Bible Questions Answered:
“Pastor I've read in luke of the
“times of the gentiles” what is luke talking about?...”
Gary/ Landstuhl, Germany
(Rhineland-Palatinate)
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
Luke 21:24 KJV (Be sure to read
the whole chapter.)
And they (The Jewish Nation.)
shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive
into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the
Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
From the beginning,
God called and blest the Jewish people as His chosen people!
Genesis 12:1-3
KJV (God's Covenant with Abraham.)
1 Now The Lord had said unto Abram,
Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy
father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great
nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou
shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless
thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families
of the earth be blessed.
Though The Lord,
had called and chosen them, they often went astray, forsaking Him.
God revealed Himself in the tabernacle and later in the temple with His glorious
presence, and yet His people turned to the gods of the wicked gentile
nations that surrounded them.
Because God's
people had forsaken Him, He would let them fall into judgment.
Deuteronomy
28:20 KJV
The Lord shall send upon thee
cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand
unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish
quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast
forsaken Me.
Judges 10:13 KJV
Yet ye have forsaken Me, and served
other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more.
I Samuel 8:8 KJV
According to all the works which
they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even
unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken Me, and served other
gods..."
I Kings 11:33
KJV
Because that they have forsaken Me,
and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh
the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon,
and have not walked in My ways, to do that which is right in Mine
eyes, and to keep My statutes and My judgments, as did David his
father.
II Kings 22:17
KJV
Because they
have forsaken Me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they
might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands;
therefore My wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall
not be quenched.
II Chronicles
12:5 KJV
Then came Shemaiah the prophet to
Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to
Jerusalem because of Shishak (King of Egypt), and said unto them,
Thus saith The Lord, Ye have forsaken Me, and therefore have I also
left you in the hand of Shishak.
II Chronicles
34:25 KJV
Because they have forsaken Me, and
have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke Me to
anger with all the works of their hands; therefore My wrath shall be
poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
Jeremiah 1:16
KJV
And I will utter My judgments
against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken Me, and
have burned incense unto other gods, and worshiped the works of their
own hands.
Jeremiah 2:13
KJV
For My people have committed two
evils; they have forsaken Me the fountain of living waters, and hewed
them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 5:7,19
KJV
5 How shall I pardon thee for this?
thy children have forsaken Me, and sworn by them that are no gods:
when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and
assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
19 And it shall come to pass, when
ye shall say, Wherefore doeth The Lord our God all these things unto
us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken Me, and
served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a
land that is not your's.
Jeremiah 15:6
KJV
Thou hast forsaken Me, saith The
Lord, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out My hand
against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
Jeremiah 16:11
KJV
Then shalt thou say unto them,
Because your fathers have forsaken Me, saith The Lord, and have
walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped
them, and have forsaken Me, and have not kept My law;
Jeremiah 19:4
KJV
Because they have forsaken Me, and
have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other
gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings
of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
Jeremiah 19:1-15
KJV
1 Thus saith The Lord, Go and get a
potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and
of the ancients of the priests;
2 And go forth
unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the
east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell
thee,
3 And say, Hear ye The Word Of The
Lord, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith
The Lord Of Hosts, The God Of
Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which
whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
4 Because they have forsaken Me, and
have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other
gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings
of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
5 They have built also the high
places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto
Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into My
mind:
6 Therefore, behold, the days come,
saith The Lord, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor
The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
7 And I will make void the counsel
of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall
by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek
their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls
of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
8 And I will make this city
desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be
astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
9 And I will cause them to eat the
flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall
eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness,
wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall
straiten them.
10 Then shalt thou break the bottle
in the sight of the men that go with thee,
11 And shalt say unto them, Thus
saith The Lord Of Hosts; Even so will I break this people and this
city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole
again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to
bury.
12 Thus will I do unto this place,
saith The Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this
city as Tophet:
13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and
the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of
Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned
incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink
offerings unto other gods.
14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet,
whither The Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court
of The Lord's House; and said to all the people,
15 Thus saith The Lord Of Hosts, The
God Of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her
towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they
have hardened their necks, that they might not hear My words.
In the year 586
B.C. King Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem, it was the beginning of
Gentile domination.
II Chronicles
36:1-21 KJV (70 years of Babylon captivity.)
1 Then the people of the land took
Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead
in Jerusalem.
2 Jehoahaz was twenty and three
years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in
Jerusalem.
3 And the king of Egypt put him down
at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver
and a talent of gold.
4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim
his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to
Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to
Egypt.
5 Jehoiakim was twenty and five
years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in
Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of The Lord
his God.
6 Against him
came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to
carry him to Babylon.
7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the
vessels of the house of The Lord to Babylon, and put them in his
temple at Babylon.
8 Now the rest of the acts of
Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was
found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of
Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
9 Jehoiachin was eight years old
when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in
Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of The Lord.
10 And when the year was expired,
king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly
vessels of the house of The Lord, and made Zedekiah his brother king
over Judah and Jerusalem.
11 Zedekiah was one and twenty years
old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
12 And he did that which was evil in
the sight of The Lord his God, and humbled not himself before
Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of The Lord.
13 And he also rebelled against king
Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his
neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto The Lord God of
Israel.
14 Moreover all the chief of the
priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the
abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of The Lord which
He had hallowed in Jerusalem.
15 And The Lord God of their fathers
sent to them by His messengers, rising up betimes, and sending;
because He had compassion on His people, and on His dwelling place:
16 But they mocked the messengers of
God, and despised His Words, and misused His prophets, until the
wrath of The Lord arose against His people, till there was no remedy.
17 Therefore He brought upon them
the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in
the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or
maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: He gave them all into
his hand.
18 And all the vessels of the house
of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of
The Lord, and the treasures of the
king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
19 And they burnt the house of God,
and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces
thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
20 And them that had escaped from
the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him
and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
21 To fulfill The Word Of The Lord
by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths:
for as long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill
threescore and ten years.
Today, the Jewish nation is still
under judgment of God, because they have rejected their promised
Messiah, The Lord Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 53:1-12 KJV
1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of The Lord revealed?
2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; A Man Of Sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
4 Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and The Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth: He is brought as A Lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare His generation? for He was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was He stricken.
9 And He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death; because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth.
10 Yet it pleased The Lord to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief: when thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of The Lord shall prosper in His hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied: by His knowledge shall My righteous servant justify many; for He shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong; because He hath poured out His soul unto death: and He was numbered with the transgressors; and He bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of The Lord revealed?
2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; A Man Of Sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
4 Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and The Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth: He is brought as A Lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare His generation? for He was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was He stricken.
9 And He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death; because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth.
10 Yet it pleased The Lord to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief: when thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of The Lord shall prosper in His hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied: by His knowledge shall My righteous servant justify many; for He shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong; because He hath poured out His soul unto death: and He was numbered with the transgressors; and He bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Matthew 27:4,5
KJV
24 When Pilate saw that he could
prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water,
and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of
the blood of this Just Person: see ye to it.
25 Then answered all the people, and
said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
Luke 23:20-24
KJV
20 Pilate therefore, willing to
release Jesus, spake again to them.
21 But they cried, saying, Crucify
Him, crucify Him.
22 And he said unto them the third
time, Why, what evil hath He done? I have found no cause of death in
Him: I will therefore chastise Him, and let Him go.
23 And they were instant with loud
voices, requiring that He might be crucified. And the voices of them
and of the chief priests prevailed.
24 And Pilate gave sentence that it
should be as they required.
When will the
“times of the Gentiles,” end?
Not until after the
tribulation, so there are as of this writing (December /2015) at
least 7 years yet to go, that is if the rapture happened now.
For
more information regarding the Tribulation, etc. see View
a list of subjects at The Bible Prayer Line.
Since the time of King David, no one
has sat upon his throne. One day in the future, after the
Tribulation, The Messiah, The Lord Jesus Christ, God's Eternal Son,
will return to this earth to gain that throne and to judge the
nations of this world (Matthew 25).
See View
a list of subjects regarding the Second Coming of
Christ.
