Jesus Christ's lament over Jerusalem in Luke's gospel includes a reference to the time of your visitation, which the Amplified Bible clarifies as the time when God was visiting you, offering salvation through Christ. Because of Jerusalem's rejection of God during this visitation, she was left desolate, with no structure remaining, a prophecy fulfilled in AD 70 when the Roman Emperor Titus destroyed the city and the Temple.

God's Visitation: Joseph believed the words that God spoke to Abraham concerning what would befall Abraham's children. He also believed that God would judge the strangers whom they would serve and bring them out of that strange land into the Promised Land. These words, handed down through Isaac and Jacob to Joseph, formed the trust and confidence in his mind that God would visit the children of Israel in a positive way, and then they would be led to their ancestral lands.

God's visitation reveals His profound kindness and tender nature toward humanity. He did not merely pity us from a distance or allow His compassion to remain an inactive feeling. Instead, He entered into our life, stooping from His high and pure abode as glorious God, veiling His divinity to assume our nature. He was tempted in all things like us, took our sicknesses, and bore our infirmities to be a merciful and faithful High Priest. He did not maintain a superior status but truly walked in our shoes, going about doing good. This act of visitation demonstrates His generous and merciful giving for the benefit of others, showing the heart of His nature. Despite our provocations, stubbornness, neglect, and rebellions, He dwells in us, standing ever ready as our High Priest and Intercessor to serve with yet more kindness.

In Acts 15, James speaks of God's visitation to the Gentiles, emphasizing a profound spiritual event. He confirms that God has visited the Gentiles just as He visited Israel, imposing a blessing upon them to call out a people for Himself. This visitation signifies God's direct intervention, drawing Gentiles into a relationship with Him without the prerequisite of adhering to the Mosaic laws. James uses the term "visited" to parallel the historical understanding among the Jews of God's visitation to Israel, indicating a divine act of grace and selection. He further elaborates with the word "people," drawing from scriptural contexts like Exodus 19 and Deuteronomy 7:6, to show that the Gentiles are now also considered a special people to God, akin to how the Jews distinguished themselves. Moreover, James references Amos 9:11-12 to illustrate that God is rebuilding the tabernacle of David, which now includes Gentiles. This new tabernacle replaces the physical Temple as the place where God meets with His people, signifying that the church itself becomes the means through which Gentiles come to know God. Through this visitation, God reveals a shift in His work, calling out a spiritual body from all nations, distinct from the nation of Israel, yet part of the spiritual Israel of God.