Answers to Questions, between circa 4 and circa 20 March 1832, as Recorded in Richards, Pocket Companion [D&C 77]
Source Note
Answers to Questions, [, Portage Co., OH, ca. Mar. 1832]. Version copied [ca. 1838] in Willard Richards, “W. Richards Pocket Companion Written in England,” pp. 80–85; handwriting of ; Willard Richards, Journals and Papers, CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Discourse, between ca. 26 June and ca. 4 Aug. 1839–A, as Reported by Willard Richards.
Question 1st. What is the sea of glass spoken of by John the Revelator 4 chap 6 v—?
Answer, It is. the Earth in its sanctified, immortal, & Eternal state,
2d. What are we to understand by the 4 beasts spoken of.
A. They are figurative expressions and by the Revelator in describing Heaven the Paradise of God. The Happiness of men & of Beasts & of fowls & of creeping things, That which are spiritual. being in likeness of that which is temporal, & that which is temporal in the likeness of that which is Spiritual
The Spirit of man is the likeness of his person. as also the spirit of Beasts and every other creature that God has made.
3d. Are the four beasts limited to Individual Beasts. or do they represent classes or orders.—?
They are limited to four individual beasts which were shewn to John to represent the glory of that class of beings [p. 80]