The Prophet Moroni saw our day and promises us “greater things,” if we will repent. In “The Book of Mormon”, he writes “I know your doing.” He tells us of some of the stumbling blocks keeping us from getting the “greater things”: pride, envy, fine apparel, strive, malice, all manner of iniquities, hypocrisy, love of money, ignoring the needy, the sick and afflicted, lack of faith, pollutions, and “why have ye polluted the holy church of God?” (Mormon 8:35-41).

However, the Prophet Moroni goes on to give the Lord’s great promise for our day, to the righteous of the Gentiles, and of the House of Israel, which I share below. In so sharing, I open insights into the magnitude of the contributions of this great prophet in the past and yet in the future.

Moroni’s father, Mormon, tells of a grand repository in the Hill Cumorah, which was in upstate New York in the township of Palmyra, where all the records they had kept for thousands of years of history. These records, “handed down by our fathers” include the “Brass Plates,” which covered much more information than is in our Bible up to 600 BC, and going back to Adam and Eve and the creation.

In 385 AD, the Nephite nation was destroyed. The surviving Prophet Moroni spent 36 years alone after this terrible civil war–here in America–a war much worse than our own American Civil War, and during this time, he still had access to the grand repository.

Historic Plates for a Future Generation

Before Moroni’s death, he made a separate stone box for the gold plates which were partially sealed and were the first ones delivered to Joseph Smith. Those plates, in due time, were shown to the three witnesses. Joseph translated two sets of plates. Those plates, as indicated by the title page were an abridgment “of the record of the people of Nephi,” and an abridgment “of a record of Jared.” Then Joseph translated the small plates, which are not an abridgement, up in Fayette, NY. Nephi, the first writer in the Book of Mormon, often refers to them as “these plates,” in contrast to “those plates.”

“And now, as I, Moroni, said I could not make a full account of these things which are written, therefore it sufficeth me to say that Jesus showed himself unto this man [the brother of Jared (Mahonri Moriancumer) about 2200 BC] in the spirit, even after the manner and in the likeness of the same body even as he showed himself [in the flesh and as the “first fruits of them that slept”] unto the Nephites. And behold, …ye shall write them and shall seal them up, …for ye shall write them in a language that they cannot be read… and ye shall seal them up also with the things which ye shall write. For behold, the language which ye shall write I have confounded; wherefore I will cause in my own due time that these stones shall magnify to the eyes of men these things which ye shall write.

“And when the Lord had said these words, he showed unto the brother of Jared all the inhabitants of the earth which had been, and also all that would be; and he withheld them not from his sight, even unto the ends of the earth. And the Lord said unto him: Write these things and seal them up, and I will show them in mine own due time unto the children of men.” (Ether 3:16-17, 22-25, 27) 

Behold, I have written upon these plates the very things which the brother of Jared saw, and there never were greater things made manifest than those which were made manifest unto the brother of Jared. Wherefore the Lord hath commanded me to write them, and I have written them.

And he commanded me that I should seal them up, and he also hath commanded that I should seal up the interpretation thereof; wherefore I have sealed up the interpreters, according to the commandment of the Lord.”

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 They Shall Go Forth Unto the Repentant Gentiles

“For the Lord said unto me: They shall not go forth unto the Gentiles until the day that they shall repent of their iniquity, and become clean before the Lord. And in that day that they shall exercise faith in me, saith the Lord, even as the brother of Jared did, that they may become sanctified in me, then will I manifest unto them the things which the brother of Jared saw, even to the unfolding unto them all my revelations, saith Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Father of the heavens and of the earth, and all things that in them are.

And he that will contend against the word of the Lord, let him be accursed; and he that shall deny these things, let him be accursed; for unto them will I show no greater things, saith Jesus Christ; for I am he who speaketh. And at my command the heavens are opened and are shut; and at my word the earth shall shake; and at my command, the inhabitants thereof shall pass away, even so as by fire.

And he that believeth not my words believeth not my disciples; and if it so be that I do not speak, judge ye; for ye shall know that it is I that speaketh, at the last day. But he that believeth these things which I have spoken, him will I visit with the manifestations of my Spirit, and he shall know and bear record. For because of my Spirit he shall know that these things are true; for it persuadeth men to do good.”

Come unto me, O ye Gentiles and House of Israel

“Come unto me, O ye Gentiles, and I will show unto you the greater things, the knowledge which is hidden up because of unbelief. Come unto me, O ye house of Israel, and it shall be made manifest unto you how great things the Father hath laid up for you, from the foundation of the world; and it hath not come unto you, because of unbelief. 

Behold, when ye shall rend that veil of unbelief which doth cause you to remain in your awful state of wickedness, and hardness of heart, and blindness of mind, then shall the great and marvelous things which have been hid up from the foundation of the world from you—yea, when ye shall call upon the Father in my name, with a broken heart and a contrite spirit, then shall ye know that the Father hath remembered the covenant which he made unto your fathers, O house of Israel.  And then shall my revelations which I have caused to be written by my servant John be unfolded in the eyes of all the people.”

See these “Blog” articles as signs of our day:

1. https://itsabouttimebook.com/great-heavenly-sign-of-sept-23-2017/
2. https://itsabouttimebook.com/revelations-12-war-heaven/
3. https://itsabouttimebook.com/the-great-sign-in-heaven/
4. https://itsabouttimebook.com/our-total-eclipse-surreal-experience/

The Time Is At Hand

“Remember, when ye see these things, ye shall know that the time is at hand that they shall be made manifest in very deed. Therefore, when ye shall receive this record ye may know that the work of the Father has commenced upon all the face of the land.

Therefore, repent all ye ends of the earth, and come unto me, and believe in my gospel, and be baptized in my name; for he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned, and signs shall follow them that believe in my name. And blessed is he that is found faithful unto my name at the last day, for he shall be lifted up to dwell in the kingdom prepared for him from the foundation of the world. And behold it is I that hath spoken it. Amen (Ether 4:4-11, 13-19).”

Words Directed to Joseph Smith, Jr.

In this next quote, I find it particularly fascinating that the Prophet Moroni knows he will be sharing words directly to the Prophet Joseph Smith, as he translates the Book of Mormon:

“And now I, Moroni, have written the words which were commanded me, according to my memory; and I have told you [Joseph Smith, Jr.] the things which I have sealed up; therefore touch them not in order that ye may translate; for that thing is forbidden you, except by and by it shall be wisdom in God. 

And, if it so is that they repent and come unto the Father in the name of Jesus, they shall be received into the kingdom of God. And now, if I have no authority for these things, judge ye; for ye shall know that I have authority when ye shall see me, and we shall stand before God at the last day. Amen (Ether 5:1-6).”

It Came to Pass

In the following blog article, I share what I believe are 1,800 phrases in our scriptures that tie back to the language of Adam. When studied in detail, they give scientific validation to God’s fingerprint in all of our scriptures. For those phrases to be there as they are could not happen without Divine guidance. The phrase, “And it came to pass” is one of them, which can be shown from the ancient Hebrew Kabbalah to have the gematria meaning of “EL,” [God] and past important events.

That is how Luke Chapter 2 starts: “And it came to pass…” as the story of the birth of our Savior unfolds. I show in this blog article that the Jaredite civilization had by far the highest use of this phrase, and their language is the only one not confounded from the language of Adam; on average every other verse uses “And it came to pass.”
https://itsabouttimebook.com/religious-science-translation-of-it-came-to-pass/

What is particularly insightful is that the Prophet Moroni, who translated the Jaredite record uses “And it came to pass” not at all except in two places where he apparently saw the martyrdom of Joseph and his brother Hyrum Smith and flagged it in his writings for those who have eyes to see.  (See D&C 135:5 and Ether 12:35,36) This is exactly where Joseph and Hyrum turned “down the leaf upon it,” just before they were martyred  which corresponds exactly to the only place where Moroni uses the phrase:

“And it came to pass that I prayed unto the Lord that he would give unto the Gentiles grace, that they might have charity.  And it came to pass that the Lord said unto me: If they have not charity it mattereth not unto thee, thou hast been faithful; wherefore, thy garments shall be made clean. And because thou hast seen thy weakness thou shalt be made strong, even unto the sitting down in the place which I have prepared in the mansions of my Father (Ether 12:35-36; D&C 135:5).

 The Prophet Moroni Appeared to Joseph Smith

The Prophet Moroni first appeared to Joseph on the 21st of September, 1823, but Moroni knew Joseph from 1,400 years before when he buried the gold plates for Joseph to translate.  Joseph records:

“He called me by name and said unto me that he was a messenger sent from the presence of God to me, and that his name was Moroni, that God had a work for me to do; and that my name should be had for good and evil among all nations, kindreds, and tongues, or that it should be both good and evil spoken of among all people.  He said there was a book deposited, written upon gold plates, giving an account of the former inhabitants of this continent, and the source from which they sprang. [This continent is America; Joseph was living in upstate New York when he received this visit from the Angel Moroni.]  He also said that the fulness of the everlasting Gospel was contained in it, as delivered by the Savior to the ancient inhabitants;” (JS-H 33-34)

Moroni Records:

Behold, the Lord hath shown unto me great and marvelous things concerning… that day when these things shall come forth among you.  Behold, I speak unto you as if ye were present, and yet ye are not.  But behold, Jesus Christ hath shown you unto me, and I know your doing. 

And I know that ye do walk in the pride of your hearts, and there are none save a few only who do not lift themselves up in the pride of their hearts, unto the wearing of very fine apparel, unto envying, and strifes, and malice, and persecutions, and all manner of iniquities; and your churches, yea, even every one, have become polluted because of the pride of your hearts.  For behold, ye do love money, and your substance, and your fine apparel, and the adorning of your churches, more than ye love the poor and the needy, the sick and the afflicted. 

O ye pollutions, ye hypocrites, ye teachers, who sell yourselves for that which will canker, why have ye polluted the holy church of God? Why are ye ashamed to take upon you the name of Christ Why do ye not think that greater is the value of an endless happiness than that misery which never dies – because of the praise of the world?… Yea, why do ye build up your secret abominations to get gain…?

[The vaccination campaign to vaccinate the world because of the pandemic has created several billionaires, who orchestrated these “secret abominations” and the pandemic as well is an example.] (Mormon 8:34-38, 40) Another major anti-Christ Satanic twist is the: LGBTQIA movement: (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex, and asexual (or allies, aromantic, or agender).

“Now, I Moroni, after having made an end of abridging the account of the people of Jared,” and “have not as yet perished,” he then gives us the incredible Book of Moroni.  He is about 90 years old at this point  when he hides away the records in the Hill Cumorah in 421 AD.
During these 36 years, he has the Urim and Thummim and has read and abridged the nearly 1,600-year record of the Jaredites written in the Adamic language. The Jaredites were led to this Promised Land of North America.  The Lord promised them, “And there will I bless thee and thy seed… And there shall be none greater than the nation which I will raise up unto me of thy seed… (Ether 1:43).”

It is exciting to know that in the near future the righteous will have all these writings.  The Jaredites and Nephites have already left their amazing mark near Newark, OH, depicting the Lord’s perfect plan of happiness.

The Lord has given Moroni the keys of the Stick of Ephraim. (D&C 27:5) The bringing forth of the Book of Mormon is the first step in his great work prophesied by Ezekiel:

The Word of the Lord

“The Word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, [The Bible] and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and wrote upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions: And join them one to another into one stick, and they shall become one in thine hand… and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.” (Ezekiel 37:15-23)

Joseph in Egypt, the father of Ephraim and Manasseh,  was promised by the Lord:

“Wherefore, the fruit of thy loins shall write; [The Book of Mormon and much more yet to come forth] and the fruit of the loins of Judah shall write; [The Bible and many other records from the Jews as well] and that which shall be written by the fruit of thy loins, and also that which shall be written by the fruit of the loins of Judah, shall grow together, unto the confounding of false doctrines and laying down of contentions, and establishing peace among the fruit of thy loins, and bringing them to the knowledge of their fathers in the latter days, and also to the knowledge of my covenants, saith the Lord.” (2 Nephi 3:12)

Moroni with the keys of the Stick of Ephraim, which is the Book of Mormon and many others of the writings of the seed of Joseph – the birthright son — will help the fullness of the gospel go to the ends of the earth.  And as the Tribes of Israel are gathered with rejoicing:

“And the boundaries of the everlasting hills [America] shall tremble at their presence.  And there shall they fall down and be crowned with glory, even in Zion, by the hands of the servants of the Lord, even the children of Ephraim.  And they shall be filled with songs of everlasting joy.  Behold, this is the blessing of the everlasting God upon the tribes of Israel, and the richer blessing upon the head of Ephraim and his fellows.  And they also of the tribe of Judah, after their pain, shall be sanctified in holiness before the Lord, to dwell in his presence day and night, forever and ever. 

And now, verily saith the Lord, that these things might be known among you, O inhabitants of the earth, I have sent forth mine angel [Moroni, /Revelations 14:6-7] flying through the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel, who hath appeared unto some and hath committed it unto man, who shall appear unto many that dwell on the earth. And this gospel shall be preached unto every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.” (D&C 133:31-37)

The Fullness of the Gospel

In the perfect fairness of God, the fullness of the gospel will be made available to all (D&C 90:11).  In spite of the imperfections of humankind, the perfect plan of happiness of our Loving Father will be there.  As Moroni closes the Book of Mormon, he profoundly summarizes its fundamental message for us today:

“Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God.  And again, through the shedding of the blood of Christ, which is in the covenant of the Father unto the remission of your sins, that ye become holy, without spot.” (Moroni 10:32-33)

David W. Allan

PS  For proof that North America is the place where the Book of Mormon took place, see:
5. https://itsabouttimebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/does-it-matter-where-the-book-of-mormon-took-place.pdf