After you ponder this question, consider what Professor Hugh Nibley wrote: “When the Book of Mormon has been brought forth and introduced to the house of Israel, then shall they ‘know that the work of the Father has commenced upon all the face of the land’ (Ether 4:17), and when the people begin to believe, ‘then shall my revelations which I have caused to be written by my servant John be unfolded in the eyes of all the people; … the time is at hand that they shall be made manifest in very deed’ (Ether 4:16)” (Since Cumorah, 206).