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“The leaders have hearkened to the demands of interest groups and have led your nation into bankruptcy,” Robertson said, relaying what he says God told him. “In two years will come a time of reckoning”
Robertson continued: “Your creditors will demand payment, and there will not be enough to satisfy their claim. Your currency will shrink in value; your bonds will lose value. People on fixed incomes will suffer. Unemployment will escalate, and there will be turmoil. I will protect my people, but warn them now about what is coming. Tell them to get out of doubt and restrict purchases.
“It will not be a time of happiness. Bitter recriminations, revolutions, increasing turmoil.”
Robertson added that God told him that “in the midst of this CBN will prosper, Regent (Robertson’s university) will prosper…the ACLJ (Robertson’s legal group) will be needed like never before.”
Of course, what he is really predicting is what happens when the the debt ceiling isn’t raised in March. Chris Matthews and several other pundits are doing the same thing… doesn’t make them prophets… Come to think of it, Chris Matthews, above, looks a bit like Pat.
Joel Landon Watts is a Masters of Theological Studies student with a focus in Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific ideals of the past century. Currently, he is a TA for Old Testament at United Theological Seminary under Dr. Vivian Johnson, Associate Professor of Old Testament. His first book, Rhetorical Strategies of the Evangelist: Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark, is expected to be published by Wipf and Stock early next year. He is currently co-editing a book on moving from Fear to Faith (Energion, 2013).
It must be a genuine message from God. How else would Pat Robertson have figured out that our government is sold out to special interest groups and deeply in debt? How else would he know that debt will produce future consequences? And Who but the Author of the KJV would say “hearkened” in this day and age?
It must indeed be a word from on high
I’m picturing Pat dressed up like Oda May Brown from Ghost, and it ain’t cute…
That Christians take this dude seriously is a grave indicator of the state of intellectualism (i.e., the lack thereof) in the church.
i don’t think god is t5alking to him. this is political commentary