A Season of Victory

We are in the year 5786, the year that connects what went before and what is coming ahead. In other words, it is a year where the dots you struggled to connect will begin to connect. It is a year where you and I must make room for heaven to bring its resources to earth, and for earth to respond to heaven. A bit like what Jacob experienced in Genesis 28, when he saw something like a ladder from heaven to earth with the angels of God ascending and descending on it. It is a year where things will be completed, and new things will be birthed.

Isaiah 54:2 “Enlarge the place of your tent and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings. Do not hold back; lengthen your cords and strengthen your pegs.”

The number 6 in the year 5786 is "Vav" (pronounced "vahv"), which is the sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. This decade of the '80s is the decade of "pey" or "mouth, voice, sound." Your words, declarations, and decrees matter.

1.     Vav and Creation

The first Vav in the Torah occurs in Genesis 1:1 when God created the heavens and the earth. Vav is the connector, or the “hook” that connects two things.The placement of the Vav suggests two of its essential connective powers:

i) By joining heaven and earth it implies the connection between spiritual and earthly matters. 

ii) Vav is therefore the connecting force of the God, the divine "hook" that binds together heaven and earth.

2. Vav and the Tabernacle (mishkan)

   
   

   The word Vav is used in Exodus 27:9-10 to refer to the hooks of silver fastened to posts (called amudim) that were used to hold the curtain (yeriah) that encloses the tabernacle:

   
   
   
   

3. Since Vav represents the number six, it has long been associated as the number of men in the Jewish tradition:

   • Man was created on the sixth day.

   • Man works for six days.

   • There are six millennia before the coming of the Mashiach.

   • The "beast" is identified as the "number of a man" - 666 (Rev 13:18)

4.     The Vav, Messiah, and New Creation

When God first created the "generations" of the heavens and the earth, the word toldot(תולדות) is used (Gen. 2:4). This refers to the created order before the sin and fall of Adam and Eve. After the fall of Adam, however, the word is spelled differently in the Hebrew text, with a missing letter Vav (i.e., as תלדות). Thereafter, each time the phrase, "these are the generations of" occurs in the Scriptures (a formulaic way of enumerating the generations of the heads of families), the word is spelled "defectively," with the missing Vav (ו). The Vav was "lost."  However, when we come to Ruth 4:18, the phrase: 'These are the generations of Perez' is spelled with the missing Vav restored (i.e., as תולדות). In all of Scripture, the only two places where we see the restored spelling are in Genesis 2:4 and Ruth 4:18, which leads to the question as to what connection there might be between the creation of the heavens and the earth, the fall of mankind, and the creation of the family line of Perez?  The name "Perez" (פרץ) means "breach" (from paratz, meaning "to break through"). God was going to "break through" the families of mankind to restore creation back to its original intent. 

5. The letter Vav represents man, and the very first Vav in the Torah is associated with the "first and last man" as seen in Genesis 1:1. The Restored Vav is a picture of the Mashiach who would descend from the "generations" of Perez (Matthew 1:3; Luke 3:33).  He would be the one to breach the gates of death on our behalf. Just as the original Vav was lost through the first Adam and his sin, so the Vav is restored through the obedience of the "Second Adam," the Mashiach Yeshua. 

In Genesis 38, we have a prophetic picture of what God is doing on the face of the earth. It is the account of Judah, and his daughter in law, Tamar. On the face of it, it is an immoral association. But God uses what was broken, to restore divine order, all the way into the lineage of Jesus Christ. This story is a connector, a hook, between what was and what is going to come in the days ahead. It is like the “tent peg” of the tabernacle, which holds things in place for God to orchestrate His divine power and glory.

Genesis 38:25 As she was being brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, “By the man to whom these belong, I am pregnant.” And she said, “Please identify whose these are, the signet and the cord and the staff.” 

Signet ring- authority and provision.

Cord- royal bloodline.

Staff- priesthood.

Genesis 38:27  “When the time of her labour came, there were twins in her womb.”

Twins- a double portion 

Zerah and Perez

Zerah- arise and shine, the dawn of a promise. 

• Etymology: Zerah comes from the Hebrew root zarach, which means "to rise," especially in reference to the sun. 

• Symbolic Meaning: It signifies a new dawn, a bright start, or a flourishing of new light. 

Perez- breakthrough (came out first). Comes from Hebrew Parot - open wide the gates (hearts), heaven will open for God to break through open hearts. It means “

breach," "gap," or "bursting forth."

The Lord is saying I have put my scarlet cord on the hand of revival (Zerah). God covenants an awakening of people and nations (Isaiah 60:1-3). But first must come your breakthrough (Perez). Let us not grow weary in travail. When your breakthrough comes revival will come and with it the grace to steward it. Revival awakens hearts, awakening raises a dead nation to life.

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