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East and West of Jordan

Are you living on the East or West of the Jordan river? Joshua 12:6–7 (ESV) 6 Moses, the servant of the Lord , and the people of Israel defeated them. And Moses the servant of the Lord gave their land for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh. 7 And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotments, The Jordan symbolizes crossing over into total victory. When we cross through it, we identify with the victory our true Joshua comes to give us.  Moses took the people out of Egypt and to the edge of the land. He also took SOME of the first fruits of the inheritance for Israel by war and conquest. Joshua, however, led the people through the Jordan as an entrance into a victorious c...