{"id":3429,"date":"2013-05-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/truly-truly-i-say-to-you-you-will-see-heaven-opened-and-the-angels-of-god-ascending-and-descending-on-the-son-of-man-john-151-esv\/"},"modified":"2013-05-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T00:00:00","slug":"truly-truly-i-say-to-you-you-will-see-heaven-opened-and-the-angels-of-god-ascending-and-descending-on-the-son-of-man-john-151-esv","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/truly-truly-i-say-to-you-you-will-see-heaven-opened-and-the-angels-of-god-ascending-and-descending-on-the-son-of-man-john-151-esv","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man&#8221; (John 1:51 ESV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what Jesus told his newest follower, Nathaniel, after the disciple expressed amazement at Jesus over a little thing. Jesus was essentially saying, &#8220;You ain&#8217;t seen nothing yet!&#8221; (Forgive the slang, but wanted to drive home the point). Jesus used unusual language in this prophecy: &#8220;angels ascending and descending&#8230;&#8221; The reference would&#8217;ve been easily recognized by his Jewish disciple though, as it clearly refers to Jacob&#8217;s ladder vision (Gen.28:12). Jesus was saying, &#8220;I am the ladder between heaven and earth,&#8221; follow me and you&#8217;ll see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what Jesus told his newest follower, Nathaniel, after the disciple expressed amazement at Jesus over a little thing. Jesus was essentially saying, &#8220;You ain&#8217;t seen nothing yet!&#8221; (Forgive the slang, but wanted to drive home the point). Jesus used unusual language in this prophecy: &#8220;angels ascending and descending&#8230;&#8221; The reference would&#8217;ve been easily recognized by his Jewish disciple though, as it clearly refers to Jacob&#8217;s ladder vision (Gen.28:12). Jesus was saying, &#8220;I am the ladder between heaven and earth,&#8221; follow me and you&#8217;ll see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1310],"scripture-chapter":[1334],"oyb_day":[1648],"location":[],"class_list":["post-3429","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-john","scripture-chapter-1334","oyb_day-may-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/3429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3429"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=3429"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=3429"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=3429"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=3429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}