Judges 6:8

That the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of Israel, which said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;

The Lord sent a prophet. This prophet exercised the pastoral office only. Like the man of God commissioned to reprove Eli (1 Sam. 11:27-29), he was the bearer of a specific message, but not the utterer of prophetic sayings. His function was to rouse the Israelites to a sense of their sin in apostatizing from God. The national calamity is authoritatively traced to their infidelity as the cause.