As the Nephites fell away and were virtually annihilated as a people and the Lamanites became the rising apostate power in America, the glorious vision of Mahonri would be completely withdrawn from circulation. Moroni had personally witnessed all of this desolation of the Nephites and he knew what treasures the Nephites had lost. No doubt this was a great source of sorrow to Moroni because he knew that in all human history the children of men had never received a series of revelations as great as those which was shown to the brother of Jared.