"There will be wars and rumors of wars". Can you name one period of time when there was not "wars and rumors of wars"? Maybe Jesus was emphasizing the fact that he used when he told his disciples that "no one knows the day or the hour". I think he said that he would "come as a thief in the night". It could be in the next blink of our eyes, or in many more years. We need to be ready.
Matthew 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Many false Christ’s didn’t arise claiming to be Christ in the days of the early church, before the destruction of the temple, and the desolation of the land of Israel.
Matthew 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Wars and rumors of war between nations, weren’t allowed in the days of the Roman Empire, for there were no independent nations, nor kingdoms then.
Matthew 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Global news reports exist today as daily news, morning, noon and night. But global news and awareness didn’t exist in the past.
The rise of globalism is the result of science and technology. And science and technology grew together as the result of the use of coal, gas and oil. And the coal, gas, and oil are the direct byproducts of flood of Noah, which flood buried the world before the flood in and under two mile thick water laid sediments now found resting on the seven continents of the earth.
Globalism is the great sign of the time of the end. At Babel, about 100 yrs after the Deluge, God prevented globalism from occurring by creating the many languages that resulted in the nations of the earth.
God then moved to bring the gospel of Jesus into the world, and Jesus commanded the church to globalize it by preaching it in all nations, even to the four corners of the earth.
Satan wanted globalism before the gospel came, but wasn’t able to produce a truly global empire. When the gospel spread like fire and turned the Roman Empire world upside down, then Satan sought to dismantle the Roman Empire, and misdirect it so as to bring in the dark ages without the light of the Holy Bible available to the common man. In the meantime Satan fought Michael and his angels in heaven until he and his rebels were cast out, down, and into the earth.
God in preparation for the time of the end, and his time of great harvesting of the whole earth, published his Holy Bible, gave it to the common Englishman (that had asked for it, and greatly desired it) and sent them to the New World of the America’s.
Now the Holy Bible is kept in the United States as immigrants from all the world flood into this country. The immigrants shall receive the Holy Bible and it’s gospel of salvation into their hearts and at the right moment they will be sent back the way they came to publish the gospel globally in the times of global tribulation that must arise to attempt to prevent the spread of the gospel.
Satan knows his time is short, and that Jesus will return when the nation of Israel calls on
him to save them from the Antichrist, the beast.
So, now the sign to expect is the Revelation 6, rider on the white horse. The man that is to be given a crown, that will then rides forth promoting false peace, safety and righteousness: whom’s global policy is complete Global Disarmament requiring global governance.
Then the great tribulation will begin when the red horse rider rides forth.
During the great tribulation of the saints of God on earth, the whole earth will be harvested, then the end will come.
Matthew 24:8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
As the earth convulses like a woman in travail to give birth, the global world will observe the wars, and rumors, and pestilences, and famines occurring worldwide and the heathens will clamor for the False One to come and save the world.
Now is the beginning of sorrows.