Here is the point that most interests Moroni. He recounts the conditional promise that the Jaredites received about their promised land. As Moroni writes, he is well aware that the Jaredites where “swept off” by the time the Nephites arrived in Zarahemla, some six hundred years before Moroni’s time. Moroni is also painfully aware that his Nephites had received a similar promise, and suffered a similar fate for a similar reason. With two failed peoples as his example, Moroni now turns his attention to his audience, which is only future readers.