PROCLAMATION
“And Jacob
went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran.
And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night,
because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them
for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on
the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold the angels of God
ascending and descending on it. And
behold, The Lord stood above it, and said, ‘I am The Lord God …’ ” Genesis 28:10-12 (KJV)
EXPLANATION
These are
the words of God which were revealed to and written by Moses under the influence
of The Holy Spirit of God. Isaac called Jacob and told him not to marry a
Canaanite woman. He told him to marry
one of the daughters of his mother’s brother Laban and God would bless him.
(Genesis 28:1-5) Jacob was obedient and
left to go get a wife from among his people.
On his way there he stopped because night had fallen. He used a stone for a pillow and fell
asleep. He dreamed that he saw a ladder
extending from earth to heaven with angels going up and down on the ladder and
The Lord God was at the top of the ladder. (Genesis 28:10-12) The Lord God spoke to him and said that He
would bless him and his descendants. (Genesis 28:13-15) When he woke up he remembered his dream and
decided that place was holy. He sat the
stone, upon which he had lain his head, on a pillar and poured oil on it and
renamed the place Bethel. (Genesis 28:16-19)
There Jacob made a vow saying that if God was going to bless him, then
he would consider that place as God’s house and he would give unto The Lord one
tenth of all that He gave to him. (Genesis 28:20-22)
APPLICATION
Today, those
of us who believe can communicate directly with God and He can communicate with
us. However, in order for us to get to
Him, we must use “a ladder” or “a bridge”, and that connection is Jesus, The
Christ. He said, “… I am the way, the
truth, and the life; no man cometh unto The Father, but by Me.” (John 14:6) We all need to admit that we need a savior. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John
1:9) Only those of us with our names
written in The Lamb’s book of life will see God. Those whose name is not written in the book
of life will be cast into the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:15)
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