With Our Inquirers

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 26, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 26.

With Our Inquirers

“If ye will inquire, inquire ye.”

[All questions to this department will be answered which to the editors will seem to minister to the good of the readers and to the mission of the paper. The same question can not be answered repeatedly in the same volume. The name and address must accompany question, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith, and that answer may be made by letter if deemed advisable. It is well always to enclose a stamp for reply.]

2129.—Times of the Gentiles.

Will you please tell us when the times of the Gentiles will be fulfilled?

C. V. D.

The expression occurs in Luke 21:24, referring to the Jews, “And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.” “Times of the Gentiles” evidently refers to the times which God has allotted to them in His prophetic word. For a time His Gospel went to His chosen people and thru them to the world. While His people occupied Jerusalem and were true to Him, Jerusalem was held by His own, but when His people apostatized and the kingdom was overturned by Babylon, Jerusalem went into the hands of the Gentiles. After Babylon it was to experience three more overturnings. See Eze. 21:25-27. God declared that after the overturning of the wicked prince of Israel, Zedekiah, “I will overturn, overturn, overturn it.” It would remain overturned “until He come whose right it is, and I will give it Him.” That is the Lord Jesus Christ. Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles until Christ Himself shall come, and not until then will God’s kingdom and city be restored. Then it will not be the earthly Jerusalem which is in bondage with her children, but Jerusalem which is above, which is free and the mother of all the children of faith.