Sir Isaac Newton gave an accurate rate of the world's end according to his calculations

Over the centuries, there have been many instances when people genuinely believed that the world was about to end. Even several movies leveraged the curiosity that came with the idea of the world ending. However, when one of the world's most esteemed mathematicians and physicists in history, Sir Isaac Newton spoke about the end of the world it was turning heads. Newton had not only contemplated the notion of apocalypse but had also predicted an exact date when that would happen. The most interesting part was that Newton's calculation of the precise date was mainly based on non-scientific evidence, unlike his other inventions.

Bringing Newton's notable prediction to light, Stephen D. Snobelen, the Director of the Newton Project Canada wrote in his exclusive blog post that the physicist had predicted that in the year 2060, the world would end. Speaking of Newton's non-scientific reasoning to make this prediction, Snobelen wrote, "For Newton, biblical prophecy forecast the divinely-ordained events of the future," and added, "Prophecy allowed Newton to see history in advance." Being an ardent believer of God, Newton considered The Bible to be the Almighty's revelation. So, Newton was convinced that "the holy Prophecies" of the Scripture were the "histories of things to come." Thus began Newton's endeavor to interpret historical prophecies to uncover what awaits the world in the future.

Newton rarely brought up the prophetic date in his records because he was too wary of the prospective human errors in the prediction which might dishonor the holy book. Explaining the mathematician's prediction method, Snobelen wrote, "Newton, like many historicist prophetic commentators of his age, believed that the prophetic periods 1260, 1290, 1335 and 2300 days actually represent 1260, 1290, 1335 and 2300 years using the 'day-for-a-year principle.'" Identifying the date of commencement of the apocalypse led Newton to determine the world's future. Once he found the year 800 AD to be the most significant for the beginning of "the Pope’s supremacy." Also, he interpreted from the Book of Daniel that the 'corruption' of the Church would go on for 1260 years. Adding the 1260 years to the commencement year, Newton arrived at the prospective judgment day to be in 2060.

However, unlike the common perception, Newton was a bit more optimistic about the impact of the apocalypse. "Although Newton believed there would be wars and cataclysms around the time of the end, for him this period was also the storm before the calm. Newton’s prophetic faith therefore has a positive element," Snobelen wrote. 2060 A.D. was simply a new beginning from Newton's point of view. Snobelen also mentioned that Newton was convinced about the return of Christ around this date. The mathematician believed that after the Armageddon, "Christ and the saints would then intervene to establish a worldwide 1000-year Kingdom of God on earth."

For people who glorified Sir Isaac Newton as a groundbreaking scientist, the revelation of his non-scientific side deemed him to be a "natural philosopher." During the times when natural philosophy included God's work of nature, Newton was dedicated to the ideology that saw the discovery of God and His attributes as its dominant end. "Thus, Newton’s study of Nature and Scripture were in a certain sense two halves of a whole: the discovery of the mind of God," emphasized Snobelen.