{"id":403,"date":"2008-01-03T15:38:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T15:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2008\/01\/evangelist-mum-on-wholl-win-20.php"},"modified":"2008-01-03T15:38:34","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T15:38:34","slug":"evangelist-mum-on-wholl-win-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2008\/01\/evangelist-mum-on-wholl-win-20","title":{"rendered":"Evangelist Mum on Who&#8217;ll Win 2008 Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Associated Press<\/strong><br \/>\nNorfolk, Va. &#8211; Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said Wednesday that 2008 will be a year of violence worldwide and a recession in the United States, followed by a major stock-market crash by 2010.<br \/>\nPraying about events in the coming year and sharing what he believes God has told him is an annual tradition for Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Lord was saying that there&#8217;s going to be violence and chaos in the world,&#8221; Robertson said on his &#8220;700 Club&#8221; news-and-talk show.<br \/>\n&#8220;We&#8217;ve just begun to see what&#8217;s going to happen, and the nations are going to be convulsed with violence,&#8221; he said, citing as an example unrest in Pakistan after the death of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.<br \/>\nEvangelism will increase because more people are going to be seeking God as the chaos develops, he said.<br \/>\n&#8220;We will see the presence of angels and we will see an intensification of miracles around the world, which I think is going to be a wonderful thing,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nHe also predicted that there will be a recession, oil will reach $150 a barrel and the U.S. dollar will continue to fall. He added that there will be a major stock-market crash in 2009 or 2010.<br \/>\nRobertson&#8217;s past predictions have included presidential politics; in 2004 he said God told him President Bush would be re-elected in a blowout. He declined Wednesday to say who will win the 2008 race.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ll just keep that to myself and look with horror at what may be happening,&#8221; he said with a laugh.<br \/>\nRobertson also noted that one especially horrible prediction he made last year &#8211; that a terrorist act, possibly involving a nuclear weapon, would result in a mass killing in the United States &#8211; did not come to pass.<br \/>\n&#8220;All I can think is that somehow the people of God prayed and God in his mercy spared us,&#8221; Robertson said.<br \/>\n<em>Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 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