I thought I would address the false prophecy area as there have been many recorded over the time since Jesus' life at least. There is an interesting wikipedia article that list some probably small amount but notable predictions. I'm not sure which didn't come true or which did and how to tell the difference. But it is suspicious in some of the predictions that never were seen to be fulfilled:
List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia
There are several errors in that listing.
For instance:
"Luther, a German priest and professor of theology known for starting the
Protestant Reformation, predicted the end of the world would occur no later than 1600."
Luther actually wrote:
MARTIN LUTHER (1483 – 1546) - “… I hope the last Day of Judgment is not far, I persuade myself verily it will not be absent full three hundred years longer; for God's Word will decrease and be darkened for want of true shepherds and servants of God. The voice will sound and be heard ere long: Behold, the Bridegroom Cometh ...” - [The familiar discourses of Dr. Martin Luther (the great reformer) (1818); pages “7-8”, last two lines, continued in top three lines] -
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Luther actually had an inkling of the 2,300 day/years prophecy of Daniel 8:13-14,26, &c, which would end about 300 years from his time (1844). It was when the Midnight Cry first went forward in the Millerite/Advent movements in the Great Awakening.
Another, such as Arnaldus de Villa Nova, in predicting Antichrist, is not necessessarily predicting the end of the world, but the arise of antichrist, etc. Many historical persons understood the antichrist to exist for a long time before the end of the world -
The Anti Christ Identified By Christians In History : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Arnaldus was actually utilizing the 1,290 (Dan. 12:11) prophecy in the ending of what he thought was the "Gentile Times" (AD 74–1364).
He also spoke of the 2,300 day/years prophecy exteneding beyond that timeframe:
Roman Catholic (Layman, Scientist): Arnold of Villanova (AD 1235 – AD 1313), on Daniel 8:14:
Daniel 8:14:
"... When he says 'two thousand three hundred days' it must be said that by days he understands years. This is clear through the explanation of the angel when he says that in the end the vision will be fulfilled, from which he gives it to be understood by clear expression that in that vision by days are understood years. ..." - Translated from Arnold of Villanova, Introductio in Librum [Joachim] De Semine, fol. 7 v, col. 2, line 34 to fol. 8 r, col. 1, line 2.
"... It is not unaccustomed, in the Scripture of God, for days to under-stand years. Nay, it is certainly usual and frequent. Whence also the Spirit in Ezekiel testifies: 'A day for a year I have reckoned to you. ..." - Translated from Arnold of Villanova, Introductio in Librum [Joachim] De Semine,, fol. 8 r, col. 1, lines 14-20.
As translated/quoted in Leroy Edwin Froom, The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, Volume 1; Page 750
" ... 'Up to the evening and the morning, two thousand three hundred days.' By a day, however, he understands a year. ..." - Tractatus de Tempore Adventus Antichristi (Treatise on the Time of the Coming of Antichrist), fol. 59 v, col. 2 to fol. 60 r, col. 2.
As translated/quoted in LeRoy Edwin Froom, The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, Volume 1, Page 752
" ... 'From the time when the continual sacrifice will have been taken away, and there will have been set up'—that is, up to the time when will be set up—`the abomination upon the desolation' namely, of the faithful people, 'a thousand two hundred and ninety days.' And here, just as above, by a day a year is understood, which is clear through what precedes, since it says 'And when the dispersion of the power of the holy people, all these things will be completed.' ..." - Tractatus de Tempore Adventus Antichristi (Treatise on the Time of the Coming of Antichrist), fol. 61 r, col. 2, line 28 to fol. 61 v, col. 1, lin.
As translated/quoted in LeRoy Edwin Froom, The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, Volume 1, Page 753
" ... it is certain, as was clear above, that Daniel under the name of days gives us to understand years and not usual days ...”
“... such an understanding agrees with the common concepts of men and the truth of Sacred Scripture commonly known. ..." - Tractatus de Tempore Adventus Antichristi (Treatise on the Time of the Coming of Antichrist), fol. 63 r, col. 1, lines 21-32.
