Ether 4 The Sealed Portion

Moroni wrote down the words of the Brother of Jared who saw all things.  He sealed them and we have not yet received them.  Joseph Smith saw them and handled them but was not allowed to open them or translate them.  We call them the “sealed portion” of the plates.  According to Moroni, “I have written upon these plates the very things which the brother of Jared saw; and there never were greater things made manifest than those which were made manifest unto the Brother of Jared.”  Moroni also included the Urim and Thumim when he hid up the record in the Hill Cummorah.  Some day we will be privileged to read the things written on these plates.  The rest of Mormon’s and Moroni’s abridgement and writings are available to us in the Book of Mormon.  And “…he that believeth these things…will I visit with the manifestations of my Spirit, and he shall know and bear record.  For because of my Spirit he shall know that these things are true; for it persuadeth men to do good.”  “Come unto me” Jesus pleads.  “And blessed is he that is found faithful unto my name at the last day, for he shall be lifted up to dwell in the kingdom prepared for him from the foundation of the world.”