Christ and John the Baptist were the last prophets — Section 41
No one claiming to be a prophet after Christ and John the Baptist is to be accepted or believed
Representative of a Christian church:
The scriptures tell us that the “law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the Kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.” (Luke 16:16) In addition to that, we read in Matthew 21:37-41, in Christ’s parable of the husbandman, that he compares himself to the son that “last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, they will reverence my son. But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, this is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. And they caught him out of the vineyard and slew him.” Thus, Christ was the last prophet sent to the world, and John the Baptist was the last prophet sent to the Jews.
Missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:
Luke tells us that the “law and the prophets were until John”, and since Acts 3:22 tells us that Christ was a prophet, and he came after John, undoubtedly it referred to the law in Luke 15, and Christ did away with that law. The scriptures make it clear that Christ was the last prophet sent to the Jews (see Matthew 21:11) In Acts 15:23 we are told that Judas and Silas were prophets, and Acts 21:10 tells us Agabus was a prophet. Please also remember that Christ chose his apostles, who were also prophets.
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