03-02-2014, 10:35 AM
As part of the research for the honeymoon (Everyone does honeymoon research, right?) I'm renting films about Israel. Although the title threw me, I figured this would give me a little info about the famed city of Petra that wasn't covered in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
The title should have been the first clue that something was open. Rather than being a travel documentary about Petra, it is a film about how Petra is actually the biblical city of Edom and during the last days when the Messiah comes all the Israelis will be hiding out there. Uh, yeah.
I almost turned it off. The first narrator was a biblical scholar who looked like he just got out of some backwoods in the deep south. His pronounciation of things was completely odd and his hick accent was helping things. His main starting point was the bible was fact and we just needed to find the places today that the bible referred to.
Fortunately, another narrator kicked in who had less of an adverse effect on me with his delivery. Granted, his main thrust was also the bible as fact but he leavened it with some verifiable facts as well.
The movie did give a nice introduction to Petra and it did point out the references to it in the bible, the most mentioned city in the bible after Jerusalem. But towards the end the movie delved heavily into the apocalyptic prophesies and how Petra was going to play a big role when those prophecies come to fruition. Basically, the remaining Israelis after the antichrist takes over the world will hide in all the caves in Petra.
It is worth watching in case you need to know where to hide during the end days.
The title should have been the first clue that something was open. Rather than being a travel documentary about Petra, it is a film about how Petra is actually the biblical city of Edom and during the last days when the Messiah comes all the Israelis will be hiding out there. Uh, yeah.
I almost turned it off. The first narrator was a biblical scholar who looked like he just got out of some backwoods in the deep south. His pronounciation of things was completely odd and his hick accent was helping things. His main starting point was the bible was fact and we just needed to find the places today that the bible referred to.
Fortunately, another narrator kicked in who had less of an adverse effect on me with his delivery. Granted, his main thrust was also the bible as fact but he leavened it with some verifiable facts as well.
The movie did give a nice introduction to Petra and it did point out the references to it in the bible, the most mentioned city in the bible after Jerusalem. But towards the end the movie delved heavily into the apocalyptic prophesies and how Petra was going to play a big role when those prophecies come to fruition. Basically, the remaining Israelis after the antichrist takes over the world will hide in all the caves in Petra.
It is worth watching in case you need to know where to hide during the end days.
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit