I took this picture at Bridal Veil Falls, outside Provo, Utah. I could not help but think of the scripture I had just studied, found in The Book of Mormon, in Helaman 14:20-22. It recounts a prophecy made by a prophet known as Samuel the Lamanite. In about 6 B.C., Samuel is pleading with his people here in the western hemisphere to repent, and he prophesies of great signs which will be seen at the time when the Savior will be crucified in the eastern hemisphere (some 39 years in the future). He said:
"But behold, as I said unto you concerning another sign, a sign of his death, behold, in that day that he shall suffer death the sun shall be darkened and refuse to give his light unto you; and also the moon and the stars; and there shall be no light upon the face of this land, even from the time that he shall suffer death, for the space of thre days, to the time that he shall rise again from the dead.
"Yea, at the time that he shall yield up the ghost there shall be thunderings and lightnings for the space of many hours, and the earth shall shake and tremble; and the rocks which are upon the face of this earth, which are both above the earth and beneath, which ye know at this time are solid, or the more part of it is one solid mass, shall be broken up;
"Yea, they shall be rent in twain, and shall ever after be found in seams and in cracks, and in broken fragments upon the face of the whole earth, yea, both above the earth and beneath."
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