Sin had brought awful consequences for Jacob. Genesis 28 sees him out wandering in the darkness and hardly able to find a place to rest himself except under the open canopy of heaven. And that is what sin does. It robs you. It robbed Jacob of his home and of his comforts and of the fellowship of those he loved and it left him with nothing. But I want you to see that in that place of loss the Lord stepped in and we read that as Jacob slept he dreamed a dream. It was a dream given by the Lord and he saw a ladder set up on the earth and reaching all the way up to heaven and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it and the Lord stood above it and spoke to Jacob and gave him a gracious promise of an inheritance to his posterity. It was a dream that was to change Jacob's life. Whatever Jacob's relationship was with the Lord before this dream we can certainly say that after this Jacob was what we might call an Old Testament believer. He came into a real relationship with the Lord of glory. The Jacob who arose in the morning after that dream and set up a pillar to God's glory was a different Jacob to the one who laid down his head on the pillows the night before. He had met God! Notice what it was in this vision that made such a difference for Jacob.
I The Significance of the ladder II The Setting of the ladder III The Stretch of the ladder
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Gordon Dane is the minister of Crossgar Free Presbyterian Church in Northern Ireland which was the first congregation of the Free Presbyterian denomination. He is a graduate of Aston University Birmingham and also of the Theological Hall of the Free Presbyterian Church and of...
