"That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:" ~ Ephesians 1:10

The object of the Plan of God in bring to culmination all things in the end of times is so stated here. It defines what the cause and purpose of the Millennial reign will be. It also identifies this last dispensation, ushered in by the head Prophet Joseph Smith by the restoration of the fulness of the Gospel, as the one where all the nations of the earth whoever have lived are to be blessed by that covenant and those blessings of the Fathers, even the very Covenant of Abraham, which was also made with Noah, Enoch and Adam; and which was kept in force by Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph (D&C 27:10). Often in the Jewish kept Bible the line of descent is ended with Jacob and usurped to have then gone thence unto Judah and Jesus Christ, thus Ephraim loses his place from the Jewish perspective. Yet that is not the case as the latter day scriptures of the restoration reveal and as the true and legal descent of the Messiah will come to be known. For as it so states here in Ephesians, the whole point of that last dispensation of which Joseph Smith, a pure Ephraimite is head, is to gather in one all things in Christ, Christ also being of the House of Joseph and of Ephraim.

There is a certain beauty in the plan, that according to Ezekiel 37, those of the Stick of Judah and those of the Stick of Joseph/Ephraim will come together and be one in the Lord. That is through the mortal birth of Jesus to Mary, Jesus is the offspring of Judah in the flesh, being of the blood of Judah through Boaz the surrogate parent of Obed unto to the adoption of God's Law to the dead Mahlon. And it is the shedding of this natural blood of the flesh of Judah so also crucified by Judah, whereby the atonement was made. And as also the adoptive seed of Mahlon as well as the adoptive seed of Joseph the Carpenter, through that surrogate parent Joseph the Carpenter, Jesus Christ was both the rightful heir to the Crown of David, the King of Israel and the legal hier of the Covenant which had remained in force through the Fathers and was so preserved through them, including Joseph (D&C 27:10) and thence through Ephraim who is given the true name of Israel under the hand of his grandfather Jacob, even Israel. Thus in Jesus is both Judah and Ephraim joined into One. And of course Jesus is made One with the Father as yet the true parent of Jesus Christ is God the Eternal Father of Spirits both in the spirit and in the flesh, and we by our adoption unto Jesus Christ in the Gospel and in the Church, become also they who have prevailed in the Lord, Israel, and heirs of His Father as being Sons and Daughters of Christ, and so Our Father of our spirits, God the Father of Spirits. Thus at the beginning of the Millennium there will be a great conference wherein Joseph Smith, representing Ephraim and Judah in one, passes the keys of the Kingdom into the hands of Jesus Christ, who also stands as the Head of all Israel by right. And at the end of the Millennium there will be another great and grand meeting wherein Jesus Christ our Master and King will in turn present all of his creation unto the hands of God the Father of Spirits to be accepted of Him. All the pieces so fitted together works to the end of bringing to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.