White-robed man, part two: Laban and Brigham

Well, here we are on Brigham again.  Just a really short post, as I think I just want to get this additional name down and leave it at that - how much ink should we really waste on him here?  

I will say that there are probably at least a couple other posts where I will take Brigham's thread further back to the beginning, and thus hopefully show how we can possibly tie so many bad characters to this one being.

In any case, I believe Brigham was also the wicked man we know as Laban, which means it is Laban that also is the man in the white-robe.  Newly disembodied (courtesy of Nephi), Laban-Brigham is showing himself here in a form that is more 'himself', complete with robes of power perhaps similar symbolically to the ones that Satan also fancied himself in when referencing his own powers to Adam and Eve in the LDS temple allegory.  

For all we know, and I think it is likely, it may have been Laban-Brigham that initiated Lehi's vision in the first place.  In other words, just as the Holy Ghost initiated and led Nephi through his vision, Laban may have initiated this one, and did not fully intend for what came later in the vision.  His intent was to leave Lehi in the wilderness, but Lehi changed the story - perhaps won a battle of wills, unknowingly, or at least received divine aid in thinking to pray for help - and was able to wrest the vision away from Laban and over to the influence of friendlier sources.

In any case, Brigham is a being of power, and he shouldn't be underestimated (like Yoda warns Luke about the Emporer...).  In Laban, we have a dangerous man in life, becoming perhaps even more dangerous in death (a sort of evil Obi-Wan Kenobi... keeping with Star Wars analogies).  Struck down by Nephi, as a spirit or a being returned to a more powerful state, he would have been aware of Lehi's departure and ultimately their path across the sea to the promised land.  Biding his time to enter the stage again, it appears he saw this opportunity as Noah.  What his ultimate aims were as Noah are perhaps not fully known, but at least some in Heaven would have been aware of the true nature or who Noah was (or at least suspected it, and needed confirmation) and that is why Abinadi was ultimately sent.   I think Abinadi (who is Faramir, Ether, etc. and few others I haven't covered yet) will be the one to take on Noah-Brigham again, though I think the ending of that conflict will be very different than the one found in the Book of Mormon, at least for Abinadi.