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I absolutely agree that stories like this are encouraging. However if you look at our global trend, this is a mere bump in the road to Armageddon. The way Jesus puts it, by the time he comes back, it will be exactly like the days of Noah, and the days of Sodom and Gamorrah...

Luke 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. 27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. 30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

No doubt, there is a lot of bad in the public forefront, but there are also a lot of really good Christian people left. One of our big problems is that evil people have seized the controls of the media and government, but there are vast numbers of people who are infuriated by it. They just have a hard time getting their voices out.

I am not yet convinced that we are spiraling down the toilet to the eschatological ending just yet. Christianity is making inroads in Muslim countries. I read the other day where millennial approval of LGBT behavior has fallen dramatically in recent years. God does great things when all seems lost precisely so people will know He is moving and acting in the world. I don’t see where the preponderance of mankind are all thinking and doing all evil “all the time”. It is not our place to know when he is coming, anyway.

To me, our place is to trust God, live in the world as a witness to him, and have ourselves sitting on ready for whenever he does come.