Excerpt from The Ladder of God and Other Sermons
"And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it." - Gen. xxviii: 10-22.
After his shameful crime, home was no place for Jacob. Rebekah felt that immediately; and as soon as convenient she sent him forth to Laban, her brother, both for protection and marriage. The whole affair must have broken like a thunderclap over the boy Jacob. Dwelling quietly at home, he must have expected to live there all his life, - and then suddenly, that deed of shame, urged by her whom he revered as mother; then the imminent danger of death by the hand of his brother, and then, the sudden change of his prospects in life, sneaking out of the camp, and travelling over the unknown fields of Palestine, alone, face to face with the inscrutable majesty of nature - we can imagine his excitement, and his terror. Cowed and wearied, he sank down by the roadside, near Luz, to wait for the morning. But as he slept, in the deep sleep of night, the veil of flesh was removed from his eyes for the moment, and he glanced deeper than usual into the spiritual realms within the universe, and he saw God.
We must now deal with (1) God's apparent reward to Jacob for his crime; (2) the place where the ladder appeared to Jacob, and (3) lastly the ladder of God.
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