at the same time ignoring the heterosexual married men who are actually engaged in the exact form of adultery that is actually being addressed specifically throughout Scripture.</u></strong> Of course they are also the ones who bring the tithes to the church (since most gay people have felt excluded by such public messages from the Church), and so it can take a brave Shepherd like Pastor George to shed light on this fact, and I hope you'll follow his leadership at Focus On The Family. In short, homosexuality has been elevated to an 11th Commandment status, and has replaced God's Own Commandment against <strong>heterosexual adultery.</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Doing so is to judge God's Own Law. But of course, I understand that is what traditional Christianity has always taught, and that traditions of men have long ago blind sided many shepherds to the distinctions I hope to convey to you--and indeed the entire Body of Christ--throughout The Bed Keeper. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Of equally disturbing concern is that each Sunday most Church leadership quotes <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=malachi%203:8-10&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong>Malachi 3:8-10</strong></a> to remind the congregation that <strong><em>"robbing the tithe from God prevents the windows from heaven opening and prevents God from being able to pour out a blessing over our lives"</em></strong> in an effort to unScripturally goad them into giving 10% of their income, rather than the amount they have purposed in their hearts as Paul directs Christians in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20corinthians%209:6-10&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong>2 Corinthians 9:6-10.</strong></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">However, if we more closely examine the Scripture referred to from Malachi, we see it actually begins in Malachi 2, not Malachi 3, and is addressed to priests themselves who are the ones robbing God of the tithes by preventing all the tithes from even reaching God's altar, because of messages from the Church that discourage LGBT people from coming to His House of Prayer for ALL people to include ours as well....as well as our parents, friends and families who have felt as equally shunned by the Church as we have been. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation of that aspect.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the other hand, we have LGBT people who have not only been Christians all their lives, but at the same time have felt sentenced to politely knock outside the Church door, instead of being affirmed according to God's Own Prophecy from Isaiah 55:11-56:12. Until that prophecy becomes fulfilled, according to Jesus in Luke 24:44, He is prophetically prevented from returning to the earth. It occurs to me that we can be as saved, sanctified and filled with the Holy Spirit as we want, but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>without the</u></b><u> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">return of Jesus Christ</b></u>, and our subsequent bodily resurrection, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>we will never attain the eternal life</u> </b>that He died to give us all. If we look carefully at John 3:16, we see that not only does Jesus save us from hell, but also raises us to eternal life with Him. As a Christian, I want both. There! I admit I’m a Christian for a rather selfish reason…but then again, aren’t we all?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> have already begun sharing this message on Twitter, and through the blog version of the book, more than 25,000 people in 82 countries have already taken a glimpse into the future of the Body of Christ, and seen that it is indeed good! I hope you’ll follow me on Twitter where I am known as @TheBedKeeper so that you can see how I envision parts of this message can best be communicated to the LGBT community, and in the meantime, that you will begin the process of praying with your partners (and prayer ministers the world over) on the best practices for revealing this message to the organization at Focus On The Family as well as all your associate Shepherds and ministries in the Body of Christ, and come to lead them in the best way to reveal this message to members of their own flocks, and LGBT people in their own communities.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know this is a lot to take in, and I don’t expect that it will happen overnight. However, I will be sending this information to other leading ministries as well, with the expectation that God will eventually appoint me to work under a ministry that has demonstrated not only an understanding of the material, but also a commitment to continue to now share it with the rest of the Body of Christ. Pastor George’s sermon on November 6, 2011, the prophetic utterance God ministered through Brother Copeland on November 11, 2011, and Justus Du Plessis's prophetic utterance from August 1996, are so far the surest <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>signs</u></b> I have received from God that the preaching of the word I participated in on November 1, 2011 has already taken effect!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, I’m left only to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>wonder</u> </b>if your ministry is one that stands in prayer for this new revelation from God's Word and its successful implementation at Focus On The Family and throughout the Body of Christ, and provide us all with an opportunity for this message to be revealed from within the Church outward, rather than be forced to reveal this message to the masses and hope the church catches up, and thereby sacrifice the last remaining shreds of Scriptural and moral authority the Church seems to have in the earth today, (and quite possibly push LGBT people even further away as their suspicions of the church’s errors are proven correct). Their reaction to the message will be dependant solely on the way the Church handles this; either as an “Angels and Demons” type expose’ from someone outside the Church, or as a responsible Body of Believers who are open enough to correction to right the ship ourselves, just as we did concerning the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, women, slavery, prosperity, health, and indeed the Protestant Reformation itself. Throughout the process, prayer will be the power that binds us in united purpose as we see prophecy begin to unfold in front of our very eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is my intent to publish this book on February 1, 2012 unless a strong ministry steps forward that is willing to lead this message from within the Church instead, because this isn’t just about the American Christian Church. God has placed LGBT people in every nation, every city, every race, every family, and every RELIGION (and denominations therein)! I sincerely believe as Christianity opens the path to God for Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Pagan, Wiccan, Universalist, Mormon, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Black Israelite, and even Atheist and Agnostic gay people, He will use LGBT people themselves to spread the Word amongst ourselves, cross every religious dividing line, and invite them into the Christian fold. See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 21: GAZA: Holy Land for Gays</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation of this vision.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s a big job, and we need a big ministry to pull it off. But no ministry can do it alone, and no ministry can succeed without a powerful force of intercessory prayers pleading on God's behalf for His Will to be done in the earth, and for His Word to go forth and accomplish that which He pleases and purposes, so it will indeed PROSPER in the thing for which He sent it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew 19:11-12 </b>Jesus proves we are born gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 1</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Isaiah 55:11-56:12 </b>God demands LGBT people be included and affirmed in church (and demands our offerings be included on His altar) before Jesus can return. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 1</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-3-for-sake-of-kingdom-of-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 3</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2 Chronicles 7:1-3 </b>reads like a prophecy of what happens after our offerings get to God’s altar; the fire from heaven consumes the offerings, and the glory of the Lord fills the house (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>1 Corinthians 7:24 </strong>and<strong> Acts 8:29-40</strong> both prove that exgay is unScriptural. The Apostle Paul admonishes us to remain in our station in life close to God, and the eunuch is still referred to as a eunuch even after his baptism. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 2</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-3-for-sake-of-kingdom-of-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 3</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been my intent to not only reveal the message from God’s Word to the churches regarding LGBT people being affirmed in every church and bringing their offerings to God’s altar in order for Jesus to return, but also to train up LGBT believers in the very basic principles of the faith as I have learned from Pastor Joel and Victoria Osteen, Brother Kenneth and Sister Gloria Copeland, Pastors George and Terri Pearsons, Sister Billye Brim, Joyce Meyer, as well as many others in the Charismatic move of God. I pray you will especially lift these leaders up in prayer as they take those first brave steps into the future of the Body of Christ.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also wanted to help you understand my motivation. I do not see myself becoming a preacher. I think my time is better spent staying at home, staying in the Word, praying, and simply sharing my findings as the Holy Spirit continues to lead me through Scripture. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I believe I am called to teach, not preach. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I am at a point where I believe the message is mature enough to be iron clad (Scripturally speaking) and I know in my spirit there is much more that will “hook up” to it as I move forward. My hope for now is that you can simply begin helping the church get prayed up, and that I can hopefully be assigned a contact within your ministry that provides a conduit from me to you without having to go public with everything just to get the Church’s attention, or without having to disturb your own anointing every time I get something new. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know that I can’t be in all places and all churches at one time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not able to do a lot of travel or speaking engagements or book signings, although I am willing to make myself available for occasional person-to-person visits here in Houston to discuss various points, if absolutely necessary. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully most questions, comments and concerns can be addressed via email, where nobody can interrupt each other, and a written train of thought can be assembled and referred back to for all to consider as time moves on and the message continues to “gel.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am open to correction, and alternate interpretations of the findings I’ve shared herein, and hope to (if nothing else) at least catch any serious doctrinal errors PRIOR to publishing. But in 7 years of study and sharing aspects of this message with other pastors and lay people in online venues, I have yet to come across any that either don’t ignore certain passages of Scripture, or contradict others. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many have proven that it’s easy to simply disagree with the message. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None thus far have been able to provide Scripturally sound alternate interpretations. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps you can put your best in-house theologians on this and begin a respectful dialogue between as many parties as are necessary in an online private venue, such as an intranet or private message board, where people can contribute as time permits</span>, and encourage your pray-ers to keep these revelations and this new move of God mentioned in their prayers. I don’t really know how God is going to reveal this message to the masses. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only can share how I<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> prefer</b> He does so, and what I am willing to do to make it happen in a way that keeps it (to a large extent) “private church business” until such time all parties are comfortable with rolling it out to pastors’ conferences, and eventually the world wide Christian church. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One can put 1,000 to flight, 2 can put 10,000 to flight….and we NEED thousands of pastors sharing the message at about the same time, in order to foil Satan’s plot to keep these findings shrouded in misguided fear and homophobia to prevent the fulfillment of Isaiah 55:11-56:12, and prevent the return of Jesus Christ for as long as he can. Overcoming the enemy's plots against these revelations is of utmost importance, and as a partner of Prayer Mountain, I hope you share their mission to "pray in the plans of God, and to thwart the plans of the enemy against them."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This isn’t just another book about how the church is wrong, or what Scriptures LGBT people can feel free to ignore. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, this is a forensic look at Scripture <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">AS IS</b>, as we allow it to help us all come to a more nuanced and detailed understanding of the insights, ideas and concepts contained therein as pertains to the return of Jesus Christ, and the role LGBT people play in that Great Day. What I have found time and again is that the church has indeed not been “inaccurate” about many of Her traditional teachings on the subject, but she has been “incomplete,” and has suffered from a lack of specificity (and honestly from the lack of perspective from serious students of God’s Word, who just happen to be gay as well). As I always tell my LGBT friends: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If there is anything I can do to help you reach an affirmative decision, or anything I can unite with you in prayer over, please feel free to contact me via Twitter @TheBedKeeper, or through email at </span><a href="mailto:thebedkeeper@gmail.com"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>thebedkeeper@gmail.com</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>.</strong> Thank you so much for your time and consideration. I pray the material you are about to explore will prove to be a blessing to you personally as a member of the Body of Christ, but also as a ministry to a world full of lost, hurting, and rejected people. LGBT people have a God ordained place in the Body of Christ. Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit have all confirmed it is so. But tradition has set the Word of God aside, deprived it of authority, and made the Word of God inoperable…at least until now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><u>And they shall be Mine, says the Lord of hosts, in that day when I publicly recognize and openly declare them to be My jewels (My special possession, My peculiar treasure). And I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.</u></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The writing of the "Book of Remembrance" has begun, Brother Jim</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, and I just know by the Spirit that you and Focus On The Family will be included in it. I pray your ministry will eventually be called to Focus On The <strong>WHOLE</strong> Family in order to include members of the family of faith who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, and who are members of every family--in every nation--and in every religion; family members whom God Himself declares to be His sons and daughters (Isaiah 55:11-56:12), and whom Jesus Himself taught are part of God's Divinely Created Order, and declared as being in full compliance with the Natural Law set up by Him, not orthodox traditions within the Christian faith (Matthew 19:11-12). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The only question is when that new focus will begin. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to make sure it's sooner, rather than later!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God bless you, Brother! I hope to hear from you or a contact in your ministry soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">God loves you! I love you! And remember: <strong>JESUS IS LORD!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>PS:</strong> I encourage Church leaders and ministers to read this manuscript in reverse order, beginning with the last chapter first (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 21</strong></a>). It will provide incentive to continue studying, take readers back through to undo the traditional understandings of the subject, and end up where LGBT people are as defined by Scripture. For LGBT people, I encourage them to read it in the order in which it appears, beginning with our birth, and moving forward to the culmination of the Church Age as Jesus Christ cracks open the sky and catches away the Church!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>PPS:</strong> The easiest way to get started exploring may be to review <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/frequently-asked-questions.html" target="_blank"><strong>Frequently Asked Questions</strong></a> which addresses the most common traditional teachings regarding the issue of homosexuality, with convenient links that take you directly to the pertinent chapters of The Bed Keeper for complete and Scripture based responses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eagle Mountain International Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Holy Spirit distinctly and expressly declares </span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>that</strong><strong> in latter times </strong></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">some will turn away from the faith, </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">giving attention to deluding and seducing spirits</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and doctrines that demons teach,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through the hypocrisy and pretensions of liars</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> whose consciences are seared (cauterized),</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Who forbid people to marry</span> </strong> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear Dr. Chironna,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Greetings in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I am living in faith that you have already heard the good news I'm about to share with you herein, but I'm writing to you directly because I believe the undertaking that is about to take place in the Body of Christ can use an <strong>Prophetic</strong> touch. While I realize you may decline to personally lead this move in an active or public role, I believe it would be a travesty if the Body of Christ were denied access and power to your prophetic giftings that may well prove to be a "timeclock" of sorts as this new move of God progresses at this critical niche in Church (and human) history. While Brother Copeland often times provides the Body of Christ with prophetic utterance as the Holy Spirit moves, I believe your gift for further <strong>interpreting,</strong> <strong>discerning and applying</strong> will prove to be an equally vital prophetic resource that will aid in avoiding error from the many voices who will most assuredly begin speaking to this move; both falsely and correctly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My name is Brian Anthony Bowen, and I am the author of a forthcoming book entitled, “The Bed Keeper,” which I believe will launch your ministry into a new phase, and the Body of Christ into a new day! I write today to refer you to the message Pastor George Pearsons shared with his congregation at Eagle Mountain International Church on November 6, 2011, entitled: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.emic.org/media/index.php?id=909" target="_blank">Hearts Wide Open: The Touch of Compassion, Part 5</a></strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Also, please consider Brother Kenneth Copeland's prophetic utterance regarding our place in the Kingdom of God from November 11, 2011, (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kkb94XRFhc&feature=share" target="_blank"><strong>available from YouTube</strong></a>) which seems to confirm by the Power of the Holy Spirit, what I am about to share with you in this letter. Y</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ou can review the transcript to Brother Copeland's prophetic utterance <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/111111-prophetic-utterance-from-brother.html" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>.</strong> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Please consider also Sister Billye Brim's teaching from her series, <a href="http://www.billyebrim.org/products/daniel-cd-set" target="_blank"><strong>"Daniel"</strong></a> wherein she (along with Pastors George and Terri Pearsons) reveal to Eagle Mountain International Church a prophecy uttered by God through Brother Justus Du Plessis regarding this new move of God way back in August 1996, and my interpretation of its meaning <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/eagle-mountain-justus-du-plessis.html" target="_blank"><strong>here.</strong></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Please also review other pertinent open letters to:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong>The World Wide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-eagle-mountain-intl.html" target="_blank"><strong>Eagle Mountain International Church</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-kenneth-copeland.html" target="_blank"><strong>Kenneth Copeland Ministries</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-joel-osteen-and-lakewood.html" target="_blank"><strong>Joel Osteen and Lakewood Church</strong></a></span><br />
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<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-all-christians.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Open Letter to All Christians</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you may know by now, on November 1, 2011, I was invited by Brother Tim Clinton</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( @zoneradiolive on Twitter ), to participate in a discussion on TheZoneRadioShow.org (Cleveland, Ohio) with Pastor Dr. Darrell Scott, Senior Pastor of New Spirit Revival Center </span><a href="http://www.nsrcministries.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>www.nsrcministries.org</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and Pastor Jathan K. Austin ( @PastorJKA on Twitter ),<cite><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></cite>regarding new revelation from God’s Word on the issue that has most divided the church over the centuries, and how we can at last bridge the gap between the sides and come into a new understanding of what God’s Word does (and doesn’t say) about homosexuality and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people (yes, there is a difference)….and at long last, give them incentive to come to church, and give the church incentive to invite us….all based strictly on God’s Word….but in a way none of us most likely expected to happen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please explore this final draft of <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>The Bed Keeper</strong></a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What you will find is a collection of revelations from Scripture pertaining not only to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, but also how we interact prophetically in cooperation with the Body of Christ to prepare the Bride of Christ for His return, and how God has assigned us specific tasks within the church; most notably, the task of bringing our offerings to His altar, and how the traditional teachings of Christianity on this subject has inadvertently prevented our offerings from reaching God's altar. In the process of reading this material, you'll learn how Shepherds have inadvertently "robbed the tithes from God," by preventing LGBT people from coming to Church to include ours on His altar as well. Further, this has also prevented the manifestation of the Glory of the Lord to the extent witnessed and testified to in 2 Chronicles 7, when the fire fell from heaven and consumed the offerings on the altar, and the Glory of the Lord filled the temple. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since first beginning to receive this revelation from Scripture nearly 7 years ago, this message has continued to grow and mature to the point it is today, as Scripture has testified to Scripture, and 2 or 3 witnesses from Scripture have been revealed that verify each word I share in The Bed Keeper. This has resulted in the book being rather wordy, but at least it doesn’t leave any room for doubt, though there will always be room for some amount of disagreement, especially when first examining the evidence, even though it comes directly from Scripture itself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I watched <a href="http://www.emic.org/media/index.php?id=909" target="_blank"><strong>Pastor George’s sermon</strong></a>, I couldn’t help but feel that (whether in the Spirit or in the natural), he already knew that on November 1, 2011, something new had happened in the Church, and that the Body of Christ will never be the same. Perhaps I’m mistaken, but as he spoke of his Church’s outreach to people in the community whom most had not come in contact with or fellowshipped with much before, I couldn’t help but sense that he was speaking of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community; many of whom are already Christians in search of a church to call home, where Scripture means what it says…and doesn’t mean what it doesn’t say. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pastor George seemed to indicate that not only would folks like us be coming to Eagle Mountain International Church, but that they would be training up ministers to assist in this new ingathering as the prayers for the Great Awakening appear to have awakened even those people that most members of the Body of Christ had written off as prodigals many centuries ago. I hope your ministry is part of this process as well, and encourage you to contact Pastor George to confirm your support of this new endeavor!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is also my sincere hope that your ministry team will stand in prayer for this work of God in the Church today. I am praying that The Bed Keeper helps you and your ministry team to have as complete a revelation from God’s Word as is humanly possible, in order to dispel the myths traditional Christianity has held as truth in times past, but also in order to help the Church position herself in a place where she is at last the Glorious Church, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. It just so happens as you’ll see from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank">Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</a></b>, that until LGBT people are affirmed in faith bodies all over the world, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>also contributing our offerings on His altar</u></b>, Jesus is prophetically prevented from returning to the earth until all prophecies are fulfilled (in accordance with Luke 24:44), including God’s Own prophecy to eunuchs in Isaiah 55:11-56:12 (whom Jesus teaches includes eunuchs born so from our mother’s womb in Matthew 19:11-12), whom you and I today refer to as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: Arial;">t is my hope that as you address the question in public venues or in your congregation, that you will first take the time to study these findings from The Bed Keeper, and become more intimately acquainted with what the differences are between <strong>"homosexuality"</strong> and <strong>"homosexual people"</strong> and <strong>"homosexual acts engaged in by heterosexual married men,"</strong> so that you can provide more thorough and Scripturally accurate responses that not only avoids condemning all gay people out of hand, but at the same time, address all the <strong><u>heterosexual men engaged in cheating on their wives with other men</u></strong>, who currently get off scott free as the Church has traditionally only scapegoated gay people, without ever considering that both Scripture (and life itself) portray a very different reality; a reality that once confronted, may indeed prove to be the <strong><u>cure for HIV/AIDS</u></strong> as homosexual and heterosexual mixing comes to an end. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19: Go and Sin No More</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Currently, new infection rates of HIV/AIDS occur in the World Health Organization's <strong>MSM</strong> category (men who have sex with men, <u><strong>regardless of their identified sexuality</strong></u>). The second highest new infection rate is among women (particularly women of color) who contract the disease from <strong><u>heterosexual</u></strong> partners. As the Church focuses its energy (and blame) on gay men, it would seem that these types of transmissions are impossible without the <u><strong>intermingling of</strong> </u><strong><u>heterosexual men having relations with both women AND gay men</u>.</strong> Ignoring this not only fails to address the situation as honestly as Scripture itself does, but also provides these heterosexual men with immunity from scrutiny (and correction) from the Church, and prevents LGBT people from coming to your congregation as the safe space for worship it claims to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>"Safe Space"</strong> can no longer mean "you're welcome to come to church if you're gay and bring your offerings." No, from this day forward, <strong>"Safe Space" can only be truly defined as "you're welcome to come to church if you're gay and bring your offerings because we see that Scripture does not condemn gay people themselves, but rather <u>heterosexual married men engaging in adultery</u>."</strong> After all Pastor, that's what the Bible actually says, and your unawareness of that fact will no longer provide you immunity from criticism and correction from the LGBT community, nor from judgment upon your entire congregation from God Himself:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>My people are destroyed for <u>lack of knowledge;</u> because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you that <u>you shall be no priest to Me</u>; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.</strong> Hosea 4:6</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Ignorance</strong> to God's Word never <strong>changes</strong> God's Word, and He will hold blind shepherds to account, just as He said He would in Isaiah 56:10-12, 1 Corinthians 5-7, Malachi 2-3, and various other passages of Scripture. The Body of Christ can no longer afford to keep its head buried in the sand on this issue if we truly want to prepare the Church for the return of Jesus Christ! Every Christian who ever lived and died before us and our own personal resurrections are on the line! God didn't just send Jesus to save us from eternal torment, but to raise us to eternal life. That will not happen without the Return of Christ, and He cannot return until all prophecies are fulfilled (Luke 24:44), and that includes Isaiah 55:11-56:12. See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Simply saying "homosexuality is sin" condemns all gay people (many of whom do not even have sexual relations of any kind), while <strong><u>at the same time ignoring the heterosexual married men who are actually engaged in the exact form of adultery that is actually being addressed specifically throughout Scripture.</u></strong> Of course they are also the ones who bring the tithes to the church (since most gay people have felt excluded by such public messages from the Church), and so it can take a brave Shepherd like Pastor George to shed light on this fact, and I hope you'll follow his leadership at Mark Chironna Ministries. In short, homosexuality has been elevated to an 11th Commandment status, and has replaced God's Own Commandment against <strong>heterosexual adultery.</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Doing so is to judge God's Own Law. But of course, I understand that is what traditional Christianity has always taught, and that traditions of men have long ago blind sided many shepherds to the distinctions I hope to convey to you--and indeed the entire Body of Christ--throughout The Bed Keeper. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Of equally disturbing concern is that each Sunday most Church leadership quotes <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=malachi%203:8-10&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong>Malachi 3:8-10</strong></a> to remind the congregation that <strong><em>"robbing the tithe from God prevents the windows from heaven opening and prevents God from being able to pour out a blessing over our lives"</em></strong> in an effort to unScripturally goad them into giving 10% of their income, rather than the amount they have purposed in their hearts as Paul directs Christians in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20corinthians%209:6-10&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong>2 Corinthians 9:6-10.</strong></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">However, if we more closely examine the Scripture referred to from Malachi, we see it actually begins in Malachi 2, not Malachi 3, and is addressed to priests themselves who are the ones robbing God of the tithes by preventing all the tithes from even reaching God's altar, because of messages from the Church that discourage LGBT people from coming to His House of Prayer for ALL people to include ours as well....as well as our parents, friends and families who have felt as equally shunned by the Church as we have been. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation of that aspect.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the other hand, we have LGBT people who have not only been Christians all their lives, but at the same time have felt sentenced to politely knock outside the Church door, instead of being affirmed according to God's Own Prophecy from Isaiah 55:11-56:12. Until that prophecy becomes fulfilled, according to Jesus in Luke 24:44, He is prophetically prevented from returning to the earth. It occurs to me that we can be as saved, sanctified and filled with the Holy Spirit as we want, but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>without the</u></b><u> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">return of Jesus Christ</b></u>, and our subsequent bodily resurrection, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>we will never attain the eternal life</u> </b>that He died to give us all. If we look carefully at John 3:16, we see that not only does Jesus save us from hell, but also raises us to eternal life with Him. As a Christian, I want both. There! I admit I’m a Christian for a rather selfish reason…but then again, aren’t we all?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> have already begun sharing this message on Twitter, and through the blog version of the book, more than 25,000 people in 82 countries have already taken a glimpse into the future of the Body of Christ, and seen that it is indeed good! I hope you’ll follow me on Twitter where I am known as @TheBedKeeper so that you can see how I envision parts of this message can best be communicated to the LGBT community, and in the meantime, that you will begin the process of praying with your partners (and prayer ministers the world over) on the best practices for revealing this message to the congregation at Mark Chironna Ministries as well as all your associate Shepherds and ministries in the Body of Christ, and come to lead them in the best way to reveal this message to members of their own flocks, and LGBT people in their own communities.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know this is a lot to take in, and I don’t expect that it will happen overnight. However, I will be sending this information to other leading ministries as well, with the expectation that God will eventually appoint me to work under a ministry that has demonstrated not only an understanding of the material, but also a commitment to continue to now share it with the rest of the Body of Christ. Pastor George’s sermon on November 6, 2011, the prophetic utterance God ministered through Brother Copeland on November 11, 2011, and Justus Du Plessis's prophetic utterance from August 1996, are so far the surest <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>signs</u></b> I have received from God that the preaching of the word I participated in on November 1, 2011 has already taken effect!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, I’m left only to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>wonder</u> </b>if your ministry is one that stands in prayer for this new revelation from God's Word and its successful implementation at Mark Chrionna Ministries and throughout the Body of Christ, and provide us all with an opportunity for this message to be revealed from within the Church outward, rather than be forced to reveal this message to the masses and hope the church catches up, and thereby sacrifice the last remaining shreds of Scriptural and moral authority the Church seems to have in the earth today, (and quite possibly push LGBT people even further away as their suspicions of the church’s errors are proven correct). Their reaction to the message will be dependant solely on the way the Church handles this; either as an “Angels and Demons” type expose’ from someone outside the Church, or as a responsible Body of Believers who are open enough to correction to right the ship ourselves, just as we did concerning the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, women, slavery, prosperity, health, and indeed the Protestant Reformation itself. Throughout the process, prayer will be the power that binds us in united purpose as we see prophecy begin to unfold in front of our very eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is my intent to publish this book on February 1, 2012 unless a strong ministry steps forward that is willing to lead this message from within the Church instead, because this isn’t just about the American Christian Church. God has placed LGBT people in every nation, every city, every race, every family, and every RELIGION (and denominations therein)! I sincerely believe as Christianity opens the path to God for Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Pagan, Wiccan, Universalist, Mormon, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Black Israelite, and even Atheist and Agnostic gay people, He will use LGBT people themselves to spread the Word amongst ourselves, cross every religious dividing line, and invite them into the Christian fold. See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 21: GAZA: Holy Land for Gays</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation of this vision.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s a big job, and we need a big ministry to pull it off. But no ministry can do it alone, and no ministry can succeed without a powerful force of intercessory prayers pleading on God's behalf for His Will to be done in the earth, and for His Word to go forth and accomplish that which He pleases and purposes, so it will indeed PROSPER in the thing for which He sent it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew 19:11-12 </b>Jesus proves we are born gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 1</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Isaiah 55:11-56:12 </b>God demands LGBT people be included and affirmed in church (and demands our offerings be included on His altar) before Jesus can return. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 1</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-3-for-sake-of-kingdom-of-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 3</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 Timothy 4:1-3 </b>The Holy Spirit warns that in the latter times, some Christians would fall away from the faith, having been seduced by doctrines demons teach, through the hypocrisy and pretense of liars whose consciences have been seared, who “forbid people to marry.” At no other time in human history has all elements contained in this particular prophecy been fulfilled as we see today right before our very eyes. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 2</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-17-forbid-to-marry.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 17</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2 Kings 9:29-37 </b>and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Esther 1:1-22</b> Read as analogies of LGBT people delivering a message from the King to the Bride of Christ, urging her to come to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and what happens if She refuses (Queen Jezebel and Queen Vashti), and what happens if She accepts. (Queen Esther) (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 Corinthians 6:9-12 </b>condemns preachers whoring the church for money (and for keeping boys on the side) in part of a lengthy letter that begins in 1 Corinthians 5:1 and goes all the way through till 1 Corinthians 7:40, even as Paul ordains single gender matrimony in the very same letter in 1 Corinthians 7:8-9 (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 2</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other various chapters of The Bed Keeper are geared toward helping LGBT people understand Christian principles such as the New Covenant (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-5-covenant-promises.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 5</strong></a>), Keeping the Sabbath and Understanding the Significance of Pentecost (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-6-lord-of-sabbath.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 6</strong></a>), Baptism of the Holy Spirit (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-7-baptism-by-fire.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 7</strong></a>), Bearing Fruit for God (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-8-spiritual-leadership.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 8</strong></a>), FAITH (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/well-recall-from-chapter-5-of-bed_4258.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 9</strong></a>), Creation and Evolution (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-11-big-bang-theory.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 11</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-12-my-brothers-keeper.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 12</strong></a>) the Significance of the Rainbow Flag and God’s Rainbow Covenant (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-13-rainbow-covenant.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 13</strong></a>), the Destruction of Sodom (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-14-men-of-sodom.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 14</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-15-entertaining-angels.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 15</strong></a>), and understanding the difference between homosexual expressions committed by heterosexual men, and being homosexual, and the importance of keeping the marriage bed (even a gay marriage bed) undefiled (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19</strong></a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been my intent to not only reveal the message from God’s Word to the churches regarding LGBT people being affirmed in every church and bringing their offerings to God’s altar in order for Jesus to return, but also to train up LGBT believers in the very basic principles of the faith as I have learned from Pastor Joel and Victoria Osteen, Brother Kenneth and Sister Gloria Copeland, Pastors George and Terri Pearsons, Sister Billye Brim, Joyce Meyer, as well as many others in the Charismatic move of God. I pray you will especially lift these leaders up in prayer as they take those first brave steps into the future of the Body of Christ.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also wanted to help you understand my motivation. I do not see myself becoming a preacher. I think my time is better spent staying at home, staying in the Word, praying, and simply sharing my findings as the Holy Spirit continues to lead me through Scripture. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I believe I am called to teach, not preach. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I am at a point where I believe the message is mature enough to be iron clad (Scripturally speaking) and I know in my spirit there is much more that will “hook up” to it as I move forward. My hope for now is that you can simply begin helping the church get prayed up, and that I can hopefully be assigned a contact within your ministry that provides a conduit from me to you without having to go public with everything just to get the Church’s attention, or without having to disturb your own anointing every time I get something new. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know that I can’t be in all places and all churches at one time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not able to do a lot of travel or speaking engagements or book signings, although I am willing to make myself available for occasional person-to-person visits here in Houston to discuss various points, if absolutely necessary. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully most questions, comments and concerns can be addressed via email, where nobody can interrupt each other, and a written train of thought can be assembled and referred back to for all to consider as time moves on and the message continues to “gel.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am open to correction, and alternate interpretations of the findings I’ve shared herein, and hope to (if nothing else) at least catch any serious doctrinal errors PRIOR to publishing. But in 7 years of study and sharing aspects of this message with other pastors and lay people in online venues, I have yet to come across any that either don’t ignore certain passages of Scripture, or contradict others. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many have proven that it’s easy to simply disagree with the message. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None thus far have been able to provide Scripturally sound alternate interpretations. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps you can put your best in-house theologians on this and begin a respectful dialogue between as many parties as are necessary in an online private venue, such as an intranet or private message board, where people can contribute as time permits</span>, and encourage your pray-ers to keep these revelations and this new move of God mentioned in their prayers. I don’t really know how God is going to reveal this message to the masses. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only can share how I<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> prefer</b> He does so, and what I am willing to do to make it happen in a way that keeps it (to a large extent) “private church business” until such time all parties are comfortable with rolling it out to pastors’ conferences, and eventually the world wide Christian church. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One can put 1,000 to flight, 2 can put 10,000 to flight….and we NEED thousands of pastors sharing the message at about the same time, in order to foil Satan’s plot to keep these findings shrouded in misguided fear and homophobia to prevent the fulfillment of Isaiah 55:11-56:12, and prevent the return of Jesus Christ for as long as he can. Overcoming the enemy's plots against these revelations is of utmost importance, and as a partner of Prayer Mountain, I hope you share their mission to "pray in the plans of God, and to thwart the plans of the enemy against them."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This isn’t just another book about how the church is wrong, or what Scriptures LGBT people can feel free to ignore. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, this is a forensic look at Scripture <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">AS IS</b>, as we allow it to help us all come to a more nuanced and detailed understanding of the insights, ideas and concepts contained therein as pertains to the return of Jesus Christ, and the role LGBT people play in that Great Day. What I have found time and again is that the church has indeed not been “inaccurate” about many of Her traditional teachings on the subject, but she has been “incomplete,” and has suffered from a lack of specificity (and honestly from the lack of perspective from serious students of God’s Word, who just happen to be gay as well). As I always tell my LGBT friends: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If there is anything I can do to help you reach an affirmative decision, or anything I can unite with you in prayer over, please feel free to contact me via Twitter @TheBedKeeper, or through email at </span><a href="mailto:thebedkeeper@gmail.com"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>thebedkeeper@gmail.com</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>.</strong> Thank you so much for your time and consideration. I pray the material you are about to explore will prove to be a blessing to you personally as a member of the Body of Christ, but also as a ministry to a world full of lost, hurting, and rejected people. LGBT people have a God ordained place in the Body of Christ. Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit have all confirmed it is so. But tradition has set the Word of God aside, deprived it of authority, and made the Word of God inoperable…at least until now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Then those who feared the Lord talked often one to another; and the Lord listened and heard it, and a <u>book of remembrance</u> was written before Him of those who reverenced and worshipfully feared the Lord and who thought on His name. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Then shall you return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who does not serve Him. </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malachi 3:16-18</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The writing of the "Book of Remembrance" has begun, Pastor</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, and I just know by the Spirit that Mark Chrionna Ministries will be included in it! The only question is when. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to make sure it's sooner, rather than later!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God bless you, Doctor! I hope to hear from you or a contact in your ministry soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">God loves you! I love you! And remember: <strong>JESUS IS LORD!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>PS:</strong> I encourage Church leaders and ministers to read this manuscript in reverse order, beginning with the last chapter first (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 21</strong></a>). It will provide incentive to continue studying, take readers back through to undo the traditional understandings of the subject, and end up where LGBT people are as defined by Scripture. For LGBT people, I encourage them to read it in the order in which it appears, beginning with our birth, and moving forward to the culmination of the Church Age as Jesus Christ cracks open the sky and catches away the Church!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See ya there! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>PPS:</strong> The easiest way to get started exploring may be to review <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/frequently-asked-questions.html" target="_blank"><strong>Frequently Asked Questions</strong></a> which addresses the most common traditional teachings regarding the issue of homosexuality, with convenient links that take you directly to the pertinent chapters of The Bed Keeper for complete and Scripture based responses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lakewood Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/lakewood-church-endorsed-as-safe-space.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eagle Mountain International Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this video, Brian Anthony Bowen reveals Scriptures the Church never talks about which prove that Jesus taught that LGBT people are born this way...and that prove the Apostle Paul ordained Gay Marriage...IN THE BIBLE!<br /><br />This changes EVERYTHING!<br />More info: </span><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://brianbowenministries.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://BrianBowenMinistries.com"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://BrianBowenMinistries.com</span></a><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Holy Spirit distinctly and expressly declares </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">some will turn away from the faith, </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">giving attention to deluding and seducing spirits</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and doctrines that demons teach,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through the hypocrisy and pretensions of liars</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> whose consciences are seared (cauterized),</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Who forbid people to marry</span> </strong> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear Pastor Savelle,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Greetings in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As an associate ministry with Kenneth Copeland Ministries, I am living in faith that you have already heard the good news I'm about to share with you herein, but I'm writing to you directly because I believe the undertaking that is about to take place in the Body of Christ can use an <strong>Prayerful</strong> touch. While I realize you may decline to personally lead this move in an active or public role, I believe it would be a travesty if the Body of Christ were denied access and power to your revelations from God's Word concerning Prayer Petitions at this critical niche in Church (and human) history.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My name is Brian Anthony Bowen, and I am the author of a forthcoming book entitled, “The Bed Keeper,” which I believe will launch your ministry into a new phase, and the Body of Christ into a new day! I write today to refer you to the message Pastor George Pearsons shared with his congregation at Eagle Mountain International Church on November 6, 2011, entitled: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.emic.org/media/index.php?id=909" target="_blank">Hearts Wide Open: The Touch of Compassion, Part 5</a></strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Also, please consider Brother Kenneth Copeland's prophetic utterance regarding our place in the Kingdom of God from November 11, 2011, (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kkb94XRFhc&feature=share" target="_blank"><strong>available from YouTube</strong></a>) which seems to confirm by the Power of the Holy Spirit, what I am about to share with you in this letter. Y</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ou can review the transcript to Brother Copeland's prophetic utterance <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/111111-prophetic-utterance-from-brother.html" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>.</strong> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Please consider also Sister Billye Brim's teaching from her series, <a href="http://www.billyebrim.org/products/daniel-cd-set" target="_blank"><strong>"Daniel"</strong></a> wherein she (along with Pastors George and Terri Pearsons) reveal to Eagle Mountain International Church a prophecy uttered by God through Brother Justus Du Plessis regarding this new move of God way back in August 1996, and my interpretation of its meaning <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/eagle-mountain-justus-du-plessis.html" target="_blank"><strong>here.</strong></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Please also review other pertinent open letters to:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong>The World Wide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-eagle-mountain-intl.html" target="_blank"><strong>Eagle Mountain International Church</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-kenneth-copeland.html" target="_blank"><strong>Kenneth Copeland Ministries</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-joel-osteen-and-lakewood.html" target="_blank"><strong>Joel Osteen and Lakewood Church</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-all-christians.html" target="_blank"><strong>Open Letter to All Christians</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you may know by now, on November 1, 2011, I was invited by Brother Tim Clinton</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( @zoneradiolive on Twitter ), to participate in a discussion on TheZoneRadioShow.org (Cleveland, Ohio) with Pastor Dr. Darrell Scott, Senior Pastor of New Spirit Revival Center </span><a href="http://www.nsrcministries.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>www.nsrcministries.org</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and Pastor Jathan K. Austin ( @PastorJKA on Twitter ),<cite><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></cite>regarding new revelation from God’s Word on the issue that has most divided the church over the centuries, and how we can at last bridge the gap between the sides and come into a new understanding of what God’s Word does (and doesn’t say) about homosexuality and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people (yes, there is a difference)….and at long last, give them incentive to come to church, and give the church incentive to invite us….all based strictly on God’s Word….but in a way none of us most likely expected to happen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please explore this final draft of <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>The Bed Keeper</strong></a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What you will find is a collection of revelations from Scripture pertaining not only to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, but also how we interact prophetically in cooperation with the Body of Christ to prepare the Bride of Christ for His return, and how God has assigned us specific tasks within the church; most notably, the task of bringing our offerings to His altar, and how the traditional teachings of Christianity on this subject has inadvertently prevented our offerings from reaching God's altar. In the process of reading this material, you'll learn how Shepherds have inadvertently "robbed the tithes from God," by preventing LGBT people from coming to Church to include ours on His altar as well. Further, this has also prevented the manifestation of the Glory of the Lord to the extent witnessed and testified to in 2 Chronicles 7, when the fire fell from heaven and consumed the offerings on the altar, and the Glory of the Lord filled the temple. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since first beginning to receive this revelation from Scripture nearly 7 years ago, this message has continued to grow and mature to the point it is today, as Scripture has testified to Scripture, and 2 or 3 witnesses from Scripture have been revealed that verify each word I share in The Bed Keeper. This has resulted in the book being rather wordy, but at least it doesn’t leave any room for doubt, though there will always be room for some amount of disagreement, especially when first examining the evidence, even though it comes directly from Scripture itself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I watched <a href="http://www.emic.org/media/index.php?id=909" target="_blank"><strong>Pastor George’s sermon</strong></a>, I couldn’t help but feel that (whether in the Spirit or in the natural), he already knew that on November 1, 2011, something new had happened in the Church, and that the Body of Christ will never be the same. Perhaps I’m mistaken, but as he spoke of his Church’s outreach to people in the community whom most had not come in contact with or fellowshipped with much before, I couldn’t help but sense that he was speaking of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community; many of whom are already Christians in search of a church to call home, where Scripture means what it says…and doesn’t mean what it doesn’t say. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pastor George seemed to indicate that not only would folks like us be coming to Eagle Mountain International Church, but that they would be training up ministers to assist in this new ingathering as the prayers for the Great Awakening appear to have awakened even those people that most members of the Body of Christ had written off as prodigals many centuries ago. I hope your ministry is part of this process as well, and encourage you to contact Pastor George to confirm your support of this new endeavor!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is also my sincere hope that your ministry team will stand in prayer for this work of God in the Church today. I am praying that The Bed Keeper helps you and your ministry team to have as complete a revelation from God’s Word as is humanly possible, in order to dispel the myths traditional Christianity has held as truth in times past, but also in order to help the Church position herself in a place where she is at last the Glorious Church, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. It just so happens as you’ll see from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank">Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</a></b>, that until LGBT people are affirmed in faith bodies all over the world, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>also contributing our offerings on His altar</u></b>, Jesus is prophetically prevented from returning to the earth until all prophecies are fulfilled (in accordance with Luke 24:44), including God’s Own prophecy to eunuchs in Isaiah 55:11-56:12 (whom Jesus teaches includes eunuchs born so from our mother’s womb in Matthew 19:11-12), whom you and I today refer to as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: Arial;">t is my hope that as you address the question in public venues or in your congregation, that you will first take the time to study these findings from The Bed Keeper, and become more intimately acquainted with what the differences are between <strong>"homosexuality"</strong> and <strong>"homosexual people"</strong> and <strong>"homosexual acts engaged in by heterosexual married men,"</strong> so that you can provide more thorough and Scripturally accurate responses that not only avoids condemning all gay people out of hand, but at the same time, address all the <strong><u>heterosexual men engaged in cheating on their wives with other men</u></strong>, who currently get off scott free as the Church has traditionally only scapegoated gay people, without ever considering that both Scripture (and life itself) portray a very different reality; a reality that once confronted, may indeed prove to be the <strong><u>cure for HIV/AIDS</u></strong> as homosexual and heterosexual mixing comes to an end. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19: Go and Sin No More</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Currently, new infection rates of HIV/AIDS occur in the World Health Organization's <strong>MSM</strong> category (men who have sex with men, <u><strong>regardless of their identified sexuality</strong></u>). The second highest new infection rate is among women (particularly women of color) who contract the disease from <strong><u>heterosexual</u></strong> partners. As the Church focuses its energy (and blame) on gay men, it would seem that these types of transmissions are impossible without the <u><strong>intermingling of</strong> </u><strong><u>heterosexual men having relations with both women AND gay men</u>.</strong> Ignoring this not only fails to address the situation as honestly as Scripture itself does, but also provides these heterosexual men with immunity from scrutiny (and correction) from the Church, and prevents LGBT people from coming to your congregation as the safe space for worship it claims to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>"Safe Space"</strong> can no longer mean "you're welcome to come to church if you're gay and bring your offerings." No, from this day forward, <strong>"Safe Space" can only be truly defined as "you're welcome to come to church if you're gay and bring your offerings because we see that Scripture does not condemn gay people themselves, but rather <u>heterosexual married men engaging in adultery</u>."</strong> After all Pastor, that's what the Bible actually says, and your unawareness of that fact will no longer provide you immunity from criticism and correction from the LGBT community, nor from judgment upon your entire congregation from God Himself:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>My people are destroyed for <u>lack of knowledge;</u> because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you that <u>you shall be no priest to Me</u>; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.</strong> Hosea 4:6</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Ignorance</strong> to God's Word never <strong>changes</strong> God's Word, and He will hold blind shepherds to account, just as He said He would in Isaiah 56:10-12, 1 Corinthians 5-7, Malachi 2-3, and various other passages of Scripture. The Body of Christ can no longer afford to keep its head buried in the sand on this issue if we truly want to prepare the Church for the return of Jesus Christ! Every Christian who ever lived and died before us and our own personal resurrections are on the line! God didn't just send Jesus to save us from eternal torment, but to raise us to eternal life. That will not happen without the Return of Christ, and He cannot return until all prophecies are fulfilled (Luke 24:44), and that includes Isaiah 55:11-56:12. See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Simply saying "homosexuality is sin" condemns all gay people (many of whom do not even have sexual relations of any kind), while <strong><u>at the same time ignoring the heterosexual married men who are actually engaged in the exact form of adultery that is actually being addressed specifically throughout Scripture.</u></strong> Of course they are also the ones who bring the tithes to the church (since most gay people have felt excluded by such public messages from the Church), and so it can take a brave Shepherd like Pastor George to shed light on this fact, and I hope you'll follow his leadership at JSMI. In short, homosexuality has been elevated to an 11th Commandment status, and has replaced God's Own Commandment against <strong>heterosexual adultery.</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Doing so is to judge God's Own Law. But of course, I understand that is what traditional Christianity has always taught, and that traditions of men have long ago blind sided many shepherds to the distinctions I hope to convey to you--and indeed the entire Body of Christ--throughout The Bed Keeper. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Of equally disturbing concern is that each Sunday most Church leadership quotes <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=malachi%203:8-10&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong>Malachi 3:8-10</strong></a> to remind the congregation that <strong><em>"robbing the tithe from God prevents the windows from heaven opening and prevents God from being able to pour out a blessing over our lives"</em></strong> in an effort to unScripturally goad them into giving 10% of their income, rather than the amount they have purposed in their hearts as Paul directs Christians in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20corinthians%209:6-10&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong>2 Corinthians 9:6-10.</strong></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">However, if we more closely examine the Scripture referred to from Malachi, we see it actually begins in Malachi 2, not Malachi 3, and is addressed to priests themselves who are the ones robbing God of the tithes by preventing all the tithes from even reaching God's altar, because of messages from the Church that discourage LGBT people from coming to His House of Prayer for ALL people to include ours as well....as well as our parents, friends and families who have felt as equally shunned by the Church as we have been. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation of that aspect.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the other hand, we have LGBT people who have not only been Christians all their lives, but at the same time have felt sentenced to politely knock outside the Church door, instead of being affirmed according to God's Own Prophecy from Isaiah 55:11-56:12. Until that prophecy becomes fulfilled, according to Jesus in Luke 24:44, He is prophetically prevented from returning to the earth. It occurs to me that we can be as saved, sanctified and filled with the Holy Spirit as we want, but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>without the</u></b><u> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">return of Jesus Christ</b></u>, and our subsequent bodily resurrection, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>we will never attain the eternal life</u> </b>that He died to give us all. If we look carefully at John 3:16, we see that not only does Jesus save us from hell, but also raises us to eternal life with Him. As a Christian, I want both. There! I admit I’m a Christian for a rather selfish reason…but then again, aren’t we all?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> have already begun sharing this message on Twitter, and through the blog version of the book, more than 25,000 people in 82 countries have already taken a glimpse into the future of the Body of Christ, and seen that it is indeed good! I hope you’ll follow me on Twitter where I am known as @TheBedKeeper so that you can see how I envision parts of this message can best be communicated to the LGBT community, and in the meantime, that you will begin the process of praying with your partners (and prayer ministers the world over) on the best practices for revealing this message to the congregation at JSMI as well as all your associate Shepherds and ministries in the Body of Christ, and come to lead them in the best way to reveal this message to members of their own flocks, and LGBT people in their own communities.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know this is a lot to take in, and I don’t expect that it will happen overnight. However, I will be sending this information to other leading ministries as well, with the expectation that God will eventually appoint me to work under a ministry that has demonstrated not only an understanding of the material, but also a commitment to continue to now share it with the rest of the Body of Christ. Pastor George’s sermon on November 6, 2011, the prophetic utterance God ministered through Brother Copeland on November 11, 2011, and Justus Du Plessis's prophetic utterance from August 1996, are so far the surest <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>signs</u></b> I have received from God that the preaching of the word I participated in on November 1, 2011 has already taken effect!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, I’m left only to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>wonder</u> </b>if your ministry is one that stands in prayer for this new revelation from God's Word and its successful implementation at JSMI and throughout the Body of Christ, and provide us all with an opportunity for this message to be revealed from within the Church outward, rather than be forced to reveal this message to the masses and hope the church catches up, and thereby sacrifice the last remaining shreds of Scriptural and moral authority the Church seems to have in the earth today, (and quite possibly push LGBT people even further away as their suspicions of the church’s errors are proven correct). Their reaction to the message will be dependant solely on the way the Church handles this; either as an “Angels and Demons” type expose’ from someone outside the Church, or as a responsible Body of Believers who are open enough to correction to right the ship ourselves, just as we did concerning the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, women, slavery, prosperity, health, and indeed the Protestant Reformation itself. Throughout the process, prayer will be the power that binds us in united purpose as we see prophecy begin to unfold in front of our very eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is my intent to publish this book on February 1, 2012 unless a strong ministry steps forward that is willing to lead this message from within the Church instead, because this isn’t just about the American Christian Church. God has placed LGBT people in every nation, every city, every race, every family, and every RELIGION (and denominations therein)! I sincerely believe as Christianity opens the path to God for Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Pagan, Wiccan, Universalist, Mormon, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Black Israelite, and even Atheist and Agnostic gay people, He will use LGBT people themselves to spread the Word amongst ourselves, cross every religious dividing line, and invite them into the Christian fold. See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 21: GAZA: Holy Land for Gays</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation of this vision.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s a big job, and we need a big ministry to pull it off. But no ministry can do it alone, and no ministry can succeed without a powerful force of intercessory prayers pleading on God's behalf for His Will to be done in the earth, and for His Word to go forth and accomplish that which He pleases and purposes, so it will indeed PROSPER in the thing for which He sent it.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Scriptures:</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew 19:11-12 </b>Jesus proves we are born gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 1</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Isaiah 55:11-56:12 </b>God demands LGBT people be included and affirmed in church (and demands our offerings be included on His altar) before Jesus can return. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 1</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-3-for-sake-of-kingdom-of-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 3</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2 Chronicles 7:1-3 </b>reads like a prophecy of what happens after our offerings get to God’s altar; the fire from heaven consumes the offerings, and the glory of the Lord fills the house (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Luke 24:44</b> Jesus confirms all prophecies must be fulfilled before He can return to the earth (See<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 Timothy 4:1-3 </b>The Holy Spirit warns that in the latter times, some Christians would fall away from the faith, having been seduced by doctrines demons teach, through the hypocrisy and pretense of liars whose consciences have been seared, who “forbid people to marry.” At no other time in human history has all elements contained in this particular prophecy been fulfilled as we see today right before our very eyes. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 2</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-17-forbid-to-marry.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 17</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2 Kings 9:29-37 </b>and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Esther 1:1-22</b> Read as analogies of LGBT people delivering a message from the King to the Bride of Christ, urging her to come to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and what happens if She refuses (Queen Jezebel and Queen Vashti), and what happens if She accepts. (Queen Esther) (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Romans 1</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Leviticus 18</b> both condemn heterosexual married men who cheated on their wives and/or worshipped idols, both of which are violations of the 10 Commandments. These passages also help us see the importance of not mixing heterosexual and homosexual interactions, and could quite possibly be the cure for HIV/AIDS. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-16-leviticus.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 16</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-18-romans.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 18</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 Corinthians 6:9-12 </b>condemns preachers whoring the church for money (and for keeping boys on the side) in part of a lengthy letter that begins in 1 Corinthians 5:1 and goes all the way through till 1 Corinthians 7:40, even as Paul ordains single gender matrimony in the very same letter in 1 Corinthians 7:8-9 (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 2</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other various chapters of The Bed Keeper are geared toward helping LGBT people understand Christian principles such as the New Covenant (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-5-covenant-promises.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 5</strong></a>), Keeping the Sabbath and Understanding the Significance of Pentecost (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-6-lord-of-sabbath.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 6</strong></a>), Baptism of the Holy Spirit (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-7-baptism-by-fire.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 7</strong></a>), Bearing Fruit for God (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-8-spiritual-leadership.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 8</strong></a>), FAITH (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/well-recall-from-chapter-5-of-bed_4258.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 9</strong></a>), Creation and Evolution (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-11-big-bang-theory.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 11</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-12-my-brothers-keeper.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 12</strong></a>) the Significance of the Rainbow Flag and God’s Rainbow Covenant (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-13-rainbow-covenant.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 13</strong></a>), the Destruction of Sodom (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-14-men-of-sodom.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 14</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-15-entertaining-angels.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 15</strong></a>), and understanding the difference between homosexual expressions committed by heterosexual men, and being homosexual, and the importance of keeping the marriage bed (even a gay marriage bed) undefiled (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19</strong></a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been my intent to not only reveal the message from God’s Word to the churches regarding LGBT people being affirmed in every church and bringing their offerings to God’s altar in order for Jesus to return, but also to train up LGBT believers in the very basic principles of the faith as I have learned from Pastor Joel and Victoria Osteen, Brother Kenneth and Sister Gloria Copeland, Pastors George and Terri Pearsons, Sister Billye Brim, Joyce Meyer, as well as many others in the Charismatic move of God. I pray you will especially lift these leaders up in prayer as they take those first brave steps into the future of the Body of Christ.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also wanted to help you understand my motivation. I do not see myself becoming a preacher. I think my time is better spent staying at home, staying in the Word, praying, and simply sharing my findings as the Holy Spirit continues to lead me through Scripture. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I believe I am called to teach, not preach. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I am at a point where I believe the message is mature enough to be iron clad (Scripturally speaking) and I know in my spirit there is much more that will “hook up” to it as I move forward. My hope for now is that you can simply begin helping the church get prayed up, and that I can hopefully be assigned a contact within your ministry that provides a conduit from me to you without having to go public with everything just to get the Church’s attention, or without having to disturb your own anointing every time I get something new. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know that I can’t be in all places and all churches at one time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not able to do a lot of travel or speaking engagements or book signings, although I am willing to make myself available for occasional person-to-person visits here in Houston to discuss various points, if absolutely necessary. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully most questions, comments and concerns can be addressed via email, where nobody can interrupt each other, and a written train of thought can be assembled and referred back to for all to consider as time moves on and the message continues to “gel.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am open to correction, and alternate interpretations of the findings I’ve shared herein, and hope to (if nothing else) at least catch any serious doctrinal errors PRIOR to publishing. But in 7 years of study and sharing aspects of this message with other pastors and lay people in online venues, I have yet to come across any that either don’t ignore certain passages of Scripture, or contradict others. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many have proven that it’s easy to simply disagree with the message. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None thus far have been able to provide Scripturally sound alternate interpretations. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps you can put your best in-house theologians on this and begin a respectful dialogue between as many parties as are necessary in an online private venue, such as an intranet or private message board, where people can contribute as time permits</span>, and encourage your pray-ers to keep these revelations and this new move of God mentioned in their prayers. I don’t really know how God is going to reveal this message to the masses. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only can share how I<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> prefer</b> He does so, and what I am willing to do to make it happen in a way that keeps it (to a large extent) “private church business” until such time all parties are comfortable with rolling it out to pastors’ conferences, and eventually the world wide Christian church. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One can put 1,000 to flight, 2 can put 10,000 to flight….and we NEED thousands of pastors sharing the message at about the same time, in order to foil Satan’s plot to keep these findings shrouded in misguided fear and homophobia to prevent the fulfillment of Isaiah 55:11-56:12, and prevent the return of Jesus Christ for as long as he can. Overcoming the enemy's plots against these revelations is of utmost importance, and as a partner of Prayer Mountain, I hope you share their mission to "pray in the plans of God, and to thwart the plans of the enemy against them."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This isn’t just another book about how the church is wrong, or what Scriptures LGBT people can feel free to ignore. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, this is a forensic look at Scripture <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">AS IS</b>, as we allow it to help us all come to a more nuanced and detailed understanding of the insights, ideas and concepts contained therein as pertains to the return of Jesus Christ, and the role LGBT people play in that Great Day. What I have found time and again is that the church has indeed not been “inaccurate” about many of Her traditional teachings on the subject, but she has been “incomplete,” and has suffered from a lack of specificity (and honestly from the lack of perspective from serious students of God’s Word, who just happen to be gay as well). As I always tell my LGBT friends: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If there is anything I can do to help you reach an affirmative decision, or anything I can unite with you in prayer over, please feel free to contact me via Twitter @TheBedKeeper, or through email at </span><a href="mailto:thebedkeeper@gmail.com"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>thebedkeeper@gmail.com</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>.</strong> Thank you so much for your time and consideration. I pray the material you are about to explore will prove to be a blessing to you personally as a member of the Body of Christ, but also as a ministry to a world full of lost, hurting, and rejected people. LGBT people have a God ordained place in the Body of Christ. Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit have all confirmed it is so. But tradition has set the Word of God aside, deprived it of authority, and made the Word of God inoperable…at least until now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The writing of the "Book of Remembrance" has begun, Pastor</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, and I just know by the Spirit that JSMI will be included in it! The only question is when. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to make sure it's sooner, rather than later!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God bless you, Pastor! I hope to hear from you or a contact in your ministry soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">God loves you! I love you! And remember: <strong>JESUS IS LORD!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>PS:</strong> I encourage Church leaders and ministers to read this manuscript in reverse order, beginning with the last chapter first (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 21</strong></a>). It will provide incentive to continue studying, take readers back through to undo the traditional understandings of the subject, and end up where LGBT people are as defined by Scripture. For LGBT people, I encourage them to read it in the order in which it appears, beginning with our birth, and moving forward to the culmination of the Church Age as Jesus Christ cracks open the sky and catches away the Church!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See ya there! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>PPS:</strong> The easiest way to get started exploring may be to review <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/frequently-asked-questions.html" target="_blank"><strong>Frequently Asked Questions</strong></a> which addresses the most common traditional teachings regarding the issue of homosexuality, with convenient links that take you directly to the pertinent chapters of The Bed Keeper for complete and Scripture based responses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lakewood Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/lakewood-church-endorsed-as-safe-space.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eagle Mountain International Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this video, Brian Anthony Bowen reveals Scriptures the Church never talks about which prove that Jesus taught that LGBT people are born this way...and that prove the Apostle Paul ordained Gay Marriage...IN THE BIBLE!<br /><br />This changes EVERYTHING!<br />More info: </span><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://brianbowenministries.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://BrianBowenMinistries.com"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://BrianBowenMinistries.com</span></a><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Holy Spirit distinctly and expressly declares </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">some will turn away from the faith, </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">giving attention to deluding and seducing spirits</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and doctrines that demons teach,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through the hypocrisy and pretensions of liars</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> whose consciences are seared (cauterized),</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear Pastor Duplantis,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Greetings in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As an associate ministry with Kenneth Copeland Ministries, I am living in faith that you have already heard the good news I'm about to share with you herein, but I'm writing to you directly because I believe the undertaking that is about to take place in the Body of Christ can use a <strong>Covenant</strong> touch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My name is Brian Anthony Bowen, and I am the author of a forthcoming book entitled, “The Bed Keeper,” which I believe will launch your ministry into a new phase, and the Body of Christ into a new day! I write today to refer you to the message Pastor George Pearsons shared with his congregation at Eagle Mountain International Church on November 6, 2011, entitled: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.emic.org/media/index.php?id=909" target="_blank">Hearts Wide Open: The Touch of Compassion, Part 5</a></strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Also, please consider Brother Kenneth Copeland's prophetic utterance regarding our place in the Kingdom of God from November 11, 2011, (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kkb94XRFhc&feature=share" target="_blank"><strong>available from YouTube</strong></a>) which seems to confirm by the Power of the Holy Spirit, what I am about to share with you in this letter. Y</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ou can review the transcript to Brother Copeland's prophetic utterance <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/111111-prophetic-utterance-from-brother.html" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>.</strong> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Please also review other pertinent open letters to:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong>The World Wide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-eagle-mountain-intl.html" target="_blank"><strong>Eagle Mountain International Church</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-kenneth-copeland.html" target="_blank"><strong>Kenneth Copeland Ministries</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-joel-osteen-and-lakewood.html" target="_blank"><strong>Joel Osteen and Lakewood Church</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-all-christians.html" target="_blank"><strong>Open Letter to All Christians</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you may know by now, on November 1, 2011, I was invited by Brother Tim Clinton</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( @zoneradiolive on Twitter ), to participate in a discussion on TheZoneRadioShow.org (Cleveland, Ohio) with Pastor Dr. Darrell Scott, Senior Pastor of New Spirit Revival Center </span><a href="http://www.nsrcministries.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>www.nsrcministries.org</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and Pastor Jathan K. Austin ( @PastorJKA on Twitter ),<cite><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></cite>regarding new revelation from God’s Word on the issue that has most divided the church over the centuries, and how we can at last bridge the gap between the sides and come into a new understanding of what God’s Word does (and doesn’t say) about homosexuality and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people (yes, there is a difference)….and at long last, give them incentive to come to church, and give the church incentive to invite us….all based strictly on God’s Word….but in a way none of us most likely expected to happen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please explore this final draft of <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>The Bed Keeper</strong></a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What you will find is a collection of revelations from Scripture pertaining not only to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, but also how we interact prophetically in cooperation with the Body of Christ to prepare the Bride of Christ for His return, and how God has assigned us specific tasks within the church; most notably, the task of bringing our offerings to His altar, and how the traditional teachings of Christianity on this subject has inadvertently prevented our offerings from reaching God's altar. In the process of reading this material, you'll learn how Shepherds have inadvertently "robbed the tithes from God," by preventing LGBT people from coming to Church to include ours on His altar as well. Further, this has also prevented the manifestation of the Glory of the Lord to the extent witnessed and testified to in 2 Chronicles 7, when the fire fell from heaven and consumed the offerings on the altar, and the Glory of the Lord filled the temple. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since first beginning to receive this revelation from Scripture nearly 7 years ago, this message has continued to grow and mature to the point it is today, as Scripture has testified to Scripture, and 2 or 3 witnesses from Scripture have been revealed that verify each word I share in The Bed Keeper. This has resulted in the book being rather wordy, but at least it doesn’t leave any room for doubt, though there will always be room for some amount of disagreement, especially when first examining the evidence, even though it comes directly from Scripture itself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pastor George seemed to indicate that not only would folks like us be coming to Eagle Mountain International Church, but that they would be training up ministers to assist in this new ingathering as the prayers for the Great Awakening appear to have awakened even those people that most members of the Body of Christ had written off as prodigals many centuries ago. I hope your ministry is part of this process as well, and encourage you to contact Pastor George to confirm your support of this new endeavor!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is also my sincere hope that your ministry team will stand in prayer for this work of God in the Church today. I am praying that The Bed Keeper helps you and your ministry team to have as complete a revelation from God’s Word as is humanly possible, in order to dispel the myths traditional Christianity has held as truth in times past, but also in order to help the Church position herself in a place where she is at last the Glorious Church, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. It just so happens as you’ll see from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank">Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</a></b>, that until LGBT people are affirmed in faith bodies all over the world, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>also contributing our offerings on His altar</u></b>, Jesus is prophetically prevented from returning to the earth until all prophecies are fulfilled (in accordance with Luke 24:44), including God’s Own prophecy to eunuchs in Isaiah 55:11-56:12 (whom Jesus teaches includes eunuchs born so from our mother’s womb in Matthew 19:11-12), whom you and I today refer to as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: Arial;">t is my hope that as you address the question in public venues or in your congregation, that you will first take the time to study these findings from The Bed Keeper, and become more intimately acquainted with what the differences are between <strong>"homosexuality"</strong> and <strong>"homosexual people"</strong> and <strong>"homosexual acts engaged in by heterosexual married men,"</strong> so that you can provide more thorough and Scripturally accurate responses that not only avoids condemning all gay people out of hand, but at the same time, address all the <strong><u>heterosexual men engaged in cheating on their wives with other men</u></strong>, who currently get off scott free as the Church has traditionally only scapegoated gay people, without ever considering that both Scripture (and life itself) portray a very different reality; a reality that once confronted, may indeed prove to be the <strong><u>cure for HIV/AIDS</u></strong> as homosexual and heterosexual mixing comes to an end. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19: Go and Sin No More</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Currently, new infection rates of HIV/AIDS occur in the World Health Organization's <strong>MSM</strong> category (men who have sex with men, <u><strong>regardless of their identified sexuality</strong></u>). The second highest new infection rate is among women (particularly women of color) who contract the disease from <strong><u>heterosexual</u></strong> partners. As the Church focuses its energy (and blame) on gay men, it would seem that these types of transmissions are impossible without the <u><strong>intermingling of</strong> </u><strong><u>heterosexual men having relations with both women AND gay men</u>.</strong> Ignoring this not only fails to address the situation as honestly as Scripture itself does, but also provides these heterosexual men with immunity from scrutiny (and correction) from the Church, and prevents LGBT people from coming to your congregation as the safe space for worship it claims to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>"Safe Space"</strong> can no longer mean "you're welcome to come to church if you're gay and bring your offerings." No, from this day forward, <strong>"Safe Space" can only be truly defined as "you're welcome to come to church if you're gay and bring your offerings because we see that Scripture does not condemn gay people themselves, but rather <u>heterosexual married men engaging in adultery</u>."</strong> After all Pastor, that's what the Bible actually says, and your unawareness of that fact will no longer provide you immunity from criticism and correction from the LGBT community, nor from judgment upon your entire congregation from God Himself:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Ignorance</strong> to God's Word never <strong>changes</strong> God's Word, and He will hold blind shepherds to account, just as He said He would in Isaiah 56:10-12, 1 Corinthians 5-7, Malachi 2-3, and various other passages of Scripture. The Body of Christ can no longer afford to keep its head buried in the sand on this issue if we truly want to prepare the Church for the return of Jesus Christ! Every Christian who ever lived and died before us and our own personal resurrections are on the line! God didn't just send Jesus to save us from eternal torment, but to raise us to eternal life. That will not happen without the Return of Christ, and He cannot return until all prophecies are fulfilled (Luke 24:44), and that includes Isaiah 55:11-56:12. See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Simply saying "homosexuality is sin" condemns all gay people (many of whom do not even have sexual relations of any kind), while <strong><u>at the same time ignoring the heterosexual married men who are actually engaged in the exact form of adultery that is actually being addressed specifically throughout Scripture.</u></strong> Of course they are also the ones who bring the tithes to the church (since most gay people have felt excluded by such public messages from the Church), and so it can take a brave Shepherd like Pastor George to shed light on this fact, and I hope you'll follow his leadership at Covenant Church. In short, homosexuality has been elevated to an 11th Commandment status, and has replaced God's Own Commandment against <strong>heterosexual adultery.</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Doing so is to judge God's Own Law. But of course, I understand that is what traditional Christianity has always taught, and that traditions of men have long ago blind sided many shepherds to the distinctions I hope to convey to you--and indeed the entire Body of Christ--throughout The Bed Keeper. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Of equally disturbing concern is that each Sunday most Church leadership quotes <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=malachi%203:8-10&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong>Malachi 3:8-10</strong></a> to remind the congregation that <strong><em>"robbing the tithe from God prevents the windows from heaven opening and prevents God from being able to pour out a blessing over our lives"</em></strong> in an effort to unScripturally goad them into giving 10% of their income, rather than the amount they have purposed in their hearts as Paul directs Christians in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20corinthians%209:6-10&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong>2 Corinthians 9:6-10.</strong></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">However, if we more closely examine the Scripture referred to from Malachi, we see it actually begins in Malachi 2, not Malachi 3, and is addressed to priests themselves who are the ones robbing God of the tithes by preventing all the tithes from even reaching God's altar, because of messages from the Church that discourage LGBT people from coming to His House of Prayer for ALL people to include ours as well....as well as our parents, friends and families who have felt as equally shunned by the Church as we have been. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation of that aspect.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the other hand, we have LGBT people who have not only been Christians all their lives, but at the same time have felt sentenced to politely knock outside the Church door, instead of being affirmed according to God's Own Prophecy from Isaiah 55:11-56:12. Until that prophecy becomes fulfilled, according to Jesus in Luke 24:44, He is prophetically prevented from returning to the earth. It occurs to me that we can be as saved, sanctified and filled with the Holy Spirit as we want, but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>without the</u></b><u> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">return of Jesus Christ</b></u>, and our subsequent bodily resurrection, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>we will never attain the eternal life</u> </b>that He died to give us all. If we look carefully at John 3:16, we see that not only does Jesus save us from hell, but also raises us to eternal life with Him. As a Christian, I want both. There! I admit I’m a Christian for a rather selfish reason…but then again, aren’t we all?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> have already begun sharing this message on Twitter, and through the blog version of the book, more than 25,000 people in 82 countries have already taken a glimpse into the future of the Body of Christ, and seen that it is indeed good! I hope you’ll follow me on Twitter where I am known as @TheBedKeeper so that you can see how I envision parts of this message can best be communicated to the LGBT community, and in the meantime, that you will begin the process of praying with your partners (and prayer ministers the world over) on the best practices for revealing this message to the congregation at Covenant Church as well as all your associate Shepherds and ministries in the Body of Christ, and come to lead them in the best way to reveal this message to members of their own flocks, and LGBT people in their own communities.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know this is a lot to take in, and I don’t expect that it will happen overnight. However, I will be sending this information to other leading ministries as well, with the expectation that God will eventually appoint me to work under a ministry that has demonstrated not only an understanding of the material, but also a commitment to continue to now share it with the rest of the Body of Christ. Pastor George’s sermon on November 6, 2011, the prophetic utterance God ministered through Brother Copeland on November 11, 2011, and Justus Du Plessis's prophetic utterance from August 1996, are so far the surest <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>signs</u></b> I have received from God that the preaching of the word I participated in on November 1, 2011 has already taken effect!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, I’m left only to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>wonder</u> </b>if your ministry is one that stands in prayer for this new revelation from God's Word and its successful implementation at Covenant Church and throughout the Body of Christ, and provide us all with an opportunity for this message to be revealed from within the Church outward, rather than be forced to reveal this message to the masses and hope the church catches up, and thereby sacrifice the last remaining shreds of Scriptural and moral authority the Church seems to have in the earth today, (and quite possibly push LGBT people even further away as their suspicions of the church’s errors are proven correct). Their reaction to the message will be dependant solely on the way the Church handles this; either as an “Angels and Demons” type expose’ from someone outside the Church, or as a responsible Body of Believers who are open enough to correction to right the ship ourselves, just as we did concerning the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, women, slavery, prosperity, health, and indeed the Protestant Reformation itself. Throughout the process, prayer will be the power that binds us in united purpose as we see prophecy begin to unfold in front of our very eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is my intent to publish this book on February 1, 2012 unless a strong ministry steps forward that is willing to lead this message from within the Church instead, because this isn’t just about the American Christian Church. God has placed LGBT people in every nation, every city, every race, every family, and every RELIGION (and denominations therein)! I sincerely believe as Christianity opens the path to God for Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Pagan, Wiccan, Universalist, Mormon, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Black Israelite, and even Atheist and Agnostic gay people, He will use LGBT people themselves to spread the Word amongst ourselves, cross every religious dividing line, and invite them into the Christian fold. See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 21: GAZA: Holy Land for Gays</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation of this vision.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s a big job, and we need a big ministry to pull it off. But no ministry can do it alone, and no ministry can succeed without a powerful force of intercessory prayers pleading on God's behalf for His Will to be done in the earth, and for His Word to go forth and accomplish that which He pleases and purposes, so it will indeed PROSPER in the thing for which He sent it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew 19:11-12 </b>Jesus proves we are born gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 1</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Isaiah 55:11-56:12 </b>God demands LGBT people be included and affirmed in church (and demands our offerings be included on His altar) before Jesus can return. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 1</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-3-for-sake-of-kingdom-of-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 3</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2 Chronicles 7:1-3 </b>reads like a prophecy of what happens after our offerings get to God’s altar; the fire from heaven consumes the offerings, and the glory of the Lord fills the house (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Luke 24:44</b> Jesus confirms all prophecies must be fulfilled before He can return to the earth (See<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 Timothy 4:1-3 </b>The Holy Spirit warns that in the latter times, some Christians would fall away from the faith, having been seduced by doctrines demons teach, through the hypocrisy and pretense of liars whose consciences have been seared, who “forbid people to marry.” At no other time in human history has all elements contained in this particular prophecy been fulfilled as we see today right before our very eyes. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 2</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-17-forbid-to-marry.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 17</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2 Kings 9:29-37 </b>and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Esther 1:1-22</b> Read as analogies of LGBT people delivering a message from the King to the Bride of Christ, urging her to come to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and what happens if She refuses (Queen Jezebel and Queen Vashti), and what happens if She accepts. (Queen Esther) (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Romans 1</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Leviticus 18</b> both condemn heterosexual married men who cheated on their wives and/or worshipped idols, both of which are violations of the 10 Commandments. These passages also help us see the importance of not mixing heterosexual and homosexual interactions, and could quite possibly be the cure for HIV/AIDS. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-16-leviticus.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 16</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-18-romans.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 18</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 Corinthians 6:9-12 </b>condemns preachers whoring the church for money (and for keeping boys on the side) in part of a lengthy letter that begins in 1 Corinthians 5:1 and goes all the way through till 1 Corinthians 7:40, even as Paul ordains single gender matrimony in the very same letter in 1 Corinthians 7:8-9 (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 2</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other various chapters of The Bed Keeper are geared toward helping LGBT people understand Christian principles such as the New Covenant (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-5-covenant-promises.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 5</strong></a>), Keeping the Sabbath and Understanding the Significance of Pentecost (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-6-lord-of-sabbath.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 6</strong></a>), Baptism of the Holy Spirit (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-7-baptism-by-fire.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 7</strong></a>), Bearing Fruit for God (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-8-spiritual-leadership.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 8</strong></a>), FAITH (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/well-recall-from-chapter-5-of-bed_4258.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 9</strong></a>), Creation and Evolution (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-11-big-bang-theory.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 11</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-12-my-brothers-keeper.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 12</strong></a>) the Significance of the Rainbow Flag and God’s Rainbow Covenant (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-13-rainbow-covenant.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 13</strong></a>), the Destruction of Sodom (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-14-men-of-sodom.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 14</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-15-entertaining-angels.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 15</strong></a>), and understanding the difference between homosexual expressions committed by heterosexual men, and being homosexual, and the importance of keeping the marriage bed (even a gay marriage bed) undefiled (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19</strong></a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been my intent to not only reveal the message from God’s Word to the churches regarding LGBT people being affirmed in every church and bringing their offerings to God’s altar in order for Jesus to return, but also to train up LGBT believers in the very basic principles of the faith as I have learned from Pastor Joel and Victoria Osteen, Brother Kenneth and Sister Gloria Copeland, Pastors George and Terri Pearsons, Sister Billye Brim, Joyce Meyer, as well as many others in the Charismatic move of God. I pray you will especially lift these leaders up in prayer as they take those first brave steps into the future of the Body of Christ.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also wanted to help you understand my motivation. I do not see myself becoming a preacher. I think my time is better spent staying at home, staying in the Word, praying, and simply sharing my findings as the Holy Spirit continues to lead me through Scripture. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I believe I am called to teach, not preach. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I am at a point where I believe the message is mature enough to be iron clad (Scripturally speaking) and I know in my spirit there is much more that will “hook up” to it as I move forward. My hope for now is that you can simply begin helping the church get prayed up, and that I can hopefully be assigned a contact within your ministry that provides a conduit from me to you without having to go public with everything just to get the Church’s attention, or without having to disturb your own anointing every time I get something new. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know that I can’t be in all places and all churches at one time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not able to do a lot of travel or speaking engagements or book signings, although I am willing to make myself available for occasional person-to-person visits here in Houston to discuss various points, if absolutely necessary. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully most questions, comments and concerns can be addressed via email, where nobody can interrupt each other, and a written train of thought can be assembled and referred back to for all to consider as time moves on and the message continues to “gel.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am open to correction, and alternate interpretations of the findings I’ve shared herein, and hope to (if nothing else) at least catch any serious doctrinal errors PRIOR to publishing. But in 7 years of study and sharing aspects of this message with other pastors and lay people in online venues, I have yet to come across any that either don’t ignore certain passages of Scripture, or contradict others. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many have proven that it’s easy to simply disagree with the message. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None thus far have been able to provide Scripturally sound alternate interpretations. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps you can put your best in-house theologians on this and begin a respectful dialogue between as many parties as are necessary in an online private venue, such as an intranet or private message board, where people can contribute as time permits</span>, and encourage your pray-ers to keep these revelations and this new move of God mentioned in their prayers. I don’t really know how God is going to reveal this message to the masses. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only can share how I<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> prefer</b> He does so, and what I am willing to do to make it happen in a way that keeps it (to a large extent) “private church business” until such time all parties are comfortable with rolling it out to pastors’ conferences, and eventually the world wide Christian church. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One can put 1,000 to flight, 2 can put 10,000 to flight….and we NEED thousands of pastors sharing the message at about the same time, in order to foil Satan’s plot to keep these findings shrouded in misguided fear and homophobia to prevent the fulfillment of Isaiah 55:11-56:12, and prevent the return of Jesus Christ for as long as he can. Overcoming the enemy's plots against these revelations is of utmost importance, and as a partner of Prayer Mountain, I hope you share their mission to "pray in the plans of God, and to thwart the plans of the enemy against them."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This isn’t just another book about how the church is wrong, or what Scriptures LGBT people can feel free to ignore. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, this is a forensic look at Scripture <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">AS IS</b>, as we allow it to help us all come to a more nuanced and detailed understanding of the insights, ideas and concepts contained therein as pertains to the return of Jesus Christ, and the role LGBT people play in that Great Day. What I have found time and again is that the church has indeed not been “inaccurate” about many of Her traditional teachings on the subject, but she has been “incomplete,” and has suffered from a lack of specificity (and honestly from the lack of perspective from serious students of God’s Word, who just happen to be gay as well). As I always tell my LGBT friends: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If there is anything I can do to help you reach an affirmative decision, or anything I can unite with you in prayer over, please feel free to contact me via Twitter @TheBedKeeper, or through email at </span><a href="mailto:thebedkeeper@gmail.com"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>thebedkeeper@gmail.com</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>.</strong> Thank you so much for your time and consideration. I pray the material you are about to explore will prove to be a blessing to you personally as a member of the Body of Christ, but also as a ministry to a world full of lost, hurting, and rejected people. LGBT people have a God ordained place in the Body of Christ. Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit have all confirmed it is so. But tradition has set the Word of God aside, deprived it of authority, and made the Word of God inoperable…at least until now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><u>And they shall be Mine, says the Lord of hosts, in that day when I publicly recognize and openly declare them to be My jewels (My special possession, My peculiar treasure). And I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.</u></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Then shall you return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who does not serve Him. </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malachi 3:16-18</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The writing of the "Book of Remembrance" has begun, Pastor</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, and I just know by the Spirit that Covenant Church will be included in it! The only question is when. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to make sure it's sooner, rather than later!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God bless you, Pastor! I hope to hear from you or a contact in your ministry soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">God loves you! I love you! And remember: <strong>JESUS IS LORD!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>PS:</strong> I encourage Church leaders and ministers to read this manuscript in reverse order, beginning with the last chapter first (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 21</strong></a>). It will provide incentive to continue studying, take readers back through to undo the traditional understandings of the subject, and end up where LGBT people are as defined by Scripture. For LGBT people, I encourage them to read it in the order in which it appears, beginning with our birth, and moving forward to the culmination of the Church Age as Jesus Christ cracks open the sky and catches away the Church!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See ya there! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>PPS:</strong> The easiest way to get started exploring may be to review <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/frequently-asked-questions.html" target="_blank"><strong>Frequently Asked Questions</strong></a> which addresses the most common traditional teachings regarding the issue of homosexuality, with convenient links that take you directly to the pertinent chapters of The Bed Keeper for complete and Scripture based responses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lakewood Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/lakewood-church-endorsed-as-safe-space.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eagle Mountain International Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this video, Brian Anthony Bowen reveals Scriptures the Church never talks about which prove that Jesus taught that LGBT people are born this way...and that prove the Apostle Paul ordained Gay Marriage...IN THE BIBLE!<br /><br />This changes EVERYTHING!<br />More info: </span><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://brianbowenministries.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://BrianBowenMinistries.com"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://BrianBowenMinistries.com</span></a><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Holy Spirit distinctly and expressly declares </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">giving attention to deluding and seducing spirits</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and doctrines that demons teach,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through the hypocrisy and pretensions of liars</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> whose consciences are seared (cauterized),</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear Pastor Dollar,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Greetings in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As an associate ministry with Kenneth Copeland Ministries, I am living in faith that you have already heard the good news I'm about to share with you herein, but I'm writing to you directly because I believe the undertaking that is about to take place in the Body of Christ can use a <strong>Brotherly</strong> touch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My name is Brian Anthony Bowen, and I am the author of a forthcoming book entitled, “The Bed Keeper,” which I believe will launch your ministry into a new phase, and the Body of Christ into a new day! I write today to refer you to the message Pastor George Pearsons shared with his congregation at Eagle Mountain International Church on November 6, 2011, entitled: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.emic.org/media/index.php?id=909" target="_blank">Hearts Wide Open: The Touch of Compassion, Part 5</a></strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Also, please consider Brother Kenneth Copeland's prophetic utterance regarding our place in the Kingdom of God from November 11, 2011, (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kkb94XRFhc&feature=share" target="_blank"><strong>available from YouTube</strong></a>) which seems to confirm by the Power of the Holy Spirit, what I am about to share with you in this letter. Y</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ou can review the transcript to Brother Copeland's prophetic utterance <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/111111-prophetic-utterance-from-brother.html" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>.</strong> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Please consider also Sister Billye Brim's teaching from her series, <a href="http://www.billyebrim.org/products/daniel-cd-set" target="_blank"><strong>"Daniel"</strong></a> wherein she (along with Pastors George and Terri Pearsons) reveal to Eagle Mountain International Church a prophecy uttered by God through Brother Justus Du Plessis regarding this new move of God way back in August 1996, and my interpretation of its meaning <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/eagle-mountain-justus-du-plessis.html" target="_blank"><strong>here.</strong></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Please also review other pertinent open letters to:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong>The World Wide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-eagle-mountain-intl.html" target="_blank"><strong>Eagle Mountain International Church</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-kenneth-copeland.html" target="_blank"><strong>Kenneth Copeland Ministries</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-joel-osteen-and-lakewood.html" target="_blank"><strong>Joel Osteen and Lakewood Church</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-all-christians.html" target="_blank"><strong>Open Letter to All Christians</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you may know by now, on November 1, 2011, I was invited by Brother Tim Clinton</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( @zoneradiolive on Twitter ), to participate in a discussion on TheZoneRadioShow.org (Cleveland, Ohio) with Pastor Dr. Darrell Scott, Senior Pastor of New Spirit Revival Center </span><a href="http://www.nsrcministries.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>www.nsrcministries.org</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and Pastor Jathan K. Austin ( @PastorJKA on Twitter ),<cite><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></cite>regarding new revelation from God’s Word on the issue that has most divided the church over the centuries, and how we can at last bridge the gap between the sides and come into a new understanding of what God’s Word does (and doesn’t say) about homosexuality and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people (yes, there is a difference)….and at long last, give them incentive to come to church, and give the church incentive to invite us….all based strictly on God’s Word….but in a way none of us most likely expected to happen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please explore this final draft of <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>The Bed Keeper</strong></a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What you will find is a collection of revelations from Scripture pertaining not only to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, but also how we interact prophetically in cooperation with the Body of Christ to prepare the Bride of Christ for His return, and how God has assigned us specific tasks within the church; most notably, the task of bringing our offerings to His altar, and how the traditional teachings of Christianity on this subject has inadvertently prevented our offerings from reaching God's altar. In the process of reading this material, you'll learn how Shepherds have inadvertently "robbed the tithes from God," by preventing LGBT people from coming to Church to include ours on His altar as well. Further, this has also prevented the manifestation of the Glory of the Lord to the extent witnessed and testified to in 2 Chronicles 7, when the fire fell from heaven and consumed the offerings on the altar, and the Glory of the Lord filled the temple. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since first beginning to receive this revelation from Scripture nearly 7 years ago, this message has continued to grow and mature to the point it is today, as Scripture has testified to Scripture, and 2 or 3 witnesses from Scripture have been revealed that verify each word I share in The Bed Keeper. This has resulted in the book being rather wordy, but at least it doesn’t leave any room for doubt, though there will always be room for some amount of disagreement, especially when first examining the evidence, even though it comes directly from Scripture itself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I watched <a href="http://www.emic.org/media/index.php?id=909" target="_blank"><strong>Pastor George’s sermon</strong></a>, I couldn’t help but feel that (whether in the Spirit or in the natural), he already knew that on November 1, 2011, something new had happened in the Church, and that the Body of Christ will never be the same. Perhaps I’m mistaken, but as he spoke of his Church’s outreach to people in the community whom most had not come in contact with or fellowshipped with much before, I couldn’t help but sense that he was speaking of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community; many of whom are already Christians in search of a church to call home, where Scripture means what it says…and doesn’t mean what it doesn’t say. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pastor George seemed to indicate that not only would folks like us be coming to Eagle Mountain International Church, but that they would be training up ministers to assist in this new ingathering as the prayers for the Great Awakening appear to have awakened even those people that most members of the Body of Christ had written off as prodigals many centuries ago. I hope your ministry is part of this process as well, and encourage you to contact Pastor George to confirm your support of this new endeavor!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is also my sincere hope that your ministry team will stand in prayer for this work of God in the Church today. I am praying that The Bed Keeper helps you and your ministry team to have as complete a revelation from God’s Word as is humanly possible, in order to dispel the myths traditional Christianity has held as truth in times past, but also in order to help the Church position herself in a place where she is at last the Glorious Church, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. It just so happens as you’ll see from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank">Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</a></b>, that until LGBT people are affirmed in faith bodies all over the world, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>also contributing our offerings on His altar</u></b>, Jesus is prophetically prevented from returning to the earth until all prophecies are fulfilled (in accordance with Luke 24:44), including God’s Own prophecy to eunuchs in Isaiah 55:11-56:12 (whom Jesus teaches includes eunuchs born so from our mother’s womb in Matthew 19:11-12), whom you and I today refer to as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: Arial;">t is my hope that as you address the question in public venues or in your congregation, that you will first take the time to study these findings from The Bed Keeper, and become more intimately acquainted with what the differences are between <strong>"homosexuality"</strong> and <strong>"homosexual people"</strong> and <strong>"homosexual acts engaged in by heterosexual married men,"</strong> so that you can provide more thorough and Scripturally accurate responses that not only avoids condemning all gay people out of hand, but at the same time, address all the <strong><u>heterosexual men engaged in cheating on their wives with other men</u></strong>, who currently get off scott free as the Church has traditionally only scapegoated gay people, without ever considering that both Scripture (and life itself) portray a very different reality; a reality that once confronted, may indeed prove to be the <strong><u>cure for HIV/AIDS</u></strong> as homosexual and heterosexual mixing comes to an end. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19: Go and Sin No More</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation. I especially appreciated your teaching series on the "Risks of Sexual Impurity" that very closely resembles the same message.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Currently, new infection rates of HIV/AIDS occur in the World Health Organization's <strong>MSM</strong> category (men who have sex with men, <u><strong>regardless of their identified sexuality</strong></u>). The second highest new infection rate is among women (particularly women of color) who contract the disease from <strong><u>heterosexual</u></strong> partners. As the Church focuses its energy (and blame) on gay men, it would seem that these types of transmissions are impossible without the <u><strong>intermingling of</strong> </u><strong><u>heterosexual men having relations with both women AND gay men</u>.</strong> Ignoring this not only fails to address the situation as honestly as Scripture itself does, but also provides these heterosexual men with immunity from scrutiny (and correction) from the Church, and prevents LGBT people from coming to your congregation as the safe space for worship it claims to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>"Safe Space"</strong> can no longer mean "you're welcome to come to church if you're gay and bring your offerings." No, from this day forward, <strong>"Safe Space" can only be truly defined as "you're welcome to come to church if you're gay and bring your offerings because we see that Scripture does not condemn gay people themselves, but rather <u>heterosexual married men engaging in adultery</u>."</strong> After all Pastor, that's what the Bible actually says, and your unawareness of that fact will no longer provide you immunity from criticism and correction from the LGBT community, nor from judgment upon your entire congregation from God Himself:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Ignorance</strong> to God's Word never <strong>changes</strong> God's Word, and He will hold blind shepherds to account, just as He said He would in Isaiah 56:10-12, 1 Corinthians 5-7, Malachi 2-3, and various other passages of Scripture. The Body of Christ can no longer afford to keep its head buried in the sand on this issue if we truly want to prepare the Church for the return of Jesus Christ! Every Christian who ever lived and died before us and our own personal resurrections are on the line! God didn't just send Jesus to save us from eternal torment, but to raise us to eternal life. That will not happen without the Return of Christ, and He cannot return until all prophecies are fulfilled (Luke 24:44), and that includes Isaiah 55:11-56:12. See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4: Messengers of The King</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Simply saying "homosexuality is sin" condemns all gay people (many of whom do not even have sexual relations of any kind), while <strong><u>at the same time ignoring the heterosexual married men who are actually engaged in the exact form of adultery that is actually being addressed specifically throughout Scripture.</u></strong> Of course they are also the ones who bring the tithes to the church (since most gay people have felt excluded by such public messages from the Church), and so it can take a brave Shepherd like Pastor George to shed light on this fact, and I hope you'll follow his leadership at World Changers Church International. In short, homosexuality has been elevated to an 11th Commandment status, and has replaced God's Own Commandment against <strong>heterosexual adultery.</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Of equally disturbing concern is that each Sunday most Church leadership quotes <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=malachi%203:8-10&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong>Malachi 3:8-10</strong></a> to remind the congregation that <strong><em>"robbing the tithe from God prevents the windows from heaven opening and prevents God from being able to pour out a blessing over our lives"</em></strong> in an effort to unScripturally goad them into giving 10% of their income, rather than the amount they have purposed in their hearts as Paul directs Christians in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20corinthians%209:6-10&version=AMP" target="_blank"><strong>2 Corinthians 9:6-10.</strong></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">However, if we more closely examine the Scripture referred to from Malachi, we see it actually begins in Malachi 2, not Malachi 3, and is addressed to priests themselves who are the ones robbing God of the tithes by preventing all the tithes from even reaching God's altar, because of messages from the Church that discourage LGBT people from coming to His House of Prayer for ALL people to include ours as well....as well as our parents, friends and families who have felt as equally shunned by the Church as we have been. Please see <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapter-20-fire-from-heaven.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 20: Fire From Heaven</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation of that aspect.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the other hand, we have LGBT people who have not only been Christians all their lives, but at the same time have felt sentenced to politely knock outside the Church door, instead of being affirmed according to God's Own Prophecy from Isaiah 55:11-56:12. Until that prophecy becomes fulfilled, according to Jesus in Luke 24:44, He is prophetically prevented from returning to the earth. It occurs to me that we can be as saved, sanctified and filled with the Holy Spirit as we want, but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>without the</u></b><u> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">return of Jesus Christ</b></u>, and our subsequent bodily resurrection, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>we will never attain the eternal life</u> </b>that He died to give us all. If we look carefully at John 3:16, we see that not only does Jesus save us from hell, but also raises us to eternal life with Him. As a Christian, I want both. There! I admit I’m a Christian for a rather selfish reason…but then again, aren’t we all?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> have already begun sharing this message on Twitter, and through the blog version of the book, more than 25,000 people in 82 countries have already taken a glimpse into the future of the Body of Christ, and seen that it is indeed good! I hope you’ll follow me on Twitter where I am known as @TheBedKeeper so that you can see how I envision parts of this message can best be communicated to the LGBT community, and in the meantime, that you will begin the process of praying with your partners (and prayer ministers the world over) on the best practices for revealing this message to the congregation at World Changers Church International as well as all your associate Shepherds and ministries in the Body of Christ, and come to lead them in the best way to reveal this message to members of their own flocks, and LGBT people in their own communities.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know this is a lot to take in, and I don’t expect that it will happen overnight. However, I will be sending this information to other leading ministries as well, with the expectation that God will eventually appoint me to work under a ministry that has demonstrated not only an understanding of the material, but also a commitment to continue to now share it with the rest of the Body of Christ. Pastor George’s sermon on November 6, 2011, the prophetic utterance God ministered through Brother Copeland on November 11, 2011, and Justus Du Plessis's prophetic utterance from August 1996, are so far the surest <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>signs</u></b> I have received from God that the preaching of the word I participated in on November 1, 2011 has already taken effect!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, I’m left only to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>wonder</u> </b>if your ministry is one that stands in prayer for this new revelation from God's Word and its successful implementation at World Changers Church International and throughout the Body of Christ, and provide us all with an opportunity for this message to be revealed from within the Church outward, rather than be forced to reveal this message to the masses and hope the church catches up, and thereby sacrifice the last remaining shreds of Scriptural and moral authority the Church seems to have in the earth today, (and quite possibly push LGBT people even further away as their suspicions of the church’s errors are proven correct). Their reaction to the message will be dependant solely on the way the Church handles this; either as an “Angels and Demons” type expose’ from someone outside the Church, or as a responsible Body of Believers who are open enough to correction to right the ship ourselves, just as we did concerning the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, women, slavery, prosperity, health, and indeed the Protestant Reformation itself. Throughout the process, prayer will be the power that binds us in united purpose as we see prophecy begin to unfold in front of our very eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is my intent to publish this book on February 1, 2012 unless a strong ministry steps forward that is willing to lead this message from within the Church instead, because this isn’t just about the American Christian Church. God has placed LGBT people in every nation, every city, every race, every family, and every RELIGION (and denominations therein)! I sincerely believe as Christianity opens the path to God for Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Pagan, Wiccan, Universalist, Mormon, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Black Israelite, and even Atheist and Agnostic gay people, He will use LGBT people themselves to spread the Word amongst ourselves, cross every religious dividing line, and invite them into the Christian fold. See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 21: GAZA: Holy Land for Gays</strong></a> for a more detailed explanation of this vision.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s a big job, and we need a big ministry to pull it off. But no ministry can do it alone, and no ministry can succeed without a powerful force of intercessory prayers pleading on God's behalf for His Will to be done in the earth, and for His Word to go forth and accomplish that which He pleases and purposes, so it will indeed PROSPER in the thing for which He sent it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew 19:11-12 </b>Jesus proves we are born gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/chapter-1-born-this-way.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 1</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 Timothy 4:1-3 </b>The Holy Spirit warns that in the latter times, some Christians would fall away from the faith, having been seduced by doctrines demons teach, through the hypocrisy and pretense of liars whose consciences have been seared, who “forbid people to marry.” At no other time in human history has all elements contained in this particular prophecy been fulfilled as we see today right before our very eyes. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 2</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-17-forbid-to-marry.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 17</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2 Kings 9:29-37 </b>and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Esther 1:1-22</b> Read as analogies of LGBT people delivering a message from the King to the Bride of Christ, urging her to come to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and what happens if She refuses (Queen Jezebel and Queen Vashti), and what happens if She accepts. (Queen Esther) (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-messengers-of-king_22.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 4</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Romans 1</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Leviticus 18</b> both condemn heterosexual married men who cheated on their wives and/or worshipped idols, both of which are violations of the 10 Commandments. These passages also help us see the importance of not mixing heterosexual and homosexual interactions, and could quite possibly be the cure for HIV/AIDS. (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-16-leviticus.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 16</strong></a>, <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-18-romans.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 18</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 Corinthians 6:9-12 </b>condemns preachers whoring the church for money (and for keeping boys on the side) in part of a lengthy letter that begins in 1 Corinthians 5:1 and goes all the way through till 1 Corinthians 7:40, even as Paul ordains single gender matrimony in the very same letter in 1 Corinthians 7:8-9 (See <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-2-god-sanctioned-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 2</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19</strong></a> of The Bed Keeper for more details)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other various chapters of The Bed Keeper are geared toward helping LGBT people understand Christian principles such as the New Covenant (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-5-covenant-promises.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 5</strong></a>), Keeping the Sabbath and Understanding the Significance of Pentecost (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-6-lord-of-sabbath.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 6</strong></a>), Baptism of the Holy Spirit (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-7-baptism-by-fire.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 7</strong></a>), Bearing Fruit for God (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-8-spiritual-leadership.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 8</strong></a>), FAITH (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/well-recall-from-chapter-5-of-bed_4258.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 9</strong></a>), Creation and Evolution (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-11-big-bang-theory.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 11</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-12-my-brothers-keeper.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 12</strong></a>) the Significance of the Rainbow Flag and God’s Rainbow Covenant (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-13-rainbow-covenant.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 13</strong></a>), the Destruction of Sodom (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-14-men-of-sodom.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 14</strong></a> and <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/chapter-15-entertaining-angels.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 15</strong></a>), and understanding the difference between homosexual expressions committed by heterosexual men, and being homosexual, and the importance of keeping the marriage bed (even a gay marriage bed) undefiled (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-and-sin-no-more.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 19</strong></a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been my intent to not only reveal the message from God’s Word to the churches regarding LGBT people being affirmed in every church and bringing their offerings to God’s altar in order for Jesus to return, but also to train up LGBT believers in the very basic principles of the faith as I have learned from Pastor Joel and Victoria Osteen, Brother Kenneth and Sister Gloria Copeland, Pastors George and Terri Pearsons, Sister Billye Brim, Joyce Meyer, as well as many others in the Charismatic move of God. I pray you will especially lift these leaders up in prayer as they take those first brave steps into the future of the Body of Christ.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also wanted to help you understand my motivation. I do not see myself becoming a preacher. I think my time is better spent staying at home, staying in the Word, praying, and simply sharing my findings as the Holy Spirit continues to lead me through Scripture. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I believe I am called to teach, not preach. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I am at a point where I believe the message is mature enough to be iron clad (Scripturally speaking) and I know in my spirit there is much more that will “hook up” to it as I move forward. My hope for now is that you can simply begin helping the church get prayed up, and that I can hopefully be assigned a contact within your ministry that provides a conduit from me to you without having to go public with everything just to get the Church’s attention, or without having to disturb your own anointing every time I get something new. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know that I can’t be in all places and all churches at one time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not able to do a lot of travel or speaking engagements or book signings, although I am willing to make myself available for occasional person-to-person visits here in Houston to discuss various points, if absolutely necessary. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully most questions, comments and concerns can be addressed via email, where nobody can interrupt each other, and a written train of thought can be assembled and referred back to for all to consider as time moves on and the message continues to “gel.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am open to correction, and alternate interpretations of the findings I’ve shared herein, and hope to (if nothing else) at least catch any serious doctrinal errors PRIOR to publishing. But in 7 years of study and sharing aspects of this message with other pastors and lay people in online venues, I have yet to come across any that either don’t ignore certain passages of Scripture, or contradict others. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many have proven that it’s easy to simply disagree with the message. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None thus far have been able to provide Scripturally sound alternate interpretations. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps you can put your best in-house theologians on this and begin a respectful dialogue between as many parties as are necessary in an online private venue, such as an intranet or private message board, where people can contribute as time permits</span>, and encourage your pray-ers to keep these revelations and this new move of God mentioned in their prayers. I don’t really know how God is going to reveal this message to the masses. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only can share how I<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> prefer</b> He does so, and what I am willing to do to make it happen in a way that keeps it (to a large extent) “private church business” until such time all parties are comfortable with rolling it out to pastors’ conferences, and eventually the world wide Christian church. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One can put 1,000 to flight, 2 can put 10,000 to flight….and we NEED thousands of pastors sharing the message at about the same time, in order to foil Satan’s plot to keep these findings shrouded in misguided fear and homophobia to prevent the fulfillment of Isaiah 55:11-56:12, and prevent the return of Jesus Christ for as long as he can. Overcoming the enemy's plots against these revelations is of utmost importance, and as a partner of Prayer Mountain, I hope you share their mission to "pray in the plans of God, and to thwart the plans of the enemy against them."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This isn’t just another book about how the church is wrong, or what Scriptures LGBT people can feel free to ignore. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, this is a forensic look at Scripture <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">AS IS</b>, as we allow it to help us all come to a more nuanced and detailed understanding of the insights, ideas and concepts contained therein as pertains to the return of Jesus Christ, and the role LGBT people play in that Great Day. What I have found time and again is that the church has indeed not been “inaccurate” about many of Her traditional teachings on the subject, but she has been “incomplete,” and has suffered from a lack of specificity (and honestly from the lack of perspective from serious students of God’s Word, who just happen to be gay as well). As I always tell my LGBT friends: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If there is anything I can do to help you reach an affirmative decision, or anything I can unite with you in prayer over, please feel free to contact me via Twitter @TheBedKeeper, or through email at </span><a href="mailto:thebedkeeper@gmail.com"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>thebedkeeper@gmail.com</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>.</strong> Thank you so much for your time and consideration. I pray the material you are about to explore will prove to be a blessing to you personally as a member of the Body of Christ, but also as a ministry to a world full of lost, hurting, and rejected people. LGBT people have a God ordained place in the Body of Christ. Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit have all confirmed it is so. But tradition has set the Word of God aside, deprived it of authority, and made the Word of God inoperable…at least until now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The writing of the "Book of Remembrance" has begun, Pastor</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, and I just know by the Spirit that World Changers Church International will be included in it! The only question is when. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to make sure it's sooner, rather than later!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God bless you, Pastor! I hope to hear from you or a contact in your ministry soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">God loves you! I love you! And remember: <strong>JESUS IS LORD!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Brian Anthony Bowen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Author, The Bed Keeper</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>PS:</strong> I encourage Church leaders and ministers to read this manuscript in reverse order, beginning with the last chapter first (<a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/gaza-holy-land-for-gays.html" target="_blank"><strong>Chapter 21</strong></a>). It will provide incentive to continue studying, take readers back through to undo the traditional understandings of the subject, and end up where LGBT people are as defined by Scripture. For LGBT people, I encourage them to read it in the order in which it appears, beginning with our birth, and moving forward to the culmination of the Church Age as Jesus Christ cracks open the sky and catches away the Church!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See ya there! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>PPS:</strong> The easiest way to get started exploring may be to review <a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/frequently-asked-questions.html" target="_blank"><strong>Frequently Asked Questions</strong></a> which addresses the most common traditional teachings regarding the issue of homosexuality, with convenient links that take you directly to the pertinent chapters of The Bed Keeper for complete and Scripture based responses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>This blog continues to be a work in progress. As recent revelations and events throughout Christendom have created an increasingly fluid situation, updates will no longer be published at the end of each post, but rather only at the beginning of the corresponding posts so impacted. As of August 1, 2013, the only updates to appear at the end of each post will be churches that are personally endorsed by The Bed Keeper as a "SAFE SPACE."</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lakewood Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/lakewood-church-endorsed-as-safe-space.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eagle Mountain International Church officially endorsed as a SAFE SPACE for LGBT people to worship! Details </span><a href="http://thebedkeeperbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-lgbt-community.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
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