Sir Isaac Newton, Return of Christ and the BAB

The ideas under this topic shouldn't be considered as Baha'i Faith's origin, this is ONLY my personal research and combination of other thoughts.

Sir Isaac Newton, the scientist who is known world wide. When I was in primary school I remember our teacher was telling about him. You know when you are a child you can find everything funny, well I was obviously in that age :) and it was so funny to learn that Newton found the gravity with the falling of the apple on his head under the tree. Unfortunately, now I think he was such an unbelivable person with a lot of great understandings and ideas.

Few days ago I heard one of his research activity on the return of Christ. It was a shock to me to see how he actually attached to his belief and did actually work on that. To be honest, I didn't read about his work that much out of my school times.Well, when I heard about this research i decided to read more. I won't go through the details of his research but shortly will explain and come to the conclusion.

Newton had a simple calculation for the date of the return of the Christ as shown in the following:

Daniel 8:14

"And he said unto me,Until two thousand and three hundred days;then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. "

Therefore, let's do the calculation as it says in the quotation;

2300 Dan 8:14

-457 B.C.

___________

1843 A.D.

So the result shows the year of 1843, but Newton says the actual year is 1844 and the explanation is;

actually there are varies of explanations exist about this part of the calculation... one of them says there is no Zero year. The other ones mentions the differences between the linear and the solar calendars, thus, 1843 actually ends in 1844. Another reason is given as the begining of the year which is taken as the 21st of March-the Spring Equinox.

Result: The return of Christ or the Expectation Day is in 1844.

One of the amazing event is the interest on this return was not just related with Protestants. The templars from Germany and the Carmelite nuns went to Israel near to the date of big day - the return of the Christ in 1844.

So what happened at the end? Did He return or not? Well, according to my research most of the Christians were dissappointed with the result. They couldn't witness to the incident as they believed. Is that really so?

I have mentioned on my earlier post that i have been in Israel and lived there for 18 months. I was in Haifa, I saw most of the Holy Places of Christans like the Elijah's cave, Taberias, Armegeddon and so on. The templers who were moved for the Expectation Day settled on the place that they would expect where Christ would come to. Now this settlement area called Ben-Gurion Street. When you walk on this street you can still see the writings on the old buildings, were belong to the templers, saying 'He will return' or something about God. As my German is not enough to understand that much i cannot excatly write what actually says on the buildings.

Now, when I used to walk up from this street whilst looking left and right seeing those writings and facing to the mount Carmel, I could see this amazing area where the Shrine of Bab stands - which can seen in the picture, was taken from Ben-Gurion street - with all its beauty surronded with beautiful gardens and with other Administrative Buildings of the Baha'i World Centre where I served not long ago. Hmm I am thinking loudly, does that show something? or Does this mean anything? Let's see...

I am not going to give this huge information about the Baha'i Faith, if you would like to learn more you can push the link on the right hand side under links section, where you can find all sorts of information about the Faith. Anyway, just to clearify the connection between return of Christ and the Bab I would like to explain some small details about the Bab.

"On May 23, 1844, in Shiraz, Persia, a young man known as the Báb announced the imminent appearance of the Messenger of God awaited by all the peoples of the world. The title Báb means "the Gate." Although Himself the bearer of an independent revelation from God, the Báb declared that His purpose was to prepare mankind for this advent.

Swift and savage persecution at the hands of the dominant Muslim clergy followed this announcement. The Báb was arrested, beaten, imprisoned, and finally on July 9, 1850. ...Today, the majestic building with the golden dome, overlooking the Bay of Haifa, Israel, and set amidst beautiful gardens, is the Shrine where the Báb's earthly remains are entombed. "

www.bahai.org

In my opinion, this can't be a big coincidence. Just in case if you don't know much about Muslim Faith and Quran, short information about them as well. From the Holy Quran, with the calculation, called 'Abjad', you can reach the same year - 1844. Should we think about this more? Well, I think this is amazing, I am absolutaley speechless with what I read so far.

Anyway everyone...hope you enjoyed reading this, i enjoyed writing :)

PEACE!