WHY DID ISAAC NEWTON
CHOOSE “2060”?
Isaac Newton’s Handwritten Note With Seal
2060: The Date Heard Around the World
Why “2060”?
Many of you might be thinking that Isaac Newton arrived at the year 2060 using a formula or equation such as this …
However …
We will find the Math he used was so simple a 12-year-old could easily understand it.
The “critical path item” (a term assigned to a task which had to be resolved before a research project could move forward) that Newton had to struggle with in solving the mystery of the “enigmas” and “riddles” contained in the prophecies found in the books of Daniel and Revelation, was in determining a prophetic day-year time-line and identifying a valid “start” date, which had to be “searched out” in order to propose a defendable “end” date …
“It is the glory of God
to conceal a matter,
But the glory of kings is
to search out a matter.”
(Proverbs 25:2)
“A wise man will hear and increase learning,
And a man of understanding will attain wise counsel,
To understand a proverb and an enigma,
The words of the wise and their riddles.”
(Proverbs 1:5-7)
Newton based 2060 on the prophetic ‘Apostasy’ of the Roman Church!
Isaac Newton believed the books of Daniel and Revelation could be viewed as a single book, with the book of Daniel introducing the final 7-years (“week of years”) which have been ‘determined’ upon Israel and the World, and the book of Revelation then providing the details of the 7-Year events.
This 7-Year period of time is often called the “Tribulation” or the “Apocalypse” (the Greek word for “Revelation”).
Daniel introduces the 7-Year “week of years” prophecy which warns Rome and the Roman Church will rise as the “Beast”… the World’s final Political and Religious System.
We are told this 7 years will be divided into two 3 ½ year (1260 day) periods, with the second half (1260 days) being called the “Great Tribulation,” which ends this Age (and the World as we know it) at the Battle called … Armageddon.
We find many Bible prophecies have 2 (or sometimes 3) fulfillments, with both short-term and long-term fulfillments.
We also find (which Isaac Newton repeats several times), that God uses 360-Day Years to fulfill His prophecies (later we will review two prophecies which have already been fulfilled using these prophetic “360-Day” years) …
Excerpted from Isaac Newton’s book, “Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John”
Chapter VIII
“And now being arrived at a temporal dominion (the Roman church becoming both a religious and political power), and a power above all human judicature, he (the Antichrist, both a coming World Leader and Religious Leader who will rise out of Rome) reigned with a look more stout than his fellows (excerpted from a prophecy in Daniel), and times and laws were henceforward given into his hands, for a time times and half a time, or three times and an half; that is, for 1260 solar years, reckoning a time for a Calendar year of 360 days, and a day for a solar year. After which the judgment is to sit, and they shall take away his (the coming Antichrist) dominion, not at once, but by degrees, to consume, and to destroy it unto the end.”
CHAP. X.
(Concerning the Biblical 360-Day “Prophetic” year).
[11] The ancient solar years of the eastern nations consisted of 12 months, and every month of 30 days: and hence came the division of a circle into 360 degrees. This year seems to be used by Moses in his history of the
Flood, and by John in the Apocalypse, where a time, times and half a time (3 ½ years), 42 months and 1260 days, are put equipollent.”
Year 2060: The Prophetic “1260 Days”
From “Got Questions”…
(https://www.gotquestions.org/tribulation-1260-1290-1335-days.html)
“According Daniel 9:27, the tribulation begins with the signing of a peace treaty between the Antichrist and Israel, intended to be for one “seven,” that is, a set of seven years. But the “seven” is divided into halves: midway through the seven years, the Antichrist breaks the treaty and sets up in the temple a sacrilegious object (the “abomination that causes desolation”). The phrase “in the middle” indicates that the first half of the tribulation lasts for 3½ years (1,260 days, using a “prophetic year” of 360 days). Likewise, the second half of the tribulation (after the Roman “Apostasy”) lasts another 1,260 days …. Revelation 11:3 specifically mentions 1,260 days, which corresponds exactly with Daniel’s prophecy of the abomination of desolation … This 1,260-day period ends when the (Roman) Antichrist is defeated at the battle of Armageddon upon Jesus’ return to earth. At that time (in the year 2060, according to Newton), the Tribulation will be at an end.”
Prophetic Rise of the “Holy Roman Empire”
Newton believed these 1,260 days equaled prophetic years, which corresponded to the time the Throne (Holy See) of the future World Leader (Antichrist) would abide in Rome. He chose the Pope’s anointing of Charlemagne in 800 AD, which birthed the “Holy Roman Empire” and forever changed the Roman bishopric from a Biblical (spiritual) “church” into a Political (temporal) “kingdom,” exactly as the prophecies found in Daniel and Revelation warn us would take place!
800 AD + 1260 Years = 2060 AD!!!
“Pope + Charlemagne” = A future “Pope + Powerful Leader (Antichrist)”
Excerpts from:
“Statement on the Date 2060”
By Stephen D. Snobelen
(https://isaac-newton.org/statement-on-the-date-2060/)
The prophetic time periods
“Newton, like many historicist prophetic commentators of his age, believed that the prophetic time periods 1260, 1290, 1335 and 2300 days actually represent 1260, 1290, 1335 and 2300 years using the “day-for-a-year principle”.
The time period 1260 days appears in Daniel 7:25 (“a time and times and the dividing of time” (= a year, two years and a half year), Daniel 12:7 (“a time, times, and an half” = a year, two years and a half year), Revelation 11:3 (1260 days), Rev. 12:6 (1260 days), Revelation 13:5 (42 months).
“For Newton these time periods (especially the 1260 years) represent the time span of the apostasy of the Church (for Newton this means … chiefly the Roman Catholic Church).
(Note: The Bible warns the global Religious system rising out of Rome will soon ensnare ALL churches & religions).
“Thus, he looked in history for the likely date when the apostasy formally began (one sign of this for him was the date when the papal church obtained temporal power).
“From there it was a simple matter of adding the time period to the beginning date.
“The date 2060 is found twice (in Newton’s writings). The date 2060 is also significant because … the calculation giving the 2060 date comes from fairly late in his life and is asserted with uncharacteristic vigor.”
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