Monday, April 15, 2013

Genesis 28:17

He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.”

From Background Notes [BN] for April 20th & 21st written by Pastor Bob Brown:

What Jacob witnesses is filled with living images that bring heaven and earth into close proximity, promising to heal the rift caused by the Fall. By identifying the “house of God” and the “gate of heaven,”...


 
...Jacob frames his encounter in terms of the sacred space that only later would be associated with the physical Temple in Jerusalem. What matters to Jacob and to his descendents is simply, “God is in this place…!” Heaven, at its very root, is about being in the presence of God. [BN, 3]

Join us this week in Study, Worship, Praise and Celebration at Chicago First Church of the Nazarene:

* Saturday 6:00pm
* Sunday 8:30am & 11:00am

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