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The subject has been, discussed earlier in this study that in the dispersion of Israel
there was an independent body known as the Ten Tribes of Israel taken into I the north
country, well as many elements of Israel scattered among the several nations of the earth.
In the Kirtland Temple, on April 3, 1836, Moses therefore restored to Joseph Smith and
Oliver Cowdery the keys and powers to do two things; to bring about "the gathering of
Israel from the four parts of the earth and the leading of the ten tribes from the land of the
north.”The Ten Tribes of Israel The Prophet therefore wrote in behalf of the Church: "We believe in the literal
gathering of Israel and, in the restoration of the Ten Tribes.” In their return from the north,
the Ten Tribes will come to Zion, the New Jerusalem, for a period of time, but their final
place of inheritance will be more directly related to Jerusalem. Referring to the prophecies
of Ether, the great Jaredite seer, Moroni wrote of those who will be identified with
Jerusalem after the millennial kingdom has been established upon the earth: "They are
they who were scattered and gathered in from the four quarters of the earth, and from the
north countries, and are partakers of the fulfilling of the covenant which God made with
their father, Abraham."