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.
God told me that the world will end also - sometime in the next 5 billions years!
For the same reason you don't hear everything perfectly.
don't forget moses, they laughed at him too.
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How many totally off base predictions did Moses make?
Coptic.
Persecution fastest in Islamic world Up to 250 million Christians will face persecution in 2007
I suspect the 'weapons' to be used in this confrontation will surprise many.
"When someone reports that God told him something this specific, It is usually a sign that he wants to promote his own personal opinion, and give it credibility (at least among the snake-handling zealots)by claiming that it came from God."
Good thing you weren't around in Jesus' time. There have been, and will be, genuine prophets in this world. That there are far more people who delude themselves into believing that they, themselves are prophets, changes nothing.
"If God is telling him, then why isn't his track record 100%?"
Pat probably kept interrupting Him.
He's nutty, but he's not anti-Catholic.
"I certainly have concerns that this very well could happen in the near future--anyone else?"
It's certainly within the realm of conceivability, which is what has brought out the long knives on this thread. He was called crazy over his remarks about Chavez, too.
Drew Breeze, Reggie Bush, Deuce and the New Orleans Saints! See you in Miami!...:-)
I think he's a couple of years early - they'll wait until President Gore's team of incompetents are firmly in place.
Drink some warm milk and go to bed, Pat.
The OT law calls for public stoning of those claiming to speak for G-d and failing to deliver 100% of the time. Guess Pat don't spend too much time cogitating in the OT.
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