THE LADDER TO “THE GATE OF HEAVEN”
DO YOU REALLY WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN? THEN CLIMB THIS LADDER
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06-25-23 God is Thought. The brightness of our revelations
depends upon the correctness of our doctrines, our building blocks, our Godly
thoughts laid one upon another, ascending into the mind of Christ. These study notes are archived at
tabernacleofmoses.org.
DREAMS
(SPIRITUAL MESSAGES)
Commentary:
“God is a Spirit” (John 4:24); God
speaks to us in the Bible and in our dreams. Satan is also a spirit (Psa
104:4; Heb 1:7), but in the Bible Satan is an uncapitalized spirit of
lower case thereby indicating the total absence of “Holiness,” i.e., Satan “got his wings clipped,” so
to speak. However, Satan, a spirit, also speaks to us in our dreams.
Consequently, after the conclusion of a dream, every dreamer must employ spiritual discernment to perceive (discern)
the difference between a God dream (good,
beautiful), and a Satan dream (evil,
ugly), for Satan is an exceedingly powerful deceiving spirit. The perceptible
difference (signal, sign) of the identity of the spiritual “influence” of
each dream seems to be (in my case at least) whether or not we defile
(sin) ourselves [Heb: to be foul, morally contaminated: polluted,
unclean] (to God) during the course of that dream. If we do defile
ourselves then that dream is not of God for
sin hath no place with God.
GOD
SPEAKS TO US… TWICE
(Job 33:14-18)
For God speaketh once [through His Angels, i.e., through the
Bible], yea twice [through your dreams], yet man perceiveth it not [1]. In a dream, in a vision [Heb:
a revelation, especially by dream] of the
night, when deep sleep [Heb: a lethargy or trance]
falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of
men, and sealeth
their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his
purpose [Heb: activity] [i.e., from his godless intentions],
and hide pride [Heb: self-exaltation; fig. arrogance] from
man. He keepeth back [Heb: restrains: holds back]
his soul from the pit [the abyss,
eternal solitary confinement in absolute darkness, i.e., total
separation from God, “God is love” (1 John 4:8,16)], and his life from perishing by the sword [by
the sword of the Lord God, i.e., by the Bible (Eph 6:17; Heb 4:12)].
1.
perceiveth = Heb: (through the idea
of going round for inspection); survey (for evil): beholds.
“THE GATE OF HEAVEN”
Commentary:
The following is a beautiful dream and a
perfect example for us of God sending His Words (Thoughts, Angels) down
to Jacob and the wonderful response of Jacob reaching up his
words (Thoughts) to Heaven.
THE
BIBLE SCRIPTURE
Gen
28:10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. Gen
28:11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night,
because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them
for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. Gen 28:12 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. Gen 28:13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am
the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou
liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
THE
MESSAGE
(Gen 28:10-13)
And Jacob [a type and shadow of us]
went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon a
certain place [after this dream concludes the awakened Jacob
realizes that this “certain place” is a type and shadow of “the house of
God” and “the gate of heaven” (wherever)] [1], and tarried there
all night, because the sun was set; and he took of [Heb:
accepted: received] the stones [the existing order of that
place, i.e., rules, regulations, laws (hard as a rock), doctrines] of
that place [of “the house of God”], and put them for his
pillows [as an altar of stones supporting his head
(thoughts), facing upwards], and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed, and behold a ladder [Heb: a stair case] set
up on the earth, and [step by step, revelation upon
revelation] the top of it reached to heaven [Heb: touched, to lay the hand upon
(fig. to lie with a woman)] [i.e., accomplishing a loving intimacy, to
become “One” with God]: and behold the angels
of God [i.e., messengers (Thoughts) of the Words of God] ascending [(the smoke of the altar) i.e., Jacob’s
prayers (godly thoughts) wafting upward] and descending [God’s words (Thoughts)] on it [on the ladder]. And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God
of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed [i.e., and to us];
1.
(Gen 28:16,17) And Jacob
awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not. 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.
Amen
Pastor Lionel Cabral 😊