Where did the expression 'crossing Jordan' originate?

Crossing Jordan: It's origin & meaning

The term crossing Jordan (often used in reference to death) originates from the Old Testament of the Bible. The Isrealites had been slaves in Egypt for 400 years until God delivered them by His mighty power. After they had left Egypt He took them through the wilderness, where they wandered for 40 years due to refusing to obey God. Previously God had called Abraham out from among the heathen & promised to give his family an inheriance of land, which came to be called the "Promised Land." God also promised Abraham that He would make a great nation of his kindread. He told Him that through his family the Messiah, (Jesus Christ) would make His earthly entrance. Though Abraham did not own the land God intended to give his decendants, he did dwell there for some years prior to his death. The land did not officially belong to Abraham's decendants until after the Egyptian captivity had ended. The Isrealites had to get across the Jordan river with their families & flocks & all their possesions so God parted the waters (2nd of 3 times such an act is recorded in scripture) in order for them to get across easily.

KJV Joshua 3:14-17 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people; And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,) That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap ... and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho. And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.

Now the people had access to the land that God had promised Abraham their forefather. God led the armies of Isreal in victorious battles & eventually the entirety of the Promised Land was theirs. There was a Spiritual implication to the promise God made Abraham & his decendants of a heavenly land of promise. Receiving this promise consists of recognizing your sinfulness against Holy God, repenting (turning from) those sins & accepting the finished work of Jesus, God's sinless Son who died in our place, who bore our sins, who took our punishment on the cross. This work in a persons life is begun & completed by the work of God's Holy Spirit in their heart. Salvation is not obtained by works (good deeds) or by natural birth into a Christian family or by echoing a prayer after a preacher or signing a decision card. Yes, a person under Holy Spirit conviction can be saved while reciting a prayer that is being spoon fed to them, but it isn't the power of the prayer that saves them, it is the power of Jesus' blood that was offered for them (john 6:63). No person is saved without the Holy Spirit working in their heart (John 6:65) Upon salvation, a person becomes a child of God, whose spirit, upon the death of their body will go to Heaven to dwell with God eternally. Heaven is often called the Promise Land, going back to the spiritual aspect of God's promise to Abraham way back in Genesis. That is why the term "Crossing Jordan" is used in reference to death, & regardless of the context it is used in today, it no doubt originated, like all other things, by a work of God in days gone by.

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