On the mount
Lots of people are fond of mountains. Many spend a good part of their lives developing and maintaining a physical condition that allows them to accomplish the feat of reaching those hilltops. Some even travel around the world to climb mountains of different levels of difficulty. Just in case, I am not one of those people. In my case, if I have to climb a hill for some reason, thank goodness for roads and motor vehicles. But there is something else that piques my curiosity and it is how much mountains are mentioned in the Bible. There are mountains everywhere! According to an article I read, mountains are mentioned about 500 times. On the one hand, it is because mountains are part of the geography where biblical history takes place. But there is also an important connection between God and mountains. We could think of Mount Sinai, the place where God gives the law to his people through Moses, or Mount Carmel, where Elijah faces the prophets and Baal, and obviously Zion, the mountain