Source Report Card
Chapter 21: The Seventh Seal: Trumpets, Hail, and the Last Plagues
| Source | Who | When | Chain | Rung | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D&C 77:7, 11-13 (seal order; the sealed; trumpets before Christ) | Joseph Smith, revelation | c. March 1832 | 1st | 1 | A+ |
| Revelation 7:3; 8:1-12; 9:1-21; 11:14-19; 15-16 | John the Revelator | c. AD 90s (traditional dating) | 1st | 1 | A+ |
| JST Revelation 9:14 (angels bound "in the bottomless pit," not "the great river Euphrates"; Revelation 16:12 unchanged; this book's inference: Joseph's text has the Euphrates only at the sixth vial) | Joseph Smith, inspired translation | 1832 | 1st | 1 | A+ |
| D&C 29:14-19 (hail, flies "before this great day"; seventh-seal placement = this book's inference) | Joseph Smith, revelation | September 1830 | 1st | 1 | A+ |
| D&C 38:30 (prepared, no fear) | Joseph Smith, revelation | Jan. 1831 | 1st | 1 | A+ |
| D&C 88:95 (silence, then the curtain) | Joseph Smith, revelation | Dec. 1832 | 1st | 1 | A+ |
| Zechariah 14:12 (flesh plague) | Zechariah | Old Testament | 1st | 1 | A+ |
| New Testament Student Manual, ch. 54-55 (cites D&C 29:14 as a sixth-seal parallel; vials "prior to the Second Coming," no seal named; "We do not know whether that number is symbolic or literal"; Wormwood "may symbolize"; Euphrates tied to Armageddon) | Church Educational System | 2014 | 1st | 2 | A |
| Gerald N. Lund, Ensign, Dec. 1987, 52, quoted in NT Student Manual ch. 54 (seventh thousand years' judgments "including Armageddon (see Rev. 8-9, 11, 16)") | Gerald N. Lund (Church educator; later a Seventy) | 1987 | 1st | 2 | B (non-GA reading the manual quotes) |
| D&C Student Manual, D&C 88:95-98 ("If... approximately twenty-one years") | Church Educational System | 1981/2001 | 1st | 2 | A (for the "if," not the number) |
| D&C Student Manual (2017), ch. 12 (D&C 29 vs. Egypt's plagues) | Church Educational System | 2017 | 1st | 2 | A |
| McConkie, quoted in NT manual ch. 54: The Millennial Messiah ("Speculatively, most of the plagues...," 382; "atomic fallout" question, 383; the slain "will be a third of the inhabitants of the earth itself, however many billions of people that may turn out to be," 453); Doctrinal New Testament Commentary vol. 3 (1973), 502-503 ("tanks and flame throwers") | Bruce R. McConkie (then Quorum of the Twelve) | 1973-1982 | 1st | 4 | B |
| Journal of Discourses 16:328 ("hour" as a long period), quoted in D&C Student Manual | Orson Pratt (then Quorum of the Twelve) | 28 Dec. 1873 (reported by David W. Evans) | 2nd | 4 | C |
| "It is a false idea that the saints will escape all the judgements whilst the wicked suffer" (Journal, p. [13], scribe James Mulholland; smoothed in Teachings: Joseph Smith, 253) | Joseph Smith (Church President) | 29 Sept. 1839 | 2nd (same-day scribe, single note) | 4 | C |
| New Testament Seminary Teacher Manual (sixth seal "likely includes the time in which we now live") | Church Educational System | 2023 | 1st | 2 | A |
| "Half an hour = 21 years, so the date is..." | Fireside and online math | 2000s-now | Untraceable | 6 | F |
| "Chernobyl = Wormwood" | Popular claim | after 1986 | Untraceable | 6 | F |
| "This Euphrates drought is the sign" | Social media posts | 2020s | Untraceable | 6 | F |
| "The locusts are attack helicopters" | Popular claim | 20th century-now | Untraceable | 6 | F |