My question is how this discussion relates to Numbers 12:6-8. It would seem the Bible also recognizes that God speaks in opaque ways. Certainly he speaks to men like Moses in clear ways: this I take to be what he did with all the authors of Scripture. But doesn’t this text also support the notion of truly inspired prophets with some kind of lesser authority by virtue of their lack of perspicacity?

“And he said, ‘Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream. Not so with my servant Moses. He is faithful in all my house. With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the Lord.’”