Outside - Revelation 22:14-15

Revelation 22:14-15 ESV 

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates. Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

There remains a wall around the New Jerusalem. Entrance is provided by twelve gates which signifies the twelve tribes of Israel. 

Through these gates the righteous may enter the city of God. 

Outside the city is another matter. Just as the Garden of Eden was not able to tolerate evildoers, so the New Jerusalem will deny access to the unrighteous. 

Israel will represent God in the way Adam should have but failed. They will hold out the light of God to the nations and will allow entrance to all who respond to that light. 

The nations will come to worship in the new city. Still a portion of mankind will remain in the darkness outside the wall of the city. Maybe some will come to see the light. 

Matthew 22:11-14

“But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ For many are called, but few are chosen.”