The stage is being set for the return of Christ.
Amen to that, friend. God is setting His stage to allow the nations in their arrogance and pride to come against Him in Israel where Christ Jesus will defeat them at Armageddon.
There will be wars and rumors of wars. It may well be too civilized yet in the world for this to happen.
That’s what the early Christians thought some 1900 years ago because things seem to be so bad during the Roman persecutions.
The same thought was prevalent during the time that Europe was devastated by the plague.
The Armenians must have hoped for Christ to return right then and there when they were massacred by the hundreds of thousands by the muslim Turks.
The inmates of the death camps of Hitler and Stalin hoped for Christ’s return to relieve them from their suffering.
All of them cried out for Christ’s return to no avail because none of them were able to change the situation that they found themselves in.
He will come for sure, but only at His designated moment.