Clearly a lot of this is NOT God dictating the Torah one character/letter at a time.
Some people get impressions and pictures and put words to them. Some people get words more or less dictated but seem to err on this or that word nuance or word ending. I give them grace as long as they seem in earnest. . . .and essentially, mostly right. I realize many would scream at such a standard in such an issue.
But present day prophets rarely get put on the back side of the desert for 30 years like Moses to clean their hearing up. And The Bible clearly says it's for the local congregation to judge and discard or not--with full implication that they weren't going to then go out and stone every erring person in that process. See I Cor 14.
Quix, sorry, but I think the Bible is pretty clear that if a prophet's inaccurate, then that prophet isn't a true prophet. Also, I noticed that SaberTooth's dream and SaberTooth's images show that in the former scenario, the midwest is devestated, and in the latter scenario, the midwest is not touched.
That kind of lax treatment of prophecies lead to Mormonism, JJehovah's Witnesses, etc. Professing to divinely predict future events is a BIG thing, and I'd at least expect a prophet to be completely accurate before taking his word to be God's divine inspiration.
Also, note that Earthquake trends are NOT changing and actually are much lower than the 40s, despite popular radio evangelist urban legends.
Feel free to contradict me.