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The Biggest Lie of All

If you follow this website, you know I've written a couple of articles in the last several months pertaining to UFOs and aliens and the associated narrative, and some of the ways that narrative may come into play in the period leading up to and during the coming Tribulation. Due to that fact, the very first thing I want to say to you is this:

Don't touch that dial.

Yes, the UFO/alien thing will come into play in what I want to discuss. But this time I am taking a different tack. I want to go beyond the UFO/alien fairy tale and get to a closely related topic that is far more important, and about which far too few are saying far too little. And it is something that all believers need to get their heads screwed on straight about...

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A God by Any Other Name?

Larycia Hawkins, a tenured professor of political science at Wheaton College in suburban Chicago, recently made headlines by wearing a hijab to class, or a traditional Islamic woman's headscarf. Ordinarily this wouldn't have caused much of a stir, but this attracted attention because Wheaton is a highly respected Evangelical Christian college. But the hijab was only a prelude to the ensuing fireworks.

Professor Hawkins decided to continue wearing the hijab to class, and on December 10, 2015 posted the following on her Facebook page:

"I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book. And as Pope Francis stated last week, we worship the same God."

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8/11/2026 — From the "Sorry, Kent" Department...

Kent Hovind has long been a popular Bible teacher who has a reputation for defending Young Earth Creationism. I've listened to a few of his debates with atheists on YouTube concerning God and Creation, and he always impressed me as somebody who knew his stuff.

A couple of days ago, a reader sent me an email that said that Hovind had long been an adherent of the pre-trib Rapture, but had recently changed his mind and embraced the post-trib Rapture. Her email included a link to a debate on YouTube between Hovind and an individual who supported the pre-trib Rapture, and she asked me to take a look at it and send her any comments I had.

The YouTube video is 47 minutes long, but I only watched about 10–15 minutes of it...that's all I could take. In no time at all, Hovind, who claimed he had believed in the pre-trib Rapture for 40 years, began spouting some of the same tired old lies and lame misinterpretations of Scripture that are the stock and trade of the post-trib crowd. For example:

• The Bible repeatedly talks about believers going through tribulation—so obviously the Church will go through the Tribulation.

Uhh, Kent, there is a big difference between general "tribulation" (trials, persecution, etc.) that believers are promised they will endure in many places in Scripture, and the one and only, highly specific, seven-year, capital "T" Tribulation that precedes the Second Coming. In fact, the Bible never refers to it as "the Tribulation"...that was our idea and when we say that everyone knows what we mean. Everyone, that is, except for post-tribbers who jump all over the routine usage of the Greek word thlipsis (trials, troubles, etc.) in order to manufacture yet another foolish argument against the pre-trib Rapture.

(Note for post-tribbers: Greek is a very precise language, and the presence or absence of the word "the" means something—just as it does in English.)

• When Jesus ascended back to heaven in Acts 1, two angels appeared to the stunned disciples and one of them said in verse 11: "This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as you have seen him go into heaven." This is clearly both the Rapture and the Second Coming rolled into one...so the Rapture is obviously a post-trib affair.

Uh, no. Jesus was standing on the Mount of Olives, and then rose into the sky. When Jesus returns "in like manner," He will came down through the sky and his feet will again be on the Mount of Olives. Yes, that's the Second Coming.

But when you read 1 Thessalonians 4:17, you quickly see that this is not what Jesus does at the Rapture. At the Rapture, Jesus returns to the clouds and we go up to meet Him there before going on to heaven with Him. Not the same.

• The idea for the pre-trib Rapture came from a vision by a 15-year-old Scottish lass named Margaret MacDonald in 1830, and a scalawag named John Nelson Darby wrapped some Scripture around it and palmed it off on escapist Christians who were terrified of going through the tiniest bit of tribulation.

Sigh... This lie (yes, lie) often serves as the anchor for post-trib palaver. If you'd like to know what a fanciful fabrication this is in reality, read about what really happened in an article I wrote in 2013 called "Sorry, Maggie."

Bottom line: Sorry, Kent. You may be right about many things, but the Rapture isn't one of them.

I suppose it's a bit ironic, but you claim you believed the pre-trib Rapture for 40 years. Well, all I can say is that it's too bad you didn't spend a little more of those 40 years actually studying what the Bible teaches about the end times.

If you had, you might not have fallen for all the post-trib huff-'n-puffery.

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