Friday, November 18, 2011

Flavious Josephus, The Pyramids in Egypt and Their Purpose

It never ceases to amaze me the things that I find concerning Bible History. It has always been a mystery to scientist and archaeologist of who built the pyramids in Egypt and what was its purpose and how they built them.
Flavious Josephus was a Jewish historian who lived 2000 years ago and was of the sect of the Pharisees. He wrote much about the history of the Jewish people. He wrote about the time of the beginning starting with Adam and Eve. I would feel safer to believe his writings than to believe some scientist or archaeologist from the twentieth century because he lived closer to the time that they were built and had a clearer vision of why they were there. In his writings in the Antiquities of the Jews in Book One and the second chapter he writes,
"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, (10) 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(Egypt) to this day."
We can

see from his writings, who built the pyramids, why they were built, and where they were built.
We can see that the ancient fathers had the knowledge of the planets and stars and how they moved through space and that they built these pillars of stone and rock to survive the deluge, the great flood as a testimony throughout all time until the earth will be destroyed by fire.
Josephus said that they were still in the land of Egypt during his day and time and we know that they are still there today. What a witness in stone for those that can hear and see the truth.