The Placing of the Plates in the Stone Box

Oliver Cowdery gave a detailed description of the stone box that housed the golden plates for centuries on end. How were the golden plates situated in the stone box?

A)             The plates were resting on the top of three short pillars

B)             The plates were resting on the floor of the box

C)             The box was deep enough that the plates were resting on the long edge of the plates

D)             The plates were tilted up against one side of the box as if to have as little surface area of the plates touching any of the stone box

Yesterday’s answer:

a       a.   The Apostle John spreading the gospel

A “gilded angel” was first placed on the Nauvoo Temple. In 1846 Thomas Kane, friend of the Saints said the following, “They had completed even the gilding of the angel and trumpet on the summit of its lofty spire.” This horizontal-flying angel apparently represented the angel in John’s vision in the New Testament book of Revelation: “And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth” (Rev. 14:6).

J. Michael Hunter, “I Saw Another Angel Fly.” Ensign, Jan. 2000, 30.