First of all, the prophets biblically spoke about the presence of God in the history of man. The prophets did not act in their own name, but were chosen by God.

"Of your sons I have chosen to be prophets..."

(Amos 2:11) In the fate of the prophets, different realities were intertwined: this is the will of God, the ability of man to heed this will, and this is the formation of a new history under the influence of the will of God and man, expressed in prophecy. Understanding that human words cannot contain the transcendence of God, but at the same time realizing that God is omnipresent, we must see in the prophet a testimony of God's presence in human life and see in him a messenger of God.

A few words about terminology. In popular parlance, the term "prophet" is usually used to refer to a person who is able to transmit and predict the future by virtue of some unusual supernatural knowledge. There are such passages in the Bible as well.

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For example, (Jeremiah 28:8-7), (Deuteronomy 18:21-22), (Romans 9:29), and a number of others. Russian word

"The Prophet"

corresponds to the Greek term

Prophetos

, and this term is used in the Septuagint, in the oldest translation of the Old Testament of the second century. In turn, this term refers us to the Hebrew word

"Nabi"

, which is repeated more than 300 times in the Masoretic text of the Bible.