Source Report Card
Chapter 22: Armageddon and the Mount of Olives
| Source | Who | When | Chain | Rung | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scripture: JS–Matthew 1:4-36; D&C 45:24-25, 45:43-53, 77:15, 133:20; Zechariah 12-14; Ezekiel 38-39; Joel 3; Revelation 16:14-16, 19:17-18 (+ JST), 20:8; Luke 21:20; Isaiah 66:8; Jeremiah 30:7; 2 Nephi 6:8-14 | The Lord and His prophets | c. 700 BC to AD 1832 | 1st | 1 | A+ |
| Church study aids: Bible Dictionary ("Abomination of desolation," "Armageddon"); Guide to the Scriptures ("Armageddon," "Gog")1 | Church | current | 1st | 2 | A |
| D&C Student Manual, Enrichment H, incl. H-10 ("long and costly war"; ties D&C 45 and the separate appearance to the siege) | Church Educational System | 2002 | 1st | 2 | A |
| OT Student Manual, Enrichment I ("cannot be compiled"; "only one-third" of Israel; atomic warfare) | Church Educational System | 2003 | 1st | 2 | A (atomic line is hedged speculation: "could very easily be") |
| OT Student Manual, ch. 18, note 18-29 (Isaiah 66:5-14), own framing (Christ appears during Armageddon; quotes Penrose) | Church Educational System | 2003 | 1st | 2 | A for the framing (incl. Isaiah 66:8 heading + bracket); Penrose stays C |
| Charles W. Penrose, 1859, Isaiah 66:8 reading (quoted in OT Student Manual)* | Charles W. Penrose (then a young missionary in England; later an apostle) | 1859 | 1st | 5 | C |
| Pearl of Great Price Student Manual (JS–Matthew split, AD 70) | Church Educational System | 2000 | 1st | 2 | A |
| Ezra Taft Benson, "Five Marks of the Divinity of Jesus Christ," New Era (separate appearance) | Ezra Taft Benson (then President of the Quorum of the Twelve), Church magazine | Dec 1980 | 1st | 3 | A |
| Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine p. 74 ("at the very moment"; "from Jerusalem to Megiddo," quoted in OT Student Manual) | Bruce R. McConkie (then First Council of the Seventy), personal book, out of print | 1966 (2nd ed.) | 1st | 4 | C (we couldn't find either line repeated as an apostle; his April 1979 talk still puts Armageddon before "the Prince of Peace comes," without that wording) |
| Bruce R. McConkie, "Stand Independent above All Other Creatures," General Conference ("mass their armaments at Armageddon") | Bruce R. McConkie (then of the Quorum of the Twelve) | Apr 1979 | 1st | 3 | A |
| Orson Hyde's 1841 dedication prayer (printed in A Voice from Jerusalem, 1842) | Orson Hyde (then of the Quorum of the Twelve), personal publication | 1841-42 | 1st | 4 | B |
| 1948 as THE "nation born at once" of Isaiah 66:8 | Popular claim | 20th century | No single source | 6 | F |
| Russia/Iran/China as Gog, Persia, "kings of the east" | Firesides, internet | ongoing | Untraceable | 6 | F |
| Seven-year Tribulation / Left Behind timelines | Other Christian traditions | 19th-21st century | n/a | n/a | n/a: not Latter-day Saint teaching |
| Julie Rowe, "bomb from Libya landing in Israel" (as reported by the Salt Lake Tribune) | Private-vision author | 2015 (radio interview; reported Sept 15, 2015) | 2nd-hand (newspaper report) | 7 | F (see Chapter 38) |
*Penrose (Rung 5, 1st-hand) is a C; a manual quoting him doesn't raise that (same rule as Chapter 19). The manual's own framing, which links his words to Isaiah 66:8, is the A.
- Bible Dictionary, "Armageddon," https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bd/armageddon?lang=eng; Guide to the Scriptures, "Armageddon," https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/gs/armageddon?lang=eng, and "Gog," https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/gs/gog?lang=eng (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, current online editions).