The Bible In Paintings >>> 𝘾𝙃𝙍𝙄𝙎𝙏 𝙄𝙉 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙊𝙇𝘿 𝙏𝙀𝙎𝙏𝘼𝙈𝙀𝙉𝙏 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 ✝️ Jacob Dreams of a Stairway to Heaven—Christ Is that Stairway! ✝️

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CHRIST IN THE
OLD TESTAMENT

Before Bethlehem, Jesus intervened often in this world. This series presents some of those occasions, along with “types” of Christ: people and objects who represent Him and His qualities.

JACOB DREAMS
OF A STAIRWAY
TO HEAVEN—
CHRIST IS THAT STAIRWAY

GENESIS 28

Jacob 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. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

JOHN 1

Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

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GERBRAND VAN DEN EECKHOUT
"Jacob's Dream"

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BARTOLOME ESTEBAN MURILLO
"Jacob's Dream"

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JACQUES STELLA
"Jacob's Ladder"

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WILLIAM BLAKE
"Jacob's Dream"

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FRANCESCO MAFFEI
"Jacob's Dream"

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CIGOLI
"Jacob's Dream"

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DOMENICO FETTI
"Jacob's Dream of the Ladder to Heaven"

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NICOLAS DIPRE
"Jacob's Ladder"

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GIORGIO VASARI
"Jacob's Dream"

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JACQUES STELLA
"Jacob's Ladder"

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CORNELIS JACOBSZ DELFF
"Jacob’s Dream"

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JULIUS SCHNORR VON CAROLSFELD
"Jacob's Dream"

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MICHAEL WILLMANN
"Jacob's Dream"

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NICOLAS DIPRE
"Jacob's Dream"

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"Dream of Jacob"

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SALVATOR ROSA
"Jacob's Dream"

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BARTOLOMÉ ESTEBAN MURILLO
"Jacob's Dream"

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GUSTAV DORÉ
"Jacob's Dream"

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JIM CAMPBELL and BENJAMIN BERGERY
"Jacob’s Dream"

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LUTHER TERRY
"Jacob's Dream"

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GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO
"Jacob's Dream"

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"Jacob's Ladder"

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JAMES TISSOT
"Jacob's Dream"

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[No name given]

Thanks for posting and God bless you for doing so.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Thanks.

[Red Badger]

[etabeta]

Yes, Christ is the ladder that will take us to Heaven, to God.

Favorites are #3 Murillo
#7 Cigoli
#26 Dore’ and the fenster.

[Hebrews 11:6]

???????

[Red Badger]

That’s called a ‘Jacob’s Ladder’, and it’s a rather large one......................

[Hebrews 11:6]

I’ll see you on the ladder.

[etabeta]

One step at a time....

[conserv8]

With all the symbolic merging of man and beast some might see those steps as rungs of DNA.

“. . . lest thy nakedness be shown”

[Hebrews 11:6]

Herewith, a bit of sophomoric Latin doggerel I learned in the college dorm:

“Semper ubi sub ubi”

Always wear under wear

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you. I enjoy looking at religious art and seeing other people’s
concepts of what things would look like. Some I identify with, and
others not so much.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Something about variety being the spice of life....

I don’t censor artists or styles, because I never know which one the Holy Spirit wants to use to reach someone.

[DoughtyOne]

Yeah, good point.

[Ezekiel]

-- Christ Is that Stairway!

I haven't come across any depictions of Jacob's Ladder as a musical scale or instrument (although 24 and 27 come close). Seems like it would help explain why angels are depicted playing on HÅRPs, because

a musical scale *is* a ladder, and...

A series of arpeggios in J. S. Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

Translated over to musical instruments,

An arpeggio (Italian: [arˈpeddʒo]) is a type of broken chord in which the notes that compose a chord are individually sounded in a progressive rising or descending order.

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In musical notation, a very rapid arpeggiated chord may be written with a wavy vertical line in front of the chord. Typically these are read as to be played from the lowest to highest note, though composers may specify a high to low sequence by adding an arrow pointing down.

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The word arpeggio comes from the Italian word arpeggiare, which means to play on a harp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpeggio

What Is the Significance of King David's Harp

(He never left home without it, so to speak.)

[Red Badger]

Joy to the World can be played in one octave................

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Blake’s spiral staircase is very cool.

What always got me about this story is where Jacob goes and gets a stone to use as a pillow.

The dude was a tougher bloke than we are!

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Heavy duty arcing on disconnect...Nothing like O3 and the smell of Superheated metal!

[Red Badger]

I actually like the smell of ozone!...................