Hey, my friends, it's Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast, and I know that some of you do not like American football or care about American football or understand the rules of American football, but I'm still going to talk about American football for a minute. There's his quarterback that's the guy who throws the ball in American football named Tony Romo. He played for America's team, the Dallas Cowboys, and he is a pretty good, he's a decent quarterback, I guess, by all accounts. But then he retired and he became an

announcer, went up in the booth and described to the audience what was going on in the game. And he

did something that I don't think anybody had ever done. And it was really fun. He predicted plays

like a profit. He was, you know, a pretty smart, pretty cerebral player, and he was fresh out of the

league, so nothing had really changed about offenses and defenses from a year earlier when Romo was

still playing. So he goes up into the booth, and he would just look at the formation of the defense,

look at the formation of the offense, and he'd be like, oh, we've got an eye formation here, and number 84, that tight end, he's going to chip there

on the right side of the line, and as soon as he's off that block, he's going to catch a screen,

and it'll go for eight yards in a first down. And, exactly that thing would happen. It felt like he could

see the future. Now, it was pattern recognition for him, but it was still pretty cool. That first

year was Tony Romo calling stuff. It was magical. Well, guess what, podcast listeners, do you know

who else is pretty good at predicting the future? That's right. The prophet

Isaiah, except for him, it was real. I don't think with the prophet Isaiah was pattern recognition.

I think with the prophet Isaiah, it was, you know, the miraculous work of God, because God is

the master of time and history, and you can see into the future, and God never

learned anything, and he's unsurprised by things. And I also know that whenever we talk about

prophecy, for some of you, that's a hang-up. That's difficult. Some of you would say, I'm a Christian,

and I don't know what to do with the prophecy stuff, predicting things in the future with great

specificity and accuracy. And it's just

like that level of supernaturalism. It just challenges all your assumptions about the world. Cool.

I get it. Makes sense. We don't have to have this one completely solved and we don't have to all

be totally on the same page in order to move forward. I know there are others of you who are like,

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