Appendix 9. To Prevent Death to
Heaven or Straight to Hell From a Tailspin Airplane Crash, Turn Your Controls Over to Jesus
The entire world is full of good, honest
people, whether they are atheists, agnostics, evolutionists, Christians,
Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindi or other religions. This really bothers me
because they are all in a tailspin against time. I am going to tell you a
true story now that you are not going to believe, which is why I am going to
tell it to you anyway, because I care about you all. This how Jesus can prevent
deaths to heaven or straight to hell from tailspin airplane crashes, but it applies to
all tailspins, described in
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tailspin as "a sustained and
usually severe decline or downturn".
I didn't become a Christian until I was
thirty-seven years old. I read the Bible several times after that.
I just got my pilot's license so I could fly to
my customers in my business. I was up on my second solo, practicing turning,
climbing stalls. Just as I went into a stall, I hit an air pocket or a gust
of wind from my own propeller (called prop wash) because I was travelling in
a circle, and I went into a tailspin, headed straight toward the earth.
I was taught that when you are in a tailspin,
if you are rotating to the left, you kick (quickly press) your right rudder
and you will pull out of it. The problem was, it was like I was not moving
at all but the earth was spinning to the right like top in front of me and
getting larger all the time. So I kicked left rudder and the spinning
increased. The earth wasn't really moving, it was me rotating to the left
and I should have kicked right rudder. When that didn't work, I tried right
rudder, but it was too late. I tried turning my yoke (steering wheel) to the
left, and made it worse, so I tried turning to the right, but it was too
late. I pulled back on the yoke to try to pull out of the dive, but nothing
worked. I looked at my altimeter and it told me I was six hundred feet above
the ground. That meant that I had six seconds to live and I would be dead in
a head-on crash with the earth.
I knew a lot of Bible verses, and wanted
to be thinking about a Bible verse when I died. So I said to Jesus,
"Give me a verse, Lord!" In a split instant a verse went through my
head, "And it shall be that anyone that calls on the name of the Lord
shall be saved!"
By this time I had about three seconds
left. I took my hands and feet off the controls to brace for the crash
and closed my eyes tight and screamed JESUS!!I waited for the
crash , , , and I waited for the crash. . . and it never happened. After
about twenty seconds I slowly opened one eye. I saw that I was flying
straight and level and the plane was climbing.
I looked over at the co-pilot's seat, and
it seemed like Jesus was sitting next to me, flying the plane. I crossed
my arms and just sat there for another twenty seconds with my hands and
feet off the controls, watching Jesus flying.. Finally I said, "It's
okay now, Lord. I'm okay. I can fly. And I took over the controls and
flew back to the airport.
This is something that I think about over
and over again, and even though it happened about thirty-eight years
ago, it is still like it just happened today. And it should be a lesson
to everyone: Put your trust in Jesus, and when everything is out of
control and you cannot do anything to correct it, take your hands off
the controls and turn it over to Jesus. Don't go straight to hell and
death in an airplane crash or a tail spin against time.
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