Reason 5: Predictors earn our trust by sounding knowledgeable — authority transferred from person to prediction without scriptural verification

End-times predictors sound smart and knowledgeable; listeners don't understand the arguments but trust the person. Mike applies this to himself: he urges people not to rely on any single teacher, including himself, because every teacher is 'unbalanced somewhere.' He explicitly says he is surely wrong about something. The rule: place any teaching in a 'that's interesting, I'll consider it' category until you can verify it in Scripture yourself.