The Chief Cornerstone --

• Psalm 118:22 -- the head stone of the corner.

  • Genesis 8:5

    • Exodus 17:9-10

    • Psalm 3:3

    • Psalm 72:16

    • In 599 uses, it is never used of something on the bottom but always on the top.

      
      

  • This can only be the stone at the top“cornerstore" as we typically imagine.

  • Only a pyramid has a head stone of the corner.

  • Ephesians 2:20-21 -- chief corner stone - ἀκρογωνιαῖος [akrogonaios]

    • V. 20 - The Greek akron“the top" (acropolis, etc).

    • Note that the prophets and apostles are foundational, and Christ is at the top.

    • V 21 -- In this chief corner all the building is fitly framed together.

      • Συναρμολογέω [ sunarmologeo] --

        • Sun -- together

        • Harmos“harmony")

        • Logeo -- to speek

          
          

      • “everything in the building comes together to speak of this, in harmony."

        
        

    • V. 21 -- growth into“goes up into"

    • The wording in these two verses (as in Psalm 118:22) allows for nothing but a pyramid.

      
      

• The Blood --

  • Making an assumption that the Grand Gallery represents the beginning of the life of Christ, what happens if you rise up 33 inches?

  • “missing" as if pushed up from the bottom.

  • “bottomless pit"

  Beyond Christ: Theology Proper

  
  

Is there a God?

• Could the pyramid, with all its mathematical intrigue, been an accident of nature?

  • If the pyramid is indeed a duplication of the patterns of the earth, could earth be an accident of nature?

  • If the pyramid shouts out: THERE IS AN ARCHITECT AND BUILDER WHO IS GOD, then what does the earth itself shout out?

    • Does it allow for atheism? Pantheism?

    • The pyramid shouts for an independent, self-contained, fully-aware, fully-engaged God.

      
      

• What is God's nature?

  • …just look at any side. …or from any corner.

  • “three in one" has revealed Himself to the four-fold physical world.

    
    

• Is there a devil? A hell?

  • The pyramid was made with a downward entrance, with Draconis staring down.

  • “bottomless pit," so called because at the time of its discovery the bottom was unknown.

  • See Ezekiel 31:14-18.

    
    

• Is there a salvation?

  • God intervened! He made a passage upward, through Abraham, through Moses, and eventually through Christ, the Savior.

  • The upward passage is one-inch per year of the time from the Exodus to the birth of Christ.

  • “passage to hell," precisely at the time Jesus would have died, paying the penalty for our sins.

  • …

    • Is seven times taller than the previous passageway.

    • Is composed of 36 overlapping stones, 12x3 (spiritual perfection times fullness/completion).

      
      

  • “jubilee" chamber, rife with the number 50.

    
    

• Is there a tribulation?

  • There is an abrupt end to the Grand Gallery.

  • From the splendor of this gallery (28 feet tall) to a narrow entrance to the King's chamber, less than four-feet tall.

  • This passageway is rough, ragged, and difficult.

    
    

• The Miscalculation of Dr. Seiss (and most other Pyramidologists).

  • Dr. Seiss“A Miracle in Stone" used the inches of the Grand Gallery to measure the end of the age of grace and the beginning of the tribulation.

  • In doing so, he failed to recognize that this dispensation was a mystery, and therefore could not have been revealed by God, even through architecture.

  • Therefore, the Grand Gallery must represent something other than the Christian dispensation. But what?

    • Possibly the millennium, followed by the eternal age, with its Great White Throne judgment.

    • Possibly an unknown Jewish era in which the Jewish nation would have slowly risen in preeminence, growing in Christ, and spreading the Gospel of the Kingdom to the ends of the earth.

    • An age of silence in which God is not actively working but mankind is thriving (both for good and for bad)?

    • Most likely, this was the forseen times of the Gentiles. What was not forseen was that during this time there would be an age of Grace.

      
      

  • But wouldn't measurements still apply?

    • Once God begins to count, His counting relates to Israel alone, and only when Israel is in fellowship with Him.

    • Shortly after the day of Pentecost, the count would simply be the passing of time, with God in the background.

      
      

• What of Israel?

  • God has promises that must be fulfilled, so Israel must be preserved.

  • …

    • Begins shortly after the resurrection.

    • No longer ascends. In fact, the entrance point is the highest point of the floor.

    • Always had a stench, until the modern era when air passages were found.

      • These passages extended from the chamber to the fresh air above (as in the King's chamber).

      • However, just before arriving at the Queen's Chamber, they were closed off. Not by debris, but by construction.

      • “so close" to fresh air, yet not getting any of it.