I am reading through the gospel of John this week.
While I am sure I have read it and heard excerpts dozens of times, I
could not have recounted the first interaction between Jesus and Nathanael
before this week. After Jesus calls out to Nathanael before being
introduced to him, Nathanael immediately recognizes Jesus as the Son of
God. Jesus then makes a promise to Nathanael, “Very truly I tell you, you
will see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son
of Man.” Some say that Jesus is referencing Jacob’s dream in Genesis
28:12 when he sees “a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to
heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.” This
is a beautiful picture to me of God opening the heavens, sending angels down to
earth – only made possible by Jesus – the stairway connecting the heavens with
the earth. And He also represents the only access that we have to heaven
as our time on earth ends. (After some minor research to satisfy my
curiosity, I don’t believe this stairway to heaven is connected in any way to
Led Zeppelin’s.)
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