Pat Robertson: God Told Me Who The Next President Will Be (VIDEO)

Christian conservative leader Pat Robertson says he has a secret straight from God: He knows who the next president of the United States will be.

"I think He showed me about the next president, but I'm not supposed to talk about that so I'll leave you in the dark -- probably just as well -- but I think I know who it's gonna be," Robertson said Tuesday on the Christian Broadcasting Network's "700 Club."

(Video above via Right Wing Watch)

Robertson then went on to recite the message he claimed to have been told by God. According to Robertson, God doesn't support President Barack Obama's agenda and says that only "overwhelming prayer" can bring a new leader who will stop the country from "disintegrating":

Your country will be torn apart by internal stress. A house divided cannot stand. Your president holds a radical view of the direction of your country which is at odds with the majority. Expect chaos and paralysis. Your president holds a view which is at the odds with the majority -- it's a radical view of the future of this country, and so that's why we're having this division. This is a spiritual battle which can only be won by overwhelming prayer. The future of the world is at stake because if America falls, there's no longer a strong champion of freedom and a champion of the oppressed of the world. There must be an urgent call to prayer.

Robertson frequently delves into the political realm with his evangelism.

He earlier counseled the GOP presidential candidates to avoid stepping into radical territory with their campaigns.

"Those people in the Republican primary have got to lay off of this stuff," he exclaimed in October. "If they want to lose, this is the game for losers."

Despite this warning, he's been especially vocal on social issues such as gay rights, which have proven to be quite visible in Iowa. The entire GOP field opposes gay marriage rights, drawing a number of public protests along the campaign trail in Iowa, a state where such unions have been legalized.

Robertson has been more controversial with his comments, recently saying that gays can "un-acquire" their sexuality. It's just the latest in a string of comments that the gay community has found offensive.

On Tuesday, however, Robertson said that God told him the nation's downfall would be triggered by an economic collapse. He suggested that God told him this would come about if Obama was elected to another term.

"And God said, this is not my judgment, they are bringing it upon themselves," Robertson explained.

Comments

[mariona808]

45 minutes ago ( 4:43 AM)

lLETSpray for pat robertson cuz god the holy spirit has left him years ago . who is covering him and praying for him ,or is GOD showing us who been in wolf clothen pertending too be a sheep all these years ..whats in the dark will come too light .

[mariona808]

58 minutes ago ( 4:29 AM)

omg pat robertson .GOD the HOLY SPIRIT HAS LEFT YOU YEARS AGO .you need prayer cause you are going against the word of god .

[Meta Irie]

01:47 AM on 03/01/2013

I've just read this article (post election).
The claim mentioned above does not make sense.

Let's assume God did talk to Mr. Robertson. Only one or two possibilities (none of the minor candidates were not going to make it):
1) Romney. Did God get it wrong?
2) Obama. Ok, God was right, but it sounds like Mr. Robertson would not have voted for Obama;
thus, he voted against the future.
But who he voted for is not the issue. Here's the illogical part: if God did indeed say it was going to be Obama, then why warn of the impending doom? (economic collapse, chaos, paralysis, etc).

As if to day: you can change the future by voting against what God said would happen anyway.
But how could you change the future that God had foreseen?

Lastly, it doesn't make sense that even though the majority was "at odds with the direction of the country", yet the majority didn't succeed in replacing the president.
Wouldn't the votes of the majority would have elected Romney instead?

In either case (Romney or Obama), my assumption leads to absurd situations.
Therefore, my assumption that God talked to Mr. Robertson about the outcome of the election
must be mistaken. QED.

[RedEsquid]

02:53 PM on 02/27/2013

logically:
God is infallible.
Pat is talking to a supernatural body.
The body was wrong, and therefor, not god.
Other supernatural candidates?
Could it be ... Satan?

I really miss church lady, sorry.

[cartwright9547]

12:43 AM on 02/27/2013

Or Pat Robertson even lol

[Fred 48]

02:37 PM on 12/21/2012

Is this the same god that told you to run for president with tax exempt church money? Or is it the one that told you the world would end in 1982? How about the one that led you to call on the U.S. government to kill a foreign leader ( on television! ) for not playing ball with the CIA? Maybe it's the god that told you the Sept. 11th attacks were punishment for America allowing gays to exist, feminists to have rights, and the ACLU to take up cases you deem wrong. The God that real belivers believe in is one of love, compassion and respect, based on the teachings of Jesus, not on the cherry pickings from the Old Testament. Fear, bigotry and hate are an easy sell. You might want to bring that up in a discussion group meeting with Jerry Fallwell when the two of you are reunited. Can you check with your god to see how soon we can expect that?

[laura5801]

01:07 PM on 11/25/2012

Wow...........that was a week wasted!

[valashno1]

01:24 PM on 11/14/2012

So Mr Pat, what about your comment, "God Told Me Who The Next President Will Be". If I was a member of your congregation I would be running for the hills since imaginary Gods appear to be keeping your company. What's next, Kool aid? Don't drink it yall, run Forest run.

[Bella Stone]

04:41 PM on 11/13/2012

Is Old Pat still tax exempt as a "church"? He's no different from all of the other agitators. Tax him in a punitive, far reaching, retroactive way. We may eliminate a large portion of the deficit in doing so.

[Ezra Black]

04:01 PM on 11/13/2012

He needs to be ashamed of himself ... but he isn't

[bpulliam]

05:46 PM on 12/08/2012

LET US PRAY--that Pat's "secret" can wait--and do not send money to him if he declares a
need to visit the "prayer tower" for ANYTHING. I try to atleast keep up with Pat because one
of the "mysteries of the ages" is WHY--OH YES LORD--WHY PAT HAS NOT BEEN GATHERED TO HIS FATHERS YEARS AGO!!!!!!!!!! Pat serves no earthly purpose that I have
determined, and should be forced to pay back the money sent to him from earnest but ignorant
people of "faith". I do not believe in censorship ordinarily, but Pat has a high elevation of those who have been around long enough, or"those who should be silenced, because they've been on long enough." Among those so honored would be Glen Beck in his Thomas Paine
outfit. Actually, smiting would do.

[Akiko Fujishima]

05:54 PM on 11/06/2012

God told him, but he uses a non-definitive like "think" instead of a definite like "know". I'm not a Christian, but I don't think the Christian God appreciates his "flock" speaking for him. And to cover his butt, he's not going to tell us who he "thinks" is going to win based on what God told him. What a load of hooey, it's just like when they said the world was going to end in 2000, and again several other times after that.. and we're still here.. it's guys like him that give the good and intelligent Christians I know are out there, a very bad name. *smh*

[WarriorLemming]

01:40 PM on 11/07/2012

I agree, Christians like Robertson do more to drive away people from the faith. When so-called 'good Christians" sit by and watch voter suppression and out-right lying about the President people can see this. If people say they love God but their actions (and in some cases silence) say an entirely different thing, people notice. I didn't see one fundamentalist stand up and say this is wrong about voter suppression, birtherism and other flagrant lies and dirty dealings.

[ski dog]

12:22 AM on 10/25/2012

Obama will win and America will be torn apart by revolution. Americans will not continue to sit idly by as he drowns us in debt and destroys our credit rating all while increasing foreign aid by 80%.

[Cedric Collins]

06:50 PM on 10/04/2012

If God has shown this to Pat Robertson, then he would not be contradicting himself. From the beginning of time God has been accurate in his revealing things to man. Robertson is saying that he thinks he knows who will be the next president. Either God has shown him who it will be or not. From his statement, "He thinks," it seems that he is trying to cover himself if things happen to pan out differently.

[chito bautista]

08:57 PM on 09/10/2012

Considering Pat's batting .000 predicting the future, this has got to be good news for Obama. I think his brother Willis did the wrong thing by "pat, pat, patting" Marion Gordon Robertson in the cheek That;s how he got his nickname, Pat. Should have tried :smack, smack, smack" instead.

[imsureidontcare]

02:23 PM on 08/23/2012

Humans are so funny. As a species we are intelligent enough to have self awareness which makes us stooopid enough to think we're so important we must never end. So some time long ago the geniuses that be started assuming there MUST be some all knowing thingy that created us. And since he created US he must have made everything cuz that would conveniently explain all sorts of stuff we wondered about. As time went on we learned a lot but we never seemed to let go of this nagging desire to hope we continue after we die. To me this scenario helps describe why here in the 21st century there can be a church next door to a high tech lab. We have come SO far as a species but we will never be able to accept that once the biological processes within us that give us a sense of who and what we are stop functioning, that we simply cease to be. Its a frightening concept to enough people that we group together and wish and hope (prayer) for this obvious fact to be false. Yup...we're funny.