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- The Great Pyramid - Prophecy or Prattle~
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- (excerpted from the article by Rev. G. Richard Fisher in~
- "Personal Freedom Outreach Newsletter", July-Sept 1985)~
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- Claims that the Great Pyramid of Egypt is a source of revelation
- from God date back more than 125 years. The first writer to suggest that
- the measurements of the pyramid contained divine chronological information
- was John Taylor. His book, "The Great Pyramid", published in 1859,
- contended that the dimensions and measurements of tunnels in the pyramid
- gave the days months and years of God's redemptive program for the world.
- These ideas caught the attention of British astronomer Charles Piazzi
- Smyth, who personally measured the details of the pyramid around 1860. It
- is important to note that all of the dating schemes are based on Smyth's
- measurements, which were grossly in error.~
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- The subject of the reat Pyramid is also a source of embarrassment
- for the Jehovah's Witnesses. Watchtower Society founder Charles Taze
- Russell based his scheme for dating Christ's return on the pyramid
- measurements.~
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- But even if one gets the measurements right, it is interesting to
- note that Cheops, who ruled Egypt around 2650 B.C. and was responsible for
- the construction of the Great Pyramid, repeatedly changed the tunnel
- scheme, desighn and measurements of the structure while it was being
- built. It hardly sounds like a plan laid out by the God of Israel, who
- gave His people explicit instructions on how to build the temple in
- Jerusalem and did not alter them in mid-project.~
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- When trying to back their claims, Pyramidologists refer to Isaiah
- 19:19-22, which talks of an altar to God, a pillar, a sign, and a witness
- in Egypt. One cannot construe this passage to be a reference to the Great
- Pyramid without going against all responsible Christian and Jewish
- scholarship, which holds that this prophecy was fulfilled in the building
- of the Jewish temples and settlement at Elephantine, Egypt, before the
- time of Christ. A Jewish temple and altar fit the words of Isaih
- perfectly.~
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- H.A. Ironside hit the heart of the issue when he wrote:~
- "...This pyramid is supposed to have been erected by divine
- instruction and and the length of it's passages, etc., to indicate the
- exact period of the Time of the Gentiles, and many theories have been
- founded upon it as to the time when this age would end by the coming of
- the Lord Jesus. But all the dates once suggested have expired and still
- the word remains true that of that day and hour knoweth no man. The Great
- Pyramid is not an altar nor is it a pillar. It is simply a gigantic
- tomb."~
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- Certainly we have enough for salvation (John 20:31) and prophecy
- in God's Word (Rev. 22:18-19). The only tomb Christians ever need to look
- to is the one Jesus left empty at his Resurrection.
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