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Jacob's Ladder (Biblical Hebrew: סֻלָּם יַעֲקֹב, romanized: Sūllām Yaʿăqōḇ) 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). The significance of the dream has been debated, but most interpretations agree ...
Dec 16, 2016 · A theme that permeates early Jewish thought is that the ladder is a form of communication between the heavens (and God’s Shechinah glory himself) and humanity. Most ancient Jewish commentaries understood the ladder as representing the tabernacle or the temple – which through the sacrifices and priesthood connects fallen humans to the holy ...
Jan 4, 2022 · When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. He had a dream in which he saw a stairway/ladder resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it."
And behold a ladder - the rough stones of the mountain appearing to form themselves into vast staircase (Stanley, Bush) - set up an the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: - symbolically intimating the fact of a real, uninterrupted, and close communication between heaven and earth, and in particular between God in his glory and man in his solitude and sin - and behold the angels of God ...
The act of climbing represents physical pain as well which is true of any exercise that defies gravity. In this sense the weight the monks feel is physical, mental, and spiritual. The icon shows several examples of monks that gave into temptation of sin as the demons with dark chains hoist their victims off the ladder and into hell.
Christ has always been the Ladder bridging the gap between God and sinners. He is the lamb of God who was foreknown before the foundation of the world (1 Pet. 1:20). He is the Ladder that Adam and Eve used to get to heaven. He’s the ladder that Abel and Enoch, and Noah and Lot used to meet their God in glory.
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1 Samuel 14:8-13. Then Jonathan said, “Behold, we will cross over to the men and reveal ourselves to them.If they say to us, ‘Wait until we come to you’; then we will stand in our place and not go up to them.But if they say, ‘Come up to us,’ then we will go up, for the Lord has given them into our hands; and this shall be the sign to ...
