These "end-times" signs have been going on for more than 3000 years of recorded history, which would make it (according to biblical history), 1000 years BEFORE Jeebus was EVEN BORN.
So, was God going to end the earth 1000 years before Jeebus was born, or did he wait, send him down here, let him die, and then send signs for another 2000 years just for shits and giggles?
Or, are you desperately trying so hard to see signifigance in random events that you think every war, fire, earthquake, famine, etc., is a WORK OF GOD?
If so, your God is a random sort of fellow, with bad judgement, bad aim, bad morals, bad ethics, etc.?
I'll put my money on the second scenario.