BIRTH PAINS

I love the study of prophecy, and especially that regarding the signs to look for when our Lord and Savior returns for us! He gives us the neatest picture when he painted the picture of childbirth as pertaining to the signs to look for, before His coming. He refers to it as the beginning of birth pains, and we will see the intensity of events building, like earthquakes; floods; fires; famines, etc; as they build in intensity. Things we have never seen before, in such magnitude proportions , that we won't believe it! It's only going to get worse too, because scripture has told us it would, and every prophecy in scripture has come true! The natural man cannot understand these things, though, because they are spiritually appraised, and it's foolishness to him, and he will disregard all we say.
If we are in the beginning of labor pains right now in the world, awaiting the Rapture....and then the return of our Lord, I wonder how many centimeters along the way, we are, before we are delivered?
Becky