“The times of the Gentiles” is the biblical designation for a period of time between the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 (some identify it with the beginning with the Babylonian Captivity in 606 B.C.) and the Second Coming of Christ. This interval is defined by the Lord Jesus Christ as the time when Jerusalem (the city of peace) would be controlled by Gentile world powers (Luke 21:24). Many see the return of the Old City of Jerusalem to Jewish control in June of 1967 as being the end of “the