When the Eagle lands on the Moon

I've been thinking about the tricksy nature of prophecy.

The Greeks warned about it and said that either people wouldn't believe you, or that the more you tried not to kill your father and marry your mother, the more you ended up killing your father and marrying your mother. 

There's also the tangential lore about genies - granting wishes that are technically a fulfillment of the desire but turn out to be the worst possible interpretation of the actual words used.

And I think about the first time I heard about "The Eagle Has Landed" and how the fulfillment was technically the same words but would have been completely incomprehensible to the prophet.[1]

And I'm thinking about all this in relation to the supposed prophecies in Revelations that rely on the reestablishment of Israel as a country where we think they were a country until the believers in the document containing Revelations spent nearly 2000 years trying to exterminate the citizens of said state no matter where they lived.

I wonder whether it would be safe for me to accept the gifts and advice of people who view the establishment of my house as a precursor to a conflagration resulting in their deity getting an earthly kingdom right where I'm hoping to build my house.  I confess, cynic that I am, I would be anxious about such gifts and such advice.

I can't think of one right now, but I bet the Greeks have a cautionary tale about someone who did not have a prophecy of their own, but who initially benefitted from the prophecy of another, and thus ultimately came to no good.  Actually - I bet there's something in Naill's Saga, which brings everyone to doom, flaming for preference. 

{1] - I can't find anything that matches the story[2] as I originally heard it:  Chief Seattle made a prophecy that his people would suffer under colonial rule for seven generations, and then, when the eagle landed on the moon, they would begin to return to their power.  The excitement was that in 1969, when Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, he said, "The Eagle has landed." because the lunar lander was named "Eagle".

[2] - what I find online is that this is an old prophecy, attributed to Hopi and Cherokee, and others, I'm sure, if I dug deeper.  It's also an oral history, so while the gist remains the same, the specific words differ depending on who is telling and for what purpose.  The eagle landing on the moon is the big deal, the sign that shows the prophecy has come to pass.