To summarize the findings from Alma 12 in the last post, we read about special foreordained knowledge that is delivered to men by angels according to their faith/repentance/holy works, which causes them to behold of God's glory (robes?) and call upon His name.
Compare these themes to these verses in Ether 4:
13 Come unto me, O ye Gentiles, and I will show unto you the greater things, the knowledge which is hid up because of unbelief.
14 Come unto me, O ye house of Israel, and it shall be made manifest unto you how great things the Father hath laid up for you, from the foundation of the world; and it hath not come unto you, because of unbelief.
15 Behold, when ye shall rend that veil of unbelief which doth cause you to remain in your awful state of wickedness, and hardness of heart, and blindness of mind, then shall the great and marvelous things which have been hid up from the foundation of the world from you—yea, when ye shall call upon the Father in my name, with a broken heart and a contrite spirit, then shall ye know that the Father hath remembered the covenant which he made unto your fathers, O house of Israel.
So in these verses we have an emphasis on receiving access to greater knowledge which has been hidden up from the foundation of the world through faith and repentance, then calling upon the Father in the name of Christ and knowing that the Father "hath remembered the covenant.
Very interesting. Since these verses come in the same context of hidden things shown to the brother of Jared, I can't help but wonder how much of the hidden writings relates to these themes.
