Moroni is at this very moment (early in the fifth century AD) engaged in completing the sacred chronicles of God. He will soon consign the plates to a place of secure storage within the earth. He knows that these same records will come forth some 1,400 years later by the power of God as a blessing of infinite importance to the inhabitants of the earth. Moroni is intimately involved with the “marvellous work and a wonder” of which Isaiah spoke over a century prior to Lehi’s departure from Jerusalem (see Isaiah 29:14; compare 2 Nephi 27:26). Moroni knows that God is a God of revelation—and he wants his readers to understand the eternal implications of how one receives the word of God and acts upon it in the cause of salvation and exaltation. Those who accept and follow the revelations of God are on course to partake of the tree of life and enjoy the felicity of finding favor with God and preparing to return to their heavenly home of glory. Those who reject the revelations of God forego the power of the Redemption and consign themselves to a state of misery.