<P> The LDS church also teaches that "The power and authority to direct the work of gathering the house of Israel was given to Joseph Smith by the prophet Moses, who appeared in 1836 in the Kirtland Temple...The Israelites are to be gathered spiritually first and then physically . They are gathered spiritually as they join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints and make and keep sacred covenants...The physical gathering of Israel means that the covenant people will be "gathered home to the lands of their inheritance, and shall be established in all their lands of promise" (2 Nephi 9: 2). The tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh will be gathered in the Americas . The tribe of Judah will return to the city of Jerusalem and the area surrounding it . The ten lost tribes will receive from the tribe of Ephraim their promised blessings (see D&C 133: 26--34)... The physical gathering of Israel will not be complete until the Second Coming of the Savior and on into the Millennium (see Joseph Smith--Matthew 1: 37)." </P> <P> One of their main Articles of Faith, written by Joseph Smith, is as follows: "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 ." (LDS Articles of Faith #10) </P> <P> Regarding the Ezekiel 37 prophecy, the LDS church teaches that the Book of Mormon is the stick of Ephraim (or Joseph) mentioned and that the Bible is the stick of Judah, thus comprising two witnesses for Jesus Christ . The LDS church believes the Book of Mormon to be a collection of records by prophets of the ancient Americas, written on plates of gold and translated by Joseph Smith c. 1830 . The LDS church considers the Book of Mormon one of the main tools for the spiritual gathering of Israel . </P> <P> Expanded exploration and study of groups throughout the world through archeology and the new field of anthropology in the late 19th century led to a revival or reworking of accounts of the Lost Tribes . For instance, because archeological finds of the Mississippian culture's complex earthwork mounds seemed beyond the skills of the Native American cultures known to European Americans at the time of their discovery, it was theorized that the ancient civilizations involved in the mounds' construction were linked to the Lost Tribes . They tried to fit new information into a biblical construct . However, the earthworks across North America have been conclusively linked to various Native groups, and most archaeologists now consider the theory of non-Native origin to be pseudo-science . </P>

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