If you're going to talk about Revelation's "wars and rumours of wars" then I want to tell you that wars and rumours of wars are relatively mild in the present age – ever since the collapse of the Roman Empire we've had wars WAY worse than this. Look at the period 1861 – 1989 : we had the War of Southern Independence, the Plains Indians Wars, the Spanish-American War, the Russo-Japenese War, the Zulu Wars, World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Grenada War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the list goes on. In the per…  Read moreiod of the 1700 --- 1815 we had the War of Spanish Succession, the War of Austrian Succession, Queen Anne's War, the Indian Wars, the Seven Years' War, the French and Indian War, the War of American Independence, the French Revolution, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the NApeolonic Wars. Death and pestilence and wars and famines were far more prevalent in those times than in this. It's only in the modern age, in which young Americans have never really known war or sacrifice, that we act like war is the exception and not the rule. I'm a Christian too and I am all for getting ready for the End, But I believe we can launch a great revival with hard work & determination if we don't loose heart at events such as these.