Ether was a great Jaredite prophet called to witness and bare record of the complete destruction of the Jaredite Nation. His powerful last words were not included in book, Last Words for the Last days because they amounted to only one brief sentence. However, because of the significance of that sentence, I wanted to include it here.
We learn in The Book of Mormon that Ether was the last great Jaredite prophet, record keeper. He wrote the twenty-four places of Ether that Moroni edited, abridged, and called the Book of Ether. Ether was the son of Coriantor and the grandson of Moron, a direct descendant of Jared, the same Jared who lived in Babylon during the time when the Lord confounded the languages of the people living in and around the great tower of Babel. Jared, with his brother, family and others, fled the land and were led by the hand of God to the Promised Land.
In Ether 11 we read about a long succession of wicked kings including Ethem who did execute judgment in wickedness all his days and he begat Moron. And it came to pass that Moron did reign in his place. Now Moron also did that which was wicked before the Lord. Because of the wicket secret combination in the land, there was a great rebellion among the people built up to gain power. Moron was ousted and spent the rest of his days in captivity. A son was also born to him in captivity whose name was Coriantor.
Now, during Coriantor’s days there were many prophets prophesying many great and marvelous things, and calling the people to repentance. The prophets warned that if they would not repent, they would suffer utter destruction and God would bring forth another people to possess the land. But they rejected all the words of the prophets and continued in wickedness. Coriantor spent all his days in captivity and begat a son named Ether. Ether heeded the words of the prophets and chose to serve the Lord to his last breath of life. He too prophesied many great and marvelous things only to be rejected by the majority of the people. Undeterred, he continued the record of the Jaredite witnessing the utter destruction of the Jaredite Nation.
We pick up the record where Moroni is completing his abridgement in Ether15: 33-34:
And the Lord spake unto Ether, and said unto him: Go forth. And he went forth, and beheld that the words of the Lord had all been fulfilled; and he finished his record (and the hundredth part I have not written) and he hid them in a manner that the people of Limhi did find them.
Now the last words which are written by Ether are these: Whether the Lord will that I be translated, or that I suffer the will of the Lord in the flesh, it mattereth not, if it so be that I am saved in the kingdom of God. Amen.