Question: According to Isaiah, what is the end-time role of the queens of the Gentiles in relation to their husbands? Are these numbered among the 144,000 servants of God also?
Answer: Two spiritual categories of kings and queens operate on Isaiah’s spiritual ladder. One is Isaiah’s equivalent of the 144,000 servants of God in the Book of Revelation. Ultimately, as translated persons, they serve a worldwide mission of spiritually and physically gathering the house of Israel—Jews, Lamanites, and Ten Tribes—on the eve of the world’s destruction. The other is a category of local kings and queens, whom the Lord acknowledges as his “sons and daughters.” These minister to their own families or kindreds but feed into the translated category.
Representing two celestial levels on Isaiah’s spiritual ladder, each category operates under the terms of the Davidic Covenant by emulating Jesus Christ on its own level. As temporal saviors of those to whom they minister, together they form part of a hierarchy of “fathers” and “sons”—covenant terms that denote saviors and those saved. That hierarchy reaches from the Father, the Most High God, down to Isaiah’s Zion/Jerusalem category, who are God’s covenant people on a terrestrial spiritual level. We can now address the female aspects of these covenant categories.
Just as the intercessory role of a savior under the terms of the Davidic Covenant operates in order to ensure God’s protection from a mortal threat of those to whom he ministers, so its female component operates on a parallel and complementary level. In a basic family unit, for example, if the husband or father intercedes with God on behalf of his wife and children for their safety and protection, that frees up the wife or mother to minister to her children, knowing that such safety and divine protection are in place. This defines the essential roles of patriarchy and matriarchy.
On the level of translated beings, whose mission is worldwide, the additional element of a covenantal brotherhood operates as expressed in Doctrine & Covenants 88:133 and alluded to in Isaiah 19:21. Their collective covenant with the Father empowers the sisters who come under that covenant’s protection to minister to those of the house of Israel whom they gather out of destruction, particularly their women and children. These savior roles define the Gentiles’ spiritual kings and queens Isaiah speaks of in Isaiah 49:22–23; 60:3–4, 11, 16; 62:6–7; 65:8–9; etc.
