Jesus had a session with his disciples on the Mount of Olives. They asked him what will be the sign of your second coming and of the end of the age? Jesus answered them by saying: "Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ', and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains." Matthew 24:6-8 According to the very words of Jesus, the things we are seeing are just the beginning of birth pains. There has always been wars, famines, earthquakes and distress between nations, but the kind of events about to come upon this planet will be the worst ever. Thank God, the Bible tells us exactly when the actual birth pains will begin and to what extent and severity they will be. "So when you see standing in the holy place 'the abomination that causes desolation, ' spoken of through the prophet Daniel--let the reader understand." Matthew 24:15 "For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now- -and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened." Matthew 24:21,22 The abomination of desolation? What is that all about? We learn from the prophet Daniel that there will come a time when Israel will have a third temple. They will be living in a time of peace and prosperity that the world has never seen. A man will come out of nowhere and take the world by surprise. He will be able to do incredible miracles. He will bring about world-wide peace, he will bring prosperity to all, he will even accomplish something what no man has ever been able to do. He will bring peace to the middle-east. He will sign a peace treaty with Israel that will guarantee 7 years of peace. Sound to good to be true, well it is, because right in the middle of this 7 years of peace and prosperity this man will enter the third temple of Israel and proclaim himself to be God! That's the abomination of desolation, that's when all hell breaks loose and the real birth pains begin. The real birth pains, the Bible tells us, will take place during the time of greatest distress this world has ever seen. Nothing has nor will ever come close to the events about to come upon this planet. As the Bible says, unless those days be shortened, no one would survive at all! There is only one sure way to survive and perhaps you already know how, but if you don't then continue below to find out!