Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

ladder may have been in the form of a spiral, a common heavenly design. Through the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have observed that in the galaxy in which we live, and in other galaxy forms, a “majestic disk of stars and dust lanes” can be seen in the form of spirals. 1 When Solomon constructed his temple in Jerusalem, there was a winding (spiral) staircase that wound from the ground floor to the second tier chamber, and a second winding staircase led from the middle to the third story of the sacred building (1 Kings 6:8, KJV ). One of my ministry partners, when hearing me speak about this ladder, made an interesting observation. She noted that the doublestrand molecules of nucleic acids such as DNA were in the form of what is called a double helix . The double helix appears as a twisted ladder that is held together by base pairs that are like steps from the top to the bottom of the helix. 2 While the DNA ladder is found in the blood molecules of all humans linked to life itself, Jacob’s ladder was a ladder of life, linking and connecting the heavenly to the earthly, or the world of men with the world of angels and the supernatural. Since the galaxies of the universe are spiral, perhaps this heavenly staircase was in the form of a spiral, linking to the DNA spiral of life that God implanted in the first Adam at the beginning of Creation! The dream of this ladder stunned Jacob. We read his reaction after he awoke: