Prophet

Prophet: Deut. 18:18 "I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him."

God does the speaking. The prophet is just God’s mouth. The prophet must give God’s message. He must not give his own message. Just as our mouth only says what we want it to say, so also God’s prophet only says what God wants him to say.

Sometimes we think of a prophet as someone who predicts what is going to happen in the future. God’s prophets certainly did this, but they also did more than this. Their main job was to speak God’s message to the people. Sometimes God wanted the people to know about the future but sometimes God just wanted to teach the people His truth. The prophets would not only FORETELL (tell what would happen in the future) but they would also FORTH and TELL (speak forth God’s message and speak forth God’s truth even if it did not have anything to do with the future).