Specifically, God told Duplantis he needs a Dassault Falcon 7X, a three-engine private jet capable of carrying 12 to 16 passengers at speeds up to 700 miles per hour. The Falcon 7X, which would be the fourth plane owned by Jesse Duplantis Ministries, has a range of almost 6,000 miles and costs about $54 million new, according to SherpaReport (although used ones are listed online for as little as $20 million).
“Now, some people believe that preachers shouldn’t have jets,” Duplantis said in a video posted last week. “I really believe that preachers ought to … have every available outlet to get this Gospel preached to the world.”
In fact, Duplantis said that “if Jesus was physically on the Earth today, he wouldn’t be riding a donkey.”
“He’d be in an airplane preaching the Gospel all over the world,” he said.
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Duplantis said God told him he needed the plane “in one of the ‘greatest statements the Lord ever told me.'”
“He said, ‘Jesse, you wanna come up where I’m at?'” according to Duplantis.
“And I said, ‘What do you mean?'”
“He said, ‘I want you to believe in me for a Falcon 7-X.”
“So, I said, ‘OK.’ But the first thing I thought of: ‘Well, how am I going to pay for it?'”
Duplantis said he then recalled something God told him in 1978. “‘Jesse, I didn’t ask you to pay for it, I asked to believe for it.'”