The stage is set. The deception is already here. The language of the coming delusion floods movies, government hearings, podcasts and social media feeds while humanity stares into the skies waiting for salvation from the stars.
During a recent appearance on Rebecca Lamb Weiss’ podcast, pastor and author Billy Crone laid out what he believes is one of the greatest end-times deceptions preparing to engulf the planet: the idea that aliens will explain away the biblical rapture.
“We did a mega deep dive just last year UFOs, aliens, and the coming mass abduction,” Crone said. “And I titled it that way on purpose because the world will see a mass abduction. But what they’ll be told is it was from the aliens as to why these people disappeared. The Bible calls it the rapture.”
Crone described a world already conditioned to accept extraterrestrials as humanity’s saviors.
“Rapture means an abduction,” he said. “We’ll be abducted, snatched quickly away by the Lord Jesus Christ, the church, meet him in the clouds, and then the wrath of God comes down, the seven-year tribulation. But they’re not going to hear that. They’re going to hear it was aliens.”
According to Crone, the groundwork for that deception began generations ago.
“In order to fall for the lie of UFOs and aliens, you have to first fall for the lie of evolution,” he said. “Because when these things come off their so-called crafts, what’s the first thing they say about themselves? We’re a higher evolved.”
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Crone argued that Satan slowly prepared the modern world for this moment through entertainment, philosophy and spiritual deception.
“He had to start this thing, this last days lie explained away the rapture that it was the aliens, not the rapture,” Crone said. “He had to start this 150 years ago and first get the planet to buy into lie evolution. And then sure enough in the 60s and 50s and the black and white movies and here comes alien this, alien that.”
Now, Crone believes humanity has reached the tipping point.
“Today UFOology is the new religion for the 21st century,” he said. “More people believe that aliens have visited planet Earth than that Jesus is the Son of God.”
The discussion moved deep into the prophetic warnings of Scripture and what Crone sees as the rise of a coming one-world system foretold in Revelation.
“They’re preparing the mindset for the seven-year tribulation, the antichrist kingdom for a one world government and a one world religion,” Crone said. “It’ll be a one-world political structure government and a one-world religion, all working together to bring what? Peace and utopia to the planet.”
Crone warned that Christians themselves are increasingly being targeted as obstacles to global unity.
He referenced alleged New Age “channeled” messages predicting the disappearance of millions of people from Earth and connected them directly to the church being removed during the rapture.
“These people no longer fit here anymore,” Crone quoted from one message. “They are stopping the harmony of the earth.”
“You know what the Bible calls that?” Crone asked. “2 Thessalonians 2, the restraining influence.”
The warnings did not stop with UFOs. Crone connected the rise of artificial intelligence, digital surveillance and biometric systems to the infrastructure of the coming beast system described in Revelation 13.
“The first day in office, he launched the AI Stargate program, a $500 billion investment to speed up the development of AI,” Crone said while discussing President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence initiative. “I believe that AI is the lynch pin to pull off Revelation 13.”
He continued: “How are you going to monitor people, know where they’re at at all times? How are you going to the mark of the beast, the buying and the selling? How are you going to control all that? … You need something superhuman. That’s where AI comes in.”
Crone also pointed to global surveillance systems and AI-powered monitoring as evidence the world is moving rapidly toward prophetic fulfillment.
“Citizens will be on their best behavior because you’re going to be watched at all times,” Crone said while quoting comments from tech leaders involved in AI development.
Throughout the interview, Crone returned repeatedly to one central message: deception is accelerating and the church must remain grounded in Scripture.
“The Bible’s the only book on the planet that tells us in minute detail exactly how it’s going to play out,” he said. “Demons are real. Satan is real. This is not a game.”
Crone warned that the coming delusion will sweep across a world already desperate for answers, unity and peace.
“The Bible says there’s coming a delusion on this planet that people are going to fall for because they refuse to love the truth,” he said. “And I think part of that delusion is the alien factor.”
As governments discuss UFO disclosure, artificial intelligence expands at breathtaking speed and society drifts further from biblical truth, Crone believes the world is watching the final pieces fall into place before the rise of the Antichrist kingdom and the return of Jesus Christ.
“We have got to be getting close to the rapture,” Crone said. “Because they are setting up the antichrist kingdom and the planet is ripe for it.”
James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, combines faith and storytelling with a journalism background from Otterbein University and ministry experience in Guatemala and at the LA Dream Center. A Marine Corps and Air Force veteran, he is the author of The Revelation of Jesus: A Common Man’s Commentary and a contributor to Charisma magazine. For interviews and media inquiries, please contact [email protected].
