Genesis 28:12
He dreamed, and there before him was a stairway standing on the ground, its top touching the sky, with God's angels climbing up and coming down on it.
Treated in 6 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- The Pilgrim's Progress ·
The Fourth Stage cites Gen. 28:12
…Gen. 3:6; Rom. 7:24. Then they had her to a place, and showed her Jacob’s ladder. Gen. 28:12. Now at that time there were some angels ascending upon it. So Christiana looked and…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 1, Chapter 14 — In the Creation of the World, and All Things in It, the True God Distinguished by Certain Marks from Fictitious Gods cites Gen. 28:12
…resting in him. Our minds ought to give thorough heed to what Jacob saw in his vision (Gen. 28:12),—angels descending to the earth to men, and again mounting up from men to heaven, by…
- Thoughts for the Quiet Hour ·
October cites Gen. xxviii. 12
…October 11 Behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. Gen. xxviii. 12. Think of that mystic ladder, which descends from the throne of God to the spot, however…
- Our Daily Walk ·
February cites Gen 28:12
…of it reached to Heaven; and, behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.”— Gen 28:12. “Hereafter ye shall see Heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon…
- The Big Story ·
The Wrestler cites Genesis 28:12
…with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder” (Genesis 28:12). The word might mean a stairway, like the steps on an ancient temple tower. Heaven and…
- A Body of Divinity ·
Christ the Mediator of the Covenant cites Gen 28:12
…Christ may be fitly compared to Jacob’s ladder, which reacheth from earth to heaven. Gen 28:12. Christ’s human nature was the foot of the ladder, which stood upon earth; his divine…