The Doctrine and Covenants

Doctrine and Covenants, Section 77

Q. What is the sea of glass spoken of by John, 4th chapter, and 6th verse of the Revelation? Q. What are we to understand by the four beasts, spoken of in the same verse? Q. Are the four beasts limited to individual beasts, or do they represent classes or orders? Q. What are we to understand by the eyes and wings, which the beasts had? Q. What are we to understand by the four and twenty elders, spoken of by John? Q. What are we to understand by the book which John saw, which was sealed on the back with seven seals? Q. What are we to understand by the seven seals with which it was sealed? Q. What are we to understand by the four angels, spoken of in the 7th chapter and 1st verse of Revelation? Q. What are we to understand by the angel ascending from the east, Revelation 7th chapter and 2nd verse? Q. What time are the things spoken of in this chapter to be accomplished? Q. What are we to understand by sealing the one hundred and forty-four thousand, out of all the tribes of Israel--twelve thousand out of every tribe? Q. What are we to understand by the sounding of the trumpets, mentioned in the 8th chapter of Revelation? Q. When are the things to be accomplished, which are written in the 9th chapter of Revelation? Q. What are we to understand by the little book which was eaten by John, as mentioned in the 10th chapter of Revelation? Q. What is to be understood by the two witnesses, in the eleventh chapter of Revelation?