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THE APPOINTED SON OF GOD

PASTOR APOLLO C. QUIBOLOY’S
DECLARATION SPEECH
KJC Open Field, Davao City, Philippines

2nd May 2010




My fellow Kingdom citizens,
Filipinos around the world:

I stand here tonight,
mindful of the
great responsibility
that rests upon my shoulder;
grateful and humbled
by the deep trust
you have bestowed upon me
to be your guide
in making a very crucial decision
that will chart the
course of our nation.


Eight days from now,
50 million of us, Filipinos,
will be casting our votes.

And as it is
in the heart of every Filipino,
we all have been asking for guidance
in choosing the right leader
that will lead our nation.


The months that led
to this very night
have been with much deep contemplation,
even sleepless nights;
fervent prayers and constant communication
with the Father Almighty.


THIS NIGHT,
I COME BEFORE YOU
TO PROCLAIM THE
COUNTRY’S NEXT PRESIDENT.


But know this, I am not endorsing.
I am proclaiming
the Father’s Chosen President
for our beloved nation,
the Republic of the Philippines.

Being the Appointed Son of God,
sent in these last days
as the Father’s Emissary,
I am making it known that
it is the Almighty Father’s perfect Will
that He intervenes
in the political affairs of this nation.
A country that He so loves,
the nation that He has chosen
to be His New Israel,
where His New Jerusalem
is established.


In the past years
that we have gone through
tumultuous transitions of government,
yielding to
two people power revolutions,
I have seen that
more than ever before,
this country badly needs healing
from deep political wounds.


The task is beyond giving
palliative solutions
to the disease
that collectively ails us.
Fake and shallow attempts
to reconciliation are tantamount
to putting band aids
upon old sores, cancerous flesh.


What this country needs
is genuine healing
from political wounds
caused by divisions.


Change and healing
must begin from the
leadership and the leaders,
from the topmost ranks of government,
down to the grassroots level.


But we have gone the other way around.
Instead of bringing cure
to the canker wrought
by political conflict,
the coming electoral process
has inflicted fresh, new wounds
– deeper lesions that have
debilitated our condition
as an ailing people
resuscitated by temporal cures.



The wounds of cynicism and divisions
have gone deeper.
And it began from our nation’s leadership.


TONIGHT,
LET ME SOUND
THE VOICE OF THE COMMON FILIPINOS:
WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH STRIFE!


We have had enough hatred,
we have had enough
bitterness and disunity!

We can't afford
the same old dirty political games,
the same tactics
that pit us against one another,
that make us angry with each other.


Despite our differences,
in the sight of the Father Almighty,
there is no opposition or administration;
there are no rightists,
leftists or centrists.

After the elections,
we remain as one people.
We are all one nation.
All of us are Filipinos.
All of us sing the same anthem.
All of us salute the same flag.

There is a call for all of us
to bring our Beloved Nation
to a common purpose,
to a higher ground
of nobility and political maturity.
This is where we need
to be right now.


Embarking on political maturity,
we must learn to winnow
the chaff from the grain
in scrutinizing a leader’s platforms.


We must learn to be issue-based,
instead of being personality based.
I believe that this nation
will be able to take off.


This nation is going to be prosperous,
given the right leadership
at this crucial juncture in our history,
when we, as a people,
are headed toward a cliff.


Those yearning faces
are hungry and thirsty
for genuine transformation;
for a leader that will be strong;
that will bring and create
an atmosphere of positivity.


Tonight, we gather because
we have chosen hope over fear,
unity over conflict and discord.

We come to declare an end
to grievances and hatred
that for far too long
have strangled our politics.


I stand before you,
humbled by your trust.
Encouraged by your clamor for guidance.

The private messages
thousands of Overseas Filipino Workers
have been sending me
in the past several months,
asking for guidance,
have been answered.


Filipino people,
your cries and prayers
have been heard by the heavens.

The Father has given us a leader
who will rise above
personal issues
—a leader who exudes
political maturity and integrity.


He need not be
as seasoned as the others.
He need not be as popular
as his opponents.
He need not come from the top.
In fact, he rises from the bottom.


He may be a dark horse
that comes from behind.
He is the leader
after the Almighty Father’s heart,
for He has seen the heart of this man.

When negativity and mudslinging
was the norm of the day,
this man had these things to say,

“I don’t want to run a
campaign based on negativity.
A lot of people have lost a lot of things,
and we have to inspire them
to pick up the pieces of their lives.
I will run on a platform
aimed towards healing past wounds.
No more vengeance.
No more political bickering.”


This man stayed above
the fray of the
politics of negativity.
He stayed away from the
politics of hate and animosity.
He has kept himself on the
platform of high-caliber campaigning.
He did not dive into the
quagmire of traditional mudslinging.


He is the only candidate
that based his campaign
on positive change,
reconciliation, competence and solutions.

His platform is clear cut,
realistic and is centered on the Economy,
Education and Health,
Transparent Governance,
and Political Reform.


We need this man to become our leader.
In various occasions and
important events that drew
the course of his political career,
we have seen this man’s heart.

In rounding up the country
during the typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng,
he never used the advantages
he might have had
as a Cabinet member
just to edge out his political opponents.
He respected his office and his position.

We have seen the heart of the man.
In his stint as the
Secretary of National Defense,
he resisted the temptation
of turning his DND projects
into big media blitzes.


We have seen the heart of the man.

TONIGHT, LET IT BE KNOWN
UNTO ALL FILIPINOS
that the Almighty Father
has appointed a president
for this nation.


HE IS NO OTHER THAN GILBERT “GIBO” TEODORO.

Why Gilbert Teodoro?


I reiterate:


More than ever before,
this country badly needs
healing from deep political wounds.


We need a national leader
who is mature enough
to tear down the barricades
of hatred, cynicism,
negativity and division.


We will never rise up
if we continue to pull at each other.


And we need a leader
with a character strong enough
to face the challenge
of healing past wounds,
of uniting our people.


Gilbert Teodoro is that kind of a leader.


Gilbert “GIBO” Teodoro
stands to represent
the face of the new Philippines.


Not the Philippines
known in the Western world
as the nation of servants.
Not the Philippines known
in first world countries
as a land deserted
by its citizens
for lack of opportunities.
Not the Philippines
so embroiled in corruption.

But the New Philippines,
whose citizens are educated,
whose children are well-nourished,
whose people are competent;
whose leaders have something
between their ears and
can stand shoulder to shoulder
with the leaders of other nations.


He is our country’s modern leader,
a man of supple intelligence,
of shrewd discernment,
of positive outlook in life.

He is a strong,
young leader that embodies
the quality of a True Filipino Leader
we have been longing to have.


THIS IS WHY
THE ENTIRE KINGDOM NATION,
with the Father’s guidance
through His Appointed Son,
has chosen GILBERT “GIBO” Teodoro
for PRESIDENT.


With this proclamation,
I may either sink or swim.
But I know that this decision
is the best for our nation.


What has always been
in my heart is the welfare
of our people because
like every Filipino patriot,
like every hardworking laborer,
like every OFW toiling
under difficult circumstances,
like every selfless mother,
I love this nation more than myself.

What we will be facing
in the coming days,
not only before the elections,
but even after May 10,
is an uphill climb.


In this TRANSITIONARY JOURNEY
from the cliff of hopelessness,
divisiveness and defeat,
we will head toward unity,
healing and reconciliation.

For as the WORD OF GOD says
in Matthew 12:25,
“Every kingdom divided
against itself is brought to desolation;
and every city or house
divided against itself
shall not stand.”


WE THANK THE
ALMIGHTY FATHER
ON TOP OF THESE,
for in this uphill climb,
HE WILL BE WITH US
ALONG THE WAY.


The journey up may be
hard and punishing,
but we will be well,
and finish the trek.

Together,

let us all pray for a peaceful,

clean and honest elections.

GOD BLESS THE PHILIPPINES.

GOD BLESS GILBERT “GIBO” TEODORO.

GOD BLESS THE FILIPINO PEOPLE.