“The Gospel of Jesus Christ is to go forth to the world according to a divinely established timetable. … In the last days … the gospel was restored … [in] a ‘gentile’ nation; from the Latter-day Saints it shall eventually go preferentially to the Jews and to all the tribes of Israel. Thus, those who were once first in receiving the gospel in the meridian of time … shall … be last to receive the message of salvation. … Those who were last to receive the missionary thrust in the first century—the Gentiles—are honored to be the first recipients … in the dispensation of the fulness of times” (McConkie and Millet, Doctrinal Commentary, 1:104–5).