Jon, in my experience it has been only fundamentalist Christians who in any way predict a specific sequence of future events based on the Bible. The majority of them do realize that the Bible says they cannot predict the dates of any of those events. But many of that majority get caught up in a tendency to see current events as generalized evidence that the "end time" events are very near.

As Joe noted, progressive Christians see the lessons of Revelation and such material more as timeless. You could say that those writings are not so much predicting historic events as using symbolic language to describe the nature of all human history from a Christian perspective.