When His disciples asked "What will be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?" Jesus answered: "...you will hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that you are not troubled... For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places..."
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Jesus goes on to say "Many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another.
"And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved.
"And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come."
Also the apostle Paul wrote: "But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God..." Source: New King James Bible.
So what we are witnessing in the world today is to be expected really.