Well, I for one have found this thread fascinating. The pics of the memorial are amazing . I beleive they would shock an regular, beleving dub.
For the record I quote what the WT has said about the pramid belief - which is about as much as most people know about it .
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w00 1/1 pp. 9-10 Serving With the Watchman ***It is wrong to add to God?s Word or to take anything away from it.?Deuteronomy 4:2; Revelation 22:18, 19.
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One example will underline how important this principle is. In 1886 when C. T. Russell published a book that came to be called
The Divine Plan of the Ages, this volume contained a chart linking the ages of mankind with the Great Pyramid of Egypt. It was thought that this memorial of Pharaoh Khufu was the pillar referred to at Isaiah 19:19, 20: "In that day there will prove to be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to Jehovah beside its boundary. And it must prove to be for a sign and for a witness to Jehovah of armies in the land of Egypt." What relationship could the pyramid have with the Bible? Well, as an example, the length of certain passages in the Great Pyramid was said to indicate the time for the beginning of the "great tribulation" of Matthew 24:21, as it was then understood.
Some Bible Students became engrossed with measuring different features of the pyramid to determine such matters as the day they would be going to heaven!
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This so-called Bible in Stone was held in esteem for some decades, until the
Watchtower issues of November 15 and December 1, 1928, made clear that Jehovah needed no stone monument built by pagan pharaohs and containing demonic signs of astrology to confirm the witness given in the Bible. Rather, Isaiah?s prophecy was seen to have a spiritual application.
