1924 Wholesome Words - page 1

YOUNG MEN’S CORNER.

No. 1.

Fifth Series.

January, 1924.

THE HOUSE OF GOD.

CONTENTS.

PAGE.

Section I.

--Jacob’s Vision 1

Jacob’s Ladder (specially written for the young) by J. M.

Papers from Leicester, Carluke, Portsmouth, Hove (Brighton), Glasgow and Liverpool and Birkenhead  2

Treasurer’s Statement 8

Proposed List of Sections Inset.

SECTION I. --JACOB’S VISION.

JACOB’S LADDER.

(SPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR THE YOUNG. )

It may be profitable to our readers to consider briefly the ladder which was a central fact in the vision Jacob saw.

This ladder we are told was " Set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven, " and Jacob saw the angels of God ascending and descending on it., Here we see that heaven, and the presence of God there,  are reached (for the Lord stood above it) by means of this distinct way of ascent, and also upon it the angels descended to earth.

The present day answer to this is referred to in Hebrews 9. 8 " The way into the holy place, " and again m Hebrews 10. 19, 20 " By the way which He dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh. "

The word " new " here means " newly slain " and views the Lord as our Sacrifice as though He had just been killed.

Then the word living tells of His having risen from the dead and gone in before God as our Priest.  Thus we have in the Sacrifice the one end of the ladder.

His death on the Cress abides in perpetual power and value: --" The Cross still stands unchanged Though heaven is now His home. "

In His having gone into heaven itself we have the top of the ladder.