The Lord told them not to stop after crossing the small seas in the wilderness. He wanted them to continue toward the promised land, which was more choice than all others, and which He had saved for a righteous people.
The Lord vowed in His wrath to Jared's brother that all who possessed this land of promise forevermore would serve Him, the true and only God, or be swept off the land.
- Moroni comments: Now we can understand God's decrees over this land, that it is a land of promise, and that any nation who possesses it will serve God or be swept off when the fullness of His wrath comes upon them. This is God's everlasting law--that the people are swept off the land as soon as they are ripe in their sins.
This warning is for you, oh Gentiles, so you will know God's decrees. Repent, and do not continue in your
