Must the Jews first accept Jesus Christ before they are gathered “unto the lands of their inheritance”?

Thomas R. Valletta

In this verse the Lord himself gave an order to the gathering with the words “when … they shall believe in me” followed by “then … they shall be restored … unto the lands of their inheritance.” The resurrected Savior taught the same order to those in the promised land (see 3 Nephi 20:30–33). Elder Bruce R. McConkie said: “The present assembling of people of Jewish ancestry into the Palestinian nation of Israel is not the scriptural gathering of Israel or of Judah. … A political gathering is not a spiritual gathering. … No one is ever gathered with Israel until they accept the Crucified One” (New Witness, 519, 564).

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