This chapter contains a great prophesy of the prophet
Ether. Even though Ether’s prophesy was
written many years before Lehi left Jerusalem, in abridging the record, Moroni
connects the two. Ether described the
future land where Moroni was then living as a land that had become very choice
after the Flood in Noah’s day. Ether saw
the days of Christ and prophesied of a New Jerusalem that would be built on the
land.
Moroni wrote of the life of the prophet Ether, who of all
the individuals described in the Book of Mormon, is the most like Moroni. A follower of Christ, Ether was cast out by
the very people who he was trying to help.
He had to spend the rest of his life alone and in hiding, because they
sought his life. He lived to see his people
completely annihilate themselves.
I’m sure that Moroni, in very similar circumstances, found
comfort in Ether’s writings. I hope that
we can take advantage of that same comfort as we continue to read and study the
Book of Mormon.
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