” Jacob found a stone to rest his head against and lay down to sleep. As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down the stairway.” Genisis 28:11 & 12
” You will see heaven open and the angels of God going up and down on the Son of Man, the one who is the stairway between heaven and earth. John 1:57
In the book of Genisis God had revealed to Jacob His vision for connecting heaven and earth with a vison of a ladder. This ladder was called Jacob’s Ladder. It was a straight way from the earth to heaven and from heaven to earth. This ladder showed that there is a direct connection between God and humanity. It represents a bridge between the earthly and the heavenly realms. The ladder that was shown to Jacob thousands of years prior to Christ Jesus, once again is displayed in John 1:57. It also shows us a bit more clarity as to just who this ladder is referring to. Our God in heaven has given to us a direct line of communication between heaven and earth, between the heavenly realm and the earthly realm. That ladder, that communication, that way, is Jesus Christ. God foresaw the issues to confront his world from the very beginning. He left his people with clues and provided the only way he could as to rectify the ways of the devil and his attacks on humanity, and to make our ways easier and each of us more prepared for things to come. Jesus is that ladder. He is the only way for us to understand the Heavenly realm. He is the only communication we have between God and humanity. He is the only way God knows us. It is through our total and truthful confession and belief in the life and resurrection of Christ Jesus that keeps us alive in Christ. Again, Jesus is the ladder. He is where we go to visit God and the heavenly realm. Without this great gift of death and resurrection there is no way. But God’s love for us is so powerful that it has overcome all existing issues thrown our way. We can feel comforted in our sadness and pain when we lose a loved one, knowing that they, before us, have climbed that ladder. We can feel comforted to know that the ladder is the direct route to those with God. We are to be comforted in the fact that we do, and we are able to communicate with God by using Jesus, the Ladder and the Way. PRAISE THE LORD IN ALL THINGS!
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