Wars, famines, earthquakes, and pestilences in Matthew 24 are NOT signs of the Second Coming — they are warnings that the end has not yet come

Jesus's first warning in Matthew 24 is about false Christs claiming to signal the end. Wars, rumors of wars, famines, earthquakes — Jesus says "the end is not yet" and "these are but the beginning of birth pangs." Mike argues these are explicitly NOT signs of the imminent Second Coming, contrary to the popular interpretation. World War I, World War II, the Black Plague, and COVID-19 pandemics are all examples of events people wrongly treated as harbingers of the end.