Question: Is the time of the Gentiles and the fullness of the Gentiles the same or is different? Please show why it is different or the same contextually from the Scripture. Thank you.
Answer: Greetings in Jesus wonderful name!
Here are the Scriptures in context, "And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled." (Luke 21:24).
In the above verse, the people of the nation of Israel as predicted by Jesus fell by the edge of the Roman sword in 70 A.D. and was led captive in to all nations. When the Romans first destroyed the Second Temple refurbished temple of Herod and took all the gold and silver within it to Rome, ever since that time until the present time, the city of Jerusalem has been trampled by the Gentiles political control over it ever since. So only when Jesus comes, the Antichrist who will trample for the last time on the mount of Jerusalem to appear in the battle of Armageddon to fight against the Lord's Christ to destroy the nation of Israel, will appear and be defeated soundly by Jesus Christ and the Church. But there his body will become a refuse on ground with out even a grave, because of the supernatural armies of heaven, who are the Church and Jesus the King of Kings who will guide it to victory. So the "times of the Gentiles" will be fulfilled, only when Antichrist dies on the mountains of Israel (Isa 66:15-16; 14:25-26; 110:24-27; Nah 1:13).
"25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; 27 For this is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins.”" (Rom 11:25-27).
The Church should never be ignorant of this mystery of the blindness in part has happened to the nation of Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. The so called religious church of the past, has tried to destroy the Jews at various times, because of fact that they have allowed Jesus to be crucified on the Roman Cross. But if we really see it in details, God has foreordained Jesus to be crucified for the sins of the whole wide world including Jews, so that they could all be forgiven of it and be given a new nature of God to make them live as a salt and light to the world around them (Acts 2:36-39; Eph 1:4; Gal 3:28; Matt 5:13-16). So the "fullness of the Gentiles" comes in to fulfillment only when all Israel will be saved, then at that time "the Spirit of grace and supplication will be poured out.." on them to make these Israelite's look upon the Lord Jesus Christ and thus call him to be saved, whom they have pierced in his first coming, and mourn for Him and grieve for Him at the time of His Second Coming to accept Him as their Messiah for ever and ever, when He comes back again on this earth to rule the whole earth with a rod of Iron for for a thousand years time (Zec 12:10). The Lord Jesus Christ as the deliverer of the nation of Israel will defeat the Antichrist and his armies of all the nations in Armageddon, and then turn away the transgressors of Jacob from all ungodliness through a Millennial Covenant that He will ratify at that time to take away their sins for the Glory of God (John 5:43; Matt 23:38-39).
Until the Second Coming of Jesus, even though many God fearing Jews might be saved, yet majority of all the nation of Israel will remain in unbelief to remain unsaved.
So the bottom line is, the time of the Gentiles and the fullness of the Gentiles are the one and the same because both the context speaks about the Jesus' Second Coming in which He will bring to Himself the nation of Israel to worship and serve Him forever and ever. Hallelujah!
The Church should never be ignorant of this mystery of the blindness in part has happened to the nation of Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. The so called religious church of the past, has tried to destroy the Jews at various times, because of fact that they have allowed Jesus to be crucified on the Roman Cross. But if we really see it in details, God has foreordained Jesus to be crucified for the sins of the whole wide world including Jews, so that they could all be forgiven of it and be given a new nature of God to make them live as a salt and light to the world around them (Acts 2:36-39; Eph 1:4; Gal 3:28; Matt 5:13-16). So the "fullness of the Gentiles" comes in to fulfillment only when all Israel will be saved, then at that time "the Spirit of grace and supplication will be poured out.." on them to make these Israelite's look upon the Lord Jesus Christ and thus call him to be saved, whom they have pierced in his first coming, and mourn for Him and grieve for Him at the time of His Second Coming to accept Him as their Messiah for ever and ever, when He comes back again on this earth to rule the whole earth with a rod of Iron for for a thousand years time (Zec 12:10). The Lord Jesus Christ as the deliverer of the nation of Israel will defeat the Antichrist and his armies of all the nations in Armageddon, and then turn away the transgressors of Jacob from all ungodliness through a Millennial Covenant that He will ratify at that time to take away their sins for the Glory of God (John 5:43; Matt 23:38-39).
Until the Second Coming of Jesus, even though many God fearing Jews might be saved, yet majority of all the nation of Israel will remain in unbelief to remain unsaved.
So the bottom line is, the time of the Gentiles and the fullness of the Gentiles are the one and the same because both the context speaks about the Jesus' Second Coming in which He will bring to Himself the nation of Israel to worship and serve Him forever and ever. Hallelujah!
The fullness of the Gentiles cannot be equated to the time of the Rapture of the Church, as some have mistakenly taken the above verses out of context to represent it wrongly. The New Testament separates the whole world in to three groups of people, they are the Jews, the Greeks or the Gentiles, and the Church of God (1 Cor 10:32). So the Gentiles when described whether in times or fullness cannot represent the Church of God, which will be mysteriously raptured out of the Great Tribulation after the Abomination of Desolation (Matt 24:21-22, 27-28; 1 Thess 4:14-18; 1:10; 2 Thess 1:7-8; 2:3-8).
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