S. Michael Houdmann Supporter Got Questions Ministries

The term "Jacob's Ladder" has become a common phrase-it has been used as a movie title, a book title, a name of a flower, and even as a name of an electrical device. But from where did this phrase ...

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Jack Gutknecht Supporter ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church

"We are climbing Jacob's Ladder." That was the title of a song our Aunt Lill taught us cousins as we spent the summer at our Grandma Mor Mor's resort. I got the fact that we were trying to live so as to attain Heaven one day. But how escaped me. 

Jesus referred to Jacob's dream of a ladder in John 1:51, speaking of Jacob who "...had a dream. He saw a stairway erected on the earth with its top reaching to the heavens. The angels of God were going up and coming down it."

But Jesus applied this dream to Himself in John 1:51 -- He continued, “I tell all of you the solemn truth—you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” 

In other words, He was telling Nathanael and Philip (at least) that He is the ladder that can get us up to God, I think. We each go our own way, as straying sheep, but Jesus is the only way to God. Our ways are not God's ways. We must come to God by way of Jesus, and His cross (His dying for our sins). 

I had a chance to share this recently with a woman who was thinking about committing suicide. She thanked me enthusiastically.

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