The fruits of their lives and the meaning behind their words will indicate the source of their teaching. Prophets are false when they fail to express God's will accurately, and they fail because they are not in contact with the true God. God has spoken, and the true teacher appeals to his Word. 'We have the word of the prophets made more certain and you will do well to pay attention to it' (1:19). The true prophet or true teacher appeals to Scriptures. The false teacher relies on his own creativity. So the true teacher sources what he says from the Bible. And then he says the false teachers exploit you 'with stories they have made up' (2:3). What Peter says about false prophet is, 'We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ' (1:16). Because of Moses' unbelief in God's ability to speak through him, God would speak to Moses, who would tell Aaron what to say to others-Pharaoh in particular. In Exodus 7:1-2, God tells Moses that Aaron, his brother, would be his (Moses') prophet, even as Moses was God's prophet. The main function of prophets is to speak for another from God, rather than the miracles they performed or their foretelling of what would befall like with Egypt, which defined Moses and Aaron as prophets. 2 Chronicles 18:22 emphasis that the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these false prophets. At the very least, they speak out of their own human hearts, but more likely, the 'god' they are speaking for is really a demon or their own ' god of lies '. False prophets either speak for the wrong god, or they claim to have heard from the true God but do not accurately represent Him or His words.

A false prophet is simply someone who speaks for another but falsely.

A narrow understanding of the word prophet is 'someone who foretells the future,' or better defined as 'one who speaks for another.' A true prophet is a person who speaks for God, delivering a message that God has ordained him to give.

Bible verse beware of false prophets