You may have seen pictures of the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. Experts believe that these pyramids were built for ancient pharaohs, or kings. The pyramids served as enormous and elaborate1 tombs.
Imagine building structures so big and heavy without modern construction equipment! The Great Pyramid of Khufu in Giza was built out of over 2 million stone blocks. Most of the blocks weighed about 2.5 tons each. It is amazing that all of these blocks were so skillfully put together.
One thing has always puzzled archaeologists. How did the ancient Egyptians move the blocks? Opinions vary2. Many experts think the blocks were moved with ramps and sleds. However, no one knows for sure.
It took many workers to cut the blocks. It took many more to move them. It took even more men to place the blocks on the pyramid. Archaeologists estimate that over 20,000 men worked on the Great Pyramid. Building the pyramid took many years. Today, visitors still come to marvel3 at this amazing structure. It is called one of the “Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.” It is the only one that is still around today.
Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops Pyramid)
There is only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing today and it is the Pyramid of Khufu at Giza, Egypt’s Great
Pyramid. His son, Khafre, and another pharaoh, Menkaure, are credited with building the other two pyramids at Giza, but neither of
them is as large or impressive as Khufu’s Great Pyramid, completed around 2560 BC and originally standing 481 feet tall (455 feet
today due to the removal of its outer casing and capstone).
Khufu, also known to history by the Greek name of Cheops, was the second pharaoh of the 4th dynasty of Ancient Egypt during the Old
Kingdom Period. The 4th dynasty is considered to have been the ‘golden age’ of the Old Kingdom, largely because of the gigantic size
and quality of the pyramids built during this time. Beginning with the pyramids the Khufu’s father, Sneferu, built at Dahshur, the 4th
dynasty pyramids were larger and more refined than any others built before or after them.
Archeologists consider the pyramids to be good indicators of the economic and political stability of Egypt throughout the Old and Middle
Kingdoms. It took a lot of resources to finance a pyramid and organize a labor force to construct it. The size and quality of their
construction at different times during the history of Ancient Egypt suggest that their were more resources available to dedicate to
building during the 4th dynasty than at any other time.
Khufu improved upon the innovations that his father introduced in the construction of the Bent Pyramid and the Red Pyramid, located
south of Giza at Dahshur. Sneferu’s pyramids were large and they are the first to display the characteristic smooth sides of the Giza
Pyramids, but the shape of the pyramid and the ideal side-angle needed to complete a structurally sound pyramid were settled upon by
Khufu and his engineers. The sides of Khufu’s Great Pyramid rise at an angle of 51.8 degrees from sides that are 756 feet at the base.
The Great Pyramid of Egypt- Monument of Prophecy
Herodotus informs us that the construction of the Great Pyramid commenced only when a
sufficient force of skilled masons was available. He wrote, "They worked to the number of one
hundred thousand men at a time, each party three months." It took 20 years labor although some
records add 10 years for cutting stone and preparing the site.
Herodotus continues: "This pyramid was first built in the form of a flight of steps. After the
workmen had completed the pyramid in this form, (probably by means of four ramps, one on each
side increasing in height around the pyramid as the pyramid heightened they raised other stones
(casing stones) by means of machines, made of short beams, from the ground of the first tier of
steps; and after the stone was placed there it was raised to the second tier by another machine; for
there were as many machines as there was tiers of steps; or perhaps the same machine, if it was
easily moved was raised from one tier to the other, as it was required for lifting the stones."
Herodotus also states that Cheops never used the Great Pyramid as a tomb, but was buried
elsewhere, namely "in a subterranean region on a island there surrounded by the waters of the
Nile." This is confirmed by the historian Diodorus Siculus who says Cheops was buried "in an
abscure place." An additional archaeological confirmation has recently been discovered in an
inscription on a scarab found by the Egyptologist Abdul Moneim Abu Bakr which speaks of the
"Southern Tomb of Khufu." The Southern Tomb is obviously not a pyramid, which would not
conform to Diodorus' description "an obscure place."
In historical times many well-known visitors left records of their descriptions of the Great
Pyramid, but perhaps the first modern traveler who carefully and successfully examined the
Pyramid was Nicholas Shaw in 1721. He was soon followed by others including John Greaves,
Professor of Astronomy at Oxford University. Greaves began the first truly scientific study and
investigation of the Great Pyramid, thoroughly exploring the structure. In 1737 he published his
"Pyramidographia" giving the results of his laborious observations and measurements.
In 1798, the French defeated the Ottoman Turks at the "Battle of the Pyramids" and Napoleon
became master of Egypt. At this time, the engineers of Napoleon's army explored the Pyramid.
While making measurements they uncovered much valuable information.
It was they who discovered the corner sockets, peculiar to no other pyramid, and also the
relationship of the Pyramid's structure and dimensions to astronomical science.
In 1817, Caviglia, a bold, but illiterate and fanciful seaman, became intrigued by the mystery
of the Great Pyramid. He became convinced that there were still undiscovered passages in the
interior of the Pyramid. Giving up the sea he settled down to explore the Pyramid and other
neighboring monuments. Although Caviglia never found any "secret" passages, his efforts in
cleaning out the known passage system elicited new facts regarding the interior of the Pyramid.
Colonel Howard Vyse, in 1830, was the next to make significant progress in lifting the veil of
mystery from the Great Pyramid. With the help of a hundred hired laborors, he cleaned the
passages of the Pyramid, then made measurements and observations. Colonel Vyse succeeded in
interesting Sir John Hershal, the great English astronomer, who became convinced that the
Pyramid, in its design and construction, evidenced a wonderful knowledge of astronomy, applied
mathematics and other scientific information, predating our recorded knowledge by several
thousand years.
TRANSPORTING THE STONE
How the ancient Egyptians moved the stone from the quarries to the Pyramid being built has
been the subject of much speculation. As we know, the Great Pyramid used millions of tons of
stone, most of which were in 2and 1/2 ton blocks. This was no easy undertaking, yet the
Egyptians managed to accomplish this task.
If we look at a map of ancient Egypt we will see how they did it. The Great Pyramid, as well
as all of the other pyramids, lie near the Nile River. Most of the stone quarries of Egypt are also
located near and up the river from the pyramids. The obvious solution was to carry the stone in
boats down the Nile.
Several quarry sites have been, by petrological identification, found to be the source of the
stone used in the construction of the Great Pyramid. One site, near the Great Pyramid provided a
poorer-quality limestone; Tura, a site farther up the Nile produced a better limestone; and the red
(pink) granite came from the Aswan quarries even farther up the Nile.
The most logical type of boat used to convey the stone down the Nile was the large flatbottomed
barges, illustrations of which are found on wall sculptures and paintings. Rowers on
each side provided the main means of moving the boats, but to take advantage of any wind which
might arise, a large square sail was attached to a single mast in the center of the boat. At the rear
of the boat was a large paddle-shaped rudder which the helmsmen used to steer the boat.
To get the stones from the quarries to the river which was in some cases nearly a mile away,
sledges were used. The stones were first levered onto the sledge, probably from a ledge or ramp
above it, then tied firmly on with ropes. Ropes were then attached to the front of the sledge and
held by a gang of men who pulled the sledge. Water or some other liquid was poured on the
ground to help the sledge slide along. In areas where sand had to be traversed, a bed of logs could
have been laid and rollers placed under the sledge as it was pulled, using the house-mover's
technique of continually taking the rollers from back to front as they came out from under the
sledge.
The number of men needed to pull the sledge depended on the number and weight of the
stones it carried, and as labor was plentiful this was no problem to the Egyptians. Using a tested
ratio of 16 men to a ton, most of the core masonry (average 2-1/2 tons each) would have needed
less than 50 men pulling over hard ground; using the roller technique, the number of pullers could
be reduced considerably.
Moving the stone from the boats to the Pyramid site would have been a more difficult task
because unlike the quarries usually above the river banks (allowing gravity to assist in the pulling
of the sledges)the pyramids were uphill from the river docking sites. However, each pyramid had
a causeway connecting it to the Nile. This was just a road cut out of the rock with walls on either
side and a roof, except for the two earliest which did not have a roof. The causeways were
intended to serve eventually as a road for the funeral procession when it traveled from the river to
the pyramid. It would be built at the same time that the pyramid site was being prepared. Prior to
the causeway being roofed over, it could be used as a road for the sledges bringing the stone from
the boats to the building site.
Such a causeway or road to the Great Pyramid from the Nile River is still traceable. It
terminated on the East side of the Pyramid. Herodotus states that before the Pyramid building was
begun they spent ten years in preparing the site, during which time they constructed a road "for
the transport of the stones from the Nile. ..the length of the road amounts to five stadia (1017
yds.), its breadth is ten fathoms (60 ft.), and its height, at the highest Places, is eight fathoms (48
ft.), and it is constructed entirely of Polished stone with figures engraved on it."
An amazing, scientifically engineered feature of the Great pyramid, distinguishing it from a~
the other pyramids, is found in the wonderfully devised corner-sockets. All who know anything
of modern engineering are aware of the ingenious devices by which shocks, stresses and strains
caused by expansion and contraction of the materials of which the structures are composed are
compensated for. These devices consist of roller-bearings, expansion joints, or ball and socket
arrangements which care for these stresses and strains without communicating them to the main
structure.
Excavators, removing the debris about the base of the Great Pyramid, found mortises, some
eight by fifteen feet in size, cut into the natural rock, at each of the four corners. Into these
mortises were placed heavy, carefully chiseled rocks, anchoring the four sloping corner-edges of
the structure. These anchorage-blocks were so placed as to allow a space between the sides of the
mortises and the corner stones, thus allowing expansion caused by changes of temperature or
earthquakes, serving the purpose of ball and socket joints.
These corner-sockets and casing-stones, still remaining in place make possible the
reconstruction of the Pyramid as originally completed. This reconstruction of design is absolutely
essential i~ restoring original dimensions and measurements upon which the interpretation of the
Great Pyramid's passage-system is based However, difficult this may seem to the reader, these
details are easily determined by skilled engineer or architect, having these few stones remaining
in place, from which to determine exact measurements and angles.
These socket-bedded corner-stones demonstrate that over four thousand years ago the builders
of the Great Pyramid understood the workings of natural laws and also knew how to allow for
their effects They also give evidence of the foresight and engineering skill on the part of the
Pyramid's Architect, which characterizes every detail of the edifice, and awaken the admiration
and wonder of all engineers-> and scientists who have visited the structure.
INTERIOR
The only true entrance to the Great Pyramid from the outside is located on the north side of the
Pyramid 286.1 inches east of the north-south axis and at a point about fifty feet (perpendicularly)
above the base-level of the structure. Its swivel stone door was constructed and hung so perfectly
that it was indistinguishable from the other casing stones.
There are two systems of passages and chambers in the interior of the Great Pyramid - a
downward system and an upward system. The upward system embraces two great series: (1) an
ascending series made up of the Ascending Passage, Grand Gallery, King's Chamber Passage,
and the King's Chamber itself; and (2) a horizontal series comprising the Queen's Chamber
Passage and the Queen's Chamber.
The Ascending Passage, which slopes upward at the same angle that the Descending Passage
slopes downward, meets the roof of the Descending Passage vertically over a point in the floor
1170 P. (pyramid) inches from the original opening. (Pyramid inches are the units of
measurement in the structural design of the Great Pyramid .)
The Ascending Passage however is blocked by the granite plug I only 14and 1/2 inches
from the entrance. This granite plug is 15 feet long I and is composed of three blocks of red
granite, cut square and tapered and tightly wedged in the passage, allowing no play. Therefore, it
can be concluded that they were placed there during the construction of the passageway itself,
before the structure reached a higher level.
Above this plug, the Ascending Passage has the same width and height as the Descending
Passage. This low Ascending Passage continues for 1485 inches and ends, abruptly, where it
opens into the Grand Gallery, a magnificent chamber, extending at the same angle, far up into the
interior of the Pyramid.
Originally covered over by the floor stones of the Grand Gallery is a long horizontal
passage starting from the lower end of the Grand Gallery and terminating in the Queen's
Chamber, beautifully constructed in limestone. The floor of this Chamber rests on the 25th course
of masonry, from the base, of the Pyramid and is approximately 19 feet long and 17 feet wide.
The height of the north and south walls is nearly 15 feet. The east and west walls are1 gabled, the apexes
extending about 5 feet above the level ot the top of the north and south walls and about 20 feet above the
floor of the Chamber.
It is recorded that the Queen's Chamber originally contained an' empty coffer. Some of the
limestone fragments now filling the many holes and corners of the chamber, caused by
excavations, may possibly have come from the coffer.
The Grand Gallery, sloping upward at the same gradient as the Ascending Passage, has two
ramps, one on each side, running its full length. On the top surface of each ramp, at regular
distances, oblong holes are cut vertically down - against the side walls. There I are 28 such
nitches on each ramp, however one on the west ramp is missing due to the forced opening from
the Grotto to the Grand Gallery.
Having a length of 156 ¾ feet and a height of over 28 feet, the Grand Gallery exhibits the
greatest and finest example of corbelled I architecture extant. Seven feet wide,above the side
ramps, the four I walls rise, by means of seven overhanging courses of masonry, to a ceiling
width of three and one half feet, the same as that of the floor. The projected masonry, averaging
three inches beyond the course On which it rests, forms a corbel vault of unparalleled dimensions.
The Kings Chamber Passage ends in the King's Chamber, a spacious room of polished red
granite approximately 34 feet long, 17 feet wide, and 19 feet high. Its roof is constructed of 43
massive beams, each 27 feet long and weighing from 50 to 70 tons; the beams are set joist-wise in
five cushioned tiers and extend five feet beyond the walls. Above these are 24 great limestone
rafters, forming a gabled roof.
Above the roof of the King's Chamber are found a series of 5 cavities. These areas are
appropriately termed "relieving chambers" by Egyptologists since the spaces have successfully
prevented the collapse of the King's Chamber from the tremendous weight of the superincumbent
masonry above the chamber area, amounting to several millions of tons.
One other feature should be noted. While the stones which supported the ends of the granite
ceiling beams of the King's Chamber and of the lower Chambers of Construction are of granite,
the upper supporting stones are limestone's. This allows the upper supporting stones to take up
any shock or subsidence caused by the great weight above them, by crushing, thus precluding any
movement and subsidence from being communicated to the chamber's beneath.
The King's Chamber has two ventilators, one in the north wall, the other directly opposite in
the south wall. Two air-channels' were also found in the Queen's Chamber although they were not
originally pierced through to the surface of the masonry. Each of the ventilator shafts were cut
through each separate stone and laid throughout their slanting length out to the surface of the
structure. These afforded a supply of fresh air to those parts of the Pyramid.
COFFER
Although the Queen's Chamber is known to have had an empty sarcophagus, the sarcophagus,
or Coffer, found today, in the western end of the King's Chamber, is the only movable object in
the Great Pyramid. It is of a type used in Egypt at the time the Pyramid was built, but is neither
inscribed nor decorated as was the custom of the day. When discovered, it was found empty.
The top is grooved around its inner top edges as though to receive a lid, but there is no
evidence that the Coffer ever had a lid. These facts, together with the venting of the chamber by
the ventilators, would seem to indicate that it was not intended to be a tomb. That it never was
used as a tomb is confirmed by the statements of the classical historians, Herodotus and
Diodorus, that Cheops (Khufu) was buried elsewhere.
Since the Coffer is too large to pass through the low passages leading into the King's
Chamber, it had to have been placed in the chamber before the chamber was closed and the
passages sealed.
The Coffer is formed from a single piece of red Aswan granite and exhibits an amazing feat of
workmanship. It was hollowed out as a carpenter might hollow out a block of wood with an
auger. The spiral markings on the inner sides can still be discerned. Engineers have estimated that
to accomplish this feat it would require an overhead pressure of from one to two tons and the bits
would have to have been a very hard and tough material, likely some precious stone.
Geometrically the Coffer is 89.80568 inches long, 38.69848 inches wide and 41.21319 inches
high in its exterior measurements. The sum of the length, width and height of the Coffer is equal
to 1/5 of the sum of the length, width and height of the King's Chamber itself. The sides are close
to 6 inches thick and the bottom 7 inches.
The cubic volume of the walls and bottom of the Coffer is approximately equal to the contents
it could hold. This capacity is equal to four British quarters, the established measure of wheat.
Measures of capacity are the sources of measures of weight and a capacity and the Avoirdupois
pound. The Pyramid's Coffer appears to have furnished the standard of all measures of capacity to
the earliest Greek nations as well as the Hebrew. It is interesting to note that the English speaking
nations use a system of weights and measures more closely related to this early standard.
The capacity of the Coffer is also equal to that of the Ark of the Covenant in the Biblical
Tabernacle and the measure of the Molten Sea of Solomon's Temple was exactly fifty times this
capacity and also equal to the measure of the King's Chamber itself.
There is also noted a correspondency between the King's Chamber and the Holy of Holies and
between the Ante-Chamber and the place called Holy in the Bible Tabernacle. These significant
correspondencies seem to suggest that the designers of each must have had a common source of
inspiration.
In its original position, the Coffer sat midway between the north and the south walls of the
King's Chamber with its sides parallel to the respective sides of the Chamber and its axis
coinciding with the Pyramid's own north-south axis. That is to say that the Coffer's axis, which
was due north and south, would be geometrically 286.1 inches west of the axis of the passage
system.
GEOMETRIC CONSTRUCTION
An ancient treatise on Masonry (The legend of the Craft) states that all sciences are founded upon
one science and that science is Geometry. Few persons, not conversant with geometry, recognize
the great usefulness of geometrical reasoning, or realize how much it enters into modern
technology, especially engineering.
The Great Pyramid is, internally, and externally, geometrical in conception and design. For
this reason the problem of the Great pyramid is essentially one to be solved, not by the
Egyptologist as such, but by the engineer, since it has been erected on principles easily
recognized and understood by the construction engineer.
Merely exploring the structure will reveal nothing as regards to its true purpose. A knowledge
of geometry and mathematics, therefore, combined with an understanding of their proper
application, is essential to a correct understanding of the Great Pyramid and its design.
It is not by hieroglyphics nor by sculpture work, but by symbol, measure and angle, that the
Great Pyramid of Giza, in the land of Egypt, yields its secret.
Scientifically directed surveys have furnished the actual geometric measurements of the
Pyramid. From these measurements calculated data was obtained which revealed the Great
Pyramid to constitute a geometrical representation, on a vast scale, of mathematical and
astronomical knowledge not to be known, again, for over 4500 years. The remarkable manner in
which this knowledge is geometrically expressed, relative to certain simple mathematical
formulae, surpasses in every way, any similar undertaking of man.
The unit of measure employed in the actual construction of the Great Pyramid was the
Egyptian Royal Cubit. However, the linear unit predominating in the design of the Pyramid is the
Sacred Cubit, which is shown on the Boss in the Ante-Chamber. A scientific examination of the
Sacred Cubit found it to bear an exact relationship to the size of the planet on which we live. This
Cubit is the exact 10,000,000th part of the distance from the center of the earth to the pole, or
semi-axis. According to the results of the latest geodetic research in the International Geophysical
Year 1957-1958, the polar radius of the earth, as deduced from observations of the orbits of
artificial satellites, is approximately 3949.89 miles.
The form, arrangement and detail of the Pyramid's exterior, and of its interior passages and
chambers, can therefore be built up entirely from the geometry of the year-circle. This fact
implies the possession of a knowledge of mathematics, geometry and astronomy, combined with
the ability to express them in structural form, far in advance of contemporary knowledge of that
time.
In the design of the Pyramid is found a unique geometrical symbolism so profound as to
transcend anything that human ingenuity might devise.
Who Was the Architect
The Great Pyramid, which has stood at the border of the great Sahara Desert as a silent witness
for more than 4,000 years, now speaks in modern scientific terms. Erected at a time when
humanity had more crude ideas of this universe and even of our own earth, this "witness" could
not be understood before this present scientific age.
The perfect accuracy of all the various geodetic and astronomical statistics which man was
unable to ascertain until modern times, after the development of trigonometrical knowledge and
the invention of modern appliances, is evidence of Divine Revelation. Regardless of who is found
to have supervised its construction, the Architect of the Great Pyramid stands revealed as none
other than Almighty God, the Creator of the Universe.
Notwithstanding the fact that no nation of antiquity on earth possessed the knowledge revealed
by the design of the Great Pyramid or understood it, some may reject its Divine Inspiration.
God, seemingly, anticipated man's need for additional evidential value of the Pyramid's Divine
testimony and gave a line of proof which cannot be anticipated or counterfeited. God appointed
the test, which we are to apply, in Isaiah 46: 9-10: "I am God, and there is none like Me,
declaring the end from the beginning." If it can be shown that the design of the Great Pyramid
embodies a prophetic chronology, then we have the very evidence which God Himself has
declared shall be proof that the design is from Him.
A suggestion for looking for this prophetic message in the Great Pyramid was revealed in the
translation of an ancient Arabic writing, the Akbar Ezzeman M.S., which states that the Great
Pyramid contains "the wisdom and acquirements in the different arts and sciences.. .the sciences
of arithmetic and geometry, that they might remain as records for the benefit of those who could
afterwards comprehend them.. the positions of the stars and their cycles; together with the history
and chronicle of the time past (and) of that which is to come."
The factual evidence that the Great Pyramid contains a prophetic chronology can be
demonstrated from the actual passage lengths, lengths being proportionate to the respective ages
which they represent.
PROOF OF DIVINE AUTHORSHIP
In establishing a prophetic chronology it is necessary to have a starting point. Several unique
factors determine this starting point.
First, the Descending Passage, starting from the outside north slope of the Pyramid, has at a
distance of about 40 feet from the entrance, straight knife-edge lines cut from roof to floor, one
on each side and exactly opposite each other. Their appearance on the otherwise perfectly smooth
walls of the passage certainly suggests that they are intended as a clear zero line or datum line
from which to take measurements. They are called the "Scored Lines."
Second, the Descending Passage is found to be in exact alignment with the true north. In
response to a question if the North Star ever shone directly down the Descending Passage, Sir
John Herschel, the famous Astronomer Royal of England, ascertained in 1840 that only in the
22nd century B.C. did the then North Star or Pole Star, known as Draconis (Dragon Star), so
shine. No other Pole Star in history has ever been in that exact position.
Sir John also found that at the very same time, the beautiful and much admired little stellar
cluster, the Pleiades or "Seven Sisters," in the constellation of Taurus (the Bull), was in alignment
with the Scored Lines. (The Pleiades or Seven Stars are referred to in the Book of Job (38:31)
"Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pie jades. or loose the bands of Orion?" Also in Amos
(5:8) "Seek him that maketh the seven Stars and Orion. "Alcyone, the principal star of the cluster
is classified as Tarui by astronomers.)
The date at which the Dragon Star and the Pleiades were in those precise positions relative to
the Pyramid was the vernal equinox of the year 2141 B.C. This particular year is singled out, by
the Pyramid, as the year of reference in respect to chronological measurements. Thus the
Pyramid's entire prophetic chronograph is astronomically fixed.
Measurements in inches, backward or forward from the Scored Lines, represent the
corresponding number of years before or after that astronomically fixed date. To test the accuracy
of this starting date was relatively simple. The date, being so far back in history, allows ample
testing against known recorded historical events. Putting it to the actual test consisted of
measuring the passages and chambers up and down from the Scored Lines, counting one year for
each inch.
The Pyramid is not made of elastic, but of rigid stone, so the measurements cannot be
stretched nor shortened. We can only take the dimensions of the passages, just as they were
constructed by the ancient builders, and let the results take care of themselves.
The distance measuring back up the Descending Passage from the Scored Lines is 482
Pyramid inches, representing 482 years. Counting 482 years back from the datum line of 2141
B.C. brings us to the year 2623 B.C. This was the year that work on the construction of the Great
Pyramid began.
As the passages of the Pyramid's interior symbolized ages which were then future, this date for
the entrance to the Pyramid was most appropriate.
Measuring 688 inches beyond the Scored Lines down the
Descending Passage to an aperture appearing in the roof, marks the
entrance to the Ascending Passage. Progressing 688 years from
2141 B.C. gives the date of 1453 B.C. This was the date of the
Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and their receiving the Divine
Law, through Moses, on Mt. Sinai.
The institution of the Passover (the first feature of the Law) marked the beginning of the age
commonly referred to as the "Dispensation of the Law" (Mosaic Law), a period of time from the
Exodus and giving of the Law to man as a way to eternal life and ending at the Crucifixion of
Jesus Christ. Being the first man able to keep the Law inviolate, He fulfilled it, thus ending that
dispensation.
This period of time has been considered, by most Bible chronologists, as being 1485 years. As
the date for the Exodus was 1453 B.C. and that for the Crucifixion was A.D. 33, the interval
between them is inflexible 1485 years.
Measuring up the Ascending Passage at the given scale of an inch to a year, we find the length
is 1485 inches and therefore the end of the passage marks precisely the date A.D. 33 (Spring).
(For the sake of any who may not be used to chronological reckoning, the rule for ascertaining
the A.D. date required is to deduct the figures of the B.C. date from the total period and add 1,
thus 1485 - 1453 + 1 = A.D. .33).
This period of time, being rigidly fixed as 1485 years so far as the Pyramid evidence is
concerned, clearly shows that the Ascending Passage represents the Law Dispensation period.
Between a point where the floor level of the Queen's Chamber intersects with the floor of the
Ascending Passage and the upper end of the Ascending Passage, a geometric triangle is formed.
The north end of its base marks the date September 29, 2 B.C. and the apex marks the date April
3, A.D. 33.
Archaeological findings have recently established September 29, 2 B.C. as the birth of Christ
and April 3, A.D. 33 as the precise day of His Crucifixion. The base length of 30.043 Pyramid
inches converted to years and projected on the slope of the Ascending Passage marks October 14,
A.D. 29 which is the date of His baptism, exactly 3 and1/2 years before His death on Calvary.
The amazing and conclusive result of applying the inch-years scale produced the PROOF OF
DIVINE REVELATION. Erected over 2600 years before the Crucifixion of Christ and even 1000
years before the first books of the Bible were written, the Great Pyramid is found to contain in its
design a prophetic chronology, recorded centuries before the actual events took place and also
long before any of the Biblical prophecies, concerning Christ were uttered.
Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ - His birth, His baptism, His life, His death, His
resurrection and ascension - is the central theme of the Great Pyramid, as well as of the
Bible.
SHEPHERD-PROPHETS
Consider these facts. The Pyramid was built in Egypt, notorious for its idolatry and
polytheism. Yet Pharaoh Cheops became "arrogant towards the gods" during his reign
and shut up the temples, cast out the images, and compelled even the priests to labor in
the quarries. Herodotus says that the Pyramid was thirty years in building, the first ten
years building prepatory works, with crews of 100,000 working on three-month shifts,
and that after this thirty year period Cheops reverted to worship of the Egyptian gods.
What strange power could cause such a radical thirty year break in the polytheistic habits
of the Egyptians?
Herodotus extensively interviewed an Egyptian priest about the building of the pyramid
and he attested that a noted stranger abode in Egypt at the time of Cheops, a shepherd, to
whom rather than to Cheops the Egyptians attribute this edifice. The Egyptians call him
"Philition" or "Philitis." Josephus also quotes Manetho, an Egyptian priest and scribe,
who says there was a period in the Egyptian past when, by peaceable means, some
"shepherd kings" had the Egyptian rulers "in their hands." Manetho said that some say
they were Arabs. Seiss, with characteristically sound scholarship and reasoning, makes a
case that the biblical Job was the Arabian who directed the Pharaoh in the building of the
Great Pyramid. Seiss points out that the image of a pyramid is "unquestionably" the
subject when God addresses Job out of the whirlwind in Job 38:
"Then the LORD answered Job from the storm. He said: 2 "Who is this
that makes my purpose unclear by saying things that are not true? 3 Be
strong like a man! I will ask you questions, and you must answer me. 4
Where were you when I made the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you
understand. 5 Who marked off how big it should be? Surely you know!
Who stretched a ruler across it? 6 What were the earth's foundations set
on, or who put its cornerstone in place 7 while the morning stars sang
together and all the angels shouted with joy?"
Seiss says that since YHWH's object is to convince Job of his incompetency to judge of
and understand Him, it is as if the Almighty is saying: You laid the foundations of the
great structure in Egypt, but where were you when I laid the foundations of the far greater
pyramid of the earth? You laid the measures of the pyramid in Egypt, but who laid the
measures of the earth, and stretched the line upon it? You fastened down in sockets the
foundations of the pyramid in Egypt, {the Great Pyramid is built on four sockets} but
whereupon are the foundations of the earth fastened? You laid the pyramid's completing
capstone amid songs and jubilations, but who laid the capstone of the earth when the
celestial morning angels sand together, and all the heavenly sons of God shouted for joy?
In our day the idea of shepherds being special agents of God in the building of a
monumental structure would be ludicrous in the extreme. Such is our age. The fault line
of commentators referred to above is sharp, because the difference between faith and
unbelief is the difference between light and darkness. The Bible says that God revealed to
shepherds some of the most important information ever given to humankind:
Luke 2:8-15: That night, some shepherds were in the fields nearby
watching their sheep. 9 Then an angel of the Lord stood before them. The
glory of the Lord was shining around them, and they became very
frightened. 10 The angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I am bringing
you good news that will be a great joy to all the people. 11 Today your
Savior was born in the town of David. He is Christ, the Lord. 12 This is
how you will know him: You will find a baby wrapped in pieces of cloth
and lying in a feeding box." 13 Then a very large group of angels from
heaven joined the first angel, praising God and saying: 14 "Give glory to
God in heaven, and on earth let there be peace among the people who
please God." 15 When the angels left them and went back to heaven, the
shepherds said to each other, "Let's go to Bethlehem. Let's see this thing
that has happened which the Lord has told us about."
Abraham was also a shepherd, like Job, wealthy with flocks and herds. How is it that he
was brought to the attention of the pharaoh of Egypt and the King of Gerar in his
travels?18 Was it simply that Sarah, his wife, was so pretty? The Jewish records say that
Abraham was learned in the science of astrology and with his elaborate knowledge of the
heavens and their meanings he attracted the attention of these kings. We know from the
biblical record that God communicated with the shepherd Abraham many times, several
times using the "stars" as a teaching vehicle. YHWH Himself directed Abraham's eyes
toward the heavens, indirectly corroborating the Jewish oral tradition that says Abraham
was a gifted astrologer:19
Gen 15:5 "And he brought him forth abroad, and said, 'Look now toward
heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them': and he said unto
him, 'So shall thy seed be.'"
The eye of faith sees it as a real and distinct, not vain and imagined, possibility that the
Pyramid was directed by shepherds guided by Divine wisdom. Such faith offers a
sufficient explanation of what would otherwise be the dilemma posed by the advanced
knowledge and technology exhibited by the Pyramid. It is with those who do not accept
the Divine authorship of the Pyramid with whom the burden rests for a better
explanation.
