The great pyramid passages and chambers

IV. The KING'S CHAMBER symbolizes the “ Most Holy” of the Tabernacle, the heavenly inheritance, the condition of the Sanctified after they are “ born from the dead” as spirit beings of the Divine nature, by the following

features :—

1 Its construction, entirely of granite, symbol- of spirit-begetting. See the Chart of the izing the Divine nature. Ages—Plate VI.

2 Its low entrance from the Ante-Chamber, 4 The fact that it is the ultimate goal of the signifying that it is gained only by con- Grand Gallery and Ante-Chamber, signisecration unto death. fying that it is the end of the way.

3 The fact that its floor is still higher than the 5 The other proofs given at the end of Section level of the first granite stone in the Ante- (A), showing that it symbolizes immorChamber, symbolizing that the plane of tality.

the Divine Glory is high above the plane

(F) THE GRAND GALLERY.

IN the last section we saw that the Grand Gallery, in its relation to the Ante-Chamber as the School of Christ, symbolizes the condition of the justified who are called or invited to present their bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God—Rom. 12: 1. Those who do so are urged to forget those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things that are before, press toward the mark for the prize of the High Calling of God in Christ Jesus—Phil. 3: 13, 14. In the present section, the Grand Gallery will be considered as symbolizing the High or Heavenly Calling in itselfHeb. 3:1. The two modes of access, the one for the Jew, the other for the Gentile, to the privilege of the High Calling, have already been considered—Pars. 179-182.

200 This High Calling began, so far as Jesus was concerned, at his birth, because he was born into this world for the purpose of accepting the call to sacrifice when the due time should come, which was at his baptism; but it was not until his death and resurrection that the ‘new and living way” was opened up to the world of mankind, first to the Jews and afterwards to the Gentiles. Good men, like John the Baptist (than whom there was no greater), who died prior to the time when Jesus Christ rose from the dead and appeared in the presence of God for us, his followers (Heb. 9 : 24), had no part in this High Calling to be joint-sacrificers and ultimately joint-heirs with the Master—Matt. 11:11. The first of the Jews to accept this call and to receive the Holy Spirit in token of their acceptance by God, were the 120 disciples when they were assembled in the upper room at Pentecost, the exact date foreshadowed by the LawLev. 23: 4-17; Acts1:13,14; 2:1-18. The first Gentile to accept, and be accepted, was Cornelius—Acts 10.

201 The lofty height of the Grand Gallery very well represents the perfect liberty and high aspirations of the followers of Christ. Those who go up this way do not require to walk with their heads bowed as they did when coming up the First Ascending Passage, representative of the Jews bowed down and condemned by the exacting requirements of the Law, or when going down the Descending Passage, representative of the remainder of the human race bowed down under the Adamic condemnation to death. Those who are privileged to go up the Grand Gallery, can do so with their

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