Street preacher no dummy

Kate Middeleer
Posted 7/16/15

Poor Penny Carson had an audience of thousands Tuesday but nobody was listening…or maybe they were.

As 4 p.m. drew closer and the thick stream of cars along Route 2 was forced to stop at the …

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Street preacher no dummy

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Poor Penny Carson had an audience of thousands Tuesday but nobody was listening…or maybe they were.

As 4 p.m. drew closer and the thick stream of cars along Route 2 was forced to stop at the intersection of East Avenue and Bald Hill Road, they faced a man with a sign on his back and a doll in his hands. He was more than willing to explain what he was doing on the noisy street corner in the afternoon sun, and apparently he is used to it. He said thousands of people have come up to him to ask questions. In fact he welcomes it, because Carson has a sermon, and a story, to share.

First off, the world is going to end, and soon.

A near death experience 39 years ago led Carson to develop a strong, direct relationship with God. And this sent Carson on a journey to warn people about what is coming next.

He met his friend, Sweet Pea Johnson, in 1976 right before the start of his travels, and the two of them had a ventriloquist act in Los Angeles.

It wasn’t until he was almost stabbed that his communication with God began, and he decided to pack up and begin a journey that would take him across the country. As he tells it, the blade came close to his heart but stopped.

“And touched me softly as a finger,” he said, “and went out of my hand with great power and force.” It was that experience, he says, that God impressed upon him His word.

“When that happened to me I went down on my knees and said, ‘Oh Lord my God.’” And God told him to deliver his word through the dummy, Sweet Pea, because Man wasn’t going to listen to Carson himself.

“Eighty percent of people denied my word all their life,” Carson said, quoting what God said to him. “Let that dummy tell them the truth.”

And what did Sweet Pea have to say? He has a warning, rooted in the 18th verse in Chapter 13 of the New Testament’s Book of Revelation, that there would be two beasts. The first, according to Carson and Sweet Pea, was Ronald Reagan. In 1983, Carson listened to Reagan’s second inaugural address, and when the president said, “You haven’t seen nothing yet,” the Holy Ghost spoke to Carson and said, “That’s him, that’s him.” His full name is Ronald Wilson Reagan, he later found out. Six-six-six – six letters in each of his names, a sign according to Carson that the president was the first beast.

And the second? Obama. The time would come when the world economy was going to collapse, and Obama would “do away with money and hand out the mark.” Despite his strong views of the country’s presidents, he wasn’t interested in discussing any of the candidates.

“There aren’t going to be any more candidates,” he said. “You’ve got the last Mohegan up there today.”

He pulled a pamphlet from his pocket, with the details of his sermon, and an address to his website. He visits churches on his tour and preaches to every pastor and preacher about what has been revealed.

“God reveals it because he love ya. He want you to wake up, repent, and start living godly in the holy light.” And so Carson has started on his journey, a trip that has taken him to all 50 states, excluding Hawaii and Alaska. From “state to state,” he says, “town to town, city to city.”

He was happy to continue about the details of his sermons and teachings, but it remained unclear what his access to transportation was, how he makes ends meet. When asked, the answer was brief: “The Lord blessed me with food and gas.” He had a camper parked down the street, one that would be taking him to Boston in about a week, for what will be his second visit.

He was eager to leave the questioning and return to his street corner.

He left with some parting words: “I’m here to tell you that 90 percent of these preachers in this nation have rejected what I have just told you, and it’s written right there in the Bible, and they say it’s not so. So you read that [the pamphlet], and get the Bible and look up the verses, and everything is according to the work of God.”

“I got it on the Internet,” he added.

And with that, Carson was finished. He made his way to his street corner, feet away from the cars driving by him, their engines and their radios making it hard to tell whether or not he’d begun his speech again.

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  • RonPaul

    Sounds like a religious nut job. Anyone check his record?

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