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Chapter 20: Back in Jerusalem: A Temple and Two Prophets

Source Who When Chain Rung Grade
Ezekiel 47:1-12 (river heals "the sea"; En-gedi; never names Jerusalem or Dead Sea) Ezekiel c. 573 BC 1st 1 A+
Zechariah 14:4, 8 (Mount of Olives; living waters) Zechariah c. 520 BC and after 1st 1 A+
Revelation 11:1-15 (two witnesses; city unnamed) John the Revelator c. AD 95 1st 1 A+
D&C 77:15 (two prophets to the Jewish nation) The Lord through Joseph Smith about Mar 1832 1st 1 A+
D&C 13:1; D&C 128:24 (sons of Levi's offering) John the Baptist / Joseph Smith 1829; 1842 1st 1 A+
3 Nephi 9:19-20 ("no more the shedding of blood") The Savior, in the Book of Mormon c. AD 34 1st 1 A+
D&C 45:48-53; D&C 133:20 ("this mount"; 133:20 names "the mount of Olivet") The Lord through Joseph Smith 7 Mar 1831; 3 Nov 1831 1st 1 A+
Old Testament Student Manual: Kings-Malachi, ch. 27 (Mount Moriah; "may occur") Church Educational System 1982 1st 2 A
New Testament Student Manual, ch. 54 (Rev. 11 before Mount of Olives; "three and a half") Church Educational System 2014 1st 2 A
Joseph Smith discourse, Willard Richards's journal notes (Dead Sea healed "before"); smoothed in History of the Church 5:337; graded by the note Joseph Smith (Church President), via Willard Richards (then an apostle) 6 Apr 1843 2nd (single note) 4 C
Instruction on Priesthood (sacrifice "continued at the last time") Joseph Smith (Church President), clerk's hand c. 5 Oct 1840 1st 4 B
Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation 3:93-94 (sacrifice restored) Joseph Fielding Smith (then President of the Quorum of the Twelve; later Church President) published 1956 (compiled by Bruce R. McConkie from earlier sermons and writings) 1st 4 B
Orson Pratt, Journal of Discourses 18:57-69 (two prophets holding off the armies) Orson Pratt (then Quorum of the Twelve) 25 Jul 1875 2nd (single reporter) 4 C
McConkie, Doctrinal New Testament Commentary 3:509 ("No doubt they will be...") Bruce R. McConkie (then Quorum of the Twelve) 1973 1st 4 B
Posts naming living leaders as the witnesses; "Dead Sea healing" videos Anonymous ongoing Untraceable 6 F
Red heifer / "Third Temple" timelines Jewish and evangelical readings ongoing n/a n/a Other tradition, not graded