I'll provide an example: shock rock singer "Marilyn Manson" was raised in that drab, hyper-dispensational fundamentalist ethos. A strict upbringing energized by "prophecy books" drove him in the other direction. You can also note a similar trend as documented by Barna and Gallup surveys: as a rule, 80% of the kids raised in evangelical homes are not walking with God (attending an evangelical church) five years after leaving home.
Defective world-views have consequences. Generations of Christians poisoned by dispensensationalism are losing credibility with their own children, let alone the watching world.
Do we really wish to continue discrediting the gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by obsessively indulging ourselves in fortune-telling?
Winners and lovers shape the future;
Losers and whiners try to predict it
Well, we may or may not be talking about the same thing, but the Bible is heavy on prophecy. No, we don't want to look into crystal balls or the like, but Biblical prophecy is not fortune-telling.