Gate of Heaven

Text: Genesis 28:10 – 22.

God has always desired fellowship with mankind, and as the bible recorded, He will seldom come down to fellowship with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. He loved mankind to the point that He wouldn’t let man just go away from His presence after sinning. He made a plan for redemption. When Jacob and Esau were in their mother’s womb, they struggled with one another. Their mother consulted a prophet and she was informed the younger shall be greater than the older. After their birth, series of events led to Jacob leaving his father’s house. He went to Laban’s house. But on the way, he had a dream while sleeping. The heavens opened and he saw angels ascending and descending through a ladder and God was at the top of the ladder. He called Luz, where he had the dream Bethel when he woke. He said God is there, and it is the house of God, the gate of heaven (Genesis 28:17). Jesus also affirmed to Nathanael in the first chapter of John (John 1:51) that angels will ascend and descend upon the son of man. Jesus is that ladder and the church is that gate of heaven.