“I Would Gather Them Together in Mine Own Due Time”

Joseph F. McConkie, Robert L. Millet

These verses pertain to the ultimate gathering of the Jews, who are also the Lord’s covenant people, a gathering which shall not take place on a grand scale until the Savior’s second coming (see Zechariah 12:9-10; Zechariah 13:6; Zechariah 14:1-4; D&C 45:48-53).

“When the Savior visits Jerusalem,” President Brigham Young observed, “and the Jews look upon him, and see the wounds in his hands and in his side and in his feet, they will then know that they have persecuted and put to death the true Messiah, and then they will acknowledge him, but not till then. They have confounded his first and second coming, expecting his first coming to be as a mighty prince instead of as a servant. They will go back by and by to Jerusalem and own their Lord and Master.’ (JD 11:279.)”

Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 4

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