Fortunately, God has ordained a series of milestones to alert his besieged children to crucial historical events. The Lord showed that such indicators may be ignored only at one’s peril, and He reserved a heaping measure of indignation for those who neither observe nor understand these signals: “Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times” (Matthew 16:3). Signs are not given so the idle or curious can predict dates and