Monday, December 5, 2016

This Great Christ Jesus - This One Mediator



There was a time when Jacob was sent by his father Isaac to the land of Paddan – aram, to take a wife for himself there.  It was the land where the people of Jacob’s mother dwelt.  We know her as Rebekah.  The day had arrived and Isaac sent Jacob off with the blessing of Abraham upon him and his descendants.

At some point in Jacob’s journey he had come to a place where he decided to spend the night.  While there he had a dream.  In this dream there was a Ladder set upon the earth with its top reaching into the heavens.  The angels of God were ascending and descending upon it.  Before leaving the following morning Jacob named the place Bethel.

It was about two thousand years later that our Lord Jesus met with Nathanael – one who would be among the chosen twelve.  Upon seeing Nathanael drawing towards him Jesus exclaimed, “ Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!”  Nathanael asked how it was that Jesus knew of him.  Jesus answered and said to him, “ before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”  Nathanael was astonished, confessing to the Lord that surely he was the Son of God.  The Lord responded with these words.  “ Hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” 

And so, who was it that the Ladder in Jacob’s dream would be representing?  Doubtless it was our Lord.  But what does the  matter speak to us of?  It’s telling us that it is none but our precious Lord Jesus, who in his Spirit stands upon the earth, while reaching even to the heavens.  In this he has become the One and only Mediator between heaven and earth.  By this he joins every believer to the Father – in and through the Person of himself.  But what is the purpose of the angels ascending and descending upon him?  No doubt, this is to do his bidding in whatever the matters may be.  At times it may be for them to attend to we believers, who are members of his body – connected by and through the Spirit.  No doubt this is why Hebrews 1:14 reads, “ Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?”

Nevertheless, I’m sure that Bethel – the place of Jacob’s Ladder, is not the only place  where the Spirit of Christ fills all space between heaven and the surface of our world.  It would only make sense that the totality of earth’s atmosphere is filled with the presence of the Spirit of Christ Jesus, since He is God the Son, and in Him are no limits.  True that today He is seated at the right hand of the Father.  Yet by His Spirit He fills all that is of the earth and beyond -  even all of the heavens of God.

J. Pecoraro

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