This Is PETRA! - Part 1 - Herman L Hoeh - April 1962

Herman L Hoeh

What do Petra's mysterious ruins hold for us today? Is this hidden city the place of protection for God's Church during the coming tribulation? EXCAVATIONS are at this moment being conducted at Petra. Fallen columns, ancient walls are being reconstructed. Old roadways are being uncovered by archaeologists. Petra, first inhabited by Canaanite Horites, then Edomires, Israelites, Nabatean Arabs, then lost to the world, is coming to life! Why? Is this famous, yet mysterious city merely to be a tourist attraction? Or is it being cleaned up for some special reason - prophesied, perhaps, in the Bible? Why the Mystery? Cities other than Petra have remarkable histories-but only Petra remains a mystery! Not so much because of its past, as for its future! Over the centuries students of the Bible have puzzled over references to Petra in the Bible-and especially to verses revealing a place of escape. Yet none of the scholars of this world seem to understand. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library