And people have been saying every natural disaster has been a sign of the "end times" for the last 2000 years and yet we're still here. The truth is no one has a clue except God the Father and for humans to try and predict it is just foolish.
A common perspective.
Doesn't happen to be what The Bible says. Christ chided the religious rulers for being able to tell the signs of the weather but not the signs of the times. HE went on to exhort Believers to be alert for THE END TIMES with oil in their trimmed lamps and extra oil (Holy Spirit, evidently) stored, so to speak. IN Matt 24 He outline some factors.
History has had some periods when maybe 3-4 factors SEEMED to be in the critical direction. Now we have dozens and dozens AS NEVER before in history.
Key among them--Israel becoming a nation again IN A DAY in 1948 as Scripture predicted.