I agree wholeheartedly. We treat the end-times like an investor uses the Wall Street Journal, speculating on world events like a stock broker trying to decide whether to sell short or long. Today's troubles and moral challenges are enough for us to be worried about. The Great Commission can't be fulfilled if we're hiding in bomb shelters.
And personally, I've never met a pre-tribber who didn't believe that Armageddon was coming within their (or at best the next) generation.
Where is it written that we should not study prophecy? Because you look for prophecy in current events does not mean your looking for a way to act until one believes the end is near. The fact that the world is getting worse not better gives many people hope in prophetics words from the Bible....You make it sound like it's hokey pokey crystal ball stuff.
If GOd did not want us to know the future of things to come in the Holy Bible it would have been omited.