Difference between Prophecy and Fortune Telling

 

Fortune-Telling:

            Fortune-telling is predicting the future through magic and enchantment. The other names used for this word are: Sorcery, Divination, Enchantment, Black Magic and so on.  

Fortune telling more strictly means perceiving someone’s good or bad fortune. Fortune telling is the practice of predicting information about a person’s life, often commercially. The scope of fortune-telling is in principle identical with the practice of divination. The difference is that divination is the term used for predictions considered part of a religious ritual, invoking deities or spirits, while the term fortune-telling implies a less serious or formal setting, even one of popular culture, where belief in occult workings behind the prediction is less prominent than the concept of suggestion, spiritual or practical advisory or affirmation.

Historically, fortune-telling grows out of folkloristic reception of Renaissance magic, specifically associated with gypsies.

Prophecy: 

A prophecy is more likely to go into much more detail.

A prophecy is a process in which one or more messages that have been communicated to a true prophet are then communicated to others by this true prophet. Such messages typically involve divine inspiration, interpretation, or revelation of conditioned events to come as well as testimonies or repeated revelations that the world is divine.

The difference between prophecy and fortune-telling is that fortune telling is just a prediction about the future, and prophecy is a message from God on what God is going to do for us. It might also be for people to know and realize the power and purpose of God in our lives. Prophecy is hinged on God, while fortune-telling is just a prediction without even the glorification of God.