Christian Prophets

Elijah in the desert.

Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

This passage implies that all good Christians are prophets.

The implication is stronger if you read “for my sake” as referring not to the historical Jesus of Nazareth, but to the cosmic Christ, the Logos. As, surely, it must, to be sensible. Thus it reads, “blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for the sake of Truth and the Right.”

Which is again just what the Old Testament prophets did, speak out for the Truth and the Right, without knowledge of Jesus of Nazareth.

Why are people commonly reproached, persecuted, and slandered for saying the truth?

John 3:19-20:

“This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.”

Everyone who does evil hates the truth, and so will hate an honest man.