It would be easy to overlook the riches of Genesis 28. This dream, however, is seared in my brain from childhood. I remember the coloring page of Jacob sleeping on a rock and a ladder reaching heaven with angels going up and down on it. It would barely be worth talking about without a subtle statement by Jesus in John chapter 1, "Truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man." Jesus reveals to his early followers that he is the ladder, the point of contact between heaven and earth. We know the only way to come to the Father is through Jesus. There is no other name given among men by which we must be saved. Jesus alone brings us near to the house of God. Jacob awakes from his dream and names the place Bethel. (Beth, meaning house, and El, meaning God) In our world, many people proclaim there are multiple ways to reach heaven and enjoy fellowship with the Father, but the Scripture insists that Jesus is the only means for one to come to salvation. God speaks to Jacob the same words already proclaimed to Abraham, "Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed." We know by now the significance of this blessing and that, in truth, it speaks to the souls of people from every tribe, tongue, and nation redeemed by the blood of Jesus, for the Glory of the Father, by the working of the Spirit...