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No one is discarding prophets ,a prophet is someone who proclaims God's message


A prophet is much more than someone who proclaims God's message. Pastors, teachers and evangelists do that, so there's no need for a prophet if he only does what the other ministries do. A prophet stands in a different ministry than those. He doesn't add to God's revelation, but he does foretell and proclaim under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost judgment and admonishment based on God's divine revelation in his Word. Of all the gifts of the Spirit this is the greatest one and Paul said we should all covet this gift. It's also the one most disliked by lukewarm pew warmers, because a true Prophet of God warns of judgment that is coming on the Laodicean church age of today. God's judgment will begin at the house of God and you can bet your booties that God doesn't send judgment unless he warns his people first. He never has and never will.

Strong's concordance says this about a Prophet who prophesies:

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Prophecy: discourse emanating from divine inspiration and declaring the purposes of God, whether by reproving and admonishing the wicked, or comforting the afflicted, or revealing things hidden; esp. by foretelling future events

To prophesy: to speak forth by divine inspirations, to predict; to prophesy with the idea of foretelling future events pertaining esp. to the kingdom of God to utter forth, declare, a thing which can only be known by divine revelation.


God is still speaking today through prophets, teachers, pastors and evangelist. Whether we hear them or not is up to us.

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No one is saying that the Holy Spirit has ceased giving all gifts, I am stating that the Holy Spirit is no longer bringing new prophecy/new revelations from God in any manner what so ever.



With that we are in agreement. There is no new revelation. The Word is it! But that doesn't mean God doesn't speak divine revelation of his Word to the Body of Christ under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost.

The gifts of the Spirit did not bring new revelation in the early church. The Apostles teaching and doctrine gave God's revelation to the early church, which is the written Word of God we have today. The spiritual gifts are for the building up and edifying of the body of Christ. The ministry gifts are for proclaiming, teaching, admonishing, equiping and establishing the saints.

So since you admit that ALL gifts haven't ceased, how do you determine which gifts are still applicable for the body of Christ. The gift of tongues has ceased according to you, has knowledge also vanished away? What about the gift of discernment, gift of miracles, gift of prophecy, gift of healing...what about the Word of Wisdom, Word of knowledge...have these all too ceased?

No one garee can prop up a doctrine on one scripture that has been based on man's own private interpretation. When they do, they find themselves distorting the Word of Truth. None of the gifts have passed away...none of the ministry gifts and none of the spiritual gifts. This last days Church needs the gifts in operation as great, if not greater than the early church did.

The problem with the lukewarm Church in America today is that man is in control, not the Holy Spirit....teaching for doctrine the commandments of men!