Zechariah 14 - The mount will split apart

We open a new season on the theme of prophecy by going back to the beginning — literally. The lesson frames prophecy as God's response to the breakdown of communication in Eden: God comes looking for the humans who are hiding, and keeps looking ever since. We find that a compelling framing, but want to add something the lesson doesn't quite say: prophets are rarer, stranger, and harder to deal with than we sometimes acknowledge. Reading them as though they were teachers is probably a mistake. The obscurity and imagery may not be incidental to their message; it may be part of it. The parts we can't understand are worth being honest about — but so is what comes through on every page with unmistakable clarity.