Acts 15:13-21

So James here says basically what Peter says. He supports him and then he adds stuff from the Old Testament. He says, look, God prophesied way, way back in Amos and in other places, that He was going to bring the Gentiles into covenant with Him. And so he said God has known from eternity that He was going to do this. This is a great work of God and it just had exploded in their laps, and they were having to deal with it because this is the first time when God had essentially opened up salvation to the Gentiles.

So He is saying here as he concludes, let us not trouble them anymore except for these few prohibitions that he names, because they know the law. This is exactly what he says in verse 21, "For Moses has had throughout many generations, those who preach him in every city being read in the synagogues every Sabbath." So he said, we do not have to send them a great many detailed long pages of instructions about how they should conduct themselves as Christians. He is assuming here that they are becoming Christians and so he says they have Moses.

Acts 15:17

He is talking about the return of Christ. He is talking about the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth—that there is going to come a time that it will be here. And for what purpose?

Did you notice "the Gentiles who are called by My name"? In order to be called by the name of God, you have to be a son of God. You have to be regenerated by His Spirit. You have to be part of His Family.

The Gentiles do not seek God until after He reveals Himself to them and they become converted. There it is right in the Book. You do not seek God until after He converts you.