The world will end in 2060, according to Newton

[Jag]

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/a...ton/article.do

19.06.07

His famously analytical mind worked out the laws of gravity and unravelled the motion of the planets.
And when it came to predicting the end of the world, Sir Isaac Newton was just as precise.

He believed the Apocalypse would come in 2060 – exactly 1,260 years after the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire, according to a recently published letter.

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The document reveals that Newton predicted the world will end in 2060


Luckily for modern scientists in awe of his achievements, Newton based this figure on religion rather than reasoning.

In a letter from 1704 which has gone on show in Jerusalem's Hebrew University, Newton uses the Bible's Book of Daniel to calculate the date for the Apocalypse.

The famous scientist



The note reveals a deeply spiritual side to a man more usually regarded as a strict rationalist. Newton, known as the founder of modern physics, secured a royal exemption from ordination in the Church of England – something normally expected of academics in his day – so he would not have to follow its teachings.

But he confidently stated in the letter that the Bible proved the world would end in 2060, adding: "It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner."

Continuing in a decidedly sniffy tone, he wrote: "This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail."

The exact words from the Book of Daniel that inspired his prediction are not clear.

But he got at least one thing right – in another document, he interpreted biblical prophecies to mean that the Jews would return to the Holy Land before the world ended.

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The letter is on public display for the first time


Newton, who died 280 years ago, wrote that the end of days would see "the ruin of the wicked nations, the end of weeping and of all troubles, the return of the Jews (from) captivity and their setting up a flourishing and everlasting Kingdom".

Yemima Ben-Menahem, one of the curators of the exhibition, said: "These documents show a scientist guided by religious fervour, by a desire to see God's actions in the world."

The papers – including more prosaic notes about his income and the price of tin – lay in a trunk at the house of the Earl of Portsmouth for 250 years before being auctioned in the late 1930s.

Since 1969, many have been locked away in Israel's national library.

Jag

[Sean Osborne]

Isaac Newton was an eschatologist. However, his methoodology was flawed. He relied upon his brain to make his interpretations of Scripture instead of the inspiration and interpretive power of the Holy Spirit.

His flawed interpretations led him to the false assumptions in creating his "Rules for Interpreting the Words & Lanuage of Scripture". For all of his scientific accumen, Newton completely failed to recognize the most basic of Scriptural truths - the Scriptures interpret the Scriptures (i.e.: the Holy Bible interprets itself). Since the Bible is 100% insprired by God, we could call this fact an inherency of "intelligent design." The prophecy of Daniel was sealed by God, "until the time of the end."

However, the unattributed writer (hint, hint) of this piece makes his/her own deficiency of knowledge regarding the Scriptures obvious by not knowing where in Daniel the 1260 comes from. This is besides the important point that the number 1260 is a number of specific, literal days, not years.

The eschatological fact here is that the 1260 figure doesn't come from the prophecy of Daniel.

This specific prophecy comes from God, through Jesus Christ to John the Disciple (on the Island of Patmos circa 90-95 AD) as written in the Revelation of Jesus Christ, Chapter 12.

Revelation 12:6b to be exact:

Revelation 12:6b

The woman fled into the desert to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.

What Daniel wrote concerning exact days is discussed in detail from Chapters 9 through 12. In Chapter 12 what Daniel was inspired by God to specifically prophecy about was this:

Daniel 12:11-12

From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.

This speaks specifically to a standing Temple (the coming 3rd Temple) in Jerusalem on Temple Mount.

It speaks to the forced cessation of a reinstituted Hebrew daily sacrifice at the Temple by Antichrist, and the setting up of his image in the Temple (Abomination of Desolation)

It relates these specific events to something which occurs exactly 1290 days later --- in the Hebrew 30-day calendar 1290 days equal 43 months, or 3 years 7 months precisely.

This 1290 days is the amount of time from the mid-point of the 7-year Tribulation to the final, physical return of Jesus Christ to this Earth.

The second amount of days, 1335, includes the 1290 days and has an additional 35 days, which is exactly exactly 5 weeks. The meaning of the 5 additional weeks in this prophecy is another topic for discussion and has nothing to do with Isaac Newton's eschatological errors.

[Jag]

Sean, watched the History Channel on the end Sunday and they all seem to think the year will be 2012.

Jag

[Sean Osborne]

Sean, watched the History Channel on the end Sunday and they all seem to think the year will be 2012.

Jag

Jag,

History and Discovery run a lot of programs on this theme, and I always end up shaking my head in disbelief of the nonsense theories the programs postulate.

Cut to the chase...

According to Biblical prophecy the return of Christ cannot occur in 2012 - there is simply not enough time between mid-2007 and 2012 for all of the specifically identified "last days" prophecies to occur.

For example. 2012 minus the 7 year "great tribulation" puts us back in 2005. We are not yet in the 7-year great tribulation, and there is no Temple on Temple Mount in Jerusalem. There MUST be a 7-year Tribulation. This 7-year period is also known as Daniel's "70th Week (of years)". Every Bible prophecy student knows that the Tribulation begins with the "Covenant among many", which is the (final and false) Arab-Israeli peace treaty that is confirmed by the man who will be the Antichrist.

Looking at the Middle East right now... this treaty is not going to occur this year. And even if it was signed tomorrow, Jesus would not return until the end of the Tribulation. Adding 7 to 2007 would put us forward to 2014, which blows the 2012 theory date out of the water. That date is attributed to the Mayan Calendar most of the time - which makes it un-Biblical, pagan and very certainly incorrect as the simple math template makes clear.

I think it very likely that the end result of the war which is about to break out in the Middle East could see the rebuilding of the 3rd Temple in Jerusalem, and shortly thereafter the putting forward of the false peace treaty by the peacemaker-cum-Antichrist. The whole world will demand a peace treaty when this coming war is over. No one will oppose such a treaty. No one.

One daunting problem with all of this is that the United States of America is nowhere to be found... no mention whatsoever among the many nations specifically identified in the many "last days" Bible prophecies.

America might be rolled up into the coming European-based world empire of the Antichrist after some cataclysmic attack upon us, the "American Hiroshima, if you will.