The great pyramid passages and chambers

173 It is because of the Ransom-Sacrifice of Christ, the Son of God, that the world’s salvation will be attained ; and as the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world, that is, as God’s purpose in Christ was planned from the beginning, it is appropriate that the Well, which symbolizes the death and resurrection of Christ, should be at the commencement of the Horizontal Passage, just as it is appropriate that the Queen’s Chamber should be at its termination. God, seeing the end from the beginning, foretold that through Christ the whole creation, now groaning and travailing in pain, would be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God —Rev. 13: 8; Rom. 8: 21, 22.

174 The “Great Time of Trouble” at the close of the six thousand years and the beginning of the seventh thousand-year period, is represented in the Horizontal Passage by the sudden drop of twenty-one inches in the floor at the point six-sevenths of the total length of the passage. A traveller, groping and stumbling along the dark Horizontal Passage with head and shoulders bent and aching, if he were ignorant of this drop ahead of him, would meet with a very disagreeable experience when he came toit. He would be bruised, and would feel crestfallen, humbled. But after a little, when he would rise to his feet, he would find to his joy that there is now no longer any necessity to stoop. The end-portion of the passage is approximately five feet eight inches in height, that is to say, it is the height of an average man—Plate XIV.

175. This pictures well the present condition of the world. Bowed down by the yoke of sin and death, the nations are groping in the dark, quite unaware of the fact that a time of humiliation awaits them a few years hence. They will be taken by surprise, and will fall, and all their earthly hopes and aspirations will be wrecked. Then the Psalmist's prophecy will be fulfilled: ‘Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder ; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen [nations], I will be exalted in the earth ''—Psa. 46 : 8-10. When the people are raised again, they will find to their joy that they will no longer be compelled to walk with bowed heads. The burden of Adamic condemnation will have fallen from their shoulders, for ‘‘in those days it will no more be said, The fathers have eaten a sour grape [of sin] and the children’s teeth are set on edge, but every one [who dies] shall die for his own iniquity; every one that eateth the sour grape Ais teeth shall be set on edge” —Jer. 31: 29, 30. From this point onward, all the humble, obedient ones will progress with comfort toward the Queen’s Chamber, the post-millennial condition of eternal bliss.

176 Nevertheless, should any one during the Millennium think too highly of himself, he will strike his head against the hard roof; for Christ’s rule will be an iron one, and none will be allowed to think more highly of himself than he onght to think. On the other hand, if any one should think too lowly of himself, he will be encouraged to a more sober appreciation of his abilities, because that will be the time when “ whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted,” for ‘God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble'’—Luke 14: 11; Jasn 4236;