Germys,
What specifically does “specific” mean? The problem I see with this sort of prophecy and fulfillment is that events were foretold with sufficiently non-specific allusions and with such poetic license that they describe what sociologists call empirically continuous phenomena. In other words, natural disasters, wars won, peace lost, scandals, corruption, famines, epidemics, revolutions, en masse apostasies and the like have been happening randomly but frequently as long as history has been recorded, so it’s an extremely safe bet that more of the same will happen in the future. It’s a numbers game, pure and simple. So the only epistemological assumption required to read Biblical prophecy fulfillments into current events is to allow them a range of meanings that is broad and flexible enough cover a wide array of possible events, and not restrict oneself to particular names, dates and locations. No one really needs a crystal ball or a degree in statistics or linguistcs to figure that out. But a basic grasp of the different cognitive functions employed between making statements of fact and an historicism based on a taxonomy of symbolic parallelism is definitely required.
