The Prophecy is an American fantasy horror-thriller film franchise, which focuses on angels fighting each other to protect the survival of the human race on Earth.
The Archangel Gabriel (Christopher Walken) searches for an evil soul on Earth, while another angel named Simon (Eric Stoltz) warns Detective Thomas Dagget (Elias Koteas) of coming events, before disappearing.
Investigating the disturbance, Thomas goes to Simon's apartment and finds an obituary for a recently deceased Korean War veteran, Colonel Arnold Hawthorne, clipped from a newspaper in Chimney Rock, Arizona.
In Chimney Rock, Simon, who is badly wounded after his fight with Uziel, finds the veteran and removes the soul from the body, and in desperation to hide, he passes it on to a small schoolgirl, Mary (Moriah Shining Dove Snyder) whom he befriends.
As the film progresses, Katherine is confronted by Lucifer (Viggo Mortensen), who tells her that since the creation of man, no soul has been allowed to enter Heaven due to the war waged by Gabriel.
The angel attempts to disrupt the Native American ritual, but is stopped by Thomas, who runs over Gabriel with a truck, then beats him with a tire iron.
Gabriel (Christopher Walken) returns from Hell to Earth to prevent the birth of a child, a nephilim, the offspring of one of his kind and one of God's "talking monkeys" (i.e., humans).
The coming of this child, said to precede reconciliation between the warring factions in heaven, has been prophesied by a monk, Thomas Daggett (Bruce Abbott), the former detective from the first film in the series.
The child's conception takes place when Valerie (Jennifer Beals), a nurse, is seduced by an attractive stranger, the angel Danyael (Russell Wong), whom she hit with her car.
In the third installment of the series, the Angel Gabriel (Christopher Walken) has taken up residence on Earth and has been watching over the Rosales family for years as a human being.
Eighteen years later, Danyael (Dave Buzzotta), as an adult, is a street preacher with a storefront church who tells his flock that God does not care much for the people who tend the Earth.
In addition, Danyael learns from Gabriel that the two previous attempts in his life – the burning of his childhood home which resulted in the death of his mother and the later assassination at the church – were the workings of Pyriel.
As Gabriel further explains, the Angel of Genocide has the ability to plague the minds of humans – such as the neighbors of the Rosales family and the blind assassin – with the thoughts of hatred in order for them to accomplish his dirty work.
Maggie (Kayren Butler), his understandably upset girlfriend, is then approached by Zophael (Vincent Spano), a fallen angel who seeks to prevent Danyael from fulfilling his destiny.
Danyael heads off to face Pyriel armed with Zophael's weapon – a staff that has an extendable blade that expands out as a six-pronged hook designed to rip out the victim's heart – while Gabriel watches over Maggie.
With the war in Heaven apparently over (for the time being), Gabriel has redeemed himself, is once again an Archangel and with his regained divine abilities saves Maggie before ascending.
The film begins with the story of a woman named Allison (Kari Wührer) who has come into possession of The Lexicon, a mysterious book of prophecies that writes itself.
The angels later capture Allison and bring her before Stark; he tells her that he is against the whole messy idea of Armageddon and if they can find the name of the anti-Christ, they would kill the child before the apocalypse happens, as a result saving humanity.
Lucifer, on the other hand, is keen on the idea of Armageddon because every corrupt soul that is rejected by God will appear at his doorstep in the billions and join his army.
He states that she is a "nephalim" – a half-breed between an angel named "Simon" (a character from the first film) and a human – bred specifically to protect the Lexicon, therefore Allison is nothing more than a tool.
The winds carry them throughout the streets of Bucharest, and Allison survives due to her "nephalim" healing powers, while Stark has no way of tracking all the pages of the Lexicon.