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accept the will of God. You know, for instance, dear friends, that many persons give up their own wills andaccept the will of the pope; then whatever the pope says, that they will do; the pope is their will, he is their willpower, their mind; they accept everything that he says, and think he is infallible. But that is not the trueconsecration; that is not the purpose for which we are called. We are called to give up our own wills in orderthat we might bow down and accept the will of God. It is only then that we are new creatures in Christ Jesus.This is beautifully represented in the pyramid. After we bow down, giving up our own wills, we enter into thisAnte Chamber condition; but here we are only in a small part of the Ante Chamber. Above our heads, asrepresented here, we shall find that there is a granite roof. Granite, in the pyramid, as we have already seen,represents things divine. It indicates that after we have given up our own wills. we are under divine protection,but nevertheless we are still standing on limestone; we are still only justified human beings. In order to beaccepted of God as new creatures in Christ Jesus, it is necessary to bow down once more under this granite leaf,which represents the divine will, the will of God, and then for the first time we put our foot on the granite floor;for the first time we are accepted as new creatures, partakers of the divine nature, and we are now in the AnteChamber proper.Now, this first granite stone is 1/4 of an inch higher than the limestone. We have stepped from the plane ofhuman justification upward to the plane of spirit begetting. It is 21 inches beyond the end or south wall of theQueen's Chamber, indicating that none of the world, in the "Age to Come" can hope to reach the spiritualcondition. Moreover, it is vertically above the edge of the Pit, indicating possibly that by the end of 1915 A. D.all will have passed from the human to the spiritual nature, and all who have crucified Christ afresh, puttingHim to an open shame, will have passed to the second death. But as we go along this passage we find that wemust step down once more to the same level, showing that after all we are actually human beings; there hasbeen no actual change in our nature, but this change has been in our mind; we have the new of the spirit asregarding the mind; we have the new mind, which is an actual thing certainly, but our bodies are still humanbodies. We cannot hope to be received into glory with these bodies; we must give them up. And so that isrepresented by the fact that this floor is on the same level as before, but it is granite. We are reckoned aspartakers of the divine nature. We have to reckon ourselves dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God; and if weare faithful unto death then we shall give up these earthly bodies of ours in death, represented by this lastpassage. Then we shall be in due time ushered into the resurrection glory of our Lord Jesus Christ as realpartakers of the divine nature, real divine, beings. And that is represented by the fact that the floor of this King'sChamber is three times the height of this first stone of the granite floor of the Ante Chamber. This is the planeof justification, this first stone is the plane of spirit begetting, and the floor of the King's Chamber is the plane ofthe divine nature.King's ChamberNow, dear friends, when we consider that, we are prepared to study some of the time-measurements with regardto the King's Chamber and the Ante Chamber, you will see that the King's Chamber represents the sanctuary,heaven itself, into which Jesus entered. We said a little while ago that the floor of the Descending Passagemight be taken as representing the death of Jacob, the beginning of the Jewish age. Brother Russell wonderedwhether It might not be taken as that. We will study it from that point of view now. We know that at the deathof Jacob, he called together his twelve sons and gave them each promises, and of these promises the mostimportant was the one to Judah, namely, "the sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from betweenhis feet, until Shiloh come." Shiloh is the great seed that had been promised to Abraham -the Christ. Now, weknow that Shiloh came at his first advent for the purpose of sacrifice. In the fall of 1874 he came for the purposeof carrying out that great promise of blessing all the families of the earth. It was in October, 1874, that he cameto tabernacle in this world; there was the beginning of his presence here; heaven came to earth in that way, but itis first to the Church, however. Then we might wonder whether this entrance into the King's Chamber wouldrepresent this date, October, 1874, when Christ came to this earth. It does, dear friends. If we measure at the rate