Tag: Mormon

Mormon wanted to save the readers from the sorrow if knowing how depraved his people were even though he knew that their wickedness could not be hidden. Moroni helps us get a glimpse of what Mormon want writing. Truly it does cause the righteous to mourn for their wickedness.

How could Mormon and Moroni stand to witness the depravity of their people and of their revenues against their people? Witnessing such things would lead to despair.

The Nephites refused to hear or learn when granted a period of peace and an opportunity to repent. How many people will stand before the judgement seat and realize that this is true if them also?

When Mormon first took command of the armies he suffered multiple defeats and could hardly get his men to stand and fight. I wonder if he feared that their cause was already lost.

Mormon and Moroni spoke from experience when talking about how dangerous a sign it was to have all gifts of the Spirit withdrawn from a people. That only happens completely as Moroni said when there are no righteous people (out perhaps we should say not more than a very few).

How incredible would Moroni’s words have sounded to the wicked people of his day? They surely seem outlandish to unbelievers today as well.

How did it feel to Moroni to be working his first word in the sacred records expecting that they would also be his last? Nobody else gave their final testimony as their first words in the record.

I can imagine how relieved Mormon felt to be able to write a final message to the descendants of his people after they had been functionally destroyed. He likely felt even more relief that Moroni would no longer have to suffer from living among the iniquities if the Nephites now that he too had survived…

Mormon was among 24 people out of 230,000 who survived but of the 23 leaders of ten thousand each only he and Moroni survived that day.

Mormon didn’t dare share to much with the modern readers; he wanted to spare them some specifics even though he knew that these things must be made known. Little did he guess that his own words, shared with his grown son Moroni who he didn’t feel the need to shield, would be revealed by Moroni…