This podcast explains the symbols and message found in Revelation 11:2, where Jesus Christ told John the Revelator not to measure the courtyard without the temple "for it is given unto the Gentiles." This scene is set in the Third Temple to be constructed in Jerusalem. The measuring occurs at the start of the last 3 1/2 years (42 months) before the Second Coming called the Great Tribulation. The vision in Revelation 11:2 is focused on worthy Jews living terrestrial law that are measured as God's people in Revelation 11:1, whereas those who are unworthy of at least terrestrial glory--including the wicked Gentiles that will besiege Jerusalem during the Great Tribulation—remain unmeasured as a sign of God's rejection of them. The unmeasured people are telestial worthy people or sons of perdition that will be destroyed at the Second Coming.

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