The End-Time Generation Of Grace!

Message: The End-Time Generation of Grace
                   The Benjamin Generation

Prophetic Truths: 

·      We are living in prophetic times.

·      God is revealing prophetic truths that are going to be a great blessing for His church.

Prophetic teaching has the ability to pass on what was spoken hundreds, even thousands, of years ago into the “here and now”. What was spoken of back then becomes relevant for us today.

·      One key prophetic truth: God wants to make known to us is that before Jesus comes again for His people, the last generation will become known as the Benjamin Generation.

Truths about Benjamin:

1. He is the last son of Jacob           

·      This means that the Benjamin Generation will be the last generation before Jesus comes again!

2. He is the younger brother of Joseph of the same mother.

    

              

            Joseph is the type of Christ (our elder brother, the firstborn Son)

            Benjamin is the type of the Church

GRACE marks of Benjamin Generation, not judgment!

           

• Today, God wants His people to know that the end-time church is the Benjamin Generation.

            Grace defined: Hebrew: Chen (khān); Greek: charis (khä'-rēs)

            (Graphic #3)

                  "it is unmerited, unearned and undeserved favor"

God wants to emphasize to His people that His blessings come by grace alone.

3. His life was a life of undeserved favor and blessing.

           

a. He is greeted by Joseph with words full of grace.

When Joseph and Benjamin were reunited, the first words Joseph spoke to Benjamin
were words of grace. When Joseph saw his youngest brother, he said,

Genesis 43:29

Then he lifted his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, "[Is] this your younger brother of whom you spoke to me?" And he said, "God be gracious to you, my son."

b. His life is stamped with #5 (it is the number for grace in the Bible)!

Note: The number five speaks of God’s abundant provision through His grace.

Genesis 43:34

Then he took servings to them from before him, but Benjamin's serving was five times as much as any of theirs. So they drank and were merry with him.

Gidulotan silag pagkaon nga gikan sa lamesa ni Jose ug si Benjamin gidulotan ug lima ka pilo kay sa gidulot ngadto sa uban niyang mga igsoon. Nanginom sila ug naglipay kauban niya.

Genesis 45:22

Then the sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them carts, according to the command of Pharaoh, and he gave them provisions for the journey. He gave to all of them, to each man, changes of garments; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred [pieces] of silver and five changes of garments.

Gituman kini sa mga anak ni Jacob. Gihatagan sila ni Jose ug mga sakyanan sumala sa sugo ni Paraon ug mga pagkaon alang sa ilang panaw. 22 Gihatagan usab niya silag tagsa ka buok bisti nga ikapuli nilag sul-ob apan si Benjamin gihatagan niyag 300 ka salapi ug lima ka sinina.

           

Note:

Whenever the number five appears in the Bible, you will see God’s grace being manifested.

a. 5 offerings. (Leviticus 1–7)

b. 5 smooth stones David brought with him when he went to face Goliath. (1 Samuel 17:40)

c. 5 loaves multiplied by Jesus to feed 5,000 people. (Mark 6:37–44)

Benjamin symbolizes God’s grace. Likewise, the last generation before Jesus returns is a generation of grace.

·      And if grace is God’s unmerited, unearned favor, then we are the generation that will experience His undeserved favor, His grace.

c. His name was changed from Ben-Oni to Benjamin

Genesis 35:18

Himatyon na si Raquel ug sa dayon nang kabugto sa iyang kinabuhi, ginganlan niyag Ben-oni ang bata apan Benjamin ang gingalan ni Jacob kaniya.

            Ben-Oni = “son of my sorrow” (anak sa akong kasub-anan)

            Benjamin = "son of the right hand" (anak sa akong tuong kamot)

           

·      Right hand is the hand of favor, the hand which brings His help. The psalmist declared,

Psalm 63:8

My soul follows close behind You; Your right hand upholds me.

APPLICATION:

When we were born, our destiny was to be Ben-Onis, sons of sorrow. But because of what Jesus did on the cross, we are now Benjamins, sons of His right hand.

            Isaiah 53:3

He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, [our] faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

Gitamay nato siya ug gisalikway; nakasinati siyag mga kagul-anan ug mga pag-antos; gani walay motan-aw kaniya; wala nato siya tagda ug gipakawalay bili lamang.

·      Jesus took our place at the cross so that so that we might become sons of His right hand, seated in the place of

Ephesians 2:5-6

even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together in the heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus,

Gibanhaw kita niya uban kang Cristo aron maghari uban kaniya didto sa kalangitan.

·      This is what marks us, the end-time church, as the Benjamin Generation.

Gloom In The World, Glory In The Church

·      Some people are surprised to hear that God is going to bless the end-time church through His unmerited favor My friend, are you surprised? Some people are so conditioned to hearing doom-and-gloom preaching about the end times. They hear preachers tell them that in the end times, darkness will cover us all.

Isaiah 60:2

“For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people...But the Lord will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you.”

Tabonan sa kangitngit ang kalibotan, ug ang katawhan tikyopan sa kangiob. Apan ang GINOO mosidlak kanimo, ug makita diha kanimo ang iyang himaya.

APPLICATION:

When the devil makes the world darker with terrorism, earthquakes, tsunamis, new strains of viruses and all kinds of evil things, the Word of God tells us to get ready because our light will be seen.

·      In other words, as the world gets darker, the church will be blessed more and more. The Bible says thatthe path of the righteous shines brighter and brighter until the perfect day when Christ returns. And we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, so our path is getting brighter and brighter!

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the just [is] like the shining sun, That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.

Sama sa banagbanag sa kabuntagon ang dalan nga gilaktan sa mga matarong mag-anam ug kahayag hangtod nga moabot ang kabuntagon.

·      We have nothing but increasing light to look forward to. As the Benjamin Generation, we have only good in front of us. And those who believe this will experience it... even in the midst of darkness.

Conclusion:

We are the Benjamin Generation.