The Lord has a divine timetable wherein the gospel is presented to the people on earth. In the meridian of time the gospel went first to the Jews and then to the Gentiles. In our day the message of the Restoration is taken first to the Gentiles (Israelites scattered among and identified with the Gentiles) and then to the house of Israel, meaning specifically the Lamanites and the Jews. Thus the first (the Jews) shall, in the last days, be last; and the last (the Gentiles), shall, in the final dispensation, be first.