A prophet is a refined vessel that is created from birth to be a prophet. … Prophets receive direct revelation from GOD when ever GOD wants to give that revelation… there are 5 offices, apostle, prophet, preacher, evanglist and deacon, and that is the order of the church offices…. The problem in americas churches in this hour is disobidence to the order of the Church. … GOD alone teaches the prophets. Preachers are taught for the most part by folks in college in these times. ~ Joe Andrews
This excerpt demonstrates from beginning to end biblical inaccuracies. For instance, it is not the case that every prophet in Bible times was a prophet from birth. Amos was not a prophet of God from birth, but he was called later in life to be a prophet (Amos 7:14). Further, Samuel began a school of the prophets that was later continued by others, including Elijah and Elisha (See https://www.gospelgazette.com/gazette/2002/jul/page2.htm).
In the same context (Ephesians 4:11-14) to which reference occurs regarding “5 offices,” Scripture teaches that miraculously assisted offices would conclude when the completed Word of God replaced the partial, piecemeal revelations characteristic of the first century church. Compare 1 Corinthians 13:8-13 respecting the prophesied cessation of miracles when the completed Word of God replaced partial, miraculously assisted revelation. No one receives “direct revelation from God” today! Anyone who neither is taught God’s Word by others nor studies the Word of God for himself knows anything about God’s plan for man.
Any revelation received today that is different from what was presented in the first century by the inspired apostles and others must be rejected as not God’s Word (Galatians 1:6-9; Jude 3; Revelation 22:18-19). Any revelation received today that is additional to what was received by the time the last book of the New Testament was penned must be rejected because it is not miraculously inspired (1 Corinthians 13:8-13; Ephesians 4:11-14).
There are no miraculously endowed prophets today! There are no apostles today! Though there are ‘evangelists, pastors (elders) and teachers’ today, they are not miraculously endowed.
