The great pyramid passages and chambers
were by the works of the law. Therefore they stumbled at that stumbling-stone, and later the vengeance of the Lord was executed upon them, and, as a nation, they were broken in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
79 In the present time, history is repeating itself. Once more those who consider themselves the people of God, appropriating to themselves the name of Christendom (Christ's Kingdom), are rejecting the Lord that bought them. Thus is fulfilled the word of the Lord through the prophet Isaiah (8: 14): ‘‘He [Christ] shall be for a sanctuary [to the true Church]; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel” (Fleshly and Spiritual). Both sets of builders, while permitted by the Lord to chisel and polish the living stones of the Antitypical Pyramid, have not known Christ (head and body), and have rejected him. Both have been guilty of unbelief and hardness of heart, and the judgment of the Lord on Nominal Fleshly Israel will be repeated on Nominal Spiritual Israel. Christendom (so called) will be broken; as foretold by the Psalmist, ‘‘ Thou shalt break them [the nations] with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel ’—Psa. 2: 9.
80 In due time all the living stones of the Antitypical Pyramid will be made perfect through sufferings, and then the whole building will be “fitly framed together” asa holy temple in the Lord. Jesus Christ himself will be the chief corner stone, and as such will occupy the exalted place of honour in the centre, and the twelve Apostles of the Lamb will be the foundation stones, next to the Lord in position—Eph. 2: 20-22; Rev. 21: 14.
81 Whatever the feelings of the Egyptian builders may have been during the period of quarrying and preparing the stones for the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, they must have marvelled and rejoiced when the top-stone was placed in position ; for this, the crowning work of the edifice, must have appealed to them more than would the finishing touches in any other known form of building, demonstrating to them that their labours were now completed, and that a measure of rest could be enjoyed by all. So with Jehovah's Great Antitypical Pyramid, when ‘‘he shall bring forth the head-stone thereof,”’ he will shout ‘‘ Grace, grace unto it,’’ and the whole creation in heaven and earth will marvel and give glory to God, and will honour the Son even as they honour the Father—Zech. 4:7; John 5:23. Amid great rejoicing, every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, will say: Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever—Rev. 5: 13.
82 The identity of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh to the exclusion of all the other pyramids, as the one referred to in the Holy Scriptures, is shown by an allusion to one of its characteristic distinctions, namely, its socket foundations. This allusion is found in Job 38: 4-7, where the language, although evidently intended as a description of the creation of the earth, will fully answer only to that of the erection of the Great Pyramid, the type of the New Creation. The Scripture reads thus: “ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line upon it ? Whereupon are the sockets thereof made to sink ?_ Or who laid the corner-stone thereof : when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy ?”’ (Marginal reading). The Great Pyramid of Gizeh is the only one which possesses
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