title: Earth's Final Hour: Are We Really Running Out of Time?
author: Ed Hindson
description: Ed Hindson is the Assistant Chancellor and Dean of the Institute of Biblical Studies at Liberty University in Virginia. He also serves as the speaker on The King Is Coming telecast and has authored and served as general editor for numerous books. He holds a D.Min. from Westminster Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from the University of South Africa.
zlib_text: For Mom & Dad
  
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  WHAT ARE THE ODDS? I’VE spent my whole life hearing about the
  Incident at Bounding Base 51 and the famous aeronauts who were
  lost that day. Now here I am standing right next to them.
  In the ri�.
  Even though Gedney theorized there may be a place in the galaxy
  where time moved diﬀerently—almost like a rip in space itself—no
  one knew for sure. I guess the lost aeronauts, Mira, and I are living
  proof of his hypothesis.
  We’re living for now, at least. The longer we stay here, the more
  time we lose back on Earth. The aeronauts say they’ve been stuck in
  the ri� for two days, but more than fourteen years have passed. Mira
  and I were here for at least an hour before we even found the lost
  aeronauts. That’s got to be a couple of months back on Earth.
  It’s not like we can just wave our gloves and go back. For starters,
  my gloves were lost on Alkalinia. I managed to bring the shield
  down, giving Earth Force at least a ﬁghting chance against the Alks
  and Youli, but then Mira bounde