Jack Leo Van Impe (/ˈɪmpiː/ IM-pee;[1] February 9, 1931 – January 18, 2020) was an American televangelist who had a half-hour weekly television series Jack Van Impe Presents, featuring eschatological commentary on the news of the week through an interpretation of the Bible.
[citation needed] Jack Van Impe played accordion duets with his missionary father across Michigan and other states.
In 1948, Van Impe graduated from high school and entered Detroit Bible Institute, where he earned his diploma in 1952.
Here, Jack Van Impe met his future wife, Rexella Mae Shelton, who was an organist with the crusades.
Parts of an unknown sermon were used in the 1995 house song "Sex on the Streets" by Pizzaman, although Van Impe talked about the same events in his 1970 album Marked for Death.
Van Impe at various times in his last decades seemed very urgent that all signs had been fulfilled, but never mentions that Christians were being flogged in synagogues.
Strangely, Van Impe believed that at any one moment, the 24 time zones on earth would be labeled by three different days.
In June 2011, Trinity Broadcasting Network refused to air an episode of Jack Van Impe Presents that criticized Robert Schuller and Rick Warren for promoting "Chrislam".
Subsequent to the problems with his knees, Van Impe suffered from cancer, a severe sepsis attack, and blood loss resulting from stomach ulcers which he attributed to his NSAID arthritis medication.
Carl Baugh co-hosted the program until Van Impe's return to his weekly show on October 3, 2015.
[13] Jack Van Impe died on January 18, 2020, at a hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan at the age of 88.