A prophecy is clairvoyance that anticipates future events.
Prophecy is a concept that comes from the Latin prophetīa , although its most remote origin is found in the Greek language. It is the supernatural gift that allows us to know distant or future things by inspiration from God . The term is also used to name the predictions made under this gift .
For example: “The prophecy indicates that a new messiah will arrive in the future,” “Many scholars maintain that the terrorist attack was anticipated in some prophecies,” “Thank you for the warning, but I do not believe in prophecies.”
The prophecy, a clairvoyance
Prophecy, therefore, is clairvoyance about the future . It differs from predictions in that they follow a logical process, while prophecies are not linked to reasoning but to divine inspiration. In everyday language, in any case, prophecy is spoken of as the conjecture formed by signs or indications that are observed: “The representative's prophecy about social violence was fulfilled exactly,” “Given this reality, my prophecy is that "The fish will soon disappear from this river."
Monotheistic religions such as Christianity, Judaism or Islam consider that prophecies are indicators of God's designs. Prophets , in this sense, are messengers. We would have to establish, for example, that all those written documents that were made by those known as major prophets and that can be found in the Old Testament are known as prophecies.
Nostradamus is well known for his prophecies.
The concept in parapsychology
Parapsychologists and those who boast of having divinatory powers also often define themselves as prophets.
An example of these prophets is Nostradamus , who would have anticipated the rise to power of Napoleon Bonaparte and the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki , among other historical events.
Movie "The Prophecy"
It is interesting to note that one of the classic films of the horror genre is precisely called “The Prophecy” . It was directed in 1976 by filmmaker Richard Donner and stars actors such as Gregory Peck , Harvey Stephens , David Warner and Lee Remick .
The story we are told is that of a couple who see how, on the day of delivery of their first child, he is stillborn. Therefore, without his wife knowing, the husband decides to replace him with a little boy who has been abandoned as soon as he came into this world. What the man could not know is that this child would be surrounded from that first moment by a large number of strange, inexplicable events where death is very present.
And everything suggests that this little one is the Antichrist . The terror that this film caused and the fact that it became almost a cult cinematographic work has led to it having several subsequent films. Specifically, up to three more sequels have been filmed. All of this without forgetting that in 2006 a remake was even presented, directed by John Moore and whose main actors were Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles , among others.