Project Charter

“Behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.” Amos 7:7–8

This site is a long-term, non-linear study project focused primarily on the prophetic literature of Scripture (initially with particular emphasis on Zechariah), developed as a growing network of interlinked notes rather than as a sequential book or commentary.

The governing principles below define how pages are written, linked, and interpreted. They apply project-wide.

1. Nature of the Pages

Each page is intended to be a permanent, self-contained note, not a chapter in a linear argument.
Pages are written to make sense when read in isolation.
A page may be expanded or refined over time, but it is not treated as a disposable draft.

2. Zettelkasten Commitment

Effective immediately, this project adopts a Zettelkasten-style approach to knowledge organization.

New pages are written as permanent, link-first notes.
Existing pages are considered valid as-is and are migrated toward this standard only when they are naturally revised.
There is no requirement to refactor the project all at once.

3. Linking Philosophy

Meaning emerges through relationships between pages, not through reading order.
Cross-links may point across books, genres, and contexts.
Forward links to pages that do not yet exist are intentional and represent planned or anticipated notes.
A page must not depend on an unwritten page in order to make its own case.

Note: Encountering a missing page does not necessarily indicate an error. It may indicate a future node in the study network.

4. Context and Non-Flattening

Texts that share themes or outcomes do not necessarily share historical setting or rhetorical purpose.
Prophetic passages are allowed to converge in message without being collapsed into identical contexts.
This project explicitly resists flattening distinct prophetic voices into a single undifferentiated timeline.

5. How to Read This Project

There is no required starting point.
Readers are encouraged to follow links by interest rather than sequence.
Apparent incompleteness reflects an evolving study, not a finished system.

6. Stability of This Charter

This charter is intended to remain stable. Changes to it indicate a fundamental shift in the direction or governing assumptions of the project, not routine development.