This is the Bayma Podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Villings. Today we examine

the remaining books and tona, most of which are prophets. We will attempt to understand

prophetic history as a whole in the setting for each period of history. Yeah, so we wrapped up our

wisdom literature and this week it's time to jump back into the narrative and jump back into the

so you might remember, you know what struck me? What's that? So we've been talking about this wisdom

literature. Right. And growing up I've always thought like, oh this is a Psalm for me to understand

what I'm feeling or for me to do this, me to do this. These proverbs are for me to understand what

to do in this situation or that situation. But that's not what they're written for. Right. They're

written for the entire assembly of Israel to sing together. They're written as wisdom for the entire

assembly. Right. Practice together. Yeah. It's that play of communal and individual,

that East versus West and the way that we just primarily frame things because of who we are.

Pretty amazing difference. Yeah. Yeah. If you learn to start making that one of your default

questions, I don't know if it ever becomes our default worldview. But if you make one of your

default questions, it's amazing how that changes things. I mean, I'm what? Four years into this study

and that's first time that's occurred to me that my entire frame of reference around wisdom literature

has been individually not necessarily backwards, but just sure completely different mindset then

than what it was to the original readers. Absolutely. Yep. So we have a presentation today, by the way,

we do. Yes. It's going to be helpful today. We're going to start to look at the prophets.

Before we dive into any prophets, we want to kind of understand the whole, the big picture

behind the prophets. So it means we're jumping back into the narrative now. And if you remember when

we left off, where do we leave off in the narrative? Right. Oh, we just had the kings do their

thing in the kingdom split. Yep. And they started worshipping other idols, mixing things in with

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