When you tie the bible to supernatual events you are dooming it to failure.  But go ahead if you must.  I’d prefer to offer the world a better explaination and a better solution.

I am suggesting that the Bible is from the begining to the end an anit-imperialistic document.  It’s core message is a warning about what happens when we as humans build empires rather than focus on love and community.   The US is no exception and eventually we will fall into the same mindset as every other empire because that is what human empires do best. 

The reality is that my little sarcastic prophesy IS correct.  You could make a great argument that every time a suicide bomber kills US soldiers in Iraq that my prophesy of the sand beast is true.  Therefore I am a great prophet!  I use that only as an example and don’t mean to make this about US/IRAQ conflict. 

The point is that prophesy is telling either what we fear will happen or sometimes what we want to happen.  In either case we are just projecting possible outcomes based on our political or emotional objectives. Prophesy is valid art/poetry regardless of what happens in the future because it tells of our desires and fears.  It is important to study ancient prophetic writings because that is how we learn the mood and intent of the cultures we are studying.

All prophets want to be false prophets.  For example, don’t you think the OT prophets like Amos wanted to be proven false?  Wasn’t their main objective to STOP what they thought was going to happen?  They were not predicting the future they were painting a picture of what would happen if people didn’t listen to them and change course.  Wouldn’t the most successful prophet be the one that actually got the people to change course and was then proven false?