This guy doesn't understand prophecy (or, maybe I don't)

If a prophecy is made, and you respond to it by fulfilling the prophecy, I don't know if that should be called prophecy.  Doing so would remove the divinity of a prophecy, because instead of foretelling what Providence dictates, it merely provides one option for humans who wish to become part of the divine.  The future then becomes the product of secular, human choices.  One could override the will of Providence by choosing to fulfill an alternative prophecy.

From a sociological perspective, however, that might be the true essence of prophecy.

One of the volunteers, Mike Clayton, a former preacher from Seminole, Okla., reads out of the Bible from Isaiah 61:5: "The son of the foreigner will come and tend your vines."

Then he adds: "Well, a few days ago, myself and my son got off a plane ... and I got to watch as I handed my son ... a pair of pruners, and I took a picture as he walked out there. He fulfilled scripture. ... Is the Bible true? Is all this happening? I saw it with my own eyes."

—Lourdes Garcia-Navarro .  March 7, 2012.  “Christians Provide Free Labor On Jewish Settlements.”  All Things Considered.  NPR.

Meaning of Life: Hindu Perspective

The Hindus were among the first to conceive of life as a journey—a grand journey—…The individual in life ideally moves through various stages of development, and those stages of development begin with Brahmacharya…the student stage.  The first 25 years of a students’s life, ideally devoted to studying all knowledge and understanding the sacred texts of Hinduism.  After that, Grihastha, that is, the householder stage.  Notice that’s age 25 to about 55, in which the individual establishes a family and becomes devoted to providing for others, for raising children, and so that key portion of one’s life is dedicated to society and fulfilling one’s social responsibility.  But then there’s the prospect of liberation here, and in the third of the stages, Vanaprastha, the individual is encouraged to sever his or her ties with society and to move off into a realm of solitude, in which one searches in the most serious manner possible one’s connection with truth, with the divine, and so the term literally means “forest hermit”…This solitary seeker of truth…must begin with leaving all family and responsibilities behind in a quest for self-knowledge…in this journey…the third stage is necessary.  Necessary for what?  For attaining the fourth stage…: Sannyasa…the meaning of Sannyasa, it means saintliness, and it depends on the result of Vanaprastha…because one could wander about in the forest for a very long time and not attain this kind of self-realization or self-knowledge of what is true, good, noble, right, just…One has to attain a certain wisdom…

—Dennis Dalton.  Power Over People: Classical and Modern Political Theory.  Lecture One: The Hindu Vision of Life.  The Teaching Company.  1998.