I grew up in a small town that was full of this. You know why everyone thinks that revelations is coming true and it's the end times? Selfishness.

Christians who believe that they're living in the end times are narcissists, hands down. I was surrounded by them growing up. They will tell you it's because the world is sinful and all the signs are matching but really their actual reasons for believing that it's the "end times" is:

• They don't need to feel guilty about using resources/polluting (God will "renew" the earth)
• They don't need to worry about the next generation, because it'll be over before then
• Someone else (Jesus or God or the Holy Spirit or all three in the mecha-jesus form) will save everyone for them
• They get to be raptured, leaving behind all the sinners, and thus proving that they really are better than everyone else.

It's all pure selfishness and narcissism. I read the bible, and then I read the entire left behind series. All of them. It's rapture porn for Christians. It's 13 books of "Oh if only we were as smart as the Christians to accept Jesus earlier!" Of course it was, and that's why it was marketed towards Christians, and not non-Christians. (Seriously, think about how fucked up that is that they had 13 books dedicated to that, marketed towards them, and how much they ate it up. But I digress)

Christians are more than happy to put their head in the sand. It's why you see Christians not giving two damns about the planet or pollution, or the next generations. They don't care. They're going to be fine. They'll be raptured. Everyone else? Well jokes on them because the Christians were right and everyone else deserves it.

and I haven't even touched on the pure arrogance of assuming that of all of the generations and billions of people who came before that somehow you're the one who experiences the return of your savior