Yes, anyone can make prophecies out of nothing. But, Baha'u'llah shouldn't. Anything he says should be dead on. Baha'is, even a Hand of the Cause, is different. They could be wrong. But then, what do you do with Bills Sears book? Dead on? Or, not so much... and just the opinion of the author? It better be dead on, especially since it was a huge factor in a lot of people becoming Baha'i.
Baha’u’llah did not make anything out of prophecies, as He
never claimed they were proof of who He was.
There is no way to be dead on with prophecies because there can always be more than one way to interpret them. Moreover, people will always find a way to twist the meanings even if there is one obvious meaning. For example, regarding Isaiah 53:3, Jesus was despised and rejected by certain Jews who wanted Him executed, but He was not rejected by most men. Jesus was a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, but He was esteemed by many men.
Certainly, Isaiah 53:4 and Isaiah 53:5 can apply to Jesus, but they also apply to Baha’u’llah. However, Isaiah 53:8, Isaiah 53:9, and Isaiah 53:10 cannot apply to Jesus because Jesus was not taken from prison and from judgment, Jesus did not make His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death. Jesus made his soul an offering for sin, but He did not see his seed and His days were not prolonged, so there is no way Isaiah 53:10 can be about Jesus, and that is why we know it is about someone else who would be the Messiah of the end days.
Of course we know that Baha'u'llah saw His seed, Abdu'l-Baha, and that His days were prolonged, because He lived into old age. Jesus did not live into old age, and rising from the dead does not count.
As for the prison Baha'u'llah was tossed in, we all know about that. What prison was Jesus in? Baha'u'llah made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, but Jesus did not.
Thus there is no way this whole chapter can be about Jesus. Jews think it is about Israel but that is a real stretch. It just does not fit. It is about the Messiah and we can only know that in retrospect, IF we know what happened to the Messiah, as we know what happened to Baha'u'llah.
One Christian I have been posting to for over five years on other forums argued that Jesus saw His seed because Christians are children of God... That is what I mean by twisting meanings to make them fit.
Isaiah 53 King James Version (KJV)
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.