makes an impact on people’s souls, reclaims backsliders, and energizes God’s people for witness and service. Second, it reminds us that we should not allow problems and difficulties, and the social and political upheavals of the day, to dishearten us and cause us to despair in God’s work. God promised Zerubbabel that the mighty mountain (think of these as difficulties) would become level ground. Jesus used the same figurative speech to symbolize the obstacles encountered in the Christian life. ‘ “Have