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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 |