Who Built the GREAT PYRAMID?
by Herman L. Hoeh
The Plain Truth May 1964
Did you know the builder of the Great Pyramid is identified in the Bible?
WHO DID build the Great Pyramid at Gizeh, Egypt?
WHEN and WHY was it built?
Is there some supernatural revelation hidden in its mighty stones?
Was the pyramid built to make the Bible clear and understandable?
Are the speculations of the pyramidologists true?
And what about the ʺpyramid inchʺ ‑‑ is it really equal to a year in prophecy as some assume?
Can chronology be accurately determined only by the pyramid?
Here are the surprising answers!
WHO DID build the Great Pyramid at Gizeh, Egypt?
WHEN and WHY was it built?
Is there some supernatural revelation hidden in its mighty stones?
Was the pyramid built to make the Bible clear and understandable?
Are the speculations of the pyramidologists true?
And what about the ʺpyramid inchʺ ‑‑ is it really equal to a year in prophecy as some assume?
Can chronology be accurately determined only by the pyramid?
Here are the surprising answers!
What We Found at Gizeh
Opposite Cairo, across the Nile River, lies the most famous architectural wonder of the world ‑‑ the Great Pyramid at Gizeh.
It is still the world's most MASSIVE building.
For 3500 years it was also the world's TALLEST building.
Only in this last generation has man built taller buildings than the Great Pyramid.
Yet the Empire State Building in New York ‑‑ the HIGHEST building on earth today ‑‑ is only about 2/5 the volume of the Great Pyramid!
ʺThe Cambridge Ancient Historyʺ, Vol. 1, page 281,
declares of the Great Pyramid:
ʺ... its perfect building compels our admiration; its alignment {with the points of the compass} is mathematically correct; often one cannot insert a penknife between the joints of the stone.ʺ
ʺThe Great Pyramid is so incredibly precise that COMPASS ERRORS CAN BE CHECKED AGAINST IT,ʺ
writes Leonard Cottrell in his recent book ʺThe Mountains of Pharaohʺ.
In 1957, Dr. Meredith and I visited the pyramids twice while in Egypt.
We found the external appearance of the Great Pyramid ruined by the Arabs.
For centuries they have carted away and used the polished white casing stones which once made the Pyramid gleam in the sun and moonlight.
But the interior of the Pyramid remains an architectural marvel.
The stones within have not moved a hairsbreadth since the day the workmen fixed them in place.
The flatness of the surfaces of the stones and the squareness of their corners are extraordinary.
Literally acres of polished stone surfaces ‑‑ equal to opticiansʹ work of the present day ‑‑ line the passages of the Great Pyramid.
But not all is perfect workmanship.
Human imperfection is noticeable in the rough, unfinished masonry on the floor of one of the chambers.
We found the floor of the ʺKing'sʺ chamber flagrantly out of level.
All this speaks of remarkable HUMAN WORKMANSHIP ‑‑ BUT DOES IT SPEAK OF A DIVINE REVELATION, AS PYRAMIDOLOGISTS THEORIZE?
If this mighty architectural wonder is a divine revelation, where is the divine perfection?
Yet the Great Pyramid IS one of the wonders of the world.
It is the only one of the seven wonders of the ancient world which still remains.
Surely there is some significance in its endurance through the ages ‑‑ especially since THIS PYRAMID, MISSING ITS CAPSTONE, IS FOUND ENGRAVED ON OUR MONEY.
Why should we Americans ‑‑ the children of Joseph's son Manasseh ‑‑ engrave this EGYPTIAN Pyramid on our money?
Who was actually responsible for the building of this marvel of the ages?
Secrets of the Pyramid Lost!
When the Arabs invaded Egypt over 1100 years ago, they found the secrets of the Great Pyramid totally lost.
Even its entrance was unknown.
The Arab Caliph Mamoon, in the 9th century after Christ, blindly cut into the Pyramid hoping to find buried treasure in it.
He accidentally reached one of the interior passageways ‑‑ but no buried treasure!
But Mamoon only REOPENED the Great Pyramid.
In the days of Jesus Christ, THE TRUE ENTRANCE TO THE GREAT PYRAMID WAS OPEN AND REGULARLY FREQUENTED BY TOURISTS.
The entrance to it was forgotten in the days of the Catholic domination of Egypt ‑‑ before the coming of the Moslem Arabs.
Strabo, the ancient Roman historian, expressly states that in his day the Great Pyramid was accessible to visitors:
ʺIt has on its side,ʺ he states, ʺa stone which can be moved. When it has been lifted up, a tortuous passage is seen which leads to the tombʺ (bk. xvii, p. 808).
Dr. Meredith and I climbed up to this ancient entrance on the north side of the Pyramid.
The entrance used today by tourists is, however, the forced entrance cut out by the Arabs.
At the true entrance to the Great Pyramid, we saw the hieroglyphic carving containing the name of the mighty builder of this architectural wonder of the ancient world.
His name in Egyptian is spelled Khufu by modern writers.
The Greeks spelled his name Cheops.
That is why the Pyramid is often called the Pyramid of Cheops today.
Who was Cheops or Khufu?
When and why did he build the pyramid?
Cheops NOT an Egyptian!
The Egyptians like to boast about their pyramids.
Yet the greatest pyramid of all, they admit was not built by an Egyptian!
And they admit that all their later copies of the Great Pyramid are quite inferior to the first one built by Khufu.
The Egyptian historian Manetho, who lived in the third century before Christ, wrote that Khufu
ʺwas of a DIFFERENT RACE from the Egyptiansʺ (ʺWathenʹs Arts and Antiquities of Egyptʺ, p. 54).
Herodotus, the famous Greek historian of the 5th century before Christ, states that the builders of the Great Pyramid were SHEPHERDS (ʺEuterpeʺ § 128).
But the Egyptians were not shepherds!
Notice Genesis 46:31‑34:
ʺAnd Joseph said unto his brethren ...
I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my fatherʹs house ... are come unto me; and the men are SHEPHERDS ...
And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?
That ye shall say, Thy servantsʹ trade hath been about cattlle ....
FOR EVERY SHEPHERD IS AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE EGYPTIANS.
The Egyptians were not shepherds.
They employed others to tend their cattle.
Yet Khufu, or Cheops, the builder of the Great Pyramid, WAS A SHEPHERD!
Josephus, the Jewish historian, wrote that the Egyptians set the Israelites ʺto build pyramidsʺ (ʺAntiquities of the Jewsʺ, bk. II, ch. ix, § 1).
But the pyramids which the Israelites built during their enslavement were hastily constructed, inferior duplicates of the first mighty Pyramid of Khufu or Cheops.
Who was Cheops the shepherd who built the first Pyramid before the enslavement of the Israelites?
Cheops NOT an Idolater Cheops was not a polytheist.
He was a worshipper of the One God.
ʺCheops closed the temples and prohibited the Egyptians from offering sacrifices,ʺ
wrote Herodotus in book II of his ʺHistoryʺ, § 124.
The God whom Cheops served was named ʺAmenʺ in the older Egyptian spelling.
And ‑‑ strange though it may be ‑‑ ONE OF THE NAMES OF JESUS CHRIST, from the Hebrew, is ʺAMENʺ (Rev. 3:14).
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
The Pharaoh of Upper Egypt, under whom Joseph served, was named Amenemhet III.
Amenemhat III (Ancient Egyptian: Ỉmn-m-hꜣt meaning 'Amun is at the forefront'), also known as Amenemhet III, was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and the sixth king of the Twelfth Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom. He was elevated to throne as co-regent by his father Senusret III, with whom he shared the throne as the active king for twenty years. During his reign, Egypt attained its cultural and economic zenith of the Middle Kingdom.
ʺAmenʺ was a common name among the Pharaohs in Joseph's day.
The Pharaoh must have been strongly influenced by the religion of Cheops.
But this is not all!
Pharaoh Amenemhet gave Joseph
ʺto wife Asenath the daughter of Potiphera priest of ONʺ (Genesis 41:45).
And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On.
And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
Who was the God ʺOnʺ?
Is it significant that ʺOnʺ is but another name (in Greek) for the God ʺAmenʺ ‑‑ Jesus Christ, the LORD of the Old Testament!
In Revelation 1:8, Christ speaks of Himself as the ʺOne who isʺ ‑‑ the ʺexisting One.ʺ
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
In the original inspired text of this verse, the Greek word Christ used was ʺOnʺ! ‑‑ the ʺexisting oneʺ!
The Egyptian rulers knew of the Creator in the days of Joseph!
Not until nearly the days of Moses did gross idolatry spread throughout Egypt!
When Did Cheops Build Pyramid?
When did Cheops live?
Khufu or Cheops (died c. 2566 BC) was an ancient Egyptian monarch who was the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty, in the first half of the Old Kingdom period (26th century BC). Khufu succeeded his father Sneferu as king. He is generally accepted as having commissioned the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but many other aspects of his reign are poorly documented.
According to the eleventh edition of the ʺEncyclopaedia Britannicaʺ, he lived 4700 B.C. ‑‑ which would make him live 700 years before Adam!
Such a date is preposterous!
More recent conservative scholars place him 2600 B.C. ‑‑ 250 years BEFORE the flood in Noah's day!
But the flood, according to the Egyptian records, occurred centuries BEFORE CHEOPS LIVED!
Cheops lived AFTER the flood!
This date is wrong, too!
Obviously modern scholars DO NOT KNOW when Cheops lived.
But they could know if they only believed the Bible record!
Some pyramidologists try to date the pyramid by astronomy.
They ASSUME that when built, the north pole star, Alpha Draconis, could be seen from the entrance passage of the Great Pyramid.
But the idea is purely AN ASSUMPTION.
There is NO PROOF!
Furthermore, the north pole star would have been visible for only a few minutes from the descending passage BECAUSE THE PASSAGE NEVER DID POINT DIRECTLY TO THE NORTH POLE STAR!
Some adherents of the ʺBritish Israel World Federationʺ would try to deny this, but any history book demonstrates the idea false.
The facts of history are that Cheops (1726‑1663 B.C.) was a young contemporary of King Zoser of Egypt. Zoser (1737‑1718 B.C.) built the ʺstep pyramidʺ shortly before Cheops built the Great Pyramid (Budge, ʺA History of Egyptʺ, vol. II, p. 9).‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑
PHOTO CAPTION:
A badly damaged ivory statue of Cheops from Abydos, Egypt.
No other statues are known of him.
The features of Cheops are distinctly non‑Egyptian.
Cheops built the great pyramid of Gizeh, near Cairo.
It is the first and also greatest ever built.
Now the surprise of history is that king Zoser ruled part of Lower Egypt
AT THE SAME TIME JOSEPH WAS PRIME MINISTER UNDER PHARAOH AMENEMHET III, king of Upper Egypt.
Ancient Egypt, remember, was a confederation of small city states. Amenemhet III (1741‑1692 B.C.) was king of Upper Egypt and Pharaoh of all Egypt. But under him were lesser kings, among whom was Zoser.
CHEOPS WAS A FOREIGN KING whose domain extended into the Delta of Egypt.
KING ZOSER RECORDED THE SEVEN YEARSʹ DROUGHT IN JOSEPHʹS TIME.
ʺMy heart is in great anxiety,ʺ said Zoser, ʺfor in my time the Nile has not overflowed for a period of SEVEN YEARSʺ (ʺCambridge Ancient Historyʺ, p. 309‑310, vol. I)
The Bible reveals the seven years of famine extended from 1727 to 1720 B.C.
Here is clear evidence that Cheops, a contemporary of Zoser, must have built the Great Pyramid during the beginning of the sojourn (1726‑1487 B.C.) of Israel in Egypt and about the time of the seven years of famine!
Joseph Enters the Scene
A noted man who helped Cheops in building the Pyramid was named ʺSoufʺ.
He was ʺchief of the works of Khufuʺ (Rawlinsonʹs ʺEgyptʺ, ch. 14).
This man has been an enigma to the historians (see Masperoʹs ʺDawn of Civilizationʺ, pp. 363‑364).
Elsewhere he is called ʺSaf‑hotepʺ ‑‑ meaning ʺSaf the servant.ʺ
He was apparently one of 12 BROTHERS who built the Labyrinth ‑‑ the ʺPentagonʺ of Ancient Egypt ‑‑ for Amenemhet III (Wathenʹs ʺAntiquitiesʺ, p. 142).
Certainly, there is no doubt who ʺSoufʺ was!
He could be none other than JOSEPH!
The name given Joseph by Pharaoh was ʺZAPH‑nath‑paaneahʺ (Gen. 41:45).
The Egyptians still call Joseph ʺYousuf.ʺ
Certainly, there need be no doubt when Cheops lived!
A corrupted Egyptian story records an incident in the later life of Cheops or Khufu, in which he calls an aged Egyptian sage to his palace (Budgeʹs ʺEgyptʺ, vol. II, p. 43).
The sage lived 110 years.
Joseph died at 110 years of age (Gen. 50:26).
So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old:
and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
There can be no mistaking this coincidence!
Cheops Wrote Scripture
Not only did Cheops worship Amen or On ‑‑ that is, Jesus Christ; he also wrote Scripture!
Manetho, the Egyptian historian, wrote of Cheops:
ʺHe was arrogant toward the gods, but repented and WROTE THE SACRED BOOK ... a work of great importanceʺ (see Wathenʹs ʺAntiquitiesʺ, p. 268; and Budgeʹs ʺEgyptʺ, vol. II, p. 31).
But which Sacred Book?
Certainly, none of the Sacred Books of Egypt's pagan religion ‑‑ for Cheops closed their temples and forbade their worship.
Was this Sacred Book an Egyptian Book?
No! Cheops, remember, was of FOREIGN RACE ‑‑ and it is quite obvious that Cheops's Sacred Book was not preserved by Egyptians who later opposed his religion.
A clue to the answer is found in Egyptian records.
Cheops has another name ‑‑ Saaru of Shaaru (Petrieʹs ʺHistory of Egyptʺ, vol. I, p. 37).
Saaru is another name ʺfor the inhabitants of Mt. Seirʺ (Rawlinsonʹs ʺHistory of Egyptʺ, ch. 22).
Khufu, then, was a foreign King whose domain extended from Mt. Seir to Lower Egypt during and after the time of Joseph.
Petra is in Mount Seir.
Dr. Meredith and I visited, in 1957, the domain of Cheops, both in Egypt and in Mt. Seir.
PHOTO CAPTION: An air view of the pyramids of Gizeh. At the right is the great pyramid built by Cheops.
Distances are so immense on the desert that it is hard to realize that this was the greatest building on earth until this century.
Though it is no longer the highest structure on earth, it is still the greatest for its sheer bulk!
Mt. Seir was famous in history as the ʺLand of Uzʺ (Vol. III of ʺClarkeʹs Commentaryʺ, preface to Book of Job).
Uz was a descendant of Seir the Horite (Gen. 36:28).
The Arabs preserve a corrupt record of Cheops of Mt. Seir or of the Land of Uz.
They call him the ʺwizard of Oz.ʺ
Now what individual who dwelled in Uz was arrogant, repented of his sin and wrote a Sacred Book?
None other than JOB!
Job (Hebrew: אִיּוֹב 'Īyyōv; Greek: Ἰώβ Iṓb) is the central figure of the Book of Job in the Bible. In Islam, Job (Arabic: أيوب, romanized: ʾAyyūb) is also considered a prophet. Job is presented as a good and prosperous family man who is suddenly beset with horrendous disasters that take away all he holds dear—a scenario intended to test Job's faith in God. Struggling mightily to understand this situation, Job reflects on his despair but consistently remains devout. The language of the Book of Job, combining post-Babylonian Hebrew and Aramaic influences, indicates it was composed during the Persian period (540–330 BCE), with the poet using Hebrew in a learned, literary manner.
And the Sacred Book is the Book of Job!
Job ‑‑ AS MR. ARMSTRONG LONG AGO PERCEIVED ‑‑ could be none other than the Cheops who built the Great Pyramid!
The ancient Greeks called Job ʺCheopsʺ ‑‑ pronouncing the letters ʺchʺ almost as if they were an ʺh.ʺ
We call Job ʺHiobʺ in German‑‑ and we pronounce the final ʺbʺ as if it were a ʺpʺ much as the Greeks did.
Plainly, Cheops is but an altered pronunciation of Job!
Job Was a King!
When Job was being tested, he cried out that he wished he had died:
Job ‑‑ AS MR. ARMSTRONG LONG AGO PERCEIVED ‑‑ could be none other than the Cheops who built the Great Pyramid!
The ancient Greeks called Job ʺCheopsʺ ‑‑ pronouncing the letters ʺchʺ almost as if they were an ʺh.ʺ
We call Job ʺHiobʺ in German‑‑ and we pronounce the final ʺbʺ as if it were a ʺpʺ much as the Greeks did.
Plainly, Cheops is but an altered pronunciation of Job!
Job Was a King!
When Job was being tested, he cried out that he wished he had died:
Why died I not from the womb?
why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Why did the knees prevent me?
or why the breasts that I should suck?
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept:
then had I been at rest,
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; (Job 3:11‑14)
Job buried with kings? ‑‑ of course!
He was of a royal family.
Notice:
ʺUnto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. After my words they spake not again .... I comforteth the mournersʺ (Job 29:21‑25).
Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
Job left a great monument in stone ‑‑ the Great Pyramid.
It swelled his pride.
Bildad, one of Jobʹs friends, taunted Job:
ʺThou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken of thee?
Or shall the rock be removed out of its placeʺ (Job 18:4, Jewish trans.).
What? ‑‑ the earth not to be forsaken of Job even if he were to die?
Of course ‑‑ the rock monument he built would remain for ages, would not ʺbe removed out of its placeʺ!
What rock monument? ‑‑ the Great Pyramid!
Now turn to Job 38:4‑6.
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
Here is Godʹs response to Job.
Notice that the verses presuppose Job a great builder.
Now paraphrase Godʹs answer to Job.
Compare it with the book of Job and the accompanying article ʺWhere is God?ʺ by Robert Gentet.
ʺYou, Job, laid the foundations of the Great Pyramid, but where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
You, Job, determined the measures on the Pyramid in Egypt, but who determined the measures of the earth and stretched the line upon it?
You, Job, fastened down in sockets the foundations of the pyramid, but whereupon are the foundations of the earth fastened?
You, Job, were NOT able to lay the Pyramid's capstone, for your work was not absolutely perfect, but I laid the cornerstone of the earth,ʺ
said God.
That what whittled Job down to size!
He was not as big as he himself presumed.
But Who Was Job
Cheops lived in Joseph's time.
SO DID JOB!
Job lived in the generation after Esau, for one of his friends was Eliphaz the Temanite (Job 2:11).
Eliphaz was the father of the Temanites (Gen. 36: 11) and the son of Esau, Jacob's brother (verse 10).
Eliphaz and Joseph were first cousins.
Job lived before the Mosaic law which permitted only Levites to sacrifice.
Notice that Job sacrificed to God for his family as was customarily done in patriarchal times (Job 1:5; 42:8).
None of the conversation in the book of Job refers to the exodus under Moses.
But the flood is still uppermost in the minds of the people (Job 22:17‑18).
Cheops or Job came to the throne in 1726 B.C.
That date is proved in the forthcoming book on World History.
Surprisingly that is the year in which Jacob entered Egypt with his family.
A coincidence?
Consider this!
Coming into Egypt with Jacob in 1726 was a grandson ‑‑ named Job!
ʺAnd these are the names of the children of Israel who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons ... And the sons of Issachar:
Tola, and Phuvah and JOB, and Shimronʺ (Genesis 46:13).
In I Chronicles 7:1
Job's name appears as Jashub or Iashub:
ʺAnd the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.ʺ
From the name Jashub or Iashub the Egyptian historian Manetho derived the name Suph of Suf for Cheops.
Similarly, he spelled the name Joseph as Suph ‑‑ by dropping the first non‑consonantal syllable.
Cheops or Job was Joseph's nephew.
He exhibited vast mathematical and astronomical knowledge in building the pyramid.
Was this kind of knowledge a characteristic of the tribe of Issachar, from which Job sprang?
Let I Chronicles 12:32 answer:
And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.
Jewish commentators understand this to mean mathematical and astronomical knowledge, including the body of information by which the Hebrew calendar was determined and the annual festivals arranged.
Why Pyramid Built
Job lived long before the time of Daniel.
Even in the time of Daniel and the apostles, the dates for the prophetic future were not opened to understanding.
If they were not permitted to know the times and seasons, certainly Job would not have known them, much less built the pyramid to fit chronology!
Yet adherents to pyramidology contend that Cheops did know these things.
I have beside me now the works of David Davidson, Adam Rutherford, and others.
Each tries to build a chronology for the future by measuring the dimensions of the Great Pyramid with the ʺpyramid inch.ʺ
Dr. Meredith and I saw the little stone protrusion in the Pyramid which these people contend is the key to the revelation of the pyramid.
But they have no way to know whether this little protrusion should measure the pyramid and determine chronology, or whether it was for some other purpose.
Even if one has accurately measured the pyramid, how are they going to know which point means which year?
Davidson starts with a certain point in the Pyramid and calls it the day of the crucifixion ‑‑ ‑Friday, April 7, 30 A.D.
Since that date is proved wrong by the Bible, all his chronology is in error.
Another takes the same point and calls it the date of the crucifixion, Friday, April 3, 33 A.D.
Since that date may be proved wrong, too, his chronology errs.
THE OBVIOUS FACT IS THAT NO STANDARD EXISTS WHICH MIGHT REVEAL WHICH STONE OR WHICH SCRATCH ON A PASSAGEWAY MEANS A PARTICULAR YEAR.
The pyramid was built for another purpose than to reveal chronology.
We do not yet know all the factors surrounding the building of the Pyramid.
But it is a monument, undoubtedly designed by Job, TO COMMEMORATE WHAT JOSEPH DID FOR EGYPT AND TO MARK THE BORDER of the territory given to Joseph's family in the land of Egypt by Pharaoh.
Pharaoh gave Israel the land of Goshen (Gen. 47:11).
The land of Goshen extends from Palestine westward to the Nile River (Gen. 15:18).
It included what is now the Suez Canal.
Pharaoh long ago gave it to the family of Joseph, but today Egypt has seized control of it.
How far south along the Nile River does the land of Goshen run?
To the border between Lower and Middle Egypt ‑‑ in the very region where the Great Pyramid is located!
Because the Great Pyramid stands at the border between these two divisions of Egypt, many have taken Isaiah 19:19‑20 to refer to the pyramid.
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.
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.
Certainly, the ʺaltarʺ mentioned in this verse is not the pyramid.
God forbids any altar of carved stone (Exodus 20:25‑26).
But the Great Pyramid MAY be the pillar which Isaiah referred to, and it MIGHT be again dedicated in the future as a pillar or monument of witness to what the Eternal ‑‑ the Amen ‑‑ will do in delivering Egypt from the revived Roman Empire.
A pillar is sometimes used in the Bible as a BORDERLINE (see Genesis 31:52).
We might also consider whether the pyramid was designed by Job to be the tomb or resting place of Joseph's mummy, before it was carried up out of Egypt by Moses (Exodus 13:19).
Cheops or Job, according to the ancient historians, was NOT buried in it.
The sarcophagus in the ʺKing's chamberʺ was EMPTY in ancient times.
No treasures were hidden in the Pyramid's inner recesses.
And it was anciently open to visitors from Greece and Rome.
The Great Pyramid was built, according to Herodotus, over a period of about 20 years in the 3 months of each year during which the Nile overflowed and the people were idle.
Its construction therefore did NOT occupy slave labor, but IDLE labor.
And through it, perhaps, the Egyptians gained their freedom from Pharaoh.
Josephus, the Jewish historian, states that Joseph did return the land to the Egyptians (ʺAntiquitiesʺ, bk. II, ch. 7, § 7) And what better thank offering could the Egyptians have given than donating of their idle time to build a monument designed and directed by Job as a perpetual witness to the ALL‑RULING, Eternal God who sent Joseph to save the Egyptians!
God's GOVERNMENT is also in the form of a PYRAMID.
Christ is the rejected ʺcapstoneʺ (Psalm 118:22).
The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. Psa 118:22
What more fitting monument could Job have built than this to the God whose Government rules invisibly over the world and who sends His prophets to warn it before every calamity.