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First Day of my Holy Land Trip, Jordan


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Saturday, ‎December ‎21, ‎2013



First Day of my Holy Land Trip, Jordan

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About me, my trip to Holy Land wasn't pr-planned, but it was excellent and happy journey as scheduled by God like a call. If I say about the Holy Land, I felt that each inch of the land is blessed by God. People may do anything there, war, slavery, terrorism… whatever, but God is still graciously looking on this land. 




My Holy Land trip was starting from Kuwait on Dec 21, 2013. It was a cold, breezy night. I reached in the early morning at Bahrain International Airport, Manama. In another one hour I had my connection flight to Jordan and reached in Queen Alia Airport, Amman at 12.30 PM.



  • The Via Dolorosa street. Near Flagellation Church, Bethlehem

JORDAN


Jordan is a beautiful country; officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is an  Arab kingdom in Western Asia, on the East Bank of the Jordan River, and extending into the historic region of Palestine. Jordan borders Saudi Arabia to the south and east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north, and Palestine, the Dead Sea and Israel to the west.  

Flag of Jordan

Antony varghese
 Queen Alia Airport, Amman, Jordan
Antony Varghese
 Queen Alia Airport, Amman, Jordan
Antony Varghese
 Queen Alia Airport, Amman, Jordan
                                                      

 Leaving from Amman
                                       
Seen from the Bus - Snow covered shoulders, Amman, Jordan 
                                                                                              
 Jordan, View from the Bus
                                         
                                           
 Jordan, View from the Bus

 Jordan, View from the Bus


                     
 Jordan, View from the Bus
                                     




Biblical importance of Jordan

In Hebrew Bible

In the Hebrew Bible the Jordan is referred to as the source of fertility to a large plain and it is said to be like "the garden of God" (Genesis 13:10). There is no regular description of the Jordan in the Bible; only scattered and indefinite references to it are given. Jacob crossed it and its tributary, the Jabbok (the modern Al-Zarqa), on his way back from Haran (Genesis 32:1132:23-24). It is noted as the line of demarcation between the "two tribes and the half tribe" settled to the east (Numbers 34:15) and the "nine tribes and the half tribe of Manasseh" that, led by Joshua, settled to the west (Joshua 13:7, passim).



Opposite Jericho, it was called "the Jordan of Jericho" (Numbers 34:15; 35:1). The Jordan has a number of fords, and one of them is famous as the place where many Ephraimites were slain by Jephthah (Judges 12:5-6). It seems that these are the same fords mentioned as being near Beth-barah, where Gideon lay in wait for the Midianites (Judges 7:24). In the plain of the Jordan, between Succoth and Zarthan, is the clay ground where Solomon had his brass-foundries (1 Kings 7:46).

In biblical history, the Jordan appears as the scene of several miracles, the first taking place when the Jordan, near Jericho, was crossed by the Israelites under Joshua (Joshua 3:15-17). Later the two tribes and the half tribe that settled east of the Jordan built a large altar on its banks as "a witness" between them and the other tribes (Joshua 22:10, 22:26, et seq.). The Jordan was crossed by Elijah and Elisha on dry ground (2 Kings 2:8, 2:14). God thrived through Elisha performing two other miracles at the Jordan: God healed Naaman by having him bathe in its waters, and he made the axe head of one of the "children of the prophets" float, by throwing a piece of wood into the water (2 Kings 5:14; 6:6).

Jordan River


In New Testament
The New Testament states that John the Baptist baptized unto repentance[7] in the Jordan (Matthew 3:5-6; Mark1:5; Luke 3:3; John1:28). These acts of Baptism are also reported as having taken place at Bethabara (John 1:28).
Jesus came to be baptised by him there (Matthew 3:13Mark 1:9Luke 3:214:1). The Jordan is also where John the Baptist bore record of Jesus as the Son of God and Lamb of God (John 1:29-36).
The prophecy of Isaiah regarding the Messiah which names the Jordan (Isaiah 9:1-2) is also reported in Matthew 4:15.
The New Testament speaks several times about Jesus crossing the Jordan during his ministry (Matthew 19:1; Mark 10:1), and of believers crossing the Jordan to come hear him preach and to be healed of their diseases (Matthew 4:25; Mark 3:7-8). When his enemies sought to capture him, Jesus took refuge at Jordan in the place John had first baptized (John 10:39-40).



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