“The Last Time That I Shall Prune My Vineyard”

Joseph F. McConkie, Robert L. Millet

The Lord gave instructions to Joseph Smith to call others to assist him in gathering Israel in the final dispensation. “Thou art called to prune my vineyard with a mighty pruning,” the Savior said in July 1830, “yea, even for the last time; yea, and also all those whom thou hast ordained” (D&C 24:19; italics added). “Ye are called to lift up your voices as with the sound of a trump,” the Lord explained in a later revelation, “to declare my gospel unto a crooked and perverse generation. For behold, the field is white already to harvest; and it is the eleventh hour, and the last time that I shall call laborers into my vineyard. And my vineyard has become corrupted every whit; and there is none which doeth good save it be a few.” (D&C 33:2-4; italics added. Cf. D&C 39:17.)

Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 2

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