Criticisms
Dr. Jack Van Impe has been criticized as an "armchair prophet" and charlatan due to his unaccredited doctoral degree and 20-year record of for-profit video sales.
His doctoral degree was obtained at Pacific International University, a secular institution with no theological component.
For over 20 years, Impe has sold low-budget films supplementing teachings from his television program. These films depict themes of apocalypse, Christ's second-coming, modern oppression of Christians and dystopian themes. The films range from $9.99 - $39.99, and market without any "free" online alternative. Many of the predictions in the films have been false and rebuffed, most notably his predictions about a "seven year tribulation" sparked by the now flat Y2K bug beginning in the year 2000, in the film "2000: Time Bomb".
Van Impe once calculated and claimed that the word "computers" added up to 666, the number of the beast. He goes on the say how the antichrist will use computers to keep track of people during the end times. At the end of his program, he proceeds to plug his website and allows visitors to purchase his videos and books.
He also believes the "pagan" 2012 Mayan prophecy about the end of the world, despite the fact the Bible makes no reference to it, and forbids setting dates. He claims to not set dates about the rapture or the second coming, however answers to questions posted on his website, and statements made on his television program would seem to state otherwise.
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