《The Jordan River》.ppt

The Jordan River exists in 3 sections, beginning in the north 1 From its multiple river sources (the Bareighit, the Hasbany from Mount Hermon, the Leddan, the Banias) to Lake Huleh. 2 Lake Huleh to the Sea Of Galilee in Galilee, about 10 miles / 16 kilometers. 3 From the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea, in a straight line about 65 miles / 105 kilometers Dead sea Without doubt, the world’s most amazing place, the Jordan Rift Valley is a dramatic, beautiful landscape, which at the Dead Sea, is over 400 metres (1,312 ft.) below sea level. The lowest point on the face of the earth, this vast, stretch of water receives a number of incoming rivers, including the River Jordan. Dead sea - The Jordan River played a significant role in numerous events of Bible History - Example 1 The first mention of the Jordan is when Abraham and Lot parted company: And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw that the Jordan valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of The Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar; this was before The Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah [see The Destruction Of Sodom]. So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan valley, and Lot journeyed east; thus they separated from each other. (Genesis 13:10-11 RSV) Example 2 Jacob was renamed Israel at the ford of the Jabbok River, a tributary of the Jordan: The same night he arose and took his two wives [see Leah and Rachel], his two maids, and his eleven children [The Tribes Of Israel], and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. Example 3 At the end of their Wilderness Journey, after Joshua succeeded Moses as the leader of the people, the Israelites entered the Promised Land by crossing the Jordan River, which was miraculously divided for them (Joshua 3:15-17). Another examples The prophets Elijah and Elisha were active on both sides of the Jord