Robertson cites the Great Sumatra Earthquake and Tsunami, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the Great Indo-Pakistani Earthquake of 2005 as typical of the "beginnings of birth pangs" that Jesus spoke of, as taken down by Matthew and Luke.
In this regard, the National Hurricane Center has nearly run out of names for tropical storms. Hurricane Vince was, at last report, off the coast of Portugal. And the season is not over yet. Only one name, beginning with W, remains, after which the World Meteorological Organization will have to assign Greek alphabetical letters to every storm that forms for the rest of the season.
What is also worthy of note is that Pat Robertson, in his previous 700 Club broadcasts, does not accept the notion of a seven-year period of war, famine, plague, and one-world governmental oppression. Why he has studiously ignored the detailed description in Revelation 13 concerning the Beast (actually the word Therion means Murderous, Ravening Monster, from Teras, Teratos a wondrous creature), the False (literally, Lying) Prophet, the image of the Beast, the mark, the spectacle of warfare against the saints, or the enforcement-to-death of worship of the Beast and his image, I don't know. But I would agree with him that so many disasters, coupled with a coming foretaste of the Fourth Horseman in the form of Influenza H5N1, do portend the play-out of the Famous Last Words of the Bible.
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