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Using Macromedia
Dreamweaver - Assignment Four
AsSigNmenT 1 | aSsiGnmEnT
2 | assIgNmeNt 3 | hOmE
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Assignment Four
The Great Pyramid
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The
Great Pyramid is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
still standing. It is one of the oldest
structures on the face of the earth and arguably the best built. Its mortar
joints are consistently 1/50 of an inch, which
is incredible craftsmanship, considering that of the over two million stones
that make up the Pyramid, there is no stone
weighing less than a ton, most weighing about two and a half, and some as
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The
Pyramid covers over 13 acres and is solid masonry, not hollow or earth-filled
like the Central American pyramids. The
Great Pyramid here demonstrates the remarkable character of its placement
on the face of the Earth. Joseph Seiss and
others have demonstrated that the Pyramid lies in the center of gravity
of the continents. It also lies in the exact center of
all the land area of the world, dividing the earth's land mass into approximately
equal quarters. The north-south axis (31
degrees east of Greenwich) is the longest land meridian, and the east-west
axis (30 degrees north) is the longest land
parallel on the globe. There is obviously only one place that these longest
land-lines of the terrestrial earth can cross, and
it is at the Great Pyramid! This is incredible, one of the scores of features
of this
mighty structure which begs for a better explanation.
The Pyramid is at the
earth's center
While being
the oldest structure on the face of the earth, the Great Pyramid is the
most accurately oriented, being laid out
almost exactly due north, south, east, and west. Modern man's best effort,
the Paris Observatory, is six minutes of a degree
off true north. The Great Pyramid is only three minutes deviant and E.
Raymond Capt1 claims that is due mainly to subsidence.
Many architects and engineers who have studied the Pyramid's structure
contend that, with all our vaunted technological prowess,
we could not build the structure today. Does the theory of evolution run
in reverse?
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TWO SCHOOLS OF PYRAMIDOLOGY
There has been
a running controversy between two groups of serious students of the Great
Pyramid since Herodotus, the
"father of ancient history" revived its study two thousand years
after it was built. The first group believes that the Pyramid is
a divine revelation, and the second group doesn't. While this latter group
might be willing to conjecture that the apparent
geometric marvels of the Pyramid are the result of knowledge lost with
Atlantis2 or other highly advanced but now destroyed
civilization, they will not accept the possibility that God used prophets
to direct the building of the Great Pyramid in the way
that God directed Noah to build the ark.
Proponents
of the divine inspiration school have included John Greaves3 , apparently
Sir Isaac Newton4 , John Taylor5 ,
Scotland's Astronomer Royal C. Piazzi Smyth6 , Joseph Seiss7 , J. Ralston
Skinner8 , David Davidson9 , and James and
Adam Rutherford10 , Those who have been skeptical of this perspective,
but avid students of some form of Great Pyramidology
include William Flinders Petrie11 , Sir J.
Norman Lockyer12 , the "pyramid power" people including Antoine
Bovis, Karl Drbal, G. Patrick Flanagan, and most modern
tabloid and/or high glossy treatments of the mystery of the Pyramid including
Time-Life's Mystic Places, the work of Erich von
Daniken, and Humphrey Evans13 , William Fix14 , Kurt Mendelssohn15 , Max
Toth16 and Peter Tompkins17 . The present work
is confident that the Great Pyramid's Architect was the Creator and that
its builder was the Egyptian pharaoh Cheops, also called
Khufu. Cheops was directed by shepherd-prophets who, like the biblical
prophets, were men who received a special calling and
anointing from God.
SHEPHERD-PROPHETS
Consider these
facts. The Pyramid was built in Egypt, notorious for its idolatry and
polytheism. Yet Pharaoh Cheops became
"arrogant towards the gods" during his reign and shut up the
temples, cast out the images, and compelled even the priests to
labor in the quarries. Herodotus says that the Pyramid was thirty years
in building, the first ten years building prepatory works,
with crews of 100,000 working on three-month shifts, and that after this
thirty year period Cheops reverted to worship of the
Egyptian gods. What strange power could cause such a radical thirty year
break in the polytheistic habits of the Egyptians?
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Herodotus
extensively interviewed an Egyptian priest about the building of the pyramid
and he attested that a noted stranger
abode in Egypt at the time of Cheops, a shepherd, to whom rather than to
Cheops the Egyptians attribute this edifice. The
Egyptians call him "Philition" or "Philitis." Josephus
also quotes Manetho, an Egyptian priest and scribe, who says there was
a period in the Egyptian past when, by peaceable means, some "shepherd
kings" had the Egyptian rulers "in their hands.
" Manetho said that some say they were Arabs. Seiss, with characteristically
sound scholarship and reasoning, makes a case
that the biblical Job was the Arabian who directed the Pharaoh in the building
of the Great Pyramid. Seiss points out that the
image of a pyramid is "unquestionably" the subject when God addresses
Job out of the whirlwind in Job 38:
"Then
the LORD answered Job from the storm. He said: 2 "Who is this that
makes my purpose unclear by saying things
that are not true? 3 Be strong like a man! I will ask you questions,
and you must answer me. 4 Where were you when I made
the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand. 5 Who marked off
how big it should be? Surely you know! Who stretched
a ruler across it? 6 What were the earth's foundations set on, or who
put its cornerstone in place 7 while the morning stars
sang together and all the angels shouted with joy?"
Seiss says that
since YHWH's object is to convince Job of his incompetency to judge of
and understand Him, it is as if the
Almighty is saying: You laid the foundations of the great structure in
Egypt, but where were you when I laid the foundations of
the far greater pyramid of the earth? You laid the measures of the pyramid
in Egypt, but who laid the measures of the earth, and
stretched the line upon it? You fastened down in sockets the foundations
of the pyramid in Egypt, {the Great Pyramid is built
on four sockets} but whereupon are the foundations of the earth fastened?
You laid the pyramid's completing capstone amid
songs and jubilations, but who laid the capstone of the earth when the
celestial morning angels sand together, and all the heavenly
sons of God shouted for joy?
In our day the
idea of shepherds being special agents of God in the building of a monumental
structure would be ludicrous in the
extreme. Such is our age. The fault line of commentators referred to above
is sharp, because the difference between faith and
unbelief is the difference between light and darkness. The Bible says
that God revealed to shepherds some of the most important
information ever given to humankind:
Luke 2:8-15: That
night, some shepherds were in the fields nearby watching their sheep.
9 Then an angel of the Lord stood before
them. The glory of the Lord was shining around them, and they became very
frightened. 10 The angel said to them, "Do not be
afraid. I am bringing you good news that will be a great joy to all the
people. 11 Today your Savior was born in the town of
David. He is Christ, the Lord. 12 This is how you will know him: You will
find a baby wrapped in pieces of cloth and lying in a
feeding box." 13 Then a very large group of angels from heaven joined
the first angel, praising God and saying: 14 "Give glory
to God in heaven, and on earth let there be peace among the people who
please God." 15 When the angels left them and went
back to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, "Let's go to Bethlehem.
Let's see this thing that has happened which the
Lord has told us about."
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Abraham was
also a shepherd, like Job, wealthy with flocks and herds. How is it that
he was brought to the attention of the
pharaoh of Egypt and the King of Gerar in his travels?18 Was it simply
that Sarah, his wife, was so pretty? The Jewish records
say that Abraham was learned in the science of astrology and with his
elaborate knowledge of the heavens and their meanings
he attracted the attention of these kings. We know from the biblical record
that God communicated with the shepherd Abraham
many times, several times using the "stars" as a teaching vehicle.
YHWH Himself directed Abraham's eyes toward the heavens,
indirectly corroborating the Jewish oral tradition that says
Abraham was a gifted astrologer:19 Gen
15:5 "And he brought him forth abroad, and said, 'Look now toward
heaven, and tell the
stars, if thou be able to number them': and he said unto him, 'So shall
thy seed be.'" The
eye of faith sees it as a real and distinct,
not vain and imagined, possibility that the Pyramid was directed by shepherds
guided by Divine wisdom. Such faith offers a
sufficient explanation of what would otherwise be the dilemma posed by
the advanced knowledge and technology exhibited by
the Pyramid. It is with those who do not accept the Divine authorship
of the Pyramid with whom the burden rests for a better
explanation.
THE PLACE OF THE PYRAMID IN THE BIBLE
There is a biblical
reference to the Great Pyramid which is instructive: Isa
19:19-20 "At that time there will be an altar for the
LORD in the middle of Egypt and a monument to the LORD at the border of
Egypt. 20 This will be a sign and a witness to the
LORD All-Powerful in the land of Egypt. When the people cry to the LORD
for help, he will send someone to save and defend
them. He will rescue them from those who hurt them."
Notice that there
is a reference to an "altar" and a "monument" that
will be in Egypt. The location of this "altar" and "monument"
is sketched in terms which seem to be contradictory; it will be at the
"border" of Egypt at the same time it will be in the "middle"
of Egypt. The apparent contradiction offers a chance to pinpoint the identity
of this "monument" since few candidates would be
able to be both the "border" of something, and also its "middle."
Note the horizontal
line below the bottom of the delta quadrant.
The Pyramid is
at the center AND the border of Egypt
This represents
the border between the two countries making up ancient Egypt: Lower Egypt
(the delta) and Upper Egypt
(the South). The Great Pyramid is at the border of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Yet this is also the center of the land of Egypt
if the two ancient countries be viewed as one, a single Egypt. Note also
that the Pyramid is at the center of the natural
quadrant formed by the regular curvature of the delta. It is also at the
center of present Egypt in that Cairo is the capital
of the country and at the center of its business and cultural life. It
is also at the border of ancient Egypt in still another way.
The Great Pyramid
is sometimes called the "Great Pyramid of Gizeh". "Gizeh"
means "border', thus indicating in still another
way that the Pyramid is associated with a "border". The name
"Gizeh" is probably drawn from the fact that anciently the borders
of Egypt were considered to extend as far as the watered, green areas
all along the Nile. The desert outside this fertile strip was
not really part of the country. Thus the division line between fertile
strip and desert is the natural "border" of Egypt. It is along
this
"border" that the Pyramid is situated. Thus by two separate
sets of triple confirmation, the Great Pyramid answers the apparent
riddle of being at both the border and center of Egypt. To find any other
object or concept fulfilling this prophecy's specifications
would be extremely unlikely. The Biblical
standard of proof, given at Deuteronomy 19:15 and affirmed in the New
Testament (at Matt. 18:16 and 2 Corin. 13:1) has been
met:
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"One witness
shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any
sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two
witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established."
(Deut. 19:15) The
Pyramid is certainly a "pillar"
as the text calls for, and also an "altar" in the sense of being
a witness to the Lord. This sense for "altar," as a structure
of
witness and not for offering sacrifices, is used several times in Scripture,
such as this reference in Joshua 22:
26 Therefore
we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering,
nor for sacrifice: 27 But that it may be a witness
between us, and you, and our generations after us, An
interesting occurrence of gematria also helps pinpoint the Great
Pyramid as God's special revelation. Here is the Hebrew of the Pyramid
text, Isaiah 19:19, 20:
The Hebrew of Isaiah 19:19,20
Gematria is the science of finding meaning in the numerical value of words.
In the Hebrew language each individual letter has
a numerical value. Thus every word has the numerical value of the sum
of the value of its letters. If one adds up the numerical
value of all the Hebrew characters in the Great Pyramid text the value
is 5449. This is the height in inches of the Great Pyramid!
THE CHRONOLOGY
OF THE PYRAMID
The Great Pyramid
has been called "the Bible in stone" because its passage systems
reveal geometrically, in line and symbol,
the same profound spiritual truths and plan of salvation specific to the
Bible, as will be seen as this study unfolds. And just as
there are time prophecies of significance in the Bible, the Pyramid's
silent geometry reveals a remarkable chronography,
prophetic time in stone.
The challenge to
deciphering the prophetic scale is deciphering what measure of length
equals what measure of time.
The key to this scale is given in the Pyramid, in the upper horizontal
passage system's first ante-chamber, in what is
known as "Enoch's circle." Enoch was translated when he was
365 years old. A circle is a symbol of eternity and Enoch
thus "entered eternity" at 365. The circle formed in that first
antechamber, defined by the floor and the two hanging walls
measures 365.25 inches.
The Pyramid speaks
with geometry, not words
The term "inch" is probably ultimately derived from Enoch's
name, for he was bestowed with many secrets of knowledge and
filled with the spirit of prophecy. Being a student of mensuration, and
probably the pre-eminent "father" of that discipline, it is
fitting for the "inch", the basis of the English system of measures,
to be a memorial of the prophet Enoch. This is rather like
Lincoln finding his place on every American penny. Enoch stands as a symbol
for the character and faith which must be
obtained by those who would pass through earth's final ordeals and be
translated at last when the Messiah returns at the
end of this present wicked age. With the scale of an inch for a year,
the Pyramid yields its chronography.
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That a linear
measure could represent a time period is alluded to by Jesus Himself in
the
Sermon on the Mount. The Savior asks at Matthew 6:27, "Which of you
by taking thought
can add one cubit unto his stature?"
The Greek for
"stature" indicates "age-length," not linear length.
Jesus is not giving a formula
for how to grow a basketball star, of seven-foot-plus stature, but rather
is asking, "Which of you
by worrying can add one 'cubit' of time to his life-span?" One authority
claims that Jesus'
association here of a time measure and a linear measure is the only such
usage in all of
ancient Greek literature. While the point Jesus is making is that worry
is fruitless, he is
secondarily mixing a metaphor which yields the interesting equation that
length can equal age.
This simple idea will be plugged into part two of our study of the Pyramid.
Below is my
timeline (ironically enough it is also a simple timeline of the history
of my assignments)
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