Hey, my friends. I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. And do you remember

that time in probably like seventh grade English when you learned about foreshadowing and

your teachers had you read? What would you do in seventh grade? Like of mice and men?

Is that maybe eighth grade, ninth grade? I don't know. Some great American novel, something

like that. What's one with Leonardo DiCaprio? The great Gatsby. Maybe you did that one. And

then they explained to you that there were things that the author very intentionally baked

into the story in ways that may be slid by you a little bit. But if you really thought

about it, it means something. It's like, oh, what was it? What's the famous one? No.

The one they used in my class was the one with Anne Frank, right? There's the one about

the pen and she had like an ink pen. And maybe it fell on a stove. I spent since eighth grade.

They maybe was burned. And then the teacher was like, well, this is foreshadowing. What's

going to happen? I was like, oh, my goodness. It's morbid and horrifying. And if I just

butchered that, you still get the point foreshadowing happens in good literature in awful

literature and awful art. The story just creens straight ahead at breakneck speed with

no thought for artfulness or flourishes. And I mean, wrong. It's the reason that foreshadowing

exists is not just a flex by the author to be like, I actually thought about what I was

going to do at the end as opposed to the people who made the Star Wars sequel trilogy

or lost. No, it actually does something to enhance the thing. It puts your brain in

a mode of thinking about this little simple thing that seems like it should mean so little.

But maybe it doesn't take much to extrapolate that out and realize that it means much more.

Maybe that foreshadowing allows a point of view character to interact with the thing that

seems inconsequential and you realize they have one attitude toward it when it's inconsequential

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