Kent Hovind's position is as a tare sown amongst wheat and not as wheat sown among thorns.
Thanks for correcting me on that.
I don't think he was correcting you. Verses 4 through 8 in Matthew 13 list the places where the seeds fell and the result. The seed can fall by the wayside, among the stones, among thorns, or on good ground. I don't think the implication is that Kent is among those that fell on good ground. I don't see that tribulation or persecution (among the stones) allowed us to see his error. I believe you were correct in saying he may be one among the thorns. That he would do the things listed in the video shared for the cares of the world or the deceitfulness of riches makes sense.
The verses that Johnson shared are more concerning end times than the location of the seeds. We learn that God in his perfect will and foreknowledge has allowed that sinners and believers live together. There are multiple examples of God's grace towards us where he is longsuffering for the sake of those that would believe. I will share a couple of scriptures to show what I said.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
In Genesis 15 God detailed the land that he would give to Abram and his seed. God tells Abram that his seed will go to a land that is not theirs and return in the fourth generation. We learn in verse 16 that it is because the iniquity of the Amorites not being full that God did this. God was longsuffering that those that were and were to be in the land of the Amorites would come to faith in God.
Genesis 15:16
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
2 Thessalonians 2:3
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
CAUTION. Below is my interpretation/opinion and I cannot prove these things.
I believe that the falling away before the day of Christ is properly understood as those leaving the faith rather than those being raptured. This makes sense in the context of 2 Peter. That the end would not come until all that would be saved are saved. In Johnson's teaching on the Rapture, it would definitely make sense that this occurs after tribulation that the seeds among the stones be revealed and there would be a great falling away.