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A Changed Order of Things

STONEHENGE AND THE GREAT PYRAMED

Before we examine the purpose for Stonehenge and the great Pyramid, we need to first review the pre-flood World. Geology testifies to a once mild and uniform climate over the entire globe. There is reason to believe that this paradise world existed within the memory of humanity. From scripture and scientific projection, it can be determined that most of the earth's surface was then land and there were no high mountains forming physical or climatic barriers.

Ocean beds were relatively shallow and there was an abundance of vegetation, pole to pole. Plant and animal types were of greater variety than today. They were also more widely and evenly distributed -- and of greater size and quality -- than their modern descendants as the fossil record reveals.

A vapour envelope surrounding the planet not only precluded winds, storms and rain, but also filtered out life shortening cosmic rays. Several factors favoured a much longer human life span. Indeed, while ancient records recall such longevity, modern science admits to its possibility. Population growth over some two millennia may have produced a population comparable to our own, sufficiently large to cover the earth. And coupled with the incredible mental faculties of man at that time, tremendous scientific advances were made, advances that we can't even begin to imagine. Hence the abundance of unexplainable objects and structures throughout the world.

Yet mankind was sliding into spiritual bankruptcy. The Bible records that corruption was widespread. Violence was exploding out of control. Subsequently, humanity may well have become extinct, had not a supernatural power intervened. The bible reveals that God did intervene by way of a massive global flood and we are living in the aftermath of that cataclysmic event. This very event which predictably would be scoffed at, has left us with many mysteries of the past such as the following.

For example, DID YOU KNOW?... that the ancients all had A 360-DAY YEAR AT FIRST. Yes, the ancient calendars had a 360-day year and that's why the earth was divided into 360 degrees. Whether it be the ancient Chinese or the Babylonian, or the Roman and the Mayan. Even the Indian and the Egyptian, all had a calendar that was 360 days long. But later, every nation changed its calendar.

This rearrangement of the calendars in antiquity has long been a puzzle to scholars. Why did ALL those ancient nations change their calendars from years of 360 days to 365 ¼ days?

Some have suggested and propagated the idea that humans because of evolution were primitive at first and then became more technological as they evolved. However, science has discovered that those ancient peoples were already excellent astronomers and mathematicians, that's right, even when they created the 360 day calendar.

The Maya as an example, have left us some of their calculations. They computed the synodal period of the moon as 29.5209 days, as accurately as we can calculate today with our sophisticated equipment. Their degree of accuracy would surely not have been less for the year.

And what about Great Pyramid of Egypt I know some folk like to think that it is much older then Biblical records suggest. Some supposing that it is 12000 years old but realistically, there is good reason to believe that it was built within a few hundred years after the Flood. The Great Pyramid accurately stands in the centre of the land surface of the earth as it NOW exists and must have existed at the time the pyramid was built.

It could be called a huge planet marker, a giant survey post. It marks both the longitude and latitude at which there is more land and less sea than at any other meridian on earth. Evidently the builders were well acquainted with the exact amount of land on the surface of the earth as it existed AFTER the Flood (not before), as well as its geographical distribution. This suggests that results of the post-Flood global survey were already in.

It would also explain why the NEW LENGTH OF THE YEAR was also incorporated into the measurements of the Great Pyramid. The external features, dimensions and units of this

pyramid together give precisely and accurately every essential value of the earth's PRESENT motions and orbit -- not the PREVIOUS one that existed before 2345 BC.

For example, intentionally or by accident, the circuit distance around its base, measured direct from corner to corner, is 36,524.22 primitive inches. This is exactly 100 times 365.2422 - the value in days of our solar year. Even though the calendar was still 360 days long. This is so astonishing, we must take off our hats to those early post-Flood scientists. They were ahead of us in many ways. There was no rough count; it was precise to the ten thousandth of a decimal point.

A tablet discovered at Tanus in the Nile Delta in 1866 reveals that in the ninth year of Ptolemy Euergetes (c. 237 BC), the priests at Canopus decreed that it was "necessary to harmonise the calendar according to the present arrangement of the world." The reason the ancients gave for the re-calculated calendars was not that they were in error, nor that they had improved on more primitive techniques. It was that there was a "changed order of things." And with each passing century, the calendar misalignment had become more pronounced.

The nations that sprang up after the Flood with a ready-made culture, inherited their knowledge basically from the world that was wiped out at the Deluge. They continued where Noah left off. They inherited, along with everything else, the antedeluvian (pre-Flood) calendar of 360 days. Was there, at the time of the Deluge, a change not only in the planet's axis, but a change in its orbit, which in turn caused the lengthened year?

It does bring to mind that curious biblical reference to the Creator, who was believed to "move the earth out of her place." (Isaiah 13:13)

It would certainly clear up a lot of mystery about Stonehenge, also.

The precision of Stonehenge is astonishing. Consider the heel stone. This heavy boulder had to be set in a hole in the ground exactly in the right position. If placed too high, it would need to be taken out and the hole deepened. If too low, it would once more have to be shifted. Even if it had been dropped into precisely the right position, its 35 ton weight might well have made it settle lower. Nobody could know for sure how much it would eventually settle.

Such accuracy applied to every stone that was positioned. Some of the fallen stones were re-erected in 1958. Extremely powerful cranes were used. Yet, even with this modern equipment, it proved impossible to align or set them up as accurately as had the ancient builders!

Gerald Hawkins, on the basis of computer syntheses of a great many measurements at Stonehenge, suggests that Stonehenge was, in fact, a computer for measuring all the relationships between earth, the sun and the moon. (Gerald Hawkins, Stonehenge Decoded. Souvenir Press, 1966)

The heel stone and the trilithons and the shadows cast by the pillars all played an intricate role. Experts have long puzzled over the 56 Aubrey holes. Hawkins suggests they could have functioned as a computer, this way: If one stone was moved around the circle by one hole each year, then all the extremes of the seasonal moon and eclipses of the sun and moon at the solstices and equinoxes, could have been foreseen.

If six stones, spaced 9,9,10,9,9,10 Aubrey holes apart, were used, each of them moved one hole counter-clockwise each year, amazing powers of prediction could result. With 6 stones (3 white, 3 black), the Aubrey hole computer could have predicted - precisely -- every important moon event for hundreds of years. The terrestrial axis is currently inclined at 23½ degrees.

The early Greek philosophers viewed this tilt as an "irregular condition," and not something that had been fixed since the beginning. Anaxagoras wrote: "In the beginning the stars moved in the sky as in a revolving dome, so that the celestial pole which is always visible was vertically overhead; but subsequently the pole took its inclined position."

The Northern Hemisphere sun moves from a maximum position of +23 1/2 degrees northward in summer to a a -23½ degree extreme southern declination in winter.

The moon does a reverse move - north in winter, south in summer. The moon also has a more complicated relative motion than the sun; it has TWO northern and TWO southern maxima. In an 18.61 year cycle, it varies so that its far north and south declinations move from 29 degrees

to 19° to 29° again. This difference is due to the combined effects of the earth's tilt and precession of orbit.

The Stonehenge complex was precisely aligned to EVERY ONE of these movements. With the 18.61 year cycle, the only way to attain accuracy with whole numbers is by the sequence 19-19-18, which, added together, make 56 -- the number of Aubrey holes!

Amazing but true. Stonehenge is a brilliantly designed and constructed astronomical device, WHICH COULD CALCULATE EVERY POSITION of the sun and moon.

And why all this?

The Great Flood, we should consider, had a great deal to do with the construction of this and other precise stone structures. It appears that Stonehenge was built to determine the new orbital position and thus the new length of the year, as well as the new axial position of the earth, following the catastrophe.

If indeed the earth had been jolted abruptly from its original orbit, such a jolt would also have severely affected the moon. If the moon was on the side away from the sun when it happened, a change of our orbit away from the sun would have brought the moon closer to earth. The original shorter-year calendar (360 days) suggests that the earth was slightly closer to the sun.

The original ancient lunar month was 36 days, which implies that the moon orbited the earth at a greater distance. The jolting of earth would have reversed this - the earth now being further from the sun would make a longer year; and the moon in orbit nearer to earth, a shorter month.

The truth is that REVISED ANCIENT CALENDARS REFLECT THIS CHANGE.

Stonehenge and its counterparts were built, I do believe, to re-evaluate the length of the year and the lunar month. Similar stone computers covered the whole of Britain and western France. They formed, possibly, a huge complex, with Stonehenge as the central unit, against which the findings of all the others were correlated. Such arrangements made of stones over vast distances have been found and these create exact equilateral triangles, which can be used for triangulation of reference points.

And after their purpose had been accomplished there was no further need for them, and they were left. That answers another question that has puzzled scholars. Why, after the final phase of Stonehenge was completed, was the site abandoned for many centuries - until the Druids began to use it as a gathering place? The answer makes perfect sense. It was built to perform certain specific functions. Its purpose was accomplished. It was needed no more.

A GRADUAL PROCESS

The re-evaluation of the length of the year and the lunar month would ultimately lead to a revision of the ancient calendars. This was not accomplished overnight though.

You see, after the Great Flood, when the surface of the earth was severely altered, the earth's orbit was also affected. This naturally modified the length of the year. Surveying parties would have been required all over the planet, to re-map the world and to re-calculate earth's relationship to the sun, moon and other objects in the sky. Thus, Stonehenge and other sites served a common purpose and new calendars would be an eventual result.

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