In Mark 13:7-8 Jesus warns about what "things must happen," before the end. Garland put this into a good prospective when he implies that the point Jesus was trying to make was not so much the individual signs we should look for to herald the end, because famine, earthquakes, and wars are constantly happening somewhere. Besides these signal that the end is "still to come" so they are no sign that the end is upon us. Jesus was telling his disciples that chaos and evil will happen, and often, but God knows this and is still in control. I enjoyed the lovely metaphor of "birth pains" and though I have never had a child, I have watched enough movies and meet to many women that have to know that it is a painful and exhausting experience that only gets worse before it gets better. Some women are even willing to endure it more than once, so it must be either against their will or rather rewarding.
Despite what it might seem, these two verses are a comfort for the passage that follows about persecution. God is in control and like a mother in labor, it will hurt real bad and you'll probably scream a lot, but the reward is worth the wile.
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i recently heard a man briefly speak on this passage and unlike he warns that those signs are a reality in the present. He wasn't just one of those "apocalypse now" guys but really believed that the wars and rumors of war are a possibility and that the earthquakes are worse than ever, (earthquakes cause tsunamis) ect. thought it was interesting sruff...
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