Even though Com attempts to resist the presence of these “robbers,” he is unsuccessful. This is Moroni’s warning to us that the Jaredites are at the beginning of the end. The end will take another two hundred years, but that is terribly parallel to the amount of time between the appearance of the final Gadiantons among the Nephites and the final destruction of the Nephites. It is quite possible that the parallel in the number of years is not coincidental.
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