2 Kings 3: Is There No Prophet Here?

But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no prophet of the LORD here, that we may inquire of the LORD through him?” An officer of the king of Israel answered, “Elisha son of Shaphat is here. He used to pour water on the hands of Elijah. ” - 2 Kings 3:11, NIV

I have asked the same question myself many times as I view all that is going on in our world today.  Where are the prophets?   Where are the miracles?  Why do we not see God's hand moving against the corruption, decadence and despair of this world??  Why? 

I don 't have an answer, but I know this.  God is not dead and he is not asleep, unlike the other gods.

And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. - 1 Kings 18:27 KJV

 

The gods of this world are impotent, but not our God, not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  Sometimes I think that God has gone silent like in the intertestamental  period of the Bible.  If so, the silence is deafening, but it gives us great hope.  It was after that period of silence that the Messiah appeared. Can it be that this silence is leading up to his coming again?