I don't know, Perry, I use to hear the same stuff coming out of the mouth of my old Independent Fundamental Baptist preacher some 20 years ago. Well, at least him and Jack Van Impe. It use to scare me to death and make me want to try to be a better Christian which for an IFB meant attending all the church services and going out soul winning regularly. The downside is that it was never enough as every Sunday morning, Sunday night, or Wednesday night I would hear the pastor say yet something else was wrong with my life. Either because I was in college getting a 'secular education' or I was still living at home when I was 21 or because I would just get bored with the church and check out other churches (after hearing from the pulpit that only the IFB's had the right teachings).
Back then, we were expecting the New World Order TM to occur by the late 1990's and preparing for the millenia rein of Christ to occur during the 2000's. Look ma, its 2012 and no New World Order TM . The world is still spinning the same way much as it did 20 years ago. No Anti-Christ, unless you believe the conservative pundits who claim Obama is it. Back in the 1980's I was told that Ronald Reagan had the mark of the beast (the 666 which were the number of letters in his first, middle, and last names). Well, the beast is dead, unless that super computer in Belgium is the B.E.A.S.T. (which was also preached by that IFB preacher).
In short, why get scared of the turn of events whether real or imagined?