What signs are Christians to watch for thus? The recently canonized Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov, a nineteenth-century Russian bishop, insisted that the corrupt state of men’s souls and of society will itself be a divine warning: “Universal debauchery, together with the most abundant material progress which engendered it, will be the sign of the end of the age and the approaching terrible judgment of Christ.”8 However, the signs which God has ordained for the end times are far more detailed and specific