Thread by @HMEnglund

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

"In the year [Lewis] Way [1772–1840] was born, two years before the American colonies revolted, the Unitarian* clergyman and distinguished scientist,

* Unitarians do not believe that Jesus was the Son of God; and therefore do not believe in the Holy Trinity.

Joseph Priestley, had dared to opine that the Jews' repatriation to Palestine might, after all, take place before their conversion, at the instigation of a Jew claiming descent from King David. Like Sir Henry Finch, Priestley had addressed himself directly to Jews in his

wirtings, outlining a glorious future for them as 'the most illustrious' nation on earth and warning – presumably on the authority of the Genesis verse about the different fates befalling those who blessed and cursed the Jews – that 'the heaviest of all divine judgements will

fall upon those nations by whom they shall have been oppressed. In 1794, Priestley, like the first New Englanders, fled religious persecution to America.
Priestley's views were avant-garde but bible prophecy was slowly making a comeback, especially among the clergy. If between

1700 and 1740 only one author had treated the subject of the restoration of the Jews to Palestine, citing seventeenth-century authorities, there had been two such works in the 1760s, and a handful in the 1770s when Priestley was addressing the matter. Within a year of the French

Revolution in 1789 an eccentric Lincolnshire vicar [Richard Beere] was indulging in calculations involving the vernal equinox and 70024843203 seconds in order to arrive at the following year, 1791, as the most likely date for the return of the Jews to Palestine. Advising Jews

that the English would surely take the lead in bringing about that return, he soberly pointed out the economic advantages in having a new Jewish client state in the Middle East, one that would require 'many manufactured articles' – English woolens and linens, for example."

Victoria Clark - Allies for Armageddon, 2007, p.55f

It was a bit unfair to draw "33" around the eyes of Joseph Priestley in the beginning of this thread. But I couldn't find any drawing of the "70024843203 second man" Richard Beere.

How long is 70024843203 seconds?

It is:

70024843203/(3600*24* 365.2425) = approx. 2219 years

But we can skip that, because the interesting thing here is (as "always") the numerology:

numerology(70024843203) = 7+0+0+2+4+8+4+3+2+0+3 = 33

These old men and their religious belief in base-10 master numbers...