Mormon records the fulfillment of the six-hundred-year prophecy, as well as Samuel’s five-year prophecy. There was a day without a night. The signs in the heavens had been given, including the new star. These heavenly signs were important because all humankind knew that they could not accomplish such a feat. That they dealt with the sun and the stars made the signs particularly potent, as cultures in all the world have looked to the sun and the stars for understanding of their god, with some even holding the sun to be a god. Only the God of nature could control them. It was in 1 Nephi 19:12 where Nephi used that title for the God who could cause the destructions that will come at the end of the Savior’s life.