This is the second place which we are visiting in this
series and the places will be getting more and more inhospitable as we go
along. This is a place which will mainly be populated by people who knew God
and Jesus Christ, but who were unfaithful and disobedient. People who belonged
to the Kingdom of God at one time.
As opposed to Hell, which is in the core of Earth's magma,
this place is very far away from Earth and Heaven, much further away than the Kuyper
Belt or the Oort Cloud, so to speak. It can be imagined as places furthest away from the
sun, having no light, no heat or energy and just coldness, darkness, hopelessness and
loneliness. No God, nor Man in sight, not even fellow disobedient ones in sight,
because of the vastness of the place and the space.
There is no fire here and probably no evil spirits to
torture you, as they are mostly committed to torture those in Hell and to deceive
and delude those on earth. Here will only be weeping and gnashing of teeth, a
type of hopeless lamentation, guilt, hopelessness and God forsaken. You will
know of God, because knowledge of Him and how you trampled that under your feet
will be uppermost in your mind.
Jesus Christ talks in Matthew 8 about faith and obedience,
after seeing the obedience of a man under authority, who told Jesus Christ how
he respects authority and obedience - and he is rewarded, in contrast with some of the children
of the kingdom that shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be
weeping and gnashing of teeth. Heaven is meant only for those who
are obedient to Jesus Christ, respect His authority and follow Him wherever He
may go.
In another instance in Matthew 22, a certain man, whom Jesus
even called friend, was seen at the wedding feast of Jesus Christ. He did not
have a wedding gown on and was cast into Outer Darkness. Everyone who is
invited to the Wedding Feast of Christ and His bride, has to wear the Gown of Righteousness
to the wedding, which this friend, no doubt, did not have, never having confessed
his sins and been washed in the Blood and Water of Jesus Christ – one of those
who climbed over the wall.
Lastly, in Matthew 25, Jesus Christ took issue with a man
whom He had endowed with one talent and who buried the talent in fear that he might
lose it and be charged with negligence. Has cast into Outer Darkness
because he was an unprofitable servant. We are supposed to develop the manifold
talents we have received from God, to serve God and Mankind with it and to sow wherever we
go, on fertile ground. Those sowing on rocky terrain will never reap anything.
In all three of these examples we may accept that they knew
Jesus Christ, but were disobedient to His will and His authority and did not
serve mankind, as we are all instructed to do.
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