Mountains in prophecy [pdf] The spiritual rivers of the Bible
bring healing and life, and cause the desert to bloom, the
desert being the spiritual environment of the saints who are
represented by the woman in the wilderness, in Revelation 12:6
and 14. These spiritual rivers contrast with the mythical rivers
of Homer’s epics, or in the works of Plato, which are associated
with theories about the afterlife, and the concept of the
immortality of the soul, and the tales about them couched in
gloomy superstition, that cultivate and promote the fear of
death. According to various articles at Wikipedia: –In Greek
mythology, Acherusia was a name given by the ancients to several
lakes or swamps, which, like the various rivers called Acheron,
were at some time believed to be connected with the lower world,
until at last the Acherusia came to be considered to be in the
lower world itself. –Plato described the river Phlegethon as “a
stream of fire, which coils round the earth and flows into the
depths of Tartarus.” It w