Nephi saw the following in the land of promise, the ancient Americas: “wars, and rumors of wars,” “mist of darkness,” and “vapor of darkness,” suggesting temptations and evils that are encircling, entangling, and all-pervasive; twelve disciples over the Church of God; “the fountain of filthy water,” or “depths of hell”; and “the large and spacious building,” or “vain imaginations and pride” of mortals. Nephi also saw that his posterity was overpowered by the posterity of his brothers (ca. a.d. 385).