The great pyramid passages and chambers

R.V. During the forty days which followed he is represented by the small pyramid on the plane of spirit-birth, the perfect spirit plane, the second line above the plane of human perfection in the Gospel Age.

55 Finally, on his ascension to the F ather, he was invested with glory and honour (represented by the pyramid on the highest plane, the plane of the Divine Glory), there to become the ‘‘ head-stone” of the “Great Pyramid” which the Lord Jehovah will set up in the Millennial Age, the Dispensation of the fulness of times "—Eph. 1:15-23,10. “The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner’—Psa. 118 : 22.

56 All creation will have the opportunity of becoming ‘ stones” in this great Antitypical Pyramid ; but the most honoured position next the Lord Jesus is held out to the followers of Christ in this Gospel Age, now near its close. These must first be justified by faith as Abraham was; as it is written: ‘“ He [Abraham] Staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was Strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that what he had promised, he was able also to perform ; and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, but for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead ; who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification”—Rom. 4: 20-25. Just as Abraham's faith and loyalty were submitted to tests and became stronger with each, so is it with all who remain faithful in this Age; and just as God accepted Abraham to fellowship with him, calling him friend (Jas. 2: 23), so he accepts all of this Age who have the faith of Abraham to the same terms of fellowship. The final test of Abraham's faith and loyalty came when God said to him: “Take now thy son, thine only son, Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah ; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of "—Gen. 22: 2. Abraham's faith in God was not shaken. He offered up Isaac on the altar, * accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from whence also he received him in a figure ’’—Heb. 11: 19. In like manner, the present members of the household of faith receive their final test as regards justification, when they come to understand Christ's new commandment that they should love one another as he loved them, that is, that they should /ay down their lives for one another—John 13: 34; 1 John 3: 16.

57 Abraham's faith could not and will not be fully rewarded until the sacrifice of the Antitypical Isaac (Christ, head and body, the Seed of Abraham) is complete. Not till the Church is glorified, will he be raised to the perfect human plane, with the right to eternal life—Heb. 11: 39, 40, During the Gospel Age, however, from the time that Jesus Christ ‘‘ was delivered for our offences and raised again for our justification,’ and ascended to heaven and “ appeared in the presence of God for us,’’ whenever a justified person presents his body a living sacrifice, at that very moment God imputes full earthly life-rights to him, and then receives him in Christ as a holy and acceptable sacrifice. At the same moment also, he bestows upon him the Holy Spirit of adoption as an earnest or pledge of his future spiritual inheritance—Eph. 1: 13, 14. Henceforth, he is on the plane of spiritual begetting. It is of such that the Apostle says, ‘‘ Ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the spirit of God dwell in you,” and again, “ There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit ’—Rom. 8: 9, 1.