Revelation given to Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Hiram, Ohio, March 1832 (see History of the Church, 1:253–55). The Prophet wrote, “In connection with the translation of the Scriptures, I received the following explanation of the Revelation of St. John” (History of the Church, 1:253).

¹⁾Q. What is the sea of glass spoken of by John, 4th chapter, and 6th verse of the Revelation?

²⁾Q. What are we to understand by the four beasts, spoken of in the same verse?

³⁾Q. Are the four beasts limited to individual beasts, or do they represent classes or orders?

⁴⁾Q. What are we to understand by the eyes and wings, which the beasts had?

⁵⁾Q. What are we to understand by the four and twenty elders, spoken of by John?

⁶⁾Q. What are we to understand by the book which John saw, which was sealed on the back with seven seals?

⁷⁾Q. What are we to understand by the seven seals with which it was sealed?

⁸⁾Q. What are we to understand by the four angels, spoken of in the 7th chapter and 1st verse of Revelation?

⁹⁾Q. What are we to understand by the angel ascending from the east, Revelation 7th chapter and 2nd verse?

¹⁰⁾Q. What time are the things spoken of in this chapter to be accomplished?

¹¹⁾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?

¹²⁾Q. What are we to understand by the sounding of the trumpets, mentioned in the 8th chapter of Revelation?

¹³⁾Q. When are the things to be accomplished, which are written in the 9th chapter of Revelation?

¹⁴⁾Q. What are we to understand by the little book which was eaten by John, as mentioned in the 10th chapter of Revelation?

¹⁵⁾Q. What is to be understood by the two witnesses, in the eleventh chapter of Revelation?