If you haven't used it before, Timesketch [1] is excellent indexing and searching timeline data for forensics analysis.
MVT takes a (MACB) timeline of your phone backup file changes and other events - including your text message history.
Here is a simple script that I wrote converts it into a format compatible with Timesketch [2] so it's trivial to explore events from the phone, indexed and searchable by time, kind of what you would see in Kibana.