Source Report Card
Chapter 19: Before the World Sees Him: The Temple in Zion and Adam-ondi-Ahman
| Source | Who | When | Chain | Rung | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malachi 3:1; D&C 133:2; 36:8; 42:35-36; 57:1-3; 84:2-5; 97:15-16 (none names which temple) | Malachi; revelations through Joseph Smith | c. 430 BC; 1830-33 | 1st | 1 | A+ |
| Daniel 7:9-14, 22 | Daniel | 6th c. BC setting | 1st | 1 | A+ |
| D&C 107:53-57 (a PAST gathering at Adam-ondi-Ahman; not a prophecy) | Revelation through Joseph Smith | 1835 | 1st | 1 | A+ |
| D&C 116:1 (from G. W. Robinson's journal; canonized 1876) | Joseph Smith, via clerk | recorded under 19 May 1838 (heading: May or June 1838) | 1st (canonized) | 1 | A+ |
| D&C 27:5-14 (roll call first printed 1835; heading: rest written September 1830) | Revelation through Joseph Smith | 1830/1835 | 1st | 1 | A+ |
| D&C Student Manual, Enrichment H | Church Educational System | 1981/2001 | 1st | 2 | A |
| Doctrines of the Gospel Student Manual, ch. 36 | Church Educational System | 2000 | 1st | 2 | A |
| Old Testament Student Manual, 34-8 (Malachi 3:1 "fulfilled, in part at least" at Kirtland) | CES, quoting Bruce R. McConkie (then of the First Council of the Seventy), Mormon Doctrine 693-94 | 1982; rev. 2003 | 1st | 2 | A that the manual quotes it; McConkie's reading: C for Kirtland (not found restated after 1972), B for Jackson County (restated, A New Witness, 1985, p. 595) |
| "Five Marks of the Divinity of Jesus Christ," New Era | Ezra Taft Benson (then President of the Twelve) | Dec 1980 | 1st | 3 | A |
| The Millennial Messiah 578-79 | Bruce R. McConkie (then of the Quorum of the Twelve) | 1982 | 1st | 4 | B |
| 1839 "grand council" discourse | Joseph Smith, via Willard Richards's 1840-41 copy, likely of John Taylor's notes; ascribed to Joseph in 1845 | summer 1839 | 2nd (single copied note) | 4 | C |
| Millennial Star (no temple named; a member's opinion at the time) | Charles W. Penrose (then a young missionary in England; apostle from 1904) | 10 Sept 1859 | 1st | 5 | C |
| Joseph Smith journal, "Nephitish Alter" at Tower Hill | G. W. Robinson (clerk) | 19 May 1838 | 2nd | 4 | C |
| "Adam's altar" (undated; single late account the 1838 journal contradicts) | Heber C. Kimball (then an apostle), in Orson F. Whitney (then a Salt Lake bishop), Life of Heber C. Kimball | pub. 1888; written date unknown | 3rd (late, undated) | 4 | D |
| Members secretly "called" to Adam-ondi-Ahman; council already happened | Folk rumor | ongoing | Untraceable | 6 | F |
| Visions of Glory (appearance timelines) | Anonymous "Spencer," via John Pontius | 2012 | 2nd | 7 | F |