I knew that biblical predictions were not reliable when it was explained to me that the European Common Market was the 4th gentile kingdom built on the remains of the 3rd kingdom.

It was explained that Babylonia under Nebuchadnezzar was the first, Greece under Alexander was the second, and Rome under the Caesars was the 3rd. This was made so clear that there could be no doubt.

The beast and/or anti-Christ was predicted to come from the fourth built on the ruins of the 3rd, which was explained as the Common Market of the 20th century.

The biblical scholars who interpreted the prophecy that way obviously never heard of the Holy Roman Empire under Charlemagne, which is obviously the 4th gentile kingdom.

Since the end times, tribulation period, rapture, the anti-Christ, et cetera did not occur during the first millennium when Charlemagne was in charge of the 4th kingdom, the prophecy was obviously wrong.

If biblical prophecy could be so wrong on a major issue like the above, why give it any credit at all?