Just curious, is there Scripture that describes the increase in frequency/magnitude of natural disasters in/near the "end times?" If so, I'd like to check it out.
Yes, in Matthew 24. I've been thinking a lot about that passage lately, because I never really put together until a few months ago why Jesus used the phrase "birth pains." Birth pains increase in magnitude over time and also happen closer and closer together.
3As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. "Tell us," they said, "when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?"
4Jesus answered: "Watch out that no one deceives you. 5For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many. 6You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8All these are the beginning of birth pains.
Actually, that is one of the most incredible absuridities of the lunatic fringe religious hucksters. The bible states just the opposite: That there will be wars, earthquakes, storms, etc., and they will not mean that the end is near. The end will come like a "thief in the night"; just when everyone is saying "peace." The signs will not be catyclisms, but the presence of a great abomination in the new temple of Israel (if that passage is to be taken literally, and not as a reminder of the time of the fall to the Babylonians.)