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What Mormons Believe
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Nature of
God
The Fall of Adam
Salvation
First Principles and Ordinances
Being called of God
Joseph Smith
Sacrament
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Gifts of the Spirit
Continuing Revelation
Literal Gathering of Israel
Worship
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Genealogy
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Word of Wisdom (health)
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References
* JST= Joseph Smith Translation
** From the Book of Mormon
++ LDS Scripture given through Joseph Smith and other prophets
## (In the Pearl of Great Price)
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The Literal Gathering of Israel
We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the
American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory. (Article of Faith
#10)
Source: GUIDE TO THE SCRIPTURES--ISRAEL The ten lost tribes of Israel
The ten tribes of Israel made up the northern kingdom of Israel and were carried away captive into Assyria in 721 B.C. At that time they went to the “north
countries” and became lost to the knowledge of others. In the last days they will return.
Judah and Israel shall come together out of the land of the north.
(Jeremiah 3: 18) In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of
the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
The Nephites (Book of Mormon) and the Jews shall have the words of the lost tribes of Israel.
* (2 Nephi 29: 12-13)
12 For behold, I shall speak unto the Jews and they shall write it; and I shall also speak unto the Nephites and they shall write it; and I shall also speak unto
the other tribes of the house of Israel, which I have led away, and they shall write it; and I shall also speak unto all nations of the earth and they shall
write it.
13 And it shall come to pass that the Jews shall have the words of the Nephites, and the Nephites shall have the words of the Jews; and the Nephites and the Jews
shall have the words of the lost tribes of Israel; and the lost tribes of Israel shall have the words of the Nephites and the Jews.
When the gospel is preached to the remnant of the house of Israel, the lost tribes will be gathered home to the land of their inheritance.
** (3 Nephi 21: 26-29)
26 And then shall the work of the Father commence at that day, even when this gospel shall be preached among the remnant of this people. Verily I say unto you,
at that day shall the work of the Father commence among all the dispersed of my people, yea, even the tribes which have been lost, which the Father hath led away
out of Jerusalem.
27 Yea, the work shall commence among all the dispersed of my people, with the Father to prepare the way whereby they may come unto me, that they may call on the
Father in my name.
28 Yea, and then shall the work commence, with the Father among all nations in preparing the way whereby his people may be gathered home to the land of their
inheritance.
29 And they shall go out from all nations; and they shall not go out in haste, nor go by flight, for I will go before them, saith the Father, and I will be their
rearward.
Moses committed the keys of the gathering of Israel to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery.
++ (Doctrine and Covenants 110: 11) After this vision closed, the heavens were again opened unto us; and Moses appeared before us, and
committed unto us the keys of the gathering of Israel from the four parts of the earth, and the leading of the ten tribes from the land of the north.
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