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shown to possess the exclusive right to David's throne. He died without natural
successor. He was raised from the dead "to sit upon his (David's) throne" (Acts 2: 30),
and consequently any other claimant to that throne must be an incipient Antichrist. The
stone kingdom also of Dan. 2: is described as a kingdom which "the God of heaven
shall set up", "which shall never be destroyed", and "which shall stand for ever". This
is said to be the British Empire. Dan. 7: shows that this kingdom is that of the coming
Christ:--
"And there was given Him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people,
nations, and languages, should serve Him; His dominion is an everlasting dominion,
which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed"
(Dan. 7: 14).
If the royal house of Great Britain be the true dynasty of David, and if the stone
kingdom which is to fill the whole earth and never pass away be the British Empire, FOR
WHAT PURPOSE IS THE LORD COMING AGAIN? We leave the subject at this
issue. All else is subsidiary.
The Great Pyramid, its Divine message.
Closely associated with British-Israelism is the teaching connected with the Great
Pyramid of Gizeh, which stands on the border of upper and lower Egypt, and is said to
fulfil the word of Isa. 19: 19, 20:--
"In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a
pillar at the border thereof to the Lord. And it shall be a sign and a witness unto the Lord
of hosts in the land of Egypt."
The Great Pyramid of Gizeh is a marvel of masonry, its stone work being compared to
the accuracy of an optical instrument. This very feature is fatal to its ever being "an altar
unto the Lord", for the law has never been rescinded that is given in Exod. 20: 25, 26:--
"If thou wilt make Me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if
thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it, neither shalt thou go up by steps unto
Mine altar."
Here we see that as an altar the Great Pyramid must be reckoned as polluted, and all
are familiar with the huge blocks of stone that make the ascent like climbing a giant
stairway.
Just in the same way the identification fails in connection with the word "pillar". In
what way can the Great Pyramid be called a "pillar"? The Hebrew word matstsebah is
sometimes translated "image", "standing image". Moreover, the two words "altar" and
"pillar" come together in Exod. 24: 4, "And Moses . . . . . built an altar under the hill,
and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel". Isaiah himself uses the
feminine form of the same Hebrew word in 6: 13, where the margin reads "stock or
stem". A pillar that in any sense resembles an image of Baal or a stem of a tree is no true
description of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh.