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packman

(16,296 posts)
Tue May 29, 2018, 04:34 PM May 2018

Hallelujah - Send money so Jesse Can get his jet

Jesse Duplantis, the Destrehan-based prosperity gospel televangelist with a global reach, is asking disciples for money to buy a jet that costs $54 million "so we can go anywhere in the world in one stop." He seeks the donations in a video posted last week on his ministry's website...

He says his 40-year-old Jesse Duplantis Ministries has paid cash for three private jets and been "just burning them up for the Lord Jesus Christ." The most recent purchase was in 2006, he says.

Now he has his sights set on a Dassault Falcon 7X, a three-engine jet with a range of 5,950 nautical miles. Its customizable cabins accommodate 12 to 16 passengers. A 2017 write-up on SherpaReport.com, a website focused on private aviation, said the list price for a new Falcon 7X was $54 million.
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...., Duplantis says God told him, "I want you to believe in me for a Falcon 7X." He tells viewers: "Pray about becoming a partner to it."
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In 2015, Duplantis and (Kenneth) Copeland (Another TV Evangelist with a 36$ million jet) defended their use of private jets. In a segment on Copeland's television program, they argued that commercial planes were full of "a bunch of demons" that will bog down their busy schedules with prayer requests, The Washington Times reported.

http://www.nola.com/religion/index.ssf/2018/05/jesse_duplantis_private_jet.html

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Hallelujah - Send money so Jesse Can get his jet (Original Post) packman May 2018 OP
can i paypal a penny? samnsara May 2018 #1
Hey, idiot. Jesus rode a donkey. Tommy_Carcetti May 2018 #2
Sickening backtoblue May 2018 #3
a bunch of demons with prayer requests? lapfog_1 May 2018 #4
A $54 million jet won't help. He's carrying around the demons himself. rusty quoin May 2018 #5
If Jesse really believed in Jesus rurallib May 2018 #6
The real tragedy Soxfan58 May 2018 #7
Send Bitcoin. muntrv May 2018 #8
I'll send him that fake $1 million bill I have sitting on my dresser. GoCubsGo May 2018 #9

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,153 posts)
2. Hey, idiot. Jesus rode a donkey.
Tue May 29, 2018, 04:36 PM
May 2018


On edit: I actually posted this before I saw this quote from Duplantis:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jesse-duplantis-evangelist-private-jet-jesus-wouldnt-be-riding-donkey-2018-05-29/

"I really believe that if the Lord Jesus Christ was physically on the Earth today, he wouldn't be riding a donkey," Duplantis said in the video. "He'd be in an airplane flying all over the world."

rurallib

(62,382 posts)
6. If Jesse really believed in Jesus
Tue May 29, 2018, 04:39 PM
May 2018

and he believed that Jesus really wanted Jesse to spread the gospel Jesus would make it so Jesse could fly.

Pray, Jesse, pray. And Believe.

GoCubsGo

(32,075 posts)
9. I'll send him that fake $1 million bill I have sitting on my dresser.
Tue May 29, 2018, 04:54 PM
May 2018

He'll love all the Bible verses printed all over it.

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