5787 Seeing the Hidden Work Come Forth

The Reward of Involvement with God

The Witness of 5787 Coming Into Focus

When I first wrote what I was getting prophetically relating to the Hebraic year 5787 in 2019, I described it as “The Reward of Involvement with God.”

At the time, I was looking at the Hebrew letters Peh פ and Zayin ז, following the imagery of involvement, nourishment, and the sword, along with the biblical language surrounding gold that has been tested and refined. What Holy Spirit is highlighting now builds off of that.

With the approach of 5787, I am returning to those earlier insights with what I can only describe as a deeper sense of recognition. The picture itself has not changed, but it has become clearer. What I saw then felt like a foundation; what first appeared as scattered impressions has continued to develop, and now those impressions seem to form part of a larger witness concerning 5787.

That unfolding sent me back into Scripture. I wanted to trace this witness through the Word and allow Holy Spirit to bring further light. I love the way Scripture takes what has been stirring in the spirit and gives it order, language, clarity, and substance. It brings depth to what had only begun to come into view back in 2019.

Job became the first place where the picture began taking shape. 

Job gives the first clear biblical anchor for this theme because his words bring testing, gold, and manifestation into focus at the same time.

“But He knows the way that I take; when He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold” (Job 23:10).

Job does not say that testing will make him gold. He says that when he has been tested, he will come forth as gold. The process does not manufacture something that was never there; it brings what was already present into visible reality.

The movement from vav to zayin is not the movement from incompleteness into something God must now manufacture. Vav gives us the witness of joining, connection, and establishment. Zayin brings into view what has already been joined and established in Him.

What has been joined to Him and formed through participation in His life takes on recognizable expression.

This gave another layer of meaning to what I called “the reward of involvement with God.”

Reward is not merely a prize given after testing. It is part of what is formed through involvement with God. There is a reward inherent in knowing Him, hearing Him, being shaped by Him, and participating in His life. What develops through that involvement eventually becomes visible; hidden work produces recognizable fruit.

Psalm 19 brings these ideas together beautifully. David describes the fear of the LORD as pure and the judgments of the LORD as true and righteous altogether. He declares them more desirable than gold, even much fine gold, and then says that by them the servant of the LORD is warned and that “in keeping them there is great reward” (Psalm 19:9–11). 

The reward isn’t separated from the Word that searches, warns, teaches, and brings the servant into agreement with God. And that leads us into another witness associated with zayin: the sword.

In Revelation 1, John sees the glorified Christ with a sharp two-edged sword proceeding from His mouth (Revelation 1:16). The sword belongs to Christ and proceeds from His mouth. He speaks the word that exposes, distinguishes, judges rightly, and brings what is hidden into the light.

Hebrews gives an even fuller description of this sword.

“For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword” (Hebrews 4:12). 

It penetrates to the division of soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and discerns the thoughts and intentions of the heart. The following verse makes the purpose of that penetration even clearer: nothing is hidden from His sight. Everything is exposed before the One to whom we must give account (Hebrews 4:13).

The sword is not first put in the hands of believers as a way of being equipped to identify and attack enemies around them. We first come beneath that sword ourselves. The living Word searches us. It exposes what we have believed, what we have agreed with, what motivates us, where our perceptions have become distorted, and where our lives are—or are not—aligned with the reality of Christ.

This is where the gold and the sword come together. The gold reveals what is genuine through testing, and the sword reveals what is true through the penetrating work of God’s Word. The testing does not create the gold, and the sword does not create the truth. Each process brings distinction into the open: what is genuine comes forth, while what cannot remain in the light of truth is exposed for what it is.

Jeremiah adds to the imagery: “Is not My word like fire?” (Jeremiah 23:29).

The sword penetrates and distinguishes; the fire burns. In the hands of God, both serve revelation. They confront what is false precisely because God is bringing His people into agreement with what is true. So neither image should be seen primarily as destructive; both are meant to reveal what is true.

This also brought another scene into focus as I considered what Holy Spirit has been highlighting: the road to Emmaus.

After the resurrection, two disciples walked a road trying to understand events that had shattered their expectations. Jesus joined them, but they did not recognize Him at first. Beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, Jesus opened the Scriptures and showed them the things concerning Himself (Luke 24:27). Later they said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?” (Luke 24:32).

The Word and the fire meet.

Their hearts burned because the Living Word was opening the written witness and revealing the Person to whom it had always pointed. 

They were not just receiving biblical information. Their understanding of it was being reordered around Christ. What had always been in the Scriptures was being made recognizable because Jesus had opened their eyes to see it.

Involvement is more than proximity. It is more than studying what God has said or recognizing patterns within Scripture. It is participation in His life. 

I’ve been saying: “We follow the witness until we recognize the Person of Jesus, and having recognized Him, we learn to live from the reality of His indwelling presence.”

That is why the idea of nourishment also belongs within the imagery associated with zayin. What God reveals is not just something to be understood intellectually; it becomes real sustenance. Jesus Himself said that man does not live by bread alone, but by every word proceeding from the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4). 

Involvement with God nourishes our life because His Word is not merely information about Him; it is sustenance that proceeds from Him. Connection becomes recognizable through participation. What has been joined to Him begins to bear visible evidence of His life, and the hidden work begins to come forth.

The reward of involvement with God is not something waiting for us at the end of 5787. It is discovered within the involvement itself. We come beneath His Word and allow Him to expose what is false, establish us more deeply in what is true, and nourish us with what proceeds from His mouth. Our hearts burn as Christ becomes recognizable through the witness of Scripture, and what He has already been forming begins to emerge into visible expression. 

The gold is made visible. 

The sword distinguishes. 

The fire reveals. 

The Word feeds what God has joined to Himself. 

And at the center of it all, Christ becomes unmistakable—the One to whom the witness has always pointed and the One whose life is being formed within us.