“Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
“He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities (Isa 53:10.11).
The Lord our God is building something glorious. The world has never seen it; even the heavens do not know the awesomeness of what God is about to unveil in this new generation. The Lord Jesus said, “I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail” against the onslaught from this army of God. God is preparing His sons, He’s putting together His mighty army, and He’s about to unveil His company of overcomers. These are His progeny, His children, and His seeds, brought forth to display and proclaim the excellencies of Him who had called them out of darkness into the marvelous light. They are His seed, born to serve Him, “and they shall come, and shall declare His righteousness unto a people that shall be born” (Ps 22:31). He is putting into their hearts the very life and power and glory of the coming kingdom, and they have lost all desire for the fleeting things of this present age. This is the generation of them that seek Him.
It’s the generation of those living witnesses who have received the revelation that Jesus is the Lord. Those who have come to know God and His ways through the process of intimacy with Him and by the revelation of the Holy Ghost. Peter received a personal revelation as he stood in the presence of the Lord, when He said, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God” (Matt 16:16).
But His generation will not be declared by an individual apostle or prophet: it’s the corporate body of His anointed ones at the end-time that will fulfill this supernatural ministry. It’s not certain individuals or ministry gifts, but the corporate body of mature sons of God that will be accounted as His seed. They are His brethren of whom He said on the cross: “I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. For the kingdom is the Lord’s: and he is the governor among the nations”. They, like Moses, desire the presence of God and seek to know His ways. For the Scriptures tell us that God made His ways known to Moses, but the children of Israel only saw His acts.
To know God is to become acquainted with His ways. “He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel” (Ps 103:7). The only thing many Christians know about God is the acts they see Him perform. They love to feast their eyes on healings and miracles. They enjoy testimonies of His wonders and stories of deliverance. They love to listen to talks on the accomplishments of heroes and heroines of faith, but they are not ready or willing to sacrifice anything to become one. They run to and fro to gather records of revivals and healing crusades, but they are not ready to be among those who pay the price for one.
The truth is, no one will come to know God by hearing or even witnessing His acts, however great they may be. You must come to know the ways of God for yourself. That is the key. Two million Israelites knew about the acts of God and saw His wonders in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness, but only one man knew His ways.
The multitudes knew God by the parting of the Red Sea, the supply of the manna from heaven, the water that flowed from the rock, but Moses knew the eternal purpose of God. He knew what God had in mind for bringing them out of Egypt. God made His mind known to Moses. And Moses knew the mind of God for which He called Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He had seen God face-to-face, and He had spoken to Him and so was careful in making all things “according to the pattern” shown to him on the mount. He sought after the mind of God. He sought after Him and His ways and found Him. This is what God is looking for in you and me.
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek (Psa 27:8).
This is the time when true worshippers will worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth. These are the days and the hours when men and women, children and the aged, from every tribe and tongue will flock to the Tabernacle of the Most High to seek Him and worship at His feet.
This is the day and hour that our God has been waiting for and the generation that His Spirit desires; the generation of them that seek Him.
These indeed agree with the words of the prophets—that this is the day and hour when Spirit of God is being poured out upon all flesh. This is the hour when a generation will begin to seek God in spirit and sincerity.
“And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world (Act 15:15).
Dear friend, ask yourself: What do I seek? Whom do I seek? What is my passionate desire? What is my daily pursuit and principal desire?
We know, without the shadow of a doubt, what the world seeks after. In the sixth chapter of Matthew, the Lord said: “For after all these things do the heathen seek.” After what do they seek? The heathen seek after “things”. They seek after stuff and pursue the things of this world with a passion.
Children of God do not seek after things, or, should we say, are not to seek things. They do not spend their lives seeking and pursuing the things of this world with the heathen. They do not join the world in the rat-race. They seek the Lord. Seeking after God is their ultimate passion. The heathen seek things but the Saints of the Most High seek after their God. This is their reason for life; this is why they were created; this is their purpose.
My fellow believer, you can be one of this company of seekers. You can be among the company who will “declare the generation of Jesus Christ.” You can be part of that “seed company” that will be counted for Him as a generation. You can be part of the forty-second generation that will complete the genealogy of Jesus Christ from Adam unto Christ. Obey the word of God from Hosea and “Sow for yourselves according to righteousness—uprightness and right standing with God; reap according to mercy and loving-kindness. Break up your uncultivated ground, for it is time to seek the Lord and to require of Him” (Hosea 10:12 Amplified).
God is at work in His people, and though we may not yet see the great masterpiece He’s constructing, when the day of unveiling comes, the whole universe will see the completed masterpiece of the Most High God.
When will this be? When will this day of unveiling come?
The time is at hand. Remember the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet. In the days of Josiah, king of Judah, the word of Lord came unto Jeremiah saying, “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations’ (Jer 1:5).
“Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it” (Jer 1:5, 11-12).
God is not producing a remnant of weaklings and escapists who are so scared here on earth that they are skittishly seeking to “fly away to heaven.” God has a different plan for the “Christ Generation”. They will not flee from the troubles on earth, but by the supernatural power of God, and by the authority that Jesus Christ has given them, will overcome and dominate the rulers of the darkness of this world and subdue all things to the obedience of Christ. They are His battle axe and His weapon of war:
“The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.
“Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider …
“And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the Lord” (Jer 51:19-21,24).
This generation, this company, is the corporate body that David prophesied about when he said that God the Father would send forth the rod of Christ’s strength, out of Zion, to impose His reign and dominion over His enemies (Psa 110). Christ will rule in the midst of His enemies through the militant operations of the company referred to as the “Rod of His strength” out of Zion.
They form that anointed corporate body of manifested sons. They form the Branch Company coming out of the Rod of Jesse, made up of the branches springing forth from the Vine. They are a “chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light” (1 Pet 2:9).
“You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; so that you may set forth the wondrous deeds, displaying the virtues and perfections, of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light” (1 Pet 2:9).
God has ordained them to show forth His glory to the nations. They are to show forth His virtues to their fellow men in all the nitty-gritty of everyday life. They are to display the perfection and lovely character of Christ to the heathen. My prayer for you, my dear reader, is that you will be counted among this chosen generation in reality and in truth.
God’s ultimate plan is to shine forth in triumphant victory through this corporate body of sons from Mount Zion. He once shined through His firstborn Son. Now the “seed” of the Son “is” to take the stage. The “seed”, the corporate body of overcomers are to take the stage and follow in His steps. They are “His children”, of whom He said, “Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion” They follow the Pattern Son. They are the harvest of glory to be brought forth this end-time from God’s single grain of wheat that the wise Husbandman sowed in the earth. The grain of wheat fell into the earth and died; now the time has come, for it to bring forth much fruit. The Son was the seed. The Overcomer was the seed. The harvest will be a multitude of sons and a company of overcomers after the same order. This company is indeed, the “Generation” of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Oh, that God would make us a people with one, solitary object possessing our beings; a people whose hearts burn with desire for nothing but Christ! That our passion and ultimate desire will be one and only one thing—“to seek the Lord and to worship Him”
That we will set our hearts upon this “one thing”, and seek it to the exclusion of all other. That we’ll concentrate all our capacities, powers, talents, ambitions, and affections upon Him who loves us so much. And that we would put Him first in all things, and give glory to Him, the Son of God, our blessed Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ.
This is my prayer: “Lord, help me by your grace and the power of your Spirit to be among them, even among those who shall declare Your “generation”. And that you will see the fruit of the travail of Your soul over my life and be satisfied.
Thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory, both now and forever Amen.
“And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion”
“This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD” (Isa 8:17,18; Psa 102:18)