We are seeing and hearing the name Mormon a lot these days. Journalist and commentators occasionally brush by the origin of the name, but rarely explain.
Mormon is a name of an ancient prophet who lived approximately in the fourth century A.D. He lived in the Americas among a people who spiraled downward rather quickly to an awful destruction. Writing to his son Moroni before the final battle of his people he conveyed: “Behold, the pride of this nation…have proven their destruction except they should repent. Pray for them, my son, that repentance may come unto them. But behold, I fear lest the Spirit hath ceased striving with them….they [seek] to put down all power and authority which cometh from God; and they are denying the Holy Ghost” (see Moroni 8:27-30).
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