Questions about Ar·ma·ged·don

Ar·ma·ged·don

So this topic has interested me greatly ALL throughout my Christian life and still is. And it is also a topic of great interest to many in the secular world since it pretty much concerns their future as well. What prompted me to write this is the recent Chilean earthquake (another great earthquake - 8.8) as it highlighted yet again one of many the signs of the end.

Matthew 24:7-8 (New King James Version)
7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences,[a] and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

And here are a little numbers to show you the number of GREAT earthquakes that are exponentially increasing in just the last century alone:
1880-1890 - 1
1890-1900 - 1
1900-1910 - 3
1910-1920 - 2
1920-1930 - 2
1930-1940 - 5
1940-1950 - 4
1950-1960 - 9
1960-1970 - 13
1970-1980 - 46
1980-1990 - 53
1990-2000 - ???

this is a pretty old source and it doesn't show the new data. But u can pretty much imagine that 1990-2000 was insane. And in our more recent history 2000-2010 - with the 2004 boxing day earthquake at Indonesia being close to heart.

This topic of course not only limited to earthquakes but everything about the end times in general. I know I spoke to ZJ and Jiahao before on this and it was pretty interesting so Im hoping to see u guys inputting!

Does Daddy respect Free will?

If Daddy can turn the hearts of men, or let people's opinion of you be changed (find favour, can we still say that God respects free will?

e.g. made the Egyptians hate Israel

Psalms 105:24-25
The LORD made his people very fruitful;
he made them too numerous for their foes,
whose hearts he (foes) turned to hate his people,
to conspire against his servants.