And yet, you have people who say "But ... but ... they have said these things for years" and all this predictable, cookie cutter nonsense.
2 Peter 3:3-4
King James Version
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation
The Fig Tree Generation did not even come to be until 1948.
What did God say that a generation was? 70-80 years with variations based on the calendar, which, in my opinion, not even the best scholars can accurately depict, but it will not be off much much in either direction.
The list of things DIFFERENT about these times is an utter LAUNDRY LIST.
The only time(s) that compare?
That's right ... the days of Noah and of course, when Lot and his wife were told to leave.
We are hardly in the "same 'ol same 'ol'.
Only those whose eyes God has scaled over feel that way. Which is why he gave us the lesson of the 5 virgins with oil and 5 without.