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Roman Catholicism, Unity, The Pope & Endtimes Rexella: Friends, if you watch our program, you know that we quote many, many sources. Our Protestant friends such as Billy Graham, who refers to the coming of the Lord frequently in his messages; our Jewish sources that say Messiah is coming very, very soon.
Today we'd like to be quoting some Catholic sources, primarily the Pope, who says that Jesus is coming very soon. But first I would like to refer to something where he makes a very compelling plea, and you see him there in deep prayer that this plea might be fulfilled. It's from the L'Osservatore Romano that I would like for you to see the plea that he is making. "We must overcome our differences." Again, "Credibility of our witness depends on Christian unity." And again, "From dynamic prayer flows love for others."
He has been referring to the coming of the Lord, but he's also been referring to the need to have love in the body of Christ, in Christianity. This is something that you've been referring to also, Jack.Jack: Rexella, for years I was very bigoted and I knew every separatist text there was. Romans 16:17, "Avoid them," 2 Corinthians 6:14, "Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers," 2 John, verse 8, "If there comes any unto you and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God's speed." And I attacked many wonderful Christians, many wonderful Catholic Christians, and those in other groups. But about 15, 16 years ago, the Holy Spirit broke my heart to show me how wrong this all was, that all Christians from all denominations, including our wonderful Catholic brothers and sisters are members of that one body, for by one Spirit are we all, all baptized into one body, 1 Corinthians 5:13; that we're all members of the bride of Christ, Revelation 19:7; and our God is not a polygamist, having two brides, two wives, Catholics and Protestants, but we are one. And I saw Psalm 133:1, "Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity." And I saw the prayer of Jesus in John 17:21 where He said, "Father, I will that they all might be one, that the world might believe that You sent Me." And I saw the command of God, of God, in Ephesians 4:3-6, where it says we are to endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, for there is one body and one Spirit. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all Who's above all and through all and in you all.
God started to change me. I remember our papers in my separatist movement, how they constantly attacked Billy Graham because of his love for Catholics. One time they tore him apart, because Billy said "the cross on the Catholic church is the same cross that I have on my Protestant church." And I said, "How can Billy Graham sleep at night." Oh, the bitterness that they heave out against this man.
But that man changed me and I saw that love. And then I appreciated the Southern Baptist Convention, because Billy was one of the members of their group, and they never once objected to his proclaiming love for Catholics and all of God's children. Thank you, Billy and the Southern Baptist Convention.Rexella: Jack, you know what? People come to me now and they say "What denomination are you? What denomination is Jack?" You know what I like to say? "I'm a Christian."
Jack: Yeah, Acts 11:26, "The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch."
Rexella: So Protestants should love Protestants, we should love Catholics, Catholics should love Protestants, we should love the Greek Orthodox.
Jack: We're all members of the one body. All the different denominations represent these different fingers. But some folks won't let us do this: get together.
Rexella: Okay. Let's see how we get into that one body despite certain tendencies today to place ourselves in the position of saying "We are worthy outside of the Lord. We can enter heaven outside of the Lord."
Here's some beautiful sermon titles that Pope John Paul II gave in L'Osservatore Romano. "Jesus Christ the Source of Hope." Look at the next one. "Christ Makes the Cross a Tree of" - what? - "a Tree of Life." Again, "Put the Cross of Christ in Your Life." And then, "Be Men of Supernatural Faith and Royalty Through Christ."
And then at St. Peter's Basilica, December 12, 1997, the Pope had this to day: "I exhort the pastors of the American continent to proclaim ceaselessly the living Christ our sole salvation." Now he had a burden for some of the priests here in the United States that they continue preaching the only way of salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord, and I think that was pretty important.Jack: Oh, I have such respect for Pope John Paul II. I read every one of his sermons that bear witness with my spirit. I get stimulated, stirred, blessed, and he often uses John 14:6, that Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life, and John 12:31, "If I," Jesus said, "be lifted up, I'll draw all men unto Me."
In the beginning of the 20th century a group of men got together from all denominations and said if anyone accepts these five fundamentals of the faith, he is a fundamentalist. So originally it was a wonderful term. And our Catholic brothers and sisters agree totally with us on these five points: That Jesus Christ was God from all eternity, 1 Timothy 3:16; that He came through the womb of the virgin Mary, Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:23; that He died on the cross and was buried and rose again the third day for our sins, 1 Corinthians 15:3; and that it was through the shedding of his precious, efficacious blood that we're washed, Ephesians 1:7 and Revelation 1:5; and that He rose again the third day, 2 Timothy 2:8 and that He's coming again. For He said, "If I go away, I will come again and receive you unto Myself," John 14:3.
So we preach the same bible. I read the New Catechism, 1,800 points. I accept 99% of it. Why should we divide over 1%? A lot of Protestant groups, I have as much as 1% disagreement with, you know. So we need to love one another and put aside the secondary things and stick to the fundamentals of Jesus, Jesus, He death and resurrection and coming again.Rexella: Well, we all have our distinctives in the different denominations, but, as you said, Jack, it's those five things that we can agree upon.
Well, from the magazine entitled The Challenge which comes out of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, they reported on an article from 1938 which had a prophecy in it by the Blessed Fastina. And it goes like this: "Out of Poland will come that spark that will prepare the world for the second coming of Christ."Jack: That spark was Pope John Paul, and you know, he is the first Polish pope in history, and out of Poland he would arise to prepare the people for the second coming. That's why he believes in it with all of his heart.
Rexella: He's the first one in all history?
Jack: The first Polish pope.
Rexella: Out of Poland. Well, in his book, The Keys of This Blood, Malachi Martin indicates that the current pope believes the world is very close to witnessing unusual latter-day events. Now we have heard, I'm sure you have, of Hal Lindsey. He's a good friend of ours, best-selling author or The Late, Great Planet Earth, and a close friend of Malachi Martin. And he reports that Pope John Paul II expects the return of Christ in his lifetime. Now, Jack, he is an elderly man.
Jack: 78 years old.
Rexella: Yes, and he says that it could be in his lifetime. That's quite a statement!
Jack: Oh, it really is! Rexella, I read his Easter sermon in L'Osservatore Romano, and he's talking about the resurrection using John 5:28-29, "Marvel not at this, for the hour is coming in which all that are in the grave shall hear His voice and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation."
But he blessed my heart when he quoted Philippians 3, verses 20 and 21, "Out citizenship is in heaven, from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, Who, when He comes, will change our lowly bodies that they might be fashioned like His glorious body." And of course, in bible prophecy, that has to do with the rapture.
Now this may shock some of you: the rapture cannot be found in my King James bible, but it can be found in the Latin Vulgate translated by Jerome. He's the first one to ever use the term rapture, from rapturo[sp] in the Latin. And that's when He says, "Come up hither," Revelation 4:1. "And then the dead in Christ shall rise and we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So shall we ever be with the Lord." That's 1 Thessalonians 4:17-18. And that will all happen in the twinkling of an eye, 1 Corinthians 15:52. And it's great to know that he's talking that way, but more so, he's talking about Christ's return to earth as we're going to see.Rexella: Yes, well up front in the program I did mention that the pope is talking a great deal about the coming of the Lord, and certainly he prays for the coming of the Lord to be very, very near and here you see him. He's proclaiming this in the L'Osservatore Romano. Pope John Paul II in the closing ceremony of his twentieth anniversary prayed, "Come, Lord Jesus, to establish the Kingdom in the world, the Kingdom of Your Father and our Father, a Kingdom of life and salvation, a Kingdom of justice, love and peace."
Jack: He prayed that two months ago.
Rexella: Yes, he did. And then another article that he gave in the magazine The Vatican, he says, "Within the dimension of time the history of salvation unfolds, and its goal is the glorious return of the Son of God." Now, I know you will agree he is speaking frequently about the return of the Lord.
Jack: And Malachi Martin, that great Jesuit, states that much of this talk about Jubilee 2000 has in mind that the Lord could come at any time.
This glorious appearing of Christ is described in Matthew 24:27, "As the lightning cometh out of the east and shineth unto the west, so also shall the coming of the Son of Man be." And when He comes, His feet will touch down upon the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, Zachariah 14:4. And He will then come regally and royally on that white horse, Revelation 19:11, and the armies in heaven follow Him. That's those who were taken previously. "The Lord cometh with 10,000s of His saints," Jude 14. When He comes, He comes, and you've heard me say this week after week, as the King of kings and Lord of lords and He will rule and reign for 1000 years, Revelation 20:4. Rexella, this was the teaching of the Catholic church for the first 430 years of Christendom. In the year 325, 318 bishops of the church gathered from all over the world for the Council of Nicea and re-affirmed the doctrine of the 1000 year reign of Christ upon the earth, that great Millennium. Then, sorrowfully, error crept into Christendom later, and it's in all of our groups today, that when Christ comes, the world blows up, it's over. That's not what the church taught for 430 years. Let's go back to our foundation, our roots, and we'll see more about this in a moment..Rexella: Ted and Maureen Flynn have written a book titled The Thunder of Justice. There you see it. And I have chosen four of the prophecies that they have given out of here, and we're going to deal with them very, very quickly, go back and forth here, and the first one is that "the first sign of the spread of errors which leads to the lose of faith and apostasy." Now these errors are being propagated by false teachers, by renowned theologians, and they say even within "our church," which is the Roman Catholic church. Now, Jack, being Roman Catholics, this is a Catholic book, they're saying that some of their teachers are spreading some false errors.
Jack: Challenge Magazine, out of Canada, Inside the Vatican magazine, The New Oxford Review, all Catholic periodicals, say there is a real battle with the Cardinals and Bishops now. Some are for the pope, some are against, some believe what he's teaching, some don't. Some like what he says about the return of Christ. Others are doing everything they can to work against it. Why? Because 1 Timothy 4:1 says that in the latter days some shall depart from the faith. And in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 it says, "Let no man deceive you, for that day Christ's return shall not come except there come a falling away first," an apostasia in the Greek, an apostatizing, turning away from the truth. And Pope John Paul II is very alarmed, and he's even making the colleges toe the line now in the near future. They cannot be teaching there if they don't teach the truth.
Rexella: Great, Jack. Is that happening in some of our Protestant churches too?
Jack: We've had it since 1900. We've been way ahead of the Catholics in apostasy.
Rexella: The second sign that they dealt with in this book is the outbreak of wars. We see that everywhere.
Jack: That's Matthew 24:7-8, Mark 13:7-8, and, of course, the message of Fatima was, and it was sort of revealed in Germany when the pope spoke for Cardinal Rathsinger[sp] that that third secret has to be with Russia sending a plague across this world. That's when she marches against Israel, Ezekiel 38 and 39.
Rexella: The third sign is the blood persecution of those who have been faithful to Jesus and His gospel.
Jack: "You shall be hated of all nations for My name's sake," Matthew 24:9. "The time will come when whosoever kills you will think he's doing God a service," John 16:2. Of course, millions are slaughtered in Revelation 13:15 and Revelation 20:4. "I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for Jesus and for the Word of God."
Rexella: Mmmm, so very well said, Jack. And the fourth sign is the horrible sacrilege perpetrated by the antichrist.
Jack: This next statement will shock you! Malachi Martin, the great Jesuit scholar, who taught at the Vatican, who's a close friend of Pope John Paul II, said we will probably see the New World Order, a world government, by the year 2000 or shortly thereafter, but Pope John Paul II wants nothing to do with it, but he's afraid that his successor, the future pope, might.
Isn't that what the bible teaches? Do you know that under sacred tradition, and Bishop Sheen took his statement from sacred tradition, that the final pope is to defect from the faith. That is what the Catholic church has always taught and this pope is afraid that his successor might join in with the New World Order, a world government. That world government arises, Revelation 13:1, the revived Roman Empire, the European Union. And there's a religious leader in Revelation 13:11 who has the two horns of a lamb but speaks as a dragon. The two horns of a lamb identifies him with the Lamb of God, Jesus, John 1:29, but his speech as the speech of a dragon identifies him with the power of Satan, Revelation 20:4. Exactly what sacred theology teaches in the Catholic church. And the pope is afraid that this might happen very, very soon. But let's see why.Rexella: Well, you know what, Jack, there have been many articles written on who might be the next pope, and here's the cover of U.S. News and World Report. "The Next Pope: The Surprising Steps John Paul II Has Taken to Shape the Choice of His Successor." He had this to say: "We are standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has ever experienced. We're now facing the final confrontation between the church and the antichurch." Very powerful statement.
Jack: He's speaking about Cardinals within the movement who are liberals, and he's afraid that one of them could be that next pope. Now, this is tremendous! In the book Thunder of Justice, and the book After the Darkness, it says there will only be three more popes after Pope John XXIII. Who were they? Pope Paul VI, number one, Pope John Paul I and Pope John Paul II, so the final one after that would be the defector. It was the archbishop of Ireland in 1133 called Malachi, later St. Malachi, who gave the predictions of all the popes, 111 of them, covering 850 years, and when he got to number 111, it was Pope John Paul II, and the one following him would probably be Peter Romano, the defector from Christianity, which would fit right in to Revelation 13:1, 13:11, when it is the tribulation hour defined in Revelation chapters 6 to 18, but Christ would soon appear after that, within months. That's how near it all is, folks, for His coming to the earth.
.Rexella: You know, friends, I think this program is one of the most needed programs we've had in a long time. I don't want to go home, seeing the Lord, hating anybody, Jack.
Jack: No, I don't know if we can go home that way, Rexella, because we know we've passed from death unto life because we love the brethren. Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer, and no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. (Jack Van Impe Show, January 27, 1999)
Hints At Y2K Leading to Anti-Christ; Holy Spirit Warned Him Jack Van Impe: Decursey, along with others, is saying we need a world leader. In fact, last week we reported that some of the top experts globally are saying "we need strong world leaders, and specifically one to control everything, and we believe he's waiting in the wings." Well, you know, the bible teaches in Daniel, Chapter 2 and Daniel Chapter 7 that at the end, the seventh world empire will produce such a man, and that seventh world empire mentioned in Revelation 17:10 is the European Union, the revived Roman empire. And Revelation 13:1 says that he will arise out of the sea, the Mediterranean area, where the European Union nations are located, and he will have such charm, such ability, that all the world will marvel after him, Revelation 13:3. And he has power over all kindred, tongues, people and nations, verse 7, and with this computer problem that Decursey and others are worried about, we're going to see many feel that way. This individual will probably be able to correct it all because he creates a new system in Revelation 13:16-18, whereby no man can buy or sell without it. So apparently the system has been corrected through this individual.
Rexella: I can't get over it. Jack has just put this computer problem - you have done a beautiful job, Jack - in putting this computer problem in a biblical setting, that there's going to arise someone that will take care of the problem.
Jack: Right.
Jack: Rexella, we need 5 billion, 4 hundred million dollars to correct our own problem, and even if we had the money, it's not going to solve it. Why? We have to bring in an additional 300,000 computer programmers just to get it ready. And the estimates are that 50% of our American computers will not be ready, and it could be as low as 37%, and even if we did get everything corrected, the rest of the world will not, as we will be seeing in the next few weeks. This is shocking!
And we are to warn you! Ezekiel 3:17 says "Warn my people." Ezekiel 33:3, "Blow the trumpet and warn the people." Oh, 1 Thessalonians 5:14, Paul says, "Warn the unruly." You know what that is, in Webster's Dictionary? That's the uncontrolled, the disorderly. And when this confusion, mass confusion comes, there will be a lot of disorderliness in the nation.
Paul was concerned, and this is my heart now. This is the way I want to be. Acts 20:31, "Therefore, watch and remember, that by the space of 3 years I ceased not to warn my people day and night, day and night, with tears."Jack: These are not our predictions. We hope they are wrong. But if they're right, this could be the prelude that leads us into the tribulation hour of Revelation 6-18, and the Great Tribulation of 7:14.
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Jack: Rexella, 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: Computer experts from around the world tell us that the nations of earth will not be ready and there could be calamity and mass devastation. Confusion? Listen to Jesus. He said, "just before I return, nations will be in distress with confusion." Look up that word "perplexity" in Luke 21:25, in Webster's Dictionary and you'll find it means confusion. The next verse says "men's hearts will fail them for fear for looking after those things which shall come to pass on the earth." Jesus went on to say in Luke 21:9, "when you hear of wars and commotions," that which causes confusion, "be not terrified, for these things must first come." First come? Why? Verse 28, "When these things begin to come to pass," and it's going to begin January 1, 2000, "then look up. Lift up your heads, for your redemption draws nigh," and that's the redemption of the body, Romans 8:23, at the time of the rapture, when He says, "Come up hither," Revelation 4:1, and we're caught up in the twinkling of an eye to meet the Lord Jesus, 1 Corinthians 15:22. And so it's all so near. But he went on to say, "when these things are coming to pass," and it looks like it's going to happen very soon, "then you know My kingdom is near. I'm ready to return as the King of kings and the Lord of lords," Revelation 19:16, for that 1000 year reign on the earth, Revelation 20:4.
Rexella: So it may get worse, but it's going to get better.
Jack: Oh, yes.
(Jack Van Impe Show, September 28, 1998)
Jesus to Return 2001-2012 Jack: The Jews said God created the world in 6 days, Genesis 1:31, and He rested on the seventh day, Genesis 2:2. And since a day is like a thousand years, Psalm 90, verse 4, that means the world will go on for 6,000 years and then our Meshia, our Messiah, will come. And Rabbi Blesh said that event is now at the door, the messianic age. The Christians: same thing. In 2 Peter 3:3 it says "Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers saying 'Yeah, where's the promise of His coming? Since our grandparents fell asleep, nothing's changed.'" But he goes on, context, verse 10: "The day of the Lord will come," when? Verse 8, a day is like a thousand years, the thousand years is like a day. After 6,000 years. And that hits, not at 2000, but 2001, so don't wear your white sheets January 1, 2000. You've got another year to go, if you're going to be accurate. Then, I believe, because of calendar changes, it could be anywhere from 2001 to 2012. We don't set a day or an hour, Matthew 24:36, but we believe it's near, even at the door, Matthew 24:33. And please study Matthew 16:28 and Matthew 17:1, after six days Jesus took them up to a mountain and He showed them what it's going to be like when His kingdom arrived on earth, when? After 6 days, 6,000 years. Oh, it's all so near. (Jack Van Impe Show, TBN, December 1, 1999)
Concerning Y2K, the Anti-Christ and Nostradamus And Jesus said, "I'm going to tell you when My return is approximately at the door." Luke 21:25. Nations, not nation, singular, nations, plural. Global, as you just heard Rexella quote. "Nations shall be in distress with confusion." The confusion is so great that men's hearts will be failing them for fear for looking after those things which shall come to pass on the earth.
However, since it is global, I believe it will take a global ruler to solve the problem. 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 Show, October 5, 1998)
May.14,05 Windows Real Jack talks about Preterism
Rexella: Well, I'm sure you've that you've heard of the wildly popular book series entitled "Left Behind" written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. Here they are, "Apocalyptic, and on the top of the bestseller list."
Well, this is a special report that you see here from the American Free Press. "Is a Religious Faction Dictating American Foreign Policy?" They are attacking, actually, Tim LaHaye and those who are his proponents -- end times, bible prophecy, and what is going on in the world in connection with what we see today. In fact, I am going to read to you in a minute what they had to say about Jack Van Impe.. but, it's a movement against bible prophecy! Jack? This movement, who are these people?
Jack: They are called Preterists (Jack's prn: pree-ter-ists). And they say that every sign was fulfilled by 70A.D., so that from 71 A.D. onward, no prophecy could be fulfilled. It was finished once for all and forever. And some of them have become angry with me because I said "that is more baloney than Oscar Meyer ever packaged. And I'm gonna keep saing it. And I am thrilled that the Pre-Trib research center, Dr. Falwell's school, is now through Tim LaHaye and others putting out a six hundred page book exposing this movement. And they have sent me an unedited manuscript and it is powerful. And I want everyone to know that I am going to expose this in the month of January, because I believe it is one of the most deadly, heretical things that has ever hit the church - along with Amillennialism, that there will be no one thousand year reign of Christ, according to Revelation twenty, verse four.
Rexella: Well, in this article from this paper that I quoted a moment ago, it says this, "Is it possible that Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Hal Lindsey, Tim LaHaye, Jack VanImpe, and all of the famed prophecy experts are wrong? And that we are really (not) living in the "Last Days?" Is it possible that modern day end time believers are dead wrong, and that the biblical last time - days already occurred?
Now, I understand that this movement believes that all the signs that we talk about, and all the things that we connect with what's happening in the world today, happened thousands of years ago, Jack.
Jack: (ear to ear grin while nodding no) I could go through the whole Bible and show them how wrong they are, and I believe that they are the ignorant brethren of First Thessalonians 4:13 (laughing).
I'm going to do something, Rexella. They try to make it look like even the book of Revelation was written in 60 A.D., so that none of those prophecies could ever happen again. But I'm going to show you something here. Folks, listen carefully.
Chapter one, verse seven - "He cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him." The extremists in this movement say He came. Where is He? Where is He?
Chapter four, verse one - We hear the words, "come up hither." The four and twenty elders are laying their crowns at Jesus' feet, verses ten and eleven. You cannot be crowned until the resurrection of the just. (Luke 14:14)
Where did that resurrection occur?
When were all those graves opened?
How come we're still here?
In chapter five, verse nine, they're singing. These are the ones who are raptured up, through the "come up hither," Revelation 4:1. And guess what they're singing: "We shall reign on the earth." When did they do that?
In chapter six, verse eight - The fourth horseman of the Apocalypse seized one-fourth of the earth destroyed through the Beast of the Earth - West Nile Fever, and all the rest. When did that ever occur? Come on, now.
In chapter eight, verse seven - A third part of the trees is burned.
Chapter nine, verse eighteen - By these three was a third of men killed by the fire, smoke and brimstone. When did that ever happen?
In chapter eleven, verse fifteen - Christ returns. He puts a stop to those who are destroying the earth. And at that time they beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning-hooks and they learned war no more, Isaiah 2:4, Micah 4:3.
Hey! That's all we've known since 70A.D. is wars and rumors of wars. In fact, according to the Associated Press, just in 1999, 2000, 2001, we've averaged sixty-five conflicts a year - that's one-third of the nations on earth.
We can keep on going.
Chapter thirteen, verse one - The Antichrist arises.. out of the European Union.
Now, listen to me.
This is seventy years after 70 A.D., and the great church father Irenaeus (Jack's prn: Uh-rain-e-us) said, "The Antichrist shall sit in the temple and dupe his followers." Shall! That's 140. That's seventy years after 70 A.D.
We can go on and on.
Revelation sixteen, verse sixteen - The battle of Armageddon is fought.
Verse eighteen - The greatest earthquake in history occurs.
Verse twenty-one - There are hailstones falling from heaven, weighing eighty to a hundred and twenty pounds. When did that all happen?Rexella: (unintelligible)
Jack: In chapter nineteen, Christ returns on a white horse. The armies in heaven follow him. He comes as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, verse sixteen. And there is the Revived Roman Empire's army waiting to beat Him in verse nineteen. The European Union. When did that happen?
In chapter twenty, verses eleven to fifteen the great judgment day occurs - on and on! Hey. That's more baloney they've preached than.. Oscar Meyer ever thought about packaging.
Rexella: Alright, Jack. That's very convincing. Here are some things that could not have been fulfilled..
[story about clothes implanted with 'smart fibers,' technology, and knowledge doubling every 22 months]
Jack: The fifth generation computer.. will be able to do everything.. because it will be alive. Oh. That didn't happen in 70A.D.
Rexella: No. 70A.D. was when the Preterists say that all the signs were fulfilled? Right? My, my.
[moving on] Well, Elvis Presley..
Jack snipes at Preterists throughout broadcast
Jack: [16:08] And I don't want to become obnixious, but none of this happened before 70A.D. I'm sorry, you Preterists are really off base.
Jack Van Impe
(And Rexella)PREMILLENNIAL DISPENSATIONALIST
"God's called me to be a spokesman to warn people (about Preterism) today, Rexella."
2000 Refutation of Preterism | Jack's 6/19/2002 Attack | Jack's 9/21/2002 Attack | JVI Frequently Asked Questions | On the Edge of Eternity
DISPENSATIONALIST DEMENTIA
"Procreation still takes place during this era of time because those who survived the tribulation hour enter the Millennium with human bodies. The believers upon the thrones possess resurrected bodies and do not bear children, but the others do." (Revelation Revealed, p. 239)"Those who oppose the teaching of a literal one-thousand year reign of Christ upon earth are in direct opposition to the Word of God!" (Revelation Revealed, p. 233)
"Only the spiritually blind can deny the fact of a literal millennium. Only the willfully ignorant can claim that the teaching is based on just one chapter of the Bible." (Revelation Revealed, p. 236)
"Procreation still takes place during this era of time because those who survived the tribulation hour enter the Millennium with human bodies. The believers upon the thrones possess resurrected bodies and do not bear children, but the others do. Consequently, the children born during this one-thousand-year period are born with the old Adamic, or sin nature which has been an inherent part of man ever since the fall of man ever since the fall of Adam and Eve. Many of them, of course, accept Christ as their personal saviour, but many do not! Satan's release, then, is to determine whether or not Christ is real to these children of the Millennium, or whether they have been submissive simply because He ruled with a 'rod of iron.'" (Revelation Revealed, p. 239)
"By the year 2001, there will be global chaos. (It will) usher in international chaos such as we've never seen in our history.. drought, war, malaria, and hunger afflicting entire populations throughout the [African] continent..." ("On the Edge of Eternity")
The number 6 in Roman numerals is made up of the letters, VI. The ancient Greek number 6 was taken from the sixth letter of their alphabet, the letter sigma which looks like the English letter s. Returning to the Babylonian empire and their sexagesimal system of numbers, the [computer] programmer considered that the possibility that their letter A equaled 6. Thus, from the three great world empires of history, he found that the composition of the number 666 spells the word VISA the exact name of todays most accepted and popular credit card (11:59 and Counting, pp.106,107)
(JVI's Refutation of Preterism)
Jack : The Preterist view is the one that all the prophecies of the Bible happened in the first century, and therefore have no relationship to today. Oh, really? When did we ever see 1/3 of the earth burned (Revelation 8:7)?1/3 of humanity destroyed through fire, smoke and brimstone (Revelation 9:18)? When did we ever see every living creature in the sea die (Revelation 16:3)? Or the battle of Armageddon fought in the earth (Revelation 16:16), accompanied by the greatest earthquake in history (v.18), accompanied by chucks of ice 120 pounds in weight falling to the ground (v.21) ?
You better re-think your view.
Rexella: So in other words, people who believe in the Preterist theory believe that all the things that we look, say will come, have already happened.
Jack: Yes. Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke chapter 17,21, have happened, and all these things are passe, finshed - baloney! (laughter)
"Video Review" @ SurfMetro.com By Seanbaby
If you're anything like me, you spent January 1, 2000, in sheer panic, sure that the world was about to end and humping all the things you secretly wanted to hump during all those years of non-anarchy. And after society decided NOT to melt down into chaos, you were stuck in an awkward situation, probably with a cantaloupe down your pants. It could have been more embarrassing, though. You could have been a biblical prophet.
YOUR HOSTS, DR. JACK VAN IMPE AND REXELLA
2000 Time Bomb is an 80-minute newscast about the end of the Earth hosted by the most cheerful doomsayers you'll ever meet, Dr. Jack Van Impe and his wife Rexella. As they lovingly announce on the back of their video's box, ''See how the effects of this predicted computer catastrophe coincide with Bible prophecy regarding the coming of the Lord and the latter days of time on this earth!'' Right next to that sentence describing the simultaneous horrors about to destroy all life on our planet is this picture of Dr. Jack and Rexella grinning.That doesn't inspire confidence. How are viewers going to believe that we're all about to die if the people telling us look like they're on their way to a dinner party? I'm not saying Jack and Rexella have to use a picture of themselves stealing an armful of canned goods from a convenience store, but their predictions of Armageddon would be more believable if they used a photo where they were at least screaming in panic.
Both of the hosts have a special talent to help spread fear through God's love. Dr. Jack, for example, can take a line from the Bible about ANYTHING, interpret it into a prophecy about Y2K, and blow his own mind with it. ''Izekiel 12:25; 'And lo he doth braid the hair of the pony...' think about that: some computers have braided wires... and ponies are nature's calendars... praise the word of God! You see this millenium crisis was predicted right here in the Bible!''
Rexella acts as the video's comic relief. She doesn't slip on banana peels or wisecracks, but she will make you laugh every 30 or 40 seconds when the camera cuts to show how completely baffled she is by the insanity coming out of her husband's mouth. Her confused nod gets its best workout in one segment where Dr. Van Impe (hysterically pronounced ''Impie'') explains how Heaven is broken up into three areas. There's Heaven Number One, which is our atmosphere, made up of the ionosphere, the stratosphere (he lists all the atmospheric layers here to show off his education, but it sort of backfires since I could swear he puts a ''pancake-osphere'' in there somewhere). Then there's Heaven Number Two, which is from the top of our atmosphere into outer space. The Third Heaven, which is ''unpronounceable,'' is past outer space. It's where God lives. Now, Satan was kicked out of Heaven Number Three, so that means he currently controls outer space and our atmosphere. And stay with me here, since he controls the air in our atmosphere... he controls the electricity! That, of course, means Satan controls our computers. And while viewers are trying to wrap their heads around that, Rexella interrupts to say, ''Satan could sure take advantage of the situation.'' Whether you follow the advice of two insane people sending their message of panic out on electrodes controlled by Satan or not, you have to admit we're in a lot of trouble.
SATAN!
Now that you have no illusions that Satan isn't behind our computer problems, you're ready to hear more from the back of the 2000 Time Bomb box: ''The so-called 'millenium bug' could scramble the electronic minds of computers worldwide in the year 2000... and the universal panic inspired could be the catalyst for the rise of the antichrist, the mark of the beast '666' system for buying and selling, and the advent of the great tribulation!''Take careful note of how Dr. Jack and Rexella only say the possible computer crash COULD be the catalyst for Satan and the 666 system for buying and selling. That way, in the unlikely event that the ground doesn't start spitting out demons after your toaster stops working, they don't look like complete idiots.
By the way, the 666 system of buying and selling is a specialized type of commerce designed by Satan where no one is able to buy or sell any goods unless they have ''666'' carved into their foreheads. Many finance experts argue that this is a superstitious and unrealistic theory, and given the nature of economics, Satan would still sell goods to everyone and only offer a 10% discount to customers branded with the furious mark of his name, not valid with other offers.
IT'S NOT JUST US! IT'S EXPERTS TOO!
On 14 separate occasions I counted, Dr. Jack stops preaching to make it very clear that it's not just he and his wife who think we're screwed, it's qualified experts. Because even though Jack mentions that God Himself told the two of them to make this tape'' and warn the small section of the public insane or stupid enough to buy it, he doesn't want to take all the blame just in case God was only kidding.SCIENTERRIFIC SCRIPTURTASTIC PROOF
The final proof of the validity of the Y2K prophecies is how Dr. Van Impe heard a Utah senator say, ''I'm not going anywhere near a plane on December 31, 1999.'' We've only had airplanes since the turn of the century, and the Bible makes several mentions of flying people. I hope you're almost convinced because there are only two more sentences of his argument: ''We couldn't have that [type of flying device] three or four, five hundred years ago; that's a tremendous sign. As the birds fly, so will the Lord.'' There are Japanese game shows about business men putting on diapers and sitting on pies that make more sense than Dr. Van Impe, and the scariest part is that this part of the video is where Rexella's blank stare disappears. Once you start talking about ancient flying people and how they prove the downfall of our future society, she's right there with you.
WE'RE DEAD, WE'RE SO DEAD
Inside each electronic device is a firmware chip, and when the year 2000 comes around, all of them will malfunction. This means more than just your clock radio waking you up 100 years late. Our nuclear weapons will launch, our prison doors will open up and our intravenous drip machines will drip only murder. And remember, this is according to both God AND experts. However, Dr. Jack explores this issue of imbedded firmware chips further than most experts when he reminds us that Satan controls all electricity from the Earth to the end of outer space, and the Bible says there will be an ''incredible battle in space'' with ''dragons and angels.'' He never explains what any of this has to do with toaster microchips, but I think you'll agree that it sounds totally sweet.
OOPS
Y2K came and went without a single antichrist dropping out of a rip in the sky, but Jack and Rexella weren't completely wrong to spend an hour and a half making us panic; a cash register in Singapore did slightly malfunction for a few minutes. Christianity isn't an exact science, so if you're a religious person, 2000 Time Bomb's massively failed predictions might not completely destroy your belief that a red man with a pitchfork is hiding inside your microwave. Personally, my faith in religion was shattered. I don't care if Jesus' face appears on a tortilla I'm eating to sing a song about seatbelt safety, I'm not falling for it. The only miracle that occurred at the dawn of the millennium is that three million videos and books on Y2K survival magically disappeared from stores without even hitting the discount bins. Thank God they missed this one, though.
Name: djteel
Email Address: djteel@tx.rr.com
Date: April 25, 2008
Time: 06:58:32 PM
You merely mention many of the tings he's said and make mockery of them, as I myself could do to the likes of Bill Oreilly, the infamous racist Baraeass Obama(wasn't Obama a kind of jam or something) no to mention the fact i could just as easily create a short skit wherein i make Mrs. Cclinton (the former president's dyke) and John McCain (my main man) both seem to be retarded ,spineless and and furthermore communist and possibly bisexual/. ie, for all the crap you tried to smear regarding the Van Impe's, anyone with any real brain for cynical humor can create the same load of BS. lay off the religious people and get a job. and btw, you're daughter says hello..she's still on her knees in the library ?*?*?..I forgot to tell her we were through!