New Testament Prophets?

[Annie39]

Are there any prophets in the New Testament?

Annie

 

[Tomster]

Are there any prophets in the New Testament?

Annie

A prophet by definition is one who is moved to speak by God, one who delivers his messages or reveals his will.

St. John the Baptist

 

[Annie39]

A prophet by definition is one who is moved to speak by God, one who delivers his messages or reveals his will.

St. John the Baptist

Thank you. Of course you are correct. I think however, St. John the Baptist was in Old Testament times even though he was written about in the N.T. I say this because Jesus had not yet died.

According to the definition, I suppose the Apostles would qualify. Are there any others?

Annie

 

[JMJ_coder]

Prophecy as was in the days of the Old Testament doesn’t exist anymore under the New Testament.

**A reading from a treatise on The Ascent of Mount Carmel by Saint John of the Cross, priest and doctor.

In Christ God has spoken to us**

Under the ancient law prophets and priests sought from God revelations and visions which indeed they needed, for faith had as yet no firm foundations and the gospel law had not yet been established. Their seeking and God’s responses were necessary. He spoke to them at one time though words and visions and revelations, at another in signs and symbols. But however He responded and what He said and revealed were mysteries of our holy faith, either partial glimpses of the whole or sure movements toward it.

But now that faith is rooted in Christ, and the law of the gospel has been proclaimed in this time of grace, there is no need to seek Him in the former manner, nor for Him so to respond. By giving us, as He did, His Son, His only Word, He has in that one Word said everything. There is no need for any further revelation.

This is the true meaning of Paul’s words to the Hebrews when he urged them to abandon their earlier ways of conversing with God, as laid down in the law of Moses, and to set their eyes on Christ alone: In the past God spoke to our fathers through the prophets in various ways and manners; but now in our times, the last days, He has spoken to us in His Son. In effect, Paul is saying that God has spoken so completely through His own Word that He chooses to add nothing. Although He had spoken but partially through the prophets He has now said everything in Christ. He has given us everything, His own Son.

Therefore, anyone who wished to question God or to seek some new vision or revelation from Him would commit an offense, for instead of focusing his eyes entirely on Christ he would be desiring something other than Christ, or beyond him.

God could then answer: This is my beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased; hear Him. In my Word I have already said everything. Fix your eyes on Him alone for in Him I have revealed all and in Him you will find more than you could ever ask for or desire.

I, with my Holy Spirit, came down upon Him on Mount Tabor and declared: This is my beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased; hear Him. You do not need new teachings or ways of learning from me, for when I spoke before it was of Christ Who was to come, and when they sought anything of me they were but seeking but seeking and hoping for the Christ in Whom is every good, as the whole teaching of the evangelists and apostles clearly testifies.

 

[John7]

There has to be some sort of prophecy going on (or was going on) by NT prophets, otherwise why these verses. Was John the apostle when he wrote eg Revelation working as a prophet, bringing in new revelations? Nowadays though shouldn’t there still be persons with the office of prophet like in Eph 4:11 below? Or did the office of prophet go out with the apostolic age or something?

1 Corinthians 12:28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
1 Corinthians 12:29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
Ephesians 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

 

[gookykookypig]

There is, John the Baptist, considered as the bridge of the Old testament and the New. Jesus calls him “more than a prophet”.

Remember also the prophetess Anna of the Gospel of Luke.

Nowadays, prophets are not anymore defined as doomsayers. They’re witnesses, and had given the privilege of receiving outstanding revelations. Our mystic saints are prophets, as well as our holy visionaries.

 

[NHInsider]

Prophecy, even in the OT, is not about telling the future, it’s bringing a message from God. Sometimes that message may include warnings or promises about the future (as when Isaiah comforted the people with the promises of the Messiah) and the word has come to be associated with only messages about the future. Elizabeth’s greeting of Mary at the visitation is described as a prophecy. Stephen’s description of his vision of Heaven as he was being stoned is a prophecy. When Paul was given the knowledge of what Ananais and Saphira had done (misrepresenting their gift as being the entirety of the money they received while actually retaining some of it), that was a prophetic utterance. This kind of prophecy can still occur today - it is a gift of the Holy Spirit which the Lord gives as it is needed for the good of the Church, as Paul writes in Corinthians. The book of Revelation is the only prophetic book in the New Testament, the record of the visions of St. John, some (but not necessarily all) of which describe the events around the Second Coming of Christ.

In the old covenant, the Holy Spirit was only given to a few people, and they were called to be prophets for the whole nation. One of the promises of the new covenant is that God would pour out His Spirit on all the people (Jeremiah 31) which came to pass at Pentecost.

Although some Christian groups maintain that the “extraordinary” gifts of the Holy Spirit ceased after the apostolic age, the Church recognizes and makes a distinction between private revelation and public revelation to this day. Some would say that the reason we don’t have more examples of prophecy in our own era is because we are not open to the prompting of the Holy Spirit, while others would say that since the Lord gives the gifts as they are required it is not a matter of our disposition.

 

[Annie39]

Prophecy, even in the OT, is not about telling the future, it’s bringing a message from God. Sometimes that message may include warnings or promises about the future (as when Isaiah comforted the people with the promises of the Messiah) and the word has come to be associated with only messages about the future. Elizabeth’s greeting of Mary at the visitation is described as a prophecy. Stephen’s description of his vision of Heaven as he was being stoned is a prophecy. When Paul was given the knowledge of what Ananais and Saphira had done (misrepresenting their gift as being the entirety of the money they received while actually retaining some of it), that was a prophetic utterance. This kind of prophecy can still occur today - it is a gift of the Holy Spirit which the Lord gives as it is needed for the good of the Church, as Paul writes in Corinthians. The book of Revelation is the only prophetic book in the New Testament, the record of the visions of St. John, some (but not necessarily all) of which describe the events around the Second Coming of Christ.

In the old covenant, the Holy Spirit was only given to a few people, and they were called to be prophets for the whole nation. One of the promises of the new covenant is that God would pour out His Spirit on all the people (Jeremiah 31) which came to pass at Pentecost.

Although some Christian groups maintain that the “extraordinary” gifts of the Holy Spirit ceased after the apostolic age, the Church recognizes and makes a distinction between private revelation and public revelation to this day. Some would say that the reason we don’t have more examples of prophecy in our own era is because we are not open to the prompting of the Holy Spirit, while others would say that since the Lord gives the gifts as they are required it is not a matter of our disposition.

Thank you and everyone who replied to my post. This will be very helpful.