This is wonderful news to those of us who are yearning for Christ to come soon. Thanks for posting!
You said -- "The prophecies are being fulfilled so quickly now that if I don't see something occurring in the news that is something God said would happen before He returns I am actually surprised."
The position regarding that -- when Christ returns for the church (from the Pre-trib standpoint) -- is that there is *nothing* left to be done before Christ returns. In other words, everything is done at this present time, in terms of all the prophecies and that Christ can return at *any moment*. It could be tonight, tomorrow, next week, next year or a decade -- but everything is done -- up to this point in time.
All the other things that are necessary happens *after* Jesus Christ returns for His church. And then there are quite a few things that will happen, all in a row -- including the revealing of the Antichrist and all the things that happen during the 7-year Tribulation time.
So, there's really nothing else left to "look for" in the way of fulfilled prophecies -- for the church. As it stands now, Christ coming for the church can happen *immediatley*.-- at any moment, even this very hour.
HOWEVER -- that being said -- there are what might be called "precursor events" (not "prophetic events").
The gathering together of the Temple furnishings and all the things to go along with the reconstruction of the Temple could be considered "precursor events". In other words, if the Temple is going to be built in a "near time frame" (and that happens *after* Christ returns for His church) -- then you are going to see certain things that happen *before* the Temple is actually constructed. We're seeing those "before events" right now. But, these "precursor" or "before" events are not "prophetic" because "strictly speaking" they are not in the Bible.
While the Bible may say that the Tempe "is there" -- in terms of what Jesus said in Matthew 24, in regards to the "abomination of desolation" -- the Bible *does not say* that the red heifer is going to be there. But, that's because the red heifer is a "precursor event" and not a "prophetic event".
Thus, we're seeing the lining up of a whole lot of precursor events to the things that *are* prophetic events that will happen later on. This is what is *very very interesting*.
Regards,
Star Traveler