Welcome to the 10-minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one is about Isaiah.

We're into a new chunk of the Bible starting today.

When you turn the page from song of songs to Isaiah,

you aren't just turning the page from one book to another,

so you're turning the page from one genre to another.

So far we've made it through three genres in the Old Testament.

The first five books of the Bible associated with Moses, those are the Pentateuch.

Then we get all of the history books that come after that,

and then you get the wisdom literature that we've been looking at from the last few days,

the Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, etc.

Well now we're into the prophets, and right off the bat,

that term prophet is going to conjure different things for different people,

but I think the most common association with that term is the idea of predictivity

that prophets know the future.

They know things that they couldn't possibly know,

and the only reason they know it is because of some kind of revelation from beyond,

from the divine.

Even in storytelling, fiction, fantasy, things like that,

you'll have the role of the prophet, and Shakespeare, you have the role of the prophet.

In paganism, you have the role of the prophet, and most often there, again,

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