Jacob's Ladder

Jacob's Ladder in the Bible refers to a vision that Jacob had when he was asleep. Jacob's trickery against his father and his brother had seemed successful, yet in the end it had robbed him of much that he had desired.  Esau hated Jacob and threatened to slay him, so that Rebekah, fearing that she might lose both her sons, sent Jacob away to find a wife, as his father had done, among her own kinsfolk at Haran.

Jacob set forth alone, and coming at night to a place which he named Beth-el, he slept there, with a stone for a pillow.  Here in a dream he saw angels ascending a ladder into heaven, thus the reference to Jacob's Ladder. At the summit stood God.  God told Jacob that because of His friendship for Abraham and Isaac, He would now take Jacob also under His protection.  Then Jacob awoke.  Yet he could take no joy in God's presence and promise as his fathers had taken. Instead he was aftraid.

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