This chapter attempts to highlight his illustrative and productive life…Moroni testifies in closing the record that if readers would not belittle the abridgment for its imperfections they would be given even more. I am also a life-long member of the LDS Church. Did you know that in the early days of the restoration of the Gospel, before there were ever Angel Moroni statues, there were weathervanes? He finished his father’s inspired abridgment of the Nephite millennial-long history; he commanded 10,000 soldiers at Cumorah in their final battles with the Lamanites; he abridged the writings of Ether, the record of the Jaredites, a once mighty civilization that preceded his own on this western hemisphere; and he recorded the lengthy writings of the brother of Jared on the gold plates and sealed them up. Angel Moroni didn’t claim to have heavenly origins, but to be from another part of the universe. In 46 years I have never read or heard anything about the angel Moroni “claiming to be from another part of the Universe.” I have never read or heard anything about Moroni claiming to have “come from the Pleiades star cluster,” or, that he claimed “there were many others like him.”Amazing that rubbish like this is allowed to be left as is. Which temple had the first official Angel Moroni … degree in early LDS history. 10. (Book of Mormon title page)Moroni witnessed the long shadows cast by the setting of the sun over his once-proud civilization.
Of the Angel Moroni’s in use, each has an interesting and unique history that tells us something of the time and conditions of where the temple was built. While this was the first angel to top an LDS temple, it was not specified as being the Angel Moroni. We assume at this time Moroni also wrote the following on the last leaf of the gold plates:An abridgment taken from the Book of Ether also, which is a record of the people of Jared, who were scattered at the time the Lord confounded the language of the people, when they were building a tower to get to heaven—Which is to show unto the remnant of the House of Israel what great things the Lord hath done for their fathers; and that they may know the covenants of the Lord, that they are not cast off forever—And also to the convincing of the Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God, manifesting himself unto all nations—And now, if there are faults they are the mistakes of men; wherefore, condemn not the things of God, that ye may be found spotless at the judgment-seat of Christ. The made up story about him being from Pleiades is just that….
To help the children understand the importance of Moroni’s message that the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ was to be restored..
When Angels appear in religious legends and in myths, generally they are messengers between the heavenly realm and the human realm. He then translated the texts into English, which become The Book of Mormon.And the book depicts, among other things, that after Jesus ascended into heaven, he came to the Americas and ministered to the native peoples here, to convert them to his way of life, and that at some point the texts that become The Book of Mormon are deposited here, so that Joseph Smith could find them.Curiously, the so-called angel that led Joseph Smith to the sacred texts that would become The Book of Mormon did not profess to have heavenly origins, but claimed to be from another part of the universe. 3. As we remember it today, we declare our solemn testimony to all mankind that, indeed, Moroni did come! Moroni statues can also be added if requested by the temple district, as happened with the Idaho Falls Idaho Temple. Joseph Smith wrote the famous Book of Mormon after a “vision”. The Angel Moroni (/moʊˈroʊnaɪ/) is, in Mormonism, an angel who visited Joseph Smith on numerous occasions, beginning on September 21, 1823. Weathervanes. Finally, he finishes the record about his people by engraving this closing sentence: “Behold, I make an end of speaking concerning this people. What Moroni accomplished has blessed many people and will yet bless many more. As he settles into bed, a 17-year-old farmhand named Joseph Smith begins to say his prayers.According to Smith’s account, “Not only was his robe exceedingly white, but his whole person was glorious beyond description.”Speaking from the center of the light, the angel, whose name is Moroni, sends Smith on a quest for several sacred texts hidden near a local tree.Upon locating the tree, Joseph dug and indeed found the texts, but they recorded a language which he could not read.A second visitation from Moroni told Joseph Smith where he could find what we might call a device of some kind that would allow him to read the texts.Joseph Smith was given this translating stone, the Urim and Dethumium, with which he was able to not only write down this text, but also to be able to translate it. Historical records and family trees related to Angel Moroni. Moroni ist ein Prophet im Buch Mormon und soll dem Religionsgründer Joseph Smith als Engel erschienen sein. Not all of the angel Moroni statues face east. Mark E. Petersen Oct 1983 About two weeks ago we noted one of the most important anniversaries in our Church history. There he is described as a magnificent resurrected being “glorious beyond description, and his countenance truly like lightning” (Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.All opinions, speakers and presenters represent and express their own individual opinions, and not necessarily the opinions of FIRM Foundation, Book of Mormon Evidence, or it’s employees, and no information or opinions represent the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was on September 21, 1823, when the angel Moroni first appeared to the young prophet Joseph Smith in his farm home near Palmyra, New York. The peculiar respect that high Heaven has for this country, on account of the promises made to the fathers, and on account of The dedication’s setting was the Mount of Olives, across a valley from Jerusalem, in Israel.