When Should the Son of God Come?

Ken

“But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law” (Galatians 4:4 KJV). On this John Gill commented (1746-1748): “When the Son of God should assume human nature; which time was diligently searched into by the prophets, was revealed unto them, and predicted by them; as more generally that it should be before the civil government ceased from Judah, and before the destruction of the second temple; and more particularly by Daniel in his prophecy of the ‘seventy weeks,’ towards and about the close of which there was a general expectation among the Jews of the Messiah’s coming; and was the fulness of time here referred to, and what is sometimes called the dispensation of the fulness of time, the end of the Mosaic dispensation and Jewish church state, the last days of that state, and the end of the Jewish world, as to their ecclesiastical and civil polity. The Jews themselves own that the time of the Messiah’s coming is fixed, and that at that time he shall come, whether they are worthy or not, for so it is asserted in their Talmud.”