Biblelicious

Genesis Chapter 28

Jacob has a dream that there are some anjelic hostie kinda folks walking up and down a ladder from heaven.

Here’s the quote:

Then he had a dream: a stairway rested on the ground, with its top reaching to the heavens; and God’s messengers were going up and down on it.

That’s it, that’s all there is to it.

Jacob had a dream about a stariway to heaven (Come on, you expected me not to use that joke? It’s the freakin’ title of the post) with some angels or something going up and down from earth up into heaven.

I knew about Jacob’s Ladder, well, because everyone does, and we sang that song in church when I was a kid, about how we were climbing Jacob’s Ladder, soldiers of the cross.

I guess I was expecting a little more from the story, maybe some exposition or flowery detail, or, I don’t know, a second sentance.

Nope.

And, after the soldiers of the cross song, I couldn’t come up with much of anything else about Jacob’s little anjelic dream. Well, except for that really freaking disterbing Tim Robbins movie from like 1990. Who, by the way, is still married to the most beautiful woman ever, ever, ever in the world. OK, gratatuis Susan Sarandon, but we could all do with a little more Susan Sarandon, don’t you think?

At a loss for anything else to say, I turn to google.

Google never diappoints.

Come to find out, there are gazillions of things named after Jacob’s little ladder to the sky.

It’s a pretty little purple flower

and a fern kind of a thing.
And a kitting and a nifty quilting pattern.

It’s an early 70’s band with waaaay too much boy hair going on. But I’m digging the floral pants.

Some kind of homebrew electromagnetic thingie-hooter that every geek with an outlet and a digital camera seems to have made.

It’s this toy that if you grew up in rural america, you had some crusty old cooter of an uncle that made them. Fun, mmmm, just like video games.

And, you know, I’ve got about a billion other pics of things called Jacob’s ladder, but I’ve been jacking round with this post long enough. You get the point.