Source Report Card
Chapter 16: Revelation's Clock: Seven Seals, the Sixth Seal, and the 144,000
| Source | Who | When | Chain | Rung | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revelation 5:1; 6; 7:1-4; 8:1-2; 13 | John the Revelator | c. AD 90s | 1st | 1 | A+ |
| D&C 77:6-13 | Joseph Smith (revelation) | c. March 1832 | 1st | 1 | A+ |
| D&C 49:7 | Joseph Smith (revelation) | May 1831 | 1st | 1 | A+ |
| NT Seminary Teacher Manual, Revelation 6-7 (sixth seal "likely" now) | Seminaries and Institutes | 2023 | 1st | 2 | A |
| NT Student Manual, ch. 54 (seal dates; "Possible Interpretations"; Woodruff under Rev. 7; 144,000) | Church Educational System | 2014 | 1st | 2 | A |
| NT Student Manual, ch. 55 (mark, 666 not revealed) | Church Educational System | 2014 | 1st | 2 | A |
| McConkie, Doctrinal New Testament Commentary 3:477-478 (seals 1-2, quoted in 2014 manual) | Bruce R. McConkie (then Quorum of the Twelve), personal book | 1973 (vol. 3) | 1st | 4 | B |
| Joseph Smith sermon, 8 April 1843 (beasts; "no allusion") | Willard Richards (then an apostle) and William Clayton, same-day notes | 8 April 1843 | 2nd (two independent) | 4 | B |
| Joseph Smith sermon, 13 Aug 1843 (Rev. 7 seal; covenant and election hint) | Clayton and Willard Richards (then an apostle), same day; Franklin D. Richards copy (before he was an apostle). Exact wording is Clayton's alone | 13 Aug 1843 | 2nd (three accounts agree on topic) | 4 | B |
| Joseph Smith Journal, 5-13 Nov 1833 (meteor shower; scripture not named, JSP editors link Rev. 6:12-13) | Joseph Smith journal | Nov 1833 | 1st | 4 | B |
| Woodruff, "portals of heaven" (does not name Rev. 7) | Wilford Woodruff (then Church President), Young Woman's Journal 5 (Aug. 1894): 512 | 1894 | 2nd (single printed report) | 4 | C |
| History, 1838-1856, vol. E-1, 4 Feb 1844 (144,000 "had already commenced") | Clerks, 1855-56, in Joseph's voice; Woodruff journal confirms topic only | 1844, drafted 1855-56 | 3rd (topic confirmed same day) | 4 | C (bumped from D) |
| Nicholas J. Frederick, BYU Studies 64:1 (D&C 77 and earth's age; "no allusion" tension) | Scholar | 2025 | n/a (context) | n/a | Context only |
| Visions of Glory (144,000 claims) | Anonymous "Spencer," via John Pontius | 2012 | 2nd | 7 | F |
| "Spencer's Visions of Glory," FAIR (source of the quote above) | Gregory L. Smith | c. 2013 | Review | n/a | Context only |
| Mark of the beast = barcodes, chips, vaccines, digital currency | Internet | ongoing | Untraceable | 6 | F |
| Y2K / "6,000 years are up" date math | Folk calculation | c. 2000 | Untraceable | 6 | F |