Birth pains.

These are the headlines the past few days.

Food crisis in many developing countries.

In Myanmar 22,000 dead. 41,000 missing. The numbers rising.

A Southern Chile volcano dormant for 9,000 years,erupts.

The War in Iraq has been going on for years. Number of casualties rising each day.

Jesus answered: “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, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.” Matthew 24:4- 8