From the Introduction of Let Prophecy Analyze Itself

... but I find myself dismayed by the incredible variety of opinions going around about the events that will (likely soon) occur.

Frustration with this situation eventually led me to study the Bible’s yet unfulfilled prophecies to see what I could find out for myself. There is one God. He has one plan for the future. There is one Bible given to us to tell us what that plan is. It should be possible to puzzle it out in some way. To avoid just producing another opinion, I adopted an analysis procedure guided by the following four principles:

            1. Forget/ignore everything I’ve ever heard taught by anybody. After fifty years of hearing the latest opinions, this takes considerable effort. You must do the same as you work through the material.

2. Take the prophetic verses to mean exactly what they say, and no more than that.

3. Resort to symbolism only where necessary.

4. When a prophecy transitions from one event to the next, never assume you know anything about how long the gap between events is.

            
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Now we need a simple procedure consistent with the four principles listed above capable of inputting a set of true, but disconnected and disorganized stories and building up one unified picture. We need all events to drop into their natural order based only on the timing clues the prophesies themselves contain.

You must cycle through the entire Bible at least once. It doesn’t matter where you start. You find a prophecy that predicts a series of four events: A, B, C, and D. Add them to the diagram just like that:

Diagram of four events in sequence

You find another prophecy that predicts a series of three events: E, F, and G. Add them in a new row:

Diagram of four events in sequence and three events in sequence

Then you check the new events to see if any duplicate events already in the chart. Assume that events C and F match. Drag event F to be below event C in the diagram:

Diagram of four events in sequence and three events in sequence lined up

Repeat this process until you run out of prophesies and trust that a coherent picture emerges. This is exactly what does happen. You end up with a diagram that has no inconsistencies at all.

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It is important to understand what I have done here. I’ve concentrated on putting the prophetic events into their natural order using only the basic facts given by the prophecies themselves. Only after this process is complete do we look at the content of the prophecies to see what meanings emerge. That explains this book’s unusual title. You can then follow any story line you wish by examining the relevant events left to right through the chart. This saves you from making mistakes such as accidentally interpreting a chapter of Isaiah in a way that contradicts a chapter of Zechariah.

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You are likely to find you are emotionally attached to ideas that just don’t fit the outline. I certainly was. That is fine. Work through it as slowly as you need to, and be open to what the scriptures actually present.