Jack Van Impe, infamous for his "endtimes" interpretations, has died.

[Archae]

And no "rapture."

Link to tweet

[hlthe2b]

1. Well, he was finally right about endtimes... his at least.

enough said.

[jberryhill]

2. Fear sells

[Archae]

3. Absolutely.

Van Impe has been succeeded pretty much by another "endtimes" preacher, who includes vicious anti-Jewish rhetoric to his pronouncements, Rick Wiles and his "TruNews."

The worst part about "TruNews" is that Trump gives them White House press credentials.

[jberryhill]

10. Well, hey, Rexella's back on the market

So, there's that.

[jmowreader]

17. That's okay. You can have her.

[Cirque du So-What]

4. Hear that creaking sound?

It's the gates of hell swinging wide open to receive such a distinguished new resident.

[The Genealogist]

5. No worries. Ghere are plemty of other grifters limed up to take his place

I think i remember his guy being on TV years ago. Maybe he had his wife on with him, serving as his own Ed McMahon. Hard to tell though, since these end times grifters just sort of all blend together into a big gray mass of evangelical goo.

[NBachers]

6. What will Rexella do now?

[jberryhill]

8. Move somewhere warm

The Van Impe's have been a guilty pleasure of mine for a while. That man was right round the bend crackers. But over the last year or so, I've been taking a weekly peek at their YouTube nonsense, and it increasingly seemed that she was being held hostage. Maybe she was blinking out messages in Morse code to the children they gave up on, never mentioned on air, and who apparently wanted nothing to do with them either.

Maybe she can still reconcile with her own children, move somewhere warm, and spend a first few moments away from the apocalyptic nonsense which defined them.

[Submariner]

19. My guilty pleasure too

I have to admit.

I miss the ones that speak in tongues, like Robert Tilton, they're funny when they get on a roll inventing new words. The ones that need new private jets, like Kenneth Coleman and other grifter ministers make me feel so bad I can't help them in a quest for a new Learjet G5.

Last time I saw Rexella was about 15-20 years ago, and I couldn't help but feel that the guy who announced the show, and gave Rexella spiritual tips, was also banging the hell out of her.

[jberryhill]

21. Tilton was awesome before he went to jail

He never got the same maniacal sparkle back.

But infinitely more entertaining than Peter Popoff.

[jberryhill]

33. Here you go

Looked all day for this one just for you:

[Blue Owl]

35. And a Ko Ko Shabbiah to you!

Thank you Jesus...

[jberryhill]

36. Another miracle healing....

https://www.jvim.com/well-done-good-and-faithful-servant/#comment-477

Al Catraz says:
January 20, 2020 at 9:54 AM

I started watching Jack and Rexella on YouTube by accident when I was feeding my relentless internet pornography addiction. I was watching porn for hours a day and pleasuring myself over and over. I didn’t know how much harm pornography was doing to me until I saw Jack Van Impe. Once I started watching Jack and Rexella, porn lost its grip on my manhood, and I was overcome with the Holy Spirit. I was able to finally get a job and a normal life. Whenever I have the urge to watch porn, I watch Jack and Rexella instead and it takes all of my sinful desires away. Praise Jesus!

[TlalocW]

40. I was about to say

Well, thanks for sharing but TMI then I realized you had copied and pasted someone else's testimony.

TlalocW

[Submariner]

39. That's the Bobby I remembered

thanks for digging that up. The VISA/MC/American Express televangelists just don't seem to be as colorful as he was anymore. Dianne Sawyer crushed his career

[jberryhill]

41. Yeah

At the time it was like “yeah, get him!” but then we lost his sparkle.

He did a long, rambling rebuttal. The part about how he got blood poisoning from the ink by personally handling all the prayer requests was pretty funny.

I will say that at least Jack preached something other than “send me money”. Granted, it was all barely comprehensible riffs on Rexella reading batshit World News Daily articles, and generally venting his spleen at how everyone else is going to Hell, but it wasn’t any crazier than the text he was working from.

I got on Bob’s mailing list when I was in college. It was like the weird shit of the month club.

Oh well, who knew that Jim Bakker was going to come back nuttier than squirrel shit.

[hatrack]

25. So, the Holy Trophy Wife is back on the blocK?

Yee-hah!!!

[jberryhill]

29. You can post a tribute at his site

And they do not appear to be filtering them.

[TlalocW]

42. They are

I've had to repost something about how lucky he was to live in a non-Christian nation otherwise he would have long been stoned to death in accordance with Biblical law for being a false prophet due to the many times he wrongly predicted when Armageddon would happen.

TlalocW

[Luz]

7. Ho hum.

[Liberal In Texas]

9. It's really weird how some of these assholes live so long.

And the good it seems die so young.

[jberryhill]

11. You can leave a tribute on his website

https://www.jvim.com/well-done-good-and-faithful-servant/#comment-477

I started watching Jack and Rexella on YouTube by accident when I was feeding my relentless internet pornography addiction. I was watching porn for hours a day and pleasuring myself over and over. I didn’t know how much harm pornography was doing to me until I saw Jack Van Impe. Once I started watching Jack and Rexella, porn lost its grip on my manhood, and I was overcome with the Holy Spirit. I was able to finally get a job and a normal life. Whenever I have the urge to watch porn, I watch Jack and Rexella instead and it takes all of my sinful desires away. Praise Jesus!

[MineralMan]

12. Sadly, his life ended without any realization that his beliefs were wrong.

He exists no more. He cannot learn now.

[Crunchy Frog]

15. Or he may have been a knowing con man the whole time.

[MineralMan]

16. Yes, very possibly.

[jberryhill]

32. To be fair, he's been having some computer problems...

[MineralMan]

37. LOL!

[BuffaloJackalope]

13. If you can't say anything nice ...

[dalton99a]

14. "Obama was a Muslim and part of a Muslim plot to infiltrate the US."

By the mid-1990s, Jack Van Impe Presents aired weekly in about 25,000 cities in the US and Canada, and in more than 150 other nations around the globe. Viewers were delighted by the relevance of Van Impe’s message and his detailed application of seemingly complicated Scripture. Once, for example, he calculated how much of the earth might be destroyed by nuclear war in fulfillment of Revelation 8: 7. His conclusion: exactly 18,963,194 square miles.

In the 1990s, Van Impe said he expected Christ to return between 2001 and 2012. He warned Christians to be on the lookout for the Antichrist and moves to establish a “New World Order,” or one-world government. The phrase “New World Order” was popular with far-right conspiracy theorists, including many in the militia movement. Van Impe was unfazed by the association.

Current events, however, looked very dark to Van Impe, and got darker in the 21st century. He increasingly worried about Islam after the terrorist attacks of 2001 and entertained numerous conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama, repeating false claims that Obama was a Muslim and part of a Muslim plot to infiltrate the US.

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2020/january/jack-van-impe-died-end-times-televangelist.html

[AwakeAtLast]

22. The Anti-Christ finally comes

And he misses it! But of course he wouldn't expect it to be am old, dementia ridden white man.

[redqueen]

18. He "often" spoke of end times? Wasn't that his entire show?

A conservative friend showed me that program, I honestly could not believe people would intentionally watch that stuff

[DavidDvorkin]

20. His time finally ended.

[RhodeIslandOne]

23. HOW DID HE NOT SEE THAT COMING???!!!!

[mahina]

27. How did he Nazi that coming?

I’ll be here all week

[hatrack]

24. And the world is a better place . ..

.

[Collimator]

26. Saw the occasional ad for his show.

He and his wife both had the look of crypt-keepers.

Assuming that there is any period of post mortem consciousness, I am going to assume that Van Impe was seriously pissed at not meeting Jesus.

[mahina]

28. Maybe he did and Jesus set him straight.

[Collimator]

31. Honestly, I was trying to be diplomatic.

Being a non-believer, I can just image Impe encountering some sort of infinite, radiant Great Soul and sputtering, "What, no Jesus?! Ah, Fu-" just before his consciousness is absorbed into the eternal Oneness.

Eventually, thermodynamics will have its way and recycle the energy of his soul into something useful-- like the electrical charge in a battery powering a vibrator.

[kimbutgar]

30. I hope he's frying in hell tonight for being such a liar

[Demonaut]

34. at least he'll be warm for eternity

[Happy Hoosier]

38. The end WAS nigh!

I kinda wish hell were real so he could be in it.