Televangelist Pat Robertson adapted Wednesday that cracks in the Washington Monument acquired by the August 23 attack could be a affirmation from God, and the acclimatized affliction "means that we're afterpiece to the advancing of the Lord."
To explain the abate east coffer quake, Robertson acicular to the Biblical apocalypse of the end of the world, which claims there could be abeyant abashing from acclimatized disasters accomplished up to Jesus' acceptance to Earth.
On his television show, "The 700 Club," Robertson said:
"I don't want to get weird on this, so please take it for what it's worth, but it seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation, we look at that monument and we say this is one nation under God. Now there's a crack in it."
"Is that a sign from the Lord? Is that something that has significance, or is it just the result of an earthquake?" Robertson asked his viewers.
Robertson went on to say the able was symbolic, allegory it to a Biblical adventure of a ample blind disturbing as Jesus cried out during his crucifixion.
This is not the aboriginal time Robertson has appropriate that adoration played a role in causing a accustomed disaster. In 2010, he appropriate that earthquake-ravaged Haiti was "cursed" by a "pact to the devil."
