really? I read his stuff and found he doesn't believe in predicting the future - he was an historicist and thinks we should limit ourselves to finding prophecy fulfillment in history
And so he stayed safe. He never gave a date. Not even 2060. The 2060 thing was fake, a sort of smokescreen to settle down the date setters of his time.
I know this because of what he said about Daniel 9 having two different comings of Messiah embedded within the language. But that's just half the fun. Isaac's information has to be applied to our modern era.
If Daniel would have so accurately predicted our Lord's first Visitation, why wouldn't he foretell His second one?
No One Knows That Day and Hour
“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
Jesus is not talking about the "last day" of the second coming. Because He goes right on to expand on the "days BEFORE the flood".
"For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
The day and hour that no one can know is the destructive beginning of the thing that Jesus was talking about when he said "for then there will be great tribulation". As it was in those days before the flood.
There's a reason why Jesus can't know which day or hour. He can't pull the trigger or push the button to initiate that day because He's the One that's holding it back. Christ is our high Priest and the intercessor for the world. Even the wicked get to live another day because Jesus is holding back the Wrath of God that is due.
As soon as the Father gives the nod, the censer is cast down, Jesus is taken out of the way. Trumpet #1 falls and a third of the earth is destroyed. Millions or more of humanity are killed, for then there will be great tribulation like the world has never seen before. There would seem to be a conflict of interest here.
OBSERVATIONS ON DANIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE OF ST. JOHN
Sir Isaac Newton
1733
That link makes for a great example to use the find feature from Firefox or Chrome. After clicking the link, we get a giant wall of text. Hold down CTRL + F. With a MAC: Command + F. When the find bar comes up type: violence to the language of Daniel. It's in the paragraph where that text appears.
The next step is not so easy. We had to find the modern day command to restore Jerusalem. It was not in 1948. It was not in 1967. But it must remain "the compass of a Jubilee".
I think that he will probably be right. There's more than one thing going on right now that supports this as being the time. It has a feel like we might be too close to talk about it.
I don't know if that sounded weird, but it might give ya a headache.
Maybe it's time to be silent before the Day of the Lord?