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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJack Van Impe, infamous for his "endtimes" interpretations, has died.
And no "rapture."
Link to tweet
hlthe2b
(102,343 posts)enough said.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Archae
(46,343 posts)Van Impe has been succeeded pretty much by another "endtimes" preacher, who includes vicious anti-Jewish rhetoric to his pronouncements, Rick Wiles and his "TruNews."
The worst part about "TruNews" is that Trump gives them White House press credentials.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)So, there's that.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,965 posts)It's the gates of hell swinging wide open to receive such a distinguished new resident.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)I think i remember his guy being on TV years ago. Maybe he had his wife on with him, serving as his own Ed McMahon. Hard to tell though, since these end times grifters just sort of all blend together into a big gray mass of evangelical goo.
NBachers
(17,135 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)The Van Impe's have been a guilty pleasure of mine for a while. That man was right round the bend crackers. But over the last year or so, I've been taking a weekly peek at their YouTube nonsense, and it increasingly seemed that she was being held hostage. Maybe she was blinking out messages in Morse code to the children they gave up on, never mentioned on air, and who apparently wanted nothing to do with them either.
Maybe she can still reconcile with her own children, move somewhere warm, and spend a first few moments away from the apocalyptic nonsense which defined them.
Submariner
(12,506 posts)I have to admit.
I miss the ones that speak in tongues, like Robert Tilton, they're funny when they get on a roll inventing new words. The ones that need new private jets, like Kenneth Coleman and other grifter ministers make me feel so bad I can't help them in a quest for a new Learjet G5.
Last time I saw Rexella was about 15-20 years ago, and I couldn't help but feel that the guy who announced the show, and gave Rexella spiritual tips, was also banging the hell out of her.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)He never got the same maniacal sparkle back.
But infinitely more entertaining than Peter Popoff.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Looked all day for this one just for you:
Blue Owl
(50,489 posts)Thank you Jesus...
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)https://www.jvim.com/well-done-good-and-faithful-servant/#comment-477
Al Catraz says:
January 20, 2020 at 9:54 AM
I started watching Jack and Rexella on YouTube by accident when I was feeding my relentless internet pornography addiction. I was watching porn for hours a day and pleasuring myself over and over. I didnt know how much harm pornography was doing to me until I saw Jack Van Impe. Once I started watching Jack and Rexella, porn lost its grip on my manhood, and I was overcome with the Holy Spirit. I was able to finally get a job and a normal life. Whenever I have the urge to watch porn, I watch Jack and Rexella instead and it takes all of my sinful desires away. Praise Jesus!
TlalocW
(15,389 posts)Well, thanks for sharing but TMI then I realized you had copied and pasted someone else's testimony.
TlalocW
Submariner
(12,506 posts)thanks for digging that up. The VISA/MC/American Express televangelists just don't seem to be as colorful as he was anymore. Dianne Sawyer crushed his career
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)At the time it was like yeah, get him! but then we lost his sparkle.
He did a long, rambling rebuttal. The part about how he got blood poisoning from the ink by personally handling all the prayer requests was pretty funny.
I will say that at least Jack preached something other than send me money. Granted, it was all barely comprehensible riffs on Rexella reading batshit World News Daily articles, and generally venting his spleen at how everyone else is going to Hell, but it wasnt any crazier than the text he was working from.
I got on Bobs mailing list when I was in college. It was like the weird shit of the month club.
Oh well, who knew that Jim Bakker was going to come back nuttier than squirrel shit.
hatrack
(59,592 posts)Yee-hah!!!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)And they do not appear to be filtering them.
TlalocW
(15,389 posts)I've had to repost something about how lucky he was to live in a non-Christian nation otherwise he would have long been stoned to death in accordance with Biblical law for being a false prophet due to the many times he wrongly predicted when Armageddon would happen.
TlalocW
Liberal In Texas
(13,570 posts)And the good it seems die so young.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)https://www.jvim.com/well-done-good-and-faithful-servant/#comment-477
I started watching Jack and Rexella on YouTube by accident when I was feeding my relentless internet pornography addiction. I was watching porn for hours a day and pleasuring myself over and over. I didnt know how much harm pornography was doing to me until I saw Jack Van Impe. Once I started watching Jack and Rexella, porn lost its grip on my manhood, and I was overcome with the Holy Spirit. I was able to finally get a job and a normal life. Whenever I have the urge to watch porn, I watch Jack and Rexella instead and it takes all of my sinful desires away. Praise Jesus!
MineralMan
(146,325 posts)He exists no more. He cannot learn now.
Crunchy Frog
(26,619 posts)MineralMan
(146,325 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)MineralMan
(146,325 posts)BuffaloJackalope
(818 posts)dalton99a
(81,568 posts)In the 1990s, Van Impe said he expected Christ to return between 2001 and 2012. He warned Christians to be on the lookout for the Antichrist and moves to establish a New World Order, or one-world government. The phrase New World Order was popular with far-right conspiracy theorists, including many in the militia movement. Van Impe was unfazed by the association.
Current events, however, looked very dark to Van Impe, and got darker in the 21st century. He increasingly worried about Islam after the terrorist attacks of 2001 and entertained numerous conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama, repeating false claims that Obama was a Muslim and part of a Muslim plot to infiltrate the US.
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2020/january/jack-van-impe-died-end-times-televangelist.html
AwakeAtLast
(14,133 posts)And he misses it! But of course he wouldn't expect it to be am old, dementia ridden white man.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)A conservative friend showed me that program, I honestly could not believe people would intentionally watch that stuff
DavidDvorkin
(19,483 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)mahina
(17,693 posts)Ill be here all week
hatrack
(59,592 posts).
Collimator
(1,639 posts)He and his wife both had the look of crypt-keepers.
Assuming that there is any period of post mortem consciousness, I am going to assume that Van Impe was seriously pissed at not meeting Jesus.
mahina
(17,693 posts)Collimator
(1,639 posts)Being a non-believer, I can just image Impe encountering some sort of infinite, radiant Great Soul and sputtering, "What, no Jesus?! Ah, Fu-" just before his consciousness is absorbed into the eternal Oneness.
Eventually, thermodynamics will have its way and recycle the energy of his soul into something useful-- like the electrical charge in a battery powering a vibrator.
kimbutgar
(21,177 posts)Demonaut
(8,924 posts)Happy Hoosier
(7,376 posts)I kinda wish hell were real so he could be in it.