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Spiritual Map of Huntsville Alabama
marker at this site which reads: “A park/picnic ground was
developed around the spring in 1898. Before that and for many
years afterward, great crowds attended religious baptisms held
below the small dam at the spring.”
So we can see that from the very central point of our city there is a
testimony of faith in Jesus Christ through baptisms being performed at
The Big Spring, and an official Huntsville Historical Society signpost
to declare it. Water in Scripture is often compared to the Word of God.
Ephesians 5:26 says, that Christ sanctifies and cleanses His Bride “with
the washing of water by the word.” So part of God’s purpose for our
city has to do with declaring the Word of the Lord which is living and
active like a flowing spring (not a stagnant pond). John saw “a pure
river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of
God and of the Lamb.” (Rev. 22:1) Ezekiel saw the temple that will be
built during the millennial reign of Christ and “there was water flowing
from under the threshold of the temple toward the east.” This water
flowed to become a very deep river reaching the Dead Sea and healing
the waters. Likewise, the Big Spring in Huntsville flows all the way to
the Tennessee River. Finally, this large rock cliff at Big Spring Park is
reminiscent of the rock at Meribah which Moses spoke to and brought
forth water for the children of Israel to drink in the desert (Ex. 17:5-7).
God compares Himself to, “the fountain of living waters,” in Jeremiah
2:13, and Jesus said in John 7:37 that, “If anyone thirsts, let him come
to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the scripture has said, out
of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” My desire for Huntsville
is the same as Martin Luther King’s desire for our nation when he
quoted from Amos 5:24 saying, “Let justice flow like a river, and
righteousness like an ever-flowing stream!”
The Von Braun Center (VBC)
The biggest landmark downtown is
probably the Von Braun Civic Center
named after the famous rocket scientist Dr.
Werner Von Braun who came to
Huntsville in 1950 to pioneer what is now
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