"I'm not really obsessed with prophecies and the future. You shouldn't be either". Do you imagine this attitude to come from the very God who gave us the prophecies necessary to survive the future? or does line sound more like a stance that a certain Adversary would like us to take?
How could he go about deceiving the whole world, if the whole world was paying attention to prophesy? Lucky for him, people aren't really "obsessed" with prophecies that make up most of the very bible they claim to believe in.