Does the Bible Really Speak About the Future?

Jesus said that you couldn't know when the son of man would be revealed, whoever that may be, in Matthew 24. Why some people apply this to something totally different, the date of the day of the Lord, I don't know.

I think we can know the day of the Lord as a calendar date. I think it is the day specified by the Mayan calendar, whatever that may be the long or the short count callendar or maybe another if they made a mistake.

So, I think even Tim Le Haye says we can know it is close even though we refrain from picking an exact day because of possible mistakes.

The son of man might be alive on earth right now.

As to false prophets, the main thing was if they adovocated monotheism or polytheism.

A monotheist prophet is not a false one, and if his negative prophecy did not happen he was not killed because the people must have repented.

For example Jonah.

Furthermore, the end time Elijah will be more of an explainer than a predicter according to Jewish tradition.

These things might be more obvious to nonreligious people who haven't learned how to play golf the wrong way yet, so to speak.

The cognitive mental overlay you bring to the scripture is flawed.