Posted on 11/25/2007 8:12:59 AM PST by dangus
I sometimes listen to "Christian Family Radio" simply because there isn't any better Christian Radio on. An occasional guilty pleasure is listening to Hank Hanegraaff, as his slow, deep, voice makes him fun to mimic... and I'll admit, to satirize, especially since everyone who disagrees with him is no Christian at all, in his eyes. Also fun to satirize is his penchant for tying completely unrelated bible passages, often condemnations, into any topic.
But I was stunned to hear him last Tuesday, as I drove home for Thanksgiving: He definitively declared, through the use of preposterous numerology, the exact date of the end of the age: May 22, 2011.
This was not "The Bible Answer Man." But the voice was unmistakably Hank Hanegraaf's. He was doing a scripture study, part 595 of his study of Jeremiah. Now, I think 595 parts to a bible study of a single book is funny, especially Jeremiah, especially by Hank, since Jeremiah has so much condemnation in it. But I'm not kidding about that number, if maybe I'm a few numbers off.
When did the Bible Answer Man get involved in numerology, and such a falsifiable field as predicting end-times dates? Or is there someone ELSE on Christian Family Radio who sounds EXACTLY like Hank, who's doing a study of Jeremiah?
Tell him about William Miller and 1844 and The Great Awakening, and The Great Disappointment.
No one knows the hour, except for the Father in Heaven, as you no doubt know and this man’s no doubt neglected to remember.
Let’s not forget that great classic, “88 Reasons Why Jesus is Coming in 1988.”
And the sequel, “89 Reasons Why Jesus is Coming in 1989.”
Are you sure it was Hanegraaf who gave a specific date? Could he have been talking about someone else in mentioning this date? I haven't listened to Hanegraaf in several years, but this is so outside what he has always said that I find it hard to believe. I'm going to do a little research on the Internet and see what I can come up with.
I think you’ll find that you heard Harold Camping, who happens to be the president of Family Radio, and not Hank Hanegraff. Here in the SF Bay Area where the Family Radio flagship station KEAR is located, Hank Hanegraff the Bible AnswerMan is not in their programming. On the other hand, Harold Camping is well known for making the 2011 prediction. He also preaches that the Church age is over, and that Christians should leave their churches. For this reason, much of the church programming that used to be carried on Family Radio has been pulled.
Harold Camping. hoot!! I’ve seen him late at night on TV before. What a misguided old man he was. I learned fairly quickly that I could just turn the channel instead of listening to error.
Although I didn’t post this or hear either of them.
I haven’t been able to stomach Hannegraf since he started talking like Jimmy Carter visa-vis the Palestinians and Israel. I’ve e-mailed him concerning this and have yet to receive a reply, just as I did the Carter Center concerning Jimmy’s anti-Israel bloviations (and received no reply from them either).
Are you sure that wasn’t the late Dr. Gene Scott? I’ve never seen Camping on TV in the SF Bay area.
I lived in Memphis (i think) when i used to see him.
I didn’t post this though, ask the original poster.
I don’t think that was Hannegraf. He’s a post-mil.
Then again, if he spent the entire show bashing other ministries, maybe it was him after all.
From the quick research I've done on the Internet, I'd bet Harold Camping too.
This bothers me too. And wasn't there some mishandling of money at CRI? It's all very troublesome. I miss the good old days of Walter Martin.
Ping.
Thanks for the clarification. I think the post was about Harold Camping who does have a call-in show and does speak in a slow manner.
I’ll third that,..Camping was the first name that came to mind. IMHO, Hank might express his views but is usually very cautious to well communicate that other denominations/interpretations by sincere believers exist, but as he understands it,...then he presents his views.
Harold Camping though is a bit more dogmatic and unrepentent in his legalistic perspectives, IMHO.
Harold is also of the the Reformed school of thought, is he not?
I've never listened to Camping. Never had the opportunity to do so, and I probably wouldn't considering the criticism I've heard of him from scholars I trust. Hanegraaff's views (he calls himself a partial-preterist, I think) these days bother the heck out of me, and I just don't listen to him. Though I have to give him credit for illustrating the heresy of the "name it and claim it" and "health and wealth" preachers.
True. I also admire his restraint and discipline when handling adversarial callers.
IMHO, my perspective on some of his positions differs from his, e.g. I don’t think the Church Age is over in God’s Plan, yet, nor am I as quick to judge others regarding divorce and adultery.
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