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Please do not think of the things I'll write down below as mockery or scorn, I do not intend for it to be understood that way. But again, it might be hard to understand. Understanding these things will require either a sharp mind, or years of connecting the dots, or the help of God, none of which is actually "your effort", as if God didn't allow you to have these, you wouldn't have them. The reason these sound familiar to you is because many people have noticed the patterns in the past. Try to understand what is said here at the best of your abilities.
there is ONE verse that is always used by end-time-pattern-noticer deniers "nobody knows the day or the hour" but this verse can be interpreted many ways, and only one of those interpretations is "nobody can know the end of the world and you shouldn't trust anyone that says they noticed it". you are hinging on this one verse and only to that specific interpretation because it is comforting, and I do not blame you as it is human nature to pick the comforting interpretation. But Jesus always spoke in parables, what makes you think that one wasn't a parable as well? 
But there are over 500 verses about the signs of the end times. It never says, "it is forbidden to use these verses to try recognizing the end times", instead it encourages it. In Revelation it literally says "let the reader understand"; hinting that those actually living in the end times will understand them. And the EXACT moment Jesus arrives in the clouds to cast judgment is not the same thing as the 7 years of tribulation before it. Even if you want to go with that "nobody knows the day or the hour" it can be said that nobody can pinpoint the EXACT moment Jesus comes back to FIX the events of the tribulation, but you better be sure that people can pinpoint the events of 7 years of tribulation unfolding because even if you say one is vague, two is vague, five is vague, but when THIS many details line up, it's like a 99-factor authentication to be sure.
One of the interpretations of that verse is amazing and fits Jesus's style of parable use. "nobody knows the day or the hour" was a jewish idiom for the feast of trumpets (yom teruah), that feast has that idiom because of a specific reason: all the other festivals have clear start dates but yom teruah doesn't have one, they celebrate it for 2 days because they can't decide the exact time it should "technically" start. that feast is supposed to start on a new moon, but since the new moon has to be "confirmed" by two people before the month could officially begin, no one knew exactly when the festival would start. It could be one day or the next. so yom teruah became known by the technical nickname: "the day and hour that no one knows.". But listen, if they wanted to "confirm" the exact date they technically could, that's why it's called the feast of trumpets in the first place. To confirm the exact start of the festival, one person has to go up one mountain, and a second person has to go up another mountain across it. When both of them saw the first light of the New moon appear at the same time, they blew their horns so that the people could hear and know that the feast officially began. But why speak in parables in the first place, right?
My mind seems to be working differently lately. I have started to think of things I've never thought before. I never questioned why Jesus spoke with parables, I thought the purpose was solely connecting to the common people of that time, but now I'm starting to understand. Jesus is God. And God "speaks in parables" in your life all the time, you sometimes notice it and sometimes you don't. The reason He communicates that way is so clever, it is to not interfere with your free will because then you'll have plausible deniability. In every case, the correct choice is always the one that brings you closer to God, and the choice that matches with God's will, to know God's will you have to know scripture, that is why Jesus said man should not live on bread alone but he shall live by every word that comes out of the mouth of God. You've heard stuff like this happen to people. You probably experienced it yourself many times. For example you just got your paycheck and you feel that you should probably give some to the poor and the exact moment that thought crossed your mind a random beggar passes by you and looks into your eyes as if he knows what you just thought. It's God talking to you in parables. Or when you see something in such a specific time and place that it doesn't make sense how that coincidence happened. Or an even clearer example, when Jesus said to Peter "you will deny me three times before the rooster crows", Peter probably at that moment thought Jesus was exaggerating, or that He was challenging him, or calling him a liar, or that He meant something else, but for this once he wasn't speaking in parables, Peter literally denied being an apostle of Jesus three seperate times without realizing, and only realized what had happened when the sound of that rooster entered his ear right after the third time he denied. This in itself was a parable, sometimes what you thought was a vague sign was actually a direct and clear telling of what is going to happen. This is one of the most clever ways Jesus proves that He is God. He literally operated the same way God operates in our daily lives all the time. God speaks in parables in our lives all the time, so when he took on flesh to show us Himself, He spoke in parables the same way. When the apostles asked Jesus why he speaks in parables He said to them, "to reveal the secrets of the kingdom of heaven to them". Do you understand what He was saying? The ones that are close to God's heart just recognize the parables of God pretty accurately when they appear, and they can guess the correct answer pretty accurately too because they have learned God's heart through faith, prayer, humility and scripture. The secrets of the kingdom of Heaven are how to recognize the parables when they appear and how to answer them correctly. And Jesus gave us about around 40-50 of these parables, not even that hard to memorize and understand them. We lost the ability to talk directly with God when we sinned, but he never gave up talking to us with parables. When we go to heaven, the people that are close to God's heart will recognize Him easily, because they've been talking with Him through the filter of the parables their whole life. They will recognize the good old parable-teller. But finally He will be able to speak to you directly without the parables. But in all seriousness though, that "horn" that "flies across the world" from the west to "break the horns" of Persia "who has been attacking its north,west and south" in Daniel 8 is so clear to identify as what is happening with Iran at the moment. Just think on it for a while, read Daniel 8 once and you'll see. I think it is time for us to sit down and read the book of Daniel as a whole to get the full picture. I wonder what else is in there we're missing.