"Just love how these prophesy guys contradict each other and how the real world contradicts them all. Then they spend inordinate amount of time trying to plug in their interpretations to make it come out they were right."
You are right on the money, SkyDancer. Many of these "prophecy guys" do variations on this particular youtube clip, and they often contradict each other, as well as reality.
One example from this youtube clip shows the gentleman highlighting these texts from the Bible, and explaining how they are related to the turmoil and troubles we are seeing in the world today.
Matthew 24:9-10
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
Jesus was talking directly to his Apostles in those passages, and they applied more perfectly to them, 2,000 years ago, as most of them ended up being physical martyrs for their faith. (Other than in some Muslim countries today, most Christians today are NOT being physically martyred
YET like the Apostles were.) And verse 10 there can be applied equally well to every single place and every single time period in the history of the world.
The very next verse says the following:
Matthew 24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
That is exactly what I see reflected in your post.
The definitions of "prophet" include "a person who foretells the future", and "a person chosen by God to be His messenger", as well as "a person regarded as an inspired teacher or proclaimer of the will of God", so all of these folks probably believe they fall into at least one of those categories of "prophets".
It is absolutely true that many of them contradict each other, and go through bizarre contortions, in order to prove that their own personal interpretation of various Biblical prophecies are the correct ones.
An interesting thing to do some time is to do a search in youtube, and a search in Amazon, for videos/books using the following four terms, without quotes: ( the book of Revelation ; the book of Daniel ; the book of the Apocalypse ; Daniel and Revelation ). If you watch some of those videos, or read some of those books, with an honest, discerning eye, you will encounter radically different and contradictory interpretations of the exact same Biblical prophecy passages. The truth is, these modern interpreters of Biblical prophecies do contradict each other in many consequential ways, and they often twist things, or misinterpret Biblical passages, in order to try to buttress their own interpretations.
God bless you, SkyDancer, and I'll say goodnight now, as I have to get up early tomorrow.