Studies in the Scriptures, Series III — Thy Kingdom Come (1,385,000 Edition), “The Testimony of God's Stone Witness and Prophet, the Great Pyramid in Egypt”
“we find it to be 3457 inches, symbolizing 3457 years from the above date, B. C. 1542. This calculation shows A. D. 1915 as marking the beginning of the period of trouble; for 1542 years B. C. plus 1915 years A. D. equals 3457 years. Thus the Pyramid witnesses that the close of 1914 will be the beginning of the time of trouble such as was not since there was a nation—no, nor ever shall be afterward.”
The same paragraph on the same page of the same chapter as the 1891 first edition, with the pyramid measurement and the resulting date altered.
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Provenance and verification note for Studies in the Scriptures, Series III — Thy Kingdom Come (1,385,000 Edition), The Testimony of God's Stone Witness and Prophet, the Great Pyramid in Egypt
Confidence note. Read in the 1914 edition scan (title page: “SERIES III / Thy Kingdom Come / 1,385,000 Edition / International Bible Students Association / … 1914”); the same wording, with the same figures, also appears on page 342 of the 1918 printing (archive.org item studiesinscriptu03russ_0), which was checked as a second witness.
Scan provenance. University of Illinois copy of the 1,385,000 Edition (Brooklyn, 1914), scanned on the Internet Archive.
Corroborated by. src-ctr-md3-1891-p342-pyramid-1874
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-ctr-sits3-1914-p342-pyramid-1914