This is Mormon’s message. Everything presages destruction. This destruction is coming, and Mormon is presenting us with all of the signs that he sees as obviously indicating that the destruction will come.
Chronological: The sixty-eighth year of the reign of the judges would be approximately 27 BC in the correlation used in this commentary.
Textual: The end of this chapter corresponds to a chapter ending in the 1830 edition. With this moral address, Mormon closes this particular idea. He has reintroduced the Gadiantons again, and made sure that we understand their import and their historical connections.