Something also to add.

The world hasn't changed all that much. All of that stuff that has been mentioned biblically has been going on since the dawn of time.

Just because some of the world has experienced moments of repression (I'm referring to the Victoria Era/Puritan Era's, where if you parted your hair on the wrong side people were apt to put you in the league of satan) does not mean the rest of the world was not going through those same exact things.

The world has always sucked. This isn't something that is all of a sudden happening. Bad things have always happened. There's a quote somewhere that says "There is nothing new under the sun" (can't remember where). The recent school shootings that have us so appalled? The only reason they are happening with more frequency now is because guns are easier to get and easier to take out lots of people with.

We aren't degrading as a society. We're staying pretty much the same. I mean think about how people used to flock out and have family picnic's just to see some guy get hung. I find that whole thing rather barbaric. Many people do, but it was common place then.

Also, everyone since day one thought they were living in the end times. Heck, the disciples thought they were living in the end times. According to Hindu beliefs we are living in Kali Yuga. Or a period where there is great amounts of negativity and destruction. Supposedly it's lasted for..umm..the last 5000 years or so. That's one long stretch of end times.

I don't think the world is going to end any time soon. I think we may be headed towards some sort of cataclysmic disaster, but that's what the world does when there's too many people on it. Hey, the plague got rid of the bulk of Europe's population quite nicely.