Footnotes
JS History, vol. A-1, 192.
Faulring et al., Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible, 422.
Faulring, Scott H., Kent P. Jackson, and Robert J. Matthews, eds. Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible: Original Manuscripts. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
Gause apparently served as scribe for JS’s Bible revision between 8 March and 20 March, during which time JS revised the first and second chapters of the book of Revelation. (Faulring et al., Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible, 70; Jennings, “Consequential Counselor,” 183.)
Faulring, Scott H., Kent P. Jackson, and Robert J. Matthews, eds. Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible: Original Manuscripts. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
Jennings, Erin B. “The Consequential Counselor: Restoring the Root(s) of Jesse Gause.” Journal of Mormon History 34 (Spring 2008): 182–227.
See Historical Introduction to Revelation Book 1.
| Ans. | We are to understand that it contains the revealed will. mystery mysteries and works of God. the hidden things of his economy concerning this Earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance or its temporal existence. |
| Q | What are we to understand by the Seven Seals with which it was sealed? |
| A | We are to understand that the first seal contains the things of the first thousand years and the second also of the second thousand years and so on until the seventh. |
| Q | What are we to understand by the four Angels spoken of by John 7 Chap & first verse of Rev. |
| A | We are to understand that they are four angels sent forth from God to whom is given power over the four parts of the Earth to save life and to destroy[.] these are they who have the everlasting Gospel to commit to every Nation kindred tongue and people having power to shut up the heavens to up unto life, or to cast down to the regions of darkness. |
| Q | What are we to understand by the angels ascending from the east Rev 7. Chap. & 2 verse? |
| A | We are to understand that the angel ascended from the east is he to whom is given the seal of the living God over the tweleve tribes of Israel wherefore he crieth unto the four angels having the everlasting Gospel to preach saying hurt not the earth neither the Sea nor the trees till we have sealed the Servants of our God in their foreheads and if you will receive it this is the Elias which was to come to to gether the tribes of Israel and restore all things. |
| Q | What time are things spoken of in this chapter to be accomplished? |
The four angels stood “on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.” These four angels had it “given” to them “to hurt the earth and the sea.” (Revelation 7:1–2.)
See Revelation, 2 Jan. 1831 [D&C 38:12]; and Revelation, 30 Aug. 1831 [D&C 63:53–54].
This angel had “the seal of the living God.” (Revelation 7:2.)
See Matthew 11:14; 17:11. JS’s Bible revision changed the explanation of Elias’s identity in Matthew 17:13 from “Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist” to “Then the Deciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist, & also of another which should come & restore all things, as it is written by the Prophets.” (New Testament Revision 2, p. 32 [first numbering] [Joseph Smith Translation, Matthew 17:13].)