In all of this the prophet is different from the teacher. The teacher expounds and interprets the whole body of the truth of God. The teacher mines the rich deposits in the goldmine of the gospel. A modern teacher will expound the Sermon on the Mount or the Ten Commandments or the message of the Psalms or the parables of Jesus. Since life is punctured only occasionally by special crises, since life unfolds ordinarily most of the time, it's obvious that teachers have to be many while prophets are few.
Teaching is common while prophecy is unusual.
Yet both are essential. Both are essential. Of course there are. In the same way there are modern saints. Yet before they do , Christians are set apart to be .