"Place of Safety"  Is not in the Bible
"Petra"  Is not in the Bible
"Place of Final Training" Is not in the Bible

List of Aqaba's hotels

List of hotels offers descriptions of accommodations with televisions and mini-bars and air conditioning. Link to other Aqaba sites.

Petra - Edom Hotel

Hotel features air-conditioned rooms, satellite television and room service. View photos of the facilities and read about sightseeing tours.

Petra - Kings' Way Inn

Petra hotel has individual rooms and suites. Research its discounted rates and find historical facts about the city.

Petra - Movenpick Hotel

Resort has meeting and banquet rooms, gym facilities and a swimming pool. Take a tour of the suites and facilities and survey the restaurants.

Petra - Petra Forum Hotel

Dankenbring says, "God is the One we must look to. For no matter where the chosen place of safety is, or when we flee, unless God takes us there, it will either be the wrong place, or else we will go there either too early, or too late!" Amen!

Hoeh says that the Place of Safety "is only [for] those who are having a part in the work of God — who have their minds on the Kingdom of God, not some physical place of protection — who will escape. That escape cannot be planned for in advance. It is a supernatural escape!" Hoeh continues, "It is not those who heap up provisions that shall escape! It is those who obey God, who do His work, and who trust Him to provide the necessities and the divine protection when that time arrives!"

David Jon Hill says, " . . . GOD HIMSELF will have to be our Protection, our Safety, our Buckler, our Shield, our Tower, our Defense — or Petra will become, as it has for many thousands of others, OUR TOMB, instead of our Place of Safety!" Daily miracles will be necessary to keep us alive. "There is NO WAY we can save ourselves from the prophesied famines to come upon this land. No matter how much whole wheat . . . [etc.] we have stowed away in a cave we're not going to live through that time of famine except by God’s express will and desire and by His direct intervention!" See Matthew 16:25.

 L. Leroy Neff in his article "You May Not Escape the Tribulation!" gives balanced, uplifting principles we can learn from Petra and the Place of Safety:

Steven Collins says "The Bible does say that the place ‘sela’ (Petra) will be a place from which people are taken captive in the latter days and not a place where they are given refuge from captivity . . . . Numbers 24 indicates Petra will be a very dangerous place in the latter days . . . . those who put their trust in Petra may blunder into the very captivity they are seeking to avoid by 'fleeing to Petra'." Instead of going to Petra, we should "stay away from Petra."

Roy Marrs says the woman of Revelation 12 is Israel, not the Church. Compare Revelation 12:7-10, 13 with Luke 10:18, John 12:31. "NOW shall the prince of this world be cast out" shows that Satan’s wrath was focused on Israel. Israel fled to the wilderness. Christ told Israel, the inhabitants of Judaea to flee to mountains, Matthew 24:16-22. Revelation 12:17 shows that the remnant of Israel is the Church. Revelation 13:7 says Satan shall war against the saints and overcome them, they don’t escape.

Steven Ross says Christians are to be busy in Christ’s service when He returns, Matthew 24:46, "Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing." He says it is hard to fulfil this hiding in a cave in Petra

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The Saints on the Sea of glass:  By Kenneth V. Ryland