The Book of Hed

What is a prophet? Growing up, I was told a prophet was someone from the Old Testament whom God spoke to directly. These prophets often had a message to the people of God from God Himself. I was told that when Jesus died for our sins and the veil was torn, God began speaking to all who have a relationship with Him. Because of this, there were no more prophets, because that would elevate one person over another. If God speaks to everyone directly, that makes everyone who follows Him a prophet; and when everyone's a prophet, no one is. God doesn't love any one person more than an-other, so He wouldn't speak more clearly to any one person than an-other. This made sense to me; of course it did. If this was what a prophet was-merely a mouthpiece-then how could God say He loves all of His children, but then choose the "best of the bunch" to be prophets while the others get murky messages at best and radio silence at worst?