“Among the Jaredites, ‘the people were brought unto repentance’ when the king protected the prophets (Ether 7:25). In contrast, when a later king did not protect the prophets, ‘the people hardened their hearts’ and ‘did reject all the words of the prophets’ (Ether 11:13, 22), with the result that ‘the Spirit of the Lord had ceased striving with them, and Satan had full power over the hearts of the people’ (Ether 15:19). They then reached ‘the fulness of iniquity,’ which brought down upon them ‘the fulness of the wrath of God’ (Ether 2:10–11)” (Merrill, “They Wrote to Us As If We Were Present,” 15).