"End Times"?

By mid-September 2008, there a great deal of talk about the world being in the "End Times". The reasoning was that there were the increasing storms, the cessation of the solar wind and sun spots, there was a charismatic figure running for president of the United States who might be Muslim and seemed rather like the Anti-Christ, and the economic turmoil that could no longer be ignored. The country, and possibly the world, seemed on the brink of another "Great Depression". How many more signs could there be?