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.)