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Pat Robertson Predicts Worldwide Violence In 2008.

Robert Paul Reyes
January 4, 2008

http://www.americanchronicle.com/article...leID=47928

When Pat Robertson gets bored of fleecing his sheep, hawking miracle protein drinks, endorsing cross dressers for president, calling for the execution of foreign leaders and leg pressing thousands of pounds -- he makes his annual predictions.

In 2007 the aging televangelist looking into his crystal ball and predicted a nuclear terrorist attack in the United States that would result in mass casualties.

Jehovah expects perfection from his prophets; according to the Old Testament if a prophet makes one false prediction, he should be put to death.

Robertson hasn't been struck by a bolt of lighting, but he isn't taking any chances. Robertson's predictions for this year are very much on the safe side.

"Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson predicted Wednesday that 2008 will be a year of violence worldwide and a recession in the United States, followed by a major stock-market crash by 2010."

Quotation from the Associated Press

You don't have to be a prophet or a foreign relations expert to predict violence worldwide and you don't have to be an economics expert to predict a recession in the United States.

I predict that there's a good chance that this will be the last year that the 78-year-old preacher makes any predictions. This time next year Robertson may be in the Big Old Sideshow in the Sky.

Warm Christian Love
Bangalore

he gave alot of false predictions last yr.

He is right at the top of the list with Robert King

Can you prove to me in a deep, meaningful, and scriptural way that Robert King is a false prophet?

Mainly none of us are in the new covenant, just him and his other 144,000. the lies since the 80s , that the end is around the corner, its all about money to him. read his essays

Terra...Robert King isn't mentioned by name in the scriptures, but I can remember that someone tracked down and posted some of his old pronouncements on JWD (I believe) - predictions that failed (and subsequent bets that weren't honored). I'm sorry that I didn't keep the information, but I never thought I'd have a need for it.

If someone is a prophet of the Most High God, what he says comes true. I know that this may not qualify as proof in a "deep, meaningful, and scriptural way," but it's what I read. I wouldn't necessarily call him a "false prophet" as much as I'd refer to him as a non-prophet...and an occasional Lyndon LaRouche follower. You can research Mr. LaRouche yourself at:

http://www.larouchepub.com/

gus

Hi Gus: I know that the name of Robert King is not mentioned in the Bible, but his work is. I might be wrong but I don’t think he’s ever made an announcement that this or that thing was going to happen on a certain day.

Maybe he is a little bit too dedicated to his work and perhaps that is the reason why from time to time he says a thing he shouldn't say and his detractors use it as an excuse to accuse him of just about anything.

Don’t forget that God’s true prophets were always ignored until it was too late. They were not only ignored but they were even mocked by the Israelites.

"For the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will not do a thing unless he has revealed his confidential matter to his servants the prophets".- Amos 3:7-

We all know that God lets his plans be known through his prophets. It was always like that and it will always be like that. Why should it be different now? Furthermore, how are we going to know if a true prophet comes along? The Bible says that God’s sons, - prophets- are not clearly revealed until the Great Tribulation. Until that time arrives we are to guide ourselves by faith and by the Scriptures.

If Jehovah’s Witnesses are indeed God’s people, - something I firmly believe, even though they do not deserve that distinction- and if God’s people are to be judged first, then it is obvious that someone has to announce those judgements.- at least that is the prophetic pattern that we would expect-.

I don’t know about you, but as far as I’m concerned with the exception of Robert King no one has done that so vigorously. I think it is time for us to let this man alone and let him do his work.

If we don’t do that we might even end up among those who mocked God’s true prophets. We know what happened to those who did that in olden times. I surely do not want to be like one of them.

Hi Terra Nova, I do not disagree that Jehovah's Witnesses are God's people. They took on the name and will have to answer for it. And if what you say turns out to be the truth, I'd be careful who I listen to. If anyone is a true prophet, true prophets do not discredit others so scathingly as King does to Franz without just cause or scriptural backing. Having witnessed the candor of both writers I would say that one carries a far more powerful message than the other. But still it is up to us to examine the scriptures to discern it clearly.

Love,

sw

Please remember that the New Covenant does not apply to us peons according to Robert King. Is that too from Jehovah????????????

Hi SMWCK: I understand what you say and I even agree with it; and just like you, I do not agree with every single thing Robert King says and does. There at least two big disagreements that I have with him.

I do not agree with the way he treats Ray Franz and I do not agree with his policy of banning from his website people who encourage others to leave the Watchtower Society.

I’ve only read the Crisis of Conscience book and I liked it very much. I see Ray Franz as a humble, honest and conscientious man who did what he had to do when he had to do it regardless of the consequences, and if people left the Watchtower Society as a consequence of reading that book, I wonder if blaming Ray Franz for that is the fair or right thing to do.

As for banning people from his website for encouraging others to leave the Watchtower Society I can only say that Robert King finds himself between a rock and a hard place. I agree with him when he says that the time to leave the organization has not come yet, but I also think that others have scriptural reasons to think and believe otherwise and those reasons should be respected.

Paul advices us to “Flee” from those who claim to know God but deny Him due to their wicked ways. Does this apply to the Watchtower Society? Of course it does!! Sadly, he doesn’t seem to understand that some people believe it is their sacred duty before God to warn others about the dangers and horrors of the true religion.

However, I think that despite his flaws and mistakes Robert King is a man that should be taken seriously. His work is impressive and harmonious and no matter how hard I’ve tried, I just can’t prove him wrong. His writings are meaningful and in harmony with historical facts and the reality that we live in, and even though he’s done and said some foolish things in the past, I don’t think that is enough negate his work.

The fact that some of his personal opinions and beliefs have not come to pass is not a valid and good reason to write him off as a false prophet. Whatever things he said were based in his way of seeing things, because he never used the Bible to say that this or that was going to happen on a certain day.

tera nova, cant answer me? well king did say there would be no 2008 election, that there would be anarchy and Bush would remain in control and that was according to his understanding of the Bible.
You are like the bible students who worship Russel only your hero is robert king. thruth hurts.

Hi Jon: I wasn’t aware that he said that because I did not visit his forum in a long time, and even now, I only visit it from time to time. Like I told you, he’s said some foolish things in the past that he shouldn’t have said; I just hope that he learns from this lesson and never does that again.

However, the bottom line remains the same. The things that you say he said are not registered in his officials writings, and therefore, cannot be used as a definite proof to consider him a false prophet.

I’ve studied this man more deeply that anyone on this forum, and I see many similarities between him and the true prophets of ancient times. Hopefully in the next few days I’ll have the time to write an essay explaining the reasons I have to believe that Robert King is indeed a true prophet of God.

In the meantime I can only tell you that I do not worship this man. The fact that I was kicked out from his website along with many of you is living proof of that.

I can only tell you that the reason I consider Robert King a true prophet of God is because I’ve done my homework; something you haven’t done.

My problem with considering any man to be a prophet is that the initial Biblical prophecies have not yet been fulfilled. And when you write a book you risk the indelible truth of being wrong ... therefore false. Ever since 1914 the WTO hasn't had a date right yet.

Franz, unlike King, didn't try to predict anything. He merely pointed to flaws that all should be aware of. Writing a book with respect to correcting false doctrines is a lot different than declaring yourself "spirit anointed," or "spirit directed" and trying to apply apparent prophecies to some dubious future time or event before they are ready to be fulfilled. We already learned this lesson from the past. So why not stick to what we know? like waiting for the real prophecy to be fulfilled before anything new is predicted?

Love,

sw

You don't need to be "spirit-directed" to predict that 2008 will be filled with violence.