[the Canon is closed]
The CANAN is closed, but prophets are still relevant today.
CHRIST gave us PROPHETS, EVANGILISTS, PASTORS & TEACHERS. They are ALL active today. Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church We cannot pick and choose the gifts, but should embrace them all. The WORD instructs us how to properly use and discern the gifts.
Ephesians 4:11-16
11 Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. 12 Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. 13 This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ.
14 Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth. 15 Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. 16 He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.
**prophets are still relevant today.**
Then why didn’t people heed the one warning of an attack on New York City and the government by Esperanza in Venezuela?
The apostles and prophets were all part of the foundation of the church but they don't exist anymore. These were people who received revelation directly from God. These were not people who studied the New Testament…….they were busy writing it and teaching the truths of it to the apostles. God’s Spirit directly spoke to them because there was no New Testament for the early church….. up to this point in time, the mysteries had not yet been revealed. Ephesians 3:5 “Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit….” These were individuals who were appointed by Jesus Christ. 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…..”
I don't believe there's any prophets today who receive divine revelation from God… that foundational era is over and all the mysteries that God wanted revealed to us has already taken place. However, the other two ministries remain…. the evangelists and the pastors.