“‘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).