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FIGURATIVE ILLUSTRATION

Their oneness with the Lord Jesus, as members of the Christ, the anointed company, is well illustrated by the figurative use of the pyramid.

The top-stone is a perfect pyramid of itself. Other stones may be built up under it, and, if in harmony with all the characteristic lines of the top-stone, the whole mass will be a perfect pyramid. How beautifully this illustrates their position as members of “the Seed” – “the Christ.” Joined to and in perfect harmony with their Head, they, as living stones, are perfect; yet separated from him, they are nothing.

Jesus the perfect one, has been highly exalted, and now they present themselves to him that they may be formed and shaped according to his example, that they may be built up as a building of God. In an ordinary building there is no chief corner-stone; but in their building there is one chief corner-stone, the “top-stone,” just as it is written: “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, elect, precious” – “to whom coming as unto a living stone…ye also as lively [living] stones are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.” (1 Peter 2:4-6) And very soon, we trust, the union between Jesus, the “Head,” and “the anointed company, which is his body,” will be complete.

Note the wording of Colossians 4:3 which states in part: “…the sacred secret [mystery] of the Christ…” the point here being the reference not simply ‘Christ’ the name or status of an individual, but ‘The Christ’ referring to a composite body of individuals which when completed, form the ‘Israel of God’.

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