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Here is Nick's new Naked Bible Podcast.

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Welcome back to the Naked Bible Podcast.

In our last podcast, we talked about the comedic genre and the New Testament with our guest speaker

Sam Lamerson.

In this episode, we're going to talk about two genres as we continue our series on interpreting

the Bible in its own literary context.

This time, we're going to talk about the genres of prophecy and apocalyptic.

The reason for doubling up will become apparent as we proceed, but basically we need to talk

about these two genres because most modern Bible students don't realize there are clear

differences between the two.

That is, most people assume that prophecy has something to do with predicting the end times

or the end of the world, but that's actually not technically correct.

It's the apocalyptic genre that does that.

Let's take prophecy first toward articulating and understanding the difference between the

two.

In simplest terms, prophecy is what a prophet says, sermons or speeches of prophets or prophetic

figures in the Bible.

If you actually read through the prophets, you'll find that most of the time they don't

predict anything.

They rail against something.

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