Isaac Newton, a brilliant mathematician, was born on 4 January 1643.[1] In the light of our recent Covid lockdowns, you may be interested to know that he was considered to have had his most productive period when, in 1665, he was forced to return home from Cambridge University when it was closed due to the plague. Later in life, he spent two years writing The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which covered his three laws of motion and theory of universal gravitation. It is now considered the foundation for physics.[2] His presentation in Principia relied on mathematical principles that would later form the foundation for calculus.[3] His lesser-known interest was the study of biblical prophecy. Newton understood from the Bible that Israel would be away from the Land for about 2,000 years. In the early 1700s, he wrote The Mystery of this Restitution of All Things. In this, he expressed bewilderment that so few could understand the return of the Jews and the setting up of the Millennial Kingdom.[4] He studied the 1,290 and 1,335 days in Daniel 12:11-12 and the 1,260 days in Revelation 11:3,[5] and interpreted a day as a year...
[1] This is according to our Gregorian calendar, but by the Julian calendar of the time it was recorded as 25 December 1642
[2] Isaac Newton: The man who Discovered Gravity, bbc.co.uk
[3] James Gleick, Isaac Newton, Vintage Books, 2003, pp. 110–116
[4] Stephen D. Snobelen, The Mystery of this Restitution of All Things
[5] The website gotquestions.org explains this well in their article Why do Daniel and Revelation give varying counts of 1,260, 1,290, and 1,335 days for the tribulation?
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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®.