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25 Latter-day Events According to Six Prophesies

In my profession as a GIS Analyst, I often take multiple datasets and overlay them on a map in order to extract meaning that would otherwise be unnoticed when looking at a single dataset. It recently occurred to me that I could do the same thing with many of the prophecies concerning the Last Days. I've done this research for my own benefit, but am posting it here with the hope that scriptural enthusiasts will benefit from it. My approach has been to set up a spreadsheet with six key prophetic accounts on the left, and significant repeated events along the top. Then, I just put a marker any time a prophecy mentioned one of those events. All scriptures are provided on the second page, and take the reader to LDS.org and highlight the respective verses. It creates an interesting way to observe who prophesied what. Looking at my final chart clearly indicated some interesting occurrences that would be practically impossible to spot without some sort of visual aid. As a quick caveat,...