The Bible uses the illustration of a women about to give birth. The birth pangs continue to increase in number and intensity until the child arrives.
Top 10
birth pangs: Count down from number 10 to number 1 in significance, relative to current issues and events.
10: Signs in Sun, Moon, stars Check
"And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring" (Luk. 21:25).
The present world of earth dwellers has seen signs in the sun, moon and stars that no other generation has seen. From looking into the universe with our powerful telescopes, to spacecraft traversing the black void beyond the farthest planet of our solar system, we have seen things through the prism of photographic science something no other people in earth's history has known.
Whether considering the solar flares that disrupt earth's electro-magnetic mechanics, or looking with awe upon spectacular landings on the moon, or observing with horror the explosions of two shuttles, we have seen fearful signs. Who could but be mesmerized by watching the Shumaker-Levy 9 comet slam into Jupiter in July, 1994?
UFO sightings around the globe are becoming almost routine fare. Pilots, prime ministers, presidents and just plain people report seeing spectacular light shows, moving apparently with directed intelligence throughout the night skies.
We have seen the beginnings of this
birth pang, scheduled to become much more intensive when the Tribulation begins.
9: Violence upon the whole Earth Check
"And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man" (Luke 17:26).
"The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence" (Gen 6:11).
"And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth" (Gen 6:13).
All one must do is to look at the headlines to know that the earth is filled with violence. Jesus' words of the world being like in the time of Noah just before the flood certainly is an apt description of this generation, no matter what earth society one cares to examine.
If you go to the darkest regions, there are tribal slaughters. If one looks at the sophisticated societies of the western world, there is violence among gangs, among families, and one on one homicidal rage. Terrorism is from the Middle East is indicative of violence that literally saturates the human condition.
Violence in this last time is a symptom of the beginning of sorrows.
8: Famines, pestilence, earthquakes Check
"For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places" (Mat 24:7).
"And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven" (Luk. 21:11).
It is an astounding paradox that there is at the same time plenty of every variety of life-sustaining foods, and medicines in most of the western world particularly in America, yet there are deadly pestilences and famines in places such as Ethiopia, the Sudan, and many other geographical regions. These are created in almost every case by ethnic cleansing ordered by dictators, just as Jesus foretold. "Nation shall rise against nation The word for "nation" is the Greek word "ethnos," from which our English word "ethnic" is derived.
Earthquakes are being reported at an exponentially growing rate. Not just quakes, but quakes of significant magnitude. The increase can be quantified and verified today, with the vast technological advances in monitoring.
Earthquakes, Wars and rumors of war are
birth pang precursors to the impending emergence of a time of unprecedented sorrows.
7: Nations in distress with perplexity Check
"And there shall be signs and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring" (Luk. 21: 25).
Planet earth, and all of the nations during this last time are filled with perplexities when trying to fix the things that seem to be broken. Economies are in trouble; there is ethnic rage around the world; no one can live in peace; terrorism threatens everyone, everywhere.
Yet, Jesus says these are just the beginning of sorrows announcing the
Birth of a truly New World Order. It will be the
Birth not of the time of Antichrist's regime, but, ultimately, of Jesus Christ's Millennial Kingdom.
6: False prophets; false teachers Check
"And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many" (Mat. 24:4-5)
Jesus forewarned that there would be an assault on Truth by false teachers. A couple of recent examples of just these type of storm front type
birth pangs are the attacks on the Deity of Jesus Christ. The secular entertainment and news industries as well as some within 'Christendom' are attempting to inculcate us with the message that Jesus didn't really die on the Cross. It was a faked death and resurrection. That Jesus and Mary Magdalene were actually lovers, who produced offspring, that now make up a progeny which will one day rule in some nebulous way that is never explained.
Documentaries have been shown time and time again, purporting that the bones of Jesus' relatives perhaps even of Jesus, Himself, have been found in bone boxes in caves in and around Jerusalem. These are never backed by even the slightest of evidence - i.e., are fiction of the worst order.
Jesus, however forewarned of this, and told the generation who would begin seeing this type of false teaching to 'believe it not'.
Jesus said they would come in His Name, and would even claim to be Him. Recent news accounts tell of a man that claims just that, and he has received considerable news coverage.
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables" (2 Tim. 4:3-4).
Most troubling of all are the false teachers within Christianity. These proclaim a 'do-good' and 'feel-good' gospel. They totally stay away from preaching and teaching that people are sinners, thus are separated from the God who created them. They don't teach that a terrible price had to be paid to Redeem us from our sins. Jesus is Love, is the only message they want to teach. But, they refuse to fully reveal the extent of that Love. That God gave His Son, Jesus, as a sacrifice for the sins into which we are born since the fall in Eden.
They fear and their fears are well-grounded that if they preach the rest of God's Love offering to man kind, they will lose their huge audiences, who want only to hear the fairy tales they bring every Sunday in their gargantuan arenas, and through their multi-million dollar television forums.
The false teachers and itching ears of this last time are surely prime evidence that we are witnessing the
birth pangs Jesus, and the Apostle Paul prophesied.
5: End-time Technology Check
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased" (Daniel 12:4).
Daniel the prophet foretold a major
birth pang. He prophesied a time when transportation and knowledge would increase. The past century to the present date has produced an explosion of transportation and knowledge experienced by no other people of any time in human history.
Man could mount a horse and ride at no more than 50 miles an hour or so from the time of the Garden of Eden, until the middle of the 19th Century. Since then man has progressed to the point of traveling at more than 20,000 miles an hour in a space craft, and his communication at the speed of light over wires, fiber optics, and beams of electronic transmissions through space and earth's atmosphere.
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name" (Rev. 13:16-17).
That explosion of knowledge has produced the technologies that can enslave the world. Antichrist will use satellite and computer technologies, no doubt, to put all earth dwellers in electronic bondage. Electronic funds transfer methodologies and devices are now capable of bringing all people into a cashless society one that can fit within the system foretold in Revelation 13:16-18. This represents a major
birth pang.
And look at how all this political maneuvering is happening in this very "rich" country to take from those who built just enough for themselves and their families. Man's problem is selfishness and greed. Thanks for this scripture.
and being blessed. :Rose:
and felt weird. The music was so good and I can understand how people get seduced and can fall into this interfaith thing without thinking. 
ANd it seems easier for them (non-Vegetarians) to convert to Jesus than to leave meat out of their diets. 
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