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Genesis 28:10-11 – Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. Jacob was at a low point when God appeared in a dream, and affirmed the promise he’d given to Abraham, and to his father Isaac, and now to Jacob. Verses 12-14 say, “He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. There above it stood the Lord, and he said: I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.” The stairway to heaven which Jacob saw in his dream speaks of Jesus Christ. Jesus himself said, “You will see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” This is helpful for understanding how Jesus read the Old Testament. “These are the very Scriptures that testify about me,” he said. Jesus saw himself through the Old Testament, and we are not wrong to see him there as well. From beginning to end, the Bible points to Jesus Christ. He came to save us from our sins, and restore us to a greater paradise than the one Adam lost.