“This is a millennial setting. It is a setting in which wickedness and crime and vengeance are no longer on earth. It is an era when goodness and decency and integrity are the order of the day. In this setting, in this day, the work of the Father—the work of the gathering of Israel—shall commence. Commence? Has not the work of gathering … been in full operation since the days of Joseph Smith? Yes, the work of the Father shall commence in the great millennial day, in the sense that its magnitude shall be infinitely greater than anything we can even identify with today” (McConkie et al., Doctrinal Commentary, 4:152).