Omni

This is the last book written on the Small Plates of Nephi.  There are several authors covering a period of about 140 years.  One of the authors, Amaleki, connects the historical records between the small and large plates by telling us that the Nephites were forced to flee out of the Land of Nephi down to the land of Zarahemla.  Here they discovered the people of Mulek who left Jerusalem about the same time as Lehi but took a different route to the Promised Land.  The Nephites and the Mulekites unite themselves. Mosiah is the leader of the Nephites and Zarahemla leads the Mulekites.  Because the Mulekites did not bring the scriptures with them from Jerusalem like Lehi’s family, their language and religion had become corrupted.  So as these two groups of people united there must have been a great deal of teaching going on.  When Mosiah died, his son, King Benjamin reigned in his stead.  Amaleki concludes his record with this classic exhortation:  “…come unto Christ, who is the Holy One of Israel, and partake of his salvation, and the power of his redemption.  Yea, come unto him, and offer your whole souls as an offering unto him, and continue in fasting and praying, and endure to the end; and as the Lord liveth ye will be saved.”