On this week’s “Hagee Hotline,” Matthew Hagee responded to a question from a viewer asking about signs of the End Times by saying that the warnings that Jesus gave in Matthew 24 were all being played out daily in the newspaper.

Possible military action against Syria, he warned, could lead to World War III, which is the fulfillment of Jesus’ assertion that “you will hear of wars and rumors of wars” as the End Times approach.

Jesus also warned of an increase in lawlessness, prompting Hagee to point to the mass shooting at the Navy Yard earlier this week as further proof that “before you know it, Jesus Christ is coming again”: