False prophets entice by fleshly desires. They promise freedom, salvation, and prosperity while they themselves are slaves of corruption with greed for money and power. False prophets arose among the people before and they are among you and me today. They introduce destructive heresies. A destructive heresy is any teaching that causes you to feel safe and heaven bound, while you are either lukewarm, passive, worldly minded, greedy, unforgiving, selfish, barren of fruit, disobedient or just living in sin. Today's American church is saturated with all of these spiritual conditions and more. It is partly because the pastors are introducing destructive heresies and partly because the members love it so and have accumulated for themselves teachers to tell them what they want to hear. Peter also said that these false prophets would follow their sensuality and because of them the way of truth will be maligned, that is perverted. These false prophets will exploit you with false words, exploit you for money and power with words of peace and safety, with words of prosperity, with words of hope and happiness, with words of blessings, and with words that all is well. False prophets don't have a sense of urgency for souls and for those who live according to the flesh or those who sin or those who are just lukewarm. As long as people show up at church and give their money, they will always be exploited with false words and have their ears tickled. False prophets also entice by fleshly desires. The desire for wealth, prosperity, health, happiness and generally being blessed. www.christianmyths.org