Re: Prophets

Here's something else I left out last night.  God has always called a single prophet to lead a dispensation of time.  This is true throughout the recorded scriptural age of man.

Adam led the first dispensation

Other dispensation leaders

Enoch

Noah

Abraham

Moses

Christ

Joseph Smith

These prophets were called by God to be the spiritual leaders to which those in their dispensation would look.

Joseph Smith was called to restore all things in this the final "dispensation of the the fullness of times".

Go to the Bible Dictionary and look up "dispensations"

Anyway - I'm trying to think of how you can best explain this first to yourself and then to an investigator.

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 7:41 AM, Caleb Gibbons <cgibbons@myldsmail.net> wrote:

I got asked a question yesterday and I don't know how to answer it. I
told an investigator that Lehi was called as a prophet around the same
time as Jeremiah. She said "so there was two prophets on the earth?"
And the lesson before we told her that we only have one prophet at a
time on the earth. So I kind of contradicted myself. She then said "if
God is the same yesterday, today and forever, then why doesn't he call
two prophets of the church today? Where does it say in the bible that
he called two prophets at a time?"

I've been studying it for awhile and can't find anything except
Ephesians 4:11-13
"And he gave some, bapostles; and some, prophets; and some,
evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;"
"... For the edifying of the body of Christ."
"Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of
the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of
the fulness of Christ:"

But that's talking about past prophets.. So maybe just be thinking
about this one so I can give her something next time we meet?

Thanks for your help.
- Elder Caleb Gibbons