Distinguished American televangelist Pat Robertson – who famously predicted that an asteroid would hit Earth Donald Trump Re-elected in 2020 – the Russian president came out of retirement on Monday to say Vladimir Putin Ukraine was being ‘forced by God’ to invade.
‘I guess you could say, well, Putin’s out of mind,’ said 91-year-old Robertson during a special appearance on his old show, The 700 Club of the Christian Broadcasting Network, the Russian president’s attack on the neighboring country. said during about the decision.
‘And yes, probably so’, the old voice of Orthodox Christianity – which claims a presumption net worth According to the Observer – approved – between $200m and $1 billion.
‘But at the same time, he is being constrained by God.’
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Televangelist Pat Robertson, 91, came out of retirement on Monday and said Russian President Vladimir Putin was being ‘forced by God’ to invade Ukraine
Robertson, who left it on a sixty-year career as head – and founder – of the Christian broadcasting giant in October, spoke to the camera as he told the show’s nearly 1 million daily viewers that Ukraine was merely a ‘staging zone’. Is. Even bigger, the ‘End of Times’ war that would eventually take place in Israel.
‘He went to Ukraine, but that was not his target. Their goal was to advance against Israel, ultimately,’ said the Christian commentator, citing the Book of Ezekiel, as he predicted that the nation would eventually rise against the Middle Eastern nation with Russia in a biblical war. Will happen. Will end with Armageddon.
He urged his listeners to ‘read your Bible’ before this devastating event, because ‘this is about to pass’.
The founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network made the remarks during a special appearance at the network’s 700 club on Monday, saying the Russian president was destined to bring about “the end of the times prophesied in the Bible.”
Referring to a world map, Robertson pointed to an important ‘choke point’ near neighboring Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece and asked why Russia wanted to control that region.
“And Ezekiel 38 is the land established, and you see how important Ukraine is because you see the land bridge between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey,” Robertson said.
He said Muslim countries such as Turkey, Ukraine and Israel would join Putin in a possible victory.
Robertson previously served as host of The 700 Club, which has attracted 1 million visitors daily for more than fifty years.
‘He’ll join the little turkey’ [land] Bridge, and they will come together,’ said Robert, pointing to the map.
‘And then, you look down in North Sudan, below you is a Muslim country, and there they are all. Of course, Persia is Iran.’
He then declared: ‘And in the following days the whole region is being mobilized against Israel,’ adding that the subsequent ‘End of Times’ Armageddon event – which would result in the destruction of the world – would be of God. Way of saying, ‘I’m going to deal with this.’
The Conservative broadcasting giant said in 2020 that an asteroid would hit Earth five years after Donald Trump was re-elected
Turkey has not supported or expressed plans to engage in Russia’s invasion, and has claimed its support for Ukraine.
The veteran broadcaster’s prophecy is the latest in a series of hitherto unfulfilled prophecies predicting the end of the world, made in his old age.
In 1976, CBN Talking Head predicted that ‘a judgment was about to take place on the world’ which would result in its end in 1982.
In his 1990 book, The New Millennium, Robertson insisted again that the world would be destroyed on April 29, 2007, as USA Today reported at the time.
In 2006, he predicted that the Pacific Northwest would be devastated by a tsunami, and that ‘mass killings’ would begin in the US in 2007.
Nothing ever happened.
Robertson, pictured here in 1988, served as the voice of Orthodox Christianity during a career spanning six decades at the broadcasting giant.
Most famously, perhaps, Robertson predicted that an asteroid would destroy Earth five years after President Donald Trump won his ill-fated re-election bid in 2020.
So far that prediction also seems to have been dashed.
Months before retiring, an aging Robertson faced backlash for calling ‘critical race theory’ a ‘monstrous evil’ during the 700 club’s June broadcast.
The commentator also came under criticism in his later years for what he saw as a religious war against the LGBTQ community, which brought him under even greater scrutiny.
Eventually, in October, Robertson announced during a Friday broadcast of The 700 Club that he would step down as host of CBN’s flagship program, the day he founded the company from his home state of Virginia in 1961.
Longtime 700 Club host Robertson announced on-air in October that this would be his last appearance at the event.
Robertson has long been a powerful figure in conservative Christianity, and even unsuccessfully became president in 1988 (seen above), calling for an amendment to the constitution to ban pornography and a balanced federal budget. the wanted. sought to.
Television evangelist and conservative political activist Pat Robertson poses in the control room for his 700 Club TV show in 1985, Robertson’s CBN began airing October 1, 1961
“Today’s show will be my final as host of the 700 Club,” Robertson said at the time, vowing to return from time to time if he has a “revelation” he needs to share.
‘I thank God for everyone involved. And I want to thank you all,’ he said.
Robertson’s son Gordon has since taken over as the program’s full-time host.
Robertson has long been a powerful figure in conservative Christianity, and even failed to seek the Republican nomination in 1988 in a lengthy bid against President George HW Bush.
Robertson, aside from this prodigious presence, has shied away from broadcasting, now exclusively teaching students at Regent’s University, which he founded in 1977.