Luke 10:After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. 2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth laborers into his harvest.
Similarly, when the great work of salvation is to be brought to a close, it will be the ordination of God upon the laymen He has chosen that will finish the work of the Gospel in all the world. This isn’t to say that great men would not be used, but for the most part, it will be ordinary people, whom God has set apart for the specific work.
[Last Day Events pp 204] In the last solemn work few great men will be engaged.... God will work a work in our day that but few anticipate. He will raise up and exalt among us those who are taught rather by the unction of His Spirit than by the outward training of scientific institutions. These facilities aren’t to be despised or condemned; they are ordained of God, but they can furnish only the exterior qualifications.
The twelve did not learn the ways and means of the orthodox teachings of the Rabbis, for their methods of studying and interpreting the Scriptures were too riddled and interwoven with tradition and sayings of men. As a result, in their presentation of the word of God, the Rabbis tended to make persons worse off than they were before. That is because they had lost the simplicity of the Gospel, being bogged down with the baggage of sophistication.
2nd Corinthians 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!