Blog note. Jesus indicated that ‘fearful sights’ (various natural disasters) would occur leading up to the time known as the Tribulation and Great Tribulation (a combined seven year period of great destruction on earth). Although these types of things have occurred in the past for centuries and thousands of years, they could be identified as the ‘season of the times’ due to the ferociousness of these events. They would be occurring in greater intensity, severity, frequency, size, duration, scope … just like the pains that a woman experiences in labor the farther along she is in the labor process. We are in the ‘season of the times’ that comes just before the seven (7) year Tribulation/Great Tribulation period

… And great earthquakes shall be in diverse places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. (Luke 21:11).

… And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; (Luke 21:25)

… Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken; (Luke 21:26)

… This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. (2 Timothy 3:1)

Jesus is giving a series of prophecies about what to look for as the age of grace comes to a close. These verses are several of many such prophecies from throughout the Bible. 2017 was the worst year in recorded history for the intensity, frequency, severity, duration and occurrence of a large number of severe natural disasters worldwide. Earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, torrential flooding, unprecedented wildfires in unusual places, devastating droughts, excessive/scorching heat setting records everywhere, record snowfalls in Europe and Russia. Snow in the Arabia. This list can go on. Most studied Eschatologists believe these ‘fearful sights’ and massive natural disasters are all part of the ‘CONVERGENCE’ of signs that this Biblical and prophetic age is closing. Most people who study prophecy are familiar with the routine reference(s) made that these things will be like a woman having labor pains,

Spain weather: Five missing or dead as flash floods ravage nation -thousands without power

FIVE (5) people are missing or dead following new freak flash floods in Spain.

By NATALIA PENZA PUBLISHED: 08:40, Wed, Oct 23, 2019 | UPDATED: 13:50, Wed, Oct 23, 2019. Express.co.uk

Four are missing, feared dead, while the body of a fifth who went missing last night was found this morning. Those missing include a mother and her grown-up son whose prefab home was swept away by a swollen river in the village of Vilaverd near the east coast city of Tarragona. Catalan Interior Minister Miquel Buch confirmed search teams are also looking for two more missing people in L’Espluga de Francoli a 15-minute drive northwest of Vilaverd. The overturned car they were travelling in has been found in the River Francoli.

Firefighters are checking the badly-damaged vehicle to rule out anyone being still inside.

Search teams found the body of a 75-year-old man who was carried away by floodwater from a swollen river as he tried to reach his car to move it in the coastal town of Arenys de Mar north of Barcelona.

His body was found at a nearby beach this morning.

The regional Mossos d’Esquadra force confirmed: “The person found on the beach is the man who disappeared yesterday in the floodwater in Arenys that emergency teams had been searching for all night.”

The search is still ongoing for two missing people in the village of Vilaverd near Tarragona – a mum and her grown-up son. A helicopter is now involved in the search.

Thousands of people in Catalonia have been left without electricity following torrential rain.

The latest storms, which come on the back of freak flash floods last month which hit hardest in the Costa Blanca and left seven people dead, have also affected the Balearic Islands.

Three workers were injured yesterday when a whirlwind uprooted their maintenance hut in the Ibizan holiday resort of San Antonio, coinciding with the UK school half-term holidays.

An estimated 200 trees in the area were also uprooted.

The bad weather also caused problems for planes leaving and trying to land at Palma Airport in Majorca, leading to some delays and diversions.

This morning parts of the north-east province of Girona were on red alert, with local authorities warning the river Ter could overflow its banks and advising locals to exercise “extreme caution.”

The seven victims of last month’s storms included a 66-year-old Dutchman whose body was found two days after he vanished on September 15 in Dolores in the province of Alicante.

A British family told at the time how they had to be rescued by the army after becoming trapped in their holiday villa for 12 hours.

Paul and Angie Spencer, from Doncaster, had been staying in Alicante with their four children when a nearby river burst its banks.

Paul said after being rescued: “We knew we were in trouble when the waters rose higher than the kerbs.

“Cars were streaming past, along with furniture, suitcases and even two people who tried to cross the road.

“They just got swept away. Their screams were awful, we don’t know what happened to them.”

A helicopter was due to be mobilised this morning to help in the search for the missing mum and son, believed to be aged around 70 and 40.

Regional Civil Protection chief Sergio Delgado confirmed: “Authorities are searching for two people believed to have been swept away in floods who were in a prefabricated bungalow as well as a person who has disappeared in the Arenys de Mar area.”

This morning it also emerged a 52-year-old man had died in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat southwest of Barcelona after being run over by a train in an incident which has been blamed on the storms.

Paramedics made an unsuccessful attempt to save his life. The exact circumstances of his death have yet to be made clear.