According to the Media Matters blog, Beck said, "I'm not saying that Jesus is coming, I'm just saying things are changing. The world, I mean literally, the world is moving under your feet. I mean, could there be a bigger sign...." Later, he picked up on the theme, intoning he was "not saying God is, you know, causing earthquakes," and he's "not not saying that, either."
Voltaire's "Poem on the Lisbon Disaster" protested against the cruelty of this kind of theology 250 years ago.