John 1:51 (50)Jesus answered and said to him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.” (51)And He said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending [...]
John 1:51
(50)Jesus answered and said to him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.” (51)And He said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.”
When we look into these scripture we have a taste of the creative force of the Lord as He sees the heart of Nathaniel and speaks the creative words that made him a seer of the Kingdom. In other words, Jesus puts the ability to “see” into Nathaniel.
This was Nathaniel’s rendezvous point with eternity and in the audience of the King, His majesty Himself, Jesus Christ. This meeting was all about seeing and the opening of the eyes of prophets in the new covenant of the kingdom that Jesus was inaugurating.
First, Jesus sees. He sees Nathaniel’s heart. Jesus sees that Nathaniel has a seeing sense for the supernatural and believes it with his whole heart. Therefore, the Master has a useable heart to initiate the ability to see. So, He opens the gates of heaven to be seen by man from the earth. The seer of this new covenant of the kingdom of God will now see the activities of that kingdom. That which is going on in the now. The actions of the hosts of heaven will now be seen from earth without the former restrictions.
It is stated in 1st Samuel that, “Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he spoke thus: ‘Come, let us go to the seer’; for he who is now called a prophet was formerly called a ‘seer.’”
Jesus also divided the prophet’s ministry to Israel under the old covenant as finalizing with John the Baptist yet initiated the “seer” ministry by opening the gates of heaven so that the kingdom’s activities would be seen from the earth in a new and exciting way. Because Hebrews tells us that we have a new covenant with even greater promises, we find that the seer of the new testament has the ability to see angels at work amongst men upon the earth.
If ever we needed to have the ministry of the seer amongst us it is now. If we look at what Nathaniel did to attract the attention of Jesus, Who subsequently created an opening of heaven’s gates to him, it was that he looked with his heart and desired to believe that Jesus sees. Jesus saw him under the fig tree. Nathaniel believed in Jesus because He said He saw him. Jesus saw the heart of Nathaniel had no deceit. He would not be a deceiver, even if he were to have the ability to see.
Philip told him about Messiah. He told him it was Jesus of Nazareth. Nathaniel’s response was, “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” We later find out that it was a place filled with unbelief and Jesus Himself could not do the works of the kingdom there. Nathaniel’s judgment was undoubtedly reasonable and kingdom minded. But then Philip tells him, “Come and see.” It is as if Philip invites Nathaniel into his destiny. Destiny so much greater that either of them could have imagined. For Nathaniel would not only believe that Jesus was the Messiah at first meeting, but he also had a rendezvous with the kingdom and the King. The Creator of all things now created an opening, a kind of portal, whereby the activities of angels would now be seen. The seer would witness the progress of the kingdom and the happenings from a spiritual perspective and not only a natural one.
Thus the new covenant ministry of the seer was initiated by Jesus, the Messiah, through the seer Nathaniel.
