Source Report Card
Chapter 26: A Remodeled Earth and the Return of Enoch's City
| Source | Who | When | Chain | Rung | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D&C 133:19-25; 88:18-19, 94-96, 103-110; 29:22-23; 101:30; 57:1-3; 84:2-4 (reshaping, last trumps, new earth after the thousand years, Zion at Independence = New Jerusalem) | The Lord through Joseph Smith | 1830-1833 | 1st-hand | 1 | A+ |
| Moses 7:48, 62-64 (OT Revision 1 manuscript, p. 191); JST Genesis 9:21-23 (Enoch's city returns; rainbow covenant) | Joseph Smith (dictating) | 1830-31 | 1st-hand | 1 | A+ |
| Articles of Faith 1:10 ("paradisiacal glory") | Joseph Smith | 1842 | 1st-hand | 1 | A+ |
| Genesis 10:25 (Peleg) | Moses (traditional) | Ancient | 1st-hand | 1 | A+ (text only; meaning debated) |
| Isaiah 65:17-20; Revelation 14:8; 20; 21:1-2 (both say "new earth"; splitting them into two stages is this book's reading; Babylon named in Rev. 14:8) | Isaiah; John | Ancient | 1st-hand | 1 | A+ |
| D&C Student Manual (2017), ch. 532 ("likely"); Gospel Principles ch. 45 (Millennium, other faiths, missionary work); Guide to the Scriptures, "New Jerusalem" | Church manuals and study aid | 2011-current | 1st-hand | 2 | A |
| Joseph Fielding Smith, Church History and Modern Revelation 1:264 (1953), quoted in NT Student Manual ch. 55 (Peleg's division was physical; lands restored; "Zion" = America) | Joseph Fielding Smith (then of the Quorum of the Twelve), personal book | 1953 | 1st-hand | 4 | B |
| John Taylor, Journal of Discourses 21:253 (1880) (quoted in PGP Student Manual, Moses 7:63) and Journal of Discourses 10:147 (1863) | John Taylor (1863: then Quorum of the Twelve; 1880: then leading the Church), via reporters | 1863, 1880 | 2nd-hand | 4 | C |
| Peleg = Pangaea | Popular speculation | Modern | Untraceable | 6 | F (conflicts with geology; not Church teaching) |
| Pole-shift, sinking-state, and "Enoch's city at the North Pole" theories | Internet and folk speculation | Modern | Untraceable | 6-7 | F |