Chapter 6: Overview of the Record

The record begins in about 600 B.C. and ends in 421 A.D. A family in Jerusalem is guided through dreams and/or visions to leave because the city has become so wicked that it is about to be destroyed.

They align themselves with another family and leave. In the process, they are instructed to return and acquire a sacred family record, which contain happenings going back to the beginnings of time. They do so, and in returning one other man joins them. (This was prior to the time the Holy Bible had been compiled, as we know it.)

They have their struggles enroute to the ocean where they build a boat of considerable size and put forth into the ocean.

During their exodus from Jerusalem and prior to arriving at the ocean, two of their party receives dreams, or visions, which showed them happenings down through time. These dreams include their arrival on what they call the Promised Land, which in time becomes the Land of Liberty. During the time that they and their descendants live on this Promised Land, (about 1000 years) they have righteous times and wicked times and many wars. In dreams they are shown the birth and crucifixion of the Savior, and the creation of what we know as the Bible, as well as many other future events. Most have already come to pass.

Back to the promised land the record-keeping people are being destroyed, at which time they hide up the gold record which are only a condensed version of their total history taken from many records which have been accumulated over the thousand year period.

While living on this land, they discover that they were not the first to arrive there. They find ruins of another race that have lived and been destroyed before they're arrival. They also find a gold record that has been left by these former people and it contained their history. It tells that they had once lived in the area of the Tower of Babel during the time when the languages were confounded, and that they (a more righteous part of that people) were guided to leave and arrive on this same Promised Land many years earlier. They had been privileged to retain their language, which is assumed to have been the original language of man, the Adamic language. This is apparently the language of many of the slate, copper and clay tablets, which have been unearthed in Michigan and are now being translated.

A condensed version of this history under the name of the Book of Ether is included in the gold record of the Americas. The gold record has been given the title in book form as the Book of Mormon, entrusted for distribution by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Back to the travels of the people from Jerusalem. Now again with great struggles they cross the great waters and arrive on the land which two of their party had previously been shown in dreams. This land is referred to as a land choice above all other lands, the land of promise, which in time is to become a LAND OF LIBERTY.

Around the time they put forth into the sea, another boat leaves from another part from the same general area of Jerusalem. This boat carries a young son of the King of Jerusalem. The boy's name was Mulek. The king, which can be verified in historical records, is King Zedekiah had been foretold of the destruction of Jerusalem, and it appears, unbeknown to the other party which had left, that he sends his son with an embassy to seek a safe place to live, as an ace in the hole. This action was wise because most of his family and people were destroyed or taken captive shortly thereafter.

Interestingly, according to the record, after about 310 to 459 years on the promised land it is found that the king's son and his party landed on the opposite side of the same promised land from where the first party landed. Both live until the first party migrates far enough across the land that the two groups meet.

The two parties unite under the leadership of the one with their historical records, as the second group had brought no records with them from Jerusalem. They together prosper during times of righteousness, then pride takes over and they become wicked.

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