Millennial Dawn, Volume III — Thy Kingdom Come, “The Testimony of God's Stone Witness and Prophet, the Great Pyramid in Egypt”
“we find it to be 3416 inches, symbolizing 3416 years from the above date, B. C. 1542. This calculation shows A. D. 1874 as marking the beginning of the period of trouble; for 1542 years B. C. plus 1874 years A. D. equals 3416 years. Thus the Pyramid witnesses that the close of 1874 was the chronological beginning of the time of trouble such as was not since there was a nation—no, nor ever shall be afterward.”
Russell measures the descending passage of the Great Pyramid from a point he dates to 1542 B.C. and reads the distance to the “Pit” as a date for the beginning of the time of trouble.
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Provenance and verification note for Millennial Dawn, Volume III — Thy Kingdom Come, The Testimony of God's Stone Witness and Prophet, the Great Pyramid in Egypt
Confidence note. Read in the 1891 first-edition scan; the page header on the same page reads “342 Thy Kingdom Come.” Obvious OCR artefacts repaired; figures checked character by character.
Scan provenance. First edition of June 1891, issued as a special number of Zion’s Watch Tower (the scan’s front matter reads “SPECIAL ISSUE OF ZION’S WATCH TOWER … VOL. XII, JUNE, 1891” and gives the publisher as “TOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY, BIBLE HOUSE, ARCH ST., ALLEGHENY, PA.”), scanned on the Internet Archive.
Corroborated by. src-ctr-sits3-1914-p342-pyramid-1914
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-ctr-md3-1891-p342-pyramid-1874