The phrase is derived from a passage in Ephesians 1:10 (KJV), which reads: "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."
The term “fulness of times” was designated as a specific period in the latter days by a variety of theologians, pastors and writers in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
[3] And Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, placed its beginning in 1830, with the Restoration of the gospel of antiquity.
[4] John Nelson Darby held a formidable body of doctrine on the subject of the biblical significance of the dispensation of the fulness of times.
Likewise, in the Latter Day Saint movement, the dispensation of the fulness of times is often interpreted as the era after which the Church of Christ is said to have been restored to the earth by the religion's founder Joseph Smith on April 6, 1830.