Isaiah 19:19-20

“19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.

20 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.
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According to the above passage, this alter-monument is to be found “in the midst of the land of Egypt” and yet “at the border thereof.” There is only one spot on the face of the earth that complies with both of those conditions and that is the exact spot where the Great Pyramid stands. The Great Pyramid is situated on a line corresponding with the 30° North Latitude drawn just south of Cairo, dividing the country into Lower and Upper Egypt. To the populated land in which stands the Metropolis of Egypt. To the immediate west of the Pyramid is the Great Sahara Desert – nothing but sand for many hundreds of miles.

Lines produced from the two diagonals of the Pyramid, to the northwest to northeast, enclose the Nile Delta, which resembles an open fan with a long handle. The Delta, or Lower Egypt, is the fan; the strip of cultivated land which borders the Nile is the handle. The Great Pyramid stands at the geometric center and southern extremity of this Nile-Delta Quadrant. Thus we see, the Great Pyramid is in the midst of the land of Egypt and yet at the border of it, both geometrically and geographically.

The Great Pyramid was also placed in the exact center of all the land area of the earth. Lines drawn through the north-south and east-west axis of the Pyramid divide equally the earth’s terrain. The north-south axis is (31° 9’ meridian east of Greenwich) is the longest land meridian, and the east-west axis, (29° 58’ 51” north) the longest land parallel.

It should be noted that the official name of the Great Pyramid is the “Great Pyramid of Giza,” which means, in English, the “Great Pyramid of the Border.” This gives additional proof that the “altar” of Isaiah 19:19-20 is the Great Pyramid of Giza. According to Isaiah, this altar was to be for a “sign” and a “witness.” This indicates it was not an altar of sacrifice, in which case it could not have been built of hewn stone, for the law has never been rescinded that is given in Exodus 20:25: “If thou wilt make Me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou has polluted it…”

The Bible tells us of other altars of witness or pillars of covenant. Jacob setup a “witness” (at Bethel) of the oath which he had sworn to God and another (at Mizpah) as a “witness” of the agreement between Laban and himself. These altars originated in the mind of man to meet the need of the moment. It would suffice if they only lasted few generations excited sufficient curiosity to ensure that the story which they embodied would be passed from father to son until the story became a part of the racial tradition.

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