GENTILES ASSISTING THE LAMANITES IN BUILDING THE NEW JERUSALEM

I think there is much misunderstanding and arrogance in our (Ephraim's) role in the building of the NJ. Our role will be in assisting them - sorry folks.... We are largely the 'mongrels' here - not the other way around.

Same applies to Judah rebuilding their temple. People in the Church have a funny view of things and do not know their scripture nor the contemporary views of things as they will be. It will be a hard day for many who have lived in arrogance and blindness for so long.

Orson Pratt, These Lamanites, or American Indians, that are now so far sunk
beneath humanity, are to be lifted up by the power of the
Almighty when the day shall come for Israel to be restored, for
God will not forget them. They are descendants of the tribe of
Joseph, and consequently they are numbered with the people of
the covenant. God will remember the covenant which he made
with our ancient fathers. These Lamanites, these American
Indians, will come to the knowledge of the covenant, and they
will arise and will build upon the face of this land a magnificent
city called Jerusalem, after the pattern and in the same manner
that the Jews will build old Jerusalem. That is what the
Lamanites will do, and we will go and help them too, for it is
predicted in the Book of Mormon that when this work should
come forth, when the time fully arrives for the redemption of this
small remnant of the house of Joseph, "As many of the Gentiles
as will believe, they shall assist my people, who are a remnant of
the house of Israel, that they may build up on the face of this
land a city that shall be called the New Jerusalem, and then,
behold, the powers of heaven shall come down and be in the
midst of this people, and I also will be in your midst." ***


Wilford Woodruff, The Lamanites will blossom as the rose on the mountains. I am
willing to say here that, though I believe this, when I see the
power of the nation destroying them from the face of the earth,
the fulfillment of that prophecy is perhaps harder for me to
believe than any revelation of God that I ever read. It looks as
though there would not be enough left to receive the Gospel; but
notwithstanding this dark picture, every word that God has ever
said of them will have its fulfillment, and they, by and by, will
receive the Gospel. It will be a day of God's power among them,
and a nation will be born in a day. Their chiefs will be filled with
the power of God and receive the Gospel, and they will go forth
and build the new Jerusalem, and we shall help them. They are
branches of the house of Israel, and when the fullness of the
Gentiles has come in and the work ceases among them, then it
will go in power to the seed of Abraham. ***