gnomon
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I replied to a similar question somewhere else. Here it is
(the relevant part is bolded)
another forum...
OK. Fair enough. That would mean earthquakes as well as great signs in the heavens if this also was referring to the start of the very end period. Of course, there were earthquakes and etc before also. But the ones that kick off the time of tribulation, also known as labor pains (sorrows) are of particular importance here.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows
The sense could be, then, that just before or at the start of the very final period referred to as a woman in labor and the great time of tribulation such as the world has never seen, we will see these things. (not that they also to some extent also were not seen through history!)
That made no sense at all.