A. Jacob was not to marry a Canaanite.
B. Jacob was to go to his mother’s house for a wife that he might have the blessing of Abraham.
II. Esau marries Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael. Genesis 28:6-9
III. God appears to Jacob at Bethel. Genesis 28:10-15
A. Jacob goes to sleep on a rock.
B. Jacob sees a ladder from earth to Heaven.
C. Angels ascending and descending on the ladder.
D. God stood above the ladder.
E. God assures Jacob of the covenant he made with Abraham.
1. His seed would be as the dust of the earth.
2. God would be with him and protect him.
IV. The Gate of Heaven.(See outline on Gate of Heaven at the end of this outline) Genesis 28:16-19
A. Jacob considered the place as God’s house and the gate of heaven.
B. Jacob anointed the stones and called the place Bethel.
V. Jacob’s vow. Genesis 28:20-22
A. “If God be with me…..
B. and will keep me….
C. In the way that I go…
D. and will give me bread to eat….
E. and raiment to put on….
F. So that I come again to my father’s house in peace….
G. Then shall the Lord be my God:
I. This stone shall be God’s house….
J. I will surely give the tenth unto thee.”
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Genesis 28 - The Gate of Heaven
THE GATE OF HEAVEN
I. Heaven is a place, not a state of mind.
A. Heaven is a single place, not everywhere.
II. There is only one way to go to heaven from Earth.
III. There is only one Spiritual way to go to heaven.
A. Jesus is the only way spiritually to go to heaven. “Jesus saith
unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man
cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6
B. The spiritual strait gate (Jesus) is the only way to go to
heaven. “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate,
and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many
there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and
narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be
that find it.” Matthew 7:13-14
IV. There is only one physical way to go to heaven from earth.
A. Jacob saw the gate of heaven as a ladder. “And he dreamed,
and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it
reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending
and descending on it.” Genesis 28:12 “And he was afraid,
and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other
but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”
Genesis 28:17
1. The angels went up to heaven and down to earth
through this gate.
B. John saw the gate of heaven as a door. “After this I looked,
and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first
voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with
me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things
which must be hereafter.” Revelation 4:1
1. Why didn’t John just see heaven?
2. Why did he have to go through the door?
3. Why not just go to heaven?
4. John had to go through the physical way to heaven from
earth.
C. A physical way to heaven from earth explains the actions of
some angels and other events in the Bible.
1. Why is Satan’s headquarters in the air? “Wherein in
time past ye walked according to the course of this
world, according to the prince of the power of the air,
the spirit that now worketh in the children of
disobedience:” Ephesians 2:2
a. To block the way to heaven from earth.
b. So that Satan could go back and forth to heaven
from earth. Job 1:6, Revelation 12:7-12
2. We are to meet our loved ones in the clouds and then
meet the Lord in the air. “Then we which are alive and
remain shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever
be with the Lord. “ 1 Thessalonians 4:17
a. Why do we meet Jesus in the air?
b. Why not the clouds?
c. To cast out Satan and to go to heaven from earth.
Revelation 12:7-12
3. Why was the angel that visited Daniel delayed 21 days?
Daniel 10:1-21
a. Three weeks Daniel sought information about a
vision. Daniel 10:2-3
b. On the 20th day of the first month, Daniel was by
the river Hiddekel. Daniel 10:4
c. An Angel appears to Daniel. Daniel 10:5-11
d. The Angel was detained 21 days. Daniel 10:12-13
e. The prince (Angel) of Persia fought with this Angel.
Daniel 10:13
f. Michael came and helped the Angel. Daniel 10:13
g. Why could not the Angel just appear to Daniel
without fighting the prince (Angel) of Persia?
h. Why didn’t Michael come sooner?
i. They had to go through the gate of heaven to get to
the earth and the angel of Persia was there to stop
them.
4. Why was Lazarus carried by the Angels into Abraham’s
bosom? “And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and
was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the
rich man also died, and was buried;” Luke 16:22
a. Why not just let Lazarus appear in heaven without
any help from Angels?
b. Lazarus had to go through the gate of heaven and
the angels had to take him through that gate.
V. There is a launch window (space window) that we must use in
order to leave this earth and arrive at a special designated place
in space.
A. What is a launch window?
1. The launch window refers to the period of time in which
the vehicle can be launched, usually ranging anywhere
from one second to several hours. For Discovery's
mission, the window will never last more than five
minutes a day. (NASA)
2. If the spacecraft intends to rendezvous with another
spacecraft, a planet, or other point in space, the launch
must be carefully timed so that the orbits overlap at
some point in the future. If the weather is bad or a
malfunction occurs during a launch window, the mission
must be postponed until the next launch window
appropriate for the flight. (European Space Agency)
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