Jerry Kingston is a believer and a pilot working with the Co-op. He flew Judd Thompson Jr. and Lionel Washington to Petra from Saarbrücken, Germany and offered Westin Jakes a job as a pilot working with the Co-op, which he accepted.
Biography[]
Before the Rapture[]
He was flying a military plane 500 mph while his friend and colleague Brad was flying beside him. During that flight, Brad was raptured. He saw Brad's helmet and shoes rolling in the canopy with his flight suit buckled in.
After the Rapture[]
He joined the Global Community after the Rapture. He was disgusted at the GC during World War III, since he was given orders that did not seem to emanate from a peace-loving organization, such as dropping a "little nuclear warhead" on London. (It is not known whether that was the 100 megaton bomb dropped on Heathrow Airport that was mentioned in Tribulation Force.) He tried to challenge the orders, but he was told that the orders came from the highest level. He actually flew a mission to deliver a nuclear payload that according to him had killed hundreds of thousands.
He felt so guilty after delivering the nuclear weapon. On another flight, he tried to kill himself by crashing his plane into the ocean, but he remember what his raptured friend, Brad, had said about religion. Brad had been talking about life after death a lot, and he was sure where he was going. As Jerry was in the crash dive, he was not sure where he was going after he hit the water. Jerry was able to pull out in time.
After the suicide attempt, he did a search on the Internet for "eternity" and found Tsion Ben-Judah's website. He prayed the Sinner's Prayer and everything changed. He then crashed his plane, "one of the newest the GC had at that time", "near the Atlantic", likely to fake his death so he would not have to work for the Global Community, but he escaped alive and was listed as casualty.
Jerry Kingston is the pilot that was to fly Lionel Washington, Judd Thompson Jr., and Westin Jakes from Saarbrücken to Petra. After the flight, he offered a job to Westin Jakes to fly for the Co-op. Lionel, Westin, and Judd had to climb over two fences with razor wire on top, and had to dig under another fence to reach the runway as Jerry's plane was taxiing.
Jerry raised his eyebrows when Judd and Lionel told him that they met Chang Wong in New Babylon. Jerry said that without Chang Wong using his technical skills to make Tribulation Force operations appear legit to the Global Community, there would be no movement of supplies to believers and that Jerry would be dead.
Although the people of Petra asked Westin and Jerry to stay, they refueled their plane and flew away.
Personality[]
When Lionel, Judd, and Westin met him, he had a "-6" (North America) mark of loyalty on his forehead. Jerry said forget he had it on. He rubbed his head and peeled it off and said that it allowed him to move among the GC without suspicion.
He is able to speak German, which he did when he was talking to the air traffic control tower. He said that the reason his plane stopped was that he noticed a small animal burrowing under the fence at the end of the runway.
Appearances[]
- 34. Bounty Hunters
Trivia[]
- Jerry shares the same first name as Jerry B. Jenkins, one of the two co-authors of the Left Behind series and the Left Behind: The Kids series.
- He seems to be a character who possessed both the mark of the beast and the mark of the believer, like Chang Wong, but Chang Wong's mark of loyalty was real, just that it was forced upon him against his will. It is presumed that he had the mark of the believer because it was not explicitly stated. Still, appearing to have the mark of loyalty, even concurrently with the mark of the believer, would have shocked Lionel, Judd, and Westin.