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Chapter 14: Sifted: Wheat, Tares, and a Judgment That Starts at Home

Source Who When Chain Rung Grade
D&C 86:1-7 (wheat and tares; order of harvest) The Lord, through Joseph Smith Dec 1832 1st-hand 1 A+
Matthew 13:24-43 (wheat and tares; "the harvest is the end of the world") Jesus, recorded by Matthew c. AD 30; written later 1st-hand 1 A+
D&C 88:94-95 ("the tares of the earth") The Lord, through Joseph Smith Dec 1832 1st-hand 1 A+
Jacob 5:62-75 (last pruning) Zenos, quoted by Jacob pub. 1830 1st-hand 1 A+
Jacob 6:1-2 ("concerning the house of Israel"; "the second time") Jacob pub. 1830 1st-hand 1 A+
D&C 112:24-26 ("upon my house shall it begin") The Lord, through Joseph Smith, to Thomas B. Marsh (then President of the Twelve) Jul 1837 1st-hand 1 A+
1 Peter 4:17 ("judgment must begin at the house of God") Peter c. AD 60s 1st-hand 1 A+
D&C 63:34 ("hardly escape") The Lord, through Joseph Smith Aug 1831 1st-hand 1 A+
Moses 7:61 The Lord to Enoch (via Joseph Smith) Dec 1830 1st-hand 1 A+
Book of Mormon Student Manual, ch. 16 (Jacob 5 chart) Church Educational System 2009 1st-hand 2 A
New Testament Student Manual, ch. 55 (two harvests) Church Educational System 2014 1st-hand 2 A
D&C Student Manual, Enrichment H-7 Church Educational System 2002 1st-hand 2 A
"Be of Good Cheer," General Conference (sifting "not now clear") Neal A. Maxwell (then Quorum of the Twelve) Oct 1982 1st-hand 3 A
"The Coming Tests and Trials and Glory" Bruce R. McConkie (then Quorum of the Twelve; earlier a Seventy) Apr 1980 1st-hand 3 A
Journal of Discourses 4:138-145 ("a test, A TEST, A TEST") Heber C. Kimball (then First Counselor in the First Presidency), reported by G. D. Watt 21 Dec 1856 2nd-hand (shorthand, single reporter) 4 C
Joseph Smith journal ("a false idea that the saints will escape all the judgements") Joseph Smith, summarized by his clerk James Mulholland Sermon 29 Sep 1839 (journal entry for 29 Sep-6 Oct) 2nd-hand (single scribe) 4 C
Saints, vol. 1 (Kirtland bank failure, 1837-38 apostasy; history, not prophecy) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2018 1st-hand (narrative history) 2 A