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Angel Moroni Visits Joseph Smith

In 1823, as Joseph Smith prayed for forgiveness for his sins, he experienced a visit from a heavenly messenger. Joseph Smith said:

While I was thus in the act of calling upon God, I discovered a light appearing in my room, which continued to increase until the room was lighter than at noonday, when immediately a personage appeared at my bedside, standing in the air, for his feet did not touch the floor.

In this initial visit, Moroni explained who he was and that he was sent by God. He then continued to explain that there was a book, written on golden plates, that contained the fulness of the gospel and that God desired Joseph Smith to translate them and had prepared the means to do so. He continued to quote key scriptures from the Bible, including from the third and fourth chapters of Malachi, the eleventh chapter of Isaiah, the third chapter of Acts, the second chapter of Joel, etc. During this visit, Joseph Smith saw a vision in his mind of the location of the golden plates so that he could find them.
After delivering this message, the angel Moroni left and Joseph was pondering about the event when the angel Moroni appeared again and repeated the same message. After leaving once again, Moroni then appeared a third time and repeated the message a final time.
The next day, Joseph Smith visited the area that he had seen in vision and located the golden plates.

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Who is Moroni?

According to the “Words of Mormon” in the Book of Mormon, the prophet Mormon writes that he was preparing to give the plates ot his son Moroni in approximately 385 A.D.:

And now I, Mormon, being about to deliver up the record which I have been making into the hands of my son Moroni, behold I have witnessed almost all the destruction of my people, the Nephites. And it is many hundred years after the coming of Christ that I deliver these records into the hands of my son; and it supposeth me that he will witness the entire destruction of my people.

After witnessing and recording the destruction of the Nephite people (in the final book of the Book of Mormon), Moroni wanders for a number of years by himself. Finally, before Moroni died, he buried the plates in the Hill Cumorah under the direction of the Lord in preparation for the coming forth of the Book of Mormon nearly 1400 years later.

Moroni gave his final testimony at the end of the Book of Mormon:

Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God. And again, if ye by the grace of God are perfect in Christ, and deny not his power, then are ye sanctified in Christ by the grace of God, through the shedding of the blood of Christ, which is in the covenant of the Father unto the remission of your sins, that ye become holy, without spot.

Many people outside of the LDS faith aren’t quite sure how to say the name Moroni (More-Own-Eye).

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