To be Accomplished by Direct
Intervention from God:
Jerusalem
is not to be redeemed by our going there and preaching to the inhabitants. It
will be redeemed by the high hand of the Almighty. it will be given into the possession
of the ancient Israelites by the power of God, and by the pouring out of His
judgments. The ground where you can sow the good seed, and where it will yield
crops that you can gather, is outside of that where the ancient Apostles and
Prophets labored. They had the light and power of God with them; and made
manifest the hand of the Almighty in delivering the people and working
miracles, and saving those that were redeemed; and the people who are the most
ready to receive the Gospel are those who have lived without it from the days
of Noah to this time. (Brigham Young, December 3, 1854 | JOD 2:141)
Jews will be the Last to Receive
the Gospel:
Jerusalem
is not to be redeemed by the soft still voice of the preacher Of the Gospel of
peace. Why? Because they were once, the blessed of the Lord, the chosen of the
Lord, the promised seed. They were the people from among whom should spring the
Messiah; and salvation could be found only through that tribe. The Messiah came
through them, and they killed him; and they will be the last of all the seed of
Abraham to have the privilege of receiving the New and Everlasting Covenant.
You may hand out to them gold, you may feed and clothe them, but it is
impossible to convert the Jews, until the Lord God Almighty does it. (Ibid.,
2:142)
