(b.March 22, 1930), is an internationally renowned broadcaster and founder of: The Christian Broadcasting Network, Inc., airing in over 70 countries; The 700 Club, reaching an average of one million households daily; International Family Entertainment, Inc., a publicly held company on the New York Stock Exchange, producing The Family Channel, a commercial cable television network reaching 95% of all cable households and 62% of all households in the U.S.; Regent University, offering master’s and doctoral degrees, accredited by the Commission of Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, with an enrollment of nearly 1400 students; and Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation, a nonprofit humanitarian organization, providing over $440 million in relief to nearly 114 million people in 50 states and 71 foreign countries since 1978. He was the recipient of the 1994 Omega Fellowship Award; Defender of Israel Award, 1994; and was selected by Newsweek as one of America’s 100 Cultural Elite. He graduated magna cum laude from Washington and Lee University; earned his juris doctor degree from Yale University Law School; and his master’s degree from New York Theological Seminary. In 1988, Pat Robertson was a candidate for the U.S. Presidency; and he is the author of nine books, including: Turning the Tide; The New Millennium; The New World Order; The Secret Kingdom, which was on the New York best-seller list, 1983, and America’s Dates with Destiny, in which he wrote:
On September 17, 1787, the day our Constitution was signed, the absolute monarch Ch’ien Lung, emperor of the Manchu (or Ch’ing) Dynasty, reigned supreme over the people of China. To guard against revolt, Chinese officials could not hold office in their home provinces, and … revolts were put down by ruthless military force.
In Japan the shogun (warriors) of the corrupt Tokugawa chamberlain Tanuma Okitsugu exercised corrupt and totalitarian authority over the Japanese.
In India, Warren Hastings, the British Governor of Bengal, had successfully defeated the influence of the fragmented Mogul dynasties that ruled India since 1600.
Catherine II was the enlightened despot of all the Russias.
Joseph II was the emperor of Austria, Bohemia and Hungary.
For almost half a century, Frederick the Great had ruled Prussia.
Louis XVI sat uneasily on his throne in France just years away from revolution, a bloody experiment in democracy, and the new tyranny of Napoleon Bonaparte.
A kind of a constitutional government had been created in the Netherlands in 1579 by the Protestant Union of Utrecht, but that constitution was really a loose federation of the northern provinces for a defense against Catholic Spain. …
What was happening in America had no real precedent, even as far back as the city-states of Greece. The only real precedent was established thousands of years before by the tribes of Israel in the covenant with God and with each other.3864