Jack Van Impe
Jack Van Impe | |
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Born | Jack Leo Van Impe February 9, 1931 Freeport, Michigan, U.S. |
Died | January 18, 2020 Royal Oak, Michigan, U.S. | (aged 88)
Education | Detroit Bible Institute |
Occupation(s) | televangelist and author |
Known for | Founder of Jack Van Impe Ministries International (JVIM) Host of the Jack Van Impe Presents syndicated TV program |
Spouse |
Rexella Mae Shelton (m. 1954) |
Website | https://www.jvim.com |
Jack Leo Van Impe (
Early life and marriage
Van Impe's parents, Oscar Alphonse Van Impe and Marie Louise, née Piot, immigrated from Belgium to the city of Troy, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, in the United States in 1929. Jack Leo Van Impe was born on February 9, 1931, in Freeport, Michigan.[3][4] He was the couple's only child. Van Impe decided to become an evangelist after he saw his father become a missionary with very strong faith.
According to Van Impe, he and his father Oscar played the accordion at night clubs, and Oscar regularly swore and drank alcohol, and believed that religion was hogwash. At meals, Van Impe would drink alcoholic beverages along with his father, which is a European tradition. Then when Van Impe was twelve years old, Oscar converted to evangelical Christianity, and Oscar and Jack together smashed all of their bottles of alcoholic beverages. Since that event, Van Impe did not consume any alcohol.[citation needed]
Jack Van Impe played accordion duets with his
While working with the
Recordings
Beginning in the 1950s, Van Impe released dozens of
Biblical prophecy beliefs
Van Impe believed that
Van Impe, a
Mark 13:9 “You must be on your guard. You will be handed over to the local councils and flogged in the synagogues." Van Impe at various times in his last decades seemed very urgent that all signs had been fulfilled, but never mentions that Christians were being flogged in synagogues. In the September 3, 2016, episode of Jack Van Impe Presents, a news headline is interpreted as fulfilling the prophecy in Isaiah that the city of Damascus would be completely destroyed, increasing Van Impe's insistence that the end of time would happen "very, very soon."
Strangely, Van Impe believed that at any one moment, the 24 time zones on earth would be labeled by three different days. His confusion was stated more than once because he felt it fulfilled the prophecy that no man would know the day of Jesus' return.
Jack Van Impe Presents
Jack Van Impe Presents is a weekly telecast produced by Van Impe's non-profit organization at the Jack Van Impe Ministries World Outreach Center, in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Van Impe's wife, Rexella, co-hosts.
In June 2011, Trinity Broadcasting Network refused to air an episode of Jack Van Impe Presents that criticized Robert Schuller and Rick Warren for promoting "Chrislam". In response, Van Impe ceased airing his show on TBN.[10]
Health and death
In one episode of Jack Van Impe Presents, which aired during the week of June 19, 2006, Van Impe informed his audience that he had undergone two total
On January 7, 2017, Rexella Van Impe announced that Jack Van Impe had broken his hip, but was recovering. Carl Baugh co-hosted that program as well.[11] In Jack's absence, Rexella Van Impe co-hosted the program with various guests: Carl Baugh for six episodes, Dave Williams for six episodes, Dr. Robert Jeffress for two episodes, and Walt Sheppard for three episodes. From April to May, 2017, re-runs were aired until the May 27, 2017, broadcast when Jack Van Impe reappeared beside Rexella, and the couple announced that, under doctor's advice, they were ending the TV broadcast. Thereafter, weekly videos were posted on the organization's Web site. In 2018, radio and television broadcasts resumed, with Chuck Ohman serving as their announcer.[12] For the most part currently, weekly episodes on YouTube are again reruns from when Jack Van Impe was alive with news clippings in the beginning tying the episode in question to current events. Rexella anchors solo in a fully new episode very rarely, distinguished by a different type of thumbnail in comparison to the rerun episodes. [13]
Jack Van Impe died on January 18, 2020, at a hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan at the age of 88.[14][15]
References
- ^ Dias, Elizabeth. "Jack Van Impe, End Times Preacher on TV, Is Dead at 88," The New York Times, Wednesday, January 22, 2020. Retrieved January 23, 2020
- ^ Otto, Mary (May 16, 1997). "At the cusp of two millennia, more people believe the Book of Revelation's code will be cracked soon". Knight Ridder. Archived from the original on September 9, 2018. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
- ^ Religious Leaders of America, 2nd ed., Gale Group, 1999
- ISBN 0840790007.
- ^ Douglas Yeo. "An Interview with Bill Pearce". Online Trombone Journal. Archived from the original on January 16, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
- ^ "Rexella Van Impe". 98.3 KDAR FM. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
- ^ Silliman, Daniel (January 19, 2020). "Died: Jack Van Impe, Televangelist Who Saw Signs of End Times". Christianity Today. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
- ^ Announced in "Regionalized and Adaptive Model of the Global World System", as part of the Strategy for Survival Project. This revealed the Club's goal of dividing the world into ten political/economic regions which would unite the entire world under a single form of government. These regions are: North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Japan, Rest of Developed World, Latin America, Middle East, Rest of Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and China.
The same plan was published in a Club of Rome book called Mankind at the Turning Point: Club of Rome Report, Regionalized and Adaptive Model of the Global World System, Report on the Progress in the Strategy for Survival Project of the Club of Rome, Mihajlo Mesarovic and Eduard Pestel, Directors, "CONFIDENTIAL", September 17, 1973.
- ^ Dias, Elizabeth (January 22, 2020). "Jack Van Impe, End Times Preacher on TV, Is Dead at 88". The New York Times. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
- ^ Banks, Adelle M. "Jack Van Impe Leaves TBN After Criticism Of Rick Warren, Robert Schuller", Huffington Post. June. 2011. Retrieved June 16, 2019.
- ^ "Jack Van Impe Presents", 7 January 2017
- ^ "Jack Van Impe Returns to WATC on September 3" Archived September 9, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, WATC-DT (retrieved September 10, 2018).
- ^ "Jack Van Impe Ministries". YouTube. Alphabet. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
- ^ Dias, Elizabeth (January 22, 2020). "Jack Van Impe, End Times Preacher on TV, Is Dead at 88" – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "Well done, good and faithful servant..." JVIM. October 24, 2020. Archived from the original on February 1, 2020. Retrieved January 20, 2020.
External links
- Jack Van Impe Ministries World Outreach Ministries website
- Jack Van Impe at Rapture Ready
- Jack Van Impe (And Rexella) Archived February 20, 2020, at the Wayback Machine: Premillennial Dispenationalist Preterist Study Archive, preteristarchive.com
- Heart Disease in Christ's Body Book review from Middle Town Bible Church