1210. The Angel Moroni’s Ongoing Role in the Restoration: Dramatically Announced by an Earthquake, By Ronald P. Millett, in Meridian Magazine, and BofM.Blog about Moroni
The Angel Moroni’s Ongoing Role in the Restoration: Dramatically Announced by an Earthquake By Ronald P. Millett · April 14, 2020 Since his appearance to the 17-year-old Joseph Smith on the night of September 21, 1823, the Angel Moroni has been a central figure and symbol of the ongoing Restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. During 127 years atop the tallest spire of the Salt Lake Temple, the beautiful golden Angel Moroni statue had even survived without damage a F2 magnitude tornado in 1999 aimed directly at Temple Square. [1] Magnitude 5.7 Earthquake Strikes On March 18, 2020, just after the Salt Lake Temple seismic upgrade and renovation had begun on January 2, 2020, a 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit Utah centered near Magna, just ten miles away from the Temple. [2] The Angel Moroni statue had seemed immune to any signs of weather or seismic related damage for over 100 years. However, after this earthquake in 2020, it was