Matthew 24:6-9

 6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of birth pains. 

9 “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. 

Doesn't this sound much like the earth we live in today?  The frequency of earthquakes has increased, as has the size and ferocity of hurricanes and tornadoes.  I am sure everyone remembers Katrina. And how about the 2013 El Reno, Oklahoma tornado? It is the largest tornado on record at 2.6 miles wide. While we are talking about Oklahoma, Live Science reports that the USGS actually issued a rare earthquake warning for Oklahoma in May 2014, stating that "the risk of a damaging earthquake-one larger than magnitude 5.0- has significantly increased in central Oklahoma."

In July 2015, in an article by The New Yorker, the author Kathryn Schultz interviewed Chris Goldfinger, who is a paleo seismologist at Oregon State University, and one of the worlds leading experts.  Counting from the earthquake of 1700, we are now three hundred and fifteen years into a two-hundred-and-forty-three-year cycle. Meaning we are seventy two years overdue for the Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake. Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMA's Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, "Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast."1     You can view the earthquake map for recent activity worldwide here: earthquake.usgs.gov. 

The USGS website also has a drought monitor map that you can view. According to an article on PBS NewsHour, by 2050, the US could surpass the "mega-drought" conditions of the 12th and 13th centuries, with severe droughts lasting multiple decades. 

Switching gears a bit, the Nansen ice shelf, which is twice the size of Manhattan Island, "looks ready to calve off into a tabular iceberg," wrote Ryan Walker, a researcher at NASA Goddard.2  "There's a huge crack, miles long and sometimes over a hundred yards wide, which runs more or less parallel to the front of the ice shelf."  If all of Nansen collapses, it will reduce Antarctica's ice shelf coverage by just 0.1 percent. However, ice shelves like Nansen do act as vast barricades for glaciers behind them. When an ice shelf is removed, glaciers begin to tumble into the sea at surprisingly fast speeds--sometimes moving ten times faster than normal--and these will definitely cause the sea level to rise.3

Lots of stuff going on all at the same time, huh? And it seems like everything's getting bigger and faster all the time. Why do you think this is? Many people say it is because of global warming. There is a lot of argument about global warming.  Many people believe that global warming is real, and that mankind is causing it. Some  claim that global warming is the result of a natural heating and cooling cycle that the earth goes through every so-hundred years. Then you have the camp that claims that global warming is NOT real, that it is all just conspiracy theories. And lastly, you have the ones that are turning in circles from one camp to the next, unsure what to believe.  Whatever you believe, the Bible does predict this.

Luke 21:25-26

25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; and the sea and the waves roaring;

26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven will be shaken.

Matthew 24:13

But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.