"God DOES speak to people, but HE doesn't give them incorrect information. Pat needs to be quiet."
I agree. Alice Smith, who is an intercessor(I read her books) talks about when it is good to say something and when it is NOT good to say something if you believe that God said something to you. Even she said that sometimes it is your own mind that says it and not God. She was asked one time about the United States, and what God was revealing to her about it, and she would not say anything. Only that we had better come back to God or there would be serious consequences. Pat needs to shut his mouth and find other ways to express himself when he believes God revealed something to him.
Alice sounds like she has a lot of The Lord's wisdom. I agree. And many of us learn that the very hard way. And some of us have thicker heads than others of us.
We know that we as a nation, are in deep sin, and that we need to come back to obedience to God's laws, but when one gets into the political realm (or the weather??), it's best to keep quiet with one's thoughts.
I see that often here on FR, where people are adament about issues, but it is their politics driving their understanding of Scripture, and not the other way around.
It's a very dangerous thing to do (we all do it at times, I think), but Pat Robertson's notoriety should make him even more careful of the things he says come 'from God.'
If and when he is wrong, then he brings dishonor to God. It's one thing entirely to be persecuted because you represent the Lord, and are persecuted by the world, because Christ was. It's quite another to be ridiculed because you are saying that God has told you things that He hasn't told you, and you in essence become a false prophet.
Pat needs to be quiet.