11 Bible Verses about Prophecy Abolished

When Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim or by prophets.

Then Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” And Saul answered, “I am greatly distressed; for the Philistines are waging war against me, and God has departed from me and no longer answers me, either through prophets or by dreams; therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I should do.”

“The prophets are as wind,
And the word is not in them.
Thus it will be done to them!”

We do not see our signs;
There is no longer any prophet,
Nor is there any among us who knows how long.

For the Lord has poured over you a spirit of deep sleep,
He has shut your eyes, the prophets;
And He has covered your heads, the seers.

Her gates have sunk into the ground,
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her princes are among the nations;
The law is no more.
Also, her prophets find
No vision from the Lord.

“It shall come about in that day,” declares the Lord, “that the heart of the king and the heart of the princes will fail; and the priests will be appalled and the prophets will be astounded.”

The mighty man and the warrior,
The judge and the prophet,
The diviner and the elder,

Disaster will come upon disaster and rumor will be added to rumor; then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but the law will be lost from the priest and counsel from the elders.

“Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.

“Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.