Just a thought by coppi

“Then he said, “I tell you the truth, you will all see heaven open and the angels of God going up and down on the Son of Man, the one who is the stairway between heaven and earth. ”John 1:51

“That by the angels of God ascending and descending, is to be understood, that a perpetual intercourse should now be opened between heaven and earth, through the medium of Christ, who was God manifested in the flesh.”

Jacob’s  ladder is a ladder leading to heaven that was featured in a dream the biblical Patriarch Jacob had during his flight from his brother Esau in the Book of Genesis(chapter 28).

“Meanwhile, Jacob left Beersheba and traveled toward Haran. At sundown he arrived at a good place to set up camp and stopped there for the night. Jacob found a stone to rest his head against and lay down to sleep. As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and Jacob said, “What an awesome place this is! It is none other than the house of God, the very gateway to heaven!”

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭28:17‬ ‭NLT‬‬

“Stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven.  The very gateway to heaven.”and “The Son of man, the one who is the stairway between heaven and earth.”  Reading both these quotes from scriptures –  one from the Old Testament and the other from the New Testament, I became excited over both scriptures speaking about the ladder to-heaven.  I have seen different artist’s paintings depicting Jesus as the ladder to heaven and always was intrigued by them.  And when I read John 1:50 I immediately related the scripture to Jacobs ladder in Genesis 20 and the reality of the scriptures became alive in my heart of hearts.  God leaves nothing unsaid in scriptures.  What the prophet Isaiah prophetically proclaimed in the Old Testament (Isaiah 53) regarding Jesus is probably the most famous example claimed by Christians to be a messianic prophecy fulfilled by Jesus. It speaks of one known as the “suffering servant,” who suffers because of the sins of others. Jesus is said to fulfill this prophecy through his death on the cross.  He, Jesus, is our ladder to heaven and Jacob saw that ladder years before that prophecy was fulfilled in Jesus.  In my simple and humble belief that excites me.