Revelation
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Revelation, or divine revelation, is the disclosing of some form of truth or knowledge through communication with a deity or other supernatural entity or entities in the view of religion and theology.
Illumination from Liber Scivias, showing Hildegard of Bingen receiving a vision, dictating to her scribe and sketching on a wax tablet
The mass-revelation at Mount Horeb in an illustration from a Christian Bible card published by the Providence Lithograph Company, 1907
'Revelation writing': The first draft of a tablet of Bahá'u'lláh, recorded in shorthand script by an amanuensis
An 1893 engraving of Joseph Smith receiving the golden plates and other artifacts from the angel Moroni
Prophecy
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In religion, mythology, and fiction, a prophecy is a message that has been communicated to a person by a supernatural entity. Prophecies are a feature of many cultures and belief systems and usually c
16th century woodcut of a soothsayer delivering a prophecy to a king, deriving it from stars, fishes, and noises from the mountains
Miriam, prophetess in the Book of Exodus. 20th century mosaic in the Abbey of the Dormition
David and Saul, detail from an 1878 oil painting, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Tuam Cathedral of the Assumption Sacred Heart Detail 2009 09 14