The agony of those who shall be thrown out of the kingdom of God

There will be wailing and grinding of teeth there, when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrown out. (Luke 13:28 NEB'70)

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It must be very agonizing for those Jews who will be shut out of the kingdom of God.

They will see their own ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and their own prophets, sit at table in the kingdom of God.

It must be very hard to them not to be joining their own kindred.

And will it not be hard to many other ungodly people, when they see a father, or mother, a brother, or sister, take their places at the banquet table in the kingdom of God, and they themselves thrown out!

On earth they were always welcome at their father's table, but even a godly father can do nothing to gain admittance for an unconverted child into the presence of God.

The anguish of those unbelieving Jews shall be intensified when they see Gentiles, whom they regarded with contempt, flocking from all over the world, into the new Jerusalem, while they are disallowed to enter.

And it shall also be so for those who live in Christian nations, if they should see those who were brought up in pagan lands, saved, when they are lost.

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