Anybody ever see this guy on TV? Was he ever a JW? I've heard that he was, but that might just be rumor.
Dan
Jack Van Impe
by Dan B 10 Replies latest jw friends
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Stephanus
In Might and Magic VI, The Mandate of Heaven, you can learn Expert Fire Magic from Jack van Imp (Rexella is his daughter in that game). Not particularly relevant to the question above, but I felt it had to be said!
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blondie
A little bio on both of them (husband and wife)
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KSJordan
Someone told my mother once that Hal Lindsey had been a witness and that is where he knew all that stuff in his book "The Late Great Planet Earth". Does anyone know about this??
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NeonMadman
Someone told my mother once that Hal Lindsey had been a witness and that is where he knew all that stuff in his book "The Late Great Planet Earth". Does anyone know about this??
Rumors like this tend to circulate among JWs because they just can't believe that anyone outside their organization can read the Bible and understand it or explain it intelligently. The statement betrays some ignorance, and whoever is saying that has obviously not actually read Lindsey's books, since Lindsey's interpretation of prophecy is wildly different than the Watchtower's. If he had gotten his info from the JWs, then his teachings would be a lot different than they are.
Not that I'm all that crazy about Lindsey as a teacher; I thought he was hinting a bit too strongly back in the 70's and 80's that the Tribulation had to start by 1988, since that was 40 years from the founding of the nation of Israel. Very Watchtower-type reasoning, and I was almost ready to call him a false prophet, too.
The same sort of rumors used to circulate about Herbert W. Armstrong, with perhaps a bit more justification, since he at least admitted to having read some WT publications. And his booklet, The Wonderful World Tomorrow, which was widely circulated back in the 60's and 70's, read a lot like a Watchtower publication. But Armstrong had never actually been a JW, either. It got so bad that at one point he had to offer an article called No! I Was Never a Jehovah's Witness or a Seventh-day Adventist!
Tom
"The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure; to live it you had to explode." ---Bob Dylan -
joelbear
Van Impe is a great marketer. I'm sure he is worth millions.
Joel
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SixofNine
Did you really mean to use the word "worth", Joel?
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Dan B
He sure has a way of taking every single word of the Bible literally. I remember once that he quoted some scripture and said that it was foretelling cars traveling down highways. The scripture had something to do with moving lights, but it was quite a stretch to equate it with cars.
I was just curious as to what others thought of his opinions. I know my wife gets pissed at me when I watch him. She says his body language screams out volumes about him, and not in a positive way!
Dan
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Mum
I have never watched Jack Van Impe on TV. However, I think he was most influential in my becoming a JW.
When I was 15 years old, my parents had quit studying with the witnesses a couple of years earlier. For some reason, we started attending the local Baptist church. Van Impe came to that church for a revival or something; he was there for about a week.
He mentioned JW's several times. He claimed to be a former Catholic, however. Some of his "information" about JW's was incorrect or outright falsehood. I felt that he was "persecuting" the JW's and did not understand why someone so powerful and prominent would feel the need to spend so much time putting down such a small minority of people (at that time there were about 1,000,000 JW's worldwide).
The rest is history.
Sigh.......
Regards,
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Rex B13
Hey Dan,
There are real preachers out there: Charles Stanley, Adrian Rogers, Michael Yousef, David Jeremiah, Chuck Swindoll to name a few. Most ahve daily programs on Christian radio.
Rex