New covenant communities needed a constant inflow of revealed truth; on that account, God gave prophets to receive that revelation until the apostolic message reached its final maturity and so ceased. With the completion of the message, the need for the revelatory gifts was also complete. (See Eph. 2:20; 3:5; 4:11; 1 Cor. 12:10, 28; 14:1, 3, 6, 22, 24, 25, 29-32).
