Mid East Prophecy Update June 14, 2015

This one actually contains a pretty major flaw.
I'm not sure if JD has ever actually studied the writings of Isaac Newton - because if he had, he'd realize just what a dog's breakfast Newton's eschatology was.

The study that JD refers to, in which Newton highlights a particular date, measured out from the recapture of Jerusalem, is detailed in "Observations on the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of Saint John", in which Newton lays out his own timeline of the book of Revelation.

What JD doesn't seem to be aware of, however, is that Newton was NOT a premillenialist. Newton believed that the book of Revelation was itself a timeline of the whole of history from the time of Christ until the Second Coming. Nothing wrong there, but when you look at the specifics, Newton believed that the seal judgments occurred prior to the time of Constantine, with the sixth seal occurring during Constantine's reign. He believed that the seven churches, seven seals, seven bowls and seven trumpets were all CONCURRENT, and that the events of Revelation spanned over a thousand years, most of which he claimed had already occurred prior to him writing his treatise.

More relevant to JD's video is the fact that Newton believed that the Second Coming, and the commencement of the Millennial Reign, would occur in 2015 - NOT the Rapture.

There are a lot of articles online about Newton's calculations, and the only conclusion I can come to is that the vast majority of people haven't actually read what he wrote, but merely copied and pasted other people's views on it. Newton, for all of his good points, seems to have simply taken all of the numbers and calculations listed in Revelation and Daniel, and extrapolated out his own mathematical timeline, with no Biblical basis other than the numbers themselves.