Returning my Wings to their Box

It seems as if I won't be needed to speed to the rescue ButterflyMembershipWise.  Another volunteer has been found. Which is excellent.  Because it seems I can barely keep up with what I have to do as it is.  Its not that i am so busy it's just that the chronic arthritis, plus age (I am well over my 3 score years and 10), is making me very tired.

Talking of butterfly wings and flying brings me, not all that neatly but never mind, to Sir Isaac Newton and the laws of gravity - a law we disobey at our peril!

He was a scholarly gentleman as well as a great scientist and he would have been able to read the Inspired Scriptures in both Hebrew and Latin I guess. Wasn't that all part of a gentleman's classical education back then?  Even in the 1960s I, as a grammar school convent girl, had to pass a Latin O level to be accepted for an English degree.  I passed at my second attempt.  "It's a miracle Susan" said "Sister" Monica caustically.

And I guess that was fair comment.

Anyway, to Sir Isaac Newton. I have blogged this before, but it gets more topical, because he understood so much about the Bible.  He understood that the meek (those meek towards their Creator) will inherit "the earth", and will live on it forever. And he understood that a great preaching work - a teaching and warning work - would be done just before the end of the current wicked system of things on the earth.

And he realised that it could not be done in his day - and he understood why.

"The famous mathematician Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) also had a keen interest in the Bible. He understood that the holy ones will be raised to heavenly life and will rule invisibly with Christ. (Rev. 5:9, 10) As for the subjects of the Kingdom, he wrote: “The earth shall continue to be inhabited by mortals after the day of judgment and that not only for a 1000 years but even for ever.”

"Newton considered Christ’s presence to be centuries away. “One reason why Newton saw the Kingdom of God so far in the future was because he was profoundly pessimistic about the deep Trinitarian apostasy he saw around him,” said historian Stephen Snobelen. The good news was still veiled. And Newton saw no Christian movement that could preach it. He wrote: “These prophecies of Daniel and John [the latter recorded in the book of Revelation] should not be understood till the time of the end.” Newton explained: “‘Then,’ saith Daniel, ‘many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.’ For the Gospel must be preached in all nations before the great tribulation, and end of the world. The palm-bearing multitude, which come out of this great tribulation, cannot be innumerable out of all nations, unless they be made so by the preaching of the Gospel before it comes.”​—Dan. 12:4; Matt. 24:14; Rev. 7:9, 10."

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2009603?q=john+milton&p=par