Posted on 01/03/2007 3:25:31 AM PST by Brilliant
In what has become an annual tradition of prognostications, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would result in "mass killing" late in 2007.
"I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear," he said during his news-and-talk television show "The 700 Club" on the Christian Broadcasting Network. "The Lord didn't say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that."
Robertson said God told him during a recent prayer retreat that major cities and possibly millions of people will be affected by the attack, which should take place sometime after September.
Robertson said God also told him that the U.S. only feigns friendship with Israel and that U.S. policies are pushing Israel toward "national suicide."
Robertson suggested in January 2006 that God punished then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with a stroke for ceding Israeli-controlled land to the Palestinians.
The broadcaster predicted in January 2004 that President Bush would easily win re-election. Bush won 51 percent of the vote that fall, beating Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.
In 2005, Robertson predicted that Bush would have victory after victory in his second term. He said Social Security reform proposals would be approved and Bush would nominate conservative judges to federal courts.
Lawmakers confirmed Bush's 2005 nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. But the president's Social Security initiative was stalled.
"I have a relatively good track record," he said. "Sometimes I miss."
In May, Robertson said God told him that storms and possibly a tsunami were to crash into America's coastline in 2006. Even though the U.S. was not hit with a tsunami, Robertson on Tuesday cited last spring's heavy rains and flooding in New England as partly fulfilling the prediction.
"I think he's a couple of years early - they'll wait until President Gore's team of incompetents are firmly in place."
That wooden blimp, raised by hot air alone, will never be president.
Well, he was right about Chavez -- and everyone laughed.
I've been to CBN and Founder's Inn quite a few times. I also have some family friends who work for the 700 Club. (One even produces segments and does interviews) They say he is nice, but a very meticulous boss.
Sheesh. "Mass" killing ... get it?
"I have a relatively good track record," he said. "Sometimes I miss."
Notice this is him talking, not God.............
presumptuously = zadown (Hebrew) = swelling or pride as joined with insolence or arrogance; haughtiness.
But to know the real gig, all you have to do is watch them close their eyes and tell the audience that as they pray "God is curing a liver cancer of a woman.... etc." This obviously is done to raise money. They do this a lot and the claim they are getting God to cure specific (unidentified) people is troubling.
Matthew 24:36 - "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
The good reverend would do well to read this verse again.
Even a broken watch is right twice a day. What a kook. He ought to give his "revelations" to himself.
It is sad to see the ravages of old age, as you can clearly seen it in this guy. Robertson and Falway... are beginning to look like "Clowns," to me, not to be taken seriously, imo.
It's that whole 'prayer availeth much' thing. My question is why is God only talking to Pat Robertson and not ordinary/sane people? I wonder what Joel and Rick think of this.
Now isn't that a little harsh?
I mean he is a goofball, but he hasn't beheaded anyone....
Yeah, when he said that we should whack Hugo Chavez...I bet the collective "Aww Sh*t!" from langley was audible when he said that.
What if Robertson's stupid and ill-timed statement actually caused them to cancel such a plan that may have been in the pipeline???????
Pat's on his last leg. Give him another few years and he's going to be in Robert Tilton land
That they are. I saw first hand his operation in South Louisiana after Katrina.
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