Please notice in Matthew 24:8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
It says the "beginning" not mid way, not the last day, but only the beginning that we see throughout many nations, many generations as this world continues to wax worse until Christ returns and destroys the enemy of God. America is not exempt from the coming of the son of perdition that comes after the sounding of the first six trumpets of God's great wrath that only falls on those who have rejected Him giving all a last chance to repent and turn back to Him as He shakes this earth before the return of Christ.
You might live high on the hog as the saying goes, but yet blinded to see that of the economy will no doubt bottom out soon and the increase of earthquakes, wild fires, horrific storms, flooding etc. etc. that is happening here in America that is on the increase.
Like I said.These days are not the beginning of sorrows.The war Jesus was speaking of has not commenced.
As for the coming of the son of perdition.He comes long before the first 6 trumpets even begin to sound.
He comes after the raiser of taxes.He comes in verse 21.
Daniel 11:21
And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
The trumpets don't begin to sound untill the war of armeggedon in
Daniel 11:40-44
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.
When the king of the south attacks the king of the north in Daniel 11:40,then will be the beginning of the time of sorrows.When nation rises against nation.
Mathew 24
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For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.