SuaviloquyToday’s word

foreknowledge

Foreknowledge, n.

Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience. If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault. Milton.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for foreknowledge; he lists it under predestination.

Where he writes about it:

Foreknowledge is simply God's antecedent knowledge of all events, which some hold to be entirely separable from his foreordination, while others hold foreordination to be inseparably involved in foreknowledge. — from predestination