prophecy
what does prophecy mean in these sentences? does it mean "containing a message"?

"The act of writing in Blake’s creative process is connected to the idea of prophecy"

"By obviously contradicting himself, Blake conceived a revolutionary prophetic voice that not only questioned the status quo but also encouraged readers of his work to be revolutionaries themselves and to question the authority of his own prophesies."

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prophecy
what does prophecy mean in these sentences? does it mean "containing a message"?

"The act of writing in Blake’s creative process is connected to the idea of prophecy"

"By obviously contradicting himself, Blake conceived a revolutionary prophetic voice that not only questioned the status quo but also encouraged readers of his work to be revolutionaries themselves and to question the authority of his own prophesies."

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When we use the word prophecy in modern terms we tend to be talking about predictions for the future.

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A prophesy can be a message, specifically "a DIVINE message FROM GOD." A "prophet" can mean a person who is in touch with the divine, and is a channel through messages from the divine reach humanity.

I think that's what is meant here.

A prophecy MAY contain predictions about the future--often large-scale apocalyptic visions of the end of the world, as in the Book of Daniel (Old Testament) or Revelations (New Testament), so "prophecy" has also come to mean "prediction."

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The original meaning of prophecy:the ability to say what is going to happen in the future.And I think here prophecy means the prediction which tells one'fate.