False Prophets

Evangelist Pat Robertson suggested that the recent east coast earthquake was God getting “mildly peeved” at men on the east coast who act effeminate. He also suggested God cracked the Washington monument in order to represent a crack in America as a “great nation”, and he even likened that crack to the rent veil in the Temple when Jesus cried out as he died upon the cross. Robertson prayed that God will direct Hurricane Irene away from the east coast. I guess God and Pat Robertson do not care if it hits Puerto Rico and the islands of the Caribbean.

Is it any wonder why people reject the gospel when men like Pat Robertson and Harold Camping make ridiculous statements like these? They misrepresent the nature of God in this age of grace, they smear the gospel of God's amazing grace, and they draw attention to themselves. God deliver us from such. The true follower of Jesus, like Moses and Paul, would pray that the hurricane would steer clear of the poor even if it meant hitting us, assuming God directs such events. It rains upon the just and the unjust.