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  • #16
    Luke 21:24 (KJV): "And they 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."
    I don't see a free Jerusalem lying around anywhere ... seems that at least part of the city (and notably the temple mount) is still under non-Jewish control.
    εως by itself isn't particularly clear cut - the nuance being much the same as "not before" or "until after". εως οτου, "until the time" - that is a different matter.
    Jerusalem will be trodden down until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled: "constantly" or "unrelentingly" is not part of the context for that "will be" ... so trying to work out whether "the times of the gentiles have been fulfilled" would like trying to determine whether a volcano is dormant or extinct.

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    But the word is αχρι, not εως, so "for so long as it remains the time of the gentiles".
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    • #17
      Greetings tabibito,
      Originally posted by tabibito View Post
      Luke 21:24 (KJV): "And they 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."
      I don't see a free Jerusalem lying around anywhere ... seems that at least part of the city (and notably the temple mount) is still under non-Jewish control.
      1967 saw the military conquest of Jerusalem by the Jews, a reversal of what happened in AD70 when Jerusalem was encompassed with armies and overthrown. There are possibly three phases, military, political and religious. The times of the Gentiles seem to be more extensive than the 2300 day years of AD334-1967, as the times of the Gentiles starts when Babylon overthrew Jerusalem and continues until the overthrow of the Kingdoms of men and the establishment of the Kingdom of God. The times of the Gentiles is depicted in the image of Nebuchadnezzar. The Kingdom of God is destined to destroy this image and fill the whole earth.
      Daniel 2:35 (KJV): 35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
      Daniel 2:44 (KJV): 44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

      Isaiah 2:1-4 (KJV): 1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

      Acts 3:19-21 (KJV): 19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; 20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.


      Kind regards
      Trevor

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