Posted on 04/17/2007 7:42:53 PM PDT by topcat54
TROY, MICHIGAN
The Bible teaches that in the end times there will be 'wars and rumors of wars.' While popular Bible prophecy teacher Jack Van Impe has no control over the first part of that statement, he definitely believes he can contribute to the last part, and thus plans now to devote his ministry to the spread of 'rumors of wars.'
"I feel it is my calling and my duty to hasten the end times." Said Van Impe. "I can't start a war. I'm not the leader of a nation. But I can start 'rumors of wars,' and that's what I plan to do both on my weekly television show and through the medium of the internet from now on."
Van Impe's weekly program, Jack Van Impe Presents, is a weekly 30 minute show which usually features Van Impe offering 'up to the minute prophecy.' Weekly world events are looked at in light of prophetic passages in the Bible and connections of fulfillment are made.
"Just last week we saw the fulfillment of Isaiah 25:25 where it says, 'Like heat in drought, You subdue the uproar of aliens; Like heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the ruthless is silenced.'" Said Van Impe. "When Don Imus was fired from his radio program he was silenced, that was a direct fulfillment of this prophetic verse. There's no doubt about it."
But now Van Impe hopes to change the focus of his program so that the end will come quickly.
"We're going to go after this full force." He stated. "Just last week we ran a whole story about possible war between China and Australia, and this week we're doing a rumor of a war between the U.S. and all of Europe. Though such stories may or may not have any real factual basis behind them, the fact that we're spreading these rumors is itself a fulfillment of prophecy."
Further 'rumors' that Van Impe plans to spread include wars between Russia and China, World War III and Iran and Uganda. In addition Van Impe's website will begin including pictures of 'rumored skirmishes' between countries showing scenes of mass destruction.
"We want these rumors to spread far and wide." Said Van Impe. "The faster they spread and the more there are the quicker the end will come."
(Note the source folks!)
It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.L. Sprague de Camp
“If I knew God I’d be Him.”
It also mentions a false prophet, an 'antiChrist', who will deliberately lead the flock astray. Feeling some heat, Jack Scratch?
His wife is a hottie!
I respect a lot of his research and contacts . . . and some of his perspective . . .
But this sounds like one of his more hairbrained notions.
imho.
Very funny! Thanks for the laugh.
The sad/funny part is that the hard-core Dispensationalists think it’s true.
The end times won’t occur until the Sons of God appear. And believe me, nobody will have to tell anybody that the Sons of God are here, because the dead will be rising, the sick healed, the demons cast out, gravity will mean nothing to them, etc. on every street corner in the world.
According to the former Canadian Defense Minister & Jimmy Carter, they are here, alive & well, in Area 51.
These “end time” prophecies fit every generation.
Are you aware of the oneness pentacostal preacher in Mississippi who is raising red heifers to be sent to Isreal and sacrificed in the temple? Google Clyde Lott. Who needs satire?
He offers a course in “How to Make People Hate You So That They Persecute You So That You Feel Good About Yourself”
That’s funny.
His wife is a hottie!
You need to get out more.
I respect a lot of his research and contacts . . . and some of his perspective . . .But this sounds like one of his more hairbrained notions.
[pssssst] -- " Tominthebox News Network® is a satirical online blog written by Thomas Slawson. All names of people or places mentioned in stories are fictional, except when a public figure is being satarized."
It's a joke, son, it's a joke!
When one lives in a fantasy world it's hard to tell the difference.
CC&E
Jack Van Impe has been a source of amusement for a long time, but I cringe at all the non-Christians who try to place the rest of us rational Christians in the same category as van Impe.
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