“These comments of the Savior certainly affirm that neither he nor his Father has forgotten the covenants made to our ancient progenitors. The promises God made to the posterity of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are real! The Abrahamic covenant is not an allegory; it is not a Bible story that is to be spiritualized away. The gathering of Israel will be literal, and it is literal Israel that is to be gathered. The promises given to the seed of Abraham are as real as the dirt and dust upon which he set his feet of flesh and blood” (McConkie, “Final Gathering to Christ,” 193–94).