Anothering interesting thing of note is that the El Nino/La Nina cycles are roughly based on a seven year peak. I know that moisture and much else affects these large insect population events:
There are at least 31 significant Shemitah and Jubilee events have taken place from the birth of Joseph Smith to the present. A few of these include: (by Rhonda H. on the FB page Preparing For the Last Day)
Shemitah & Jubilee Events from the birth of Joseph Smith to the Present
*1804 - 1805 - Shemitah - Joseph Smith born
1811 – 1812 - Shemitah - War of 1812 - Typhoid fever epidemic - Joseph's bone surgery
1818 - 1819 - Shemitah + 1819 - 1820 - JUBILEE - FIRST VISION
1825 - 1826 - Shemitah – Joseph meets Emma Smith
*1827 - Feast of Trumpets - Joseph receives the Book of Mormon plates
1832 - 1833 - Shemitah – Section 76 of the Doctrine & Covenants, School of the Prophets
*1839 - 1840 - Shemitah - Joseph in Liberty Jail, Saints expelled from Missouri*1846 - 1847 - Shemitah - Saints enter the Salt Lake Valley1853 - 1854 - Shemitah – Perpetual Emmigration Fund established
1860 - 1861 - Shemitah - Civil War begins - Rail Road comes to Utah
1867 - 1868 - Shemitah - Tabernacle completed 1868 - 1869 JUBILEE – Railroad completed 10 May, YWMA organized
1875 - 1876 – Shemitah – BYU begun
1881 - 1882 - Shemitah - 70's restructured and reorganized, Edmunds Act passed (against Polygamy)
1888 - 1889 - Shemitah – Manti temple dedicated, Wilford Woodruff sustained as prophet, seer & revelator
*1895 - 1896 - Shemitah - Utah becomes a state
1902 - 1903 - Shemitah – Church magazines first published
1909 - 1910 - Shemitah - Boy Scouts adopted by the Church
1916 - 1917 - Shemitah – WW1 JUBILEE 1917 - 1918 – Balfour Declaration - Vision of the Redemption of the Dead to Pres Joseph F. Smith
1923 - 1924 - Shemitah – British mandate for Palestine goes into effect Sep 29, 1923
*1930 - 1931 - Shemitah - Welfare program revealed to Harold B Lee
1937 - 1938 - Shemitah - Deseret Industries launched
1944 - 1945 - Shemitah - WW2 ends, Idaho Falls temple dedicated, E.T. Benson to Europe
1951 - 1952 - Shemitah – David O McKay becomes prophet of the Church, First proselyting plan released
1958 - 1959 - Shemitah - first overseas stake organized in New Zealand, Temples in New Zealand and London
1965 - 1966 - Shemitah – Home Study Seminary inaugurated JUBILEE 1966-1967 - 6-day war, Jerusalem returned to the Jews, first regional representatives called
1972 - 1973 - Shemitah - Harold B Lee Sustained as prophet Jul 1972, dies Dec 26, 1973, Yom Kippur War
*1979 - 1980 - Shemitah – New edition of scriptures released, Orson Hyde gardens dedicated in Jerusalem
1986 - 1987 - Shemitah – Black Monday Oct 19,1987, Bicentennial of our nation
1993 - 1994 - Shemitah – Savings & Loan Crisis Nov 1993,
2000 - 2001 - Shemitah - 9/11, stock market crash - Perpetual Education Fund announced
2007 - 2008 - Shemitah - Stock Market Crash, Thomas Spencer Monson sustained as prophet
And lest we think that such things are happenstance and that the principle of the Shemitah doesn’t really pertain to us, listen to the words of Brigham Young speaking about the destruction done to pioneer crops by grasshoppers (that damage being far greater than any caused by crickets), He stated:
"Perhaps many feel a little sober because our bread is cut off, but I am glad of it, because it will be a warning to us, and teach us to lay it up in future, as we have been told. How many times have you been told to store up your wheat against the hard times that are coming upon the nations of the earth? When we first came into these valleys our President told us to lay up stores of all kinds of grain, that the earth might rest once in seven years. The earth is determined to rest, and it is right that it should. It only requires a few grasshoppers to make the earth rest, they can soon clear it. This is the seventh year, did you ever think of it?" (Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses Volume 3, page 57. July 13, 1855)
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