“The Roots Are Good”
Thus as Abraham’s seed, armed with the power of the restored priesthood, went forth to gather their kin, they found that the field was white, already to harvest (D&C 4:4). In the day when the Lord chose to restore his Church and kingdom, the blood of Israel was to be found throughout the earth. Because they of Israel are scattered among gentile nations, they are “identified with the Gentiles” (D&C 109:60).
Most of Israel from the time of their ancient scatterings have been oblivious of their royal ancestry, and thus legal administrators with seeric vision-also of the chosen seed themselves (D&C 52:2; D&C 86:8-10)- were sent to begin the work of the Father, the work of gathering; it was a work of restoring them to the knowledge of the covenant that God made with their fathers.