The Bible & Egyptian pyramids

Q. Does the Bible give any indication as to who or what built the Pyramids?

A.The Pyramids are the most ancient of the old Seven Wonders of the World. The other were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Artemision of Ephesus, Colossus of Rhodes, the Olympian Zeus statue at Alexandria. The pyramids are the only one of these that survive today. They stood at the time Jacob entered into Egypt to escape the famins and were well known by Moses at the time of the Exodus. Most of the time, however, the Israelites spent their time in the north, in Goshen , and not in the area of Giza which is in the south. Joseph lived in the area of middle Egypt called the Faiyum, which again is far away from the pyramids.

The Israelites were shepherds and nomads, not great building experts at the time. Such structures like the pyramids may not have impressed them much. Remember, there was a negative idea attached to great buildings "reaching into the heavens" according to the Hebrew traditions passed down from the previous generations(Tower of Babel). Recent archeological evidence suggests that the pyramids were not built by slaves but by skilled craftsmen, helped by peasants who worked when the Nile flooded and agricultural work was impossible, seasonal workers if you will. The Bible doesn't mention them because there was no need to.

There are Masonic traditions linking the Masons to some of the great building projects such as the pyramids and Solomon's Temple, but no truth to them. Mankind, bereft of any true substance , likes to associate with things of the past for image reasons, but their claims are false and not really worthy of any real discussion. G_d does not need the pyramids to tell His story of the redemption and the Messiah.