Blowing the trumpet:

I think the 'last days' are so relevant to the subject of estrangement.  I believe it is just one of the many disasters that is happening letting us know the season we are in.  This is a link to a youtube video of Anne Graham Lotz that she did with Joel Rosenberg (an author and expert of the middle east) called Blowing the Trumpet and it is a study of the book of Joel in the Bible.  Once you find this youtube, yoou can easily find the other 6 in the series.  Some are done by Anne Graham and some are by Joel Rosenberg.  All of them are great and a blessing and in a way encouraging to me, and they might be for you too, knowing the season we are in somehow helps us know what we must do.
This youtube in particular is about the imminent return of Jesus ... Jesus is coming and soon!  If we don't tell the lost, who will?
Hope you are as encouraged as I am and will take the time to watch them all ... they are long but they are free on youtube and in this age of so much terrorism, almost daily bad news, it helps to have it put in Biblical perspective so we can comfort and encourage and 'sound the alarm' that Jesus is coming soon!  God bless....