“[All] who hold the Melchizedek Priesthood were foreordained in our premortal existence to do so. … This foreordination was based on premortal faith and faithfulness. Foreordained leaders exercised ‘exceedingly great faith’ in Jesus Christ and his atonement and thereby received a holy calling to continue to teach Christ’s redemption here in mortality” (Ogden and Skinner, Book of Mormon, 1:415).