Yes, it is sad that those who 'hear from God' are considered strange. Yet back in the OT it was an expected thing...even by the none God fearing...like when the King said " Find me Elijah, he hears from God....."
I am sure in the not too far future any of us who claim to speak to, and hear from God will be quickly locked up as crazy!!
No one will want us around.
Even less if we dare say that we 'see' things in another realm!!
I find that people, even denominational believers, who I see as incomplete Christians, are afraid of me and others who simply receive the word of God regarding spiritual gifts at face value.
The denials and reasons they give for their denial would be laughable were the subject not so serious.
We must not give up! These scriptures explain it fully!
2 Timothy 4:2-4 KJVS
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
[3] For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
[4] And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Calling gods gift BABBLE is ignorance broadcast by denominational twisting of the truth of the written word. Amen