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Babylon the Great

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article about the fact that many prophecy folks are looking forward to the complete destruction of Damascus in a presumed fulfillment of Isaiah 17:1. But not all students of prophecy see it that way: Some believe this prophecy was completely fulfilled in history and thus see no need for a future fulfillment.

There have been a couple of occasions over the years when an email question or comment from a reader has triggered me to write another article, and I suppose I can add this one to the list. And here's how I got here:

In that article, I look at both sides of the argument and in the end I concede that I am officially on the fence. Although I tend to lean toward the historical fulfillment interpretation, I freely admit that it could go either way.

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Sorry, Maggie

That's it. I've had it up to here.

I'm not kidding—I can't take it anymore. If I don't get this out of my system, I'm going to start banging my head against the nearest brick wall.

I spend a lot of time on YouTube watching videos from some of my favorite Bible teachers, and I routinely search for more—especially in the areas of Bible prophecy and eschatology (the study of the end times).

I'm happy to report that, although you may have to sift through a lot of junk to find it, there is a wealth of powerful, biblically sound teaching freely available on the Internet. In the process of searching YouTube, however, I never fail to run across a lot of videos posted by people who apparently have a seething, maniacal hatred for everything and everybody associated with the biblical doctrine of the pre-tribulation Rapture, which teaches that the Rapture will occur before the beginning of the seven-year Tribulation.

It seems the pre-trib Rapture pushes a few hot buttons out there.

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4/29/2025 — From the "Ace in the Hole" Department...

It appears that some interesting things are percolating in the wake of the death of Pope Francis and as the world awaits the confirmation of a new pope, and it is my considered opinion that one of those things that is percolating has clear, direct bearing on the coming Tribulation.

Steve Bassett is the executive director of Paradigm Research Group. According to its website:

"PRG was established in July of 1996 by Stephen Bassett, a political activist and consultant, to advocate in all ways possible for an end to a government imposed truth embargo of the facts surrounding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race—Disclosure."

Long story short, he's a major league "The Truth Is Out There" type. And Bassett has used the death of Pope Francis as an opportunity to urge the Vatican to finally "reveal the truth" about what the Roman Catholic Church knows about UFOs and aliens. According to Bassett, the Roman Catholic Church knows about UFOs and has hidden in its vast archives documented evidence of their existence and interaction with humans.

However, Bassett has stated that he actually doesn't believe the new pope will do that. According to Bassett:

"This is a political matter to be resolved through political action...I do not think that the next pope is going to be selected on the fact that he's a pro ET. It's got to be the heads of state—and we are very close to that happening."

Bassett believes it will be Trump who finally spills the beans about UFOs, and says that the president's recent declassification of JFK files points to the distinct possibility that the long-awaited disclosure of UFOs and aliens could be on the way. According to Bassett:

"The truth is coming. We've got to get ready."

OK, just to get our feet firmly back on terra firma: There are no aliens, there are no alien spacecraft visiting and conveniently crashing on earth, and nobody is hiding physical evidence of either one because neither exists. The only reason this sort of stuff is of interest to me is because I am convinced that the UFO/alien narrative (read: lie) is going to play a key, fundamental role during the Tribulation and the establishment of the Antichrist's kingdom, which is a topic I have written about at length (see this, this, and this).

But since the first critical thing Satan is going to use the UFO/alien narrative for is to explain away the Rapture his way, he can't play the alien card too soon. If he were to play the disclosure card prematurely and then it turns out that it's several more years before the Rapture, it would lose its power and efficacy.

Satan understands that he needs to wait until the world has been turned upside down and shaken to its core in the wake of the Rapture and is screaming for answers, and then reveal how a benevolent alien race has actually been monitoring us and has come to help mankind get through the coming earth changes (i.e. the judgments of the Tribulation) and to help us "evolve spiritually" to prepare for the New World that is on the horizon. And they have just evacuated several hundred million people who simply weren't ready for that "spiritual evolvement" thing to a huge fleet of nearby spacecraft where they can be patiently and lovingly "retrained" before rejoining the rest of us in that wonderful New World.

So, to put it quite simply, I am convinced that the growing pressure to disclose the "evidence" for UFOs and aliens effectively serves as a crude type of barometer for the nearness of the Rapture.

Aliens are Satan's ace in the hole.

But even though Satan is going to play his cards to the best of his ability, he is still going to lose this hand to the One who deals the cards.

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