Alma makes his sermon’s most essential parallel. The priests who received the priesthood forsook sin, were sanctified by accepting the promised atonement, and were able to enter into Yahweh’s rest.
Alma uses that example as a model for the current Ammonihahites and exhorts them to repent, so that they too may “enter into that rest.” Alma is not necessarily implying that every man should become a priest, but rather that the process of repenting and accepting the Atoning Messiah’s mission is critical to receiving the great blessing: “the rest of the Lord.”
Vocabulary: Fruits “meet” for repentance are those which are equal to the task. The word “meet” is a variation of an ancient word for “measure.” We may also see it in the form mete from which more directly we receive words of measuring, such as metric. (See a more complete definition following Alma 9:30.)