The Law Dispensation

“This time-feature shows how the First Ascending Passage indicates the duration of the Law Dispensation, the exactly defined period during which the whole nation of Israel was subject to the Law. It had its beginning at the Exodus from Egypt in Spring 1615 B.C. when the “Passover,” a most important feature of the Law, was first observed (Exod.12:40-43); and it ended in Spring 33 A.D. when Jesus Christ, the antitypical Passover Lamb, was slain by the cruel and ignominious method of crucifixion, and “nailed it [the Law] to his cross “(1 Cor. 5:7; Col. 2:14) altogether a period of 1647 years.

The First Ascending Passage represents the exacting demands of the Mosaic Law in the Law Dispensation, while the Grand Gallery, with its lofty height, suggests on the contrary the liberty of the Law of Christ, the perfect Law of liberty in this Gospel Dispensation. The one ended and the other began at the death and resurrection of Christ. Accordingly, it is clear that in this time-feature the line where these two passages meet marks the date of the crucifixion. This time-measurement, therefore, like the one already considered (Sec. X), confirms the claim that the north wall of the Grand Gallery marks the date of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, 33 A.D. (8)

One would naturally expect that the date of the commencement of the Law Dispensation would be indicated by the “Point of Intersection” where the First Ascending Passage leaves the Descending Passage; because it was at the time when the people of Israel left Egypt (the world—symbolized by the down-ward passage) that the Law was made with them through Moses. But here a difficulty is encountered; for whereas the duration of the Law Dispensation is 1647 years, the full length of the First Ascending Passage which symbolizes that Dispensation (see the second diagram below) is only 1543.464 + Pyramid inches, i.e., about 103½ Pyramid inches too short. (9)

At first sight it would seem as if this Biblical period was not corroborated by the Great Pyramid. C. T. Russell, however, points out that the length of the Granite Plug was evidently intended by the Pyramid’s Architect to be used in the calculations of this time-measurement. “In measuring this passage with its plug we should consider it as though it were a telescope with the plug drawn out until the upper (or south) end reaches the place originally marked by the lower (or north) end of it.” (Vol. 3 page 346)

The event which formed the beginning of this Law period was not the “Exodus” (though it did occur at the same date as the Exodus) but the ordinance of the “Passover,” the first feature of the Law, and a very important one (Exod. 12:1-28, 40-43). What could be more appropriate as the starting-point for the length of the First Ascending Passage when considered in its particular symbolical representation of the Law Dispensation, than the “Granite Plug” which in itself stands as the symbol of the Divine Law, and which effectually blocks this way that was “ordained to life“?

If, then, we take the length of the First Ascending Passage upward from the lower end of the Granite Plug (1469.135), and to this add the length of the Plug itself (178.189), thus giving due weight to this important symbol of the Divine Law, we shall find that the total measurement in Pyramid inches agrees with the period of years during which the Old Law Covenant was in force. (The actual number of Pyramid inches in this extended length of the First Ascending Passage is 1647.325+, or about a 3rd of an inch over the exact 1647. The standard extended length of 1647.325+ is corroborated a number of times by the Pyramid’s scientific proportions.)

Nor is this a chance coincidence, for, as we shall show, other time-measurements having a connection with the Divine Law of God require the same method of calculating. As C. T. Russell rightly says: “We now know why that ` Plug’ was so securely fixed that none had succeeded in displacing it. The Great Master-Builder had placed it there to stay, that we might hear its testimony to-day corroborating the Bible, as to both its plan and its chronology.”

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(8) In all the principal time-features this is recognized; but we find that in some less important time-measurements, other dates in connection with the First Advent of Christ are likewise indicated by the line of demarcation between the First Ascending Passage and Grand Gallery.

(9) We shall find, nevertheless, in other time-measurements to be afterwards described, that the lower end of the First Ascending Passage does indicate the date of the Exodus, as well as other prominent dates connected with the people of Israel.”

(Great Pyramid Passages Page 58-60, par. 110-115)

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