Well, I suppose we dont need the gift of prophecie in the way the believers got it during the time the scripture did not exist as a book we have today. Believers in Pauls days had no bible to open and read what God is revealing to them.
That means not that God is not uesing prophecie today, too.
But the almost we have to know, we can read in our bible.
The problem with people in the old testament is the same as it is today. It has never been a problem of having lack of written word (otherwise everyone without a bible would have excuse, and Moses and every prophet would have been doomed for lack of the written word).
The problem is that no matter how much word is written down, or how many prophets God sends, or how many miracles are done, or how many healings are performed, or even if God pours out his spirit on millions of people causing them to speak in tongues (fullfilling Isaiah 28:11) some people refuse to believe God is a living, working, caring about them,
TALKING God. They remove God to some far away place and say "You blaspheme if you say God spoke to you"...and then they serve dumb (not talking) idols of religion, or pleasure, or beliefs of their own making.
The problem is unwillingness to interact directly with God....always wanting something between them and God...to be and stay separate from God...whether by lusts and pleasures of this world, or by keeping a prophet like Moses between them and God (saying "Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.")...or how they do it nowadays with the bible itself saying "Oh no, we don't need to interact directly with God. We've got his bible and that's all we need. We don't need to hear God speak. We don't need his spirit talking in our churches (either by prophecy for the group, or tongues for the individual). And we despise those who even claim to have such things."
I apologize for the length and perhaps the tone of this particular reply but this upsets me (stirs me up, provokes me).
God is real. God speaks. God works miracles. He tells us of things to come. He tells us of things in the past. He reveals the deep things of God (things that are NOT detailed in the bible). He never said "I will not show you things unless they are written in the Bible". He never even said we need a bible. Yet MAN says "What was lacking was a Bible." Paul didn't need a bible. Moses didn't need a bible. Jesus didn't need a bible. Peter didn't need a bible. The prophets didn't need a bible. The children of Israel didn't need a bible. No one in the entire new testament needed a bible.
YOU don't even claim to need a bible (except if you want to become a hypocrite)
. Otherwise no one could have been saved until the bible was fully written AND they'd read it fully. Therefore, a bible is not what is needed, nor does it fulfill 1 Corinthians 13:10.
Ugh.. there is so much more to be said on this.
In love of God for you,
Kelby