EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI 2010

In Defense of Pat Robertson's Comments

By David Ben Yakov

© 2010 David Ben Yakov / The Delusion Resistance

 

I turned on a talk-radio station at work to listen to a popular radio host named Michael Savage. I like Savage because he's not afraid to speak his mind and he often takes the side of people who are being mercilessly attacked by the press or the government. Michael is a champion for such people, that is until someone doesn't agree with his religious views; upon which time Savage will turn and finish off the job that the liberals have started. It is a sad commentary to his radio presence, but it is true none-the-less.

When I got home and got onto the internet I was amazed at how the press was going for Robertson's jugular. It reminded me of when I used to visit a fish hatchery with my dad. Being the inquisitive kid that I was, I threw a small stone into one of the tanks and I was amazed at how the water started to bubble as all the fish scurried to get that one stone, thinking it was food. In the news that I heard that day things were quite similar; but the fish were piranha and the pebble thrown into the tank was Pat Robertson.

Pat Robertson is like Michael Savage, in that he says what is on his mind and his heart and he doesn't care about what people think because his conviction is that he is right. Savage will berate anyone who doesn't agree with his stance on anything, and you would think that having been run through the mill more times that he could possibly count, he would have empathy with Pat Robertson, but alas, that was not to be. According to Savage, all of the religions of the world are like spokes in the wheel of religious truth and they all somehow point to that truth; ecumenism frosted with religious political correctness. On this particular day, Savage was being the hypocrite that he often accuses the liberal left of being. It was a sad day for me for sure. You can read more about the wheel of religion by clicking here.

You can often tell when something is a move of the powers of darkness because well meaning and/or innocent words will always be taken out of context, perverted and contorted; and they will always be used to champion some sort of revolt against a man of Yahweh, Yahweh's Word or Yahweh Himself. If you do a Google search of the internet and type in "Robertson Haiti" you will be amazed by how many people and news organizations have written about what Robertson said; and about ninety-nine percent of the opinions are negative. I can only imagine that if the press or anyone else that despises Robertson gets their hands on this article that then the pirhana will be waiting at the shore for someone to kick me into the water. I cannot however sit idly by while people use the words of a well meaning Man of Yahweh to smear him and his ministry.

Why would people smear Robertson and CBN in this way? Well think about it for a second. CBN is one of about three Christian television ministries that still maintains integrity. In a society that hates Christians and our God Yahweh, then it would make sense for the purveyors of hate in the media to single out and attempt to destroy CBN's credibility. They don't care about the charlatans who mock Yahweh with their heresies. They don't fear the abominations that are in ministry for personal gain or any lust of the flesh. No, they want to destroy the remaining pillars that hold up the temple, so to speak. In any building, if you destroy the foundation the rest of the house crumbles; and that is what the communist press (CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, et.al.) are trying to do.

Let's look at the words that inflamed so many and that caused so many to corrupt and pervert them:

"Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it," he said on Christian Broadcasting Network's "The 700 Club." "They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you'll get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal."....."ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other"...."That island of Hispaniola is one island. It is cut down the middle; on the one side is Haiti on the other is the Dominican Republic," he said. "Dominican Republic is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etc. Haiti is in desperate poverty. Same island. They need to have and we need to pray for them a great turning to God and out of this tragedy I'm optimistic something good may come. But right now we are helping the suffering people and the suffering is unimaginable."

It never ceases to amaze me that people, who have been the same people who condemn the early Puritanical Church in America of being fanatics because of the Salem Witch Trials, are the same ones who are gathering around Pat Robertson and CBN like angry villagers with torches and pitchforks demanding the head of an innocent man. The same people who who assign the Spanish Inquisition to ALL of Christianity, instead of the Catholic religion, are the persecuting Pat Robertson and CBN in their own Media Inquisition. If you want to see the real hypocrites just pick out the people who are pointing their fingers and are yelling at the top of their lungs, "hypocrite Christians."

During the media feeding frenzy, and while the communist press was tearing at the still live Pat Robertson; the staff at CBN thought in necessary to come to the defense of Pat with the following common sense statement:

CBN.com – VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., January 13, 2010 -- On today’s The 700 Club, during a segment about the devastation, suffering and humanitarian effort that is needed in Haiti, Dr. Robertson also spoke about Haiti’s history. His comments were based on the widely-discussed 1791 slave rebellion led by Boukman Dutty at Bois Caiman, where the slaves allegedly made a famous pact with the devil in exchange for victory over the French. This history, combined with the horrible state of the country, has led countless scholars and religious figures over the centuries to believe the country is cursed. Dr. Robertson never stated that the earthquake was God’s wrath. If you watch the entire video segment, Dr. Robertson’s compassion for the people of Haiti is clear. He called for prayer for them. His humanitarian arm has been working to help thousands of people in Haiti over the last year, and they are currently launching a major relief and recovery effort to help the victims of this disaster. They have sent a shipment of millions of dollars worth of medications that is now in Haiti, and their disaster team leaders are expected to arrive tomorrow and begin operations to ease the suffering.

Chris Roslan
Spokesman for CBN
[Source: CBN Website at: www.cbn.com]

I think that it the explanation of Pat's intentions is quite clear and we don't have to go into that too much more. I find it amazing how those who have decided to persecute Robertson all have letters behind their names. It used to mean that if you had a bachelor degree, a Master's degree or a Ph.D. behind your name you were a clear thinker and that you were able to rightly divide truth from lies as well as factual from fiction. Well, that is probably still true for people who love the truth; but for those who have an agenda that supposed intelligence can be used for nefarious purposes. This should not come as a surprise to any of us common folks who see the intellectual types running amok with all sorts of strange ideas. As the world is freezing they're telling us that there is global warming. As people are getting sick from H1N1 shots they they're telling us that the shots are perfectly safe. As our nation is being plunged into a debt that we will never recover from they're telling us that we can spend our way out of the mess. The thing is that these morons and imbeciles are the only ones that believe their lies. It is the supposed "common people" like us that are not supposed to see lies and deception, yet we call them on all of these things and then they deny their own misdeeds.

If Pat Robertson did one thing wrong, it was that he didn't explain his stance in a proper manner. Not that there was anything wrong with what he said; it just needed to be explained a bit further so that the intellectual cretins that run things can understand them. To do that in an effective way will require an allegory so that by explaining things in a simple manner perhaps the ignorant can understand. Yeshua did this several times when he would try to explain things to the people. This story should help the intellectually inept who art in charge of things to understand. It should explain to their hearts the intent of the lesson that Pat Robertson was trying to teach. If the schlemiels who run things still don't understand then it means that their hearts are reprobate and that they are given over to an agenda against the almighty. That is the type who will attack me for this article.

Yahweh does not per se send bad things against people. He does however allow things to happen. We live in a fallen world where bad things would run wild if Yahweh didn't offer protection by not allowing things to happen.

It is sort of like this. A King has a kingdom and a city. Those who live in the city are those who love The King. They honor and respect him and revere him and he protects them totally. There are those who live outside the city, and while they have not sworn allegiance to the King he still protects them but when marauders come he sometimes lets the marauders have their way so that the people outside the wall will want the protection that is inside the city. He cannot force them into the city because that would go against their free will, which he recognizes and honors.

The king tells those outside the city that he will protect them most of the time but that he cannot promise anything because they are not his own. He also tells them that if they decide to leave his kingdom he cannot protect them at all; that if they swear allegiance to another king they will be under his jurisdiction and his tyranny. When something or someone comes against the people outside of the city the people can run to the city wall, or they can run away and swear allegiance to the oppressor. The King can only hope that those who choose the oppressor will come to their senses someday and return to his kingdom.

So you see, what Pat Robertson was trying to say is that Yahweh didn't send the earthquake and death to the Haitian people. They were blessed when they honored His kingdom, even if they didn't swear allegiance to Him. When an adversary came (The French) the Haitian people didn't trust Yahweh to bring relief. No, instead they practiced Voodoo and asked Satan to help them. By rejecting the love and protection of Yahweh He did not curse them, but they left the blessing of Yahweh and the curse just move right in to fill the spiritual vacuum. This is a scriptural principal that is illustrated by the following:

When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in peace. But when a stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, he takes from him all his armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils. He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters. “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it swept and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first.” Luke 11:21-26

The intellectuals often fail to recognize that there is a unseen world called the Spiritual Realm. That is why whenever the words God or Satan or devil are mentioned they are often quick to criticize and label the user of such words as superstitious or religious fanatic. Had they known such things they would realize that when Haiti won independence from the French, they lost their spiritual liberty to the one that they sold their souls to; namely Satan.

It is a spiritual principle that is understood by many; that poverty, hunger, tyranny and many other malevolent things follow peoples and nations that ascribe to voodoo, witchcraft (Wicca) and the other dark arts. Nations that had their birth in the Judeo/Christian ethic have always thrived and prospered, but those whose nations or peoples were birthed in voodoo, witchcraft or shamanism or who have reverted back to such things have always fallen into decay, poverty, pestilence, hunger and death. This is the frightful path that even the United States has decided to walk down, and we see the result is not good, and it will get worse as time progresses and people spiritually regress into the things that Yahweh abhors. If you still think that this is all garbage, or if you think that my motivation is racist or hatred then I invite you to read a history of Haiti on Wikipedia online encyclopedia to see for yourself the sad and terrible history of Haiti since it gained its independence. If you won't believe the Spirit of Yahweh, then maybe the historical account will convince you. The link to Haiti's history is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Haiti

David Ben Yakov