“Many are drowned in the depths of the fountain or lost in the mist of darkness, connected for Nephi with the ‘mist of darkness on the face of the land of promise’ that he prophesied would be part of the great destruction preceding the appearance of the Lamb of God (1 Nephi 12:4). … The vision also projects figuratively the destruction of the Nephite people as a result of pride and temptations, but the full sweep of history on the promised land leads to the restoration of other scripture and to Christ’s manifesting himself to all nations (1 Nephi 12:17–19; 13:38–42)” (Rust, Feasting on the Word, 209).