Moroni’s concluding chapter is directed to the future, and specifically to “my brethren, the Lamanites.” When Moroni closed his father’s record, he did so with a firm eye on the future history of the record. Now he closes his own record and prepares to place it in the earth. At this final point, he again focuses on the future. Just as his father’s last words were to the future Lamanites, so too are Moroni’s last words directed to the future Lamanites.
Chronology: Four hundred and twenty years from the time of Christ correlates to 411 A.D. in the correlation used in this commentary.