Genesis 28: Jacob's Ladder Who is Christ
Issac tells Jacob to go to the house of Laban, the brother of Rebekah, to get a wife and to not take a Canaanite wife. He also gives a final blessing on Jacob. So Jacob left Beersheba to go to Haran, a distance of about 500 miles. But on the third day out he stops to sleep and uses a stone for a pillow. He has a dream or vision of a ladder stretching from Heaven to Earth with God at the top and angels ascending and descending the ladder. God blesses Jacob and promises him a great lineage. Jacob awakes, takes the stone and makes a monument of it and vows allegiance to God as well as one tenth of all his belongings.
Coffman believes the ladder is a type or symbol or metaphor for Jesus Christ and John 1:51 (“And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.”) seems to lend some validity to this assumption. Jesus is the go-between for God and man. It is surprising that we do not see more memes of a ladder representing Christ.
A vision seems to be a much more powerful dream. I do not remember most dreams. I don’t know that I have ever had a vision but one time I did have a religiously themed dream that was so vivid and compelling that it could have been inspired of God. But Jacob’s ladder vision was unmistakable in it's supernatural nature, source and significance, and spoke not just to Jacob but to all men.
