Prophet Daniel (est 605-530BC)

The story of the prophet called Daniel which means “God is (my) judge” is told in the Book of Daniel. His overall mission can be said was to show that God was sovereign over the kingdoms of men.

Daniel was a captured Jew living in exile after the siege of Jerusalem, a student of the Babylonian court, and later rose to third in power, looking after much of the kingdom. He was known for his wisdom and for his talent as a dream interpreter, and most famously for surviving a night in the lion’s den.

He was a humble man, knew the importance of eating healthily, trustworthy, not corrupt or negligent, and had knowledge of other prophets including Jeremiah. He had visions during the day and the night; some of which would disturb him or exhaust him or even make him ill. He had the ability to talk with angels. He could make prophecies against people to force the outcome of God’s will (making a king live in the wild, telling a king his days were numbered).

Examples of his prophecies include the rise and fall of four empires (Babylonia, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome), the prediction of the death of Antichus IV in 164 B.C, the prediction of the coming Messiah and his death and the prediction of Israel’s destruction by Titus in 70 A.D.

Yet his prophecies regarding the end times are equally impressive and were very much studied by prophecy collectors such as Isaac Newton and others. His end-time prophecies include; that a prince called Michael will arise, that those in dust will awake to face their judgement, that there will be a time of great distress on the scale that has never been seen before, yet he also said that more was revealed to him than he was allowed to reveal, the words were ‘sealed up’.

Prophecy Collector Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

In1926 old documents written by Isaac Newton around 1704 turned up for auction. These old documents are said to be secret research done by Isaac at the height of his career which he never published in his life due to fear of being arrested for heresy. Newton was a devout Christian who became obsessed with the prophecies contained in the Bible. He believed that 'the authority of prophecies is divine' and named his writings 'the history of things to come' based around simple mathematical calculations. He was also interested in alchemy much the same as Nostradamus and Paracelcus.

In his first maths prediction, he takes the number 1290 from the Book of Daniel and adds it to the year 609A.D. (the year in which the Romans start to give power to the church) and ends up with a figure of 1899. The 1890s was when the Zionist movement took hold, a group of people who want the holy land to be given back to the Jews. This is central to Newtons beliefs, that these are the stepping stones towards the ends times.

In his second prediction, he takes the number 1335 from the Book of Daniel and once again adds it to the date 609A.D. Which ends up with the date of 1944 which is around the end of World War 2, another turning point towards Israel becoming a nation once again.

In the third prediction, he takes the sayings 'a time, two times and half a time' from the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelations and comes up with the figure of 1260 which he adds to the year 800A.D. (the year in which the holy roman empire was formed) and comes up with the year 2060 which he believed would be the end of the world.

The figure of 2060 is also highlighted in 'The prophecy of the Tiburtine Sibyl'