This calculation shows A. D . .1915 as marking the beginning of the period of trouble;[not 1914!] for 1542 years B. c. plus 1915 years A.D equals 3457 years.
It is but four years before
the full close of the time of trouble which ends the Gentile
times; and when we remember the Lord's words-that the
overcomers shall be accounted worthy to escape the severest of the trouble coming upon the world we may understand
the reference to be to the anarchoua trouble which will
follow October, 1914; but a trouble chiefly upon the
Church may be expeCted about 1910 A. D.
Is not this a most remarkable agreement between this
stone "Witness" and the Bible?
The dates, October, 1874,
and October, 1881, are exact, while the date 1910, though
not furnished in the Scriptures, seems more than a reasonable
one for some important event in the Church's experience
and final testing, while A.D. 1914 is apparently welldefined as its close, after which the world's greatest trouble
is due, in which some of the "great multitude" may have
a share.
And in this connedion let us remember that this
date limit- A.D. 1914-must not only witness the completion
of the seleetionand trial and glorification of the entire
body of Christ, but it may also witness the purifying of some
of that larger company of consecrated believers who, through
fear and faint-heartedness, failed to render acceptable sacrifices
to God, and who therefore became more or less contaminated
with the world's ideas and ways. Someqfthese,
before the end of this period, may come up out of the great
tribulation. (Rev. 7: 14.)
Many such are now being closely
bound in with the various bundles of tares for the burning;
and not until the fiery trouble of the latter end of the harvest
period shall burn the binding cords of Babylon's bond-
· age shall these be able to malte their cscape-"saved so as by. fire." They must see the utter wreck of Great Babylon
and receive some measure of her plagues. (Rev. 18:4.)
The four years from 1910 to the end of 1914, indicated
thus in the Great Pyramid, will doubtless be a time of
"fiery trial" upon the Church (1 Cor. 3:15) preceding the
anarchy of the world, which cannot last long ;-"Except
those days should be shortened there should no flesh be
saved."-Matt. 24!
Nor is this all of the wonderful symbolism of the Great
Pyramid. Its marvelous harmony with the divine plan is
1till further shown in another remarkable feature. We
should expeet that the date of the two great events conneeted
with the close of this age, viz., (1) our Lord's second
advent and (2) the beginning of the harvest, would in
10me manner be marked at the upper end of the "Grand
Gallery,'' even as his death and resurrection are marked
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by the "Well " at its lower end.
