divine message
Word from above
A divine message is a communication believed to come from a god, spirit, or higher power.
Such messages may arrive through prophets, dreams, visions, sacred texts, or signs in nature: She interpreted the coincidence as a divine message.
The phrase implies special authority or guidance beyond ordinary human wisdom.
- burning bushDeciduous shrub, vivid fall color
- angel GabrielBiblical announcing seraph
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- commandmentsAuthoritative rules demanding compliance
Ten Commandments · vision · Bible · holy scripture · archangel · Quran · Sutras · prayer · prophet · annunciation · Word of God · scripture · seer · Vedas · gospel · tablets · epiphany · signs and wonders
- Early IslamProphet Muhammad, Muhammad, Medina, Mecca, Quran
- oraclesoracle, sibyl, prophetess, seer, Delphi
- prophecyprophecy, prophet, seer, prophets, prophetess
- visionsvisions, apparition, dream, dreams, apparitions
- dreamsnightmare, dreaming, daydream, nightmares, dreams
- heavenly visionsangelic choir, archangels, ascension, celestial beings, cherubim
divine messagefolk wisdom
Traditional communal knowledge
conventional wisdom · worldly wisdom · popular opinion · scientific consensus · philosophical argument
divine messageblasphemy
Irreverence toward the sacred
idle talk · idle chatter · gossip · small talk · everyday speech