God's ideal is not necessarily to always speak directly to people

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God can speak in many ways to people: both DIRECTLY and INDIRECTLY (for example: through other people).

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There is evidence to suggest that God's ideal is NOT NECESSARILY to ALWAYS speak DIRECTLY to people.

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Jesus Christ and His body: 

God was speaking to Jesus Christ DIRECTLY when Christ was in the body of His flesh.

As believers, we are now COLLECTIVELY the body of Christ. Each believer is just ONE INDIVUDUAL MEMBER of this collective body of Christ, as it is written: "WE THE MANY ARE ONE BODY in Christ, and INDIVIDUALLY MEMBERS (of) one another" (Romans 12:5).

God will speak DIRECTLY to the COLLECTIVE body of Christ, just like He spoke directly to Christ when He was in His body. 

But because we are INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS of that collective body, God will speak DIRECTLY TO ONE MEMBER, and then DIRECTLY TO ANOTHER MEMBER, as Paul wrote: "(TO) ONE (a) word (of) wisdom is-given through the Spirit; and (TO) ANOTHER (a) word (of) knowledge according-to the same Spirit" (1 Corinthians 12:8). 

Based on that, God will NOT necessarily speak EVERYTHING DIRECTLY TO EACH MEMBER INDIVIDUALLY, so that as a result individual members of that collective body can come to NEED each other, as it is written in the same chapter: "the eye can not say (to) the hand, “I-do not have NEED (of) you”. Or again the head (to) the feet, “I-do not have NEED (of) you”." (1 Corinthians 12:21). Notice that the text does not say that others are an "add-on" or a "plus" added to the fact that we would know everything without them, but a "NEED", implying that we would be missing things without them. This is done "in-order-that there-should NOT BE DIVISION in the body, but (that) the body-parts should-be-having THE SAME CONCERN FOR ONE-ANOTHER" (1 Corinthians 12:25).

God can command people to speak to other people for further revelations from Him:

God can command people that they need to speak to other people for further revelations from Him (which could imply that God may NOT tell people every revelation DIRECTLY, but that He is giving FURTHER REVELATION INDIRECTLY through other people).

For example, the Lord "Jesus" (Acts 9:5) spoke to "Saul" (Acts 9:1) on the way to Damascus, and told him to "arise and enter into the city, and IT-WILL-BE-TOLD YOU what thing you must do" (Acts 9:6). Here the Lord Jesus did not tell him all the things he needed to do, but instead the Lord spoke to "(a) certain disciple (who) was in Damascus, ANANIAS" (Acts 9:10) to speak to Saul.

For example, God spoke to "Cornelius" (Acts 10:1), telling him to listen to Peter the apostle, saying "send men to Joppa, and send-for (a) certain Simon who is-called PETER" (Acts 10:5) "TO-LISTEN-TO WORDS" (Acts 10:22) FROM PETER. 

God can choose to speak directly only to one person, in order to speak indirectly to everyone else:

God can choose to speak DIRECTLY only to one person, in order to speak INDIRECTLY to everyone else around.

For example, it is written that "the DISCIPLES (were) first called Christians in Antioch. And during these days, PROPHETS came-down from Jerusalem to Antioch. And having-stood-up, ONE OF THEM, AGABUS (by) name, SIGNIFIED THROUGH THE SPIRIT (that) there would-certainly be (a) great famine over the whole world, which took-place in-the-time-of Claudius" (Acts 11:26-28).

Here even though there were "DISCIPLES" (Acts 11:26) present, and "PROPHETS" (Acts 11:27) who came down there, God only spoke DIRECTLY to "ONE OF THEM" (Acts 11:28) in order to speak INDIRECTLY to everyone else around (without the text indicating that God spoke to any other person DIRECTLY about this event at the time). 

Even "Saul" (Acts 11:30) was present there, to whom earlier the Lord "Jesus" (Acts 9:5) appeared and spoke to DIRECTLY and who was led to be "filled (with the) Holy SPIRIT" (Acts 9:17), and yet it is not recorded that God would have spoken to Saul DIRECTLY in Acts 11 in that instance about the event at that time.

What can be done to determine if God may be speaking through someone else indirectly?

God can speak indirectly through other people, and there are ways to determine if that is so.

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