164 THE GREAT PYRAMID. able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God through Him." It is better to go a short, though a rugged way, with a mighty Saviour, than leaning on ourselves to take what appears to be a smoother way. Observe too, that if a sinner has been unable to keep himself from slipping downwards, what hope has he of success in his struggle upwards, in his own strength. The number of ramp holes from one end of the Grand Gallery to the other is 28, and the aperture of the well is 28 inches. Now the numerical value of the Hebrew letters for "SIN OFFERING" (Ezra vi. 17) is 28; similarly the Hebrew "FOR JEHOVAH," the word used with reference to the scapegoat (Lev. xvi. 8) has the power of 56, which is the length and breadth of the mouth of the well in P. inches. The perimeter of the mouth of the well is 28 × 4 112 inches. Now the sum of the letters in Hebrew for "LORD GOD" is 112. The shaft of the well is exactly 57 inches long, and the word "ALTAR" in Hebrew is in like manner equal to 57. Thus, at the entrance to the Grand Gallery which symbolises the Church of Christ, we may read the following sentence by the figures 57-112-28-56: (On) the Altar (of) the Lord God (there is) a sin offering for Jehovah. The two sides of the low passage at the opposite, ie, the south end of the same gallery, are respectively 57 and 56 P. inches, the value of the very Hebrew words in Isaiah xix, 19: “ALTAR TO THE LORD." The missing ramp stone that covered the well was found, when Caliph Al Mamoun in A.D. 850 forced his way into the Pyramid, a short distance from its place; thus betokening the RESURRECTION OF CHRIST, Mark xvi. 4, “ Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? And when they looked they save that the stone was rolled away;" while the 36 overlap 166 THE GREAT PYRAMID. This passage way and chamber were found difficult to explore on account of foul air, there being no visible ventilating tubes as at the Ante and King's-chamber: but lately a gentleman, on accidentally striking the side wall with a hammer, discovered two ventilating tubes extending through the masonry and piercing the stones forming the wall of the room, up to one inch of the surface of the stones; which thin scale broke on the accidental application of the hammer. This covering of stone rendered the tubes useless as ventilators. THE GREAT PYRAMID. 167 What then could have been the object of placing them where they are. Practically they were useless, but symbolically they tell us "of the veil that lieth upon the hearts of the Jews whensoever Moses is read" (2 Cor. iii. 15); "of the hardening in part that hath befallen Israel until the fulness of the gentiles be come in" (Rom. xi. 25); "of the blindness of the eyes" of the Jews as mentioned by Isaiah (vi. 9-10) and quoted by Math. (xiii. 14-15), Mark (iv. 12), and John (xii. 4.) We may also observe that they recorded symbolically the fact that God was watching" over Israel "to build and to plant; "to make a new covenant with the House of Israel; to put His law in their inward parts, and to write it in their hearts ... to forgive their iniquity and to remember their sin no more" (Jer. xxxi. 28-34). And as by the removal of the casing of stone air and light enter the chamber, so, “Whensoever it (the Jew) shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away; and the Spirit of the Lord enters, giving LIBERTY, (2 Cor. iii. 16-17), and KNOWLEDGE (Jer. xxxi. 34), and DELIVERANCE" (Joel ii. 27-32). The Grand Gallery is 18816 P. I. in length, and hence some had concluded that as they had taken the previous passages in definite terms of one inch to one year, so they should take the length of the Grand Gallery in like manner, and so determined that the END OF THE CHRISTIAN DISPENSATION should take place in August, 1882. We have on every occasion endeavoured to show the fallacy of this statement, on the ground that it was opposed to the Word of God, which stated that "of that day and of that hour knoweth no man." As such was not intended to be revealed, we find the Grand Gallery terminating at the division of the Pyramid, by an imaginary plumb-line dropped from its topmost corner, dividing it into two equal parts, representing the history of the world, prior to the First Resurrection in the one half, and that which follows after, in the other half. 168 THE GREAT PYRAMID. CHAPTER XVII. THE GREAT PYRAMID (continued). At the end of the Gallery, where the south wall is out of the perpendicular by one degree, we observe two passages B C and I F, a lower and an upper; the lower being 47 inches in height refers to the history of the world during THE GREAT TRIBULATION— and the gathering of Israel and Judah in the wilderness (Ezek. xx. 32-38). The upper passage leads into one of the many apartments F above the King's Chamber. In my Father's house are many mansions; I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am there ye may be also." (John xiv. 2-3). We do not know when Christ will come, but this we do know, that He will come, therefore we are commanded to "Watch and be ready, for in such an hour as we think not He will come," and this we also do know "when Christ who is our life shall be manifested, then shall we also with Him be manifested in glory" (Col. iii. 4). Are you WATCHING, LONGING, READY for His Coming? Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when He cometh shall find watching" (Luke xii. 37). It will indeed be a blessed time for those who are resting, believing in Christ, to see Him face to face in His glory, and to be with Him who loved us, and redeemed us, and washed us, in His most precious blood. "For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord, that we which are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the |