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Yes they are increasing in frequency. I really didn’t think that was happening either - until today.

Again Read Matthew 24.

Here is the sequence which comes from all of the Bible but especially the book of Revelation:

After Jesus ascended to heaven we have been in “the times of the Gentiles” and in “the church age”.

Jesus told us that as we get closer to the time of His return (of which we are not to know the day or the hour but we ARE TO KNOW THE SEASON which is what we are in right now.

so the Rapture is going to come in a moment - and its purpose is for Jesus to come for His Bride - the church - in which all believers in Christ, all those who belong to Him and who are alive when He comes in the Rapture event (again see I Thessalonians chapter 4) - will be caught up to meet Him in the sky. (He will return on the clouds just as the angel told His desciples when they kept staring up into heaven after the resurrected Jesus ascended unto heaven.

Then after the rapture happens, the Great Tribulation will begin = during which the antichrist will have power to rule this earth. Much of Revelation is about this time - but you can also read about it in most of the OT Prophets - like Zephaniah, and Malchi, and Isaiah, and Daniel, and in the Psalms even.

That Great Tribulation period will last exactly 7 years at the end of which Jesus will come with his raptured saints coming with Him and He will be coming then not just for His own but for ALL those on the earth! He is coming to put an end to evil in this world and to cast defeated Satan into the abyss and to rule this earth for 1000 years (along with His saints).

At the end of that 1000 year reign, there will be one more release of Satan from the abyss who will lead a rebellion at that time on the earth because people will be born during the Tribulation and some will rebel against God - just proving that sin rears its head even in an ideal environment such as we will have during the millenium Kingdom. Then Jesus will pesonally put satan into the lake of fire (or have one of his chief lieutenant angels do it)

Then there will be the Great White Throne Judgement - which will only be for unbelievers - for all those who do not belong to Him throughout all history. Sadly all those at the GWT Judgement will be going to an eternal hell apart from God forever. I can hardly type that because it is a future so horrble - I do not wish it on anybody and we know that Jesus came then and is speaking in so many ways NOW in order to reap a huge harvest of souls BEFORE that terrible Tribulation period begins!

He does NOT take delight in the destruction of the wicked - much as many of us do....

He yearns for every lost sinner to turn to Him and be saved! NOW! While there is still time to become HIS - before the Tribulation actually begins.

(these are just the birth pangs - not the real Tribulation yet).

Can you point out some facts showing where earthquakes are increasing in frequency? There are always earthquakes, everyday, around the world, how is it any different from 200 years ago, or 400 years ago? Just because more are being recorded, doesn’t mean that there are more earthquakes than there were 400 years ago. There are no signs in the heavens, there are no pestilences. I’m not sure that we can say for a fact, that we arein the birth pang period. I for one am not convinced, so show me some convincing evidence. I am convinced that Jesus died for my sins, and I am a believer. But to say that we are in the season of his return is a different matter entirely.