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He
knows if you are sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows if you've
been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake . . . Who
is He? If you answered, "Santa Claus," then you are wrong.
There is only One who knows everything we do and whether or not we are
good or bad. And He is God, Yahweh, our heavenly Father, the Creator of
everything.
God is omniscient or all-knowing (Job
31:4; Job
34:21; Psalm
33:13; Psalm
147:5; Matthew
10:26-31; John
2:24; John
16:29-30;
1
Corinthians 1:25). Santa Claus is not. God is omnipresent
or everywhere
(Deuteronomy
4:39; Isaiah
66:1; 1
Kings 8:27;
Psalm
139:5-12;
Proverbs
15:3; Jeremiah
23:23-24;
Acts
17:27; Ephesians
4:10). Santa Claus is not. God is omnipotent or all-powerful
(Job
9:1-13; Psalm
115:3; Psalm
135:6;
Isaiah
40:12-18, 28; Isaiah
43:13;
Jeremiah
32:17;
Matthew
19:26;
Romans
11:33-36;
Hebrews
6:13; Revelation
1:5). Santa Claus is not. Some day, Jesus is coming
back for His followers
(Matthew
24:30-44;
Mark
13:26-33;
Luke
12:40; John
21:22-24). But contrary to the popular song, Santa
Claus is not really coming to town. God is real. Santa Claus is not. God
is the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End
(Revelation
1:8;
Revelation
21:6;
Revelation
22:13). Santa Claus is not. In fact, Santa Claus
seems to be derived from some twisted legend which originated from a Christian
martyr, Nicholas of Myra who died December 6, 343. (For more
information on Nicholas of Myra, see www.OneWayOnly.net/nicholas.html)
Why do you suppose such a legend was started, particularly
about a man who went through torture for Christ's sake? Surely Nicholas
would not have wanted anyone to embellish some sort of story about him,
particularly by adding abilities or attributes which are only true of God!
So just who do you think is behind the legend of Santa Claus? Who is it
that you think would like to take something as righteous as a man who suffered
torture for the sake of Christ and turn it into something materialistic?
Who is it that you think would use such a legend to encourage parents to
lie to their children? Who would want to take the qualities that only God
possesses and assign them to an imaginary being? It is Satan who is the
father of lies (John
8:44). It is Satan and his followers who are full
of deceit and trickery and who pervert the right ways of the Lord (Acts
13:10). It is Satan who leads the world astray (Revelation
12:9). The evidence is clear. Satan's fingerprints
are all over the myth of Santa Claus. The guilty party is Satan, the devil,
the evil one.
And now one question remains. What about you? Are
you to be Satan's willing accomplice? Will you participate in perpetuating
this terrible lie about Santa Claus with your children or children that
you know? Will you be part and parcel of taking the holy attributes of
God (that He sees all and knows all) and blasphemously assign them to an
imaginary character? Or will you honor our all-seeing, all-knowing, ever-present
and holy God by exposing this lie of Satan's? Who is behind Santa Claus?
Satan is. But you don't have to be with him.
Copyright © 2001 Timothy A. &
Kimberly B. Southall. All rights reserved.
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