Source Report Card
Chapter 15: Two Thousand Years of "Soon"
| Source | Who | When | Chain | Rung | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Peter 3:3-9; Jude 1:18; D&C 45:26; 2 Nephi 28:21 | Peter; Jude; the Lord through Joseph Smith; Nephi | Various | 1st | 1 | A+ |
| D&C 45:28-31 ("that generation" tied to a "light"; no year) | The Lord through Joseph Smith | ca. 7 Mar 1831 | 1st | 1 | A+ |
| Matthew 24:34, 36, 48; JS–Matthew 1:34, 48; D&C 49:7; Revelation 22:7, 20 | Jesus Christ; the Lord through Joseph Smith; John | Various | 1st | 1 | A+ |
| D&C 84:3-5 (temple "in this generation"); D&C 124:49-51 (work required "no more") | The Lord through Joseph Smith | Sept 1832; Jan 1841 | 1st | 1 | A+ (solid source; a hard passage) |
| D&C 130:14-17 | Joseph Smith (canonized from clerks' notes) | 2 Apr 1843 | 1st (canonized) | 1 | A+ |
| Old Testament Student Manual, ch. 28 (Daniel 12) | Church Educational System | 2003 | 1st | 2 | A |
| Proclamation of the Twelve ("not many years hence") | Quorum of the Twelve | 1845 | 1st | 2 | A (real, didn't happen) |
| Christofferson, "The Character of Christ," General Conference | D. Todd Christofferson (Second Counselor in the First Presidency) | Apr 2026 | 1st | 3 | A |
| Letter to Noah C. Saxton ("now living"; no Second Coming date) | Joseph Smith | 4 Jan 1833 | 1st | 4 | B (real, only partly happened) |
| Letter to the editor, Times and Seasons ("not in 1843") | Joseph Smith | 28 Feb 1843 | 1st | 4 | B |
| Letter to Lyman Wight et al. (conditional "If" date for redeeming Zion) | Joseph Smith | 16 Aug 1834 | 1st | 4 | B (real, conditional) |
| Discourse ("rising generation"; "if" framing; 40 years, murkier in Clayton) | Joseph Smith (Willard Richards, then an apostle; William Clayton) | 6 Apr 1843 | 2nd, multiple notes | 4 | B |
| Discourse ("will not come in 1844"; "about 1890"; Clayton's "I neve[r] said") | Joseph Smith (single note each: Richards, then an apostle, for 1844 and 1890; Clayton for "I neve[r] said") | 6 Apr 1843 | 2nd, single note | 4 | C |
| Discourse ("no man knoweth" applied to people then) | Joseph Smith (James Burgess) | 6 Apr 1843 | 2nd, single notebook (copied after 12 Apr 1843) | 4 | C |
| Discourse ("not this year"; "not in forty years") | Joseph Smith (Woodruff and W. Richards, then apostles; Bullock) | 10 Mar 1844 | 2nd, multiple notes | 4 | B |
| Discourse ("never did reveal to any man the precise time") | Joseph Smith (Wilford Woodruff, then an apostle, only) | 10 Mar 1844 | 2nd, single note | 4 | C |
| Minutes ("even fifty six years") | Joseph Smith (clerk's summary, copied into Minute Book 1 in 1836) | 14 Feb 1835 | 2nd, single record | 4 | C (didn't happen) |
| James Burgess notebook ("1805 / 85 / 1890", written under his notes of the 10 Mar 1844 discourse) | James Burgess (a member) | 10 Mar 1844 | 1st (his own arithmetic) | 5 | C |
| Parley P. Pratt, Mormonism Unveiled, pp. 14-15 ("50 years hence") | Parley P. Pratt (then Quorum of the Twelve) | 1838 | 1st | 4 | B (real, didn't happen) |
| Journal of Discourses 2:259-266 (D&C 45:30 read as the 1830 generation) | Orson Pratt (then Quorum of the Twelve), clerk's shorthand report | 7 Apr 1855 | 2nd | 4 | C (real, didn't happen) |
| McConkie, Doctrinal New Testament Commentary 3:590, on Rev. 22:7 (quoted in NT Student Manual) | Bruce R. McConkie (then Quorum of the Twelve; a Seventy until Oct 1972) | 1973 | 1st | 4 | B |