God's Promise of Intervention

Although Jacob had little spiritual awareness when he lay down to sleep in the place he would afterward call Bethel, the faithful God of the covenant would not allow Jacob to go on in his waywardness. He revealed Himself to Jacob in the famous dream of the ladder, and demonstrated to him that there was still only one way in which to approach God and that was through God's appointed mediator. The Lord Jesus Christ made it very clear that the ladder in Jacob's dream was a picture of the Savior Himself, making Jacob's dream into a Gospel message. The great comfort of the dream is that God promises to accomplish all that He has purposed concerning His people and will intervene to bring that purpose to pass.