We are told we won't know the year, but we are to watch for the season. Since Christ was crucified we have two major things to watch for, one is that the entire world is given the opportunity to hear the gospel and the other is that we see the Jews returning to the Holy Land. Both have happened. The world will be filled with wickedness, that is happening.
I am not understanding at all that the Jews who are returning mostly have forgotten God as their creator, but scripture doesn't say they do, just they are returning.
I just read a post on cc that her country is in chaos with even government wicked. Governments are killing, there is genocide. In my Christian, they say, country I have an acquaintance who is a warlock, another who is a white witch. My sister in law who owns a cattle ranch that has a stand of trees on it found a circle made to worship the devil. They had killed her best steer using darts of nicotine so it remained limber, drained the blood, and used the blood in the middle of a circle. The police said there was freedom of religion in America so they could do nothing, and what they did to her steer was a misdemeanor. She was asked, in the name of not causing panic, to not let the media know this had happened.
Our churches are not standing firm on sin. They talk instead of only following that we are to stay away from legalism, we are not under law, we are to follow grace, it is through Christ not the law of Moses. All of this is good Christian principles except they are using these as a reason to not follow other Christian principles. That is the way the devil works, the devil knows scripture well and how to use it to obscure scripture.
Another way the devil is leading us to a world filled with sin that is predicted as a prelude to Christ' return is using God's word that the truth will make you free, meaning the truth of Christ. They say this means that we should know ourselves and trust in who we are. We are to trust in God and follow Him, to die to ourselves for we are created and live in Him. They forget that part. So even some of our churches teachings lead to following the devil.