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TV Evangelist Jack Van Impe dead at 88

His show still aired on KNDO usually at 11:30 or midnight on Sunday, as of 2019. Long career. He's up with the Lord now.
 
Van Impe didn't set exact dates for the end like Harold Camping, but he set time frames that Jesus would return in the 70's 80, 90's, etc., and he was just as guilty as Camping, and just as wrong.
 
Van Impe came off as almost gleeful when he reported the deaths of brown people in natural disasters. "Wow, Rexella, 1000 people died in that tsunami. The rapture's right around the corner now!" Preaching that hew would not die and instead, meet the other white evangelicals in the sky. Now, he's not raptured, just dead.
 
I won't question his salvation. Only God knows that. But I can see him getting to Heaven and God telling him "Boy were YOU wrong!!!" :rolleyes:
 
Yeah I tuned across him maybe 2 or 3 months ago. He had a lot of scarring around his lip,
as if he had perhaps had a bout with shingles.
 
He was probably the best anchorman for Christianity of all time. He definitely had media skills. I found him somewhat compelling as a tv performer and that is what he will be remembered for. RIP.
 
For his weird apocalyptic Dispensationalist, America-first Christianity maybe. I won't dispute his TV performance and sales skills. Garner Ted Armstrong may have been best in his class. I didn't believe a word he said, but he was the Walter Cronkite of his brand of Christianity.




seatownmedia said:
He was probably the best anchorman for Christianity of all time. He definitely had media skills. I found him somewhat compelling as a tv performer and that is what he will be remembered for. RIP.
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gr8oldies said:
For his weird apocalyptic Dispensationalist, America-first Christianity maybe. I won't dispute his TV performance and sales skills. Garner Ted Armstrong may have been best in his class. I didn't believe a word he said, but he was the Walter Cronkite of his brand of Christianity.
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Armstrong was superb. No apocalyptic ranting, no scolding his audience about how they'd be going to hell if they didn't give right now to his ministry. I didn't buy his message either, but his delivery put me at ease immediately and made what he was talking about interesting enough that I'd stick around far longer than I did for most televangelists -- except for Dr. Gene Scott, a born entertainer with a sharp tongu. If Armstrong was the Cronkite of televangelism, Scott was the Imus.
 
Armstrong could get pretty apocalyptic (especially in those cold war 70s), but other than plugs for the Plain Truth magazine, he did do any on-air fundraising.



CTListener said:
Armstrong was superb. No apocalyptic ranting, no scolding his audience about how they'd be going to hell if they didn't give right now to his ministry. I didn't buy his message either, but his delivery put me at ease immediately and made what he was talking about interesting enough that I'd stick around far longer than I did for most televangelists -- except for Dr. Gene Scott, a born entertainer with a sharp tongu. If Armstrong was the Cronkite of televangelism, Scott was the Imus.
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