“It Shall Be Brought out of Darkness Unto Light”
This is meant both literally and figuratively. As Moroni says, “it [the Book of Mormon] shall be brought out of the earth.” In another sense, the golden plates came forth from a day of darkness-Nephite and Lamanite apostasy-to a day of darkness, the continuing apostasy of the nineteenth century. But the Book of Mormon would be one of the means by which light would begin to shine brightly among a people who had been wandering in sin and darkness. It would help to prepare for an eventual day of glorious light, the Millennium.
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