Uploaded November 2017 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Beginning along the slopes of snow-capped Mount Hermon, the Jordan River drops 2,500 feet to be absorbed in the Dead Sea. Winding some 250 miles, the river is only 120 miles in a straight line. Typically, it appears to represent the descent of man - the decline of civilization. The prophetic aspects of the river are woven throughout the Old Testament and New Testaments. It's implications are powerful enough to warrant an in-depth study. Various scriptural passages relate to the history of the human race. We are destined to end up in the metaphoric Dead Sea (the grave) except ... Christ came to the Jordan near the end of it's journey and changed history.
The Jordan is so narrow and shallow in places that it is not navigable. There are no records of shipping on the river. Since the Jordan appears to have a biblical application to the history of mankind, this implies that no man has ever entered at it's source and exited at it's mouth. In other words, no one has lived from the days of Noah until now. All generations have died off. We only travel our part of the river. But wherever we die, we can still reach the shore of Heaven's Promised Land. The Jordan River presents us with a picture of not only the descent of man from this life into the next life, an eternity of his own choosing (Heaven or Hell), but also presents us with a stark picture of what will transpire in the end of days. It even contains a dramatic hint of the rapture of the church.
Beginning along the slopes of snow-capped Mount Hermon, the Jordan River drops 2,500 feet to be absorbed in the Dead Sea. Winding some 250 miles, the river is only 120 miles in a straight line. Typically, it appears to represent the descent of man - the decline of civilization. The prophetic aspects of the river are woven throughout the Old Testament and New Testaments. It's implications are powerful enough to warrant an in-depth study. Various scriptural passages relate to the history of the human race. We are destined to end up in the metaphoric Dead Sea (the grave) except ... Christ came to the Jordan near the end of it's journey and changed history.
The Jordan is so narrow and shallow in places that it is not navigable. There are no records of shipping on the river. Since the Jordan appears to have a biblical application to the history of mankind, this implies that no man has ever entered at it's source and exited at it's mouth. In other words, no one has lived from the days of Noah until now. All generations have died off. We only travel our part of the river. But wherever we die, we can still reach the shore of Heaven's Promised Land. The Jordan River presents us with a picture of not only the descent of man from this life into the next life, an eternity of his own choosing (Heaven or Hell), but also presents us with a stark picture of what will transpire in the end of days. It even contains a dramatic hint of the rapture of the church.
