“We cannot build our way into heaven.
Heaven must come to us.
And He did.”
“This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you.”
“Jacob dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!”
Jacob’s Dream
“Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool; what is the house that you would build for Me?”
bethel (noun) beth·el
Hebrew bēth'ēl “House of God”
Jacob dreamed of transcendence.
A staircase bridging heaven and earth.
God’s Answer to Babel is Bethel. .
The Human Reach Up is Doomed. Humanity cannot storm heaven.
Heaven is sealed to the fallen.
Heaven belongs to God
He must reach down to us
The Only Hope for Transcendence
“Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
The Son of Man
“No one has ascended into heaven except He who descended from heaven,
the Son of Man.”
Jacob’s Ladder is a Man
Jesus Christ
The Final Adam
The Word of God Made Flesh
The Express Image of God
The Glory of the Father
“I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture”
John 10:9
The Cross
Delivered into the Hands of Sinners
Slain for the Sin of the World
“Being found in human form, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”
Highest became Lowest
Death became Life
He Made a Way
Perfect Blood
The Tree of Life
Suspended between heaven & Earth
He did what we never could
He did it all
for love
Resurrection
& Ascension
“No one can take My life from Me. I sacrifice it voluntarily. For I have the authority to lay it down when I want to and also to take it up again.”
He disarmed the rulers and authorities
And put them to open shame
By triumphing over them
He Ascended on High
The First Born of Many Brethren
Seated at the right hand of Power
Given the Name above Every Name
Far above Every Power and Principality
The First Adam Followed the Serpent. The Last Adam overcame him.
One Man attained transcendence for all humanity
The Return
“I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war.”
Every Eye Will See
Every Knee Will Bow
Bringing Heaven to Earth
With all the Saints and Angels
Weeding Out Every Cause of Sin
“A plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in Him, things in heaven and things on earth.”
Ephesians 1:10
heaven comes to us in jesus christ
the consummation of transcendence
he who was, is, and is to come
“Those with ears to hear, let them hear”
“Follow Me and I will make you fishers of men.”