The great pyramid passages and chambers

RESUME OF PROOFS.

The HORIZONTAL PASSAGE represents the course of the world during its seven thousand years of training, by the following features :—

Its termination at the Queen's Chamber, symbolizing the post-millennial condition of human perfection.

The position of the Well at its commencement, symbolizing the fact that in God's purposes the Lamb was “slain from the foundation of the world ”’—Rev. 13: 8.

Its horizontal direction on or about the plane of the Queen’s Chamber, symbolizing the fact that ‘the creature [the world in general] was made subject to vanity [frailty], not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope’’—Rom. 8 : 20.

The fact that it is divided into two distinct portions, the first six-sevenths of the whole length symbolizing the first six thousand years, the terminal portion one-seventh of the whole length symbolizing the seventh thousand-year period, the Millennium.

The low roof of the first six-sevenths of the length, symbolizing the world during the first six thousand years groaning under

the yoke of sin and death, and stumbling in the darkness.

6 The sudden fall in the floor (21 inches) at the

end of the first portion of the passage, symbolizing the “sudden destruction’ which will come upon ‘this present evil world” ‘as travail upon a woman with child” 1 Thess, 5: 3.

7 The ability of the traveller to rise and walk

erect in the terminal portion of the passage after the sudden drop, symbolizing that the yoke of the Adamic condemnation will fall from the world’s shoulders after the great time of trouble.

8 The fact that the height of the terminal length

just admits a man of average stature to walk erect, whereas a little man has plenty of headroom, and a tall man, unless he bows his head submissively, will strike it against the hard roof, symbolizing the iron rule of Christ ; ‘‘ Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased ; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted ’—-Luke 14: 11.

(E) THE GRAND GALLERY AND THE ANTE-CHAMBER

TO THE KING’S CHAMBER.

FROM the point of view now to be considered, the Grand Gallery, the Ante-Chamber, and the King’s Chamber correspond respectively with the Court, the Holy, and the Most Holy of the Tabernacle in the wilderness—See Tabernacle Shadows, by C. T. Russell. And when these three compartments in the Great Pyramid are compared with the Chart of the Ages (Plate VI), they are found to correspond respectively with the plane of justification, the plane of spirit-begetting, and the plane of spirit-birth, or Divine Glory.

178 As already mentioned (Pars. 139, 140), these three compartments and three planes symbolize the three successive steps or conditions of those drawn of the Lord :(1) The Grand Gallery represents the condition of the justified by faith, those who are reckoned by God as perfect human beings because of their faith, and are called with the high or heavenly calling to sacrifice (Rom. 12: 1), that they may become joint-heirs with Christ in his glory. (2) The Ante-Chamber represents the condition of those who, having accepted this gracious invitation to present their justified human nature in

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