Source Report Card

Chapter 29: The Very End: The Little Season, the Last Battle, and a Sea of Glass

Source	Who	When	Chain	Rung	Grade
D&C 27, 29, 43, 76, 77, 88 (incl. 88:110 thousand years), 128 (little season, last battle, Michael is Adam, last resurrection, telestial "until," earth dies and is raised, sea of glass is the earth, books and book of life)	The Lord, through Joseph Smith (D&C 76 a vision to Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon; D&C 128 Joseph's own 1842 letter, later canonized)	1830-1842	1st	1 Scripture	A+
D&C 130:9-11 (earth like crystal, a Urim and Thummim; white stone, new name)	Joseph Smith; Willard Richards (then an apostle, absent that day) reconstructed it in Joseph's journal from William Clayton's journal and talks with people who made the trip (JSP); added to the D&C in 1876, sustained 1880	Apr 1843	2nd (Clayton) / reconstructed (Richards), then canonized	1 Scripture	A+
Revelation 2, 4, 15, 20, 21, 22 (white stone, sea of glass, Gog and Magog, books opened, no more death, "see his face")	John the Revelator	c. AD 95	1st	1 Scripture	A+
1 Corinthians 15:24-26 (kingdom delivered up; death destroyed last)	Paul	c. AD 55	1st	1 Scripture	A+
Jacob 5:76-77; 6:3 (fruit laid up "for a long time," then evil returns; a close match for the little season, but that link is a reading)	Zenos, quoted by Jacob	published 1830	1st	1 Scripture	A+
Articles of Faith 1:10 (paradisiacal glory); D&C 101:28 and 1 Nephi 22:26 (Satan without power to tempt "in that day"; can't "be loosed for the space of many years"; D&C 88:110 gives the thousand years)	Joseph Smith; the Lord; Nephi	1830-1842	1st	1 Scripture	A+
Church study helps and manuals: Bible Dictionary and Guide to the Scriptures, "Gog," "Magog" (two battles; the Guide also treats Revelation 20 and D&C 88:111-116 as one battle), "Hell" (spirit prison, then telestial glory); Gospel Principles chs. 44-46; Book of Mormon Student Manual ch. 16 (Jacob 5 chart); D&C Student Manual (2017), chs. 12, 33 (earth changes twice; "hard to comprehend" why some deny God); New Testament Student Manual (2014), ch. 56 (why Satan is loosed not entirely explained; sea of glass)	The Church	2009-current	1st	2 Official	A
Joseph Smith journal, 18 Feb 1843 (earth "one great urim and thummim") and Clayton's raw notes of 2 Apr 1843	Joseph Smith, as written by clerks	1843	2nd	4 Prophet, unofficial	C on their own (same idea is A+ in D&C 130:9)
"Gog and Magog is Russia"	Protestant prophecy teachers reading rosh (Ezekiel 38:2) as a place name; not in our scriptures or study helps; about Ezekiel, not Revelation 20	19th-21st c.	Outside interpretation (Protestant), traceable	Not on the ladder	F

Key links: D&C 29¹ · D&C 88² · D&C 130³ · Revelation 20⁴ · Revelation 21⁵ · Bible Dictionary, "Gog"⁶ · Guide to the Scriptures, "Hell"⁷