The whole concept of "outer darkness" and the "weeping and gnashing of teeth" is so obscured by hell-related imagery that we fail to understand how it would have been received by Yeshua's/Jesus's first-century Jewish audience. As this phrase is going to play a big part in the next teaching series on the four "readiness" parables of Matthew 24/25 I decided to make this separate teaching on the "fate worse than death" concept of rejection in the ancient world.