“We have no prophets today so anyone trying to explain a gemarah and apply it to whats happening today is a false prophet”
חכם עדיף מנביא
We have gedolei Torah who throughout the generations pointed to signs in tanach and chazal of opportune times for geulah.
More recently, gedolim including the chofetz chaim began saying that we are in עקבתא דמשיחא, the heels of moshiach, ths last period before geulah. Rav chaim kanievsky would say geulah is very imminent; these are not false neviim chas veshalom.
No one said a definite date, and all predictions are with conditions that unfortunately don’t seem to have been fulfilled.