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A Message for Our Generation 

The Mysterious Secrets of 

the Great Pyramid 

Who built the Great Pyramid at Gizeh How could an ancient 

race of men create such a marvel of construction What are 

the hidden secrets and mysteries locked inside and revealed by 

this awesome ancient structure – the most amazing monument 

ever built by mankind When was it built Who built it And 

what is its significance to our generation, today 

William F. Dankenbring 

Awesome colossus of stone, the greatest ancient building in the world, a feat no 

nation or group of builders and scientists could equal today . . . . Its mystery beckons, 

its riddle continues to baffle all mankind. A mystery, a secret, an enigma for all ages, a 

silent conundrum . . . standing silent, pointing skyward . . . 

Mystery of mysteries. . . . The Roman geographer Strabo visited Egypt in 24 

B.C., saw the Great Pyramid encased in white casing stones, and exclaimed it was “like 

a building let down from heaven, untouched by human hands.” And so it appears due 

to an optical illusion caused by the size of the monument. From a great distance, it 

looked like a white mountain with perfect sides floating in the sky during the daylight. 

The desert landscape and evaporation of rising mist, obscures the lower part of the 

Great Pyramid, causing the Pyramid from a distance to appear in the heavens. 

Razor blades cannot fit between the blocks of stone, each weighing several 

tons, and the ultra strong cement applied to each stone has not weakened during 4,500 

years of exposure to the elements. 

Interestingly, the Great Pyramid points us back to the Creator of all things. In 

fact, the Hebrew gematria (numerical value) of the word “Creator” is 203 – the exact 

number of levels of stone that compose the Great Pyramid! 

Who built it Why was it built When was it built What does it mean

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Why does it haunt the human imagination so powerfully 

One of the seven wonders of the world, the Great Pyramid at Giza has been the 

object of intense mystical and religious speculation for the past 4,500 years. 

It was built in the middle of the third millennium before Christ, using complex 

mathematical and scientific laws believed not to have been discovered (or “rediscovered”) 

until 1700 B.C. or later in Greece. 

Piazza Smyth, Astronomer-Royal for Scotland during the late nineteenth 

century, believed there were powerful ties to Biblical history in the early Egyptian 

civilization. He made it his life’s work to study the Great Pyramid. 

Smyth discovered, among other things, that the angle created by the side of the 

pyramid and the ground is equal to π. This symbol for “pi” was not discovered again 

until 1700 B.C. by the Greeks, 1,300 years later. 

The total weight of the stones used in the pyramid is in the same proportion to 

its mass as that of the earth to its mass; but at the time of its building the weight and 

mass of the earth were supposedly unknown! 

The pyramid is located at the 30 th parallel, which is equidistant from the North 

Pole and the Equator and is a standard guide for navigational and astronomical 

calculations made by scientific laws undiscovered at the time of its creation. 

Piazza Smyth and his wife traveled to Egypt in 1864, convinced of the sacred 

origins of the Great Pyramid, seeking to verify the crucial measurements of the aging 

pyramids. He analyzed the “three keys” to grasping the mystery of the pyramids – 

pure mathematics, applied mathematics, and various revelations in the Scriptures. 

Smyth established 22 mathematical and astronomical relationships for the Great 

Pyramid. In addition to the use of π, he recognized that in many respects the pyramid 

was a duplicate of the solar system. He introduced the concept of the “Pyramid inch” 

believing it was first used by the builders of the Great Pyramid and that it was 1.001 of a 

British inch. 

Piazza Smyth believed that the Great Pyramid “was prophetically intended – by 

the inspiration afforded to the architect from the one and only living God, who rules in 

heaven, and announced vengeance against the sculptured idols of Egypt (Ezek.30:13) – 

to remain quiescent during those earlier ages; and only, in a manner, to come forth at 

this time to subserve a high purpose for these latter days.” (The Great Pyramid: Its 

Secrets and Mysteries Revealed, Piazza Smyth, p.ix). 

Was he right

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Mystery of the Ages 

For ages men have been awestruck at the size and scope of the Great Pyramid, 

commonly attributed to Cheops, or Khufu. Much myth and legend has surfaced about 

the Great Pyramid, and several investigators have studied it at great length. Many 

theories have been proposed by scientists who have explored and probed the Great 

Pyramid over the past two thousand years. But the mystery of the Great Pyramid still 

baffles the world. 

One scientist declared, “If the half of what learned and scientific investigators 

allege concerning the Great Pyramid be true, it is the most important discovery of our 

day and generation.” 

In fact, it is alleged that the Great Pyramid is the geometrical key to the 

Universe, including in its system of profound mathematics, symbolism and chronology 

major facts about the earth, astronomy, the speed of light, and even a prophetic 

timeline of major human events throughout history. 

Fascinating Facts 

The Great Pyramid is 30 times larger than the Empire State Building. It covers 

13.6 acres, equal to seven midtown Manhattan blocks. Each side is greater than 5 acres 

in area. A highway lane eight feet wide and four inches thick could be built inside the 

Great Pyramid stretching as far as from San Francisco to New York City. 

It is the sole survivor of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. 

The weight of the Great Pyramid is such that only a solid granite mountain 

could support its mass. It just so happens that it rests upon a flat solid mountain 

located just beneath the ground. 

The Great Pyramid is located at the exact center of the earth’s land mass. Its 

east-west axis corresponds to the longest land parallel across the earth; similarly, its 

north-south axis also corresponds to the longest land mass meridian on the earth. 

Like 20 th century bridge designs, the Pyramid’s cornerstones have balls and 

sockets built into them, preventing damage due to contraction and expansion 

movements caused by heat, cold, earthquakes, settling, and other phenomena. It has 

endured 4,500 years without any significant damage to its basic structure. 

The casing stones of the Great Pyramid number 144,000 and were so brilliant 

that they could be seen from Israel, hundreds of miles away. Sunlight reflected from it 

would have been visible from the moon. 

This number is very significant! It is no mere accident. The number 144,000 = 

12 times 12,000 each of the tribes of Israel, the number whom God will protect during

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the soon-coming “Day of God’s Vengeance” or “Day of the Lord” (see Rev.7:1-8). It 

also pictures the 144,000 who comprise the “first-fruits” to the Lamb of God – that is, 

the ones who will be with Him as His bride in the first resurrection at His second 

coming (Rev.14:1-4). See our article on “Who Are the 144,000 of Revelation” for 

greater insight on this subject. 144,000 also equals the 6 days of Creation times the 24 

hour day times 1,000 (6 x 24 x 1,000) – the number of men and women who will be 

“saved” out of the first 6,000 years of man’s sojourn upon the planet earth (compare II 

Pet.3:8-10). 

Amazingly, the outside surface stones were cut to within 0.01 (1/100 th ) inch of 

perfectly straight and nearly perfect right angles for all six sides with an intentional gap 

between them of only 0.02 inch, designed to allow space for glue to seal and hold the 

stones together. The cement used is stronger than the blocks it joins! 

Sir Isaac Newton studied the Great Pyramid, and discovered that if the standard 

unit of measurement was just 0.001inch larger than the British inch – or the same as the 

sacred Jewish inch (1/25 th of a cubit which equals 0.00106 British inches), that many 

key measurements would be in round numbers. This discovery allowed for many 

mathematical relationships to be revealed about the Great Pyramid. 

For example, if the circumference of the Pyramid is divided by twice its height, 

the result is 3.14159 – which is “pi.” So the Pyramid is a square circle and “pi” was 

designed into its basic structure and is so revealed many times. 

Incredibly, each of the Pyramid’s sides, when measured as a straight line, are 

9,131 inches, so the four sides together equal 36,524 inches. Divide by 100, and you 

get the exact number of days in a solar year, 365.24! 

Also, amazingly, the height of the Pyramid is 5,449 inches – and this is also the 

average height of all land above sea level throughout the earth, as measured by space 

satellites and computers! Interestingly, the numerical value of the letters of the Hebrew 

words in the Hebrew text of Isaiah 19:19-20 – called the “pyramid text” – is exactly 

5,449 also! The text reads: 

“In that day there shall be an altar to the LORD in the midst of 

the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD. 

And it shall be FOR A SIGN and for a WITNESS unto the LORD 

of hosts in the land of Egypt. For they shall cry unto the LORD 

because of the oppressors, and He shall send them a saviour, and 

a great one, and he shall deliver them.” 

The Great Pyramid literally stands exactly on the “border” between Upper and 

Lower Egypt! It lies at the apex that separates the Nile Delta region from Upper Egypt. 

It is a “monument” or “pillar” and lies both at the “border” and “middle” of Egypt. No 

other edifice fulfills this description.

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Even more astounding, all four sides of the Great Pyramid are slightly concave, 

or evenly bowed in. As measured by today’s laser instruments, these perfectly cut and 

bowed stones duplicate precisely the curvature of the earth itself! 

Could this all just have happened “by accident” 

The Great Pyramid is the oldest structure on the earth and is the most exactly 

oriented to north, south, east and west. Man’s best effort, the Paris Observatory, is off 

by six minutes of a degree. The Great Pyramid is only off by 3 minutes of a degree, 

even today. 

Paradoxically, everybody has heard of the Great Pyramid. Yet it remains the 

least known and understood monumental structure in the world which practically no 

one knows. 

All the other wonders of the ancient world, such as the hanging gardens of 

Babylon, and the Colossus of Rhodes, have long since perished. 

But for 4,500 years, the Great Pyramid still stands, a colossal witness in time, 

stalwart and serene, a veritable Gibraltar enduring through human tragedy, war, storms, 

earthquakes, the rise and fall of nations and empires, and the strewn wreckage of 

centuries. 

It survived the Great Flood of Noah’s day. Gigantic battles have been fought 

around it. Dynasties of Egypt have risen and fallen around it and civilizations have 

come and gone. And yet it stands, silent, mute, awesome – its very presence a palpable 

Watchman and Witness to the passing carnage of man. 

In ancient times the Great Pyramid was encased in a massive snow-white 

limestone polished to a glistening smooth veneer. Strabo, a Greek geographer who 

lived during the time of Christ, remarked, “It seemed like a building let down from 

heaven without the aid of human hands.” 

Amazing Pyramid Discoveries 

Writes George R. Riffert, in Great Pyramid Proof of God, “If a surveyor should 

sight with a level along the base line of the Pyramid his readings would give him, not a 

straight line as would be expected, but a slight curve, the radius of which would be 

equal to half the diameter of the earth. In other words, the base of the Pyramid 

represents the exact rotundity of the earth” (p.29). 

The dimensions of the Great Pyramid are given in pyramid inches or the sacred 

Hebrew cubit, giving a clue to who built it. The Pyramid inch is the same as our 

English inch within eleven-ten thousandths. That is to say, 10011 of our inches equals 

10000 Pyramid inches, and 25 of these inches equals a sacred Hebrew cubit.

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Where did the term “inch” come from, anyway It has been speculated that its 

origin goes back to “Enoch,” the seventh from Adam, whose very name in Hebrew 

could be the source and origin of the English “inch.” Enoch was a prophet and a 

mathematician, and his book, The Book of Enoch, deals much with astronomy, the 

calendar, and measurements, as well as prophecy. 

Interestingly, in the first ante-chamber of the upper horizontal passage of the 

Great Pyramid is what is known as “Enoch’s circle.” Enoch was “translated,” the 

Bible says, when he was 365 years old – and a circle is a symbol for a “year.” (And 

also “eternity”!) The circle formed in that first ante-chamber, defined by the floor and 

the two hanging walls, measures exactly 365.25 inches! 

It seems fitting that the ‘inch’ the basis of the English system of measures, to be 

a memorial of the prophet Enoch. 

The Pyramid’s base circumference measures 4 X 9,131 Pyramid inches, or a 

total of 36,524 inches – one hundred times the EXACT LENGTH of the solar year of 

365.24 days! 

For every nine feet that the corners of the pyramid rise, the surface recedes 10 

feet. If the height of the pyramid be multiplied by 10 raised to the ninth power, it 

equals 91,837,484 miles – within a fraction of the mean calculation of the distance of 

the earth from the sun! 

The sum of the diagonals of the pyramid’s base is 25,827 inches – a very close 

number to the precession of the equinoxes. Similarly, at the level of the King’s 

Chamber, on the fiftieth course of masonry above the base of the pyramid, the 

perimeter of the building in its original state was 25,827 inches! 

Surely such a fact was no mere “accident”! 

Inside the spacious King’s Chamber is a stone Chest or Coffer, measuring 

89.79 inches long, 38.65 inches wide, and 41.18 inches high. If you add the length and 

the breadth and divide by the height, you get the value of Pi – that is, 3.14159! 

If you deduct the thickness of the walls of the Coffer, you obtain a cubic 

capacity of 71,250 inches. If we compare it with the Ark of the Covenant described in 

Exodus 25, the Ark – which is 2 ½ cubits long, 1 ½ cubits wide and 1 ½ cubits high – 

and make a deduction based on a thin veneer of gold, plus sides and bottom of 1/3/4 

and 2 inch material – you obtain an identical capacity of 71,250 cubic inches! 

Surely no mere “coincidence”! 

Sir Flinders Petrie, declared, “The Pavement, lower casing and Entrance 

Passage are exquisitely wrought; in fact, the means employed for placing and 

cementing the blocks of soft limestone, weighing from twelve to twenty tons each, with

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such hair-like joints, is almost inconceivable at present; and the accuracy of the 

leveling is marvelous” (Riffert, p.39). 

Says Riffert, further, “The Pyramid under discussion is not a theory, but a solid 

stone fact, 4,500 years old and weighing over 5,000,000 tons. Its scientific features are 

not figments of the imagination, not matters of theory, but of fact. They have been 

established as such by the surveys and calculations of the ablest of engineers and 

astronomers” (p.50). 

Scriptural References and Types 

The Scriptures themselves bear witness to the Great Pyramid. The prophet 

Isaiah recorded, “In that day there shall be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land 

of Egypt, and a PILLAR at the border thereof to the Lord. And it shall be for a SIGN 

and for a WITNESS unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt” (Isa.19:19-20). 

Jeremiah declared, “The Great, the Mighty God, whose name is the Lord of 

hosts. You are great in counsel and mighty in work . . . You have set SIGNS AND 

WONDERS in the land of Egypt, to this day . . .” (Jeremiah 32:18-20, NKJV). 

The capstone at the top of the Great Pyramid was never put in place. This itself 

is very significant. Why would it be left off In Psalm 118, we read: “The stone 

which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. This was the Lord’s 

doing; it is marvelous in our eyes” (v.22-23). 

Wrote the apostle Peter, speaking of Christ, “’This is the stone which was 

rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone. Nor is there 

salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by 

which we must be saved” (Acts 4:11-12). 

Peter also declared, Christ is “the living stone, rejected indeed by men, but 

chosen by God and precious. . . . Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture, 

‘Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious, and he who believes on Him 

will by no means be put to shame’” (I Peter 2:4-6). 

These verses all point to a pyramid shaped structure, as it is the only type which 

permits a stone to be the “head of the corner” or the “chief cornerstone.” 

Why was it built When By whom For what enigmatic purpose 

Investigations of the Great Pyramid 

It was not until 825 A.D. that a medieval Caliph, Al Mamoun, cut a passage into 

the Great Pyramid, searching for hidden treasures of gold, silver and precious stones. He 

broke into the pyramid passage system, where the ascending and descending passages 

join. That was the first time men had penetrated the upper chambers of the pyramid

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since its construction. Alas, he found no gold or treasure – he found nothing but 

emptiness, with an empty, lidless coffer in the “king’s chamber.” 

Nothing further was learned for centuries. During the latter half of the 18 th 

century, several works were published noting the Great Pyramid’s base measurements 

represented the number of days in a year. Then, in 1859, John Taylor of London 

advanced the hypothesis that the pyramid’s height to its base circuit was that of a circle 

to its circumference. He suggested the Great Pyramid was built to convey a Divine 

revelation to mankind, and that its unit of measurement was the Polar Diameter inch. 

Confirmation of Taylor’s theories came from Piazza Smyth who surveyed the 

Pyramid in 1864-65. In his book Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid he wrote: 

“It was never even remotely understood, either by the Egyptian, 

or any other branch of the Cainite and anti- Israelite family of nations. 

But that it is able, nevertheless, to explain its grand, even Messianic 

mission, most unmistakably. Not, indeed, in the usual manner of 

less ancient monuments, by the use of any written language, whether 

hieroglyphic or vulgar, but by aid of the mathematical and physical 

science of modern times applied to show the significance residing in 

the exact amount of its ancient length, breadth and angles; a means 

most efficacious both for preventing the parable being read too soon 

in the history of an, at first, unlearned world; but for insuring its being 

correctly read, and by all nations, when the fullness of prophetic time, 

in a science age, has at last arrived.” 

In 1865 Robert Menzies theorized that the passage system of the Great Pyramid 

is a chronological system of prophecy base on the scale of one Polar Diameter Inch for a 

year in fulfillment. 

In modern times, David Davidson, in his book The Great Pyramid: Its Divine 

Message, presents strong evidence of the Divine origin of the Great Pyramid and its 

revelationary measurements. He began his investigation as a skeptic, attempting to 

prove that his predecessors were in error ascribing the Great Pyramid to Divine origin or 

Providence. He turned from being an agnostic to a firm believer as his research 

validated the research of those who went before him. 

The very word “pyramid” comes from the Chaldee urimmiddin which means 

“revelation-measures.” 

The Old Kingdom in Egypt 

Ancient Egypt’s history should be basically divided up into the following 

periods:

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1. The Old Kingdom – when most of the pyramids were built, including the Great 

Pyramid. This period occurred from Adam to the Flood which brought an END 

to the “Old Kingdom.” 

2. The First Interregnum – 2348 B.C. – the Noachian deluge, which caused the land 

to fall into chaos, followed by a dark age. 

3. The Middle Kingdom – Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth dynasties – when 

Egyptian literature reached a height it never attained before or since – the time of 

Joseph’s rising up to become Pharaoh’s Prime Minister and the Hebrew sojourn 

in Egypt. 

4. Another interregnum – second period of chaos, followed by invasion of the 

Hyksos. This was terminated by the awesome calamities which befell Egypt 

during the time of Moses and the Exodus out of Egypt, in 1492 B.C. 

5. The New Kingdom – Eighteenth dynasty forward, beginning with expulsion of 

the Hyksos invaders. Time of Saul, Judges, David, Solomon, divided Kingdom 

of Israel (Immanuel Velikovsky, Ages in Chaos, p.2). 

The true Old kingdom of Egypt ended with the Flood of Noah. It witnessed the 

building of the awesome Pyramids of Giza, as a warning of the coming Deluge, and a 

testimony of the Plan of God concerning mankind. 

The Great Pyramid had to be built before the Noachian Deluge. Modern 

researchers have taken samples of salt crystals from the walls of the inside of the Great 

Pyramid, which turned out to be fossilized microorganisms like protozoa and plankton 

from the ocean. The pyramid complex was at one time completely buried under sea 

water – further evidence of a global Flood! The water from the Flood seeped into the air 

passages to the Queen’s and King’s Chambers. 

Egyptian History in Confusion 

Egyptian history has been totally confused by modern Egyptologists, who reject 

Biblical evidence as it relates to the antiquity of Egypt. 

Held in the vice-lock of evolutionary theory and anti-supernatural dogma, 

Egyptologists claim there was no Noachian Deluge; that the Great Pyramid was built 

after the inferior and smaller pyramids; and that the pyramids of Giza were intended to 

be burial chambers of ancient Pharaohs. 

Nothing could be further from the truth! Suffice it to say that they have 

misplaced dynasties, rejected hard evidence, and stubbornly clung to their misconceived 

and preposterous theories based on humanistic and evolutionary dogmas, which deny 

any and all evidence of Biblical record and massive catastrophism. Although there is

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no evidence whatsoever that the Giza pyramids were used as royal burial sites, 

Egyptologists are serenely stuck in the sand with blinders over their eyes. 

Such men have a vested interest in claiming the pyramids were built to house the 

bodies of deceased pharaohs. The incredible facts about the construction of the Great 

Pyramid puts the LIE to the ridiculous claims of Egyptologists! 

Contrary to the vain boasts of proud historians, and Egyptians themselves who 

claimed a long history for Egyptian civilization, the evidence shows that the dynasties of 

Egypt began about the same time as those of other ancient civilizations, and is no older 

than Babylonia, Sumer, Akkadia, Elam, Mitanni, Anatola, and Israel. 

Contrary to their speculations, Cheops did not build the Great Pyramid. “The 

actual stele of Cheops claims there was already a pyramid at the Giza site prior to his 

own reign” (Breshears, The Lost Scriptures of Giza, p.129). Says Breshears, “One must 

be invested with a tremendous amount of blind faith to accept the idea that Cheops or 

Chephren had anything at all to do with these monuments” (ibid.). 

According to common belief, the Great Pyramid built for Khufu was constructed 

of more than two million stone blocks, most of them weighing about two and a half tons. 

The ancient Egyptians had to be inventive engineers, because they had only the simplest 

tools to work with. They did not yet possess the secret of the wheel. They had to cut hard 

rock with the simplest of copper and stone tools, transport massive blocks weighing tons 

without block and tackle or carts or draft animals. Some of the blocks were granite and 

posed special problems. Dolerite hammers had to be used to chip rough gutters ill quarry 

walls. Workers then supposedly fitted wooden wedges into the slots, soaked with water, 

and when the wood expanded it cracked and split off chunks of rock, which were then 

hammered into rough blocks. 

In laying the foundation of the Great Pyramid, the architects directed them to cut 

step-like terraces into the sides of the hill. These terraces had to be absolutely level to 

assure that the Pyramid would be level. Water was poured into trenches around the base 

of the Pyramid-to-be, and using the water level as a standard of measurement, they were 

able to make the entire 13 acre building site so level that the southeast corner of the 

Pyramid stands only one half inch higher than the northwest corner . 

However, careful study and analysis has persuaded leading scientists and thinkers 

that there is much more to the story of the Great Pyramid than conventional theory or 

commonly accepted history claims. Much more. 

For the real truth about the totally misunderstood Egyptian chronology, and 

ancient Egyptian history, reviewed and set right, read our articles “The Exodus – Fact or 

Fable”, and “Who Was the Pharaoh of the Exodus” 

Its high time we WAKE UP and reject the pretensions and deceptions perpetrated 

by deceived and deceiving men who ought to know better!

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I E. S. Edwards writes: 

“Many attempts have been made by writers on the Great Pyramid to illustrate its 

size by comparison with other famous buildings. It has, for instance, been calculated that 

the Houses of Parliament and St. Paul’s Cathedral could be grouped inside the area of its 

base and still leave considerable space unoccupied” (The Pyramids of Egypt, p.82). 

It has also been reckoned that if the Pyramid were sawn into blocks one foot 

square and each block laid end to end, they would extend over a distance equal to two 

thirds of the earth's girth at the Equator. From a fresh survey taken by J. H. Cole of the 

Survey Department of the Egyptian Government in 1925 it was found that the Pyramid 

measured at the base 755.43 feet on the north, 756.08 feet on the south, 755.88 feet on 

the east, and 755.77 feet on the west. 

Says Edwards: "Each side was oriented almost exactly in line with true north 

and south or east and west. . . As the accuracy of this orientation implies, the four 

corners were almost perfect right angles” (ibid., page 83.). 

The Great Pyramid was supposedly completed within the reign of Cheops. The 

construction was so perfect that Sir Flinders Petrie, who spent two years excavating at 

the site, observed that the joints in the casing of the Great Pyramid measured only onefiftieth 

of an inch in thickness! 

The amazing orientation of the Great Pyramid on the north-south axis and eastwest 

axis could only have been achieved with the aid of one or more of the celestial 

bodies, since the magnetic compass was unknown to the ancient Egyptians. 

The Book of the Dead 

Much can be learned about the Great Pyramid from the ancient Egyptian texts 

known as the “Book of the Dead.” This is a large collection of ancient prayers, mystical 

formulae or funerary texts composed for the dearly departed, often cut or painted on 

tombs. 

The Book of the Dead give all the principal dimensions, both interior and 

exterior, of the Great Pyramid. Its antiquity goes back at least to 3,000 B.C., 500 years 

before the Flood. It defines the unit of measure, and states specifically that the year 

cycle of 36,524.24 inches is the basis for the Pyramid’s geometrical system. According 

to these texts, the Grand Gallery is called the ‘Hall of Truth in Light.” Its entrance is 

known as “The Passion of the Messiah” or “Crossing the Pure Waters of Life.” 

Inside the Pyramid are a Descending Passage and an Ascending Passage. The 

Descending Passage is a graphic symbol of man’s downward passage to lower moral and 

spiritual levels, ending in the “Pit “ or “Chamber of Chaos.” A graphic depiction of

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“Hell” itself! It is known in the Book of the Dead as the “Chamber of Upsidedownness” 

or “Torment.” 

The Ascending Passage goes upward from the Descending Passage. It leads to 

he Grand Gallery and on to the King’s Chamber. But it is tightly sealed. Barring 

passage is a huge Plug of granite. Why Says Riffert, “Since no human power can 

remove the Plug which closes the upward passage, entrance is possible, therefore, only 

by MIRACLE. Supernatural power is needed” (p.55). 

About a century ago Sir John Herschel proved that the Great Pyramid’s entrance 

passage pointed to the Pole Star Alpha Draconis about the year 2160 B.C. Interestingly, 

in the year 2144 B.CC., there was a conjunction of certain stars with the Great Pyramid 

which will never happen again. The Pleiades was just overhead, a symbol of divine 

sweet influence, above the scored lines in the Descending Passage. The constellation 

Dracconis, a symbol of Satan the devil, was then in the position of the north pole star, 

and sent its light directly down the passage. 

2144 B.C. was during the apostate reign of ancient Nimrod! Nimrod was 215 

years of age when he died. Jasher relates, “and all the days that Nimrod lived were two 

hundred and fifteen years and he died” (Jasher 27:15). He died in the 18 th year of Jacob 

and Esau, the year 1878 B.C., that would mean he was born to Cush, in his old age, in the 

year 2093 B.C. Nimrod reigned for 185 years (Jasher 27:16); therefore he became king 

at the age of 30. 

Nimrod was “a mighty hunter before [or “against”] the LORD” (Gen.10:9). We 

read: “ Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first on earth to become a mighty 

warrior. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, ‘Like Nimrod a

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mighty hunter before the LORD.’ The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, and 

Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar” (Gen.10:8-10, NRSV). 

Nimrod was the post-Flood world’s first great REBEL and APOSTATE, who led 

the post-Flood world back into idolatry and wicked rebellion against the government of 

God! 

It is significant therefore that Draconis, the Dragon, or the Devil, shone brightly 

down the Descending Passage of the Great Pyramid, at that very time! 

Says Riffert, “the star pointing of the Scored Lines, in conjunction with the 

pointing of the Descending Passage to the north pole star, Alpha, in the constellation 

Draconis, September 22, 2144, indicated that the Zero hour of the Pyramid’s time 

system was Midnight of the Autumn Equinox, and second, that at the time of 

conjunction, almost 500 years earlier, the Pyramid’s symbolism and science were so 

harmonized with the astronomical setting of September 22, 2144 B.C. as to present an 

exact panoramic and prophetic view of the crucial events of 6,000 years of human 

history, the cardinal facts about the solar system and the message of the Bible. In other 

words, the design of this wonderful Monument was determined in accord with the 

astronomical conjunctions beginning at midnight, September 22, 2144 B.C., and the 

foreknown events of 5,000 years of human history yet unwritten. If this is not a 

demonstration of Omniscience such as God alone possesses then there is none” (Great 

Pyramid Proof of God, p.65). 

When Was It Built 

The time of the Great Pyramid’s construction has been calculated by some at 

2625 B.C. With a Pyramid inch equaling a year, in the sloping passages, the date of the 

Floor Ledge Opening in the Limestone Face of the Perfect Pyramid is figured at 2625 

B.C. 

Coptic and ancient Jewish traditions say that the Pyramid was built 300 years 

before the Flood. Ussher’s chronology places the Flood at 2348 B.C., so about 300 

years earlier would be in the neighborhood of 2648 B.C. 

This means the Great Pyramid was built during the lifetime of the antediluvian 

prophet and patriarch Enoch! 

Enoch and the Great Pyramid 

We read in the book of Jubilees of the patriarch Enoch: 

“.17. He was the first one from among the children of men that are born on the 

earth to learn writing and knowledge and wisdom. 18. And he wrote the signs of 

heaven according to the order of their months in a book, that the sons of men 

might know the time of the year according to their separate months. 19. He was 

the first to write a testimony, and he testified to the children of men concerning

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the generations of the earth, and explained the weeks of the jubilees, and made 

known to them the days of the years, and arranged the months and explained 

the sabbaths of the years as we made them known to him. 20. And what was and 

what will be he saw in a vision of the night in a dream, and as it will happen 

to the children of men in their generations until the day of judgment; he saw and 

learned every thing and wrote it as a testimony and laid the testimony on the 

earth over all the children of men and for their generations” (Jub.4:17-20). 

The Holy Scriptures tell us, “Enoch lived 65 years, and begat Methuselah. After 

he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years, and had sons and daughters. 

So all the days of Enoch were 365 years. And Enoch walked with God; and he was not 

[found], for God took him” (Gen.5:21-24). 

Enoch “walked with God.” This means that he OBEYED God and kept His 

commandments, and worshipped Him with his whole heart and mind. Note that his life 

span was “a day for a year” – 365 years. Enoch was the first one to learn writing, and 

who taught mankind how to write. 

Jubilees tells us what it means that God “took” Enoch. This does not mean that 

he did not die, for as Paul says, And as it is appointed to men to die once, but after this 

the judgment” (Heb.9:27). Paul also plainly wrote, “ By faith Enoch was taken away 

that he did not see death, and was not found, because God had taken him” – that is, he 

was not found by those looking for him, his enemies and persecutors – “these ALL 

DIED in faith [including Enoch!], not having received the promises, but having seen 

them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were 

strangers and pilgrims on the earth” (Heb.11:5, 13). 

God “took him.” This means that God transported or transferred Enoch to 

another place. Where did God take him Jubilees tells us one place. “And then he was 

with the angels of God six years . . . and they showed him all things on earth and in 

heaven, the rule of the sun, and he wrote down all things” (Jub.4:22). 

The book of Jasher relates, “And the soul of Enoch was wrapped up in the 

instruction of the Lord, in knowledge and in understanding; and he wisely retired from 

the sons of men, and secreted himself from them many days” (Jasher 3:2). God then 

sent him forth to teach the sons of men “the way in which they should go and the work 

which they must accomplish to enter in the ways of God” (Jasher 3:4). 

“And all the sons of men then assembled to him . . . and Enoch reigned over the 

sons of men according to the word of the Lord . . . and the spirit of God was upon 

Enoch, and he taught all his men the wisdom of God and his ways, and the sons of men 

served the Lord all the days of Enoch, and they came to hear his wisdom” (v.7-8). 

All the kings, princes, and judges came to Enoch also, and he consented to reign 

over them. ‘And they assembled in all, one hundred and thirty kings and princes, and 

they made Enoch king over them and they were all under his power and command” 

(v.10).

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As a result, “peace was throughout the earth during the life of Enoch” (v.11). 

There must be world peace, of course, for men to come together and build such edifices 

as the three great Pyramids of Giza, without the work being hindered or stopped! 

During that ante-Diluvian age, men lived to ripe old ages in the many hundreds 

of years (Gen.5). Methuselah, Enoch’s son, live to be 969 years of age! These men 

were highly sophisticated, intelligent, and possessed great understanding, wisdom, and 

abilities. It was them that God used to BUILD the three Pyramids of Giza, including the 

Great Pyramid! 

The Coptic Enoch 

The Arab scholar Masoudi who died in 967 A.D. left behind an incredible text 

concerning Enoch. He compiled old traditions concerning the Great Pyramid. One of 

the texts he left behind stated, “Surid . . . one of the kings of Egypt before the Flood, 

built two great pyramids.” In a dream 300 years before the Flood, he saw the earth being 

overthrown. The fixed stars wandered from their courses. He gathered 130 priests 

(remember Enoch’s 130 “kings and princes”), and they determined that “some great 

event was to take place.” 

Surid “ordered the pyramids to be built, and the predictions of the priests to be 

inscribed upon columns [pillars] and upon the large stones belonging to them . . .” 

(Origin and Significance of the Great Pyramid, p.103-104, quoted in Brazear, p.22). 

These Coptic traditions also mention that the pyramids were assigned a 

“guardian” – which would no doubt be symbolized by the Sphinx, the protector which 

has guarded the Giza plateau throughout the millennia. 

Both Surid and Enoch had the same vision – gathered the same number of rulers 

– ordered the Pyramids to be built – and deposited within them the writings, wisdom, 

science and achievements of their forefathers. Of course – for they are the same person! 

Other Arab historians concur. Abou Mahammed Al Hassan Ben Ahmed wrote, 

“The pyramids were ante-diluvian, and they resisted the force of the great flood” (Origin 

and Significance, ibid., p.117). 

The Greek “god” Hermes is another name for Enoch, who exhibited the same 

attributes as the ancient Egyptian “god” Set. Cicero wrote of Hermes, “Although a 

man, he was of great antiquity, and he built Hermopolis,” Greek meaning “city of 

Hermes.” Hermes was thus a builder. “Hermes, he understanding all things, who also 

saw the whole of things together, and having seen, considered them, and having 

considered them was powerful to explain and show them” – was no doubt the Greek 

version of Enoch! So says the “Divine Pymander,” a famous contribution of the 

Hermeneutical literature of Egypt circa 300 B.C. to 350 A.D.

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Syncellus wrote that Hermes erected stone stellae before the Flood, containing 

arcane knowledge about astronomy. Hermes, also, according to the “Syrian chronicle” 

of Bar Hebraus, “invented letters, architecture, built cities, established laws and taught 

astronomy and the true worship of God” (Breshears, p.26). He calls Hermes the Enoch 

of Scripture. 

Hermes older Egyptian titles included Set, Thoth, and Imhotep. Set was the 

inventor of Astronomy, a form of Seth, the ancestor of the Sethites, and of Enoch. 

“An Altar to the LORD” 

Interestingly, in connection with Enoch, the book of Jubilees points out that God 

has four places on earth that are “sanctuaries” – “the garden of Eden and the hill east of 

it” [the Temple Mount and Mount of Olives], “the hill of Sinai” [in Arabia], “the hill of 

Zion” [the city of David], and “and this hill on which thou art to-day” (verse26). The 

fourth sanctuary, where Enoch offered a sacrifice to God, was “on the hill of the south” 

(ibid.). “South,” in Biblical terms, means the land of Egypt! Egypt is known in 

Scripture as the “king” or “kingdom” of the South (see our article on “Daniel 11 

Revealed!”). 

As we will see, this refers to the plateau of Giza, in the middle of yet at the 

“border” of Egypt where God said, “In that day there shall be an ALTAR to the LORD 

in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a PILLAR [pyramid] to the LORD at its border. 

And it shall be for a SIGN AND FOR A WITNESS to the LORD of hosts in the land of 

Egypt” (Isaiah 19:19-20). 

These four locations, Jubilees says, “will be sanctified in the new creation for a 

sanctification of the earth: through it the earth will be sanctified from all its sin and its 

uncleanness to the generation of eternity” (Jub.4:27). Take note that a pyramid has four 

corners and four sides. This appears to circumscribe an area which is “holy” and 

dedicated to the Lord. By saying it will be sanctified shows that it is an actual place on 

earth today, but it is not complete, and will not be completed until the “new creation” or 

coming of the Messiah who will “restore all things” (Acts 3:19-21). 

Giza lies at the southern border of the “land of Goshen,” the Nile peninsula 

region of “Lower Egypt,” where the children of Israel dwelt. They were given the land 

of “Goshen” by the Egyptians as their territory and were protected there from the 

plagues which struck Egypt during the time of Moses. 

The Mysteries of Enoch 

Enoch was the greatest servant of God before the Flood. He was unique. He was 

very famous before the Flood, and was a great king. Says Jason Breshears, in The Lost 

Scriptures of Giza, 

“Many are the fragment traditions and historical annals that mention Enoch 

and his incredible life and accomplishments. Unfortunately today they are

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relegated to myth and fables of moral foundation rather than historical. This 

problem is an old one. Many are the unusual texts surfacing in late antiquity 

that mention Enoch, writings outside the fold of accepted Scripture. In the Bible 

are only three passages that refer to him yet he is more popularly remembered by 

olden nations around the world than any other Old Testament personage. 

Traditional stories of Moses are almost exclusively retained by Hebraic writings 

and other Semitic peoples whereas Enoch and even Noah are found in the elder 

traditions of cultures spanning back thousands of years from the Asiatic people 

of the Far East to the distant west of early America. Enoch left a psychic imprint 

upon early man and his memory has not left us” (p.3). 

The patriarch Enoch was even known in the New World, the Western 

Hemisphere! Pyramid-building cultures thrived in early Mexico, before the Flood. An 

ancient city of stone that pre-dated the Flood was Tenochtitlan, which the Aztecs claim 

was built before their time by incredibly intelligent artisans who knew all the secrets of 

astronomy and the earth sciences. Tenochtitlan is a compound epithet meaning as 

follows: titlan = “to send a messenger,” and Tenoch = “the man” (te) and enoch – 

“Enoch,” the Biblical patriarch! Thus “Tenochtitlan” was “the messenger Enoch” – a 

man sent from God to teach mankind God’s ways and laws. 

The “Pillar of Enoch” 

According to the Egyptian “Book of the Dead,” the Great Pyramid is designated 

as the ‘Pillar of Enoch.” Now Enoch was born in 3382 B.C., 622 years after Adam. 

“Now all the days of Enoch were 365 years. And Enoch walked with God; and he was 

not [found], for God took him [someplace else]” (Gen.5:23-24). 

This means Enoch lived from 3382 to 2917 B.C., before God took him elsewhere 

(we are not told where) but his chronology stops in 2917 B.C. Did God take him to 

Egypt, to build the Great Pyramid and superintend its construction Did he take him to 

the New World to begin pyramid structures in the region of Mexico and Central 

America The ancient ancestors of the Mayas have traditions of a white Quetzalcoatl or 

teacher of righteousness. The Mayan calendar, 5125 years in length, ends in 2012 A.D. 

and began in 3114 B.C. This was the time of Enoch. There is no statement that Enoch 

“died” or went to “heaven” when God “took him.” It appears he was removed from one 

location on the earth to another, to complete God’s Work for him to accomplish. 

Interestingly, Enoch lived “365 years” before his departure for parts unknown. 

The signature number in the construction of the Great Pyramid is the solar year of 365 

days! Remember, too, that the average age of the antediluvian patriarchs was on the 

order of 800-900 years. Methuselah lived 969 years! Enoch could well have returned 

from his long sojourn elsewhere to build the Great Pyramid, after having been instructed 

by God as to its dimensions and requirements. 

The fact that the Great Pyramid was built by a true worshipper of God is clear 

from the evidence that there is absolutely NO PAGAN idolatrous markings or 

symbolism carved or painted upon its surface areas. The total absence of such markings,

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in a land replete with pagan symbols and themes, is mute testimony that someone else 

other than pagan Egyptians built the marvelous edifice. 

Egypt at the time was a hot-bed of idolatry. Their false religion was in full sway 

when Cheops was born. Statues of gods and goddesses were everywhere. Temples, 

tombs, and monuments were loaded with idolatrous emblems. Yet in the midst of all 

that, “there has never been found one ancient inscription or slightest sign of Egypt’s 

idolatry! In the center of greatest impurity, the Great Pyramid stands without spot, 

blemish or remotest taint of the surrounding flood of abominations – like the incarnate 

Son of God, sinless in a world of sinners” (Rippert, p.69). 

Israel and Pyramids 

Josephus tells us that in later generations, after the Flood, the nation of Israel, 

while held captive by the Egyptians, were compelled to build pyramids for them. We 

read: 

“Now it happened that the Egyptians grew delicate and lazy, as to painstaking; 

and gave themselves up to other pleasures, and in particular to the love of gain. 

They also became very ill affected towards the Hebrews, as touched with envy 

at their prosperity; for when they saw how the nation of the Israelites flourished, 

and were become eminent already in plenty of wealth, which they had acquired 

by their virtue and natural love of labour, they thought their increase was to their 

own detriment; and having, in length of time, forgotten the benefits they had 

received from Joseph, particularly the crown being now come into another family, 

they became very abusive to the Israelites, and contrived many ways of afflicting 

them; for they enjoined them to cut a great number of channels for the river, and to 

build walls for their cities and ramparts, that they might restrain the river, and 

hinder its waters from stagnating, upon its running over its own banks: they set 

them also to build pyramids, and by all this wore them out; and forced them to 

learn all sorts of mechanical arts, and to accustom themselves to hard labour. 

And four hundred years did they spend under these afflictions; for they strove 

one against the other which should get the mastery, the Egyptians desiring to 

destroy the Israelites by these labours, and the Israelites desiring to hold out to 

the end under them” (Antiquities, book 2, 9, 1). 

These were lesser pyramids, after the pattern of the Great Pyramid, and this was 

during the Middle Kingdom of Egypt, during the time of Jacob and Joseph and their 

children. – roughly 1700-1500 B.C. This was about 1,000 years after the Deluge. Why 

did the Egyptians put the Israelites to work building the later pyramids Was it because 

they knew that it was their ancestors who built the original, greatest pyramids 

Why Built 

Why was the Great Pyramid built Arab writers from early times associated the 

pyramids with the Biblical narrative of the Flood. According to their traditions, the 

pyramids were built as a result of a dream to serve as repositories of knowledge, to protect 

all the science and wisdom of the Egyptians which otherwise would be lost.

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Writes Peter Tompkins in Secrets of the Great Pyramid: “The most ancient 

tradition about the Great Pyramid is that it was erected to memorialize a tremendous 

cataclysm in the planetary system which affected the globe with fire and flooding.” 

He continues: “Arab authors recount that the pyramids were built before the 

deluge by a king who had a vision that the world would be turned upside down, and that 

the stars would fall from the sky. According to these Arab sources, the king placed in 

the Pyramids accounts of all he had learned from the wisest men of the times, including 

the secrets of astronomy, complete with tables of the stars, geometry, and physics, 

treatises on precious stones, and certain machines, including celestial spheres and 

terrestrial globes. They also speak of ‘malleable glass’” (p.217). 

The greatest “deluge” in human history which would fulfill this prediction was 

the Noachian Flood! 

The earliest Jewish report is in Josephus, who says the Sethites were inventors of 

a wisdom which dealt with celestial bodies and their order in the heavens, and that to 

preserve their wisdom for all mankind they built two monuments – one brick, the other 

stone – the stone one being extant in Egypt in Josephus’ time. Josephus relates in 

Antiquities of the Jews: 

“Now, Adam, who was the first man, and made out of the earth, (for our 

discourse must now be about him,) after Abel was slain, and Cain fled 

away on account of his murder, was solicitous for posterity, and had a. 

vehement desire of children, he being two hundred and thirty years old; 

after which time he lived other seven hundred, and then died. He had 

indeed many other children, but Seth in particular. As for the rest, it 

would be tedious to name them; I will therefore only endeavour to give 

an account of those that proceeded from Seth. 

“Now this Seth, when he was brought up, and came to those years in which 

he could discern what was good, became a virtuous man. and as he was 

himself of an excellent character, so did he leave children behind him who 

imitated his virtues. All these proved to be of good dispositions. They also 

inhabited the same country without dissensions, and in a happy condition, 

without any misfortunes falling upon them, till they died. 

“They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is 

concerned with the heavenly bodies and their order. And that their 

inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon 

Adam’s prediction that the world was to be DESTROYED at one time by 

the force of fire, and at another time by the.violence and quantity of water, 

THEY MADE TWO PILLARS; the one of brick, the other of STONE: 

they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar 

of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might 

remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind; and also inform them 

that there was another pillar of brick erected by them. Now this remains 

in the land of Siriad to this day” (Antiquities, book 1, chapter 2, section 3).

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The “land of Siriad” means the land where the star Sirius was worshipped – the 

land of Egypt! Thus this great pillar of stone must be the Great Pyramid itself! 

Was this “pillar of stone” the Great Pyramid If so, then it was built in the 

antediluvian age of the world, by the descendants of Seth, the son of Adam! These men 

were remarkable because of their longevity, and their great knowledge. According to 

Josephus, Adam himself had been told by God that the world would be destroyed twice 

– once by flood and once by fire. His descendants therefore sought to preserve their 

achievements in a way that would insure their survival in case of flood or fire. What 

better way than in the erection of a huge stone pyramid! 

Josephus attributes the star groupings and their names to Seth, the son of Adam, 

while Origen affirms that the Book of Enoch – named after the Shepherd king who built 

the Great Pyramid – declares that the constellations were already divided and named by 

the time of that patriarch. 

Writes Thompkins: “The Arab legends maintain that the Great Pyramid not only 

contained measurements of the position of the stars and their cycles, but also a history 

and chronicle of the times past and future” (p.217-218). 

Arab historians such as Ibrahim ben Ebn Wasuff Shah say that the Gizah 

pyramids were built by an antediluvian king called Surid or Saurid, “who saw in a dream 

a huge planet falling to earth at the time when ‘the Heart of the Lion would reach the 

first minute of the Head of Cancer” (p.218). 

Abu Yeyd el Balkhy quotes an ancient inscription saying that the Great Pyramid 

was built at a time when the Lyre was in the constellation of Cancer. 

Another Arab legend recounted by ibn-Batuta, who wrote 730 years after the 

Hegira, says that Hermes Trismegistos – the Enoch of the Bible – “having ascertained 

from the appearance of the stars that the deluge would take place, built the pyramids to 

contain books of science and knowledge and other matters worth preserving from 

oblivion and ruin.” Enoch was one of the illustrious descendants of Adam, and known 

as the originator of writing. 

Basil Steward, author of The Mystery of the Great Pyramid, declared “there is no 

more reason to believe that because the Pyramid stands in Egypt it was built by 

Egyptians than that the modern Egyptians built the Aswan Dam,” according to 

Thompkins. 

Steward says all the evidence leads to only one conclusion: “The seeds of 

Egypt’s greatness were sown by a few colonists who entered the country peaceably and 

organized the carrying out of great construction works.” He asserted that they were 

probably from Asia or Mesopotamia – the region of Babylon.

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Flinders Petrie substantiates this conclusion, insofar that he says “the exquisite 

workmanship often found in the early period (of Egyptians architecture) did not so much 

depend upon a large of widespread ability, as on a few men far above their fellows.” 

The phenomenal accuracy of the work, says Petrie, “was limited to the skill of one man.” 

Concludes Thompkins: 

“As to the actual dates of construction of the Great Pyramid, apart from 

the statement that it was built 300 years before the Flood, the legends add 

little. Egyptologists who worked out that the Fourth Dynasty must have 

reigned between 2720 and 2560 B.C. believe the Great Pyramid was 

commenced in 2644; others believe that its construction was begun in 2200 

and that 30 to 56 years were required to complete it. Still others place the 

building of the Pyramid a thousand 6 years earlier” (p.219-220). 

Discoveries of the Great Pyramid 

Was the Great Pyramid a repository of arcane knowledge Yes it was! 

Incredibly so! 

The polar diameter of the earth is 7,900 miles. The Pyramid inch measures just 

.0011 more than the English inch. The Pyramid inch is stated to be exactly one five 

hundred millionth (1/500,000,000) of this diameter. 500,000,000 such inches come 

within 100 feet of the 7,900 mile Polar diameter of the earth! 

As to the purpose of the Great Pyramid, Peter Tompkins in the introduction to his 

book Secrets of the Great Pyramid. writes: “The Great Pyramid, like most of the great 

temples of antiquity, was designed on the basis of a hermetic geometry known only to a 

restricted group of initiates, mere traces of which percolated to the Classical and 

Alexandrian Greeks. 

“These and other recent discoveries have made it possible to reanalyze the entire 

history of the Great Pyramid with a whole new set of references: the results are 

explosive. The common – and indeed authoritative – assumption that the Pyramid was 

just another tomb built to memorialize some vainglorious Pharaoh is proved to be false” 

(Secrets of the Great Pyramid, xiv). 

Tompkins points out that it is now known that an advanced science existed 2- 

3,000 years before Christ. It is now realized that Hipparchus, Pythagoras and other 

Greeks who were thought to have invented mathematics on this planet merely picked up 

fragments of an arcane science that was evolved by "remote and unknown 

predecessors." 

Adds Tompkins: "Like Stonehenge and other megalithic calendars, the Pyramid 

has been shown to be an almanac by means of which the length of the year including its 

awkward .2422 fraction of a day could be measured as accurately as with a modern 

telescope. It has been shown to be a theodolite, or instrument for the surveyor, of great

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precision and simplicity, virtually indestructible. It is still a compass so finely oriented 

that modern compasses are adjusted to it, not vice versa. 

"It has also been established that the Great Pyramid is a carefully located 

geodetic marker, or fixed landmark, on which the geography of the ancient world was 

brilliantly constructed; that it served as a celestial observatory from which maps and 

tables of the stellar hemisphere could be accurately drawn; and that it incorporates in its 

sides and angles the means for creating a highly sophisticated map projection of the 

northern hemisphere. It is, in fact, a scale model of the hemisphere, correctly 

incorporating the geographical degrees of latitude and longitude." 

Tompkins goes even further: 

"The Pyramid may well be the repository of an ancient and possibly universal 

system of weights and measures, the model for the most sensible system of linear and 

temporal measurements available on earth, based on the polar axis of rotation, a system 

first postulated in modern times a century ago by the British astronomer Sir John 

Herschel, whose accuracy is now confirmed by the mensuration of orbiting satellites." 

Says Tompkins: 

“Whoever built the Great Pyramid, it is now quite clear, knew the precise 

circumference of the planet, and the length of the year to several decimals – data which 

were not rediscovered till the seventeenth century. Its architects may well have known 

the mean length of the earth’s orbit round the sun, the specific density of the planet, the 

26,000-year cycle of the equinoxes, the acceleration of gravity and the speed of light.” 

An Astronomical Observatory 

There is substantial evidence that the Great Pyramid was used by the ancient 

Egyptians as an astronomical observatory. Richard Anthony Proctor at the turn of the 

century suggested that the ancients needed a true meridian on the solid earth from which 

to extrapolate a meridian across the heavenly vault, so they could detect the precise 

moment when stars, sun, planets and moon transited this meridian as they moved 

through the heavens. 

Arab historians repeatedly declared that the Pyramid had originally been 

designed as an astronomical observatory. Proctor showed how the Pyramid would have 

made an excellent observatory, the greatest instrument for observing the heavens before 

the advent of the modern great telescope. Proctor claimed that the Descending Passage 

of the Pyramid originally sighted the North Star, which he identified with alpha Draconis 

at that time. The Grand Gallery also could have been used to observe the stars circling in 

the southern sky. 

Thompkins also points out that, astonishingly enough, Peter Kolosimo in Terra 

Senza Tempo (published in 1969 in Milan, Italy) claims that the Russians have

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uncovered some fascinating secrets of ancient Egyptian archaeology. He points out that 

they found astronomical maps of surprising accuracy showing the position of the stars as 

they were many thousands of years ago. 

Reportedly, the Russians also dug up many objects, some as yet unidentified, 

including crystal lenses, of great precision, perfectly spherical, which very possibly were 

used as telescopes! Asserts Kolosimo, similar lenses have been found in Iraq and even 

central Australia. Even more amazing is the fact that they can only be ground today with 

a special abrasive made of oxide of cerium which can only be produced electrically. 

Peter Tompkins attempted to verify these data with Soviet academicians, without 

any tangible result. But it seems out of the question that Kolosimo manufactured such an 

incredible story out of whole cloth. In view of the many other astonishing things 

uncovered relative to the Egyptians of antiquity, these discoveries seem to fit with the 

entire picture scientists are beginning to draw about the science of the Egyptians during 

the time of the Great Pyramid. 

Knowledge Lost 

We might know much more about the Pyramids, especially the Great Pyramid, 

had it not been for the fact that in the Middle Ages due to the influence of the Church, 

learning came to be despised and denigrated. Christianized Egyptians were even 

forbidden access to the ancient temples which were either seized or razed to the ground 

by the Catholics. Thousands of statues and inscriptions were disfigured. In 389 A.D. the 

great library of Alexandria, Egypt, was burned to the ground and destroyed by a mob of 

indignant Christians on the orders of Emperor Theodosius. All that was ancient was 

considered pagan, and therefore sinful. Mathematicians and astronomers were 

persecuted and sometimes hounded to death by the established Church. 

The secrets of the Great Pyramid, meanwhile, remained undiscovered. 

The first real attempt to excavate the Great Pyramid was made by the Arabs 

under AI Mamun, an enlightened Arab chief. Eventually they tunneled into the vast 

structure and discovered many chambers and narrow passageways, but often their 

attempts were thwarted by huge granite plugs impeding their progress. They finally 

uncovered what was called the “King’s Chamber,” but there was no true sarcophagus or 

burial coffin—no evidence any king of Egypt had ever been entombed. This fact 

indicates that the purpose of the Great Pyramid was not to house the body of an ancient 

Pharaoh, unlike the other pyramids of Egypt. 

Later superstitions had it that the Great Pyramid was haunted by ghosts. Arabs 

claimed that at noon and sunset it was haunted by a naked woman who seduced people 

into her power and then drove them insane. There were stories that it was filled with 

serpents.

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The Greatest Wonder of All 

It remained, however, to the 20th century before many of the riddles of the Great 

Pyramid became known and revealed. 

In his book A History of Egyptian Archaeology Fred Gladstone Bratton states, “Of 

the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Giza Pyramids alone have survived the 

ravages of time and the destructive hand of man. They are still the most massive and 

impressive buildings in the world today. 

“As with astronomical measurements where the scientist has to resort to 

comparisons in order to demonstrate the immensity of the universe, so it is with the 

Pyramid of Cheops. No other building in history has called for so much study of 

construction, dimensions, and purpose as this pile of thirty million cubic feet of 

limestone. It has been estimated that the Great Pyramid is large enough to accommodate 

St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, St. Peter's in Rome, and the Cathedrals of 

Milan and Florence.” 

This author continues, “By using one of the celestial bodies, the Cheops builders 

were able to orient the Pyramid to the four cardinal points, the errors being only in the 

following fractions of one degree: north side, 2' 28" south of west; south side, l' 57" south 

of west; east side, 5' 30" west of north; west side, 2' 30" west of north. The four corners 

were almost perfect right angles with the following measurements: 90° 3' 2"; north-west, 

90° 59' 58"; south-east, 89° 56' 37"; and south-west, 90° 0' 33"” (p.88). 

Archaeologist Flinders Petrie calculated that 100,000 men were used in 

transporting the blocks to the base of the Pyramid, and some 4,000 in its actual 

construction. The precision is such that Petrie said any errors in the angles and degrees 

“can be covered with one’s thumb.” 

Eight centuries ago Abd al-Latif observed that the stone blocks were fitted 

together so well that a knife cannot be inserted in the joints – a truly remarkable 

evidence of precision engineering and sheer architectural genius! 

In his book The Pyramids, Ahmed Fakhry declares, “The Great Pyramid of Giza 

represents the culminative effort of the pyramid builders. Not only is it the largest 

monument of its kind ever constructed, but for excellence of workmanship, accuracy of 

planning, and beauty of proportion, it remains the chief of the Seven Wonders of the 

World” (page 99). 

Said Fakhry of the Great Pyramid, “Even equipped with modern tools and 

instruments, and profiting from nearly five thousand years of experience, architects and 

engineers today might well quail if called upon to erect a duplicate.” 

The French Connection

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In 1798 the French conquered Egypt. Napoleon Bonaparte took with him 35,000 

soldiers and 175 savants, learned antiquarians and men versed in science. One of these 

Edme-Francois Jomard was to make some exciting discoveries about the Great Pyramid. 

He found that the apothem or slant height of the Pyramid was 184.722 meters (since the 

outer casing was entirely missing, this figure was really an approximate), but it led to 

some serious thinking. Diodorus Siculus and Strabo had written that the apothem of the 

Pyramid was one stadium long – one stadium being 600 Greek feet. Jomard learned from 

reading the classics that a stadium of 600 feet was considered 1/600th of a geographical 

degree. Dividing the geographical degree at the mean latitude of Egypt by 600, Jomard 

came up with 184.712 meters, within 10 centimeters of the Great Pyramid’s apothem. 

Jomard wondered if the ancient Egyptians had worked out their basic units of 

measurement from the size of the earth, and then built this knowledge into the Pyramid. 

Jomard found that several Greek authors reported that the perimeter of the base 

of the Pyramid was intended to measure half a minute of longitude. In other words, 480 

times the base of the Pyramid was equal to a geographical degree. 

This time Jomard found that a half a minute of longitude – 230.8 meters – was 

within 10 centimeters of his measured length of the base of the Pyramid! 

Since Herodotus had said 400 cubits equaled a stadium of 600 feet, Jomard 

divided the apothem by 400 and obtained a cubit of .4618 meters, the common cubit of 

the modern Egyptians! Multiplying this figure by 500 (since the Greeks said the base of 

the Pyramid was 500 cubits), he got 230.90 meters – -the exact figure which he also 

obtained from measuring the base. 

Jomard also suggested that the King's Chamber was not a tomb but a metric 

monument designed to perpetuate a system of measures. He was convinced that the 

builders of the Great Pyramid had the astronomical knowledge to measure a 

geographical degree and therefore knew the true circumference of the earth! He pointed 

out that all the ancient writers had named Egypt as the birthplace of the science of 

geometry, but his classically indoctrinated colleagues rejected the idea. 

The English Connection 

In the middle of the 19th century Mathematician and amateur astronomer John 

Taylor studied measurements others had brought back to England of the Great Pyramid. 

In his calculations he discovered that the Pyramid was of a unique structure – the sides 

sloped at 51° 51' not the 60° of an equilateral triangle, and each face's area was equal to 

the square of the height of the Pyramid. He found if he divided the perimeter by twice 

the height, he obtained a value of 3.144, remarkably close to the value of pi. The height 

of the Pyramid to its perimeter had the same value as the radius of a circle to its 

circumference. Taylor concluded that the builders of the Pyramid intended to represent 

the circumference of the earth by the perimeter of the Pyramid, and the height of the

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Pyramid to represent the distance from the center of the earth to the pole. Asserted 

Taylor, “It was to make a record of the measure of the Earth that it was built.” 

Taylor concluded: “They knew the Earth was a sphere; and by observing the 

motion of the heavenly bodies over the earth’s surface, had ascertained its 

circumference, and were desirous of leaving behind them a record of the circumference 

as correct and imperishable as it was possible for them to construct.” 

Coincidentally, Taylor found that dividing the base by 25 inches gave a figure of 

366, very close to the number of days in a year. 

If he measured the perimeter in inches, and divided the result by 100, it gave 366. 

At that same time independently Sir John Herschel, British astronomer, said the British 

inch was a hair's breath too short and recommended it be lengthened a little so that 

500,000,000 inches would exactly equal the distance from pole to pole in the earth. 

Astonishingly enough, the inch he came up with –-exactly one five hundred millionth of 

the polar axis of the earth – was the very same inch that Taylor found fit the Great 

Pyramid in multiples of 366! 

Remarkably enough, the International Geophysical Year 1957-58 geodetic 

research with orbiting satellites obtained a figure of 3949.89 miles for the polar radius 

of the earth, which, divided by 10,000,000 British inches, gave a figure of 25.02614284 

– exactly the length of Taylor’s and Sir Isaac Newton’s “sacred cubit” correct to the 

third decimal point! 

Says Tompkins: “To Taylor the inference was clear: the ancient Egyptians must 

have had a system of measurements based on the true spherical dimensions of the 

planet, which used a unit which was within a thousandth part of being equal to a British 

inch” (Secrets of the Great Pyramid, Thompkins, p.74). 

Taylor also found that the cubic capacity of the granite coffer found in the 

King's Chamber in the Pyramid was almost exactly four times a standard measure for 

grain in Britain – a quarter , or eight bushels. 

Piazza Smyth 

The first really scientific measurements of the Pyramid with modern equipment 

was done by Piazza Smyth in the late nineteenth century. Smyth found the Pyramid was 

placed on the latitude of 29° 58' 51', and concluded finally that originally the builders 

had placed the Pyramid right on the latitude of 30°, but it had been gradually displaced 

due to a gradual shifting of latitude which occurs. 

Smyth believed the Pyramid was oriented by using the Descending Passage to 

observe a polar star. Smyth calculated that the circumpolar star alpha Draconis could 

have been seen in the 10 opening of the Descending Passage 2123 B.C., also at 3440 

B.C. Smyth determined that in 2170 B.C. at the equinox, alpha Draconis would have

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been visible down the Descending Passage and another star, Alcyone of the Pleiades, 

would have been crossing the meridian in the vertical plane of the Grand Gallery of the 

Pyramid. 

Smyth’s other observations and measurements confirmed in great detail the 

theories of Taylor. However, he found that his results produced an astounding value for 

pi in the Great Pyramid's proportions—the value of 3.14159! 

Smyth also found, in re-computing the height of the Great Pyramid, that Taylor's 

figure was 6 inches too short, and that the Pyramid rose 10 units of height for ever 9 

units of width. Multiplying the height by 10 to the ninth power, he came up with 

91,840,000 – an excellent figure for the radius of the earth's orbit around the sun in 

miles! 

Was this mere chance 

Another extraordinary number found by students of the Pyramid was the sum of 

the diagonals of the base, which were computed to be 25,826.68 pyramid inches – a 

very close approximation of the number of solar years in a “great year” – that is, the 

length of years it takes for the earth to make a complete gyration in its wobble which 

causes precession of the equinoxes. 

Was this just coincidence All these fantastic mathematical correlations indicate 

that as Josephus declared, the wise and righteous men before the Deluge built a 

repository of arcane knowledge which later generations have begun to unravel and 

explore, becoming more and more amazed as the discoveries grow. There is no doubt 

but that God Himself inspired the men of old to accomplish this monumental project – 

something no other generation has done. 

According to David Davidson, the builders of the Great Pyramid must have been 

deeply familiar with the working of natural law. He claimed it was evident that if you 

know the earth's distance from the sun and the length of the sidereal year in seconds, 

you can figure the rate at which the earth is falling toward the sun; you can figure out 

from this the specific gravity of the earth, the sun, the earth and moon combined, and 

even the speed of light. 

Says Tompkins: “To Davidson the mathematics of the Pyramid indicate that the 

former civilization was more highly skilled in the science of gravitational astronomyand 

therefore in the mathematical basis of the mechanical arts and sciences – than 

modern civilization” (page 133). 

Davidson concluded that it has “taken man thousands of years to discover by 

experiment what he knew originally by a surer and simpler method.” Davidson 

surmised that the Pyramid was built to immortalize the science of that time and preserve 

it for another civilization far into the future. It was created to be a sort of “time

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capsule,” a record of the science and mathematics of its day, to be preserved as long as 

the Great Pyramid itself should last. 

Just as Flavius Josephus wrote in Antiquities of the Jews! 

Unfortunately for Davidson and other scientific investigators of the Pyramid, the 

efforts of lesser men who attempted to read prophetic interpretations into the interior 

passageways of the Pyramid brought much scorn, ridicule and reproach upon the entire 

subject of the Great Pyramid, and antagonized the scientific world. 

In the twentieth century, Professor Stecchini of Harvard demonstrated that the 

ancient Egyptians indeed were highly developed and advanced in astronomy, 

mathematics, geography and geodesy. He found from studying hieroglyphics hither- to 

neglected that from the earliest dynasties the Egyptians could measure latitude to within 

a few hundred feet, and longitude also – as Tompkins says, “a feat which was not 

repeated on this planet until the eighteenth century of our era.” 

These ancient texts fully vindicated the findings of Jomard. Indeed, the 

Egyptians of antiquity did know the precise circumference of the earth. They knew the 

length of their own country almost to the very cubit! “To do so the Egyptians must have 

been able to make astronomical observations with almost the exactness afforded by the 

modern telescope and chronometer” (Thompkins, p.176). 

Furthermore, measurements by J. H. Cole in 1925 showed that the ancient 

Egyptians knew that a degree of latitude is shortest at the equator and lengthens as it 

approaches the pole – in other words, they knew the earth is flattened out and has a 

bulge at the equator. Says Tompkins: “These cold facts should settle one whole facet of 

the mystery of the Great Pyramid. Clearly the ancient Egyptians knew the shape of the 

earth to a degree not confirmed till the eighteenth century when it was established that 

Newton was correct in his theory that the planet was somewhat flattened at the poles, 

and they knew the size of the earth to a degree not matched till the middle of the 

nineteenth century” (page 211-212). 

The Great Pyramid stands as a monument – an eternal witness – to the 

government of the Most High God, which is like a Pyramid, Christ being the rejected 

capstone (Psa. 118:22), and which shines down from heaven like the rays of the sun. 

It may also have been built, as legends state, to be a lasting witness of the science 

and mathematical understanding of the peoples of that ancient time, frustrating the 

skeptics, and disproving the contentions of the agnostics, a monument to preserve the 

knowledge of the ancients, measurements, and mathematics, astronomy, and related 

sciences. 

It also stands as a monument of prophecy written in stone.

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The King’s Chamber 

The King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid reveals a highly significant 

mathematical pattern. Above the chamber are several vaults divided by slabs of stone 

weighing 70 tons each. Inside the chamber is an empty stone box with no lid – as if it 

were an EMPTY SARCOPHAGUS. 

Surrounding the room are six faces including four walls, the ceiling and the floor. 

“Six” is the number of a “man” (created on the “sixth” day). 

The chamber is roofed with EIGHT large stone slabs, and is paved with eight 

similar flagstones. Eight flagstones cover each end of the room, and sixteen slabs (2 x 8) 

cover each side of the chamber. 

“Eight,” as Bible students know, is the number of “NEW BEGINNINGS.” The 

eighth day of the week is the first day of the next week. There were eight persons saved 

in the Ark of Noah, to begin a new world. Read our article on the meaning of “Shemini 

Atzeret – the Eighth Day”, the final Holy Day in God’s Great Plan. 

The number “eight” is linked to time and to New Beginnings. 

In the King’s Chamber, the eight flagstones are multiplied eight times (8 x 8 = 

64), thus the King’s Room pictures COMPLETE RENEWAL AND A NEW 

BEGINNING FOR MANKIND! 

The message of the empty sarcophagus or burial box tells us that a NEW 

BEGINNING is offered to mankind! Death could not hold Christ, who died for our sins, 

and was RESURRECTED to new life by the power of God Almighty! 

As the apostle Paul writes, “So when this corruption has put on incorruption, and 

this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying, ‘Death is 

swallowed up in victory.’ O Death, where is your sting O Hades, where is your 

victory . . . But thanks be to God, who gives us the VICTORY through our Lord Jesus 

Christ” (I Cor.15:54-57). 

The Amazing Shaft and Orion’s Belt 

Cut through the southern face of the King’s Chamber is a shaft, often called an air 

shaft, which extends precisely through 200 feet of solid stone through dozens of levels of 

stone, in a straight line, so as to confound scholars and scientists as to how it could have 

been engineered without modern lasers. 

The shaft originally pin pointed the three stars of the belt of the brightest 

constellation in the night sky – Orion. To the ancients, Orion was the symbol of the 

Messiah! Says Bullinger, in Witness of the Stars, “In the constellation Taurus lies the 

constellation of Orion, ‘The Coming Prince.’ Orion is the most brilliant of all the

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constellations. His name, in the Denderah Zodiac, is Ha-ga-t, meaning ‘this is he who 

triumphs.’” Says Bullinger, “Orion was anciently spelt Oarion, from the Hebrew root, 

which means light. So that Orion means coming forth as light” (p.125). The 

constellation of Orion is mentioned in Job 9:9, 38:31, and Amos 5:8. The Hebrew word 

for this constellation is Chesil, which means “a strong one, a hero, or giant.” 

This, of course, refers to Jesus Christ – the Messianic king who will conquer His 

enemies and establish the Kingdom of God (Rev.17:14-16; 19:11-17). 

Issuing forth from the feet of Orion -- picturing Christ the Messiah returning in 

power -- is “Eridanus” – meaning “the river of the Judge.” This sign is an immense 

constellation, consisting of 84 stars, running in a serpentine (river-like) course, bending, 

and twisting down, down, down, till it is out of sight. It speaks of judgment and of fire. 

It is a fiery river. It is interesting that when Christ returns, and fights against the armies 

that oppose Him outside the city of Jerusalem, He will trample them like grapes in a 

winepress, “outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, up to the horses’ 

bridles, for one thousand six hundred furlongs” (Rev.14:20). 

In Orion’s belt are three bright stars – Alnitak, Alnitam and Mintaka. The three 

largest Pyramids at Giza are believed to be a reflection of the three belt stars of Orion, the 

Warrior-Messiah. 

Says Raymond Capt in Glory of the Stars, “Orion is the most brilliant of all the 

constellations. The figure contained therein is a great hunter with a mighty club in his 

right hand shown in the act of striking. In his left hand he holds the skin of a slain lion. 

His left foot is in the act of crushing the head of the enemy. He wears a brilliant starry 

girdle from which hangs a mighty sword. The hilt of the sword is in the form of the head 

and body of a lamb; showing the mighty prince is ‘the Lamb that was slain.’ 

“Christ was born of a woman, as was alleged of Orion. He was, at the same time, 

the peculiar gift of Deity to our world, as was the hero of the constellation. Christ was 

indeed the greatest and sublimest of all men. He passed through water without being 

wetted. He did claim to be able to destroy, and came into the world that He might destroy 

all the mighty powers of evil and all the works of the Devil. On this account He was 

stung by the Scorpion of death. 

“The names of the stars in this sign substantiate this interpretation. The brightest 

star (in the right shoulder) is named ‘Betelgeuz’; ‘the coming of the branch’. The next in 

brilliancy (in the left foot) is called ‘Rigel’ or ‘Rigol’; ‘the foot that crusheth’. The lifted 

foot in the very act of crushing the head of the enemy thus illustrates the name. Another 

star (one of the three in his belt) is called ‘Al Nitch’; ‘the wounded One’ and reminds us 

of the prophecy that this glorious One was to be bruised in the heel. In His left breast 

shines a bright star, ‘Bellatrix’, which means ‘swiftly coming’ or ‘suddenly destroying’. 

Other star-names (Arabic) relate to this prince. Al Giauza; ‘The branch’; Al Gebor, ‘the 

mighty’; Al Mirzaim, ‘the ruler’, Al Nagjed, ‘the prince’, Niphla, (Chaldee) ‘the might’; 

Nux (Hebrew), ‘the strong’.

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“Again we see the foreknowledge that the Prince of Glory, who was once 

wounded for the sins of His people, is about to rise up and shine forth for their 

deliverance. Their redemption draweth nigh: for ‘The Lord shall go forth as a mighty 

man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail 

against his enemies. I have long time holden my peace, I have been still, and refrained 

myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman: I will destroy and devour at once’ (Isaiah 

42:13-14). 

“In that day we shall see the beauty and glory of the truth revealed: ‘Arise, shine: 

for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For behold, the 

darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise 

upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles [nations] shall come 

to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising” (Psalm 60:1-3, p.105-106). 

Clearly this telescopic view of Orion shows us the Triumph of the Messiah over 

His enemies, when He comes suddenly to the earth to restore order, peace, and the rule of 

divine law! 

Alpha Draconis 

A similar northern shaft from the ante-chamber in front of the King’s Chamber 

was originally designed to point to the former Pole Star Alpha Draconis, “the Eye of the 

Dragon.” This star in the Draco constellation appears to be “lording it over” the 47 seven 

Zodiacal constellations. Inside the Dragon constellation was the Eye of Draco, the 

ancient pre-Flood pole star and central axis of the earth and the heavens. It was formerly 

the center of starry motion around it. But it lost its place in the scheme of the heavens, 

and was “cast down.” 

As Christ said, “I saw Satan fall like lightning fall from heaven” (Luke 10:18). 

Isaiah declared: “How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning” 

(Isaiah 14:12). 

Alpha Draconis – a symbol of Satan the Devil, the arch Rebel of the Universe – 

was cast down and removed from his place of celestial importance, and will be removed 

forevermore (Ezek.28:14-19). 

At the global cataclysm of the Flood, Draco was removed, as the axis of the earth 

was disrupted and moved to center on a new pole star, Polaris, in the constellation of the 

Bear (Ursa Major). The cataclysm of the Flood caused the earth to tilt, and changed the 

earth’s orbit, so that a solar year changed from 360 days to 365.25 days in length! See 

our article, “The 360 Day Year and the Mayan Calendar.” 

The change in the length of the year appears to indicate that the earth was pushed 

out of its orbit one degree further into space from the sun. A rogue planet, or a huge 

passing comet, may have triggered the enormous paroxysm that convulsed the earth and

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caused massive techtonic upheavals, destroying most life on earth except for the 

redeemed aboard the Ark. 

Prophetic Witness of the Pyramid 

Declares George Riffert, “The literary traditions of ancient Egypt all agree that 

the Pyramid enshrines a divine revelation concerning events past, present, and future; and 

that its statement of prophecy is given in the terms and symbolism of geometry and 

astronomy” (op cit., p.205). 

4004 B.C. – This is the Zero date of the Pyramid Chronograph, beginning with 

the Creation of Adam and Eve. 

2625 B.C. – Dates the point of entrance into the Descending Passage, 

corresponding with the reign of Cheops or Khufu – the Biblical Enoch – who built the 

“pillar” of Enoch or Great Pyramid. 

2348 B.C. – During the time of the Flood in 2348, Aquarius, the Waterman of the 

Zodiac, was directly above the Scored Lines marking the King’s Chamber. 

2144 B.C. – The constellation of Draconis or dragon shown directly down the 

Descending Passage – typifying the apostasy of Nimrod and his New World Order. 

1491 B.C. – Date of the Exodus of Israel out of Egypt. This date is marked in the 

Pyramid by the intersection of the two inclined passages. 

4 B.C. – Birth of Jesus Christ. This dating is given by the geometrical projection 

of the Queen’s Chamber floor line where it intersects the floor line of the Ascending 

Passage. 

30 A.D. – Death of Christ on the cross. Entrance to the Grand Gallery – known in 

the Book of the Dead as “Passion of the Messiah” and “Crossing of the Pure Waters of 

Life.” 

70 A.D. – The Well Shaft opens into the Grand Gallery underneath the lower 

ramp stone. The center of this opening has a date of 70 A.D. – the year of the burning 

and destruction of the Temple by the Roman general Titus, accompanied by the death of 

one million Jews. 

1518 A.D. – Where the Descending Passage levels out, before terminating in the 

Pit or Chamber of Chaos. General date for the overthrow of Roman Catholicism and 

beginning of the Protestant Reformation. 

1558 A.D. – Beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth in England, which gave 

Protestantism control in Great Britain and led to England’s age of glory.

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1844 A.D. – On this year the central moment of the Precessional Cycle fell 

exactly in the Central Axis or Plane of the Pyramid. For the first and only time in 40,000 

years, the earth being nearest the sun, marked the beginning of the earth’s most 

wonderful epoch ushering in the present age of astronomical development, scientific 

achievements and transportation triumphs. The Jews became a power in the international 

affairs of the world. 

Interestingly, the Turkish Empire granted “religious toleration” to the Jews in 

1844; this year was exactly 1260 lunar years from the Hegira of Mohammed in 622 A.D. 

(Dan.12:7). Between 622 A.D. and General Allenby’s entrance into Jerusalem in 1917 

A.D., there were exactly 1335 lunar years (compare Daniel 12:12). 

1914 A.D. – The beginning of the first low passage, only 43 inches high, and 

symbolical of Tribulation. It marked England’s entrance into World War I. 

1918 A.D. – The end of the First Low Passage and entrance into the Ante 

Chamber, symbolizing the end of Tribulation (World War I), and the beginning of a 

period of “Troubled Peace” -- a truce in Chaos. 

1928 A.D. – Second Low Passage begins, symbolizing another hard period of 

World Trouble. Marking beginning of the Great Depression. 

1936 – The end and disappearance of the prophetic detail in the Descending 

Passage. 1936, by some estimates, was the beginning of World War II, with War 

between China and Japan, the Spanish Civil War, and Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia. 

2007 A.D. – the constellation of Aries, the Ram, typical of the risen Lamb of God, 

Jesus Christ, was directly above the Scored Lines. Draconis or the dragon constellation 

was seven times lower than in 2348 B.C. This would seem to signify the rising up of the 

Lamb of God and soon-coming supreme abasement of that old “dragon” and his being 

cast down—and that we are nearing the return of Jesus Christ, the Messiah! 

Another Great Mystery 

What remains a mystery, today – the greatest mystery of all, perhaps – is not so 

much the incredible, amazing knowledge possessed by the ancient Egyptians, but rather 

the mystery of how that knowledge became lost to the world for so many centuries. 

Scholars have generally given credit to the Greeks of a few centuries before 

Christ – Hipparchus, Pythagoras, Eratosthenes, Ptolemy – for being the founders and 

originators of mathematics, geometry, and astronomy. The truth, however, shows that 

rather they did not originate – they inherited the knowledge which they passed on. But all 

too often they had only a smattering of the knowledge which had been possessed by the 

ancients. The vast majority of it had been lost – buried – destroyed. 

How did it happen

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The Flood of Noah’s time would certainly fulfill the prophecy of the world being 

destroyed by a great overthrow of water. It was indeed a vast, gargantuan cosmic 

catastrophe which caused this ancient knowledge to become buried, forgotten, and cast 

aside for centuries! It seems unlikely that any other cause would be sufficient to 

eradicate the scientific knowledge of an entire civilization. Somehow such knowledge 

seems to survive wars, pestilences, famines, earthquakes, and relatively minor 

disruptions—even invasion and captivity. But in a cosmic upheaval of immense 

proportions, where an entire global civilization is wiped from the face of the earth, 

destroyed, and obliterated, it is easy to imagine the light of knowledge becoming 

extinguished. 

In the wake of such an upheaval, it is no wonder that a tragic time of Dark Ages 

should follow, in which the torch of knowledge should be extinguished, and only a bare 

flicker of the light of science should remain. That light has begun to be revived in the 

modern age since 1844 and the growth of understanding of modern science. 

The Message of the Pyramid 

Once again the secrets of the Great Pyramid are beginning to be revealed and 

understood! The Great Designer, God Himself, inspired the construction of this 

monumental edifice as a testimony and witness to His existence, and His divine control 

of human history. It outlines 6,000 years of human history, most of it in advance. It 

testifies to the way of salvation through the “Passion of the Messiah,” and predicted His 

birth and death. 

Says George R. Riffert, “The message of the Pyramid is intended especially for 

this generation and age. Nothing can be more clear than this for the reason that its 

profound scientific character and prophetic datings could not have been understood or 

verified at any earlier period in the world’s history” (p.223). 

He adds: “The purpose of this Revelation is twofold: to warn a skeptical, 

haughty, pleasure-minded generation of the impending Judgment of God upon sin and 

unrighteous men; and to comfort and inspire with additional evidence of the Authority of 

the Bible and the imminence of the Messianic Advent, all who love Jesus Christ and 

honour Him as their Saviour and Eternal King.” 

Declares Riffert, “The knowledge inscribed in the Great Pyramid 5000 years ago, 

was so far beyond the range of the human mind, that it becomes an incontestable witness 

of the Omniscience of its Designer” (p.242). 

How Long Are We before the End 

The Great Pyramid also figures into end-time Bible prophecy.

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The prophet Daniel saw in vision a man holding both arms heavenward, saying, 

How long shall the fulfillment of these wonders be” (Dan.12:6). Then he heard one 

angel say to another, “”that it shall be for a time, times, and half a time” (v.7) – “and 

when the power of the holy people has been completely shattered, all these things shall be 

finished.” 

“Times, time, and half time” equals 1260 days (years) for Israel’s affliction. 

Interestingly, “seven times” punishment was prophesied upon Israel “Seven times” 

equals 2520 years being fulfilled. From the fall of Jerusalem in 585 B.C. to the King’s 

Chamber dating of 1936 A.D. is precisely 2520 years! As we have discussed, 1936 was 

in the mind of many the real beginning of World War II, as that year saw the invasion of 

China by Japan, Ethiopia by Italy, and the Civil War in Spain. 

2520 years is actually two periods of 1260 years. If we count Daniel’s 1260 days 

(years) as being the second of two periods of 1260 days, counting from 676 A.D., we 

would still arrive at 1936 A.D. – the dating of the King’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid. 

But let’s take this a step further. Daniel went on and prophesied, “And from the 

time the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there 

shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that waits and comes 

to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days” (Dan.12:12). 

1936/7 A.D. Beginning of World War II 

+30 years 

1966/7 A..D. Six Day War 

+45 years 

2011/12 A.D. End Point of Prophetic TimeLine 

If we count 30 more years from 1936 to the 1290 days, we arrive at 1966-67 – the 

year of the Six Day War (fought in the spring of 1967). If we add another 45 years to 

bring us to the 1335 days (years), we come up to 2011-2012. This would be the “end 

point” of Daniel’s prophecy. 

What is significant about this date 

End Point of Mayan Calendar 

The year 2012 is also the END of the Mayan Calendar! The Mayan Calendar 

originated during the epoch of Enoch in 3113 B.C. year! It has a duration of 5,125 years. 

That means it concludes with the year 2012 A.D.! 

Authorities agree that the Mayan Long Count calendar began August 11, 3113 

B.C. (Gregorian calendar). Why it begins at this date is anybody’s guess. This would 

have been during the life of the prophet Enoch, who was born in 3545 B.C. He lived for 

365 years before he “was taken,” in 3180 B.C. Methuselah was born in 3480 B.C. and

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lived for 969 years. So the Mayan calendar begins 76 years after Enoch disappeared (was 

taken to a place of safety from his many enemies). 

According to the Mayan calendar, we are living in the Mayan “end times.” The 

Great Cycle of the Mayan Long Count calendar ends at the winter solstice in 2012 A.D., 

less than three years from now. 

The Mayan calendar has a Great Cycle, ending 13 “bactuns” or a period of 5,125 

years. To the ancient Mayans, the conjunction of the sun and Milky Way center or midpoint 

occurring on the winter solstice, December 21, in 2012 A.D. is a major transition 

point, the creation of a new World Age. 

What lies ahead for us now 

The world is rapidly approaching the “Pit”, or “Chamber of Chaos” – representing 

divine Judgment and worldwide Chaos and global Great Tribulation! Says Riffert in The 

Great Pyramid Proof of God, regarding the Pit or Chamber of Chaos, “Here, in a rough, 

inverted, cave-like place, deranged lost souls, like madmen, rage and battle among 

themselves, beating out each other’s brains with axes” (p.54). That is a gory description 

of the horrendous time of evil shortly coming upon the earth! 

Isaiah prophesied, “Fear and the PIT and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of 

the earth. And it shall be that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the 

pit. And he who comes up from the midst of the pit shall be caught in the snare; for the 

windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken” (Isa.24:17- 

18). 

But there is hope for those who turn to God before it is too late. As the apostle 

Jude wrote, “Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men saying, 

‘Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgment on all, to 

convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have 

committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have 

spoken against Him” (Jude 14-15). 

Christ declared, when we see all these things, “Now when these things begin to 

happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near” (Luke 

21:28, NKJV). He also said: “But take heed to yourselves and be on your guard, lest 

your hearts be overburdened and depressed (weighed down) with the giddiness and 

headache and nausea of self-indulgence, and worldly worries and cares pertaining to [the 

business of] this life, and [lest] that day come upon you suddenly like a trap or a noose; 

for it will come upon all who live upon the face of the entire earth. Keep awake then and 

watch at all times [be discreet, attentive, and ready], praying that you may have the full 

strength and ability and be accounted worthy to escape all these things [taken together] 

that will take place, and to stand in the presence of the Son of Man” (Luke 21:34-36i, 

Amplified Parallel Bible).

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