Re: The Kennedy assassination is still sending a chill wind thru the heart of American society and politics.

Yes it would indeed, but by yet another author of end-time claptrap? I'm not so sure. The author is David Montaigne, and you can find glowing reviews of his magnum opus 'End Times and 2019' on Amazon. One such 5* review includes the following challenge:

I would challenge anyone to refute the process and conclusions contained in this manuscript. And yet, Mr. Montaigne approaches his work from a remarkably humble and graceful place, which makes his effort even more impactful.

The insightful and Blessed will understand and move to higher intellectual and Spiritual ground. 

Sorry, but I just couldn't resist that one, so..........

Challenge gladly accepted without even reading the book, except that my 'refutation' will take a full 3 years to be vindicated, so a little patience will be required here. So according to the author, we are already 4 years into a 7 year tribulation, and 1 year into the reign of Antichrist. Oh dear - I must have slept thru all that, but no matter. Maybe things will start to warm up now that Trump is about to take office, and who knows, we might even get to pin the Antichrist label on him as well. After all, if the liberal lamestream media is to be believed, he's already exhibiting demonic tendencies, is he not? Either way, at least we now know that we can expect the end of the world in 2019. The author doesn't appear to be in the least bit phased by all the other failed predictions of past generations, going at least as far back as the generation that was alive in 999AD. 

More to the point, however, is the fact that he has absolutely no qualms about ignoring the Scriptural warnings against date-setting, such as Mt 24:36, Acts 1:7, and IThess. 5:1-3. That fact alone condemns this work as a piece of well-researched fiction, and I therefore confidently offer a prediction of my own. Namely, that in just 3 very short years, the predictions of the erudite Mr Montaigne will join the scrapheap of all the other failed predictions that litter the annals of history since time immemorial. The sad fact of the matter is that such predictions are now made for almost every year of the calendar without so much as a hint of a breathing space between them. Youtube is awash with them, yet their eternally optimistic purveyors insist on repeating the same errors with a complete disregard for the lessons of experience. They seem utterly oblivious to the demise of their predictions as the march of time leaves one after another eating dust with almost monotonous regularity. So instead they continue to plague the serious study of Biblical prophecy like some kind of perverse version of the wack-a-croc amusement arcade game, and indeed serve only to bring the whole field into almost universal disrepute.

In the highly unlikely event that I should prove to be wrong on this occasion, perhaps as a result of some cruel joke from on high, by all means come back here in 3 years time and have a good laugh at my expense. I am not too proud to eat humble pie and offer the scholarly Mr Montaigne my abject apologies for being so rude about his heroic attempts to cry wolf yet again. But seriously, I don't expect to emerge from this 'refutation' with my tail between my legs. Sadly, whatever time Mr Montaigne spent on all this research could and should have been put to much better use on more fruitful pursuits, such as learning what the Bible actually has to say about such matters, as opposed to what he wants it to say.

Another 5* reviewer gives us this little gem:

Anyone who doubts this truth of end dates is blind, stupid or simply 'I refuse to see or understand and accept this'. The author is to be commended for the proof is in the pudding facts as outlined. 

Well, I love him too, but again I just had to point out the painfully obvious to him: 

Or maybe they just accept the Bible at face value and prefer to heed its many warnings against date-setting. By the same token, if his 'predictions' fail, will you accept the same insults you hurl so casually at his detractors?

So yes, there are indeed differences between us Europeans and our cousins across the pond, and this obsession with date-setting is just one of many. But looking on the bright side, one of you will get it right eventually. On second thoughts, no you won't, coz 'no man knows the day or hour', or 'the times and the seasons'.