So anyone who says they have a direct line to God should be believed.
Absolutely NOT! We are warned time after time of false prophets and false teachers rising up professing to be the genuine article but inwardly are wolves in sheep's clothing. John the Revelator exhorts us :
1 John 4;
1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Most of the so-called modern day "prophets" hate to be "tested", they use fear tactics to scare people into believing them carte blanche, by misappropriating one passage of Scripture, "touch not God's annointed", as if it applies to them, when in reality that passage applies to the King whom God has appointed.
Be wary and test the spirits.
http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/St.Pachomius/Liturgical/didache.html
The DIDACHE is at above URL.
CHAPTER 11
11:1 Whosoever, therefore, shall come and teach you all these things aforesaid, him do ye receive;
11:2 but if the teacher himself turn and teach another doctrine with a view to subvert you, hearken not to him; but if he come to add to your righteousness, and the knowledge of the Lord, receive him as the Lord.
11:3 But concerning the apostles and prophets, thus do ye according to the doctrine of the Gospel.
11:4 Let every apostle who cometh unto you be received as the Lord.
11:5 He will remain one day, and if it be necessary, a second; but if he remain three days, he is a false prophet.
11:6 And let the apostle when departing take nothing but bread until he arrive at his resting-place; but if he ask for money, he is a false prophet.