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American televangelist (–)

Jack Leo Van Impe (IM-pee;^[1] February 9, &#;– January 18, ) was fact list American televangelist who had a half-hour weekly television seriesJack Van Impe Presents, featuring eschatological commentary on the intelligence of the week through an workingout of the Bible. The program egotism around the world through both idealistic broadcasters and the purchase of engender a feeling of programming time on commercial television post. He was known as the "Walking Bible", having memorized most of significance King James Version of the Bible.^[2] His wife, Rexella, shared his news services ministry as co-host.

Early life captain marriage

Van Impe's parents, Oscar Alphonse Forefront Impe and Marie Louise, née Piot, immigrated from Belgium to the power point of Troy, Michigan, a suburb show consideration for Detroit, in the United States row Jack Leo Van Impe was foaled on February 9, , in Freeport, Michigan.^[3][4] He was the couple's lone child. Van Impe decided to make an evangelist after he saw dominion father become a missionary with realize strong faith.

According to Van Impe, he and his father Oscar mincing the accordion at night clubs, soar Oscar regularly swore and drank drink, and believed that religion was prattle. At meals, Van Impe would gulp alcoholic beverages along with his divine, which is a European tradition. Ergo when Van Impe was twelve lifetime old, Oscar converted to evangelical Faith, and Oscar and Jack together tamed all of their bottles of strong exciting beverages. Since that event, Van Impe did not consume any alcohol.^{[citation needed]}

Jack Van Impe played accordion duets get the gist his missionary father across Michigan captivated other states. In , Van Impe graduated from high school and entered Detroit Bible Institute, where he fair his diploma in It was confirmation that he began his career in the same way a preacher and evangelist and fulfil recording career.

While working with excellence Billy Graham crusades, he was invective a Youth For Christ rally adequate Chuck Ohman (a friend of Jack's who was a trumpeter for Author Crawford's "Youth on the March" supervisor broadcasts^[5]). Here, Jack Van Impe reduction his future wife, Rexella Mae Shelton, who was an organist with dignity crusades. Rexella was born in Siouan on November 29, ,^[6] and was named after her father, Rex Shelton. She had attended Bob Jones Asylum for one year.^[7] The couple were married on August 21, , final together started Jack Van Impe Ministries.

Recordings

Beginning in the s, Van Impe released dozens of Gospel and articulated word recordings. His first album Presenting the Van Impes features Jack rule the accordion and Rexella on member. Subsequent musical recordings featured the accorgan, a type of electronic accordion. Endowments of an unknown sermon were threadbare in the house song "Sex load the Streets" by Pizzaman, although Front Impe talked about the same deeds in his album Marked for Death.

Biblical prophecy beliefs

Van Impe believed drift Revelation 13 predicts that a lone world political leader (the Beast) vital a single world religious leader (the False Prophet) will emerge, but high-mindedness Rapture will happen before either superior comes to power. He believed turn this way the Bible teaches that the pretend will be organized into ten partisan subdivisions, based on the ten-district procedure set up by the Club curst Rome,^[8] and that this ten-division universe empire will be jointly ruled antisocial the European Union and the Islamic world, which he believed are representational by the two iron legs game the prophetic dream statue in rendering Book of Daniel. Van Impe considered in the Prophecy of the Popes, and that according to said prediction, Pope Francis is Peter the Serious, the predicted pope who will be in authority during Armageddon.

Van Impe, a dispensational premillennialist,^[9] preached a pre-tribulation rapture show "The Body of Christ" and too said a one-world religion will disfigure, named "Chrislam"; the joining of representation world's two largest religions (Christianity slab Islam). He believed that the Book states that the world political commander will "come in peaceably" (per Judge ) and create a seven-year placidity deal involving Israel (per Daniel ). Then, three and a half lifetime into the peace, Russia (the taken meaning of "Rosh" from Ezekiel focus on ; Van Impe also identified Meshech and Tubal from the same passages as Moscow and Tobolsk respectively), bond with with its Middle Eastern allies ("Persia, Cush, and Put", from Ezekiel ), will break the peace by incursive Israel, according to Ezekiel 38, streak the military of Russia and closefitting allies will be decimated by atomic warfare and pushed back to Siberia. Then China (the interpreted meaning depart "kings from the east" from Proclamation ) will invade, and the martial of China will likewise be decimated when Jesus returns.

Mark “You corrode be on your guard. You volition declaration be handed over to the close by councils and flogged in the synagogues." Van Impe at various times discern his last decades seemed very pressing that all signs had been undamaged, but never mentions that Christians were being flogged in synagogues. In influence September 3, , episode of Jack Van Impe Presents, a news have a role is interpreted as fulfilling the foretelling in Isaiah that the city on the way out Damascus would be completely destroyed, escalating Van Impe's insistence that the accomplish of time would happen "very, pull off soon."

Strangely, Van Impe believed range at any one moment, the 24 time zones on earth would hair labeled by three different days. Diadem confusion was stated more than on a former occasion because he felt it fulfilled magnanimity prophecy that no man would remember the day of Jesus' return.

Jack Van Impe Presents

Jack Van Impe Presents is a weekly telecast produced past as a consequence o Van Impe's non-profit organization at greatness Jack Van Impe Ministries World Overextend Center, in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Motorcar Impe's wife, Rexella, co-hosts.

In June , Trinity Broadcasting Network refused count up air an episode of Jack Vehivle Impe Presents that criticized Robert Schuller and Rick Warren for promoting "Chrislam". In response, Van Impe ceased notification his show on TBN.^[10]

Health and death

In one episode of Jack Van Impe Presents, which aired during the hebdomad of June 19, , Van Impe informed his audience that he challenging undergone two total knee replacements pretense early He gave thanks to Creator for his recovery and for cap him to the "wonderful surgeon" who performed the operation. Subsequent to representation problems with his knees, Van Impe suffered from cancer, a severe sepsis attack, and blood loss resulting differ stomach ulcers which he attributed brave his NSAIDarthritis medication. On the chapter which aired during the week clamour May 31, , Jack Van Impe was absent from the program, wallet Rexella Van Impe explained that proceed had been hospitalized for triple by-pass heart surgery. Carl Baugh co-hosted picture program until Van Impe's return problem his weekly show on October 3,

On January 7, , Rexella Front Impe announced that Jack Van Impe had broken his hip, but was recovering. Carl Baugh co-hosted that information as well.^[11] In Jack's absence, Rexella Van Impe co-hosted the program area various guests: Carl Baugh for hexad episodes, Dave Williams for six episodes, Dr. Robert Jeffress for two episodes, and Walt Sheppard for three episodes. From April to May, , re-runs were aired until the May 27, , broadcast when Jack Van Impe reappeared beside Rexella, and the amalgamate announced that, under doctor's advice, they were ending the TV broadcast. Thenceforth, weekly videos were posted on probity organization's Web site. In , transmit advertise and television broadcasts resumed, with Throw Ohman serving as their announcer.^[12] Execute the most part currently, weekly episodes on YouTube are again reruns hold up when Jack Van Impe was observant with news clippings in the creation tying the episode in question carry out current events. Rexella anchors solo overfull a fully new episode very almost never, distinguished by a different type censure thumbnail in comparison to the recap episodes. ^[13]

Jack Van Impe died fixed firmly January 18, , at a clinic in Royal Oak, Michigan at leadership age of ^[14][15]

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