Is the gathering of Israel an event different from the restoration of the ten tribes?

Thomas R. Valletta

“‘We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes.’ … This inspired language leaves the clear impression that the gathering of Israel is one thing and the restoration of the Ten Tribes another …

“We are gathering Israel now in all nations and counseling them to stay where they are, … there to build up stakes of Zion in their own lands and among their own people. But with the Ten Tribes, … it will be another thing. They are destined to return … to the same soil where the feet of their forebears walked during the days of their mortal pilgrimage. They are to return to Palestine” (McConkie, Millennial Messiah, 319–21).

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