What Are the Signs of the Times?

It seems that with every single day we wake up to news of the biggest fire EVER, the biggest quake EVER, the largest mass shooting EVER, the largest animal die-off EVER, the biggest hurricane EVER, etc...

So are these all part of an increasing intensity of what Jesus told us to watch for?

Could these all be the SIGNS OF THE TIMES?

There are, then, these five major signs of the times:

1;  The countdown beginning with the return of Israel to its ancient homeland and being established as a nation among nations;
2;  Russia—Gog of the far north, as identified in Ezekiel 38—is in position in the Middle East to launch the Gog-Magog war of Ezekiel 38-39;
3;  The surprising upset of planned, political positioning to destroy the sovereignty of America and usher in a New World Order to establish a one-world government. The return to economic, social and financial health and rejection of globalism, as the Trump election created and revealed the prophecy of Jesus of that occurrence in Luke 17:26-37;
4:  The unabashed rise of lawlessness and rebellion against the rule of law and the application of justice without special favor, along with morality being publicly destroyed. It is the description of the “falling away” from the faith and rejection of lawfulness;
5;  The coming confirmation of a covenant that gives peace to Israel for seven years and launches that seven years of “the time of Jacob’s trouble” and judgment of earth dwellers. Believers in Christ will have been snatched out of the path of wrath in the Rapture of the saints.

All the while in the background of these events, there will be turmoil and tragedy in abundance and in increasing intensity: “Then He said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven” (Luke 21:10-11).

Also Jesus said, “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken” (Luke 21:25-26). But even then, the great wrath of God is still ahead.

For believers in Christ, however, “God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,” as it says in the context above. And, as the Scriptures close out the Revelation, “Even so, Lord Jesus, come!”

http://www.raptureready.com/2017/12/08/what-are-the-signs-of-the-times-by-gene-lawley/

Of course we have NO IDEA WHEN The Lord Jesus is coming back in the clouds to snatch his bride away like a thief...but we do claim the promise of 1 Thessalonians 5:4..."But, you brothers, are not in darkness that this day should surprise you."

And with all that is going on in the world and the focus being on Jerusalem...I wouldn't be surprised at all if a loud trumpet sounded and all followers of Christ went to meet him in the sky!