Dear friends:

By now you have probably seen Pat Robertson's chilling predictions for the year 2007, revealed yesterday. 

For more than 35 years, Pat has gone off to himself at the end of every year to "seek the Lord" for what might be coming during the upcoming year.  He used to scribble such thoughts down on a yellow legal pad (I assume he still does) and share them at the traditional CBN staff prayer meeting on New Years Day, and then on the 700 Club television program.  It's like Moses coming down off the mountain, as the staff wait eagerly for "the word."

The news site http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/02/D8MDEM380.html reports that Pat predicted on Tuesday, January 2, 2007, that a terrorist attack on the United States would result in "mass killing" late in 2007.  Robertson said "God told him" during a recent prayer retreat that major cities and possibly millions of people will be affected by the attack, which should take place sometime after September.

Odd timing.  Just three days earlier, on December 31, 2006, the Associated Press reported: "Six in 10 people think the U.S. will be the victim of another terrorist attack next year (in 2007), more than five years after the Sept. 11 assault on New York and Washington. An identical percentage think it is likely that bad guys will unleash a biological or nuclear weapon elsewhere in the world.... One in four, 25 percent, anticipates the second coming of Jesus Christ. "  (Wow! One in four!  Mormon Glenn Beck mentioned this on his TV show tonight.)

It's odd that 60 percent of the American people are reported to already believe basically what Pat reported is a personal, divine revelation two days later!  However, it does not take a rocket scientist or divine revelation to see the possible truth of what Pat has said.  Such a possibility is all over the news and on many blogs. 

One thing Pat did not do, and which was done by the secular press no less, was to tie it to the return of Jesus.  Strangely, Pat does not believe in a pre-trib rapture and believes Christians will go through the entire Tribulation.  He is looking for the Tribulation and not the blessed hope, the antichrist and not the Christ.

The news link above also reports that Robertson said "God also told him" that U.S. policies are pushing Israel toward "national suicide."  Probably millions of Christians have been saying that for months or years.  Why is it that millions of us have known that for a long time and the Lord is just now telling Pat?

Whether or not Pat Robertson actually heard from the Lord, or whether or not 60 percent of Americans have heard a similar message from the Lord before Pat did, the fact is that world events make it all a very strong possibility.  Yes, the possibility is unthinkable, but so was 9-11, and Pearl Harbor.

We should take Pat's words seriously.  The world is a time bomb, and that bomb is now nuclear, with crazed maniacs eager to blow up everyone, including themselves. 

The fuse is getting shorter and shorter.  Jesus is getting closer and closer.

Maranatha.  Come, O Lord.

Jim