of their own, God insists—chosen to be the messengers of hope for the world, the world’s collective prophet, God’s mouthpiece.5 God teaches them, and through them the world, three things: who he is, what they must do, and for what they may hope. For the third, he promises many things, some obscure, some incredible, as when he says he will raise the dead.6 God says he will show them something (whether on this earth or not is obscure) that “eye has not seen, ear has not heard, nor has it entered into