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.
What a friggin dolt. The sooner he's shunned by decent society the better off we'll all be.
Having said that, he predicted Dubya would be elected again. I'm still waiting for the apology from the naysayers that were there then. Sounded just like now.
How hard would it be to pick an attack after 5 years of a no show? Also his prediction of a tsunami was just on the wrong Continent. The one in Indonesia was the largest on record.
The point is, there are people here that tout Nostradamus and he got many things wrong and they try to twist and turn his poems to mean something,....anything. Pat probably has done better. To predict a terrorist attack isn't hard, IMHO. I don't believe they have gone home with their marbles, especially with the Dems yellow spine showing every chance they get.
His statement about 9-11 being a wake up call from God is a Biblical possibility. You can't have homosexual marriage, 40 million dead babies, 70 percent of which are born out of wedlock, a President who lied on TV and was a hero for lying and still raises more money than anybody on the planet, and people still thinking the 10 Commandments are the worst thing since mental illness, and not think God may have some wrath to sow in the US. The Bible usually treats fallen countries pretty badly. To kill the messenger of bad news is also as old as any story in the Bible. That doesn't make the message wrong because we don't like the messenger. Seems Jesus got Himself killed by saying and doing unpopular things.
The Bible makes it clear that bad kings get you bad times and good kings get you blessed.
If we have an attack on US soil this year, be sure and re- post this thread and we'll see if there are any converts. I'm still watching for the Dubya gets re elected one.
Ohhhh "Mass" killings....
LOL I get it now too and I am on the Catholic Ping list...
The LORD interrogated Elijah saying, "What doest thou here, Elijah?" (1Kings 19:9). Arguing that he has been jealous for the LORD, Elijah insists, "I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away" (19:10). The LORD responds with a strong wind, an earthquake, and a fire (19:11-12) to show His Power, but He chooses to speak through "a Still Small Voice" (19:12). The same Small Voice is again prophesied by Isaiah - "And thine ears shall hear a Word behind thee, saying, This is The Way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left" (Isaiah 30:21).
If there is one thing I know about the third person of the Trinity, it is that He is a gentlemen and never forces himself on anyone or takes away your free-will. That is why it is so easy for believers to corrupt His gentle urgings and quiet messages with their own human ideals and ambitions.
People like Pat Robertson cross the line when they publicly state that they have heard from God and proceed to "prophesy". When a prophet of God says, "Thus saith the Lord God..." everything that proceeds from their mouth had better be 100% accurate. That is the mark of a true prophet who is urged by God to speak out. If it is not 100% accurate (and the person truly is filled with the Holy Spirit) it is a very good indication that it was meant to be private and their own fleshly nature has corrupted the message.
I suffer from ditzy.
http://community-2.webtv.net/HunterPorter/doc/
How much credibility has the gospel lost over the last century because of the fortune-tellers? Interesting how Hal Lindsey keeps recycling his books and marriages as each is overtaken by time. He's on wife #4 now, and I don't know how many times he's re-titled The Late Great Planet Earth. New faces, new places, but same old tired plot.
What on earth is it that makes some Christians so eager to serve as unpaid cheerleaders for the other team?
Since this "utterance" fails to call Christian parents to immediately yank their kids out of public schools, it's hot air, vaporous vacuous platitudes, and not really prophetic.
Well, like others have said, if it were really coming from God, he would not have such a poor record for accuracy. And if it's not coming from God, then like I said, "nuttier and nuttier..."
Gods standards are tough. The OT guidelines for recognizing a true prophet was 100% accuracy. Anything less, even 99 1/4% was punishable by instant death
When God has spoken, His Word is True
Anyone who says "thus says the LORD" and it does not come to pass is a false prophet"
THis is not tolerated by GOD and should not be tolerated by any believers.
For Robertson to say "sometimes I miss" is absolute proof God has not spoken to Him
I wonder if today's false prophets would claim the title of prophet so lightly if the understood the OT prophets
They were truly miserable men, driven by a message that they could not help but speak, beaten scorned and killed for the message when they did speak it. the true life of a prophet was not an enviable thing - although its reward is great in heaven
As did the Heugonots, the Albigensians and several others
what the anser? ;-) (typo on purpose)
He also predicted that the Iraq war was going to be very tough and have consequences. It has been and cost the Republicans the majority.
"They were truly miserable men, driven by a message that they could not help but speak, beaten scorned and killed for the message when they did speak it. the true life of a prophet was not an enviable thing - although its reward is great in heaven."
Very true but God does offer an out to societies that are under his judgement or correction. Repentance and reformation causes him to spare.
LOL!!! Shouldn't that be "Odd-Ball" rather than "8-Ball". Pat Robertson had his day 20 years ago. Now he's hearing voices. Please retire and go play golf.
I suppose in another 20 years we'll probably see Rick Warren babbling to himself in a corner, saying "I really do have a purpose...really."
absolutely
but when God gave a society an out, this was part of the prophecy (ie Jonah's prophecy to Nineveh)
There is no out given to a prophet who states "Thus states the Lord" and then that thing does not come to pass.
He had a 50/50 chance at that one.
Also his prediction of a tsunami was just on the wrong Continent. So God only gets things a little bit wrong?
Robertson passed into being a charlatan a long, long time ago. "For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths." (2 Timothy 4:3)
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