Everlasting Life on Earth
Queen's
Chamber
And he will destroy
in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail
that is spread over all nations.—Isaiah 25:7
Daniel Wozniak
From
exceedingly ancient times, the pyramids of Giza have been associated with
enigmas many have tried to explain. Among this collection of pyramids the Great
Pyramid stands apart because of its complexity, its different passages and
rooms, but also because of the complete absence of inscriptions and wall
paintings. Many scientists throughout the world as well as most Egyptologists
have sought to explain the mysteries of this pyramid.
Every part of this pyramid is a revelation
of the plan of God. This is particularly true of the room known as the Queen’s
Chamber and the long Horizontal Passage leading to it. Particularly mysterious
are these areas:
1. The Horizontal Passage
is as high as the Descending Passage for about six-sevenths of its length, but
then the height increases to allow a person to stand upright (see photos to the
left).
2. In one wall there is a
corbeled niche containing nothing.
3. Ventilation tubes to
this room were covered with stone, and recently discovered barriers to keep
air from entering were placed further up these tubes.
The Queen’s Chamber sits on the twenty-fifth
course of masonry and represents, as suggested in Studies in the Scriptures
(vol. 3), the ultimate destination of the Highway of Holiness: perfect human
life on earth for the world of mankind. We know that during this time the earth
will become a paradise as it was at the beginning, when all mankind will live
in harmony with their creator.
 The Horizontal
Passage
As
explained in a previous article, the Descending Passage represents mankind’s
downward journey on the Broad Way that leads to destruction (Matthew 7:13). The
Horizontal Passage, at least for the first six thousand years of mankind’s
existence, pictures this same period of time. It begins with the usual
constricted height of 3¾-feet, but after a length of 127 feet, the floor drops
twenty-one inches allowing a person of average height to stand upright.
Thus during Christ’s thousand-year kingdom when the “covering cast over all the
people” is removed, mankind will be able to stand upright, walk into the “Queen’s
Chamber,” and be in the condition of perfect, everlasting life. How beautiful
is this symbolism.
 The Niche
The
niche is almost 3½-feet deep and a bit more than sixteen feet high. Intruders in
the past dug a passage several yards deep in the niche’s back wall in a vain
search for treasure. It has five distinct sections each narrower than the one
below. The widest at the base is sixty-two inches, the narrowest at the top is
twenty inches. The center-line of the niche is displaced from the center-line of
the Queen’s Chamber by exactly one Sacred Cubit 1
indicating that it is a value that should be noticed and connected with the
sacred significance of the structure.
In Egypt a niche traditionally called
attention to a statue or a mummy within a case. Since the niche in the Queen’s
Chamber is so high, it would not have been designed to be used that way.
However, because the Queen’s Chamber represents God’s kingdom on earth, perhaps
this niche is meant to call attention to the most famous statue in the Bible:
the statue seen in a dream by King Nebuchadnezzar and described in Daniel
2:31-33. Of course, the construction of the niche predated that dream by many
centuries. The statue in the king’s dream consisted of five distinctly separate
parts and represents the five universal kingdoms of earth beginning with
Babylon (head of gold), succeeded by Medo-Persia (breast and arms of silver),
then by Greece (belly and thighs of copper), Pagan Rome (legs of iron) and
finally Papal Rome (feet of mixed iron and clay). Thus the niche in the Queen’s
Chamber suggests these five universal empires.
The Ventilation Tubes
Man
requires one absolutely essential element to live: air! The entire animal
creation needs oxygen so the cell structure can grow and develop and the body
purify itself. Those who send men into outer space or to other planets must
find a way to provide breathable air. This is a key reason why humans cannot
live on another planet.
Those who have been inside the Queen’s
Chamber confirm that it is extremely difficult to remain in the room for
long because its air is so poor, so polluted. That is why visits to this room
are quite limited. This room has no ventilation. True, the long Horizontal
Passage leading into it permits some air to enter, but there is absolutely no
air circulation.
A diagram of the Queen’s Chamber shows the
presence of ventilation ducts on the north and south walls leading from the
room to the outside. These ducts were discovered in 1872 by Waynman Dixon. He
noticed a crack and found that a wire pushed into it traveled a considerable
distance. The five-inch-thick covering stone was chipped away revealing a
tubular channel about eight inches square and roughly seven feet long. The tube
turned up at a thirty-two-degree angle for an unknown length. 2
What a surprise this must have been! Why was
so much work spent in constructing a ventilation duct which, because of its
rock cover, ventilates nothing? To compound the mystery, the removal of the
covering still did not allow any air to flow. Probes sent into the ducts
produced inconclusive results.
So, although a room for the living existed,
because of the lack of air, no one could actually live in it. Similarly,
Christians know that the earth itself constitutes a kind of “room” for
the living—we call it Christ’s kingdom because Christ often spoke about
it—but the details of when and how it will all come about are not generally
known. For a long time there has been no indication that man could live
everlastingly right here on earth.
As the 1872 discovery made clear,
ventilation tubes existed, but why was there no air? In spite of numerous attempts
based on calculations showing where the vents should exit the north and south
faces of the pyramid, no one has discovered the opening of either one.
In 1993 German engineer Rudolf Gantenbrink
sent a vehicle with tank-like treads carrying a small video camera and
spotlights up the southern shaft. Because the tube was horizontal at the
beginning, then turned up, it was not possible for the human eye to see
anything. But under the gaze of the video camera traveling up the tube, the
precise work of the pyramid builders is impressive. For its entire revealed
length this tube is uniformly constructed, almost a work of art. One is
especially impressed knowing that this construction occurred more than four
thousand years ago.
Photo:
Copyright National Geographic Television and Film
The robot eventually reached a wall in the
tube at roughly the two-hundred-foot mark. The video image showed that the
barrier was deliberately constructed and not caused by debris. How surprising:
ventilation tubes to the King’s Chamber were constructed and they work; ventilation
tubes leading to the Queen’s Chamber are deliberately blocked by walls. What
was on the other side of this newly-discovered wall?
In
September 2002 a team sponsored by National Geographic sent a second robot up
the tube. A drill mounted on the robot made a hole in the barrier wall which
was about twenty inches thick. A tiny fiber-optic camera passed through this
hole revealed a second wall a short distance further up the tube. No air yet
passes through either tube and nothing has been said about further “drilling”
explorations.
The
most likely explanation for such strange construction is that the Great Pyramid
teaches its lessons in symbols. If that is not the reason, construction like
this makes no sense. But let us think about it from the viewpoint of
seeing the Queen’s Chamber as a picture of human perfection on earth. To live
on earth there must be air. There always was air supplied to the King’s
Chamber, but although the possibility to do the same was there, no air entered
the Queen’s Chamber.
In
1872 the first hint appeared that “life” in this room was a possibility when
the covering stone was taken away. This is quite close to 1874, the year our
Lord returned to complete his church and begin the work of restoring humanity
to perfect life on earth. But today humanity does not have such life because
the church is not complete. When that event occurs, the barrier stones will be
removed and the room—the earth—will become habitable: “Prepare ye the way
of the people; cast up, cast up the highways; gather out the stones; lift up a
standard for the people” (Isaiah 62:10). We know that everything needed to
permit life on earth will be supplied under the Messianic reign.
During
the last 130 years, like the discovery of the ventilation tubes in the Queen’s
Chamber, the establishment of Christ’s kingdom has become easier to see for
some, but also more mysterious to most of the world. The time for the liberation
of mankind condemned to slavery under Satan approaches, but like the exodus of
the people of Israel, the world will confront some tests before it can pass
through its “Red Sea.” Just as in the time of Moses, plagues must come upon
“Egypt” before deliverance occurs. Nothing changed after the first plague, or
the second. It took ten plagues before the people were liberated.
We
are living in the period where plagues have been sent to change mankind’s
behavior, but the more that are sent, the worse depravity becomes, the more
evil increases, and the heart of man hardens. In all domains—political,
economic, and social—whatever has been done in secret is soon made known; few
things can be hidden for long. Like the ancient Egyptian civilization which was
destroyed because of its opposition to God, the present evil world by its
selfish behavior is on the road to ruin.
There
can be no doubt that the long-awaited reign of Christ will open a new and living
highway which will allow everyone to enter the “Queen’s Chamber.” There
everlasting life will be possible because the old barriers, the former things,
will be gone. The establishment of Christ’s kingdom will provide everything
needed for perfect life on the earth.
This
will be a kind of “stage two” in the plan of God. No longer will the Lord apply
the merit of his sacrifice just to the church; by then she will have proven her
loyalty and attained perfection. But the Lord will make a new covenant first
with the people of Israel, then through Israel with all humanity: “Behold, the
days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of
Israel and with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant that I made
with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of
the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded
them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the
house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into
their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and
they shall be to me a people: and they shall not teach every man his neighbour,
and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from
the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and
their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.” —Hebrews 8:8-12
What
a marvelous prospect awaits the human race because of the ransom paid by our
Lord nearly two thousand years ago when he was hung on a cross. In spite of a
dark night which is coming upon the world, there is hope, a marvelous hope for
a better time when everyone, in a mass exodus from Satan’s evil empire, will be
able with all their hearts to praise and glorify God and his son Jesus Christ.
May we all continue to pray, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it
is in heaven.”
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1. Professor
Smyth, an English mathematician, studied the Great Pyramid and in the 1860's
said a Sacred Cubit, equivalent to 25.025 British (and American) inches, was
found several places within the Great Pyramid. This vale is almost exactly one
ten-millionth of the earth's polar axis.
2. The Great
Pyramid, Piazzi Smyth, 1978 edition, p. 428
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