Eschatology as the field most prone to overconfident errors; lessons from misapplied messianic expectation

Mike observes that more godly men have made fools of themselves in eschatology than any other field, particularly through date-setting and overconfident predictions. He draws an analogy: the Jews had OT messianic prophecy but collectively misunderstood what the Messiah would do in his first coming due to prevailing interpretive traditions overriding the full Scripture. The same error pattern recurs in second coming speculation.