Luke 21:24 – Israel to become an independent state?
‘Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.’
This is the one passage in the NT that seems to speak of the return of Jerusalem to the custody of the Jews.
For some, the ‘times of the Gentiles’ came to an end on 14th May, 1948, when Israel became an independent state.
For Derek White, of Christian Friends of Israel, there is no doubt:
…‘The plain meaning of these words of Jesus is that the imposition of Gentile rule and possession of Jerusalem is to have an end, and that it will come again into the possession of the Jewish people as their Capital.