Tim LaHaye says it all started during a discussion with one of his dearest friends, Shirley Peters—whose husband Art was his associate pastor. She mentioned the idea of the rapture taking place on an airplane.
Tim says, "A few days later, I was flying across country to a prophecy conference, and this handsome, 42ish pilot stepped out of the cabin and started flirting with the chief flight attendant in the galley. I noticed he had a wedding ring on, but she didn't. I thought, these people are pretty friendly. And then I thought about the story Shirley had mentioned. What if the rapture took place right now?
"According to a Gallup poll, about a third of the population is born again, so about a third of the people on the 747 would be gone. The flight attendant would discover their clothes and pound on the door and say, 'Captain, a hundred people are missing from our aircraft!' The rest is history."

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