Tag: Mormon

Moroni pleads for the unbelievers to see the truth when they receive his words.

Moroni began working after perhaps 15 years of running for safety. He had seen the last pockets of his people hunted down. He says he has no space on the plates or or to write more which makes me wonder if he found out made more before he abridged the record of Ether. For all…

I wonder if Mormon wrote his final testimony with his own hand after his people had been slaughtered or if Moroni was his scribe. Regardless of the answer, it is a testament to his character that after he had no people left to save his desire was to reach to their descendents and help them…

As the gathered Nephites watched the approaching Lamanites, I wonder how many of them were attempting to plan a method of escape, knowing that there was no way to win the coming battle. We know that some did escape but I wonder how many attempted it or even simply tried to envision it.

Mormon didn’t desire to record what he saw but he did because he knew those things would be recorded one way or another. Whatever his wishes he wouldn’t about the tall which was his.

When the Nephites were angry about their women and children being sacrificed to idols they were able to secure one more victory over the Lamanites. I wonder if they turned to rain and torture after that which might explain why they never again gained ground from the Lamanites.

I wonder if part of the reason that the Lord commanded Mormon to preach repentance to his people was for Mormon to know that their continued wickedness wasn’t a result of him not being able to preach as he had been prevented earlier from preaching.

What kind of tray would they have made with the Gadianton Robbers? Did they give up a portion of their goods or was it only their land?

I expect that Mormon began working his record, getting down all that had happened in the prior 14 years, before he began reading and eventually abridging the records in the plates of Nephi.