The appearing of Moses in Kirtland Temple and his restoring the keys
for the gathering of Israel, marks the inauguration of a mighty work
within the work of God, in this dispensation, and gives a reality to
many of the predictions of the ancient prophets. To fully comprehend
this great work it will be necessary to call the attention of the
student to the Israelites, and a brief outline of their history.
1. Who Are Israel.--The children of Israel are the descendants
of Abraham through the loins of Isaac and Jacob, taking their name,
however, from the last-named patriarch, whose name was changed by an
angel of the Lord from Jacob to Israel, which means a prince of God.
Unto Jacob by four wives were born twelve sons--the heads of the Twelve
Tribes of Israel. Joseph, Jacob's son by his wife Rachel, being his
father's favorite son, was hated by his brethren, and without the
father's knowledge was sold to merchants, who carried him into Egypt.
His cruel brethren rent his clothing and stained it in blood, then
taking it to their father represented that his son had been destroyed
by a wild beast. The Lord was with Joseph in Egypt, and gave him
favor in the eyes of the rulers of that land, until he became second
in authority in the kingdom. Having been warned in a dream of an
approaching famine, some years before it took place, he laid up in
store an abundance of corn, so that while famine distressed surrounding
countries there was plenty in Egypt, and thither the sons of Israel
went to purchase food. Joseph revealed his identity to his brethren,
became reconciled to them, and sent for his father and all attached to
his household--about seventy souls in all--to {363} come to him and
take up their abode in Egypt. This the aged patriarch did, and ended
his days there.
2. Israel Enslaved.--Some time after Joseph's death, there arose
a king who knew him not, and observing that the Israelites were likely
to become more numerous than the Egyptians--since they did not murder
their offspring either before or at birth, as many among the Egyptians
did--this monarch enslaved them and placed task masters over them, and
by oppression and the destruction of their male offspring sought to
prevent their increase. Finally the Lord raised up Moses and delivered
them from bondage amid a splendid display of his Almighty power, and
eventually settled them in the land of Canaan--the land he had promised
unto Abraham as an inheritance--where they became a mighty nation. [See
note 1, end of section.]
3. Revolt of the Ten Tribes.--As a nation the Israelites
reached the zenith of their splendor under the reign of David and
his son Solomon. At the death of the latter, 975 B. C., the kingdom
was divided. Ten tribes revolted against the oppression of Solomon's
successor, his son Rehoboam, and formed the kingdom of Israel, choosing
for their king Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, one of Solomon's servants.
The new king--a man of great valor--established his capital at Shechem
[Shek-em], but fifty years afterwards it was removed to Samaria.
4. The Captivity of Israel--The Lost Tribes.--This kingdom of
Israel continued its existence for about two hundred and fifty years.
In that time the people may be said to have departed wholly from the
paths of righteousness, becoming drunken, licentious and idolatrous. So
the Lord gave them up and Shalmaneser, a noted Assyrian king, made war
upon them, utterly overcame them and led them captives into Assyria.
From thence the Lord led many of them away into the northern country,
where, no man knoweth, and hence they are denominated the Lost Tribes.
Our reason for saying they were led {364} away into the north is to
be found in the fact that many predictions of the prophets plainly
declare that they shall come from the land of the north, a great
company, etc.; [154] and it must be manifest that they cannot come from
the land of the north unless they are there. Messiah, when he visited
the Nephites after his resurrection, plainly told them that the other
tribes of the house of Israel--meaning the ten tribes--the Lord had
led away out of the land;[155] and he also announced his intention of
visiting them, and commanded the Nephites to make a record of it that a
knowledge of the existence of these "other tribes" might be made known
unto the Gentiles when the Nephite records should be revealed to them.
These "other tribes," Messiah spoke of, he declared not to be of the
land of America, nor the land of Jerusalem, "neither in any parts of
that land round about whither I have been to minister." [156]
5. The Apocryphal writer Esdras, in relating one of his visions
describes one of the great characters that figured in those visions
as calling unto himself a peaceful people. "Those," said the angel
sent to interpret the vision, "are the tribes which were carried away
captives out of their own land in the time of Oseas (Hosea) the king,
whom Salmanaser, the king of the Assyrians, took captive, and crossed
them beyond the river; so were they brought into another land. But
they took counsel to themselves, that they would leave the multitude
of the heathen, and go forth unto a further country where never man
dwelt, that they there might keep their statutes, which they never
kept in their own land. And they entered in at the narrow passage of
the River Euphrates. For the Most High then showed them signs, and
stayed the springs of the flood till they were passed over. For through
the country there was great journey, even of a year and a half, and
the same region is called Arsareth (or Ararah). Then dwelt they there
until the latter {365} time, and when they come forth again, the Most
High shall hold still the springs of the river again, that they may go
through; therefore sawest thou the multitude peaceable." [157]
6. Whatever doubt may be entertained respecting the writings of
Esdras, it cannot be denied that in respect to the Ten Tribes and what
became of them he is in harmony with the statement made by Jesus to
the Nephites, _viz:_ that the Lord had led them away out of the land.
The Most High, according to Esdras, showing them signs by staying the
springs of the flood of the Euphrates, as he will do when the time
comes for them to return. [158] He is also in harmony with the prophets
who predict the return of Israel in the last days from the land in
which they have been hidden by the Lord.[159] [See note 2, end of
section.]
7. The Samaritans.--The country inhabited by the kingdom of
Israel--the north half of Palestine--was taken possession of by people
sent from Babylon, Persia and other countries by the Assyrian king,
and these strangers, intermarrying with the few Israelites remaining
in the land, after the main body of the people had been led away into
captivity, became the mixed people called Samaritans, so heartily
despised by the Jews.
8. The Kingdom of Judah.--In the civil dissensions which divided
the Israelites at the death of Solomon, the tribe of Benjamin remained
loyal to Judah, and may be said to have almost lost its identity in the
kingdom which with Judah it formed after the revolt of the ten tribes.
It was a stormy career that the kingdom of Judah experienced after
the said revolt. It was subject in turn to the Egyptians, Assyrians,
and Babylonians. In consequence of treachery to the last named power,
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, about 586 B. C., [160] {366} besieged
Jerusalem, reduced the city to the utmost extremity, captured the king,
put out his eyes and led him and most of the Jews captive to Babylon.
The walls of the city were thrown down, the temple rifled of its sacred
vessels and the city left desolate to be inhabited by strangers. The
captivity of the Jews in Babylon lasted about seventy years.[161] The
Babylonians in the meantime had been overcome of the Persians, under
Cyrus the Great, who in the first year of his reign permitted the Jews
to return and rebuild the city and its walls.
9. The Jews, however, never wholly regained their independence;
being located between Syria and Egypt, their country was held in
subjection as a province to one or the other of them according as now
one and now the other was successful in the unhappy wars which broke
out between those nations. Finally Palestine became a province of Rome,
but the people were allowed the freedom to worship God according to the
teachings of Moses and their prophets. This was their condition at the
birth and during the lifetime of Messiah.[162]
10. About forty years after the crucifixion of the Christ, the
Jews foolishly rebelled against the Roman authority, which brought on a
terrible war. During the siege of Jerusalem, which lasted six months,
over one million of the wretched inhabitants, according to Josephus,
perished of the famine. The remainder were either driven into exile
or sold into slavery. The city was razed to the ground, the temple
destroyed, and in their eager search for gold the Romans tore up the
very foundation, and ploughed up the site, so that literally there was
not left one stone to stand upon another that was not thrown down.[163]
Since the destruction of their city and the overthrow of their nation,
the Jews have been scattered among all nations, despised, hated,
oppressed, until all the evil that was prophesied of by Moses[164]
concerning them--when they should turn away {367} from God and his
law--came upon them. [See note 3, end of section.]
11. Miscellaneous Dispersions.--Besides the tribes of Israel that
were thus dispersed, there were families of various tribes whom the
Lord led away at different times into distant lands. Such as the family
of Lehi of the tribe of Manasseh; and that of Ishmael of the tribe of
Ephraim, both of which families, together with one Zoram--of what tribe
he was is not known--the Lord led to the continent of America. The
Lord also led to the same land a colony that departed from Jerusalem
immediately after its destruction by king Nebuchadnezzar, in the sixth
century B. C., among whom was one Mulek, one of the sons of King
Zedekiah, whose people founded the city of Zarahemla, and afterwards
united with the Nephites.
12. The Blood of Israel Sprinkled Among all Nations.--The Jews
since the destruction of their city and nation by the Romans, have been
scattered among all nations, but they have succeeded in a remarkable
manner in preserving their identity as a distinct people. Still it is
not to be doubted that there are instances where Jews have married and
intermarried with the Gentiles among whom they lived, until they lost
their identity, and thus the blood of Israel, unrecognized, is in the
veins of many supposed to be Gentiles.
13. The tribes of Israel sent into Babylon, Assyria and the
surrounding countries in like manner inter-mingled their blood with the
people of those nations. Moreover, there are good reasons to believe
that in that exodus of the ten tribes from Assyria to the north, many
became discouraged and stopped by the way. Others unable to prosecute
the journey also abandoned the expedition, and these that thus halted,
uniting and intermarrying with the original inhabitants of the land,
constituted those prolific races that over-ran the western division of
the Roman Empire.
14. In this manner the blood of Israel has been sprinkled {368}
almost among all the nations of the earth, until the word of the Lord
which says, "I will sift the house of Israel among all nations," [165]
has been literally fulfilled.
15. The Gathering of Israel.--Notwithstanding Israel and Judah
have thus been scattered, their temple destroyed and their chief city
trodden down of the Gentiles, the remnant of this favored people of
God, according to the promises of the Lord, are to be gathered together
again and established upon the lands promised to their forefathers.
The keys necessary for the inauguration of this work were given to the
Prophet Joseph by Moses on the occasion of his appearing to him and to
Oliver Cowdery in the Kirtland Temple, and the work has begun. I think
it proper here to give some of the passages of scripture which promise
the gathering of Israel.
16. From the Bible.--Hear the word of the Lord, O, ye nations,
and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel
will gather him, and keep him as a shepherd doth his flock. For the
Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that
was stronger than he. Therefore they shall come and sing in the height
of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, for
wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of
the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall
not sorrow any more at all.[166]
Therefore, behold the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more
be said, the Lord liveth that brought up the children of Israel out of
the land of Egypt; but the Lord liveth that brought up the children of
Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he
had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I
gave unto their fathers.[167]
And it shall come to pass in that day[168] that the Lord shall set his
hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, {369}
which shall be left from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathos, and
from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from
the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations,
and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the
dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. The envy also
of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut
off. Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. *
* * And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which
shall be left from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he
came up out of the land of Egypt.[169]
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto
you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will
bring you to Zion: and I will give you pastors according to my own
heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. And
it shall come to pass when ye be multiplied and increased in the land
in those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more the ark of the
covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come to mind. * * * At that time
they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations
shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem. * * *
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.[170]
17. From the Book of Mormon.--But behold thus saith the Lord God:
when the day cometh that they [the Jews--see context] shall believe in
me, that I am Christ, then have I covenanted with their fathers that
they shall be restored in the flesh, upon the earth, unto the lands
of their inheritance. And it shall come to pass that they shall be
gathered in from their long dispersion, from the isles of the sea, and
from the four parts of the earth; and the nations of the Gentiles shall
be great in the eyes of me, saith God, in carrying them forth to the
lands of their inheritance.[171]
18. From the Doctrine and Covenants.--And the Lord, even the
Savior, shall stand in the midst of his people, and shall reign {370}
over all flesh. And they who are in the north countries shall come in
remembrance before the Lord, and their prophets shall hear his voice,
and shall no longer stay themselves, and they shall smite the rocks,
and the ice shall flow down at their presence. And an highway shall be
cast up in the midst of the great deep. Their enemies shall become a
prey unto them, and in the barren deserts there shall come forth pools
or living water; and the parched ground shall no longer be a thirsty
land. And they shall bring forth their rich treasures unto the children
of Ephraim, my servants. And the boundaries of the everlasting hills
shall tremble at their presence. And there shall they fall down and be
crowned with glory, even in Zion, by the hands of the servants of the
Lord, even the children of Ephraim; and they shall be filled with songs
of everlasting joy. Behold, this is the blessing of the Everlasting
God upon the tribes of Israel, and the richer blessing upon the head
of Ephraim and his fellows. And they also of the tribe of Judah, after
their pain, shall be sanctified in holiness before the Lord to dwell in
his presence day and night, for ever and for ever.[172] [See note 4,
end of section.]
19. The Preparatory Work to the Return of the Ten Tribes.--This
is enough in a general way upon the return of the Ten Tribes from the
north and the return of the Jews to Jerusalem. Yet there is another
part of this work of gathering Israel that calls for our attention.
We have described the manner in which the blood of Israel has been
sprinkled among the Gentile nations. The people in whose veins that
blood runs must be gathered as well as the Jews and the Ten Tribes;
for the promise of gathering extends to all the children of Israel,
in all the countries whither they have been scattered. Moreover, it
would seem that the Ten Tribes are to come to Zion and sing in the
heights thereof, and there be crowned with glory by the hands of the
servants of the Lord, the children of Ephraim.[173] The gathering of
Israel scattered among the Gentile nations will have made considerable
progress, and Zion will be built up before the Ten Tribes will be
brought from the north. This {371} work of gathering Israel from among
the Gentile nations is the work that the Church of Christ is now
engaged in. The Lord has revealed the location of Zion;[174] it has
been dedicated for the gathering together of his people Israel. Even
the temple site is known and dedicated, and the sure word of God given
that the temple shall be built in this generation.[175] The enemies
of the church drove the Saints away form the consecrated land, it is
true;[176] but their absence will only be temporary; the time will come
when they will return and fulfill all that the Lord hath decreed in
relation to Zion and its redemption.
20. Meantime they are building up stakes of Zion in the Rocky
Mountain valleys, and in this way are fulfilling predictions of the
ancient prophets. Isaiah hath it written, that "In the last days the
house of the Lord shall be established in the tops of the mountains; *
* * and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and
say, Come ye and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house
of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk
in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of
the Lord from Jerusalem." [177]
21. It is remarkable how minutely the Latter-day Saints are
fulfilling the terms of this prophecy:
I. They are building the temples of God in the tops of the mountains,
so that the house of the Lord is truly where Isaiah saw it would be.
II. The Saints engaged in this work are people gathered from nearly
all the nations under heaven, so that all nations are flowing unto the
house of the Lord in the top of the mountains. [See note 5, end of
section.]
III. The people who receive the gospel in foreign lands joyfully say to
their relatives and friends, "Come ye, and let us go {372} up to the
house of the Lord, and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in
his paths."
22. The manner in which the Saints are gathered, one here and one
there, one from this city and one from another, fulfills the prophecy
of Jeremiah, who, in speaking of this great gathering of Israel,
represents the Lord as saying: "I will take you one of a city, and two
of a family, and I will bring you to Zion; and I will give you pastors
according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and
understanding." [178]
23. The student should be informed how it is we know the
Saints are of the house of Israel. First, they fulfill the terms of
the prophecies written about the gathering of Israel by the ancient
prophets, as seen above; second, the patriarchs of the church, ordained
and set apart to that calling by the apostles, in giving blessings to
the Saints declare them to be of the house of Israel, and mainly of the
tribe of Ephraim. [See note 6, end of section.]
24. Object of Gathering.--Another object of this gathering of
the people of God from among the Gentile nations--which with their
wickedness, spiritual blindness, and confusion constitute Babylon--is
that they may not partake of the sins of Babylon, and that they might
escape the judgments and plagues decreed by God against the wickedness
thereof. The Apostle John prophesies of this. In those visions given to
him on the Isle of Patmos, showing him things that would take place in
the future, he heard a voice from heaven saying: "Come out of her [that
is out of Babylon], my people; that ye be not partakers of her sins,
and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto
heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. * * * Therefore shall
her plagues come in one day, death and mourning, and famine; for strong
is the Lord God who judgeth her." [179] The Saints are gathering out of
Babylon that they may escape these threatened judgments.
{373} NOTES.
1. Settlement of Israel in Canaan.--Of the twelve tribes of
Israel, nine and a half were located to the west and two and a half to
the east of the Jordan. In this region they had been led by Joshua,
Moses being only permitted to catch a distant glimpse of the promised
land. After the death of Joshua, followed the period of Judges, which
lasted about five centuries. The last of the judges was Samuel, who,
when the people demanded a king, anointed Saul, 1095, B.C.--Anderson's
Gen. Hist.
2. The Departure of the Ten Tribes for the North--They [the ten
tribes] determined to go to a country "where never man dwelt," that
they might be free from all contaminating influences. That country
could only be found in the north. Asia was already the seat of a
comparatively ancient civilizations; Egypt flourished in northern
Africa; and southern Europe was rapidly filling with the future
rulers of the world. They had, therefore, no choice but to turn their
faces northward. The first portion of their journey was not, however,
north; according to the account of Esdras, they appear to have at
first moved in the direction of their old home, and it is possible
that they originally started with the intention of returning thereto,
or probably in order to deceive the Assyrians, they started as if to
return to Canaan, and when they crossed the Euphrates, and were out of
danger from the hosts of the Medes and Persians, then they turned their
journeying feet toward the polar star. Esdras states that they entered
in at the narrow passage of the river Euphrates, the Lord staying the
springs of the flood until they were passed over. The point on the
river Euphrates at which they crossed would necessarily be in its
upper portion, as lower down would be too far south for their purpose.
The upper course of the Euphrates lies among lofty mountains near the
village of Pastas; it plunges through a gorge formed by precipices
more than a thousand feet in height and so narrow that it is bridged
at the top; it shortly afterwards enters the plain of Mesopotamia. How
accurately this portion of the river answers to the description of
Esdras of the "Narrows," where the Israelites crossed!--Reynolds' Are
we of Israel? pp. 26-27.
3. Final Overthrow of Judah.--According to Josephus (De Bell.
Jud. vi: 9, 3) 1,100,000 men fell in the siege of Jerusalem by Titus,
and 79,000 were captured in the whole war. Of the latter number, the
greater part was distributed among the provinces, to be butchered in
the amphitheaters or cast to wild beasts; others were doomed to work
as public slaves in Egypt; only those under the ages of seventeen were
sold into private bondage. An equally dreadful destruction fell upon
the remains of the nation, which had once more assembled in Judea,
{374} under the reign of Hadrian (A. D. 133), which Dion Cassius
concisely relates. By these two savage wars the Jewish population must
have been effectually extirpated from the Holy Land itself, a result
which did not follow from the Babylonian captivity. Afterwards a dreary
period of fifteen hundred years' oppression crushed in Europe all who
bore the name of Israel, and Christian nations have visited on their
head a crime [the crucifixion of Messiah] perpetrated by a few thousand
inhabitants of Jerusalem, who were not the real forefathers of the
European Jews. Nor in the east has their lot been much more cheering.
With a few partial exceptions, they have ever since been a despised,
an oppressed and naturally a degraded people; though from them have
spread light and truth to the distant nations of the earth.--Biblical
Literature (Kitto) vol. I, p. 39.
4. Return of the Ten Tribes from the North.--Away in yonder
north countries, where, I do not know, but away in those regions are
ten tribes of the house of Israel. How do you know they are in the
north country? Because the Bible has told us that in the latter days
they should come out of the north country, and if they were not in the
north country they could not come from there. Jeremiah says in his
thirty-first chapter--"Behold I will bring them from the north, the
blind and the lame with them, and the woman with child; they shall
come, a great company out of the north countries." Where will they go
to? Will they go immediately to Palestine, where they formerly had
their inheritance. No. Jeremiah tells us where they will go, he tells
there is to be a place called Zion before these tribes come out of the
north countries, and when they come with a great company, the blind and
the lame with them, and the Lord God leads them with supplication and
with tears and with prayers, bringing them forth from those dreary,
desolate, cold arctic regions; when that day shall come, there shall
be a Zion prepared to receive these ten tribes, before they finally
go back to Palestine. Is there anything in the scriptures about this?
Yes. In the same chapter of Jeremiah we read that, "they shall come
and sing in the height of Zion." Zion, then, will have to be built up
before they come; Zion will have to be reared somewhere and prepared
to receive them; and it will be a holy place, and it will be a holy
people who will build up Zion, so much so that the Lord will bring
these ten tribes into the height of Zion, into the midst of it.--Orson
Pratt--Journal of Discourses, vol. 18, p. 22, 23.
5. All Nations Flowing Unto the House of the Lord.--One of
the features in the celebration of Pioneer Day--24th of July, the
anniversary of the day the company of Pioneers entered Salt Lake
Valley, 1847--in Salt Lake City, 1880, was to have represented the
various nationalities composing the population of Utah. A man and a
woman {375} of each nation from which people had been gathered by the
proclamation of the gospel were selected as the representatives, each
pair bearing the national colors of their country. They occupied a
platform in the Tabernacle during the services, and after a historical
sketch of the introduction of the gospel in the various nations was
read by Orson Pratt, the representatives of the nations arose and
President John Taylor said: "I wish to state to the congregation that
the Lord commanded his servants to go forth to all the world to preach
the gospel to every creature. We have not yet been to all the world,
but here are twenty-five nations represented today, and we have thus
far fulfilled our mission."
6. The Latter-day Saints of Israel.--The set time was come for
God to gather Israel, and for his work to commence upon the face of
the whole earth, and the elders who have arisen in this church and
kingdom are actually of Israel. Take the elders who are in the house
[the old Tabernacle in Salt Lake City], and you can scarcely find one
out of a hundred but what is of the house of Israel. * * * Will we go
to the Gentile nations to preach the gospel? Yes, and gather out the
Israelites wherever they are mixed among the nations of the earth. * *
* Ephraim has become mixed with all the nations of the earth, and it
is Ephraim that is gathering together. It is Ephraim that I have been
searching for all the days of my preaching, and that is the blood which
ran in my veins when I embraced the gospel. If there are any of the
other tribes of Israel mixed with the Gentiles we are also searching
after them.--Brigham Young. From a Discourse preached April 8th, 1855.
REVIEW.
1. What great work did the visit of Moses to the Kirtland Temple
inaugurate?
2. Who are Israel?
3. Give a sketch of the history of Israel to the revolt of the ten
tribes.
4. How came the ten tribes to revolt?
5. Give an account of the fall of the kingdom of Israel.
6. Why are the ten tribes called the "lost tribes?"
7. What evidence have you that they are in the north?
8. Give the evidence to be found in the words of Jesus to the Nephites.
{376} 9. What statement does the Apocryphal writer Esdras make
respecting the ten tribes? (Note 2.)
10. Who were the Samaritans?
11. What tribes formed the kingdom of Judah?
12. Give an outline of the history of Judah to the birth of Messiah.
13. What befell Judah about thirty years after the crucifixion of
Messiah? (Note 3.)
14. What can you say of miscellaneous dispersions?
15. How came the blood of Israel sprinkled among all nations?
16. What promises are made to scattered Israel?
17. Quote the several passages from the Bible which predict the
gathering of Israel.
18. Quote the passages from the Book of Mormon.
19. What progress has been made in the preparatory work of the ten
tribes? (Note 4.)
20. What progress has been made in the preparatory work?
21. What prophecies are the Saints minutely fulfilling in gathering
together in the mountains? (Note 5.)
22. How do we know that the Latter-day Saints are of Israel? (Note 6.)
23. For what object are the Saints gathering from Babylon?
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