from what I understand cessationists believe that the words of the prophets was complete in the first century when the scriptures were complete so that nothing more is to be added to or taken away from God's word...anyone who does so is cursed by God..so God no longer requires a mouthpiece to speak His word directly through to us as we have His complete written word
This topic always confuses me because I thought everyone when they spoke were to speak as the oracles of God and the prophecy they should speak is the testimony of Christ.
I guess it comes from people not understanding how the Old testament foreshadowed the coming of Christ or how all of prophecy is about JESUS Christ. The Seed of Abraham is JESUS, it says SEED not seeds. Instead they try and be one of the seeds and totally miss the message of the Bible.
Prophecy is to speak as a testimony of JESUS, not some political lever to manipulate people into false idol worship of a "prophet" (not that anyone here has claimed this but many "prophets" demand it in the form of reading THEIR words more than Jesus' words written in the Bible)
The Word of God is Jesus Christ (not just the Bible though it contains many of His words) and He teaches people His laws and His ways and would NOT contradict the Bible.
anyway, here are the Bible verses that come to mind:
Isaiah 50
Why, when I came,
was there no man?
Why, when I called,
was there none to answer?
Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem?
Or have I no power to deliver?
talks about JESUS
1 Peter 4:11
If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which
God supplies,
that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Revelation 19:10
And I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “See that you do not do that! I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of
Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of
Jesus is the spirit of
prophecy.”
Many would argue but I believe we live in THESE times when God writes His laws in the hearts OF ALL His people. We are under the NEW Covenant mediated by Christ and are in need of ALL His people to speak HIS testimony. That is what it truly means to be an oracle of God. Spreading the Gospel to others.
Jeremiah 31:32-34
New King James Version (NKJV)
32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day
that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them,[
a] says the Lord. 33 But this
is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34
No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
It is again repeated in Hebrews 8:9-11
mmm did a search on "strange things" in the Bible, the only one NOT referring to Jesus and what HE did is this one:
Proverbs 23:33
Your eyes will see
strange things, And your heart will utter perverse
things.