Pat, please stop!

Pat Robertson is at it again. On January 2nd, he made his annual predictions for the coming year. New year predictions are fun and dandy, however, according to Robertson, his predictions are based on something "God told him."
From the Associated Press:
In what has become an annual tradition of prognostications, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson predicted Tuesday that a terrorist attack on the United States would result in “mass killing” late in 2007. “I’m not necessarily saying it’s going to be nuclear,” he said during his news-and-talk television show “The 700 Club” on the Christian Broadcasting Network. “The Lord didn’t say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that.” 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.

I wish Pat Robertson would just stop. The claims to Divine Revelation are both wrong and offensive. Hebrews 1:1-2 tells us In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many time and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son... God no longer reveals himself through special audible voices. As the writers of the Westminster Confession of Faith states "Therefore it pleased the Lord, at sundry times, and in divers manner to reveal Himself, and to declare that His will unto His Church; and afterwards, for the better preserving and propagating of the truth...to commit the same wholly unto writing; which maketh the Holy Scripture to be most necessary; those former ways of God's revealing His will unto His people being now ceased.

The writers of the Confession realized Scripture taught that there is no new revelation from God. God has gloriously revealed himself by taking on flesh, walking the earth, and living the life we should have lived and dying the death we should have died. And now the life and teachings of Christ and His apostles are recorded in the NT and the canon is closed! To claim Divine Revelation is in essence to claim the Scriptures are not sufficient and not closed.

In our present day, we await the return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And until then, we live and breath by his revelation in His Word. To make claims as Mr. Robertson does is offensive and wrong because it denies the claim of Scriptures. All Scripture is breathed out by God and useful for teaching, reproof, correction, and training in righteousness so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. II Tim. 3:16

God's Word is sufficient to equip us for every good work, and Mr. Robertson's claims are even more appalling when they don't come true (such as his prediction last year of a tsunami hitting the coast of the United States in 2006). We serve a God who is truth and cannot lie! Thus, in the OT, a prophet was put to death when he made a claim of divine revelation which then did not come true. (Deut 18:20-22).

For his missed predictions he simply said "Sometimes I miss."