Through our Savior, we can perform miracles. Angels will attend us under His guidance. Angels act under the direction of the Lord. They show themselves to those “of strong faith and a firm mind in every form of godliness” (verse 30). The expression “in every form of godliness” refers to the way or mode that the Lord will in fact bless His children through His power and righteousness. This is made evident in the ordinances of the priesthood wherein the power of godliness is manifest (see D&C 84:20–21). Angels, as messengers of the Lord, call people to repentance and reveal the will of God through His chosen vessels.
Consider the circumstances in which Moroni writes at this time. His father’s epistle to him about conditions in the land establishes the framework: The people “have lost their love, one towards another, and they thirst after blood and revenge continually” (Moroni 9:5). “And they have become strong in their perversion; and they are alike brutal, sparing none, neither old nor young; and they delight in everything save that which is good; and the suffering of our women and our children upon all the face of this land doth exceed everything; yea, tongue cannot tell, neither can it be written” (Moroni 9:19). Not knowing from one moment to the next whether he is to be murdered through the all-consuming hatred of the people surrounding him, Moroni writes (through the words of his father) of things dear to the “peaceable followers of Christ” (Moroni 7:3), of love and of discerning that which is good “in the light of Christ.” Not knowing where his next morsel of food might come, he writes of the nourishment that comes to the people from receiving “the word of God” (Moroni 7:31). The contrasts are poignant and compelling: anger and love, darkness and light, evil and goodness, degrading hopelessness and edifying hope. As Moroni prepares to seal up his records in the earth, he invests in them, through the Spirit, a message of urgency and earnest appeal to future generations who will read them: repent and exercise abiding faith in Christ, that you may not sink to the depravity of the Nephite nation at its demise, but rise in the majestic light of Christ, full of faith, buoyed with divine grace, as the sons and daughters of God. How grateful we should be to Moroni and his compatriots for preserving this record as an anchor to our testimonies at a time when forces of iniquity seethe and foment with increasing virulence against the light of the gospel.