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Older Prodigal Son, Gentile in heart; “teknon”… immature in Father’s love… chooses, remains in Outer Court, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth over his own self-righteousness not being good enough!
Revelation 11: 2 (KJV)
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Luke 15: 28-31a (KJV)
28 And he [*the Older Prodigal Son] was angry, and would not go in [*into The Tent of Meeting]: therefore came his father out [*into the Outer Court], and intreated him.
29 And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
30 But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
31 And he said unto him, Son [*Teknon]…
1 John 3: 11-16 (KJV)
11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil [*self-righteous], and his brother's righteous [*believing].
13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death [*under the Dead Letter].
15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.