IG:
As you, I believe the book of Revelation was written after the death of John the Baptist.
You state John the Baptist was the last "true prophet".
Was the book of Revelation written by a "true prophet"?
Not really, not in the OT sense..First John wrote the gospel of John, then 1,2&3 John while he was relatively free..
When John was exiled to the isle of Patmos, he knew his words would not likely be heard or even read, within his lifetime..but God told him to record what he was told.
Much the same as Luke, Peter, Mark and others wrote epistles under inspiration, but were not called prophets..forecasting future happenings as a warning.
Note; Prophets, such a Ezekiel and Daniel, once they received the word from God..went about preaching to all, who would listen.
The reason we have no prophets now...is because they are not needed. We have the full word of God, so we don't need further revelations.
Some confusion is experienced because upon occasion the term prophesy is used interchangeably with preaching, or message.
Thank you for your reply.
I reject your nuanced view, which seems contrived to allow your first statement of John the Baptist to stand.
If you deny John as a prophet, how then can you accept Revelation as prophecy? Or do you? Even preterists - those who
believe John wrote of near-future events that have already occurred - would call John a prophet.
Yet, John did prophesy, which makes him a prophet after John the Baptist. That his prophecy, given by God, would not be
read within his lifetime, does not negate his prophecy. Were it otherwise, then what of the Old Testament prophecies
which foretold the future coming of the Messiah? That they were unknown to the gentiles and, likely, many Jews, makes
them no less prophetic.
John knew the old prophecies, and in obedience, faith and trust in his God, wrote Revelation.
Isaiah 55:8-11
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
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So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.