I love to watch the special features included with movies I
purchase: deleted scenes, bonus
materials and the director’s commentary, among others. The Book of Moroni is like the special
features section of the Book of Mormon.
Moroni had no idea, as he scrambled to abridge the record of
Ether, that he would be able to add even more to the plates that Joseph Smith
would receive. And thank goodness he was
spared long enough to add these things!
Chapters 2 – 6 are deleted scenes that his father didn't find the time
to add to his abridgment. Chapters 7 – 9 are sermons and letters from our
beloved Mormon that are so nice to have, the bonus features, if you will.
And Chapter 10 is Moroni’s own “director’s commentary” as he takes one
last opportunity to read the book.
In Chapter 1 we get some sense of the life Moroni led as the
last of the believers. The Lamanites had
turned to slaughtering each other, and if they happened across a Nephite who
would not deny Christ, they put him to death.
What an example Moroni was to us in verse 3 where we read, “And I,
Moroni, will not deny the Christ,” even though it meant his death if captured.
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