The only thing worse than some of the absurdedly stupid things Pat Robertson says, is that news media outlets continue to pick up on them. Today he stated (click here for full story):
If I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by storms," Robertson said May 8. Wednesday, he added, "there well may be something as bad as a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest.Robertson says he got this information at his annual "prayer retreat" in January. I love the preface to his comments, "If I heard the Lord right." You will look in vain in Scripture to see any real prophet ever using such an introduction to a real prophecy.
Real prophets had no problem understanding what God was telling them. Moses, for instance, entirely understood the Lord in Deut 18:20-21. Fortunately for Robertson, the provision in verse 20, "but the prophet who shall speak a word presumptiously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he shall speak in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die," is not in general practice in the United States.
In the case of Robertson, though, the last part of verse 22 should be applied, "When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptiously; you shall not be afraid of him."
Robertson is no prophet and the increasingly goofy pronouncements coming from him make it clear that no one should be afraid of him and everyone would be better off simply ignoring him.
Posted by Narnia3 at May 17, 2006 10:15 PM | TrackBack