Retired televangelist Pat Robertson resurfaced this week to make any other in an extended line of his doomsday predictions.
This time, he returned to his “700 Membership” display to say that Russian President Vladimir Putin was once being pressured through God not to simplest assault Ukraine, however use the rustic as a staging floor for a warfare in opposition to Israel to satisfy biblical prophecy:
Robertson, who turns 92 this month, is a serial doomsday cheerleader. Within the Nineteen Seventies, he predicted a 1982 finishing. Within the Nineties, he predicted a 2007 finishing. In 2020, he predicted Donald Trump would win reelection ― “with out query” ― and it might result in the tip. (If that’s the case, it wasn’t a warfare that will finish the arena, as he’s lately predicting, however one thing much more herbal, like an asteroid.)
“It’s surprising destruction. It’s no longer going to be some nuclear warfare,” Robertson mentioned, in step with USA Lately. “We’re no longer going to be allowed to blow this earth up.”
He additionally has an extended historical past of hateful, divisive, racist and illiberal feedback.