Source Report Card
Chapter 4: Elijah Knocks: Kirtland, April 3, 1836
| Source | Who | When | Chain | Rung | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malachi 4:5-6 | Malachi | c. 430 BC | 1st-hand | 1: Scripture | A+ |
| 3 Nephi 25:5-6 | Jesus quoting Malachi | c. AD 34; pub. 1830 | 1st-hand | 1: Scripture | A+ |
| D&C 2:1-3; JS–History 1:38-39 | Moroni, in Joseph Smith's history | Visit 1823; dictated 1838-39 | 1st-hand (Joseph's memory) | 1: Scripture | A+ |
| D&C 110:1-16 | Vision of Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery | 1836 (scribe, 3rd person); 1st person 1843; printed early 1850s; canonized 1876 | Canonized (original a scribe's journal entry) | 1: Scripture | A+ |
| Malachi 3:1 | Malachi ("suddenly come to his temple"; names no temple) | c. 430 BC | 1st-hand | 1: Scripture | A+ |
| D&C 128:17-18 | Joseph Smith letter ("welding link" = baptism for the dead, v. 18) | 7 Sept 1842 | 1st-hand | 1: Scripture | A+ |
| Joseph Smith Papers, "Visions, 3 April 1836" (intro); History, 1838-1856, vol. B-1 (intro) | Church Historian's Press editors | modern | 1st-hand | 2: Official Church | A |
| Guide to the Scriptures, "Elias" | Church study aid | modern | 1st-hand | 2: Official Church | A |
| Guide to the Scriptures, "Elijah" | Church study aid | modern | 1st-hand | 2: Official Church | A |
| Gospel Principles, ch. 43 | Church manual | modern | 1st-hand | 2: Church manual | A |
| Old Testament Student Manual, note 34-8 (quotes McConkie; own voice: future Jackson County temple visit) | Church institute manual quoting Bruce R. McConkie (Seventy 1946-72, apostle 1972-85) | 1982; rev. 2003 | 1st-hand | 2: Official Church | A |
| Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, pp. 693-94 (Jackson County "may well be") | Bruce R. McConkie (then First Council of the Seventy), own book (out of print 2010) | 1958/1966 (manual doesn't state edition) | 1st-hand | 4: General Authority (Seventy), unofficial | C for Kirtland (not found restated after 1972); B for Jackson County (restated as an apostle, A New Witness, 1985, p. 595) |
| "Preparing for the Lord's Return" | D. Todd Christofferson (then Quorum of the Twelve; now Second Counselor in the First Presidency), General Conference | Apr 2019 | 1st-hand | 3: Apostle, official | A |
| Discourse, 10 Mar 1844 (Elias, Elijah, Messiah) | Joseph Smith; notes by Woodruff, Burgess, F. D. Richards, Bullock, Fullmer, W. Richards | 10 Mar 1844 | 2nd-hand; six accounts, four cover Elias/Elijah/Messiah (Woodruff's possibly from memory, per JSP) | 4: Prophet, unofficial | B (later polished book wording: C) |
| W. W. Phelps letter to Sally Phelps | Associate relaying Joseph and Oliver | Apr 1836 (same day, per JSP editors) | 2nd-hand | 5: Faithful member | C |
| Stephen D. Ricks, "The Appearance of Elijah and Moses in the Kirtland Temple and the Jewish Passover," BYU Studies 23:4 | Latter-day Saint scholar | 1983 | 1st-hand | 5: Faithful scholar | B |
| Joseph Fielding Smith, Conference Report, Apr 1936 (as quoted by Ricks 1983); Missionary Training Manual: For Use in the Jewish Proselyting Program (Church, 1979, p. 25, as quoted by Ricks) | Joseph Fielding Smith (then Quorum of the Twelve), "I am informed"; missionary manual, "about the same hour" | 1936; 1979 | 3rd-hand on the calendar fact ("I am informed") | 3: Apostle, official / 2: Church manual | C on the timing (Ricks: April 3 = second Seder's Hebrew day; "same hour" is a stretch) |