The lord has appointed
“watchmen”
It is his way as “surely the Lord will do nothing unless he first tell his servants the prophets”. Knowing this we must pray. A watchman today uses as his guide the Word of God and it is sequential.
Revelation is sequential. Each event leads to another. The “rapture” or catching up must occur at a given point. So where are we in this walk?
What we see now are only birth pangs...the begining of events. These things will get worse. Much worse, and then ...a worldwide earthquake.
The Rapture will come at some point in this structured process that God has ordained. We only must be prepared so our lamps are full of oil. Physical...spiritual and mental
It will be business as usual when the Rapture hits as birth pangs keep getting more routine.
Jesus said so Himself:
Luke 17:26-29
26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.