"Prophet" Pat Is At It Again
Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 03:00PM
Pat the "prophet" Robertson is at it again. For 2008, he's predicting a recession and major upheaval in the financial markets. He's also predicting increasing violence and chaos around the world. He even claims God told who who the next president will be. Click here: Pat Robertson predicts violence, recession for 2008 | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com
But before you go all sell of your stocks, don't forget that in 2006 God supposedly told Pat that a Tsunami would hit the Pacific Northwest, and that in 2007, God "told" Pat that millions of Americans would die in a terrorist attack.
I have two simple questions. How can Robertson spew these falsehoods with a straight face? God told Pat Robertson no such thing! And why on earth does anybody pay any attention to this guy?
Well, I know the answer to the last question--the media thinks the guy is a total doof. And yes, I am paying attention to him (I'll admit it) because his continuing false prophecies make the point about the importance of the sufficiency of Scripture. If God has revealed himself in Christ, why do we need Pat Robertson?
I just wish the guy would shut up! Retire already!
Reader Comments (23)
Maybe he and Sylvia Brown will be the next co-authors!
This reminds me of the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy closes here eyes, clicks her heal and say's her incantation:
There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like...The 700 Club!
Unfortunately the flock of God is so consumed with extra biblical sources, they neglect the only source needed for spiritual wisdom and understanding, Scripture and Holy the Spirit.
What's more, even those who profess to possess a keen understanding of Scripture, negate the very principals of which it claims about itself: "The scriptures alone are able to make one wise unto salvation."
There is probably one great test to see whether Pat is a true prophet of God or not: Take his pulse! Wherever you look in Scripture, the true Prophets of God were martyred for the message they brought. If Pat is right, and he has heard from God; as Gamaliel said, “...if its of God, there’s nothing you can do to stop it. But if it’s not, it will come to nothing!” si vero ex Deo est, non poteritis dissolvere illud, ne forte et Deo repugnare inveniamini.
Pat Robertson is a shotgun prophet: Point and shoot and you’re going to hit something.
Do you really have to be a prophet to point out that death, disease, famine and the like, will always be with us? It seems to me that Pat would do far more for the King's Kingdom, if he would just stick with Scripture instead of spewing inaccurate, unbiblical mud all over the household of faith! Why not herald the Heralds’ message!
By the way, thanks Pat for the Scull and Crossbones hand gesture; I'm sure the Bavarian Illuminati will love it. What a hoot!
Mike
If they would only heed, they would not feed on the bogii that is Pat Robertson.
and the people go astray.
May God brining Patty to say
it's going to be a ratty day.
When will Christians realize the truth behind Sola Scriptora? And why can Pat keep his "Revelations" to himself?
I pray that in 2008 Pat would come into a closer walk with God and would be grounded in the bible and that he would look to God alone, not the government but Christ.
Hey, Pat, remember what Jesus said: "It is finished!" That might come in handy next time you are tempted to think we are either rewarded or punished in the present time, individually or nationally.
So, in spite of the Old Testament, we should let Pat live and keep proving how anointed he is(n't).
AMEN!
That anyone takes anything from Robertson seriously is very sad.
(That's "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath for all you tone-deaf).
JJS
And makes just as much sense.
Almost.
I personally believe that Pat Robertson is unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don't have brains, and, uh, I believe that our church, like such as 700 Club and the TBN, everywhere, like, such as. And I believe that they should, our televangelists over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., er, should help the 700 Club, and should help the TBN and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our children."
"But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to death."
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."
Who wants to cast the first stone?
http://www.twoagespilgrims.com/doctrine
Why is it, when we can look back at those who predicted the return of Christ in, say, 1844 or 1914 and rightly refer to them as false prophets, many are so reluctant to apply the same label to false prophets in our own day?
I realize most of us recognize that the label false prophet clearly fits someone like Pat Robertson, who's "prophecies" have been repeatedly proven false ... year after year after year (just witness our response to him, above!). (And think of how flippant he is in dismissing the fact that they didn't come true.) But what about all of the "evangelical" prognosticators who say, on the one hand, that we can't know the day or hour of Christ's return, and then turn right around and argue the case for a 1987 or 1994 or 2000 or whatever rapture? What about them?
Or what about a rather common remark that most of us have heard: "Well, I don't know exactly when Jesus is coming again, but I do know it will be really soon." When asked precisely how soon, many of these folks say, "Surely within just a few years. There's no doubt about it!" Based on the fact that I've been hearing this line for at least two solid decades now, I take it that "a few years" is rather flexible in meaning.
But again, why do we give any such prophecies any slack whatsoever? Are not all such prophecies false prophecies?