If you say so, but you need to elaborate, because logically who "prophesizes" if not a prophet? Look up the definition of your own terminology.
I am not interested in your working arrangements. But I do know that people who are called by God to "propehsize" are full-time prophets.
Paul spent YEARS studying before launching into full-time ministry
You are wasting your words. He spent years studying Judaism. What made him an inerrant apostle of Christ was not his study of Judaism. He even admits that he said and did a lot of things against Christ in ignorance. He was "illuminated" and converted in an instant, yet he never followed Christ up to that day, nor did he know His teachings.
You know, let' just stop here before this gets even more absurd. You can have the last word.
You are wasting your words. He spent years studying Judaism. What made him an inerrant apostle of Christ was not his study of Judaism.
Perhaps Blogger is referring to this:
Gal. 1:15-18 : 15 But when God, who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace, was pleased 16 to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not consult any man, 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went immediately into Arabia and later returned to Damascus. 18 Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Peter and stayed with him fifteen days.
I think it most likely that Paul spent those three years in solitude in prayer, meditation and study on what Christ had revealed to him. Only after these years did he begin his full-time ministry.