In his suggestion that we search Isaiah, Moroni is echoing that same command from the Savior, given during his teaching in Bountiful (3 Nephi 20:11 and 3 Nephi 23:1). The examples given from Isaiah suggest that we are to read Isaiah as a guide to the latter days. Moroni speaks to people in the future, and uses Isaiah to represent that future time. He ties the future to the past, however, when he remarks on those who have gone before him. They will bear their witness, as does Isaiah, that the Lord “will remember the covenant which he hath made” with the children of Israel, including those in the New World.