It was certainly better 20 years ago than it is today, but I have to say yes, I did see it coming. I very distinctly remember a conversation I had with a coworker 25 years ago about how it would become illegal to teach your kids that homosexuality is wrong, and that if you did, your kids would be taken away from you because of “psychological abuse”. He said it would never happen. I told him that it would be people like him who would turn me in. He was very offended. Interestingly, the priest he was so fond of was removed from active ministry several years later for .... Well, you know. I wonder what he would say today.
I learned about the end times and always wondered how so many Christians were going to be beheaded. Now I know. The only thing that surprised me is the recent acceleration but 2013 was 40 years of child sacrifice.