When men and women forsake the ways of the world and cleanse their hands and feet through the waters of regeneration, they then open themselves to the revelations of God. Among the sacred treasures to be made known to those who hunger and thirst after truth is their personal and familial identity, their lineage as pertaining to the house of Israel, their place in the plan of the Father.
Nephi explained to his errant brethren: “And at that [latter] day shall the remnant of our seed know that they are of the house of Israel and that they are the covenant people of the Lord; and then shall they know and come to the knowledge of their forefathers, and also the knowledge of the gospel of their Redeemer… ; wherefore, they shall come to the knowledge of their Redeemer and the very points of his doctrine, that they may know how to come unto him and be saved” (1 Nephi 15:14).
“The Earth Was Carried Up Upon the City of Moronihah”
Moronihah was another of the iniquitous cities of the Nephites. During the great convulsions, the earth was carried up and dumped upon it, that its abominations might be hid from the face of the Lord and that the blood of the prophets might no longer cry to heaven from the ground against it.