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 he kept a room full of records. These were transferred from the Hill Shim, where Mormon first got them. These records contained thousands of years of history going all the way back to its creation. 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.
In 385 AD, the Nephite nation was destroyed. The surviving Prophet Moroni spent 36 years alone after this terrible civil war, where his father, Mormon, was killed–here in America. It was a war much worse than our own American Civil War, and during these 36 years, he still had access to the grand repository.