Are Jack Van Impe's predictions Biblical?

[Dave Slayer]

Are Jack Van Impe's predictions Biblical?

 

[MMarc]

Which ones?

 

[mutzrein]

Has anyone notice these hyperlinks inserted into our posts lead to non Christian web sites - and one in this thread leads directly to a foretune tellers web site - the sort of stuff that scripture forbids. What's going on here?

 

[Dave Slayer]

Which ones?

He often makes a lot of predictions on the end of the world and the return of Christ.

 

[Bick]

I'm not familiar with the man's predictions, but if he has the Church/Body of Christ coming back to the earth with Christ after the Rapture, then he is wrong!

 

[follower of Christ]

Has anyone notice these hyperlinks inserted into our posts lead to non Christian web sites - and one in this thread leads directly to a foretune tellers web site - the sort of stuff that scripture forbids. What's going on here?

Its content placed ads placed by software to help pay for hosting, Id guess. I had to take it off my christian forums and studies sight because it was putting up all sorts of 'easy divorce' ads that I hardly wanted on my website that its trying to save marriages.
Hopefully they can filter out what bad links, but if not we're either stuck with it or ownership may need to find another revenue source.

 

[turnorburn]

I can remember Jack and his radio spot back in 1973, I quit watching the telly so I'm not
sure if he's on or not. I do remember this "He and wife Drusilla" were always patting each
other on the backs convinced the knew the way. Are his predictions biblical? Don't know
like I said I quit watching the telly. :naughty


turnorburn

 

[Destructus86]

Jack Van Impe

What do you all think of this guy? I think he's a false prophet, but my parents believe every word this guy says. Someone who proclaims to be a prophet cannot be wrong...yet this guy is wrong quite often.
Found this interesting:
http://www.ministryserver.com/rwsr/part05_Famed_false_prophets.htm#Jack

In ancient times if someone claimed to be a prophet and made a bad prediction, they were killed. The bible even warns about prophets that make false predictions...so why do so many follow this guy when he clearly keeps uping the date?

I just don't understand why people fall for this? It really bothers me my parents are into him....

 

[Destructus86]

He keeps changing his dates and making false predicitions, so no.

 

[reba]

Deu 18:21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
Deu 18:22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

 

[Gazelle]

Yes! He is excellent and true to the gospel. He and his ministry has won over 2 1/2 MILLION. People to Christ and that is just from those who report.

The man has been considered to be " the walking Bible". And now knows over 14,000 verses in memory. He can pull any of those verse indiviidually if he needs to....evenat his age!

The "dates" someone refers to would only be subjective to begin with. When he presents prophecy it is adapted to our latest knowledge and how it could be the actual fulfillment of certain prophecy.

He does not set dates. But when you can study and draw on that many verses at once, you have to know he is connecting the dots God gave us in his word.

 

[reba]

Words of Van Impe...."Let's figure that out again--1948.5 plus 51.4 equals 1999.9--around September of the year 1999. Now, we are not date-setters! Of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not he angels of heaven, but my father only (Matthew 24:36). But wait! Don't say, `No one can know the APPROXIMATE time when Christ will return,' for Jesus also said in verse 33 that we will know when it is near, even at the doors."

In the Jan-Feb 1997 issue of Perhaps Today Van Impe claimed that the year 2001 “will see the start of the Great Tribulation. Political chaos, natural disasters, nuclear war and the worldwide rise of Islam will usher in mankind's final hour.â€

In 1998, Van Impe had this to say about the 16th century French mystic Nostradamus;

â€Now, Nostradamus said that the king of terror would appear November of 1999. I believe Nostradamus knew his bible and knew what the six-day theory was, and so he could put it all together.†Jack Van Impe Presents October 5, 1998


These end time preachers have learned to be as vague as the astrologers.

 

[reba]

This snippet is out of the yk2 panic... We can all have our thoughts and fears but when a preacher says things like this i find it out of line ."..But the Holy Spirit awakened me a few months ago and warned me as to what was coming and that I should warn you." God is never wrong....


â€The dire warnings in this emergency video are gleaned exclusively from secular experts in over 300 reports. The facts: No event in history has connected mankind to one common adversary until now. The millennial bug jeopardizes our way of life in ways never imagined.â€

â€I was going to make this video next year, around February, March. But the Holy Spirit awakened me a few months ago and warned me as to what was coming and that I should warn you. And I'll tell you, this is perhaps the most important video you'll ever receive concerning your own survival and what to do to prepare for what's coming.†Jack Van Impe Show, September 28, 1998

 

[Gazelle]

That quote doesn't say Christ is coming absolutely in 1999. Yes, there are numbers that GOD gives us in HIS BOOK. We are blessed to study and to look for HIS COMING every hour.

There are always changes... and will be until the time of His coming... deal with it. It's the way God works. And the way satan scrambles... satan also doesn't know the time of His coming... so satan has to have all his ducks in a row for any given time. I suspect this is why over the years we have had so many different people who COULD HAVE been set up to be the anti christ or false prophet...because satan has to have someone step in at the drop of a bucket... or to put it more spiritually, at the twinkling of an eye.

As Christ delays (and that's another theological term that is worth studying) satan has to scramble around to keep viable, suitable evil people to step in.

The concept of Christ's return is yet another wonderful study, as it's fashioned after the Hebrew traditional wedding. Only the Father knows... and will affirm and "allow" Christ to return when the wedding house (our mansions??? :D ) are ready. Praise God!


If you want to truly bash someone worth while, try the charlatan Mike Murdock. Now there's a false prophet you can really sink your teeth into, imo.

But leave the Van Impe's alone ... all of you...or... I will pray against you to God and petition Him to change you. Be well.

 

[Webb]

"Are Jack Van Impe's predictions predictable?"

Of course not! Any discerning student of the Bible should know that. So what if he has memorized 14,000 scriptures, the devil quoted scripture to Jesus.

 

[Sinthesis]

But leave the Van Impe's alone ... all of you...or... I will pray against you to God and petition Him to change you. Be well.

If you really believed the Van Impe's were correct then wouldn't you, as a good Christian, pray for God to change his critics anyway?

 

[Gazelle]

:D Ah but I DO pray FOR them...for all of you (and even you who don't post but read).

Praying for someone is quite different than praying against someone.

 

[Gazelle]

"Are Jack Van Impe's predictions predictable?"

Of course not! Any discerning student of the Bible should know that. So what if he has memorized 14,000 scriptures, the devil quoted scripture to Jesus.

Be careful please. Speaking against a good preacher is not taken lightly by God.
Part of his testimony and background:

I am the son of Belgian immigrants. My parents settled in Detroit, Michigan where 40,000 of our people resided. Dad became the entertainer at the Belgian night-clubs and dance halls. During these years he would have absolutely nothing to do with religion, claiming atheism as his ideology.

Because of this background, I never went to church and had no knowledge of the Bible and had never received any religious training — including Christianity. Later in life, my father had a midnight encounter with God, the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. All this occurred as I entered my teenage years.

Having never heard about Christ or the Bible, my religious knowledge was one of total ignorance. Had you told me that an Apostle and an Epistle were husband and wife like Sodom and Gomorrah, I would have believed you. At that point in life, I found Christ, and from that young age onward began to study God’s Word, attended and graduated from a Christian college, and even today continue to study to "Show myself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth" (II Timothy 2:15).

To date, I have read over 10,000 volumes. My bookcases in my study and basement are loaded with volumes I have personally read, extending from wall to wall — the hardback covers in my study — the paperbacks in my basement. I have filled five filing cabinets with thousands of articles from periodicals read and collected over a period of 50 years. I have devoured the literary works of John Bunyan, Luther, Calvin, Wesley and scores of others from every denominational background. Practically every systematic theological work has also been read and marked from such outstanding scholars as Hodge, Strong, Buswell, Huffer, Shedd, Lockyer, Chafer and lesser-known theologians. Every major scriptural commentary, Bible dictionary and religious encyclopedia has also been reviewed. I could go on and on. The point being made is that I am not a novice when it comes to the correct interpretation of God’s Word.

 

[reba]

2.5: Respect each others' opinions. Address issues, not persons or personalities. Give other members the respect you would want them to give yourself.

 

[Vic C.]

2.5: Respect each others' opinions. Address issues, not persons or personalities. Give other members the respect you would want them to give yourself.

I second that.