Elder Bruce R. McConkie further taught:
“Elijah brought back the scaling power so that marriages and other ordinances that are bound on earth shall be eternally sealed in the heavens. Those married by this authority are husband and wife in this life, and they so remain in the life to come, if they are true and faithful in all things… . One of the grandest concepts in the whole plan of salvation is that these same blessings, given to worthy mortals whenever the fulness of the gospel is on earth, are also available to all those who have died without a knowledge of the gospel but who would have received it with all their hearts had it been offered to them while they dwelt in the flesh. This is what is involved in the promise that the Lord would reveal unto its ’the Priesthood, by the hand of Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.’ By restoring the scaling keys, Elijah revealed the greatest use to which the priesthood may be put by mortals on earth.” (New Witness, p. 508.)