You wrote:
“Be patient, my dear.”
I’m not your dear, and this has nothing to do with patience.
“Legitimate or valid, by whose standard?”
By ANY reasonable standard. Anything else is quackery.
“If we are really in the last days, you are going to see acts and wonders you never conceived as possibilities.”
Not really. Those of us who know REAL prophecy will rarely be surprised. Those who live in a paranoid twilight world of modern fundamentalism will be surprised again and again - especially at their own failures.
I think I will keep this post, so I can rub it in later, if it does happen.