I’ve been told the Lord works in
mysterious ways. Apparently, God also
has peculiar conversations with some people.
Take televangelist Jesse Duplantis,
for example. Mr. Duplantis claims to
have engaged in the following conversation:
The Lord: “Jesse, you wanna come up where I’m at?”
Duplantis: “What do you mean?”
The Lord: “I want you to believe in me for a Falcon
7-X.”
Duplantis: “OK.”
The first thing we need to define is “Falcon
7-X.” A Falcon 7-X (specifically a
Dassault Falcon 7-X) is a business jet with a 5,950 mile range. This sleek baby will carry 12 to 16
passengers at 700 miles per hour without working up a sweat. At present a 7-X will set you back a cool $54
million.
Mind you, Jesse Duplantis already has
other private planes at his disposal. He
uses them to carry himself around the world from his base in Louisiana. But he firmly believes—as he said—“If Jesus was
physically on the Earth today, he wouldn’t be riding a donkey.”
Jesse Duplantis is convinced he must
fly fast and he must fly far in order to save souls.
There exists some evidence that televangelists,
as a whole, see buying a seat on a commercial flight as entirely unseemly. In a video appearance with both Duplantis and
fellow televangelist Kenneth Copeland (another jet-buying hero), Copeland
opined that because they are famous, they would have people coming up to them
and asking for prayers if they took a commercial flight.
What could be worse than that?
And Copland added: “You can’t manage
that today. This dope-filled world, and
get in a long tube with a bunch of demons.
And it’s deadly.”
Duplantis concurred, saying: “And it
works on your heart. It really does.”
What kind of an evangelist would want
to actually be surrounded by all those messy souls they are they are trying to
save?
--Mitchell Hegman
If Jesus were alive today he would drive those hypocrites out like he did the Pharisees in the temple.
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