Christmas in Zarahemla

By Larry Doyle Crenshaw      

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On Christmas Eve many of us gather family around and read the story of the night Jesus was born in an ancient village known as Bethlehem.  There is also another ancient and sacred text that tells of Christmas Eve. In this rediscovered scriptural text, Jesus Christ appears and announces his coming into the world to the inhabitants of ancient America in a place called Zarahemla. This second witness of Jesus, like that told in the Gospel of Luke, testifies of the divine mission of our Savior and Redeemer.

May you enjoy this other Christmas story and may it witness to your soul that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God.  May you rediscover the love, peace, happiness and salvation that come in accepting His message now and always.  May His message prepare us for when He comes again.

The heralded time draws near.

Faithful souls await undarkened night

When they will see and hear

Signs and wonders of The Light.

Tis Christmas in Zarahemla.

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Christmas   in   Zarahemla

Lift up your head and be of good cheer; for behold, the time is at hand, and on this night shall the sign be given, and on the morrow come I into the world, to show unto the world that I will fulfil all that which I have caused to be spoken by the mouth of my holy prophets.

Book of Mormon   3 Nephi 1:13

                                            

The heralded time draws near.

Faithful souls await undarkened night

When they will see and hear

Signs and wonders of The Light.

Tis Christmas in Zarahemla.

Prophetic words from the past

Spoken by the Fathers of Old

Will be fulfilled now at last

As the night-day doeth unfold.

Tis Christmas in Zarahemla.

Though' threatened with death and pain,

Still they seek for Samuel's sign.

Their faith is not in vain

But in The Hope of All Mankind!

Tis Christmas in Zarahemla.

With bended knee bowed to ground

Pleading prayers ascend above.

And lo, there comes a sound.

Tis the Voice of Redeeming Love!

Tis Christmas in Zarahemla.

"It is I whom thou doest seek,

I AM who comes to earth

With Father's plan to speak

Of man's eternal worth."

"I come unto my own

To do my Father's will.

To reap what prophets have sown

And then atone upon a hill."

"But Rejoice! For I shall arise!

Crowned with glory and power

And come again unto your skies;

Though' unknown the day nor hour."

And then it came to pass as spoken.

Enlightened night did fill our sight.

And we beheld the prophetic token

As the world was filled with Everlasting Light.

And it was Christmas in Zarahemla!       

Larry Doyle Crenshaw