The Chronology of the Signs of the Times

A complete, scripture-anchored ordering of the events that precede, attend, and follow the coming of the Lord in glory — every event placed by the sequencing language of revelation itself.

The scriptures reveal a great many signs of the last days, and they do more than list them: they order them. Again and again the revelations attach a sequencing word to an event — after, before, then, until, immediately after — and those words, laid end to end, produce a chronology. That chronology is what this page sets out.

We must be honest about what revelation does and does not give us. The broad order is plainly taught; the precise timing is not. The Lord declared that “of that day and hour knoweth no man” (Matthew 24:36). What follows is therefore a chronology of events, not of dates — a study aid, not a prophecy, and not the official position of the Church.

Why are signs given at all? Not to alarm the faithful, but to fortify them. Samuel the Lamanite gave three reasons, and all three are practical: that there be no cause for unbelief, that there might be a just judgment upon men, and — the reason that governs everything else — “that men might be saved.”

Helaman 14:28–30

“And the angel said unto me that many shall see greater things than these, to the intent that they might believe that these signs and these wonders should come to pass upon all the face of this land, to the intent that there should be no cause for unbelief among the children of men … that whosoever will believe might be saved, and that whosoever will not believe, a righteous judgment might come upon them.”

There is a second reason the Book of Mormon matters here, and it is not incidental. The book is itself the pattern. A major portion of it is given over to the few decades immediately before Christ appeared at Bountiful — the signs, the scoffing, the destruction, and the survival of those who were spared. That is the last-days script in miniature, and it was preserved deliberately.

President Ezra Taft Benson

“In the Book of Mormon we find a pattern for preparing for the Second Coming. A major portion of the book centers on the few decades just prior to Christ’s coming to America. By careful study of that time period, we can determine why some were destroyed in the terrible judgments that preceded His coming and what brought others to stand at the temple in the land of Bountiful and thrust their hands into the wounds of His hands and feet.”

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Ezra Taft Benson (2014), 140

This page is arranged in two parts. Part One walks the whole sequence in fourteen movements, teaching each one and showing why it stands where it stands. Part Two is the working apparatus: the bare outline of every event in order, followed by each event again with the full body of scripture that fixes its place. Nothing in Part One is asserted that is not documented in Part Two.

Part One — The Sequence, Taught

One — The Restoration Begins with a Book

The chain of the last days begins not with catastrophe but with a book. The coming forth of the Book of Mormon is itself the first sign — the appointed signal that the Lord has commenced His final work and begun to fulfil His covenants with the house of Israel. Moroni is explicit that the publication of the record is the starting gun, and that what follows, follows from it.

3 Nephi 29:1–2

“And now behold, I say unto you that when the Lord shall see fit, in his wisdom, that these sayings shall come unto the Gentiles according to his word, then ye may know that the covenant which the Father hath made with the children of Israel … is already beginning to be fulfilled.”

Note the sequencing carefully, because it governs everything downstream. The book comes first. Then Israel is restored. That single word settles the order of the first two movements and rules out any chronology that gathers Israel before the record is in Gentile hands.

With the book comes the restored gospel and its preaching, opening the dispensation in which the Gentiles are first offered the fulness. This inaugurates the “times of the Gentiles” (D&C 45:25–30; Luke 21:24) — a bounded season, not an open one. Section 45 measures it: it lasts about a generation.

Three things are said to accompany this opening season rather than to follow it, and they are worth naming plainly because they are easy to mistake for the tribulation itself. Men begin to say that Christ delays His coming (3 Nephi 29:2–3; Matthew 24:48). The love of many waxes cold (D&C 45:25–27). And iniquity begins to abound — which is the stated cause of the cooling, not a separate symptom of it.

Why This Comes First

• 3 Nephi 29:1 — The book comes to the Gentiles, and then Israel is restored
• D&C 45:28 — The light breaks forth when the times of the Gentiles comes in
• D&C 45:30 — That season lasts about one generation, which bounds everything that follows

Two — Israel Gathered, and the Gospel to All the World

The Lord sets His hand “again the second time to recover the remnant of his people” (Isaiah 11:11–13). This gathering is twofold: a gathering of the covenant people into the Church, and a literal gathering of Judah to the land of their fathers. The second is dated by revelation more tightly than most signs of the last days. In the Kirtland Temple dedicatory prayer, given by revelation, the Prophet asked that the gathering of Judah begin “from this hour” — March 1836.

D&C 109:62–64

“O Lord, remember thy servant Joseph Smith, Jun. … have mercy, O Lord, upon all the nations of the earth; have mercy upon the rulers of our land … And cause that the remnants of Jacob, who have been cursed and smitten … may begin to be redeemed … and from this hour may they begin to be enlightened.”

The prophets describe what that restored nation will look like with a specificity that is difficult to read as figure. The land will become like the Garden of Eden (Ezekiel 36:33–36). Judah and the ten tribes will be one nation, not two (Ezekiel 37:22). Jerusalem will again be the capital (Zechariah 1:16–17). And Judah will be formidable in politics and in war (Zechariah 10:3, 5–6; Isaiah 19:16–17).

Running alongside the gathering is the great preparatory labor: the gospel carried as a witness to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. The Savior ties the end directly to the completion of that witness.

Matthew 24:14

“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”

Section 88 gives the same order in more detail and adds the crucial hinge: the testimony of the elders comes first, and the testimony of earthquakes, of the sea heaving beyond its bounds, and of all things in commotion comes after (D&C 88:88–91). The warning voice is sent before the warning judgments. That is mercy, and it is also chronology.

Three — Wars, Calamity, and the Desolating Sickness

The world ripens while the work goes forward. The Savior foretold wars and rumors of wars, nation rising against nation, famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places — and He named the mechanism by which a civilization comes apart: “because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold” (Matthew 24:6–12). False prophets arise in the same season and deceive many (Matthew 24:11).

D&C 45:26–33

“And there shall be men standing in that generation, that shall not pass until they shall see an overflowing scourge; for a desolating sickness shall cover the land. … And the whole earth shall be in commotion, and men’s hearts shall fail them.”

The desolating sickness is placed during the times of the Gentiles, not after them (D&C 45:30–32). Revelation describes the same visitation from the other side, as a noisome and grievous sore, and adds the detail that damns: men blasphemed God because of their pains, and repented not of their deeds (Revelation 16:10–11). Judgment is not, by itself, a teacher. It only reveals what was already there.

Four — The Times of the Gentiles Fulfilled

The season that opened with the Book of Mormon closes. Luke marks the boundary from the Jerusalem side: the city is trodden down of the Gentiles “until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled” (Luke 21:24). Section 45 marks it from the Gentile side and gives the term: about one generation (D&C 45:30).

What happens at that boundary is one of the sternest passages in the Book of Mormon, and the Savior spoke it Himself, at Bountiful, about us.

3 Nephi 16:10

“And thus commandeth the Father that I should say unto you: At that day when the Gentiles shall sin against my gospel, and shall reject the fulness of my gospel, and shall be lifted up in the pride of their hearts above all nations … behold, saith the Father, I will bring the fulness of my gospel from among them.”

The passage does not end in condemnation. It ends in an offer and a warning, in that order: if they repent, they shall be numbered among the covenant people (3 Nephi 16:13); if they will not, they shall be trodden under the feet of Israel (3 Nephi 16:15–16). The door stays open until it is shut from the inside.

Five — The Seventh Seal Is Opened

Here the chronology changes character. Everything to this point has unfolded across generations; what follows is compressed, and Revelation gives it to us as a sequence of trumpets. The seventh seal opens, and heaven falls silent.

Revelation 8:1

“And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.”

Elder Orson Pratt understood that silence practically: during that space, no angels are flying through the midst of heaven. The messengers are recalled. The errand of warning is over, and the errand of judgment begins. Then the first four angels sound, and the judgments fall on the created order rather than directly on men — the trees and grass, the sea, the rivers, and finally the lights of heaven themselves.

The First Four Trumpets

• First — Revelation 8:7 — Hail, fire, and blood; a third of the trees and all the green grass burnt up
• Second — Revelation 8:8–9 — A burning mountain falls into the sea; a third of the sea life dies, a third of the ships destroyed
• Third — Revelation 8:10–11 — A star falls upon the rivers and fountains; a third of the waters made bitter; many men die
• Fourth — Revelation 8:12 — A third part of the sun, the moon, and the stars smitten; the day shortened

Revelation 16 describes the same four events as vials poured out. Read side by side, the trumpet and the vial fall in the same order and strike the same targets — the earth, the sea, the rivers, the sun. This chronology treats them as one set of events described twice, which is the ordinary poetic form of Hebrew prophecy and which resolves what otherwise looks like a doubled catastrophe.

Six — The Signs in the Heavens and the Sign of the Son of Man

The wonders move from earth to sky, and here the witnesses converge as they do nowhere else in prophecy. Joel, Isaiah, Amos, Zechariah, Matthew, John, and Joseph Smith all describe the same darkening — and Matthew supplies the sequencing word that pins the next event to it.

Matthew 24:29–30

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven … and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven.”

The sign is not the coming. It is the announcement of the coming, and it is public: “after your testimony … there shall be a great sign in heaven, and all people shall see it together” (D&C 88:93). The Prophet Joseph added the detail that the world will misread it: men will take it for a comet or a planet, and will explain it as an astronomical curiosity until it is too late to.

Then the curtain of heaven is unfolded as a scroll is rolled up (D&C 88:95; Revelation 6:14). Elder Orson Pratt read this as a literal unveiling — the covering drawn back so that men on the earth gaze upon celestial beings making their appearance in the clouds.

Elder Orson Pratt

“Zion will not need the sun when the Lord is there, and all the city is lighted up by the glory of his presence. When the whole heavens above are illuminated by the presence of his glory we shall not need those bright luminaries of heaven to give light, so far as the city of Zion is concerned.”

Journal of Discourses, 14:355–56; cited in the Old Testament Student Manual

Seven — The Nations Gather Against Israel

The fifth angel sounds and the bottomless pit is opened (Revelation 9:1–3). What comes up out of it, John describes as locusts and scorpions — and then names their king, which tells us we are reading about armies and not insects: “they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit” (Revelation 9:3–11).

The sixth angel sounds. Four angels bound in the great river Euphrates are loosed, and a third part of men is slain (Revelation 9:13–15). The corresponding vial dries the Euphrates “that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared” (Revelation 16:12). Two details in that verse deserve notice. The text says kings of the east — not of the north, which is a separate army in Ezekiel. And the drying is no longer a miracle requiring suspension of nature: the Tishreen, Euphrates, Al-Baath, Ramadi and other dams can reduce the river’s flow to nothing.

The army numbered is enormous — two hundred million horsemen, killing a third of men — and John records the verdict on the survivors in a single devastating line: “the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not” (Revelation 9:16–21).

Meanwhile the nations converge on one target. Zechariah, Joel, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and John all describe a gathering of all nations against Jerusalem, with the destruction of Israel as the object (Zechariah 14:2; Joel 3:1–2; Ezekiel 38:14–16; Revelation 16:12–14). Ezekiel names the northern power Gog, of the land of Magog, prince of Meshech and Tubal — a region most naturally located between the Black and Caspian Seas.

Revelation 16:14

“For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.”

Eight — The Two Prophets in Jerusalem

Into that siege the Lord sends two witnesses. Section 77 identifies them and, importantly, dates them: they are raised up to the Jewish nation in the last days, after the Jews are gathered and have built the city — which places this movement after the gathering of movement two, not before it.

D&C 77:15

“They are two prophets that are to be raised up to the Jewish nation in the last days, at the time of the restoration, and to prophesy to the Jews after they are gathered and have built the city of Jerusalem in the land of their fathers.”

They prophesy for three and a half years, holding the besieging armies at bay with power to shut heaven, turn water to blood, and smite the earth with plagues (Revelation 11:3–6). When their testimony is finished they are killed, and their bodies lie in the street while the armies rejoice and send gifts to one another (Revelation 11:7–10).

This is the season of the great tribulation: the abomination of desolation (Matthew 24:15), the city taken and half its people carried into captivity (Zechariah 14:2), tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world (Matthew 24:16–21). Two mercies are recorded in the middle of it. The days are shortened, or no flesh would be saved (Matthew 24:22). And a third part of the people will live, be refined as silver is refined, and return to God (Zechariah 13:8–9).

A question presses at this point that the chronology has to answer: where are the saints while this is happening? Section 45 answers it, and the answer is a place. In the midst of the wars and desolations of that same chapter, the New Jerusalem is established — not as a millennial reward but as a wartime refuge.

D&C 45:66–70

“And it shall be called the New Jerusalem, a land of peace, a city of refuge, a place of safety for the saints of the Most High God … And it shall be said among the wicked: Let us not go up to battle against Zion, for the inhabitants of Zion are terrible; wherefore we cannot stand. And it shall come to pass that the righteous shall be gathered out from among all nations, and shall come to Zion, singing with songs of everlasting joy.”

This is the same city that appears again in the twelfth movement in its millennial state, and both placements are correct. Here it is a fortified gathering place that the wicked calculate they cannot take; there it is a capital. Missing the first appearance leaves the tribulation with nowhere for the saints to stand, which is precisely what the Lord promised them: “my disciples shall stand in holy places, and shall not be moved” (D&C 45:32).

After three and a half days the Spirit of life from God enters the two prophets, they stand upon their feet, and they ascend in the sight of their enemies (Revelation 11:11–12). It is the first resurrection witnessed by the world, and it is the immediate prelude to the seventh trump.

Nine — The Seventh Trump: the First Resurrection and the Saints Caught Up

The seventh angel sounds, and great voices in heaven declare that “the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ” (Revelation 11:15). The graves of the just are opened. This is the point at which the chronology insists on a distinction that is often collapsed: the resurrection comes before the Lord stands on the Mount of Olives, not after it.

D&C 45:45–46

“And before the arm of the Lord shall fall, an angel shall sound his trump, and the saints that have slept shall come forth to meet me in the cloud. Wherefore, if ye have slept in peace blessed are you; for as you now behold me and know that I am, even so shall ye come unto me and your souls shall live.”

Then those who are alive and remain are quickened and caught up to meet Him (D&C 88:96; 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17). Two shall be in the field; one is taken and the other left (Matthew 24:40–41). The Savior sets that separation in the days of Noah, where people were marrying and giving in marriage and knew not until the flood came (Matthew 24:37–39) — and the parable of the ten virgins is His commentary on it (Matthew 25:1–13; D&C 45:56–57). All ten were virgins. Five were simply ready.

One widespread misunderstanding should be cleared here, because it distorts every later movement if it is left standing.

President Joseph Fielding Smith

“Some members of the Church have an erroneous idea that when the millennium comes all of the people are going to be swept off the earth except righteous members of the Church. That is not so. There will be millions of people, Catholics, Protestants, agnostics, Mohammedans, people of all classes, and of all beliefs, still permitted to remain upon the face of the earth, but they will be those who have lived clean lives, those who have been free from wickedness and corruption. All who belong, by virtue of their good lives, to the terrestrial order, as well as those who have kept the celestial law, will remain upon the face of the earth during the millennium.”

Doctrines of Salvation, 1:86–87; cited in Doctrines of the Gospel Student Manual

Ten — Adam-ondi-Ahman: the Council Before the Coming

Before the Lord appears to the world at Jerusalem, He appears to a council in Missouri. This is one of the most important sequencing facts in the whole chronology and one of the most commonly misplaced: Adam-ondi-Ahman precedes the Second Coming. It is not a millennial event and not an aftermath. It is the private transfer of authority that must occur before the public appearing.

D&C 116

“Spring Hill is named by the Lord Adam-ondi-Ahman, because, said he, it is the place where Adam shall come to visit his people, or the Ancient of Days shall sit, as spoken of by Daniel the prophet.”

Daniel saw the same scene and gives us what happens there. The Ancient of Days is seated. The judgment is set and the books are opened. And then — only then — one like the Son of Man is brought before Him, and receives dominion, glory, and a kingdom.

Daniel 7:13–14

“I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him.”

The logic of the order is exact. Adam holds the keys of this earth by delegation; every dispensation head who has served under those keys renders an accounting; and Adam then delivers the whole stewardship back to the One who gave it. Christ does not return to Jerusalem to claim a kingdom that is still in dispute. He returns having already received dominion in council. The Mount of Olives is not the coronation. It is the arrival of a King already crowned.

Adjacent to this council stands the sealing of the hundred and forty-four thousand high priests, who are described as standing with the Lamb on the mount, having their calling and election made sure and the Father’s name written in their foreheads (Revelation 14:1; D&C 133:18).

Eleven — The Lord Descends upon the Mount of Olives

Now comes the central event toward which every sign has pointed. Zechariah sets it precisely: only after half the city has been taken, the houses rifled and the women ravished, then shall the Lord go forth. He arrives at the worst possible hour, which is the point.

Zechariah 14:3–4

“Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives … and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley.”

The mountain splits and the valley becomes an escape route for the besieged (Zechariah 14:4–5; D&C 45:48). The armies are destroyed — by earthquake, by hail, by pestilence and fire and brimstone, and finally by turning on one another (Ezekiel 38:19–22; Revelation 16:18, 21; Zechariah 14:12–13). The aftermath is given in ordinary, almost administrative terms that argue strongly for a literal reading: the spoil is gathered for seven years, and men are set apart to bury the dead for seven months (Ezekiel 39:8–10, 14–16).

And then the recognition. This is the tenderest passage in the whole chronology, and everything before it has been arranged to make it possible.

D&C 45:51–53

“And then shall they say: What are these wounds in thine hands and in thy feet? Then shall they know that I am the Lord; for I will say unto them: These wounds are the wounds with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. I am he who was lifted up. I am Jesus that was crucified. I am the Son of God. And then shall they weep because of their iniquities; then shall they lament because they persecuted their king.”

He comes also in judgment. The proud and all that do wickedly are as stubble, and the day that comes burns as an oven (Malachi 4:1; D&C 29:9). The earth is cleansed by fire as once it was by water.

Revelation 19:11–16

“And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. … And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

Twelve — The Millennium Implemented

Note the word: implemented. The Millennium is not switched on. Section 101 describes a series of changes to the physical order — the veil of the covering taken off, corruptible things consumed, the elements melting with fervent heat — and then the government of the earth is reorganized under a King who is present (D&C 101:23–26; D&C 133:25).

Satan is bound — and the scriptures give both the cause and the mechanism. He is bound (Revelation 20:1–3), and he has no power over the hearts of men because of their righteousness (D&C 101:28; 1 Nephi 22:26). Both are true, and the second is the one that concerns us now.

The physical earth is remade. Mountains are broken down and valleys are not found; the great deep is driven back; the islands become one land; the earth returns to the state it was in before it was divided (D&C 133:22–24; Revelation 16:20). A temple stands with living water flowing from beneath its threshold, the Dead Sea is healed, and the tree of life grows again beside the river (Ezekiel 47:1–9; Revelation 22:2).

Isaiah 11:6–9

“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb … They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.”

Other restorations follow that are easy to skip past and worth pausing on. The enmity between man and beast ceases (D&C 101:26; Isaiah 65:25). A pure language is restored, that all may call upon the name of the Lord with one consent (Zephaniah 3:9). Whatsoever is asked is given (D&C 101:27). There is no death as we know it: the infant does not die but lives to the age of a tree, and men are changed in the twinkling of an eye (D&C 101:29–31).

There are two capitals, not one. Jerusalem is rebuilt for Judah; the New Jerusalem is built on the American continent for the house of Joseph (Isaiah 2:3; Ether 13:8–12; D&C 84:2–4). The City of Enoch returns from heaven to meet the city built on earth (Moses 7:62–64; D&C 45:11–14). And the earth is given to the saints as an inheritance, who reign with Him as kings and priests (D&C 45:58–59; Daniel 7:27; Revelation 5:10).

Then the people of the north countries come. They smite the rocks and the ice flows down at their presence; a highway is cast up in the midst of the great deep; the barren deserts bring forth water; and they bring their rich treasures — their scriptures — and receive their crowning blessings at the hands of the children of Ephraim (D&C 133:26–34; Jeremiah 23:7–8).

And the record is opened. All the mysteries of God and every secret act of men are revealed, dispensation by dispensation, from the first thousand years to the seventh (D&C 88:108–110; D&C 101:32). The sealed portion of the record comes forth (Ether 4:7). Nothing stays hidden, which is a comfort and a warning in equal measure.

Thirteen — The End of the Millennium and the Celestial Earth

When the thousand years are ended, Satan is loosed for a little season. He gathers Gog and Magog to the last battle, and fire comes down from God out of heaven and devours them (Revelation 20:7–9; D&C 88:110–115). He and his hosts are cast out forever. Then comes the final resurrection and the last judgment, and every soul stands before God to be judged out of the books, according to their works (Revelation 20:12–15).

And then the earth itself is glorified. The Prophet taught that it will be rolled back into the presence of God and crowned with celestial glory — not discarded, but sanctified, and given as an everlasting inheritance to those who have kept a celestial law.

D&C 130:9–11

“This earth, in its sanctified and immortal state, will be made like unto crystal and will be a Urim and Thummim to the inhabitants who dwell thereon, whereby all things pertaining to an inferior kingdom, or all kingdoms of a lower order, will be manifest to those who dwell on it … Then the white stone mentioned in Revelation 2:17, will become a Urim and Thummim to each individual who receives one.”

This is where the chronology ends, and it is worth noticing where it does not end. It does not end in ruin, or in an empty earth, or in a disembodied heaven. It ends with this world — the same one — made celestial, and given to the people who lived on it.

Fourteen — The Two Beasts: Events Whose Timing Is Not Given

Honesty requires a category for what cannot be placed. Revelation 13 describes two beasts, and the text supplies no sequencing word that anchors them to the trumpets. In prophetic idiom a beast is a kingdom or a nation, not an animal — Daniel uses the figure the same way — so what John is describing is the rise of two great powers.

What the Text Does Say

• The first rises out of the sea, is wounded by the sword, and is healed
• Revelation 13:7 — It makes war on the saints and overcomes them; power over all nations, kindreds, and tongues
• Revelation 13:8 — All the earth worships it, except those written in the book of life
• Revelation 13:12–15 — The second rises out of the earth, wields all the power of the first, works great wonders, and makes an image of the first that speaks
• Revelation 13:16–17 — It causes all to receive a mark in the right hand or forehead; without it, no man may buy or sell
• Matthew 24:9–10 — Saints killed for His name’s sake; many offended, betraying one another

These are left unplaced deliberately. It would be easy to slot them somewhere in the sixth movement and make the chronology look more finished than the evidence allows. That would be dishonest, and a chronology that guesses in one place forfeits its authority everywhere else. Where the scriptures give a sequencing word, this study follows it. Where they do not, it says so.

Part Two — The Detailed Chronology

What follows is the working chronology in full: first the bare outline of events in their proposed order, then every event set out again with the scriptures that place it where it stands. The tags in the left column are the grouping key. The number marks a basic grouping of events. The letter shows sequence within that grouping where sequence can be determined; where two events share the same letter, the grouping is known but the order within it is not.

Assumptions Behind the Ordering

Working Assumptions

• The order of the trumpets and vials in Revelation reflects the order in which the events occur.
• The poetic form of Revelation indicates that the trumpet events and the vial events are one and the same set of events, described twice.
• The silence in heaven occurs more than once.
• Numbers mark basic groupings of events; letters show sequence within a grouping where it can be determined. The same letter means the sequence is unknown but the grouping is not.
• Every placement is defended below under “References and Reasons.” Read the scriptures for yourself and judge the ordering.

The Outline of Events

Before the Coming — the Restoration through the fulness of the Gentiles

The Seventh Seal — the first four trumpets and the signs in heaven

The Final Tribulation — the fifth, sixth, and seventh trumpets

The Coming — the Lord upon the Mount of Olives

The Millennium

The End of the Millennium and the Celestial Earth

Unknown timing — the two beasts

References and Reasons for This Ordering

Every event above is repeated here with the scriptures that fix its place. Where a passage supplies a sequencing word — after, before, then, until, immediately after — that word is noted, because it is the sequencing language, and not the compiler’s judgment, that determines the order.

1 — The Book of Mormon Is Published

• 3 Nephi 29:1 — Then Israel will be restored

1a — Restoration of the Gospel; the Times of the Gentiles

• 3 Nephi 29:1 — After the Book of Mormon is published
• D&C 45:25–30 — The start of the times of the Gentiles
• D&C 45:30 — Lasts one generation
• Before Israel is formed; before the gospel is preached to the world

1a, 2a — The Love of Many Waxes Cold

• D&C 45:25–27 — After Israel is formed
• D&C 45:28 — Before the times of the Gentiles comes in

1a — People Say Christ Delays His Coming

• 3 Nephi 29:2–3 — After the Book of Mormon is published
• D&C 45:25–26 — After Israel is formed
• Matthew 24:48 — The unprofitable servant: “My lord delayeth his coming”

2 — Israel Is Gathered

• 3 Nephi 29:1 — After the Book of Mormon is published
• D&C 45:25 — Until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled
• D&C 109:62–64 — Starts from at least 1836 AD — “from this hour”
• Ezekiel 36:24, 28; 37:21 — Israel gathered from among the heathen, returned to their own land
• Jeremiah 30:3 — Israel shall return and possess the land of their fathers
• Ezekiel 36:10–12, 33–36 — Israel’s land will be like the Garden of Eden
• Ezekiel 37:22 — There will be one nation of Israel instead of Judah and the ten tribes
• Zechariah 1:16–17, 2:11–12 — Jerusalem re-established as the capital city of the Israelites
• Zechariah 10:3, 10:5–6; Isaiah 19:16–17 — Judah will be powerful in politics and warfare
• Isaiah 11:11–13 — Israel will be gathered from the earth; an ensign set up
• 2 Nephi 6:11 — They shall be gathered together again to the lands of their inheritance

2a — Wars and Rumors of Wars

• D&C 45:25–26 — After Israel is formed
• D&C 45:28 — Before the times of the Gentiles comes in
• D&C 45:30 — Before the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled

2a — The Gospel Preached to All the World

• D&C 88:88–91 — Before the testimony of earthquakes; after the times of the Gentiles begins
• Matthew 24:14 — The gospel preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come
• D&C 133:4–5 — Go out of Babylon, be clean, call solemn assemblies, call upon the Lord
• D&C 133:7–10 — Send forth the elders of Israel to warn, and gather from the four quarters of the earth
• D&C 133:8–12 — Send forth the elders of my church to prepare for the coming of Christ
• D&C 133:37 — The gospel preached unto every nation
• D&C 133:38 — Servants go forth: fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment is come

2a — A Desolating Sickness Covers the Land

• D&C 45:30–32 — During the times of the Gentiles
• Revelation 16:2 — The first angel pours out his vial — a noisome and grievous sore
• Revelation 16:10–11 — A plague of pain and sores; they blasphemed God and repented not of their deeds

2b — Iniquity Abounds

• D&C 45:25–27 — After Israel is formed; before the times are fulfilled

2b — False Prophets

• When iniquity abounds
• Matthew 24:11 — Many false prophets shall arise and deceive many

3a — The Times of the Gentiles Fulfilled

• D&C 45:30 — About one generation

3b — Jerusalem Trodden Down

• Luke 21:24 — Until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled
• Luke 21:22–24 — Days of vengeance, distress, killing, captives

3b — The Testimony of Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and All Things in Commotion

• D&C 88:88–91 — After the testimony of the elders
• D&C 45:30, 33 — During the times of the Gentiles
• Matthew 24:7 — Famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places

3c–3e — The Gospel Taken from the Gentiles

• 3 Nephi 16:10–13 — I will take the gospel from the Gentiles when they reject it — after the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled
• 3 Nephi 16:13 — If they repent they shall be numbered among Israel
• 3 Nephi 16:15–16 — If they will not repent, I will suffer them to be trodden under the feet of Israel

4 — The Opening of the Seventh Seal

• Revelation 8:1 — The opening of the seventh seal

4a — Silence in Heaven for the Space of Half an Hour

• Revelation 8:1 — After the opening of the seventh seal

4a — First Angel: Hail and Fire; a Third of the Trees and Green Grass Burnt

• Revelation 8:7 — First Angel, trumpet: hail, fire, and blood; a third of the trees burnt
• Revelation 16:2–3 — First Angel, vial: a noisome sore upon the men with the mark of the beast

4a — Second Angel: A Mountain Falls into the Sea

• Revelation 8:8–9 — Second Angel, trumpet: a mountain falls into the sea; a third of the sea life dies, a third of the ships destroyed
• Revelation 16:3 — Second Angel, vial: poured into the sea; it became as the blood of a dead man, and every living soul in the sea died
• D&C 45:40–41 — Signs in the heavens and in the earth beneath

4b — Third Angel: The Rivers and Fountains Poisoned

• Revelation 8:10–11 — Third Angel, trumpet: a star falls from heaven; a third of the rivers poisoned; many die
• Revelation 16:4 — Third Angel, vial: poured upon the rivers; they became as blood
• D&C 45:40–41 — Signs in the heavens and in the earth beneath

5a — The Sun Darkened

• Revelation 8:12 — Fourth Angel, trumpet: a third part of the sun, moon, and stars; the day shortened
• Revelation 16:8–9 — Fourth Angel, vial: poured upon the sun; men scorched with heat
• Matthew 24:30 — Immediately after the sun, moon, and stars are darkened, the sign of the Son of Man
• Joseph Smith—Matthew 1:36 — The sign of the Son of Man comes after the sun is darkened and the stars fall
• Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 287 — After the sun, moon, and stars are darkened the sign appears; they will think it a comet or a planet
• D&C 45:42 — Before the Lord comes
• Revelation 6:12 — When the sixth seal is opened: a great earthquake; the sun darkened, the moon as blood
• Isaiah 13:10 — Stars, sun, and moon darkened
• Joel 2:10 — The earth shall quake, the heavens tremble; sun, moon, and stars withdraw their shining
• Joel 2:31 — Before the Lord comes
• Joel 3:15 — Multitudes in the valley of decision; sun, moon, and stars darkened
• Matthew 24:29 — After the false prophets: sun and moon darkened, the stars fall
• D&C 45:40–42 — Signs in heaven and earth: sun darkened, moon to blood, stars fall
• Amos 8:9 — The sun will go down at noon; the earth darkened in a clear day
• Zechariah 14:6–7 — A strange light shall replace the sun
• Revelation 22:5 — No light needed; God giveth them light
• Isaiah 60:19 — The sun shall be no more thy light by day, nor the moon by night; the Lord will be thy light
• Revelation 7:16 — The sun shall light on them no more

Elder Orson Pratt

“Zion will not need the sun when the Lord is there, and all the city is lighted up by the glory of his presence. When the whole heavens above are illuminated by the presence of his glory we shall not need those bright luminaries of heaven to give light, so far as the city of Zion is concerned. … When the people meet together in assemblies like this, in their Tabernacles, the Lord will meet with them, his glory will be upon them; a cloud will overshadow them by day and if they happen to have an evening meeting they will not need … lights of an artificial nature, for the Lord will be there and his glory will be upon all their assemblies. So says Isaiah the Prophet, and I believe it.”

Journal of Discourses, 14:355–56; cited in the Old Testament Student Manual

5a — The Moon and Stars No Longer Give Light

• D&C 45:42 — Before the Lord comes
• Revelation 8:12 — The fourth angel sounded; the moon a third part darkened
• Revelation 16:8–9 — A plague on the sun; men scorched with great heat
• Revelation 6:12 — The moon as blood
• Revelation 6:13 — The stars fall
• Revelation 6:14 — Heaven departs as a scroll
• Revelation 6:14; 16:20 — Mountains and islands move
• D&C 88:95 — The curtain of heaven unfolded

5a — Silence in Heaven for the Space of Half an Hour

• D&C 88:93, 95 — After the sign of the Son of Man appears in heaven
• D&C 88:96–97 — Before the resurrection of the dead
• Orson Pratt, on the silence in heaven — No angels flying through the earth during that period of time

5a — The Sign of the Son of Man in Heaven

• D&C 88:89, 93 — After the gospel is preached to all
• Joseph Smith—Matthew 1:36; Matthew 24:30 — The sign comes after the sun is darkened and the stars fall
• D&C 88:93 — After your testimony, a great sign in heaven, and all people shall see it together
• D&C 133:11–15 — Watch therefore for His coming, and flee at His coming
• Matthew 24:27 — As the lightning cometh out of the east, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be
• D&C 45:11–14 — The City of Enoch, separated until the day of righteousness shall come
• Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 287 — People will think it a comet or a planet, but it is not
• Revelation 21:2 — The New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven
• Revelation 21:16–17 — The size of the city: some 1,500 miles square, about 53% of the width of the United States

5b — The Curtain of Heaven Unfolds as a Scroll

• D&C 88:95; Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 29 — Heaven unfolds like a scroll
• Orson Pratt, Journal of Discourses 16 — Unrolled so that people will gaze upon celestial beings who make their appearance in the clouds

6a — Fifth Angel Sounds; the Bottomless Pit Opened

• Revelation 9:1–3 — Fifth Angel, trumpet: the bottomless pit opened
• Revelation 16:10–11 — Fifth Angel, vial: upon the seat of the beast; pains and sores, and they repented not
• D&C 77:13 — The fifth angel sounds after the seventh seal is opened

6b — The Nations of the Earth Gather to War Against Israel

• Revelation 9:3–21 — The nations gathered to fight
• Revelation 16:12 — The river Euphrates dried up to make way for the kings of the east
• Multiple dams on the river — Tishreen, Euphrates, Al-Baath, Ramadi and others — can reduce the Euphrates to nothing. The text says kings of the east, not of the north.
• Revelation 16:12–14 — Three unclean spirits gather the kings of the earth and of the whole world to battle at Armageddon
• Zechariah 14:2; Joel 3:1; Revelation 16:14; Jeremiah 25:26 — All the nations of the world joined against Israel
• Ezekiel 38:14–16 — Gog out of the north, and many people upon horses, a mighty army against Israel
• Ezekiel 39:1 — Gog, the prince of Meshech and Tubal — probably the region between the Black and Caspian Seas, the Caucasus
• Ezekiel 38:8, 38:5–16; Joel 2:1; Joel 3:1–2; Zechariah 14:2 — The destruction of Israel is their goal

6b — The Armies Appear as Locusts and Scorpions

• Revelation 9:3–11 — The armies gather like locusts and scorpions; Satan is their king

6b — Sixth Angel Sounds; the Four Angels of the Euphrates

• Revelation 9:13–14 — Sixth Angel, trumpet: loose the four angels bound in the Euphrates
• Revelation 16:12–13 — Sixth Angel, vial: upon the Euphrates; the water dried up; three spirits
• Revelation 9:14–15 — The four angels loosed; a third part of men slain
• Revelation 9:16–21 — Two hundred million horsemen; a third of men killed; the men who remained alive repented not

6b — Days of Vengeance

• Romans 9:28; 1 Nephi 22:17 — The Lord hastens His work so that a remnant survives

6c — Two Prophets Raised Up in Jerusalem

• D&C 77:15 — Two prophets, after the Jews are gathered and have built the city of Jerusalem in the land of their fathers — just before Christ comes, during the restoration
• Revelation 11:3–4 — Two prophets raised up to prophesy in Jerusalem
• Revelation 11:5–6 — Power given them to stop the rain, turn water to blood, and smite the earth with plagues
• Matthew 24:15 — The abomination of desolation
• Zechariah 14:2 — The city is taken, the women ravished, half the city goes into captivity
• Zechariah 13:8–9 — A third of the people will live and be refined; they shall return to God
• Matthew 24:16–21 — Great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world, nor ever shall be
• Matthew 24:22 — No flesh would be saved if the days were not shortened

6c — The Two Prophets Killed; Their Bodies Lie in the Street

• Revelation 11:7–8 — After their testimony, killed by the armies gathered against Israel
• Revelation 11:9–10 — Their bodies lie in the street; the armies rejoice over them and send gifts to one another

6c — The New Jerusalem Established as a City of Refuge

• D&C 45:66–67 — “And it shall be called the New Jerusalem, a land of peace, a city of refuge, a place of safety for the saints of the Most High God”
• D&C 45:68–70 — The wicked will not come up to battle against Zion, for the inhabitants of Zion are terrible; every man that will not take his sword against his neighbor must flee to Zion for safety
• D&C 45:71 — And there shall be gathered unto it out of every nation under heaven
• Placed in group 6 because Section 45 sets it in the midst of the wars and desolations of verses 63–65, before the coming described in verse 44. This is the pre-advent refuge; the New Jerusalem of 8b and 8c is the same city in its millennial state

6d — The Curtain of Heaven Rolled Up Like a Scroll

• D&C 88:95 — After there is silence in heaven for half an hour
• D&C 88:96 — Before the resurrection

6e — The Two Prophets Resurrected

• Revelation 11:11–12 — After three and a half days the two prophets are resurrected and rise into heaven
• Revelation 11:13 — In the same hour a great earthquake; seven thousand slain and a tenth of the city destroyed. This falls between their ascent and the sounding of the seventh angel in verse 15, not at the destruction of the armies

6e — Seventh Angel Sounds; the First Resurrection

• Revelation 11:15 — Seventh Angel, trumpet: great voices in heaven; the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord
• Revelation 16:17–18 — Seventh Angel, vial: poured into the air; “It is done”; a great earthquake
• D&C 45:45 — Before the arm of the Lord falls
• D&C 45:45–47 — Before the arm of the Lord shall fall, the saints that have slept shall come forth
• D&C 133:18 — When the Lamb shall stand upon the Mount with His hundred and forty-four thousand
• D&C 88:97; D&C 45:44–46; D&C 88:14–18 — The first resurrection; caught up to meet Him
• D&C 88:99–102 — All the rest remain unresurrected
• Ezekiel 37:2–14 — The valley of dry bones resurrected
• D&C 88:14–20 — The resurrection of men and the sanctification of the earth, that celestial beings may dwell upon it
• Revelation 20:4–6 — The resurrection of the martyrs and of those who have not the mark of the beast
• D&C 88:107; 88:18–20 — The saints filled with glory, receiving their inheritance and made equal with Him

6e — As in the Days of Noah

• Matthew 24:37–39 — As in the days of Noah: marrying and giving in marriage
• Joseph Smith—Matthew 1:41–43 — As in the days of Noah
• Joseph Smith—Matthew 1:44 — And then the righteous are taken

6f — The Saints on Earth Caught Up to Meet Him

• D&C 88:96–98 — During the resurrection
• D&C 88:95 — After the curtain of heaven is unfolded
• Matthew 24:40–41 — Two in the field: one shall be taken and the other left
• 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17 — The saints on earth quickened and caught up to meet Him
• 3 Nephi 10:12–14 — The more part of the righteous were saved — they received the prophets and stoned them not
• D&C 88:96 — Those alive shall be quickened and caught up to meet Him
• D&C 27:18 — Ye shall be caught up, and where I am ye shall be also (see also D&C 76:50–60, 76:63)
• D&C 76:102 — Those of telestial glory will not be gathered with the saints to be caught up
• Matthew 25:1–13; D&C 45:56–57 — The parable of the ten virgins

President Joseph Fielding Smith

“Some members of the Church have an erroneous idea that when the millennium comes all of the people are going to be swept off the earth except righteous members of the Church. That is not so. There will be millions of people, Catholics, Protestants, agnostics, Mohammedans, people of all classes, and of all beliefs, still permitted to remain upon the face of the earth, but they will be those who have lived clean lives, those who have been free from wickedness and corruption. All who belong, by virtue of their good lives, to the terrestrial order, as well as those who have kept the celestial law, will remain upon the face of the earth during the millennium.”

Doctrines of Salvation, 1:86–87; cited in Doctrines of the Gospel Student Manual

6g — Adam-ondi-Ahman, Sometime Before the Lord Arrives

• D&C 116 — Spring Hill; the place where Adam shall come again to visit his people
• Daniel 7:13–14 — The Son of Man is brought before the Ancient of Days, and there is given Him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom. Adam presides and renders up the stewardship; Christ receives it

6h — The 144,000 High Priests

• Revelation 14:1 — The Lamb stands on the mount with the hundred and forty-four thousand of His saints
• Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 321 — The sealing on their foreheads; making their calling and election sure

7 — Jesus Arrives and Stands on the Mount of Olives

• D&C 45:45, 48 — After the resurrection
• Revelation 14:1 — The Lamb stands on the mount with the 144,000
• Zechariah 14:2, 4 — Once half the city has been taken, the houses rifled and the women ravished, then shall the Lord come
• D&C 45:48 — The Lord sets His foot upon the Mount of Olivet; it splits in two; an earthquake
• Zechariah 14:8 — Living waters go forth from Jerusalem, toward the Dead Sea and toward the other sea

6i — Jerusalem Sacked; Half the City Taken

• Zechariah 14:2 — The city taken, the houses rifled, the women ravished, and half the city gone forth into captivity
• Zechariah 14:3 — Then shall the Lord go forth. The sack precedes the coming; it is the last event of the tribulation, not a consequence of His arrival

7a — The Mount of Olives Splits

• Zechariah 14:4–5 — The mount splits, providing a means of escape for Jerusalem
• D&C 45:49 — All nations hear the voice of the Lord

7b — The Armies Around Jerusalem Destroyed

• D&C 45:47 — Christ destroys the armies of the nations
• Revelation 16:18 — A great earthquake
• Ezekiel 38:19–20 — A great earthquake; all things fall down at His presence, every wall — before the armies are destroyed
• Ezekiel 38:21–22 — The armies destroyed with pestilence, rain, hailstones, fire, and brimstone
• Revelation 16:21 — Great hail from heaven
• D&C 29:21 — Christ destroys the armies of the nations
• Ezekiel 39:2 — A sixth part of the army will survive; they can make war no more
• Revelation 19:11–21 — Christ on a white horse comes and destroys the wicked
• D&C 29:18–20; Zechariah 14:12 — A plague strikes the armies of the nations
• Zechariah 14:13 — The army shall fight amongst themselves
• 2 Nephi 6:14–17 — He will recover them a second time, unto the destruction of their enemies

7d — The People Loot the Army for Seven Years

• Ezekiel 39:8–10 — The people in Jerusalem loot the army after it is destroyed — for seven years
• Zechariah 14:14 — The wealth of the heathen gathered in abundance
• Ezekiel 39:14–16 — Men set apart to find and bury the dead, for seven months

7e — The Jews Accept Jesus as Their Savior

• D&C 45:48, 51 — After the mountain splits
• D&C 45:51–53 — The Jews accept Christ as their Savior

8 — The Millennial Reign Implemented

• D&C 101:23 — The veil of the covering removed; corruptible things consumed
• D&C 101:25 — The elements melt with fervent heat; knowledge and glory fill the earth
• D&C 101:26 — The enmity of man and of beast ceases

8a — A Temple with Water Flowing Out of It

• Ezekiel 47:1–2, 12 — The tree of life beside the river coming forth from the temple
• Revelation 22:2 — Trees of life again on the earth, to feed and heal the nations
• Ezekiel 47:1–9 — The Dead Sea healed

8a — Jesus Shall Reign Over All Flesh

• D&C 133:25 — The Lord, even the Savior, shall stand in the midst and shall reign over all flesh

8a — The Pure Language Restored

• Zephaniah 3:9 — I will turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord

8a — The Enmity of Man and Beast Ceases

• D&C 101:26
• Isaiah 2:4; 11:6–9; 65:25

8a — The Nations of the Earth Judged

• Matthew 25:31–46 — All nations gathered before Him and judged
• D&C 87:6, 8 — A full end of all nations by consumption decreed

8a — Mountains and Valleys Removed; Islands Become One Land

• D&C 133:22 — The mountains broken down; the valleys not found
• D&C 133:23 — The great deep driven back; the islands become as one land
• Revelation 16:20 — Every island fled away; the mountains were not found
• D&C 133:24 — The earth like it was before it was divided

8b — The Earth Given to the Saints as an Inheritance

• D&C 45:58–59 — The saints given the earth as an inheritance; children grow up without sin; the Lord lives in their midst
• Daniel 7:27; D&C 103:7 — Saints from every era will rule and reign and assist in the government of the earth under Christ’s direction
• D&C 43:29–30 — My people shall be redeemed and shall reign with me on earth
• Revelation 5:10; 20:4, 6 — We shall be kings and priests, and shall reign on the earth

8b — Two Capital Cities: Jerusalem and New Jerusalem

• Isaiah 2:3–4 — There will be two world capital cities: Jerusalem and the New Jerusalem
• Ether 13:1–12 — The New Jerusalem will be on the American continent; old Jerusalem rebuilt
• Ether 13:8–12 — The house of Joseph in the New Jerusalem; the Jews in old Jerusalem
• D&C 133:32–35 — Ephraim and Judah; the people from the north countries fall down and receive their blessing from Ephraim, the house of Joseph
• Moses 7:62–64 — Righteousness sent down out of heaven, truth out of the earth, truth to sweep the earth; the City of Enoch to return again

8c — Satan Has No Power to Tempt Men

• D&C 45:55; D&C 88:110 — There shall be time no longer; Satan is bound for a thousand years
• D&C 101:28 — Satan shall have no power to tempt any man
• Revelation 20:1–3 — Satan bound for a thousand years
• 1 Nephi 22:15, 26 — The time soon cometh; Satan will be bound

8c — The New Jerusalem Built in Missouri; Whatsoever Is Asked Is Given

• D&C 84:2–4 — The city of New Jerusalem built in Missouri
• D&C 101:27 — Whatsoever any man shall ask, it shall be given unto him

9 — The Return of the People from the North Countries

• D&C 133:26 — Then those in the north countries shall come; they shall smite the rocks and the ice shall flow down
• Jeremiah 23:7–8 — People will be amazed by the return from the north
• D&C 133:27 — A highway cast up in the midst of the great deep; the barren deserts shall have water
• D&C 133:28 — Their enemies become a prey unto them
• D&C 133:30–34 — They shall bring their rich treasures, and shall be crowned with glory by the hands of my servants
• D&C 133:36 — That this might be known, I have sent forth mine angel

10 — Time Is No Longer

• D&C 88:110 — After all the secret acts of men are revealed; there shall be time no longer, and Satan is bound a thousand years
• D&C 88:110–111 — Before Satan is loosed for a little season
• D&C 88:112–115 — Before the last battle
• D&C 101:28; D&C 45:55

10a — All Mysteries and Secret Works Revealed

• D&C 88:107 — After the angels are crowned with glory
• D&C 88:107–110 — After they are made equal with Him
• D&C 88:108–110 — All the mysteries of God and the secret works of men revealed, from the first thousand years to the seventh
• D&C 101:32 — The Lord reveals all things
• Ether 4:7 — The sealed portion
• History of the Church, 5:530 — The sealing of the 144,000; calling and election made sure

10a — Death Is No Longer

• D&C 101:29–31 — No sorrow and no death; the infant shall not die but live to the age of a tree; changed in the twinkling of an eye and caught up
• D&C 88:58–59

11 — The Millennium Ends

• Revelation 20:7 — Satan is loosed out of his prison
• Revelation 20:8–9 — Gog and Magog gathered to battle; fire from heaven devours them
• Revelation 20:10–11 — Satan cast into the lake of fire
• Revelation 20:12–15 — The final judgment of the dead, both small and great

12 — The Earth Crowned with Celestial Glory

• Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 181 — The earth will be rolled back into the presence of God and crowned with celestial glory
• D&C 130:9 — The earth will be like a sea of glass and fire — a Urim and Thummim to its inhabitants
• D&C 130:10–11 — A white stone given to the inhabitants; the higher order of kingdoms made known

U and V — The Two Beasts (Timing Unknown)

• The first is wounded and healed, and blasphemes God
• Revelation 13:7 — The first makes war on the saints and overcomes them; power over all nations, kindreds, and tongues
• Revelation 13:8 — All on the earth worship him except those written in the book of life
• Revelation 13:12 — The second beast exercises all the power of the first
• Revelation 13:13 — The second beast does great wonders, bringing fire down from heaven
• Revelation 13:15 — It makes an image of the first beast, which speaks, and all worship it
• Revelation 13:16 — It causes all to receive a mark in the right hand or in the forehead
• Revelation 13:17 — Without the mark, no buying or selling
• Matthew 24:9 — Martyrs for the gospel’s sake: they shall kill you for my name’s sake
• Matthew 24:10 — Many shall be offended and shall betray one another

Additional Sources

• Doctrine and Covenants Student Manual — Section 88, “The Olive Leaf”; Orson Pratt on the silence in heaven and the unfolding of the curtain
• Doctrines of the Gospel Student Manual — Chapter 37, the Millennium and the glorification of the earth
• Old Testament Student Manual: 1 Kings–Malachi — Chapter 18, with Orson Pratt on the light of Zion

Watch, and Be Not Troubled

D&C 45:32, 35

“But my disciples shall stand in holy places, and shall not be moved … And I said unto them: Be not troubled, for, when all these things shall come to pass, ye may know that the promises which have been made unto you shall be fulfilled.”

The signs were never given to terrify the Saints. The Savior’s own counsel to those who watch is steady and clear: “See that ye be not troubled” (Matthew 24:6). We are to read the times, stand in holy places, and prepare. To the faithful the promise is sure: “If ye are prepared ye shall not fear” (D&C 38:30).

This document is a study aid and personal chronology, not official Church doctrine. It is a living document, and it will be updated as further understanding comes. The order of the major signs is taught in scripture, but the precise timing of many events is reserved to the Lord. Always consult the Standard Works and living prophets for authoritative guidance on the signs of the times.