Prophecy

A description of a future event or set of events that will occur unless certain actions by humanity change the circumstances surrounding the event to prevent it from becoming reality.

This is in contrast to a prediction which will occur regardless of any action or non-action by humanity.

Extract from book Prophetien und Voraussagen

"Unfortunately, regarding a prophecy, Man, as a rule, understands something totally false, especially based on religious matter, because prophecies usually are considered to be determinations of supernatural or godly powers.  But what is to be understood under the term, prophecy in truth?  Quite simply: Prophecy means nothing else but an announcement.  Thus in the sense of the announced prophecy, it is simply an announcement of an event or occurrence to be expected.  This also explains right away that a prophet does not embody anything else that an announcer of knowledge, a teaching, or of preliminary announcements of events or occurrences to be expected.  
But what purpose do prophecies have?  This question also is easily explained: The meaning of a given prophecy lies in a warning.  Thus via a prophecy a warning is uttered about a happening or occurrence to be expected for the purpose that the recipient of the prophecy (as a rule Man of Earth) prepares himself for the coming events and occurrences as best as possible and try to influence the happenings and occurrences of negative nature to be expected positively, whereby the negative events having to occur change to a not having to occur, and therewith the purpose of the prophecy is achieved.
The prophecy, the warning, therefore corresponds also to a teaching and an advice, to which the recipient is obligated to comply. Therefore, as prophecies contain a warning, a teaching and an advice, quite logically they only announce things of a negative nature, because nothing would be more paradox than a prophecy of positive a nature, which the recipient would try to influence negatively.   This explains, why prophecies given, without exception, contain negative previous announcements of any causalities, because only the negative in exaggerated form needs a change to the normal-positive, in order to allow a balance to be created thereof."