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301 That major events, when the affairs of the gods affected the affairs of men, were linked to zodiacal ages has been shown throughout this volume of The Earth Chronicles. As each Age began, something momentous took place: the Age of Taurus signaled the grant of civilization to Mankind. The Age of Aries was ushered in by the nuclear upheaval and ended with the Departure. The Age of Pisces arrived with the destruction of the Temple and the beginning of Christi- anity. Should one not wonder whether the prophetic End of Days really means End of (zodiacal) Age? Were the “time, times, and a half” of Daniel simply a ter- minology referring to zodiacal ages? The possibility was pondered, some three centuries ago, by none other than Sir Isaac Newton. Best known for his formulation of the natural laws governing celestial motions—such as planets orbiting the Sun—his interests also lay in religious thought, and he wrote lengthy treatises about the Bible and biblical prophe- cies. He considered the celestial motions that he formulated to be “the mechanics of God,” and he strongly believed that the scientific discoveries that began with Galileo and Coper- nicus and were continued by him were meant to happen when they did. This led him to pay particular attention to the “mathematics of Daniel.” In March 2003 the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) startled the scientific and religious establishments with a program on Newton that revealed the existence of a document, handwritten by him on front and back, that calcu- lated the End of Days according to Daniel’s prophecies. Newton wrote his numerical calculations on one side of the sheet, and his analysis of the calculations as seven “prop- ositions” on the paper’s other side. A close examination of the document—a photocopy of which I am privileged to have—treveals that the numbers that he used in the calcula- tions include 216 and 2160 several times—a clue to me to understand what his line of thought was: he was thinking of zodiacal time—to him, that was the Messianic Clock! He summed up his conclusions by writing down a set of three “not before” and a “not later than” timetable for Dan- iel’s prophetic clues: Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return