Hello and welcome to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me Christmas podcast. We are Scott and Maureen Proctor,

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When we think of Christmas, we think of a star over the stable, but we don't know exactly what that star was.

Was it a comet that suddenly appeared in the sky and hung for a bit over Bethlehem?

Was it a supernova, a sudden explosion that also gave the Nephites a day, a night, and a day without

darkness? Or was it simply a sign or an astronomical event that only studied star watchers

could note? It's hard to say. When the wise men from the

east who had been following that star came to Herod, the vicious king did not say,

I've been wondering what that bright star in the heavens is that's been commanding all of our attention.

It is pleasing and not surprising that the exact time of the coming of the Lord to the

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