Moroni Finalizes the Book of Mormon

Moroni’s Invitation to Believe

Mormon 9:1–3

Moroni directs his comments to those who do not believe in Christ: when you are brought before the judgment bar of God and see Christ there, will you deny him? Will you bear to remain in his presence?

And now, I speak also concerning those who do not believe in Christ.

Behold, will ye believe in the day of your visitation— behold, when the Lord shall come, yea, even that great day when the earth shall be rolled together as a scroll, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, yea, in that great day when ye shall be brought to stand before the Lamb of God— then will ye say that there is no God?

Then will ye longer deny the Christ, or can ye behold the Lamb of God? Do ye suppose that ye shall dwell with him under a consciousness of your guilt? Do ye suppose that ye could be happy to dwell with that holy Being, when your souls are racked with a consciousness of guilt that ye have ever abused his laws?

Mormon 9:4–6

It would be more tolerable to burn in hell than to be in the presence of God in a filthy state, so turn to the Lord, be washed in the blood of Jesus, and be found spotless at the last day.

Behold, I say unto you that ye would be more miserable to dwell with a holy and just God, under a consciousness of your filthiness before him, than ye would to dwell with the damned souls in hell.

For behold, when ye shall be brought to see your nakedness before God, and also the glory of God, and the holiness of Jesus Christ, it will kindle a flame of unquenchable fire upon you.

O then ye unbelieving, turn ye unto the Lord; cry mightily unto the Father in the name of Jesus, that perhaps ye may be found spotless, pure, fair, and white, having been cleansed by the blood of the Lamb, at that great and last day.

Mormon 9:7–9

Revelation and spiritual gifts are fundamental elements of the gospel of Christ, and should not be denied.

And again I speak unto you who deny the revelations of God, and say that they are done away, that there are no revelations, nor prophecies, nor gifts, nor healing, nor speaking with tongues, and the interpretation of tongues;

Behold I say unto you, he that denieth these things knoweth not the gospel of Christ; yea, he has not read the scriptures; if so, he does not understand them. For do we not read that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and in him there is no variableness neither shadow of changing?

Mormon 9:10–11

God does not change, and is equally capable of miracles now as he was in times of old.

And now if ye have imagined up unto yourselves a god who doth vary, and in whom there is shadow of changing, then have ye imagined up unto yourselves a god who is not God of miracles.

But behold, I will show unto you a God of miracles, even the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and it is that same God who created the heavens and the earth, and all things that in them are.

Mormon 9:12–14

Jesus Christ redeems mankind from Adam’s fall, and prepares them for judgment day, where reciprocity will have the final word.

Behold he created Adam, and by Adam came the fall of man. And because of the fall of man came Jesus Christ, even the Father and the Son; and because of Jesus Christ came the redemption of man.

And because of the redemption of man, which came by Jesus Christ, they are brought back into the presence of the Lord; yea, this is wherein all men are redeemed, because the death of Christ bringeth to pass the resurrection, which bringeth to pass a redemption from an endless sleep, from which sleep all men shall be awakened by the power of God when the trump shall sound; and they shall come forth, both small and great, and all shall stand before his bar, being redeemed and loosed from this eternal band of death, which death is a temporal death.

And then cometh the judgment of the Holy One upon them; and then cometh the time that he that is filthy shall be filthy still; and he that is righteous shall be righteous still; he that is happy shall be happy still; and he that is unhappy shall be unhappy still.

Mormon 9:15–18

God is still a God of miracles.

And now, O all ye that have imagined up unto yourselves a god who can do no miracles, I would ask of you, have all these things passed, of which I have spoken? Has the end come yet? Behold I say unto you, Nay; and God has not ceased to be a God of miracles.

Behold, are not the things that God hath wrought marvelous in our eyes? Yea, and who can comprehend the marvelous works of God? Who shall say that it was not a miracle that by his word the heaven and the earth should be; and by the power of his word man was created of the dust of the earth; and by the power of his word have miracles been wrought? And who shall say that Jesus Christ did not do many mighty miracles?

Mormon 9:18–20

The apostles were able to perform miracles because of God’s unchangeable nature.

And there were many mighty miracles wrought by the hands of the apostles. And if there were miracles wrought then, why has God ceased to be a God of miracles and yet be an unchangeable Being? And behold, I say unto you he changeth not; if so he would cease to be God; and he ceaseth not to be God, and is a God of miracles. And the reason why he ceaseth to do miracles among the children of men is because that they dwindle in unbelief, and depart from the right way, and know not the God in whom they should trust.

Mormon 9:21–25

Prayers offered with faith in Christ will be granted—Jesus taught his disciples that those who follow him will witness and perform miracles.

Behold, I say unto you that whoso believeth in Christ, doubting nothing, whatsoever he shall ask the Father in the name of Christ it shall be granted him; and this promise is unto all, even unto the ends of the earth. For behold, thus said Jesus Christ, the Son of God, unto his disciples who should tarry, yea, and also to all his disciples, in the hearing of the multitude:

“Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature; And he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned;

“And these signs shall follow them that believe— in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover;

“And whosoever shall believe in my name, doubting nothing, unto him will I confirm all my words, even unto the ends of the earth.”

Mormon 9:26

Who can deny the works and power and progeny of God?

And now, behold:

Who can stand against the works of the Lord?
Who can deny his sayings?
Who will rise up against
the almighty power of the Lord?
Who will despise the works of the Lord?
Who will despise the children of Christ?

Behold, all ye who are despisers
of the works of the Lord,
for ye shall wonder and perish.

Mormon 9:27

Don’t doubt, but be believing, working out your own salvation.

O then despise not, and wonder not,
but hearken unto the words of the Lord,
and ask the Father in the name of Jesus
for what things soever ye shall stand in need.

Doubt not, but be believing, and begin as in times of old,
and come unto the Lord with all your heart,
and work out your own salvation
with fear and trembling before him.

Mormon 9:28–29

Be wise, be clean, be faithful, be worthy, and take Jesus Christ’s name upon you, enduring to the end.

Be wise in the days of your probation;
strip yourselves of all uncleanness;
ask, not that ye may consume it on your lusts,
but ask with a firmness unshaken,
that ye will yield to no temptation,
but that ye will serve the true and living God.

See that ye are not baptized unworthily;
see that ye partake not of the sacrament of Christ unworthily;
but see that ye do all things in worthiness,
and do it in the name of Jesus Christ,
the Son of the living God.

And if ye do this, and endure to the end,
ye will in nowise be cast out.