In terms of Bible Prophecy, birth pangs refers to certain convulsive geopolitical, geophysical, astrophysical and world-wide socio-economic events and issues scheduled to occur in the time leading up to an awaited global event.
Birth pangs are likened to the contractions experienced by a woman about to give birth, with those episodes increasing with frequency and intensity.
"And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows." (Matt. 24:3-8)
Daily dose of disaster. 'Earth Changes' video summary of extreme weather events, environmental indicators of 'planetary upheaval' (seismic, volcanic, etc), and Near-Earth Object activity in January alone.
With mass whale strandings in India and northwestern Europe, sea birds dying, record epic blizzards, record cold wave in the Far East and South East Asia bringing snow to Vietnam, Taiwan and southern China and the first recorded snowfall in Kuwait, severe flooding in the central US, UK and many other places, the earliest Pacific cyclone on record, and the earliest Atlantic hurricane since 1938, major earthquakes in Russia's Far East and Alaska, significant volcanic eruptions in central America, Russia's Far East and Antarctica, and more. And it is not stopping.
Time for some introspection.
