Revelation 11:2

“But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles.  And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months.

• ·        Herod built an outer court and called it the court of the Gentiles.  This was no part of the temple, and therefore God would have no regard to it (MH)

• ·        There is a set time for the city to be put underfoot

• ·        Whose who worship in the outer court are either such as worship in a false manner or with hypocritical hearts.  Those who worship in the outer court will be rejected, and only those who worship within the veil accepted. (MH)

Psalm 79:1  O GOD, the nations have come into Your inheritance; Your holy temple they have defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

Ezekiel 40:17-20  Then he brought me into the outer court; and there were chambers and a pavement made all around the court; thirty chambers faced the pavement……