Put down the bottle, you’ve had enough :)
1000000000 people over the last 2000 years have been SURE they were seeing the signs and they alligned Perfectly.
If they were lucky, they died of old age :)
God doesn’t need to shoot a commet or do magic tricks to act.
And he gave us free will so we could make our own decisions, right or wrong.
“i will come like a thief in the night” is SO straighforward :)
“you will not know the hour nor the day”
Not, “you will not know the hour nor the day unless you look out for comets and asteroids and the sun and the moon and the stars and if sunset is 5 minutes early..!!”
:)
It just is what it is.
We are not the special generation that is going to see tis or that come true.
Sorry :)
Pagan folk did this for millennia - it’s a human response (aka, human sin nature) to attempt to divine the future using natural phenomena around them.
It’s why you still have primitive isolated tribes more than willing to attack an outside visitor is someone in their village gets sick or dies - the same process of assigning blame and cause on the unusual.
It is a temptation to throw away one’s assurance in the Lord, that all too many easily fall for.