Apparently, at the end of every year, Pat Robertson spends some time in prayer, asking for a revelation about the coming year. Well, he’s announced yesterday that he’s gotten his 2007 revelation. Specifically, he says that God spoke to him and told him there will be a “mass killing” in the form of a huge terrorist attack sometime during the year, probably after September.

“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 about the impending tragedy during a recent prayer retreat.

God also said, he claims, that major cities and possibly millions of people will be affected by the attack, which should take place sometime after September.

In January 2006, he announced that Ariel Sharon’s stroke was God’s punishment for ceding land from Israel to the Palestinians. I May 2006, he said that storms and possibly a tsunami would hit the U.S. coast. In 2004, he predicted that President Bush would “easily win” re-election that fall. In 2005, he predicted that Bush would win “victory after victory” in advancing his agenda, including pushing through a new Social Security reform package and nominating new justices to the Supreme Court. Well, Bush did win re-election with 51% (hardly “easily”) and he did nominate two new Supreme Court justices, but Bush has hardly won that many victories and he certain did not get his Social Security package passed. There was also no tsunami, although Robertson claims that the flooding in New England was a partial fulfillment. Funny thing is that that occurred in mid-May. A scant week after Robertson announced his prediction about the storms and tsunami.

“I have a relatively good track record,” he said. “Sometimes I miss.”

Well, according to the Bible, then, he’s a FALSE PROPHET! Deuteronomy 18:21-22 says, “You may say to yourselves, ‘How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD?’ If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.”

I wonder if Pat Robertson realizes how much he damages Christianity and the name of Christ when he so publicly pronounces God’s judgement like he does. If he was 100% correct and the signs were clear that things were in fulfillment of prophecy, that would be a different story. But he’s not, they don’t, and he ends up being a laughing stock for much of the U.S. and the rest of the world.

If he wants to truly serve God, he should try selling most of his personal wealth (it’s well over $100 million) and serving God’s people humbly and locally. Think how much good he could accomplish with even just HALF of his wealth! The message of Jesus when He was on earth was about loving others and caring for those who were less fortunate, not about amassing personal wealth and trying to become the center of the world’s attention.

[tags]pat robertson, predictions, terrorism, religion[/tags]