Genesis - Chapter 28

In this chapter we read about Jacob's dream at Bethel.  In this dream he saw a stairway between heaven and earth, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.  There above it stood the Lord.

And the Lord made a covenant with Jacob - in the same way that he had made a covenant with Abraham and Isaac.  And again God included the promise that "all peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.  God is the God of Abraham and Isaac and now also of Jacob.  The promise of the Messiah has been passed to Jacob.  

Jesus alludes to this story at the start of his ministry (John Chapter 1 verse 51) when he met Nathaniel.  He said: "I tell you the truth, you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."