Birth stands in a category of its own. Few events in life so dramatically display such a wide range of emotions; at such climactic levels; from such a broad assortment of people; in such a short amount of time. It is little wonder, then, that Jesus seizes the “labor pains” metaphor (Mt. 24:8) to describe the most difficult time in history, when the earth will be so “thoroughly shaken” that it will “reel like a drunkard” (Is. 24:19-20): the years leading up to His Second Coming at the end of the age (Mt. 24; Mk. 13; Lk. 17, 21). This article talks around that reality and our need for urgency in this hour of history and to sojourn with sobriety. NOTES AND FEEDBACK: http://danieltrainingnetwork.org/proclamation-why-the-urgency-4p EMAIL: [email protected] FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/danieltrainingnetwork TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/dtnetworking