Avraham Gileadi notes that although Moroni, at Cumorah, leads ten thousand of his people to their destruction, the Lord miraculously spares his life (Mormon 6:11-12). A letter Mormon wrote before the final Nephite destruction reveals Mormon's conviction that the Lord will spare Moroni. While describing the atrocities that his people committed daily, Mormon tells Moroni:
Behold my son, I cannot recommend them unto God lest he should smite me. But behold, my son, I recommend thee unto God, and I trust in Christ that thou wilt be saved; and I pray unto God that he will spare thy life, to witness the return of his people unto him, or their utter destruction . . . (Moroni 9:21-22)
Although Mormon's request might seem presumptuous to us, it was according to the desires of a righteous covenant father for his loyal son, and was not beyond the terms of ancient Near East suzerain-vassal covenant relationships. King David, another covenant leader and vassal/servant to an Almighty suzerain Lord, penned the following words which remarkably fit Moroni's situation of protection under the righteous covenant proxy role of his father Mormon, and under his Lord Jesus Christ:
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee . . . He shall cover thee with his feathers and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angel's charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands . . . Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. (Psalm 91: 1-16)
[Avraham Gileadi, The Last Days: Types and Shadows from the Bible and the Book of Mormon, p. 233]