One Glorious Mediator

"And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it." -Genesis 28:12 [KJV] 

Visions of the night, such as the patriarchs were blessed with, serve to teach us how the Lord, in those early ages, watched over His people. And, my soul, I would have thee always take the sweet conclusion from the review of them, that if Jesus was thus mindful of His chosen then, depend upon it He is not less attentive now. There can be no difficulty, it should seem, interpreting this vision of the patriarch Jacob's ladder, after what Jesus told Nathaniel of the ascent and descent of the angels upon the Son of man, John 1:51. Under such an authority, we need not hesitate to consider Christ as the only communication, the only medium of intercourse between heaven and earth; John 14:6.  

And if the patriarch saw, in a vision, a ladder, with its foot on the earth, and its top reaching to heaven, thus uniting both; were not these representations of Jesus, as Emmanuel, His human nature and His divine: thus uniting such vast extremes, and forming in both, one glorious Mediator, to bring sinners to God, and bring down grace upon the earth? And as Jehovah stood above it, in the patriarch's view, what was this but to shew the authority of Christ, as the Christ of God? Precious addition to the vision indeed, for this is the warrant of faith in believing "the record that God hath given of His Son. God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself."  

Blessed Emmanuel! I hail Thy glorious person! I bow down to the earth in humble adoration, love, and praise! I view Thee, O Lord, as the only mediation for my precious soul; and desire to renounce every other! Witness for me, ye angels of light, who minister to the heirs of salvation, that, on my bended knees, in transports of rejoicing, I bless God for having opened such a new and living way for poor sinners; and very humbly and earnestly do I beg of Him, that my God will unceasingly make sweet communications of grace by Jesus, and call forth the suitable returns, in love, and praise and obedience, through Jesus, in my soul, until faith is swallowed up in absolute enjoyment, and that blessed hour, which Jesus promised, be fulfilled, when I shall see heaven open, and "the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man." 

-Robert Hawker (1753-1827 A.D.)