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So let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

And let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

So we're in this season of Advent, which is a preparation for the coming of Jesus. So we thought we'd do a series of

meditations from the Old Testament since the entirety of the Old Testament was to prepare the

world for the coming of Christ. One of the most important figures from the Old Testament is Jacob, whom God changed his name

to Israel.

Jacob is one of the greatest patriarchs of the Old Testament.

He was the grandson of Abraham.

As I said, Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel, became the father of the sons

who themselves become the basis for the 12 tribes of Israel. Now, early on in his life, Jacob took a long

trip through the wilderness, and one night on his trip, when he

laid down to sleep, he had a dream. He dreamed that he saw a ladder stretching between earth

and heaven, and angels were going up and down on this ladder. This is the famous image of Jacob's ladder

between heaven and earth that Jacob saw in his dream.

But what does it mean?

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