It’s not intensifying, it’s that we’re losing the battle.
No, it’s both.
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
II Tim. 3:13, but the entire chapter tells us what’s coming. And it looks like the birth pangs are getting closer and closer together. As we approach the end of the gentile age and God again starts to deal specifically with the nation of Israel, the Holy Spirit will decrease his restraining of evil. It will look more and more like the Devil is winning. Christ warned “be not deceived” for a reason.