{"id":280,"date":"2010-03-16T07:23:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T07:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/03\/advice-for-rapture-ready-frequent-flyers.html"},"modified":"2010-03-16T07:23:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T07:23:12","slug":"advice-for-rapture-ready-frequent-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/03\/advice-for-rapture-ready-frequent-flyers.html","title":{"rendered":"Advice for Rapture-ready frequent flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the website of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbea.org\">Bible Believers Evangelical Association<\/a>, the Dallas-area ministry run by Ruth and Leon Bates, the couple responsible for this famous folk art image of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rapture\">the Rapture<\/a>:<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rapture2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/199\/import\/rapture2.jpg\" width=\"418\" height=\"372\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NOTICE the airplane crashing into the skyscraper. <em>Leon had this painting made in 1974, 27 years before the New York tragedy of 9\/11\/01. <\/em>When teaching or witnessing with the picture over the years, Leon says he&#8217;d heard a rumor that a major airline had established a policy to not schedule a Christian pilot and a Christian Co-pilot on the same flights. He tried to confirm the rumor, but could not. However, there is a Fellowship of Christian Airline Personnel (www.fcap.org) so could it be true? Leon says that <strong>IF SO<\/strong>, it&#8217;s a wise policy. And if any listener (or reader of this) is not saved, they should trust Christ for their salvation BEFORE they fly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So now you know. Order a copy of the Rapture print <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbea.org\/englishProducts.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the website of Bible Believers Evangelical Association, the Dallas-area ministry run by Ruth and Leon Bates, the couple responsible for this famous folk art image of the Rapture: NOTICE the airplane crashing into the skyscraper. Leon had this painting made in 1974, 27 years before the New York tragedy of 9\/11\/01. 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