Pat Robertson

Why?

I don't understand his incessant need to make predictions which he deems "prophecies" as he almost always claims they come from God. His latest notion that the Haitian earthquake was divine punishment for their making a deal with the devil to get out from under French oppression is a head scratcher.



Here's the problem I have. Pat no longer has credibility in the prophecy department nor should he. Here is a list of a few that have never come to pass:

•In 1980, Robertson predicted the start of World War III, telling his audience that God said the year would be full of "sorrow and bloodshed that will have no end soon, for the world is being torn apart, and my kingdom shall rise from the ruins of it." He also prophecied in the same year that the Soviet Union would invade the Middle East to seize its oil reserves.
•In 1988, Robertson claimed that God told him to run for president. He did not win the Republican primary.
•In his 1991 book The New World Order, Robertson forecast that U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller would be elected president in 1996.
•In 1998, Robertson threatened that, as punishment for flying rainbow flags during Disney World's annual Gay Days event, the city of Orlando would be struck by "earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor".
•In 2004, Robertson predicted that George W. Bush would win reelection in "a blowout". Although Bush was reelected, it was by 50.7% to 48.3% - the closest ever margin for a sitting president.
•In January 2006, Robertson forecast that the U.S. midterm elections would leave the Republican party in control of Congress. He also predicted that the Iraq war would "come to a successful conclusion" that year and U.S. troops would begin withdrawing.
•Robertson also predicted in 2006 that devastating storms and hurricanes would lash the U.S. coast. He must have thought this a particularly safe guess, but in fact no hurricanes made landfall in the U.S. in that year.

Now, in the Old Testament, if you were a "prophet" and one of your "prophecies" was incorrect, you were stoned. That means dead. That's because you weren't speaking on God's behalf. Either you were trying to make yourself great by using God's name for your benefit or you were serving Satan. Two choices. Neither one is pretty.

Pat and the 700 Club do a lot of good things. His prayers seem genuine and earnest and they very well may be. I don't know his heart. What I do know is that claiming to hear directly from God and then making subsequent predictions that don't come true, does not glorify God and is a stumbling block to the ministry and to many who are desperately searching for the truth.

I don't know why Pat insists on this annual tradition...but I think it has a lot more to do with him than it does with God.

 http://www.bloggingtheologically.com/2012/08/20/backpedaling-and-public-christianity/