Here’s when the world will end, according to 1704 letter from Sir Isaac Newton

It’s not the end of the world… yet.

Legendary scientist Sir Isaac Newton, best known for establishing the law of gravity, predicted the world would cease to exist in the year 2060 in a letter he penned in 1704.

Newton’s theories about Armageddon, according to his 18th Century scribblings, are based on extensive biblical texts that would see the world reset in 35 years – exactly 1,260 years after the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire – following plagues, war and “the ruin of the wicked nations.”

Christ and saints would then return to establish a 1,000-year global kingdom of peace on earth – a theory the famed scientist founded using dates listed in the Bible’s Book of Daniel to calculate the apocalypse, according to Stephen D. Snobelen, a professor at the University of King’s College in Halifax.  

“It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner,” Newton’s doomsday letter reads. 

“This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predications fail.”

Snobelen, a professor in the history of science and technology, contended that Newton’s theory would see a new beginning of a new era. The biblical prophecy calls for the Jews to return to Israel and rebuild The Temple before the second coming of Christ. 

He went on to say the founder of modern physics was “not a scientist” but instead a “natural philosopher.”

“For Newton, there was no impermeable barrier between religion and what we now call science,” Snobelen said in 2003. 

“Throughout his long life, Newton labored to discover God’s truth – whether in Nature or Scripture.”

The ominous letter remains on display at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University.

The physicist is believed to have penned enough papers to fill 150 novel-length books during his decades-long career in the sciences.