Isaac Newton predicted the End of The World to be in 2060

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Isaac Newton predicted the End of The World to be in 2060

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Isaac Newton was a pretty smart dude. But have you heard that in 1704, Newton predicted that the world would end in 2060? Yep. He calculated the date based on Revelation and the Bible. Is he pretty close? What do you think? What are your opinions on this. I'm sure at least some of you have heard about this back in '03 when the news went crazy about this.

If you don't believe it, read this article!:

http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/in-1 ... -2060.html

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I remember this article from a few years back.

2060 is still half a century away. I still think 2030's.

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We will never see an end of this world. In fact this world will be the future Celestial Kingdom.

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setyourselffree wrote: August 14th, 2017, 9:56 pm We will never see an end of this world. In fact this world will be the future Celestial Kingdom.
Well, you get the idea. Isaac meant that the « end of the world » would be the Second Coming.

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He also sold shares of the hottest stock in England, predicted a second rise in the value of the company, bought back at about three times the value he had sold at, and essentially lost his entire wealth. So...predictions weren't necessarily his thing. http://www.businessinsider.com/isaac-ne ... ock-2016-1

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Z2100 wrote: August 14th, 2017, 10:47 pm
setyourselffree wrote: August 14th, 2017, 9:56 pm We will never see an end of this world. In fact this world will be the future Celestial Kingdom.
Well, you get the idea. Isaac meant that the « end of the world » would be the Second Coming.
There are two ways to look at the prophecies of the end of the world. For the wicked, it's all about the destruction, burning, and the "end of the world". For the righteous, it's all about creation, a new heaven and Earth. Regardless of what lenses one views it from, it repeats the same pattern that has continued on forever. In other words The restitution of all things (result... new heaven and new earth) and how it will all transpire has already happened in Earth's past in the events we know as the creation. In other words, the creation of the heavens and earth in the beginning is the exact same sequence of events as the restitution, restoration of all things, or it could be said, the end of the world.

If you read Moses account of the exodus and compare it with John's revelations you will see many parallels. But there is one main difference, that is one is about the catastrophic events of the past and the other is about the future. Understand the past, you begins to understand the future.

"Truth is Knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come: Whatsoever is more or less than this is the spirit of that wicked one who was a liar from the beginning." (D&C 93:24,25).

This is the reason why Avraham Gileadi labeled one of his books on Isaiah's, "The End From the Beginning." Isaiah tells us about the end by describing what happened in the beginning in the very same way John the revelator does. Isaiah, Nephi, John the Revelator, Ezekiel, Daniel, Moroni, and Joseph Smith to name a few who all understood the past, and drew on past historical events to describe the future.
"The Prophecy of Isaiah, encoded by literary devices, reveals a vision of the end of the world and brings to light parts of Hebrew religion that were lost. The Book of Isaiah shows that the end is foretold by events that occurred in the beginning, the future mirroring the past." -Avraham Gileadi
"Showing how Isaiah predicts the end from the beginning by prophesying new versions of ancient events. Uncovering an implicit sequence or chronology of end-time events that becomes apparent when linking together new versions of ancient events, domino fashion, throughout the text. Determining that the end of the world is contained in Israel's past, in a repetition of ancient events within it's own sequence called the "Day of Jehovah." -Avraham Gileadi
"As Isaiah informs us, God, "foretells the end from the beginning, from ancient times things yet not done." (Isa. 46:10) That may seem an obvious statement, coming from a prophet. But we already know it doesn't just mean that God predicts the future in plain terms. God's revelation is multi-dimensional. He also foretells the end by orchestrating history itself, so that what happened in the beginning will happen again at the end. The "end" - that is, the end of the world-is thus foretold "from the beginning" in Israel's own history."
"This linking together of past events to create a sequence of end-time events tell us what Isaiah means by the "Day of Jehovah." That day consists of a cycle of new events patterned after the old that comprehends the past and the future in one. Isaiah's domino structure interconnects and accounts for all parts of the Book of Isaiah. It outlines a single end-time scenario. Indeed, once set in motion, the entire sequence of new events unfolds in rapid succession like a domino effect." -Avraham Gileadi
As it is with Isaiah, so it is with all the prophets of old.

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RAB wrote: August 15th, 2017, 2:52 pm He also sold shares of the hottest stock in England, predicted a second rise in the value of the company, bought back at about three times the value he had sold at, and essentially lost his entire wealth. So...predictions weren't necessarily his thing. http://www.businessinsider.com/isaac-ne ... ock-2016-1
Isaac Newton may well have been the greatest genius in the history of Western civilization, but he was wrong about a great many things. He wasted much of his life on the fruitless pursuit of alchemy, for instance. He has become something of a poster child of this phenomenon. Aristotle is another one. Brilliant men and women are still sometimes fantastically wrong.

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Z2100 wrote: August 14th, 2017, 6:17 pm Isaac Newton was a pretty smart dude. But have you heard that in 1704, Newton predicted that the world would end in 2060? Yep. He calculated the date based on Revelation and the Bible. Is he pretty close? What do you think? What are your opinions on this. I'm sure at least some of you have heard about this back in '03 when the news went crazy about this.

If you don't believe it, read this article!:

http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/in-1 ... -2060.html
He's a smart guy, but there's no way he's right. Daniel 12:4 says you can't figure these things out til the end when knowledge has increased.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

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