Divine Language
There is a fascination with symbols, patterns, and prophetic imagery that can easily become an end in itself. The search for meaning becomes more compelling than the meaning being revealed. The pursuit of mystery becomes more attractive than the One to whom the mystery points. Yet Scripture consistently moves in the opposite direction. Every witness is intended to bring us closer to Christ, not further into the witness itself.
There are moments in our walk with God when we begin noticing patterns we had never seen before. A passage echoes another passage written centuries apart. A name appears carrying significance beyond the individual who bears it. A feast seems to point beyond itself. A journey reflects a larger story. A prophetic image surfaces in one place and then reappears somewhere else carrying greater clarity than before. Suddenly Scripture begins to feel interconnected in ways we had not previously recognized.
For some, these discoveries become a source of wonder. For others, they become a source of caution. Wonder can easily drift into speculation. Caution can easily drift into dismissal. Somewhere between those extremes stands an important question.
What are we actually seeing?
Are these patterns merely literary features scattered throughout the biblical text? Are they hidden mysteries reserved for a select few? Are they prophetic codes waiting to be deciphered? Or is something else taking place entirely?
The longer I have remained in the Scriptures, the more certain I have become that our focus must rest on something deeper than either fascination or skepticism. The patterns are real. The symbols matter. The recurring images are intentional. Their real significance is often lost because we end our search in the witness rather than looking for what the witness is pointing to.
Too often the symbol becomes the destination. The image becomes the focus, and the pattern becomes the pursuit. Before long what is intended to be a witness to something greater than itself becomes more important than the One to whom it was sent to bear witness.
The witness itself is not the problem. The feasts, the symbols, the prophetic images, the patterns are not the problem. The very fact that they appear repeatedly throughout Scripture suggests intention rather than accident. The same Spirit Who inspired the words also oversaw the story in which those words were given. The same God who spoke through prophets also wove patterns throughout generations, covenants, journeys, kings, priests, sacrifices, and promises. This is what makes Scripture unlike any other book.
Its parts do not merely sit beside one another. They speak to one another. A promise spoken in one generation echoes in another. A shadow appears early on and waits centuries for its fulfillment. A prophet sees a glimpse of something another prophet will later see more clearly. A sacrifice offered upon one altar quietly points beyond itself to a greater sacrifice yet to come. Repeatedly, threads that seem disconnected at first reveal themselves to be part of a single testimony unfolding across the pages of Scripture.
The witness keeps moving. The story keeps unfolding. What is seen in seed form appears later in greater clarity. What is promised in one place becomes visible in another. What begins as a shadow eventually stands before us in substance. I see something, what I have come to call a Divinely Ordered Language, contained in the Scripture. Not a hidden language. Not a secret code. Not a collection of mysteries reserved for a select few. A witness. A language through which God consistently reveals His purposes, His character, and ultimately His Son.
The longer I sit with it, the more challenged I am to view these as separate realities. Since we know that a promise made in one generation reaches beyond itself. We also know that a prophetic image carries more weight than its immediate setting can explain. The shadow lingers long after the object casting it had passed from view. I think we start asking similar questions; what is this pointing to?
Then we no longer ask merely what a symbol means. We begin asking why it was given. Why does this image appear here and then reappear somewhere else? Why does this pattern continue surfacing across centuries of history? Why does a promise seem larger than the moment in which it was spoken?
Eventually the patterns and images become witnesses themselves. We might even say they start suggesting an answer. At that point they seem willingly begin disclosing what had been concealed in the shadow. They reach beyond themselves. And what might have appeared as separate testimonies at first begin speaking with a single voice.
What beautifully rises from these witnesses is not mere ideas or deeper theories, not the framework of a doctrine, nor even a system of interpretation, but the outline of a Person slowly coming into view. In the end, all of these witnesses are doing more than building an argument—they are introducing us to Someone.
Once that begins to happen, the entirety of Scripture starts reading differently. The patterns remain. The symbols remain. The witnesses remain. Yet they are no longer standing alone. What began as individual testimonies now find their meaning within the One they have been introducing all along.
Once the Person begins coming into view, another discovery starts emerging alongside Him. Not only is the witness introducing us to Someone, but they are also revealing something about the way God communicates. What was once only a pattern now seems to form more of a coherent language. The isolated images are like single threads woven through a tapestry, or the individual notes that create a symphony. The scattered metaphors now participants as ordered witnesses moving toward the collective revelation.
As I continue tracing these witnesses, I notice that certain patterns describe movements that show up repeatedly throughout Scripture. Not merely prophetic events. Not just historical occurrences. More like movement in the way God reveals, establishes, unveils, and brings clarity. The more I noticed them, the more difficult it is to dismiss them as coincidence. The movement itself is part of the testimony.
One recurring movement I noticed in Scripture was not as much historical in scope, but revelatory in character. Something embedded in the language of revelation itself: a movement from connection to clarity, from what has been joined to what is now being seen, and from what has been carried forward to what is now coming into view. After that I started noticing it in rather unexpected places.
That progression is what eventually drew my attention to the Hebrew letters Vav and Zayin. I was not drawn to them as though the letters were an end in themselves, but because they seemed to embody the pattern. They crystallized what had been whispering to me through the text. I did not begin with the letters and then discover the movement. The letters did not create the insight; they gave language to it.
Vav to Zayin does not mark the passage from one spiritual reality into another, but the deepening of one already present—a movement from connection into clarity—from what has been sustained into what is being unveiled, from what has been carried along into what is now brought into view, and from what has merely persisted into what remains because it stands established.
It would be easy at this point to focus on the letters themselves. But before doing so, it is worth remembering the order in which this discovery unfolded. And that doesn’t begin with Vav and Zayin and then search the Scriptures for how we might apply the symbolism. The progressive unfolding was what came to my attention. The revelatory witnesses revealed it. The letters simply provided language for what the testimony was already showing. Once I saw the connection, Vav and Zayin became more than symbols, not just Hebrew letters–they became witnesses themselves.
This order matters. The symbols do not stand in front of Christ as interpreters of His meaning; they stand behind Him, receiving their light from Him. The patterns are not masters over the testimony, but servants within it. And the Divine Language is not something suspended above Scripture, as though it were a hidden system of its own. It arises from the witness of Scripture and finds its end in the One to whom all Scripture lovingly points.
Christ remains at the center of all true interpretation. Scripture bears witness to Him, the Divine Language unfolds from that witness, and every symbol finds its meaning within that greater testimony.
It is from this perspective that we begin the journey ahead. Over the coming months, as we transition from the year of vav 5786 to that of zayin 5787, we will follow a trail of witnesses that has been quietly unfolding throughout Scripture all along. As we move through the remainder of Vav 5786 into Zayin 5787, expressed within this Divinely Ordered Language, we will explore how God often brings clarity to what He has already established, unveiling what has been carried within the witness and bringing into view what was present long before it was fully recognized.
Along the way, we will discover that the letters are not a destination in themselves. They are vibrant witnesses participating in a greater testimony, one that ultimately finds its fulfillment in Christ. Watch for upcoming Vav to Zayin posts around Rosh Kodesh each month from now until the end of 2026.
Blessings,
