The great pyramid passages and chambers

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, RESUME OF PROOFS.

The GRAND GALLERY symbolizes the Gospel Age as regards both faith-

justification and sanctification, by the following features :—

1 Just as the upper extremity of the First

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Ascending Passage is also the startingpoint of the Grand Gallery, so the death of Christ, which closed the Law Dispensation (Col. 2 : 14), formed the startingpoint of the Gospel Dispensation. Thus the Grand Gallery forms a continuation of the First Ascending Passage in the same way that the Gospel Dispensation is a continuation of the Law Dispensation, more especially as in both cases the one leads to an appreciation of the other, for the Law

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was a schoolmaster to bring the Jews to Christ—Gal. 3 : 24.

length coincides with the duration of the Gospel Age from the death of Christ in April 33 a.D., till Autumn of the year 1914 A.D., when the lease of power to the Gentile nations, the ‘Times of the Gentiles,” will terminate, and Christ will take to himself his mighty power and begin his reign of righteousness. (This time-feature will be shown in Volume II of Great Pyramid Passages.)

The GRAND GALLERY symbolizes the condition of the Sanctified of the

Gospel Age, by the following features :—

1 The upper end of the Well, signifying the

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death and resurrection of Christ, is situated at its commencement, so teaching that it is only through Christ that we can become sanctified. Justification must precede sanctification.

vertical height is seven times the transverse height of both the First Ascending Passage and the Descending Passage, and suggests the perfect liberty and high aspirations of the true Christian. The Lord “brought me forth also into a large place ; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. my righteousness '’—Psa. 18 : 19, 20.

The Lord rewarded me according to

3 The space between the Ramps is only three

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and a half feet wide, just room for two to walk abreast,—My Lord and I. Itreminds us also of Jesus’ words: ‘‘ Narrow is the way which leadeth unto life.”

upward inclination and its termination at the granite chambers, suggest the thought that the way is difficult but leads upward to holiness and immortality, the Divine nature. Before inheriting the heavenly Kingdom, however, the Christian must, like his Master, humble himself unto death, just as in the Great Pyramid, the traveller

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before entering the King’s chamber must bow down very low and creep through the small entrance-passages.

5 Though its inclination is the same as that of

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the First Ascending Passage, the ascent is easier because of the support afforded by the Ramps on either side. This represents the fact that when the follower of Christ makes a slip, or when he should feel faint of heart, he can at once lay hold of the “exceeding great and precious promises ”’ of God, by the aid of which he may become a partaker of the Divine nature. seven overlappings suggest the upward growth of christian character as detailed in the second Epistle of Peter—1 : 5-7.

7 The Step at its upper end close to the

low and narrow passage into the King's Chamber, represents (a) the last great trial to be encountered by the individual Christian prior to humbling himself unto death, the narrow gateway to the heavenly inheritance ; and also, (6) as we shall see in Volume II of Great Pyramid Passages, the last great trial upon the true Church, which is the body of Christ (Eph. 1 : 22, 23), prior to the death and resurrection of the ‘‘feet'’ members,