The definition of a prophet today is one who speaks forth things to come, like floods and catastrophes and future events but these are all fear based messages.
The purpose of the prophet is to make plain the invisible things of God, to point to that element. But a prophet is still just a man. When he comes to the end of himself, he/ she is just human and of the nature of Adam, and that is as far as they can take you This is why they describe things in terms understood by Our Adamic nature of things understood by the perceptions of sight and sound in things of time and matter. This is why Christ said that He only spoke to them in parables, that “without a parable spoke He not to them”. And the prophets were also spoke in parables and used descriptions of the age of time and matter. But to us who have the spirit it has been given to understand parables and their invisible lesson. “For many prophets and righteous men have desired to see what you see, and hear what you hear but have not”. They all came to the end of themselves and the culmination of their carnal nature. At the end of the carnal nature is death and death is associated with bad things like decease and famine and drought and catastrophe. That is why they end up there, but we are in the spirit.
But as Christ said in His earthly mission “where I go you cannot go, but you shall follow me afterward”. He took on the catastrophe due to humanity for as the place “you cannot go” and He took on to Himself to the unavoidable consequence called death to all except those who except the free gift of God being His Son, “for he who has the Son has life” and “whosoever believes in Him has passed from death to life” and because He took on our catastrophe, we get a ‘get out of jail pass’ and move passed judgment to life in the spirit. It is in this way that “death has no dominion over us” to the one found “in Christ” which is unlike the one who is “in Adam”.
It is the carnal religious mind that is stuck in the bondage of the elements of creation and time and matter and subject to fear that just cannot except the free gift of the spirit of God and live. Their own proof is that they look to the the earth and see death, destruction and pending doom. But “perfect love cast out fear,for he who fears has not been perfected in love”. It is fear that motivates the need for the safety net of ‘what ifs’ for their heart keeps asking ‘has God really said?’.
It is also said that “all the law and the prophets were until Christ”. Not so much the man Jesus, but that invisible part in which He embodied. His spirit. And this is the Revelation of Christ, being life of the spirit passed the doom to the place where He said “you shall follow Me after”. So this is what we do now, Follow Him on the other side of death, the place past the prophecies, doom, death and destruction. Like He said to those at the tower of Shiloh. “Unless you repent this will likewise happen to you.
It is the carnal man that is subjective and subservient to the elements, a position he was not designed for, that it is to us who are redeemed by the renewal in Christ being born anew in the spirit so that now the elements serve us. This is our rightful redeemed nature. And this is what glorifies God that we be like Him in this way. “All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God”? But not us anymore. “Old things have passed away, all things become new”. And the all things new are a renewed thinking. A re-scripted newly formatted mind of the spirit, restored to thinking like God of His creation to “it is good, very good”. This is why scripture says ;
15 To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled. 16 They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him,being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.
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This is what every soothsayer and prophet does. They declare the judgment due to their carnal nature and expose the need for the grace of God and His gift of life in the spirit, our new nature that co-rules “with a rod of iron” and not driven by the lower nature of fear and the outcropping of actions associated with the carnal mind, being a religious nature that “knows not God” as invisible but as one who is not in control, that must wrestle with mankind and earth and subdue the enemies by another visitation for “He is seated waiting for His enemies to become His footstool”.  He has clearly displayed His Glorious abilities to speak a word and the word becomes the thing that is said and “God has spoken through His Son” the thing is spoken. So why must He come again as though He will use Hands like a man or maybe nuclear weapons or whatever. These are all silly carnal notions and insults when His word can do or undo anything anytime He wants weather you see or believe, for it is faith in the unseen that pleases Him that you reject and expect some carnal fest called “the 2nd coming”. But to us it is said;8 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus,[a]who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the conclusion of sin and death.
 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned putting completely out of business sin in the flesh,
 Meaning for those of us who are  re-formatted with these truths, our old man is completely out of business and the new man is completely operational now and need not a second coming jesus because we put on Christ now. He is word.
This is why we do not need a 2nd coming Jesus. That is a hoax drummed up by the carnal mind that is stuck in the parables that were fulfilled in Christ by His mission when He came “in the likeness of sinful flesh”. For “all the law and the prophets were until Christ” in the flesh. This they deny. They need to see catastrophe and destruction and witness a death with their carnal senses to believe but “it is a wicked and adulterous generation that seeks signs” meaning physical proof. “He is a double minded man. Let him not think to receive anything from the Lord”.
It is the spiritual fact more certain than any sub-strait of matter that entrance into the Kingdom of God is only attainable after destruction and death to which all the law and the prophets attest to (2 Peter). That is why the new life for us”In Christ” must happen now, “Today if you hear His voice” and why one must be born again of the spirit. To see the Kingdom of God and to enter it (John 3) And this happens to those judged in this age tried by the Holy Spirit and who have put on the new man who is identical in purpose and function as Christ (Colossians 3.10) and need not be repeated to the unbelieving 2nd coming seekers.
So a prophet speaks in parables, but he who is least in the Kingdom is greater than a prophet because “we speak what we know and testify to what we have seen”. Do you receive our testimony?
The Kingdom of God is at hand.