Yes, it’s real alright, just not going to launch just yet. At least not fully.
As FES0844 said, “Birth pangs, look up.” The first part of his second coming (for us) launches Daniel’s 70th Week AKA the horrific 7-year tribulation. Not for a few decades yet IMO. What we’re seeing now is rumblings and previews of coming attractions.
Actually I think there’s going to be surprising reversals in what would otherwise be worldwide disasters. I believe instead we are soon going to see a worldwide repentance and coming to Jesus as Jesus himself told us in Luke 14:23. I believe Luke 14:23 needs to happen before his coming (Matt. 36-44) and the launch of worldwide terror and horror.
Jesus told us that at the first part of his second coming, people will be eating and drinking and getting married - a picture of good times and prosperity (Matt. 24:38). That, Jesus warned, is when he will come suddenly as a thief and what follows on earth is unimaginable horror wherein everyone on earth is killed except for a relatively small group of Jews hiding in the mountains.
As Katherine Kuhlman used to say, “The Bible is more up to date than tomorrow’s newspaper.”
I have been praying for that outcome, daily.