Newton knew more than anyone else. He knew more than he wanted to say.
He wrote a note to the public when he said he saw no reason for it to be before 2060.
How did Newton arrive at the date 2060?
This did not involve the use of anything as complicated as calculus, which he invented, but rather simple arithmetic that could be performed by a child.
This is his note I called convoluted. He is measuring 1260 years from three kings, the first 3 Popes, until the second coming. It's not really a Biblical method. It reads like something made up to throw certain people off. It sounds like he was fabricating a date so far away into the future that it would put a stop to people predicting the time of the end.
"So then the time times & half a time are 42 months or 1260 days or three years & an half, recconing twelve months to a yeare & 30 days to a month as was done in the Calendar of the primitive year. And the days of short lived Beasts being put for the years of lived [sic] kingdoms, the period of 1260 days, if dated from the complete conquest of the three kings A.C. 800, will end A.C. 2060. It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner. This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fancifull men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, & by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail. Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons wch God hath put into his own breast. - Isaac Newton
Because he wrote another note, which is a Biblically stated count of weeks, which did not become public until 1969. That material contradicted his 2060 date, which appears to have been written, not as a prediction of the end of the world, but to "put a stop to the rash conjectures of fancifull men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, & by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail."
It reads to me like Newton knew it would be happening around right now. He would have been looking for 1969, and then around right now. I myself would be on guard for the earliest date. That would be the date I would default to.
Right now, I would be more worried about people saying 2040, or 2030, and then it happens now. We should not be in darkness, so that this Day should overtake us as a thief.
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