“Judah will gather to old Jerusalem in due course. … But this gathering will consist of accepting Christ, joining the Church. … The present assembling of people of Jewish ancestry into the Palestinian nation of Israel is not the scriptural gathering of Israel or of Judah. It may be prelude thereto, and some of the people so assembled may in due course be gathered into the true church and kingdom of God on earth. … But a political gathering is not a spiritual gathering, and the Lord’s kingdom is not of this world” (McConkie, New Witness, 519; see also commentary in this volume on 1 Nephi 10:12–14).