“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.”
He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. The dream that will give the site its name and its theological significance is the dream of the open connection between earth and heaven. The stairway (or ramp, or ladder) is the image of unobstructed access between the human and the divine. John 1:51 records Jesus applying this image to himself: you will see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man. The application: the dream Jacob receives at his lowest point — alone, a fugitive, sleeping on the ground — is the dream of heaven opened. God reveals his access at the moment when human resources have run out.
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