Elohim's Aleph-Bet (Letters) - The Zayin

Shalom, friends. my name is Chadwick Harvey, and you have reached Faithful Performance. Thank you for joining us tonight as we continue our journey through Elohim's Aleph-Bet by discovering the letter Zayin. It is a very important letter — the seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet. As those familiar with the Aleph-Bet know, Hebrew reads from right to left, so we began in the top right with the Aleph, and we have now arrived at the seventh letter, the Zayin.

We will go through it systematically, which will give you a greater understanding of the Hebrew language, and also of the scriptures as we bring out the devotional meaning of each letter by correlating it to a story in the Holy Bible about Yeshua the Messiah. We are journeying through all twenty-two letters, including the five that have final forms. Tonight we are on the seventh.

As we do with every letter, we open with a scripture that ties into it, and then we return to it at the end of the video. Once we have learned about the Zayin, we will have more insight into the passage we are about to read.

Revelation 19:11–16 says: "Now I saw heaven open, and behold, a white horse. And he who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except himself. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God. And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed him on white horses. Now out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, and with it he shall strike the nations. He himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And on his robe and on his thigh a name is written: King of Kings and Lord of Lords."

We can already see where the Zayin appears in this passage. It is the sword — the picture of the letter itself resembles a sword. That is why we turn to the scriptures to understand these letters, because when we identify what the Zayin means — the sword — we gain greater revelation. The Hebrew letters make up Hebrew words, and understanding them opens deeper layers of meaning in the Bible, as deep calls upon deep.

The seventh letter of Elohim's Aleph-Bet is the Zayin, and its numerical value is also seven. As most know, seven is a perfect number representing spiritual perfection. In Hebrew, the word for seven is "shevah," and it comes from the root word "sava," which means to be full, satisfied, or to have enough. A great example of this is the seventh day of creation: Elohim rested from the fullness and satisfaction of his completed work. Seven is also reflected in the seventh-day Sabbath, the seventh-year Shemitah, and the seventh millennium, when Yeshua reigns on earth for a thousand years.

This is a very important number, and therefore a very important letter. Consider: the Zayin is the seventh letter of the Hebrew Aleph-Bet, and Yeshua returns on the seven-thousandth year — the seventh day, so to speak. The sword comes in Revelation 19 on the seventh day, on the Feast of Trumpets, after the six-thousandth year and the final three-and-a-half years of the antichrist's reign. Yeshua comes on the seventh day, the seven-thousandth year, with the sword — the seventh letter of the Hebrew Aleph-Bet, the Zayin.

There was nothing more that needed to be added to his beautiful and perfect creation, and this marks the fullness of spiritual perfection. Seven also symbolizes the word "Shabbat," meaning to cease, desist, or rest, just as the Almighty did on the seventh day. Seven stamps a matter with perfection and completeness. The first division of time is marked by the number seven: six days of labor, and then the seventh day of rest, the Shabbat — the day the Zayin, the sword, cuts off the week.

Furthermore, just as the seventh day is set apart and sanctified, so too is the seventh month, the seventh year, and the seventh millennium — each one set apart and sanctified, cut off by the sword for righteousness and holiness with Yah. Yah wholeheartedly desires for us to be set apart on his set-apart times, seasons, divine appointments, and holy days. Interestingly, in creation, seven also completes the colors of the rainbow spectrum, and in music it satisfies the seven notes of the musical scale. Just as six is stamped upon man, representing spiritual imperfection — one less than seven — seven is the number of Elohim, who is perfect in everything.

The modern-day form of the Zayin is written as a sword, and that is how we must see it in the scriptures. The letter Zayin represents a royal sword or scepter. It pertains to Yah's providence and glory, and it is a symbol of authority used to cut or to pierce — the very meaning of the letter is "to cut." Returning again to our opening scripture in Revelation 19, Yeshua comes on the seventh day, the seven-thousandth year, with the seventh letter — the sword — out of his mouth. It is a royal sword belonging to him alone, a scepter of his authority alone, pertaining to his providence and glory, and it is used to cut and to pierce.

The Zayin is also a two-edged sword, representing spiritual perfection on one side and nourishment on the other. The Zayin is correlated to the Word of Elohim, the Torah. As it is written: "The word of Elohim is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." The Zayin thus reaches from Genesis all the way to Revelation 19. The Word of God reveals what is in our hearts once we read it and come to understand the ways and instructions of Yahweh.

Yeshua, as the Word of God written in John 1, is our Zayin — he protects and nourishes us. As the Apostle John wrote: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Yeshua is God. The Torah is our sword that both protects and nourishes us. What Paul writes in Romans 11:22 affirms this: the holy scriptures testify that he is the bread of life who nourishes us, and we should not live on bread alone but by every word spoken by him.

This is precisely what Yeshua was quoting when he was tempted by Satan: "Man shall not live on bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of Elohim" — the Torah. Interestingly, in Hebrew, the word for bread sits in the middle of the word for war, which tells us there will be warfare in the pursuit of sustenance and nourishment — in the pursuit of the Word of God, the bread of life, Yeshua the Messiah.

Returning once more to the modern form of the letter: the Zayin is a sword. Recall that the previous letter, the Vav, was the connector between heaven and earth. Yeshua is the Vav, the mediator, and he is also coming with the sword, the Zayin, as described in Revelation 19. He is both the Vav and the Zayin. The formation of the Zayin itself resembles a crowned Vav, the letter we explored in our previous video. It also resembles a crowned sword, indicating a crowned man — Yeshua — who will establish his righteous ways on earth. He is the Vav, the sixth letter, the mediator and advocate between heaven and earth, the intercessor. Every time Yahweh needed a divine appointment on this earth, the mediator came down to fulfill it — Yeshua the Messiah, even throughout the Tanakh.