This day in WND history: Pat Robertson says disasters point to 2nd coming

Pat Robertson

Pat Robertson says disasters point to 2nd coming

Oct. 9, 2005: More than a decade ago, the catastrophic earthquake in South Asia in the wake of U.S. hurricanes and a major tsunami caught the eye of televangelist Pat Robertson, who said we “might be” in the End Times described in the Bible.

“These things are starting to hit with amazing regularity,” Robertson said.

Robertson, a former GOP presidential candidate and host of the “700 Club” daily Christian TV show, noted: “If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order. And for anybody who knows what it’s like to have a wife going into labor, you know how these