Pat Robertson: False Prophet
Posted by brittgillette on January 13th, 2007
To begin 2007, Christian Broad Network leader Pat Robertson made what has now become an annual series of predictions on world events he says will unfold during the year ahead. Robertson states that during a prayer retreat God told him late 2007 will witness a “mass killing” in the United States resulting from a major terrorist attack. “I’m not necessarily saying it’s going to be nuclear,” he said during CBN’s The 700 Club. “The Lord didn’t say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that.”
So did Pat Robertson really receive a message from God? Deuteronomy 18 sheds light on this subject:
“You may wonder, ‘How will we know whether the prophecy is from the Lord or not?’ If the prophet predicts something in the Lord’s name and it does not happen, the Lord did not give the message. That prophet has spoken on his own and need not be feared.”
Deuteronomy 18:21-22 (NLT)
To find out if Robertson really speaks to God, the Bible tells us we only need to examine his track record. In May 2006, he predicted storms and possibly a tsunami would hit the coastlines of the United States. Yet 2006 was the first year in over a decade that a major storm didn’t even develop in the Atlantic. In 2005, he predicted President Bush would experience victory after victory in his second term, including success with Social Security reform. Bush experienced arguably the two worst political years of his presidency and never achieved social security reform. In 2004, he predicted Bush would win the presidential election in a landslide. Bush won with 51% of the vote.
With a track record like this, it’s clear that Pat Robertson is not speaking to God. Otherwise, his predictions would be 100% accurate, like the prophecies of the Bible. The Bible makes it clear that Pat Robertson is a false prophet.
In the Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24), Jesus tells his disciples of numerous signs that will appear ahead of his return and the end of the age. One of those is the appearance of many false prophets. In Matthew 24:11, he states “And many false prophets will appear and will lead many people astray.”
The minimum requirements of a true prophet of God can be summarized as follows: (1) Specific (not vague) prophecies (2) 100% accuracy in prophecying (one false prophecy is all it takes to disqualify someone), and (3) Must not contradict the Bible. Pat Robertson fails this test miserably.
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