The Great Pyramid's Testimony Regarding the Gospel Age

In the Great Pyramid, the Grand Gallery represents the Gospel Age. The south end of the Grand Gallery begins at a point which is indicated by measurements to represent the date of our Lord’s resurrection in April of 33 A.D. The length of the Grand Gallery, measured along the floor line is 1881.5 pyramid inches to the north end. Adding 1881.5 to April of 33 A.D. brings us to the date October 1914 as the end of the Gospel Age, as indicated in the Pyramid by the measurement of the Grand Gallery. Thus the date 1914 is literally written in stone as the end of the Gospel Age.

Just as the Great Pyramid’s testimony regarding Bible chronology is undeniable, so also must be its testimony regarding this piece of the chronology – the length of the Gospel Age.

It would neither be logical nor reasonable to suggest that the Pyramid’s testimony on chronology is correct, but then conclude that its testimony regarding the length of the Gospel Age is incorrect. For any to discard the measurement of the Grand Gallery as invalid is to call in question the entire testimony of the Pyramid. To ignore it would be a failure to be honest with ourselves. To discard the Pyramid’s teaching regarding the Grand Gallery would be comparable either to throwing out a scripture because we could not harmonize it with the rest of the Bible, or to ignoring a scripture which did not support our own preconceived ideas.

Brethren may “reason” all they wish about 1914 and what it wasn’t – but the testimony of the Pyramid is clear – 1914 was the end of the Gospel Age. What does this imply? As our Lord’s own words show – “the harvest is the end of the age,” thus indicating that the end of the Gospel Age means also the end of the Gospel Age Harvest.

Note however, that the Pyramid’s testimony says nothing about a date for the completion of the Church. The idea that the Church would be complete by 1914 was an inference made by Bro. Russell. Many brethren today hold onto the idea that the completion of the Church and the end of the Gospel Age must coincide in time. Therefore when they hear me say that the Gospel Age Harvest is over, they mistakenly conclude that I must think the Church is complete. That is most certainly not what I am suggesting.

Here in the Pyramid we have an indication that the end of the Gospel age and the completion of the Church do not coincide in time. The year 1914 has come and gone, and the Church is still not complete. The Pyramid shows that the Gospel Age (and thus the Gospel Age Harvest) ended in October 1914. It is therefore apparent that – and we will state this again so there is no confusion as to what we mean - the end of the Gospel Age and its Harvest does not correspond to the completion of the Church.

How is it possible for the Gospel Age to end before the Church is complete in glory? Bro. Russell thought that the purpose of the Gospel Age was the completion of the Church in glory, and that the Gospel Age would end with the end of Gentile Times. Obviously, this did not happen as expected. As we look back at his expectations, we want to understand not only what he expected, but why he expected what he did. All of the time prophecies, and the parallels, etc. pointed to 1914 as a significant point in time in God’s plan. That is why he originally tied the Church’s completion to the year 1914 – he expected everything connected with this present evil world to end, and the earthly Kingdom to be established immediately.

In retrospect, we believe that the purpose of the Gospel age was not for the completion of the Church in glory, but rather only the completion of the number – otherwise known as the General Call. That call was complete in 1881 when the full number of 144,000 crowns had been assigned and were being run for. Thus, by the year 1881, the purpose of the Gospel age had been realized – the full number of crowns had been assigned. Although the purpose of the Gospel age was realized in 1881, the Lord had indicated that at the end of the age there would be a harvest of that which had been sown, and therefore the full end of the age would not come until the end of that harvest.

The purpose of the Gospel Age harvest was to gather the Lord’s fully consecrated and spirit-begotten children out of Babylon. That is what the term “harvest” suggests – not a sowing work, but a reaping work – a reaping of that which had previously been sowed. The same lesson is given by the drag-net parable – in the time of the harvest the net is dragged to shore, and the sorting of the fish already caught begins.

Note that ALL of the spirit-begotten ones who were in Babylon in 1878 when the Church was called to come out were individuals who came into the true Church under the General Call. Bro. Russell was the voice of the Lord that sent forth the message – “Come out of her my people.” Note that this was not a message to the unconsecrated to come out of the world, but very specifically a message to the spirit-begotten ones to come out of “her” – to come out of Babylon. The call of the New Creation is manifestly not the Harvest which our Lord spoke of in the parable, because the call of the New Creation went on for almost 1800 years before the Harvest time.

The testimony of the Great Pyramid is that the Gospel Age ended in 1914, and it seems that this conclusion cannot be refuted without violating reason and logic or discarding the Pyramid in its entirety. In harmony with this Truth, when we look at what the end of the Gospel Age Harvest means, we realize that it simply means that the Harvest work of gathering the Lord’s people out of Babylon was accomplished. The Gospel Age and its Harvest has ended, but the call of the New Creation continues.

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