<p>13:28 <i>There shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth-</i> Either we will mourn now in repentance (Lk. 6:25; the Greek for &quot;mourn&quot; is often in a repentance context), or we will mourn at the judgment. Having foretold the inevitable coming of judgment day, Yahweh Himself pleads with Israel: &quot;Therefore also&nbsp;<i>now</i>... turn ye even to me... with weeping, and with mourning&quot; (Joel 2:12). Gnashing of teeth suggests anger, triggered by seeing Gentiles in God&rsquo;s Kingdom and Jewish people from the time of Jesus rejected. So it is partly anger with self, but also the raging anger which comes from jealousy. We need to meditate upon the way in which actual human beings who met Jesus in the flesh are for sure going to reappear at the day of judgment. On their deathbeds or later in life they may&rsquo;ve idly reflected &lsquo;Ah yes, there was that Jesus guy I met once, the one they killed, and then a cult started based around Him afterwards&rsquo;. Such people will reappear at judgment day, and their same basic personality will continue. As they were furious at the Lord&rsquo;s claim that Gentiles would be in God&rsquo;s Kingdom, so they will be in a blind rage about it still at judgment day. The only other time the Greek for &lsquo;gnashing&rsquo; is used in the New Testament is in Acts 7:54, where again the Jewish conscience was pricked, leading them to gnash upon Stephen. How they were then in the first century is how they will be at the last day. The gnashing of teeth is clearly connected with the anger which comes from jealousy at others&rsquo; acceptance. One cannot help think of the very many professing believers who have huge anger at the thought of an open table, or of someone they consider to be &lsquo;outside&rsquo; of their small circle breaking bread at the Lord&rsquo;s table. Those same basic structures and constructs of thinking, that same essential personality, will reappear at judgment day. The awesomeness of having been resurrected and actually meeting Jesus in person will not change our basic personalities. Our spirit, in that sense, is preserved. The time for change of attitudes and transformation of character is now.&nbsp; In the OT, gnashing of teeth always means to hate somebody, often the righteous (Job 16:9; Ps. 35:16; 37:12; 112:10; Lam. 2:16). Could it not be that the rejected hate their Lord and His people, who will be watching the judgment in some form, and therefore go and join the ranks of the embittered armies that come against Him? Or is their extreme hatred against themselves? Ps. 112:10 speaks of the wicked gnashing with their teeth and melting away, suggesting that the slinking away process goes on even in the outer darkness; they wander, but in their aimless wandering they slowly slink yet further away from their Lord- the one who once fain would have carried them on His shoulders, gathered them under His wings. It's a terrible picture. Cain, in typifying all the rejected, felt that his condemnation was something greater than he could bear (Gen. 4:13).</p><p><i>When you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves cast out</i>- The rejected will see themselves thrust out of the Kingdom; as if somehow they see themselves from outside of themselves. What spirituality they thought they had they will see as it were taken away from them (Lk. 8:18 AV mg.). This will be the result of the judgment process. They will be convinced by the judgment process of all the ungodly deeds which they had not previously been convicted of, e.g. their hard words against their brethren (Jude 15). 1 Cor. 11:32 may also be a reference to the educative effect of judgment: &quot;When we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world&quot;. The world's condemnation will be at the second coming; the judgment and chastening to which Paul refers must therefore be that of the last day. However, in the context he is making the point that our self-examination at the memorial meeting and our response to the chastening hand of God in our present life is in fact a foretaste of that final judgment experience.</p><p>Note that the Pharisees will be thrust out of the Kingdom at judgment, implying that in a sense they were part of it before its establishment. This is the huge tragedy of rejection.</p>