The late A.W. Tozer in his article on "The Gift of Prophetic Insight" said:

"What God says to the Church at any given time period depends altogether upon her moral and spiritual condition, and upon the spiritual need of the hour. Religious leaders who continue to mechanically expound the Scriptures without regard to the current religious situation are no better than the scribes and lawyers of Jesus' day who faifhfully parroted the Law without the remotest notion of what was going on around them spiritually...The prophets never made that mistake nor wasted their efforts in that manner. They invariably spoke to the condition of the people of their times."