Kindred,
You do not have to be a prophet to see the writing on the wall.
It is a question of when.
When you see and when you know.
The difference is that a true prophet sees the writing before it is even written and understands the origin of the course of true events.
Before the writing on the wall, as in the last days of the perilous times in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, there were the usual signs.
These signs are described in 2 Timothy 3: 1-7;
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
At the mark of last days or the writing on the wall are the perilous times marked by corruption into sins and the unholy.
It ends in damnation, destruction and never coming to the knowledge of the truth and therefore, the Lord.
If we hope to avoid the fate of total annihilation as that of Sodom and Gomorrah, we need to stop being sinful, unthankful and unholy.
Stop the practice of depravity into lustful, grandiose and non-consensual sins which makes abuses possible and destruction fated.
Stop feeding the beast of Sins which keep the sinner blind, to the Truth without the purity of heart, to warnings from the Lord and the writing on the wall.
Stop giving into tyrants and abusers that would by their corrupt and absolute power destroy absolutely.
We need to heed the usual signs and see the writing on the wall before it is too late.